Author: nlqip
AI and the Evolution of Social Media Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed with stories of social platforms’ role in misinformation, business conspiracy, malfeasance, and risks to mental health. In a 2022 survey,…
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Mar 19, 2024NewsroomEmail Security / Social Engineering Threat actors are leveraging digital document publishing (DDP) sites hosted on platforms like FlipSnack, Issuu, Marq, Publuu, RelayTo, and Simplebooklet for carrying out phishing, credential harvesting, and session token theft, once again underscoring how threat actors are repurposing legitimate services for malicious ends. “Hosting phishing lures on DDP…
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In an era where digital transformation drives business across sectors, cybersecurity has transcended its traditional operational role to become a cornerstone of corporate strategy and risk management. This evolution demands a shift in how cybersecurity leaders—particularly Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs)—articulate the value and urgency of cybersecurity investments to their boards. The Strategic Importance of…
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Data Security Services: What do Firms Need to Know? When it comes to protecting against the risks posed by hackers and other cybersecurity issues, it can be hard for businesses to go it alone. With the nature of threats evolving rapidly and a continuing skills shortage making it difficult to find in-house talent, many firms…
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API implementation flaws in an enterprise can lead to posture problems. Most common among them include shadow endpoints, unauthenticated resource access, sensitive data in a URL, a permissive cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) policy, and excessive client errors. Runtime problems, on the other hand, are active threats demanding immediate action. These include unauthenticated resource access attempts,…
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Mar 19, 2024NewsroomSocial Engineering / Email Security A new phishing campaign is targeting U.S. organizations with the intent to deploy a remote access trojan called NetSupport RAT. Israeli cybersecurity company Perception Point is tracking the activity under the moniker Operation PhantomBlu. “The PhantomBlu operation introduces a nuanced exploitation method, diverging from NetSupport RAT’s typical delivery…
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Fast and efficient collaboration is essential to today’s business, but the platforms we use to communicate with colleagues, vendors, clients, and customers can also introduce serious risks. Looking at some of the most common collaboration tools — Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Slack, and OAuth — it’s clear there are dangers presented by information sharing, as valuable…
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Mar 19, 2024NewsroomThreat Intel / Cybercrime A 31-year-old Moldovan national has been sentenced to 42 months in prison in the U.S. for operating an illicit marketplace called E-Root Marketplace that offered for sale hundreds of thousands of compromised credentials, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced. Sandu Boris Diaconu was charged with conspiracy to commit access…
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A recent attack campaign by one of North Korea’s state-run hacking groups uses a new PowerShell and VBScript-based attack chain that’s initiated from inside LNK files. Multiple attack stages are downloaded from legitimate cloud services and the final payload is an open-source remote access trojan. “All of the C2 communication is handled through legitimate services…
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A decades-old image format can be used to hack five of the most widely-used AI platforms, according to security researchers. In a recently published paper, a team of computer scientists showed how ASCII art can be used in a new exploit. ASCII art is text-based graphics dating back to the pre-World Wide Web internet (example…
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