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2025 Predictions for the Cyberwarfare Landscape

As cyberattacks become more frequent and targeted, the potential for significant collateral damage increases, complicating efforts to maintain societal resilience. Looking ahead to 2025, the question we must ask ourselves is: how can we protect our most vulnerable infrastructure from…

Happy YARA Christmas!

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, effective threat detection is paramount. Since its creation, YARA stands out as a powerful tool created to identify and classify malware. Originally developed by Victor Alvarez of VirusTotal, YARA has become a vital tool…

What 2025 May Hold for Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is dynamic, ever changing and unpredictable. This past year contained significant surprises. Who would have thought the largest data breach incident of 2024 would involve no malware or vulnerability exploitation? Subject matter experts often make inaccurate predictions. Rather than…

Ukrainian hacker gets prison for infostealer operations

Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for one count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. According to court documents, he conspired to operate the Raccoon Infostealer as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS). Individuals who deployed Raccoon…

Facebook ‘Restricted’ Palestinian News Content

Facebook has ‘severely restricted’ news content from Palestinian outlets since October 2023 amidst bias concerns, says BBC report This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Facebook ‘Restricted’ Palestinian News Content

Digital Trust Is Declining. Businesses Must Respond

Once a cornerstone of the digital promise, trust has been undermined by corporate misuse, data breaches, disinformation, and the growing realization that what we see online might not even be real. The effects are far-reaching, touching not only our interactions…

Next.js Vulnerability Let Attackers Bypass Authentication

A high-severity vulnerability has been discovered in the popular web framework, Next.js, which allows attackers to bypass authentication under specific circumstances. The issue, cataloged as CVE-2024-51479, affects versions from 9.5.5 up to 14.2.14. Developers using these versions must quickly upgrade…

BitView – 63,127 breached accounts

In December 2024, the video sharing Community BitView suffered a data breach that exposed 63k customer records. Attributed to a backup taken by a previous administrator earlier in the year, the breach exposed email and IP addresses, bcrypt password hashes,…

NetSPI introduces external attack surface management solutions

NetSPI introduced three tiers of external attack surface management (EASM) solutions, delivered through the The NetSPI Platform. The new offerings address the evolving needs of NetSPI’s global customer base, to move toward a continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) model and…