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Government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned nation-state actor dubbed Phantom Taurus over the past two-and-a-half years. "Phantom Taurus' main focus areas include ministries of foreign affairs, embassies, geopolitical events, and military operations," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42

Google has launched a new AI-based protection in Drive for desktop that can shut down an attack before it spreads—but its benefits have their limits.

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the expansion of its Sentinel Security Incidents and Event Management solution (SIEM) as a unified agentic platform with the general availability of the Sentinel data lake. In addition, the tech giant said it's also releasing a public preview of Sentinel Graph and Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. "With graph-based context, semantic access, and agentic

Google can create and manage passkeys from your browser, but the process is more involved than it suggests.

A newly patched security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since mid-October 2024 by a threat actor called UNC5174, according to NVISO Labs. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-41244 (CVSS score: 7.8), a local privilege escalation bug affecting the following versions - VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x and 5.x VMware

Cybersecurity never stops—and neither do hackers. While you wrapped up last week, new attacks were already underway. From hidden software bugs to massive DDoS attacks and new ransomware tricks, this week’s roundup gives you the biggest security moves to know. Whether you’re protecting key systems or locking down cloud apps, these are the updates you need before making your next security

Security leaders are embracing AI for triage, detection engineering, and threat hunting as alert volumes and burnout hit breaking points. A comprehensive survey of 282 security leaders at companies across industries reveals a stark reality facing modern Security Operations Centers: alert volumes have reached unsustainable levels, forcing teams to leave critical threats uninvestigated. You can

Microsoft is calling attention to a new phishing campaign primarily aimed at U.S.-based organizations that has likely utilized code generated using large language models (LLMs) to obfuscate payloads and evade security defenses. "Appearing to be aided by a large language model (LLM), the activity obfuscated its behavior within an SVG file, leveraging business terminology and a synthetic structure

Hackers are sending fake invoice emails with malicious Office files that install the XWorm RAT on Windows systems, allowing full remote access and data theft. Learn how the shellcode and process injection are used to steal data, and how to stay safe from this persistent threat.

FortiGuard Labs exposes a high-severity phishing campaign impersonating the National Police of Ukraine to deliver Amatera Stealer (data theft) and PureMiner (cryptojacking) to Windows PCs.