April, 2025

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What Rebels Teach us About Stronger Cyber Defence

Jane Frankland

Music and sports have always had the power to unite us. They transcend differences, bring people together, and remind us of the beauty in being different. But if we switch our focus to the world of technology, we seei a starkly different picturea landscape increasingly shaped by control, compliance, and automation. The rapid advancement of technology, particularly in AI and automation, is transforming the way we interact with the digital world.

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CVE Program Almost Unfunded

Schneier on Security

Mitre’s CVE’s program—which provides common naming and other informational resources about cybersecurity vulnerabilities—was about to be cancelled , as the US Department of Homeland Security failed to renew the contact. It was funded for eleven more months at the last minute. This is a big deal. The CVE program is one of those pieces of common infrastructure that everyone benefits from.

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China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks

Krebs on Security

China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. Until recently, the so-called “ Smishing Triad ” mainly impersonated toll road operators and shipping companies. But experts say these groups are now directly targeting customers of international financial institutions, while dramatically expanding their cybercrime infrastructure and support staff.

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Welcoming The Gambia National CSIRT to Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Today, we're happy to welcome the Gambia National CSIRT to Have I Been Pwned as the 38th government to be onboarded with full and free access to their government domains. We've been offering this service for seven years now , and it enables national CSIRTs to gain greater visibility into the impact of data breaches on their respective nations.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls In Automation: Keep Humans In the Loop

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.

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“Cybersecurity For Dummies” Third Edition Now Available

Joseph Steinberg

The third edition of Cybersecurity For Dummies , Joseph Steinberg ‘s best-selling introductory-level book about cybersecurity, is now available in both print and e-book format. Like its prior two counterparts, Cybersecurity For Dummies: Third Edition is written for general audiences, and can help people of all backgrounds stay cyber-secure, regardless of their technical and business skillsets.

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My Take: NTT’s physicists confront the mystery Big Tech keep dodging — what are we really creating?

The Last Watchdog

SAN FRANCISCO If large language AI models are shaping our digital reality, then whoexactlyis shaping those models? And how the heck are they doing it? Related: What exactly is GenAI? Those are the questions Dr. Hidenori Tanaka wants to answer in an effort to put GenAI on solid scientific footing. And its the guiding ethos behind NTT Researchs launch of its newly spun-out Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group , which Tanaka will lead as founding director.

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AI Vulnerability Finding

Schneier on Security

Microsoft is reporting that its AI systems are able to find new vulnerabilities in source code: Microsoft discovered eleven vulnerabilities in GRUB2, including integer and buffer overflows in filesystem parsers, command flaws, and a side-channel in cryptographic comparison. Additionally, 9 buffer overflows in parsing SquashFS, EXT4, CramFS, JFFS2, and symlinks were discovered in U-Boot and Barebox, which require physical access to exploit.

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Alleged ‘Scattered Spider’ Member Extradited to U.S.

Krebs on Security

A 23-year-old Scottish man thought to be a member of the prolific Scattered Spider cybercrime group was extradited last week from Spain to the United States, where he is facing charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft. U.S. prosecutors allege Tyler Robert Buchanan and co-conspirators hacked into dozens of companies in the United States and abroad, and that he personally controlled more than $26 million stolen from victims.

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All Gmail users at risk from clever replay attack

Malwarebytes

Cybercriminals are abusing Googles infrastructure, creating emails that appear to come from Google in order to persuade people into handing over their Google account credentials. This attack, first flagged by Nick Johnson , the lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a blockchain equivalent of the popular internet naming convention known as the Domain Name System (DNS).

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EDR-as-a-Service makes the headlines in the cybercrime landscape

Security Affairs

Cybercriminals exploit compromised accounts for EDR-as-a-Service (Emergency Data Requests – EDR), targeting major platforms According to a detailed analysis conducted by Meridian Group, an increasingly complex and structured phenomenon, commonly referred to as EDR-as-a-Service, is taking hold in the cybersecurity landscape. In a nutshell, some criminal groups are exploiting compromised accounts belonging to law enforcement and other government agencies to illicitly forward Emergency Data R

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Why Giant Content Libraries Do Nothing for Your Employees’ Cyber Resilience

Many cybersecurity awareness platforms offer massive content libraries, yet they fail to enhance employees’ cyber resilience. Without structured, engaging, and personalized training, employees struggle to retain and apply key cybersecurity principles. Phished.io explains why organizations should focus on interactive, scenario-based learning rather than overwhelming employees with excessive content.

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News alert: SquareX to present on uncovering data splicing attacks at BSides San Francisco 2025

The Last Watchdog

Palo Alto, Calif, Apr. 16, 2025, CyberNewswire — SquareX researchers Jeswin Mathai and Audrey Adeline will be disclosing a new class of data exfiltration techniques at BSides San Francisco 2025. Titled Data Splicing Attacks: Breaking Enterprise DLP from the Inside Out , the talk will demonstrate multiple data splicing techniques that will allow attackers to exfiltrate any sensitive file or clipboard data, completely bypassing major Data Loss Protection (DLP) vendors listed by Gartner by ex

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How to Outsource Your Humanity 101

Javvad Malik

You’re so busy climbing the corporate ladder that you can’t spare five minutes to ring mum and dad. But fear not! For a mere 24.90 a month, you can now hire a silicon-based impersonator to pretend it cares about your parents’ day. Welcome to inTouch Family, the service that lets you tick “filial piety” off your to-do list without all that pesky human interaction.

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New Linux Rootkit

Schneier on Security

Interesting : The company has released a working rootkit called “Curing” that uses io_uring, a feature built into the Linux kernel, to stealthily perform malicious activities without being caught by many of the detection solutions currently on the market. At the heart of the issue is the heavy reliance on monitoring system calls, which has become the go-to method for many cybersecurity vendors.

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Patch Tuesday, April 2025 Edition

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 121 security holes in its Windows operating systems and software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited in the wild. Eleven of those flaws earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning malware or malcontents could exploit them with little to no interaction from Windows users.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Operation SyncHole: Lazarus APT goes back to the well

SecureList

We have been tracking the latest attack campaign by the Lazarus group since last November, as it targeted organizations in South Korea with a sophisticated combination of a watering hole strategy and vulnerability exploitation within South Korean software. The campaign, dubbed “Operation SyncHole”, has impacted at least six organizations in South Korea’s software, IT, financial, semiconductor manufacturing, and telecommunications industries, and we are confident that many more

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Fake Social Security Statement emails trick users into installing remote tool

Malwarebytes

Fake emails pretending to come from the US Social Security Administration (SSA) try to get targets to install ScreenConnect, a remote access tool. This campaign was flagged and investigated by the Malwarebytes Customer Support and Research teams. ScreenConnect, formerly known as ConnectWise Control, is a remote support and remote access platform widely used by businesses to facilitate IT support and troubleshooting.

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CEO of cybersecurity firm charged with installing malware on hospital systems

Security Affairs

Veritaco CEO Jeffrey Bowie faces charges for allegedly installing malware on hospital computers, violating Oklahoma’s Computer Crimes Act. Jeffrey Bowie, CEO of the cybersecurity firm Veritaco, is facing two counts of violating Oklahoma’s Computer Crimes Act for allegedly infecting employee computers at the Oklahoma City St. Anthony Hospital.

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Weekly Update 446

Troy Hunt

After an unusually long day of travelling from Iceland, we've finally made it to the land of Guinness, Leprechauns, and a tax haven for tech companies. This week, there are a few more lessons from the successful phish against me the previous week, and in happier news, there is some really solid progress on the HIBP UX rebuild. We spent a bunch of time with Stefan and Ingiber (the guy rebuilding the front end) whilst in Reykjavik and now have a very clear plan mapped out to get this finished

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Web 3.0 Requires Data Integrity

Schneier on Security

If you’ve ever taken a computer security class, you’ve probably learned about thethree legs of computer security—confidentiality, integrity, and availability—known as the CIA triad. When we talk about a system being secure, that’s what we’re referring to. All are important, but to different degrees in different contexts.

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Appsec Roundup - April 2025

Adam Shostack

Threat modeling. So much threat modeling, and so much more, including foreshadowing of new rules from FDA. Threat Modeling Threat Modeling Connect has new in person groups. Theres a new human harms focused threat modeling approach, covered in an academic paper, Threat Me Right: A Human HARMS Threat Model for Technical Systems. Linwood Jones and Pawan Suresh blogged about Scaling Your Threat Modeling Program using GenAI at Adobe.

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My Take: Is Amazon’s Alexa+ a Gutenberg moment — or a corporate rerun of history’s greatest co-opt?

The Last Watchdog

Last Friday morning, April 11, I was making my way home from NTT Researchs Upgrade 2025 innovation conference in San Francisco, when it struck me that were at a watershed moment. I was reflecting on NTTs newly launched Physics of Artificial Intelligence Lab when a GeekWire article crossed my LinkedIn feed, touting a seemingly parallel initiative by Amazon.

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“Urgent reminder” tax scam wants to phish your Microsoft credentials

Malwarebytes

Tax season is in full force, and with the filing deadline fast approaching on April 15, scammers are happy to use that sense of urgency to coax us into handing them our cash. In one example, one of our customers recently received an email with an attachment titled “Urgent reminder. The attachment was a PDF file with a QR code in it. Tax Services Department Important Tax Review and Update Required by 2025-03-16!

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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CISA’s 11-Month extension ensures continuity of MITRE’s CVE Program

Security Affairs

MITREs U.S.-funded CVE program, a core cybersecurity tool for tracking vulnerabilities, faces funding expiry Wednesday, risking disruption to global security. U.S. government funding for MITRE s CVE program , a key global cybersecurity resource for cataloging vulnerabilities, is set to expire Wednesday, risking disruption. The 25-year-old program has assigned over 274,000 CVE IDs for public security vulnerabilities.

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0-Click NTLM Authentication Bypass Hits Microsoft Telnet Server, PoC Releases, No Patch

Penetration Testing

A severe vulnerability affecting Microsoft Telnet Server has been uncovered, allowing remote attackers to completely bypass authentication and The post 0-Click NTLM Authentication Bypass Hits Microsoft Telnet Server, PoC Releases, No Patch appeared first on Daily CyberSecurity.

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Arguing Against CALEA

Schneier on Security

At a Congressional hearing earlier this week, Matt Blaze made the point that CALEA, the 1994 law that forces telecoms to make phone calls wiretappable, is outdated in today’s threat environment and should be rethought: In other words, while the legally-mandated CALEA capability requirements have changed little over the last three decades, the infrastructure that must implement and protect it has changed radically.

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Cyber Risk in U.S. Healthcare: Tackling HIPAA, Vendors, and Human Error – A Free Webinar With Joseph Steinberg and Chip Witt

Joseph Steinberg

Whats Broken in U.S. Healthcare Cybersecurity And How to Fix It. From ransomware and cloud misconfigurations to vulnerable medical devices, U.S. healthcare organizations are under relentless cyber pressure and the risks to patient safety have never been higher. Join cybersecurity experts Joseph Steinberg (Cybersecurity Thought Leader & Author) and Chip Witt (Principal Security Evangelist, Radware) for a fast-paced 30-minute session on whats going wrong in healthcare cybersecurity and what

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Next-Level Fraud Prevention: Strategies for Today’s Threat Landscape

Speaker: Sierre Lindgren

Fraud is a battle that every organization must face – it’s no longer a question of “if” but “when.” Every organization is a potential target for fraud, and the finance department is often the bullseye. From cleverly disguised emails to fraudulent payment requests, the tactics of cybercriminals are advancing rapidly. Drawing insights from real-world cases and industry expertise, we’ll explore the vulnerabilities in your processes and how to fortify them effectively.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Attackers are exploiting gaps in business logic created by proliferation of APIs

The Last Watchdog

APIs have become foundational to digital business operations, serving as the behind-the-scenes glue that connects apps, platforms and partners. Related: OWASPs Top 10 Web App Security Risks But this growing reliance has opened a new front in cybersecurityone where attackers are quietly exploiting weaknesses buried deep in business logic. In this RSAC Fireside Chat , I spoke with Jamison Utter , Security Evangelist at A10 Networks , who underscored how the expanding API ecosystem has far outpaced

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Hi, robot: Half of all internet traffic now automated

Malwarebytes

If you sometimes feel that the internet isn’t the same vibrant place it used to be, you’re not alone. New research suggests that most of the traffic traversing the network isn’t human at all. Bots (software programs that interact with web sites) have been ubiquitous for years. But in its 2025 Bad Bot Report , application security company Imperva claimed this is the first time traffic from bots became more prevalent than human traffic.

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Chinese Android phones shipped with malware-laced WhatsApp, Telegram apps

Security Affairs

Cheap Chinese Android phones ship with trojanized WhatsApp and Telegram clones hiding crypto clippers, active since June 2024. Since June 2024, Doctor Web researchers found cheap Android phones preloaded with fake WhatsApp and Telegram apps designed to steal crypto via clipping. These clippers swap copied wallet addresses with the attackers own. The campaign targeted low-end phones mimicking famous models, using altered system info to trick users.

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Learning from Troy Hunt’s Sneaky Phish

Adam Shostack

Troy Hunt has a good post about being phished. Good on Troy for being transparent, and he talks about being tired and jet lagged, and that deserves sympathy. Attackers are sneaky. Troy honorably admits that he overrode 1Password and filled out the phishing site. In this post, I want to share why I think I wouldnt fall for this, even jet lagged. That defense is intensive sorting into folders, enabled by custom email addresses.

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The Importance of User Roles and Permissions in Cybersecurity Software

How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.