Topic: cyber attack trends
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Industrial Cyberattacks Surge: Critical Infrastructure at Risk
Critical infrastructure faces a severe and growing cyber threat, with vulnerability disclosures for industrial systems nearly doubling in a single year, highlighting a major risk to essential services like energy and utilities. Research shows a dramatic spike to 2,451 disclosed vulnerabilities in...
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API Incidents Surge: 40,000+ Reported in First Half of 2025
The first half of 2025 saw over 40,000 API incidents, with APIs becoming a prime target for sophisticated automated attacks despite representing a small part of the attack surface. A record-breaking 15 million requests-per-second DDoS attack targeted a financial services API, using botnets that m...
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Russian Hackers Exploit Patched Microsoft Office Flaw
A Russian state-sponsored hacking group is actively exploiting a patched Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) through phishing campaigns to install backdoors on targeted systems. The attacks use two methods: one deploys a malicious VBA project to steal emails, while the other uses a mu...
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China Ramps Up Cyberattacks Targeting Taiwan
Taiwan faced over 960 million cyber intrusion attempts in 2025, a 6% annual increase, primarily targeting critical infrastructure like energy, emergency services, and hospitals, with attacks attributed to China-based actors. The energy sector saw a tenfold surge in attacks, while emergency and he...
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Microsoft Uncovers AI-Powered Phishing Scam
Cybercriminals are using artificial intelligence, including large language models, to create highly sophisticated phishing scams, deepfakes, and automated data extortion attacks. A specific attack involved hiding malicious code in an SVG file disguised as a PDF, using obfuscated business terms to...
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