Topic: Supply Chain Attacks
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2025's Biggest Tech Failures: AI, Cloud, and Supply Chain
Supply-chain attacks became the dominant cybersecurity threat in 2025, exploiting trust in a single provider to cause widespread, cascading failures across interconnected digital infrastructure. These attacks are highly efficient for cybercriminals, as compromising a central source like a cloud s...
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Secure SDLC: A Manufacturer's Critical Defense
The Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack was a catastrophic manufacturing breach that halted production, caused billions in economic damage, and forced UK government intervention, highlighting severe supply chain vulnerabilities. Cybercriminals increasingly exploit software supply chains, using tactics ...
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Malicious npm Packages Target Ethereum Smart Contracts
A new wave of malicious npm packages uses Ethereum smart contracts to hide command-and-control infrastructure, making detection more difficult. Attackers also created fake GitHub repositories with artificially inflated metrics to appear legitimate and target cryptocurrency developers. This campai...
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Notepad++ Supply Chain Attack Exposed: Patch Tuesday Outlook
A sophisticated supply chain attack on Notepad++ by a Chinese state-sponsored group and the exploitation of a Microsoft Office flaw by Russian hackers highlight critical risks in software updates and patch management. Attackers are disabling modern security tools using a decade-old driver, while ...
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A Dangerous Worm Is Infecting Software Packages
A self-replicating worm named Shai-Hulud has infected hundreds of open-source JavaScript packages on NPM, actively seeking credentials to spread further and escalating software supply chain risks. Major U.S. tech firms like IBM and Microsoft have supplied surveillance technology to China, support...
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Shadow AI: The Hidden Threat to Corporate Security
Cybersecurity leaders are grappling with AI's dual role as both a critical defense tool and a vulnerability, with widespread adoption but insufficient governance and risks from unauthorized "shadow AI" usage. Regulatory compliance pressures are intensifying, with most organizations facing signifi...
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How AI Is Fueling a New Era of Cyberattacks
The rapid integration of AI into business operations is creating new cybersecurity vulnerabilities, as attackers use the same tools to exploit expanded digital perimeters and overlook security measures in the rush for speed. Attackers are leveraging AI techniques like vibe coding and prompt-based...
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Top 10 Cybersecurity Stories of 2025: The Year's Biggest Breaches & Threats
Major cybersecurity vendors withdrew from the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations in 2025, citing the tests' growing complexity and shift toward marketing, prompting plans for reform ahead of the 2026 cycle. A widespread proxy network compromised thousands of vulnerable IoT devices to facilitate malicious a...
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Top Cybersecurity Breaches and Attacks of 2025
Sophisticated social engineering and malware campaigns, such as ClickFix and its variants, expanded across operating systems, tricking users into self-inflicted infections and becoming commercialized through paid platforms. The cryptocurrency sector and enterprise software faced massive breaches,...
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Chrome 0-Day Patched, npm Attack, LinkedIn AI Data Scandal
A large majority (89%) of enterprise AI usage is undetected by IT and security teams, posing significant data privacy and compliance risks. Security experts emphasize the importance of engineering-driven protection and secure-by-design approaches over mere compliance checkboxes. Emerging threats ...
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Zero Trust: Why It's a Journey, Not a Destination
Zero trust is a continuous process, not a one-time project, requiring ongoing adaptation due to evolving threats, changing technology, and organizational growth. Modern challenges like AI-powered attacks, supply chain vulnerabilities, and distributed infrastructure (cloud, IoT, microservices) com...
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AI-Generated Code Risks: A Threat to Software Supply Chains
AI-generated code poses serious security risks by frequently referencing fake software libraries, opening the door for sophisticated supply chain attacks that could compromise sensitive data and systems. Recent research reveals this alarming trend, showing how artificial intelligence tools often invent non-existent dependencies.
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Secure Your Google Workspace: Protect Data, Not Just Access
Modern digital workplaces face security challenges from interconnected tools, where attackers exploit legitimate access tokens rather than breaching traditional perimeters. Recent incidents, like the Drift Email compromise, show that third-party integrations can bypass robust security frameworks,...
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AMOS Infostealer Targets macOS via Popular AI App
The cybercrime economy is increasingly fueled by sophisticated infostealer malware like AMOS, which harvests and sells stolen credentials, financial data, and session cookies to enable further fraud and network intrusions. Attackers distribute this malware through highly adaptive social engineeri...
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UK Unveils Plan to Fortify Online Public Services
The UK government is investing £210 million to launch a Government Cyber Action Plan, establishing a central Government Cyber Unit to set mandatory security standards and coordinate incident response across the public sector. A key component is the creation of a Government Cyber Profession to dev...
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ESA Server Breach Confirmed: Data Security Alert
The European Space Agency (ESA) is investigating a security breach of external servers, which appears limited to unclassified scientific collaboration systems but highlights growing cybersecurity threats in the space sector. A threat actor claimed to have stolen over 200GB of sensitive data, incl...
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Abandoned Rust Library Flaw Sparks RCE Attack Risk
A critical security vulnerability (CVE-2025-62518) in the abandoned async-tar and tokio-tar Rust libraries allows remote code execution via desynchronization during TAR archive extraction, enabling attackers to insert malicious entries without authentication. The flaw, named TARmageddon, arises f...
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Phishing Leads EU Cyber Intrusions, ENISA Reports
Phishing was the leading initial attack method in the EU, responsible for 60% of intrusions, with outdated mobile and OT systems being prime targets. DDoS attacks comprised 77% of all incidents, largely driven by hacktivism, but only 2% caused service disruptions, with groups like NoName057(16) e...
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Banana Squad's GitHub Malware Attack Targets Developers
Cybersecurity experts discovered a malware campaign by Banana Squad targeting developers via 67 fake GitHub repositories, distributing trojanized Python files disguised as hacking tools. Attackers hid malicious code using long space strings on GitHub, evading standard views, marking a shift i...
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Microsoft's 2025 Cyberdefense Report: The New Rules of Engagement
AI is fundamentally reshaping cybersecurity by empowering attackers to refine methods, automate operations, and overwhelm traditional defenses, with nation-state actors increasingly leveraging AI for phishing, vulnerability identification, and malware modification. Identity has become the primary...
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Email Blind Spots Are Haunting Security Teams
A recent analysis of over 70 billion emails shows a sharp rise in AI-driven social engineering and sophisticated evasion tactics, forcing security teams to reassess digital risk assumptions. Email remains the primary breach vector, with malware increasing by over 130%, scams by 30%, and phishing ...
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CISA Warns of Active Attacks on 4 Critical Software Flaws
CISA has issued a critical alert, adding four actively exploited software vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog, impacting tools from Versa, Zimbra, Vite, and Prettier. The exploited flaws include an authentication bypass in Versa's SD-WAN platform, a file access bug in the Vite framework, a supply-...
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Defenders in Meetings, Attackers at Machine Speed
The cybersecurity threat landscape is intensifying, but a significant and widening gap exists between the level of threat activity and organizations' defensive preparedness, particularly for sophisticated attacks. Adversaries are leveraging artificial intelligence more rapidly than defenders, usi...
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Industrial Ransomware Attacks Surge: A Critical Threat
Ransomware groups are increasingly targeting industrial infrastructure, exploiting weaknesses in operational technology (OT) to disrupt physical processes in sectors like manufacturing, energy, and transportation. Attackers commonly gain initial access by abusing legitimate credentials through re...
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Uncover Hidden DevOps Data Risks and How to Fix Them
DevOps practices accelerate innovation but introduce significant data vulnerabilities, with Git platforms often holding mission-critical information that faces risks of exposure, loss, or corruption. The Shared Responsibility Model in cloud services places security duties on customers to enforce ...
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AI Social Engineering: Top Cyber Threat by 2026, ISACA Finds
AI-driven social engineering is identified as the top cybersecurity threat for 2026, using AI to create convincing deceptive communications that are hard to detect, surpassing ransomware and supply chain attacks. Organizations feel underprepared for AI risks, with only 13% very prepared, and many...
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Salesforce, CentreStack Hit by Hackers in Zero-Day Attacks
Major platforms like Salesforce and CentreStack have been compromised by zero-day vulnerabilities, underscoring the need for timely patching and robust security measures. Recent incidents include the Cl0p gang exploiting Oracle E-Business Suite flaws and North Korean hackers stealing over $2 bill...
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History of Computer Viruses: From Inception to Modern Threats
Computer viruses are malicious programs that replicate and spread by attaching themselves to other software or files. These digital parasites have been a significant concern in computing since their inception. The impact of viruses on digital security has been substantial. They can corrupt or delete data, steal sensitive information, and disrupt system operations.
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Microsoft patches exploited Office zero-day, Fortinet fixes SSO flaw
Microsoft and Fortinet issued emergency patches for critical, actively exploited vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-21509 in Office and CVE-2026-24858 in FortiCloud), highlighting the persistent threat of unpatched software. Attackers are using sophisticated methods, like disguising malware in Windows scr...
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