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Crims compromised energy firms' Microsoft accounts, sent 600 phishing emails

Logging in, not breaking in

Unknown attackers are abusing Microsoft SharePoint file-sharing services to target multiple energy-sector organizations, harvest user credentials, take over corporate inboxes, and then send hundreds of phishing emails from compromised accounts to contacts inside and outside those organizations.…

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Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link - it's a scam

Phishing campaign tries to reel in master passwords

updatedΒ  Password managers make great targets for attackers because they can hold many of the keys to your kingdom. Now, LastPass has warned customers about phishing emails claiming that action is required ahead of scheduled maintenance and told them not to fall for the scam. …

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Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies

What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see

What policy wonk wouldn't want to click on an attachment promising to unveil US plans for Venezuela? Chinese cyberspies used just such a lure to target US government agencies and policy-related organizations in a phishing campaign that began just days after an American military operation captured Venezuelan President NicolΓ‘s Maduro.…

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Popular Python libraries used in Hugging Face models subject to poisoned metadata attack

The open-source libraries were created by Salesforce, Nvidia, and Apple with a Swiss group

Vulnerabilities in popular AI and ML Python libraries used in Hugging Face models with tens of millions of downloads allow remote attackers to hide malicious code in metadata. The code then executes automatically when a file containing the poisoned metadata is loaded.…

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As agents run amok, CrowdStrike's $740M SGNL deal aims to help get a grip on identity security

Authentication is basically solved. Authorization is another thing entirely...

CrowdStrike has signed a $740 million deal to buy identity security startup SGNL. The move underscores the growing threat of identity-based attacks as companies struggle to secure skyrocketing numbers of non-human identities, including AI agents.…

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Patch Cisco ISE bug now before attackers abuse proof-of-concept exploit

No reports of active exploitation … yet

Cisco patched a bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) products that allows remote attackers with admin-level privileges to access sensitive information - and warned that a public, proof-of-concept exploit for the flaw exists online.…

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ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open

Two weeks, two major data leaks … not a good look for the European Space Agency

exclusiveΒ  The European Space Agency on Wednesday confirmed yet another massive security breach, and told The Register that the data thieves responsible will be subject to a criminal investigation. And this could be a biggie.…

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