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Threat Actor Trojanizes Copy of SonicWall NetExtender App

3 days ago | darkreading.com | Alexander Culafi

An unidentifid attacker hid a malicious binary in a tampered copy of a SonicWall VPN product that would have harvested the details of anyone that installed it. SonicWall published threat research on Monday detailing how a threat actor distributed a "hacked and modified" version of the company's SSL VPN application NetExtender.
'Echo Chamber' Attack Blows Past AI Guardrails

4 days ago | darkreading.com | Alexander Culafi

A new proof-of-concept (PoC) cyberattack uses subtle language over multiple prompts to manipulate major large language models (LLMs) into generating inappropriate content. That's according to research published today by AI security vendor Neural Trust on the "Echo Chamber" attack, which was discovered by Neural Trust AI researcher Ahmad Alobaid.
AWS Enhances Cloud Security With Better Visibility Features

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Rob Wright

AWS RE:INFORCE 2025 — Philadelphia — This week at its re:Inforce 2025 conference, Amazon Web Services unveiled a range of security enhancements to AWS Security Hub, AWS Shield and Amazon GuardDuty to help customers strengthen their defenses and obtain better contextualization around impending threats. The cloud giant also rolled out additional capabilities for identity and access management while announcing a milestone for multi-factor authentication adoption.
How Cyberwarfare Changes the Face of Geopolitical Conflict

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Rob Lemos

When Israeli hackers deleted data from Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah, disrupting financial services, the act represented another escalation of the use of cyberattacks during geopolitical conflicts, the largest since Russia downed the Viasat communications system during its initial invasion of Ukraine.
Telecom Giant Viasat Is the Latest Salt Typhoon Victim

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Kristina Beek

NEWS BRIEFViasat is the latest telecom business to fall victim to Salt Typhoon, the notorious cyber-espionage threat group. The breach at the satellite communicates company was discovered earlier this year, and has been identified as one of the threat group’s targets during the 2024 presidential campaign, according to Bloomberg News, which first reported of the breach.
Scammers Spread False Support Info Using Legitimate Websites

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Kristina Beek

NEWS BRIEFCybercriminals are using fake search engine listings to hijack the results for people looking for tech support from brands like Apple, Bank of America, Facebook, HP, Microsoft, Netflix, and PayPal. This type of deceptive scam is common, taking advantage of users' trust in big name brands, beginning with a sponsored search result on Google — but this time, there's a twist.
Paragon Commercial Spyware Infects Prominent Journalists

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Alexander Culafi

At least two journalists had their iOS devices compromised in recent months as a result of commercial spyware, according to research published this past week. The Citizen Lab, a research laboratory at the University of Toronto's Munk School, detailed how the commercial spyware Graphite, sold by Israeli-headquartered surveillance vendor Paragon Solutions, was used to target two European journalists.
OpenAI Awarded $200M Contract to Work With DoD

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Kristina Beek

NEWS BRIEFEarlier this week, OpenAI launched OpenAI for Government, which will provide AI technology for US public servants. The tech giant's existing collaborations with the US National Labs, the Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA, the National Institute of Health (NIH), and the Treasury Department will be combined under the new initiative.
GodFather Banking Trojan Debuts Virtualization Tactic

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Elizabeth Montalbano

The GodFather Android banking Trojan has evolved significantly, with an advanced on-device virtualization technique targeting financial institutions in Turkey, which allows it to hijack legitimate mobile banking and cryptocurrency applications more deceptively than ever. The method creates a complete, isolated virtual environment on the victim's mobile device by installing a malicious "host" application containing a virtualization framework, researchers from Zimperium zLabs have discovered.
Serpentine#Cloud Malware Uses Cloudflare in Sneak Attacks

1 week ago | darkreading.com | Alexander Culafi

Threat actors are using .lnk shortcut files to deliver remote payloads in a sophisticated campaign, according to research security vendor Securonix published today. In this malware campaign, tracked as "Serpentine#Cloud," the attacker leverages "Cloudflare Tunnel infrastructure and Python-based loaders to deliver memory-injected payloads through a chain of shortcut files and obfuscated scripts," the researchers explained.