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Threat actors have been observed abusing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Transfer Acceleration feature as part of ransomware attacks designed to exfiltrate victim data and upload them to S3 buckets under their control. "Attempts were made to disguise the Golang ransomware as the notorious LockBit ransomware," Trend Micro researchers Jaromir Horejsi and Nitesh Surana said. "However, such is

It may come as a surprise to learn that 34% of security practitioners are in the dark about how many SaaS applications are deployed in their organizations. And it’s no wonder—the recent AppOmni 2024 State of SaaS Security Report reveals that only 15% of organizations centralize SaaS security within their cybersecurity teams. These statistics not only highlight a critical security blind spot,

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new adversarial technique that could be used to jailbreak large language models (LLMs) during the course of an interactive conversation by sneaking in an undesirable instruction between benign ones. The approach has been codenamed Deceptive Delight by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which described it as both simple and effective, achieving an average

Russian-speaking users have become the target of a new phishing campaign that leverages an open-source phishing toolkit called Gophish to deliver DarkCrystal RAT (aka DCRat) and a previously undocumented remote access trojan dubbed PowerRAT. "The campaign involves modular infection chains that are either Maldoc or HTML-based infections and require the victim's intervention to trigger the

Posted by Jan Jedrzejowicz, Director of Product, Android and Business Communications; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse; Stephan Somogyi, Product Lead, User Protection; Branden Archer, Software Engineer Every day, over a billion people use Google Messages to communicate. That’s why we’ve made security a top priority, building in powerful on-device, AI-powered filters and advanced security that protects users from 2 billion suspicious messages a month. With end-to-end encrypted1 RCS conversations, you can communicate privately with other Google Messages RCS users. And we’re not stopping there. We're committed to constantly developing new controls and features to make your conversations on Google Messages even more secure and private. As part of cybersecurity awareness month, we're sharing five new protections to help keep you safe while…

Posted by Jan Jedrzejowicz, Director of Product, Android and Business Communications; Alberto Pastor Nieto, Sr. Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse; Stephan Somogyi, Product Lead, User Protection; Branden Archer, Software Engineer Every day, over a billion people use Google Messages to communicate. That’s why we’ve made security a top priority, building in powerful on-device, AI-powered filters and advanced security that protects users from 2 billion suspicious messages a month. With end-to-end encrypted1 RCS conversations, you can communicate privately with other Google Messages RCS users. And we’re not stopping there. We're committed to constantly developing new controls and features to make your conversations on Google Messages even more secure and private. As part of cybersecurity awareness month, we're sharing five new protections to help keep you safe while…