PCI DSS 4.0 Mandates DMARC By 31st March 2025

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The payment card industry has set a critical deadline for businesses handling cardholder data or processing payments- by March 31, 2025, DMARC implementation will be mandatory! This requirement highlights the importance of preventative measures against email fraud, domain spoofing, and phishing in the financial space. This is not an optional requirement as non-compliance may result in monetary
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Chinese-Linked Attackers Exploit Check Point Flaw to Deploy ShadowPad and Ransomware

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A previously unknown threat activity cluster targeted European organizations, particularly those in the healthcare sector, to deploy PlugX and its successor, ShadowPad, with the intrusions ultimately leading to deployment of a ransomware called NailaoLocker in some cases. The campaign, codenamed Green Nailao by Orange Cyberdefense CERT, involved the exploitation of a new-patched security flaw
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Cybercriminals Use Eclipse Jarsigner to Deploy XLoader Malware via ZIP Archives

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A malware campaign distributing the XLoader malware has been observed using the DLL side-loading technique by making use of a legitimate application associated with the Eclipse Foundation. "The legitimate application used in the attack, jarsigner, is a file created during the installation of the IDE package distributed by the Eclipse Foundation," the AhnLab SEcurity Intelligence Center (ASEC)
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Microsoft’s End of Support for Exchange 2016 and 2019: What IT Teams Must Do Now

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For decades, Microsoft Exchange has been the backbone of business communications, powering emailing, scheduling and collaboration for organizations worldwide. Whether deployed on-premises or in hybrid environments, companies of all sizes rely on Exchange for seamless internal and external communication, often integrating it deeply with their workflows, compliance policies and security frameworks
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Citrix Releases Security Fix for NetScaler Console Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Citrix has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw impacting NetScaler Console (formerly NetScaler ADM) and NetScaler Agent that could lead to privilege escalation under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12284, has been given a CVSS v4 score of 8.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 It has been described as a case of improper privilege management that could
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Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited Power Pages Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Microsoft has released security updates to address two Critical-rated flaws impacting Bing and Power Pages, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2025-21355 (CVSS score: 8.6) - Microsoft Bing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2025-24989 (CVSS score: 8.2) - Microsoft Power Pages Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability "
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How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets (Krebs on Security)

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Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores. An image from one Chinese phishing group’s Telegram channel shows various toll road phish kits available. If you own a mobile phone, the chances are excellent that at some point in the past two years it has received at least one phishing message that spoofs the U.S. Postal Service to supposedly collect…
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How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

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Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores. An image from one Chinese phishing group’s Telegram channel shows various toll road phish kits available. If you own a mobile phone, the chances are excellent that at some point in the past two years it has received at least one phishing message that spoofs the U.S. Postal Service to supposedly collect…
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Hackers Exploit Signal’s Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes

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Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors have been observed targeting individuals of interest via the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to gain unauthorized access to their accounts. "The most novel and widely used technique underpinning Russian-aligned attempts to compromise Signal accounts is the abuse of the app's legitimate 'linked devices' feature that enables Signal to be used on multiple
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New Snake Keylogger Variant Leverages AutoIt Scripting to Evade Detection

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A new variant of the Snake Keylogger malware is being used to actively target Windows users located in China, Turkey, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Spain. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said the new version of the malware has been behind over 280 million blocked infection attempts worldwide since the start of the year. "Typically delivered through phishing emails containing malicious attachments or links,
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