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The CRON#TRAP campaign involves a novel technique for executing malicious commands on a compromised system.

Chinese-speaking adversaries are using a fresh Android banking Trojan to take over devices and initiate fraudulent money transfers from financial institutions across Latin America, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

The cybercriminal group holding the stolen information is demanding the vendor admit to the breach and pay up.

Attackers are exploiting the "Envelopes: create API" of the enormously popular document-signing service to flood corporate inboxes with convincing phishing emails aimed at defrauding organizations. It's an unusual attack vector with a high success rate.

Government and industry want to jump-start the conversation around "human-centric cybersecurity" to boost the usability and effectiveness of security products and services.

Zero trust is a mature approach that will improve your organization's security.

Episode #4: NIST's new post-quantum cryptography standards are here, so what comes next? This episode of Dark Reading Confidential digs into the world of quantum computing from a cybersecurity practitioner's point of view — with guests Matthew McFadden, vice president, Cyber, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) and Thomas Scanlon, professor, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University.

A Dark Reading poll reveals widespread concern over disinformation about election integrity and voter fraud, even as Russia steps up deepfake attacks meant to sow distrust in the voting process among the electorate.

The Iran-linked group Emennet Pasargad aims to undermine public confidence in Israel and Western nations by using hack-and-leak campaigns and disrupting government services, including elections.

The Pakistan-based advanced persistent threat actor has been carrying on a cyber-espionage campaign targeting organizations on the subcontinent for more than a decade, and it's now using a new and improved "ElizaRAT" malware.

The security researcher who notified the media of the breach will be free from the city's lawsuit, but not without a caveat.

The bug affected accounts with 52-character user names, and had several pre-conditions that needed to be met in order to be exploited.

Companies are attaching the artificial intelligence term to everything these days, but in cybersecurity, machine learning is more than hype.

As businesses worry over deepfake scams and other AI attacks, organizations are adding guidance for cybersecurity teams on how to detect, and respond to, next-generation threats. That includes Exabeam, which was recently targeted by a deepfaked job candidate.

A research tool by the company found a vulnerability in the SQLite open source database, demonstrating the "defensive potential" for using LLMs to find vulnerabilities in applications before they're publicly released.

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The true measure of our cybersecurity prowess lies in our capacity to endure.

The large-scale operation took advantage of open repositories, hardcoded credentials in source code, and other cloud oversights.