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Tim Wilson, co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Dark Reading, passed away five years ago in November. As Dark Reading enters its third decade, we pause to celebrate and honor Wilson's instrumental role in building and elevating the media site. Read the full story here: bit.ly/4wSgoq2 #DarkReading20 @InformaTTGT
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Claude Fable 5 Doesn't Change the Mythos Security Story: bit.ly/49YnRKp by Alexander Culafi

Claude Fable 5 Doesn't Change the Mythos Security Story

Stay cool: Mythos 5 is an upgrade over Mythos Preview while Fable 5 is Mythos "made safe for general use," Anthropic explained.

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Phishing Attack Volume Down 20%, but Risk Still Rising darkreading.com/cybersecurit… by Nate Nelson #phishing

Phishing Attack Volume Down 20%, but Risk Still Rising

Hackers are valuing quality over quantity, using AI to upgrade their phishing attacks rather than multiplying them.

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Max-Severity Ivanti Flaw Exploited 24 Hours After Disclosure darkreading.com/vulnerabilit… By Rob Wright

Max-Severity Ivanti Sentry Flaw Exploited Within 24 Hours

Initial methods suggest attackers had likely mapped out Ivanti's asset landscape upfront and acted quickly once the exploit became public.

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Chinese, N. Korean Threat Groups Build on Asia-Pacific Success darkreading.com/cyberattacks… @roblemos

Chinese, N. Korean Threat Groups Build on Asia-Pacific Success

North Korea's gross domestic product (GDP) has grown, in part because of the cybercrime gains of groups linked to the nation.

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Blame AI: Patch Tuesday Hits Record 206 CVEs: bit.ly/4v0HeLb by Jai Vijayan

Blame AI: Patch Tuesday Hits Record 206 CVEs

Voluminous patch updates could soon be the norm, as artificial intelligence accelerates the speed and scale of vulnerability discovery.

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Microsoft Exchange Flaw Lets Attackers Spoof Any Email Address: bit.ly/4e8Lelz by Alexander Culafi

Exchange Flaw Lets Attackers Spoof Any Email Address

"Ghost-Sender" uses Exchange Online or on-premises in hybrid mode with a third-party mail server or spam filter to achieve this level of spoofing.

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Miasma Supply Chain Worm Burrows Into 73 Microsoft Repositories: bit.ly/4xkZrof by Rob Wright

Miasma Supply Chain Worm Burrows Into 73 Microsoft Repositories

The attacks stemmed from a GitHub account that was also compromised in a previous Miasma attack on Microsoft last month.

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Russian Attackers Weaponize WinRAR Flaw Against Ukrainian Orgs: bit.ly/4ech3Kd by Elizabeth Montalbano

Russian Attackers Weaponize WinRAR Flaw Against Ukraine

Two separate campaigns target CVE-2025-8088, fixed last July, to conduct data theft and cyberespionage against military and government targets in Ukraine

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Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited Since Early May by Alex Culafi #darkreading darkreading.com/vulnerabilit… #vulnerabilities #cybersecurity

Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited Since Early May

A newly discovered, critical zero-day vulnerability is under attack; a Qilin ransomware affiliate has been blamed for at least one incident.

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Silent Ransom Group Hits US Law Firms in Escalating Extortion Attacks by Jai Vijayan darkreading.com/cyberattacks… #cybersecurity #darkreading

Silent Ransom Group Hits US Law Firms in Escalating Attacks

The financially motivated group is combining vishing, IT impersonation, and in-person office intrusions to steal data and extort victims.

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Latest Opinion on #darkreading: Iran Signed a Ceasefire — Its Hackers Didn't darkreading.com/cyberattacks… #cybersecurity

Iran Signed a Ceasefire — Its Hackers Didn't

An extension of the Geneva Conventions could impose restrictions on cyberwarfare under ceasefire conditions.

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Silent Ransom Group Hits US Law Firms in Escalating Extortion Attacks by Jai Vijayan darkreading.com/cyberattacks… #cybersecurity #darkreading

Silent Ransom Group Hits US Law Firms in Escalating Attacks

The financially motivated group is combining vishing, IT impersonation, and in-person office intrusions to steal data and extort victims.

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Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited Since Early May by Alex Culafi #darkreading darkreading.com/vulnerabilit… #vulnerabilities #cybersecurity

Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited Since Early May

A newly discovered, critical zero-day vulnerability is under attack; a Qilin ransomware affiliate has been blamed for at least one incident.

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'Hades' Campaign Against PyPI Puts New Spin on Shai-Hulud darkreading.com/application-… by Elizabeth Montalbano

'Hades' Attacks on PyPI Put New Spin on Shai-Hulud

The latest attacks, which hit 37 PyPI wheels and 19 code packages, show a continued evolution of the supply chain threat.

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Rust-Written IronWorm Hits NPM Supply Chain darkreading.com/cyberattacks… by @jaivijayan

Rust-Written IronWorm Hits NPM Supply Chain

Like Shai-Hulud, the campaign targets developers to steal credentials and reuses them to propagate across the software supply channel.

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China's TA4922 Expands Cybercrime Attacks Globally darkreading.com/threat-intel… by Nate Nelson #China

China's TA4922 Expands Cybercrime Attacks Globally

One of the world's most diverse, least-focused cybercrime groups has been spreading its activity beyond East Asia.

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4 Critical Threats Where Attackers Have the Advantage darkreading.com/vulnerabilit… by Rob Wright

4 Critical Threats Where Attackers Have the Advantage

Gartner analysts issued a call to action to bolster defenses against several emerging critical threats, such as deepfakes and prompt injections.

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Our own Kristina Beek sat down with Zoom CISO Sandra McLeod to discuss among other things how AI empowers the SecOps team. Check it: darkreading.com/cybersecurit…

Zoom CISO: AI as Security Enabler, Not Role-Replacer

Zoom's CISO, Sandra McLeod, discusses securing a communication platform, AI-driven security workflows, and advice for aspiring cybersecurity leaders.

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Pakistan Spies on Afghan Finance Ministry With Xeno RAT darkreading.com/cyberattacks… by Nate Nelson #xeno

Pakistan Spies on Afghan Finance Ministry With Xeno RAT

Despite broadly connected digital infrastructure, standard fare TTPs are enough to cause trouble for Afghanistan's porous cybersecurity.

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