Author: HackWatchit

Dallas, United States, TX, April 21st, 2025, CyberNewsWire Brings Automated Response to Your Assets, Identity, Vulnerabilities, Alerts, and More to Redefine Risk Prioritization. For years, security teams have operated in reactive mode, contending with siloed tools, fragmented intelligence, and a never-ending backlog of alerts. Traditional Security Operations platforms were supposed to unify data and streamline response—but they often introduced their own complexity, requiring heavy customization and manual oversight. “Hyper automation” delivered much of the same empty promises, leaving most security teams firefighting today’s incidents with limited bandwidth to proactively manage tomorrow’s risks. At the 2025 RSA Conference, StrikeReady is introducing…

Privacy and digital rights advocates largely prefer the approach of building a travel device from scratch, but they caution that a phone that is too squeaky clean, too much like a burner phone, can arouse suspicion.“You have to ‘seed’ the device. Use the phone for a day or even for a few hours. It just can’t be clean clean. That’s weird,” says Matt Mitchell, founder of CryptoHarlem, a security and privacy training and advocacy nonprofit. “My recommendation is to make a finsta for travel, because if they ask you what your profile is, how are you gonna say ‘I don’t…

Date: April 15, 2025Time: 4:30 PM EEST | 9:30 AM EDT | 7:00 PM ISTTopic: Hacking Payment Services: Real-World Business Logic Attack Scenarios Watch Now Abstract: This webinar offers an in-depth exploration of real-world business logic attacks that impact the banking and fintech sectors. It examines how legitimate functions can be exploited to perform malicious attacks that lead to financial losses for institutions. By understanding these threats, participants will gain insight into the evolving tactics used by attackers targeting modern financial services. The webinar will first examine how various techniques can compromise modern payment services by ethically attacking every step in…

Attackers are focusing more on stealing identities. Because of this, companies need to use zero trust principles. They should also verify user identities more carefully, says DirectDefense. Researchers analyzed thousands of alerts, mapping them to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations. Top five attack tactics Initial access: Initial access remains the most frequently-observed adversarial tactic, representing more than 27% of escalated alerts. In 2024, threat actors consistently exploited valid accounts to gain unauthorized access to systems, often by leveraging stolen credentials. Persistence: Adversaries are increasingly prioritizing persistence within compromised…

Chinese-speaking IronHusky hackers are targeting Russian and Mongolian government organizations using upgraded MysterySnail remote access trojan (RAT) malware. Security researchers at Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) spotted the updated implant while investigating recent attacks where the attackers deployed the RAT malware using a malicious MMC script camouflaged as a Word document, which downloaded second-stage payloads and gained persistence on compromised systems. One of the malicious payloads is an unknown intermediary backdoor that helps transfer files between the command and control servers and hacked devices, run command shells, create new processes, delete files, and more. “In our telemetry, these files…

Government-backed hacking groups from North Korea (TA427), Iran (TA450), and Russia (UNK_RemoteRogue, TA422) are now using the ClickFix technique in their espionage campaigns. Learn about Proofpoint’s insights into this new wave of attacks. Proofpoint has recently discovered a concerning development related to the ClickFix attack, a dangerous social engineering method. Reportedly, government-backed hacking groups are now using this technique, exploiting users’ trust by presenting fake error messages or security alerts from the operating system or familiar applications. Users are tricked into downloading and running a code in their computer’s command line interface, believing it is a solution to their problem.…

What does it mean to work from home across your corporate VPN? What exactly is VPN? Is your home office prepared? How can you improve and better secure your home network? Is your corporate network ready for the change in IT environment network access? Join us to explore these topics, and describe some potential actions you can take to improve your home office and network environment. Join the Black Hills Information Security Discord discussion server — https://discord.gg/aHHh3u5 Slides for this webcast can be found here: https://www.blackhillsinfosec.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SLIDES_PandemicParadigmShift.pdf 0:00 – We’re Not In Normal Anymore 2:04 – Viral Pandemic Networking (VPN) 7:34 –…

In brief Over two-thirds of the crypto stolen in the ByBit hack remains traceable, the firm’s CEO said. 27.59% of the stolen funds has “gone dark.” The $1.4 billion hack by North Korea’s Lazarus Group was the biggest in crypto history. Over two-thirds of the $1.4 billion stolen in the largest crypto hack to date, the Bybit breach, remains traceable, despite hackers using an array of mixing services to cover their tracks, according to a new update from the exchange’s CEO.In an executive summary tweeted Monday, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou broke down the flow of roughly 500,000 ETH stolen in…

Data classification is a critical capability that can ensure the most efficient use of resources by appropriately applying controls to the correct data and systems based on organizational risk.  One of the analogies I like to use is, “Would you lock up a peanut butter sandwich recipe in Fort Knox?” In security terms, would you apply the most restrictive and costly controls to data that has little impact if breached??  Data classification is how we enable a data-driven approach to managing risk and cost. Let’s explore how to design and implement this model effectively.  What is It? Data classification lays out the…