Author: HackWatchit

Identity is at the center of the fight against adversaries. As threat actors weaponize legitimate credentials and sell access to the highest bidders, organizations must proactively detect and secure exposed identities to shut down potential attack paths before they can be exploited. The CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report illustrates the urgent need for strong identity protection as adversaries explore new techniques. Social engineering is growing in popularity: Voice phishing (vishing) attacks surged by 442% between the first and second half of 2024 as groups like CURLY SPIDER trick employees into handing over login details. Those who don’t steal credentials can…

As we navigate 2025, the digital transformation continues to reshape industries, with the financial sector  at its forefront. Digital payments are no longer an emerging trend, but a fundamental part of the global  economy. In 2023, global e-commerce sales reached an estimated $5.8 trillion, according to Statista. This growth  trajectory continues, and it’s critical to acknowledge that with it comes an amplified risk landscape.  Cybercrime is becoming increasingly sophisticated, leveraging AI and exploiting vulnerabilities in new  digital payment systems. Therefore, robust protection of payment card information is more crucial than  ever. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)…

The non-profit professional association International Society of Automation (ISA) has announced a new way for its members to exchange ideas and build expertise. Through technical communities called Connect Forums, the best minds in automation come together to engage in topic-specific discussions. Connect Forums are hosted on ISA Connect, ISA’s members-only community. On Connect Forums, ISA members engage with automation professionals across sectors, dive deep into cutting-edge automation topics and get real-time answers to their toughest questions. The focus is on technologies that cross industry segments, allowing members to get insights from anywhere. Participants in Connect Forums have the opportunity to…

VMware Workstation users report that the software’s automatic update functionality is broken after Broadcom redirected the download URL to its generic support page, triggering certificate errors. The software contains a feature that checks for new updates on startup (if configured) and can be manually triggered by clicking Help > Software Updates. This will cause the program to connect to the software update server at https://softwareupdate.broadcom.com/cds to check for and download software updates. However, this URL now redirects to Broadcom’s generic support page, https://support.broadcom.com/, causing the application to issue certificate validation errors and rendering its built-in update mechanism unusable. “A certificate…

ORIGINALLY AIRED ON SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 Articles discussed in this episode: 02:14 – Story # 1: https://therecord.media/chinese-hackers-behind-july-2021-solarwinds-zero-day-attacks 06:17 – Story # 2: https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/ciso-lawsuit-solarwinds 08:30 – Story # 3: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-cybersecurity-nicolas-chaillan/ 10:29 – Story # 3b: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-say-goodbye-nicolas-m-chaillan/ 13:20 – Story # 4: https://venturebeat.com/2021/09/02/the-cybersecurity-industry-is-burning-and-vcs-dont-care/ 18:03 – Story # 5: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/03/how_to_be_a_ransomware/ 24:38 – Story # 6: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-60-000-parked-domains-were-vulnerable-to-aws-hijacking/ 28:30 – Story # 7: https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-warns-of-ransomware-attacks-targeting-food-and-agriculture-sector-as-white-house-pushes-for-proactive-measures/ 33:20 – Story # 7b: https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1435306913038745612 34:16 – Story # 7c: https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1433758742244478982 37:29 – Story # 8: https://cyberworkx.in/2021/09/06/russian-mobile-comes-with-preinstalled-malware/ 38:26 – Story # 9: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/09/gift-card-gang-extracts-cash-from-100k-inboxes-daily/ 45:31 – Story # 10: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mcdonalds-leaks-password-for-monopoly-vip-database-to-winners/ Ready to learn more? Level up your skills with affordable classes…

The Attention Mechanism is often associated with the transformer architecture, but it was already used in RNNs. In Machine Translation or MT (e.g., English-Italian) tasks, when you want to predict the next Italian word, you need your model to focus, or pay attention, on the most important English words that are useful to make a good translation. I will not go into details of RNNs, but attention helped these models to mitigate the vanishing gradient problem and to capture more long-range dependencies among words. At a certain point, we understood that the only important thing was the attention mechanism, and…

Russia-linked Gamaredon targets Ukraine with Remcos RAT Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2025 Russia-linked Gamaredon targets Ukraine with a phishing campaign using troop-related lures to deploy the Remcos RAT via PowerShell downloader. Talos researchers warn that Russia-linked APT group Gamaredon (a.k.a. Armageddon, Primitive Bear, ACTINIUM, Callisto) targets Ukraine with a phishing campaign. The cyberespionage group is behind a long series of spear-phishing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities, and organizations related to Ukrainian affairs. The APT group has been launching cyber-espionage campaigns against Ukraine since at least 2014. The threat actor is using troop-related lures to deploy the Remcos RAT via PowerShell downloader. The…

A hacker operating under the alias “CoreInjection” is claiming responsibility for the breach of Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point, alleging access to sensitive internal data and network systems. The hacker published their claims on Breach Forums on Sunday, March 30, 2025, and announced the sale of the stolen content for a price of 5 Bitcoin ($434,570). The hacker emphasized that the price is “firm and non-negotiable,” with cryptocurrency being the only accepted form of payment. Interested parties were directed to make contact via the TOX messaging platform. In the forum listing, CoreInjection said the data for sale includes: Internal project…

The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is helping law enforcement take down criminals with cutting-edge tech, and the results are impressive. A recent investigation in Tennessee led to the indictment of eight individuals accused of trafficking multiple women from Venezuela. Two suspects reportedly have ties to the notorious gang Tren de Aragua. All eight have been charged with conspiracy to commit interstate transportation for prostitution and could face serious prison time. Three face additional sex trafficking conspiracy charges that carry potential life sentences. According to Travis Brown, the S&T Forensics and Criminal Investigations…