Monthly Archives: January 2025

MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five years until a security researcher spent $300 to register the domain and prevent […]

SOC Expert Perspectives: 5 Key Social Engineering Threats

Originally published by Abnormal Security.Written by Mick Leach.Social engineering attacks are an escalating threat to modern organizations, with data breaches caused by these tactics taking an average of 257 days to contain, as revealed in IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report. Additionally, social engineering was used in 30% of breaches in 2023 alone, […]

Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet

Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the attacks have leveraged the security flaw since June 2024. Additional details about the shortcomings have been withheld to prevent further […]

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra will apparently boast soon-to-be-released Gorilla Armor 2 display

Samsung’s new Galaxy S25 Ultra will feature Gorilla Armor 2, a big jump from the previous Gorilla Armor on S24 Ultra. The post Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra will apparently boast soon-to-be-released Gorilla Armor 2 display appeared first on MSPoweruser.

Solving the Cyber Workforce Puzzle

Originally published by CXO REvolutionaries.Zscaler EVP, Customer Experience & Transformation Kavitha Mariappan recounts her conversation with CISA Director Jen Easterly and Girls Who Code CEO Dr. Tarika Barrett.Ernő Rubik said “If you are curious, you will find the puzzles around you and, if you are determined, you will solve them.” CISA Director Jen Easterly used […]