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WooCommerce Users Targeted by Fake Patch Phishing Campaign Deploying Site Backdoors

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a “critical patch” but deploy a backdoor instead. WordPress security company Patchstack described the activity as sophisticated and a variant of another campaign observed in December 2023 that employed a fake CVE ploy to […]

Hackers Exploit Critical Craft CMS Flaws; Hundreds of Servers Likely Compromised

Threat actors have been observed exploiting two newly disclosed critical security flaws in Craft CMS in zero-day attacks to breach servers and gain unauthorized access. The attacks, first observed by Orange Cyberdefense SensePost on February 14, 2025, involve chaining the below vulnerabilities – CVE-2024-58136 (CVSS score: 9.0) – An improper protection of alternate path flaw […]

Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers

Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year. “The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that is being used by a wide range of threat actors,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence […]

Why We’re Launching a Trusted AI Safety Knowledge Certification Program

Written by Anna Campbell Schorr, Training Program Director, Cloud Security Alliance.   Over the years, we’ve witnessed security paradigms evolve—from the early days of perimeter defense, to the rise of Zero Trust, and most recently, the challenges introduced by Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of the enterprise landscape: according to The […]

ToyMaker Uses LAGTOY to Sell Access to CACTUS Ransomware Gangs for Double Extortion

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the activities of an initial access broker (IAB) dubbed ToyMaker that has been observed handing over access to double extortion ransomware gangs like CACTUS. The IAB has been assessed with medium confidence to be a financially motivated threat actor, scanning for vulnerable systems and deploying a custom malware called LAGTOY (aka […]

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