The Leadership Tightrope: Why Leading in Today’s Workforce is a Balancing Act

Originally published by CXO REvolutionaries.Written by Ben Corll, CISO in Residence, Zscaler.Leadership. It’s a word that’s often tossed around (as if we all understand what it is and how it’s performed). Yet, truly effective leaders are very hard to find. Some might see leadership as a natural progression of their career. In reality, navigating the […]

China-linked APT17 Targets Italian Companies with 9002 RAT Malware

A China-linked threat actor called APT17 has been observed targeting Italian companies and government entities using a variant of a known malware referred to as 9002 RAT. The two targeted attacks took place on June 24 and July 2, 2024, Italian cybersecurity company TG Soft said in an analysis published last week. “The first campaign […]

Scattered Spider Adopts RansomHub and Qilin Ransomware for Cyber Attacks

The infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider has incorporated ransomware strains such as RansomHub and Qilin into its arsenal, Microsoft has revealed. Scattered Spider is the designation given to a threat actor that’s known for its sophisticated social engineering schemes to breach targets and establish persistence for follow-on exploitation and data theft. It also […]

Critical Apache HugeGraph Vulnerability Under Attack – Patch ASAP

Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Apache HugeGraph-Server that could lead to remote code execution attacks. Tracked as CVE-2024-27348 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability impacts all versions of the software before 1.3.0. It has been described as a remote command execution flaw in the Gremlin graph traversal language API. […]