A new hacker forum is taking a unique political stance to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, entertaining only topics and threat activity focused against Russia and Belarus, researchers have found.

Attackers employ evasive tactics to avoid detection, including one called “short-lived domains”—in which the domains used in the attack “stay alive for extremely short periods of time”–that deviates from typical phishing practices, researchers wrote.

Water may be the greatest vulnerability in our national infrastructure, said Samantha Ravich, chair of CCTI. Much of the problem lies in just how decentralized water systems are, she explained.

Discord a public chat application designed for gamers has grown popular among crypto owners all over the world. Attackers are targeting the Discord servers of several popular nonfungible token (NFT) projects.

The defunct REvil ransomware gang is claiming responsibility for a recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign against a hospitality customer of cloud networking provider Akamai.

Of the 86 APTs that researchers investigated, only eight–Stealth Falcon, APT17, Equation, Dragonfly, Elderwood, FIN8, DarkHydrus and Rancor—exploited vulnerabilities that others didn’t, researchers found.

Researchers discovered a simple malware builder designed to steal credentials, then pinging them to Discord webhooks. A Discord user with the handle “Portu” was found advertising this new password-stealing malware builder.

Bad actors are gaining access to more tools to help them pull off their nefarious deeds – like exploit kits. At the same time, the attack surface has rapidly expanded and continues to do so.

As adoption increases, so does the interest of cybercriminals. A June Red Hat survey found that a whopping 94 percent of respondents had suffered a Kubernetes security incident over the previous 12 months.

GitHub shared the timeline of breaches in April 2022, this timeline encompasses the information related to when a threat actor gained access and stole private repositories belonging to dozens of organizations.