The North Korea worker problem is bigger than you think

The yearslong scheme goes much deeper than contract work, extending to roles beyond traditional IT and sometimes granting the insider threat “keys to the kingdom,” DTEX President Mohan Koo said.

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Browser extension sales, updates pose hidden threat to enterprises

Some browser extension permissions are too broad, and owners can quickly repurpose pre-approved capabilities for malicious intent, a security researcher told CyberScoop.

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String of defects in popular Kubernetes component puts 40% of cloud environments at risk

Researchers aren’t aware of active exploitation in the wild, but they warn the risk for publicly exposed and unpatched Ingress Nginx controllers is extremely high.

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Researchers raise alarm about critical Next.js vulnerability

The software defect in the widely used open-source JavaScript framework allows attackers to bypass middleware-based authorization.

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Canadian citizen allegedly involved in Snowflake attacks consents to extradition to US

Connor Moucka, a 26-year-old arrested at the behest of U.S. authorities in October in Kitchener, Ontario, faces 20 federal charges.

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Nation-state groups hit hundreds of organizations with Microsoft Windows zero-day

Trend Micro researchers discovered and reported the eight-year-old defect to Microsoft six months ago. The company hasn’t made any commitments to patch or remediate the issue.

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Infostealers fueled cyberattacks and snagged 2.1B credentials last year

Inexpensive information-stealing malware surged in 2024, infecting 23 million hosts, according to Flashpoint.

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Who is sending those scammy text messages about unpaid tolls?

The latest smishing scam follows a familiar process as ones the industry has seen over the past decade.

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Lazarus Group deceives developers with 6 new malicious npm packages

Socket researchers said the malware-ridden packages were collectively downloaded over 330 times. GitHub removed all of the malicious packages Wednesday.

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Microsoft patches 57 vulnerabilities, including 6 zero-days

More than three-quarters of the vulnerabilities covered in the vendor’s monthly Patch Tuesday update are high-severity flaws.

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