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5 Proven Strategies to Stop Privilege Escalation Attacks

May 1, 2025 By Fidelis Security In Fidelis Security
This blog covers five strategies that work to prevent privilege escalation and protect your organization’s critical assets. You’ll learn about ways to improve your security – from better authentication protocols to securing Active Directory. We’ll show you useful steps to lift your security stance against these ongoing threats using advanced monitoring tools like Fidelis Elevate XDR platform.
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Securing Websites Against XSS Attacks: Must-Know for Developers and Site Owners

Apr 30, 2025 By SafeAeon Inc. In SafeAeon
Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is a very serious kind of security issue saying that they target websites as well as the users who are using them. To put it simply, XSS attacks means that a hacker was able to inject malicious scripts into a website. These scripts would then run in the user's browser, many a time without the user knowing about it. Most commonly, these attacks are aimed at stealing some sensitive information, impersonating the user, or just playing around with how the website looks or behaves.
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Raising the Security Bar: Essential Measures to Combat Emerging Cyber Threats

Raising the Security Bar: Essential Measures to Combat Emerging Cyber Threats

Apr 29, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Cyber threats are evolving all the time, and the pace of advancement is increasing. From malware and ransomware attacks to increasingly sophisticated phishing techniques and zero-day exploits, threat actors are constantly working to find new ways to breach our defenses, so we need to take proactive steps to raise security standards and keep our organizations on the front foot in the fight against cybercrime. In this piece, we'll discuss some essential measures you can take to do this, highlighting best practices and security technologies that can enable you to build a more threat-resilient organization.
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levelblue

2025 Cyber Resilience Research Discovers Speed of AI Advancing Emerging Attack Types

Apr 28, 2025 By Theresa Lanowitz In LevelBlue
It is no secret that AI is advancing at a blistering pace for everyone – including cyber adversaries. The mainstream unveiling of generative AI in 2024 brought about the biggest disruption in computing since the microprocessor. AI solutions promise the world unprecedented levels of efficiency, speed, and automation. However, this seemingly utopian and disruptive technology is evolving more quickly than governance and regulations can keep pace and implement guard rails for use and adoption.
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Targeted by 20.5 million DDoS attacks, up 358% year-over-year: Cloudflare's 2025 Q1 DDoS Threat Report

Apr 27, 2025 By Omer Yoachimik In Cloudflare
Welcome to the 21st edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Published quarterly, this report offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolving threat landscape of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks based on data from the Cloudflare network. In this edition, we focus on the first quarter of 2025.
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wallarm

Threat Replay Testing: Turning Attackers into Pen Testers

Apr 25, 2025 By Wallarm In Wallarm
API security is no longer just a concern; it’s a critical priority for businesses. With APIs serving as the backbone of modern applications, they’ve become a primary target for attackers. While automated security testing tools help detect vulnerabilities, their limitations leave organizations exposed to evolving threats. Here’s where Threat Replay Testing (TRT) comes into play.
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Internxt

What Is A Dictionary Attack and How To Prevent It

Apr 24, 2025 By Internxt In Internxt
Have you ever wondered how hackers breach your accounts even if they don’t know your password? It’s not just luck or guesswork; a dictionary attack is one of many methods cybercriminals use to crack passwords and break into your online accounts. Throughout this article, we will break down what a dictionary attack is, how it works, and the steps you can take to prevent threat actors from cracking your passwords and stealing your personal information.
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armo

ARMO CADR Uncovers Multiple Crypto Miner Attack Operations

Apr 23, 2025 By Amit Schendel In ARMO
The best way to understand real-world attacks is to observe them in the wild. Following this principle, our research team set up a decoy Kubernetes workload designed to attract malicious actors – a honeypot in a Kubernetes cluster we named the “Honey-pod.” Inside this pod, we deployed Apache Druid, a popular open-source analytics database known for its scalability and, unfortunately, for a history of exploitable vulnerabilities.
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XRP supply chain attack: Official NPM package infected with crypto stealing backdoor

Apr 22, 2025 By Charlie Eriksen In Aikido
At 21 Apr, 20:53 GMT+0, our system, Aikido Intel started to alert us to five new package version of the xrpl package. It is the official SDK for the XRP Ledger, with more than 140.000 weekly downloads. We quickly confirmed the official XPRL (Ripple) NPM package was compromised by sophisticated attackers who put in a backdoor to steal cryptocurrency private keys and gain access to cryptocurrency wallets.
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