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Your Cloud(s). Adversaries’ Chance At Control
Reconfigure multi-cloud security with the newly launched Group-IB Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Reconfigure multi-cloud security with the newly launched Group-IB Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
The attack involved data-wiping malware that ESET researchers have now analyzed and named DynoWiper
As children turn to AI chatbots for answers, advice, and companionship, questions emerge about their safety, privacy, and emotional development
SmarterMail versions prior to Build 9511 are vulnerable to privileged account takeover and remote code execution. Learn more about the latest Huntress DE&TH Team’s findings.
Here’s how the most common scams targeting Apple Pay users work and what you can do to stay one step ahead
A deep dive into loan phishing scams in Peru and Latin America. Discover how scammers lure victims with fake loan offers, harvest sensitive banking credentials, and leverage advanced scripts to maximize fraud at scale.
Vertical-specific construction applications face unique risks. Hacked apps stem from flaws in the software or its components, expanding the jobsite attack surface.
Once again, data shows an uncomfortable truth: the habit of choosing eminently hackable passwords is alive and well
The business social networking site is a vast, publicly accessible database of corporate information. Don’t believe everyone on the site is who they say they are.
Fake ad blocker crashes your browser, then offers a "fix." Go inside KongTuke's CrashFix campaign, from malicious extension to ModeloRAT for VIP targets.
While investigating LDAP filters and attributes, I completely missed "SDFlags" in my Event 1644 logs. When I finally noticed it, the investigation led to nTSecurityDescriptor, attack path discovery, and a high-confidence detection signature.
This blog uncovers DeadLock’s stealthy usage of Polygon smart contracts for proxy address storage, a poorly-documented and under-reported technique that Group-IB analysts have observed increased usage in the wild. Variants of this technique are very wide and offer great alternatives to threat actors for bypassing traditional defenses by abusing decentralized blockchains available worldwide.
Should verified identities become the standard online? Australia’s social media ban for under-16s shows why the question matters.
If your data is on the dark web, it’s probably only a matter of time before it’s abused for fraud or account hijacking. Here’s what to do.
Modern payment integrations are fast, flexible, and increasingly complex. APIs talk to gateways, webhooks trigger state changes, third parties handle fraud, retries, refunds, and orchestration layers quietly sit in between. In most teams, the signal that things are “working” is simple: transactions go through. That signal is misleading. At RedHunt Labs, we found that the real-world payment pentests reveal the common mistake of treating PCI DSS as a finish line instead of a baseline. This blog r…
Huntress researchers weigh in on the challenge of getting feature parity across Windows, macOS, and Linux. And learn how unique security models and platform maturity shape the way products are built.
Huntress outlines 2025 AI attack speed with automated scripts, but adversaries use familiar tradecraft. Detection and hygiene remain decisive.
Reusing passwords may feel like a harmless shortcut – until a single breach opens the door to multiple accounts
Huntress outlines a complex, multi-step attack designed to break out of guest VMs and target the ESXi hypervisor, using potential zero-day vulnerabilities and sneaky VSOCK communication.
Understanding mDL credential formats Standards in the VDC Ecosystem In our first blog post in this series, we highlighted that VDCs can represent a wide range of credentials, from a driver’s license to a diploma to proof of age. The ability to use VDCs in a wide variety of use cases is a major reason why many are looking at the VDC ecosystem as technology that can change how we present identity and attributes (both in person and online). While credential variety is a good thing, interoperabilit…
Group-IB researchers detail the inner workings of Chinese tap-to-pay schemes on Telegram and examine the NFC-enabled Android apps fraudsters are using to steal money from victim’s bank cards and mobile wallets remotely.
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Learn how Group-IB’s Business Email Protection stops the growing wave of DocuSign impersonation before users are exposed, and protects them from credential-capturing websites built with real-time customizable LogoKit.
From lures involving Social Security statements to top domains and hashes used in attacks, here's an in-depth look at incidents involving ScreenConnect in 2025.
Your LDAP detection rules work in the lab but fail in production. Here's why Event 1644 whitespace variations break your Sigma rules and how to fix them.
As 2025 draws to a close, Tony looks back at the cybersecurity stories that stood out both in December and across the whole of this year
Fake online job ads continue to circulate across social media, especially in Arab countries, offering easy remote work and quick income. The sinister goal: to harvest sensitive information, from ID documents to banking details. This blog explains how the scheme operates, who the scammers target, and how to prevent falling victim to it.