Cisco Talos reported that  Salt Typhoon, also known as FamousSparrow and GhostEmperor, has been spying on U.S. telecommunication providers using a custom tool called JumbledPath. Active since at least 2019, they have targeted government entities and telecom companies. Salt Typhoon is still targeting telecommunications providers worldwide, and according to a …

A free tool is now available to scan public GitHub repositories for exposed AWS credentials. Security engineer Anmol Singh Yadav created AWS-Key-Hunter after discovering over 100 exposed AWS access keys, many with high privileges, in public repositories. He described these findings as “just waiting to be exploited” in his blog about …

An unknown threat cluster has targeted European healthcare organizations, deploying PlugX and ShadowPad. In some cases, these intrusions resulted in the use of ransomware called NailaoLocker. Orange Cyberdefense CERT’s Green Nailao campaign targeted a newly patched security flaw (CVE-2024-24919, CVSS score: 7.5) in Check Point network gateway products. The attacks …