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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and toolsets.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and toolsets.

Industry 147
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GenAI in Cybersecurity — Threats and Defenses

Palo Alto Networks

We use it to bypass defenses, automate reconnaissance, generate authentic-looking content and create convincing deepfakes. GenAI and Malware Creation Our research into GenAI and malware creation shows that while AI can't yet generate novel malware from scratch, it can accelerate attackers' activities.

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Beyond the inbox: ThreatLabz 2025 Phishing Report reveals how phishing is evolving in the age of genAI

CIO

as a result of stronger email authentication protocols like DMARC and Googles sender verification, which blocked 265 billion unauthenticated emails. Zscaler decrypts and inspects TLS/SSL traffic inline to block malicious content in real time, using AI-powered threat detection to identify phishing sites, malware, and zero day payloads.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: AI Security Roundup: Best Practices, Research and Insights

Tenable

Harden configurations : Follow best practices for the deployment environment, such as using hardened containers for running ML models; applying allowlists on firewalls; encrypting sensitive AI data; and employing strong authentication. One of AI's significant advantages in threat detection is its ability to be proactive.

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Kinsing Malware Hides Itself as a Manual Page and Targets Cloud Servers

Tenable

One of the most common cryptomining threats for cloud environments is the Kinsing malware. Kinsing is a notorious malware family active for several years, primarily targeting Linux-based cloud infrastructure. The Kinsing malware uses different locations to stay undetected and hides itself as a system file.

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More connected, less secure: Addressing IoT and OT threats to the enterprise

CIO

Weak authentication and authorization: One of the foremost vulnerabilities in IoT deployments stems from inadequate authentication and authorization practices. In fact, two notorious botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt, are major contributors to a recent surge in IoT malware attacks. of the total number of attempted IoT malware attacks.

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