Cyber Attacks
Which CIS Government And Utility Accounts Are At Risk From UAT-6275?
Espionage actors target CIS government and utility sectors with new WinRAR exploit and PowerShell chains, threatening interactive system access.
Cyber Attacks
Cyber Attacks coverage from Breach Observer holds 22 articles, 17 of them reference guides. The newest was published on October 15, 2026. New stories are added as soon as they are confirmed, from more than 150 sources checked as often as every 45 seconds. Each story lists its sources. Primary sources we follow for this section include NIST Cybersecurity Framework and MITRE ATT&CK.
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Which Chinese-language cybercrime ecosystem selling phishing kits did Microsoft dismantle?
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit worked with law enforcement to disrupt a Chinese-language cybercriminal ecosystem selling illicit phishing tools.
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Are Your Ivanti VPN Users at Risk From Chained Zero-Day Exploits?
Attackers used three flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure to gain root access, steal credentials and search for Active Directory data on affected networks.
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Pretexting Prevention Checklist: Stop Social Engineering Attacks
Pretexting bypasses technical defences by exploiting human trust, making procedural verification more effective than software filters alone.
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Rainbow Table Attacks: How Precomputed Hashes Bypass Brute Force
Rainbow tables defeat speed-limited brute force by trading storage space for computation time, turning hours of work into instant lookups.
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Are Security Keys Worth It? The Hardware Truth
Hardware keys prevent credential theft by requiring physical presence, blocking attacks that bypass passwords and software tokens entirely.
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Smishing Risks and Low-Cost Protection for Small Businesses
SMS messages bypass email security filters entirely, leaving small organisations exposed to credential theft that traditional defences cannot detect or block.
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Block Malicious Bot Traffic: Prevention Tactics That Actually Work
Standard rate limiting fails against distributed networks, while behavioural analysis identifies automation by measuring human imperfection rather than blocking known signatures.
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Are low-cost Android phones shipping with firmware-level proxy malware?
Bitdefender reveals preinstalled malware on MediaTek devices that turns phones into botnet nodes and enables ad fraud.
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What happens if you click a smishing link: the hidden aftermath
A single tap can install invisible monitoring software that survives device resets and silently harvests authentication tokens from your background processes.
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How Criminal IP’s AITEM Tool Bridges the Gap in Attack Surface Management
Criminal IP launches AITEM, an AI-driven framework that links exposure discovery with risk prioritisation and response actions for security teams.
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Phishing vs Spam: Which Control Stops the Attack
Spam filters miss intent-based deception, while phishing controls struggle with high-volume noise, requiring distinct detection methods for each threat vector.
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Prevent Shoulder Surfing: Practical Defences for Sensitive Inputs
Physical proximity attacks bypass digital defences, requiring environmental controls and input obfuscation to secure credentials in public spaces.
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Pretexting Explained: How Fake Stories Steal Your Data
Attackers fabricate believable scenarios to bypass your suspicion, making technical controls useless if you hand over access voluntarily.
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DNS Spoofing: How It Works and How to Stop Cache Poisoning
Attackers manipulate the local DNS cache to redirect traffic without touching the server, making standard perimeter filters ineffective against this redirection method.
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Payroll Diversion Fraud: Debunking 6 Common Security Myths
Payroll diversion relies on social engineering and process gaps, not technical exploits, making traditional network security tools largely ineffective against this threat.
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MFA Fatigue Attack Signs: Spotting the Push Bombing Threat
Attackers exploit human psychology by sending repeated authentication requests until exhaustion forces a user to approve access, bypassing security controls.
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Account Lockout Policies for Small Business: Prevent Lockouts and Breaches
Poorly tuned lockout settings create more operational chaos than security risk, forcing staff to wait while attackers exploit the distraction.
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How DNS Filtering Works: The Mechanism Behind Domain Blocking
DNS filtering intercepts queries before they leave your network, stopping threats at the address book stage rather than waiting for the connection to establish.
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Session Cookie Theft: How Attackers Bypass Login Screens
Stealing a session cookie grants immediate access to an account without needing a password, rendering standard authentication controls ineffective.
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Attack Vectors Explained: How Threats Enter and What to Block
Attack vectors are not software flaws themselves, but the specific paths adversaries use to reach your data, often bypassing perimeter defences through human behaviour.
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How to implement web filtering: a step-by-step guide for secure access
Web filtering fails when it blocks traffic rather than inspecting it, creating blind spots that attackers exploit to exfiltrate data through allowed channels.
