The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) has reported that cloud-based cyberattacks increased significantly in 2024 as threat actors used new methods to exploit cloud resources.

The "Alphv/BlackCat" ransomware gang appears to have resurfaced as "Cicada3301," which is written in the Rust programming language.

Researchers at Iowa State University are building zero-trust cybersecurity tools to protect power grids that include renewable resources such as wind or solar farms.

Germany's CERT@VDE has notified organizations of several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities found in industrial routers.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science (Penn Engineering) discovered that certain features of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-governed robots have previously unidentified security vulnerabilities.

According to ETH Zurich researchers Jonas Hofmann and Kien Tuong Turong, multiple End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) cloud storage platforms have security vulnerabilities that could expose user data to malicious actors.

Datadog's "State of Cloud Security 2024" report found that 46 percent of organizations have unmanaged users with long-lived credentials in cloud services, putting them at risk of data breaches.

ESET is investigating the abuse of the systems of its official product distributor in Israel to send emails delivering wiper malware.

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A team of researchers at the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has developed an algorithm named "PLCHound" to improve critical infrastructure security.

According to Mohamed Rahouti, a professor at Fordham University, generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) holds the key to a new system that anticipates potential cyberattacks and prepares systems to counter previously unknown cyber threats.

Mir Ali Masood, PhD student at the University of Illinois Chicago, co-presents a paper titled "Unbundle-Rewrite-Rebundle: Runtime Detection and Rewriting of Privacy-Harming Code in JavaScript Bundles" at the 2024 ACM Computer and Communication Security