AI agents are on the brink of transforming Security Operations Centers (SOCs), with the potential to automate everything from writing code and analyzing alerts to generating executive-level summaries. At the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit, experts emphasized that while AI can significantly reduce the cognitive load on security teams, human oversight remains irreplaceable. AI […]
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Welcome to Canary Trap’s Bi-Weekly Cyber Roundup. Our mission is to keep you informed with the most pressing developments in the world of cybersecurity. This digest serves as your gateway to critical updates and emerging threats across the industry. As cybersecurity threats continue to evolve in scale and sophistication, recent headlines offer a sobering reminder […]
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CrowdStrike and Microsoft have launched a joint initiative to align the way cyber threat actors are identified and tracked across the cybersecurity industry. This collaboration addresses longstanding confusion caused by each vendor using its own naming system for adversaries, making it difficult for defenders to coordinate responses. By creating a shared mapping system—described as a […]
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The Czech Republic has formally accused China-linked advanced persistent threat group APT31 of conducting a cyberattack against its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, targeting an unclassified network designated as critical infrastructure. The malicious activity, which dates back to 2022, has been attributed to APT31—a state-sponsored group associated with China’s Ministry of State Security and believed to […]
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Welcome to Canary Trap’s Bi-Weekly Cyber Roundup. Our mission is to keep you informed with the most pressing developments in the world of cybersecurity. This digest serves as your gateway to critical updates and emerging threats across the industry. In this post, we explore a series of recent cybersecurity incidents and vulnerabilities affecting both public […]
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Generative AI is rapidly transforming social engineering, making cyberattacks more convincing, scalable, and harder to detect. Once limited by poor grammar and generic templates, phishing schemes can now be tailored with alarming precision using AI models capable of real-time web searches, workflow automation, and multilingual fluency. IBM’s X-Force team highlights how attackers use AI not […]
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Phishing attacks continue to evolve, with cybercriminals now using phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkits to create dynamic, real-time login pages customized for individual targets. Toolkits like LogoKit allow attackers to fetch logos and branding elements using legitimate services like Clearbit, giving phishing pages an air of authenticity. These campaigns often begin with emails designed to provoke urgency, […]
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Welcome to Canary Trap’s “Bi-Weekly Cyber Roundup”. At Canary Trap, it is our mission to keep you up-to-date with the most crucial news in the world of cybersecurity, and this bi-weekly publication is your gateway to the latest news. This week’s cybersecurity roundup highlights a series of high-impact breaches, government responses, and ongoing threats across […]
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Google’s Threat Intelligence Group reports a slight decline in zero-day exploitations in 2024 compared to 2023, crediting improved secure development practices by major software vendors. Exploits targeting internet browsers dropped by about a third, and mobile operating system vulnerabilities were halved. These results suggest that investments in exploit mitigations are paying off—at least in consumer-facing […]
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Fortinet’s 2025 Global Threat Landscape Report reveals a sharp escalation in cyber threats driven by AI, automation, and the commoditization of attack tools. Automated scanning surged by 16.7% globally in 2024, enabling attackers to proactively identify exposed infrastructure like SIP, RDP, and IoT protocols. Darknet marketplaces expanded access to exploit kits and compromised credentials, with […]
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