Tag: access
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AI-assisted Slopoly malware powers Hive0163’s ransomware campaigns
The Hive0163 group used AI-assisted malware called Slopoly to maintain persistent access in ransomware attacks. IBM X-Force researchers report that the financially motivated group Hive0163 is using AI-assisted malware named Slopoly to maintain persistent access during ransomware attacks, showing how threat actors can quickly build new malware frameworks using AI. Hive0163 is a threat actor…
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Storm-2561 Uses SEO Poisoning, Fake Signed VPN Apps to Steal Enterprise Credentials
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Storm-2561 is running a credential theft campaign that abuses SEO poisoning and fake, signed VPN installers to steal enterprise VPN credentials. Active since May 2025, Storm-2561 continues to exploit user trust in search results, known VPN brands, and code-signing certificates to distribute malware disguised as legitimate remote access…
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Fake Temu Coin airdrop uses ClickFix trick to install stealthy malware
A fake $TEMU crypto airdrop uses the ClickFix trick to make victims run malware themselves and quietly installs a remote-access backdoor. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/fake-temu-coin-airdrop-uses-clickfix-trick-to-install-stealthy-malware/
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Google Fixes Two Chrome Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild Affecting Skia and V8
Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address two high-severity vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in the wild.The list of vulnerabilities is as follows -CVE-2026-3909 (CVSS score: 8.8) – An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Skia 2D graphics library that allows a remote attacker to perform out-of-bounds memory…
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Hybrid resilience: Designing incident response across on-prem, cloud and SaaS without losing your mind
Tags: access, authentication, business, cloud, communications, data, data-breach, group, identity, incident response, metric, mitigation, network, radius, resilience, saas, service, strategy, technology, updateSeverity is driven by customer impact, not by who is pagedWe maintain one current hypothesis, even if it is wrongWe keep one shared timeline that captures decisions, not just symptomsWe communicate on a predictable cadence, even when answers are incompleteEvery action has a named owner and an explicit “time we expect to learn”The biggest behavior…
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Hybrid resilience: Designing incident response across on-prem, cloud and SaaS without losing your mind
Tags: access, authentication, business, cloud, communications, data, data-breach, group, identity, incident response, metric, mitigation, network, radius, resilience, saas, service, strategy, technology, updateSeverity is driven by customer impact, not by who is pagedWe maintain one current hypothesis, even if it is wrongWe keep one shared timeline that captures decisions, not just symptomsWe communicate on a predictable cadence, even when answers are incompleteEvery action has a named owner and an explicit “time we expect to learn”The biggest behavior…
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Starbucks discloses data breach affecting hundreds of employees
Starbucks has disclosed a data breach affecting hundreds of employees after threat actors gained access to their Starbucks Partner Central accounts. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/starbucks-discloses-data-breach-affecting-hundreds-of-employees/
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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Critical CrackArmor Vulnerabilities Expose 12.6 Million Linux Servers to Full Root Takeover
A newly disclosed set of nine vulnerabilities, dubbed >>CrackArmor,<< has exposed a critical flaw in AppArmor, a foundational Linux security module. AppArmor serves as the default mandatory access control system for Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, and numerous cloud platforms, this flaw allows unprivileged local users to bypass container isolation and gain full root control over compromised…
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Delinea’s StrongDM Acquisition Highlights the Changing Role of PAM
StrongDM, which injects ephemeral, real-time credentials into developer workflows, will enable Delinea to offer privilege access management across cloud, SaaS, Kubernetes, and database environments. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/identity-access-management-security/delinea-strongdm-acquisition-highlights-changing-role-pam
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Delinea’s StrongDM Acquisition Highlights the Changing Role of PAM
StrongDM, which injects ephemeral, real-time credentials into developer workflows, will enable Delinea to offer privilege access management across cloud, SaaS, Kubernetes, and database environments. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/identity-access-management-security/delinea-strongdm-acquisition-highlights-changing-role-pam
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Building Trust in AI SOC Analyst Solutions: A UK and EU CISO Perspective
Tags: access, ai, best-practice, ciso, control, data, endpoint, framework, GDPR, governance, incident response, international, metric, nis-2, privacy, risk, socBy Brett Candon, VP International at Dropzone AI Trust has always been critical in security operations, but in the UK and Europe it carries significant regulatory weight. GDPR, NIS2 and similar related data”‘protection frameworks shape far more than legal risk, they directly influence architectural decisions, supplier selection, and how security data can be accessed, processed…
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US, Europol disrupt SocksEscort network that exploited thousands of residential routers
The SocksEscort proxy network allowed cybercriminals to purchase access to routers infected with malware, which they used to conceal their location and IP addresses. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/us-europol-disrupt-socksescort-network
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Sophisticated Surveillance RAT Marketed for Global Buyers
‘Cyber Android RAT’ Can Capture WhatsApp History, Crypto Seed Phrases. Cybercriminals are advertising on criminal hacking online boards an Android remote access Trojan that can steal victims’ WhatsApp conversation history, surveil them in real time and extract cryptocurrency seed phrases for the low price of about $500 a month. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Canadian retail giant Loblaw notifies customers of data breach
Still, out of an abundance of caution, Loblaw says it has automatically logged out all customers from their accounts. Account holders who need to access the company’s digital services will have to log in again. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canadian-retail-giant-loblaw-notifies-customers-of-data-breach/
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Medical giant Stryker crippled after Iranian hackers remotely wipe computers
Tags: access, attack, authentication, best-practice, ceo, computer, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, data, flaw, group, hacker, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, mobile, phone, service, software, supply-chain, theft, threat, updateHandala claims credit: The Handala threat group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack. While the group’s involvement is just a claim for now, Stryker employees reportedly saw a version of the Handala logo a cartoon of a Palestinian boy with his back turned and hands crossed behind him on affected devices.Handala’s identity is hard to…
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The Essential Guide to Access Control
An amazing post First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/the-essential-guide-to-access-control/
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US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access
A bipartisan bill would force the FBI to get a warrant to read Americans’ messages and ban the federal purchase of commercial data on US residents ahead of a critical April deadline. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/us-lawmakers-move-to-kill-the-fbis-warrantless-wiretap-access/
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Hive0163 Uses AI-Assisted Slopoly Malware for Persistent Access in Ransomware Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-generated malware codenamed Slopoly put to use by a financially motivated threat actor named Hive0163.”Although still relatively unspectacular, AI-generated malware such as Slopoly shows how easily threat actors can weaponize AI to develop new malware frameworks in a fraction of the time it used to…
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How to Govern AI Agents Before They Go Rogue
Okta’s Arkadiusz Krowczynski on Why Governing AI Agents Starts With Identity. AI agents are being deployed faster than enterprises can secure them, creating blind spots across access, ownership and governance. Half of companies lack any governance or a shutdown mechanism when agents go rogue, says Arkadiusz Krowczynski, principal product acceleration specialist at Okta. First seen…
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UK regulators demand social media platforms make it harder for kids under 13 to access sites
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Ofcom stressed that they expect immediate action, with Ofcom saying that firms have until the end of April to report back on their plans. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/uk-regulators-demand-social-media-platforms-restrict-kids-access