Tag: access
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New PCPJack worm steals credentials, cleans TeamPCP infections
A new malware framework called PCPJack is stealing credentials from exposed cloud infrastructure while actively removing TeamPCP’s access to the systems. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-pcpjack-worm-steals-credentials-cleans-teampcp-infections/
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Ivanti EPMM CVE-2026-6973 RCE Under Active Exploitation Grants Admin-Level Access
Ivanti is warning that a new security flaw impacting Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) has been explored in limited attacks in the wild.The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-6973 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a case of improper input validation affecting EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1.It allows “a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code…
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PAN-OS RCE Exploit Under Active Use Enabling Root Access and Espionage
Tags: access, authentication, cve, espionage, exploit, flaw, network, rce, remote-code-execution, service, software, threat, vulnerabilityPalo Alto Networks has disclosed that threat actors may have attempted to unsuccessfully exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw as early as April 9, 2026.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-0300 (CVSS score: 9.3/8.7), a buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication Portal service of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software that could allow an unauthenticated…
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Why Outdated Maintenance Software Is a Growing Ransomware Risk
Outdated maintenance software increases ransomware risk by exposing weak access controls, unpatched systems, and critical operational data to attackers. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/outdated-maintenance-software-growing-ransomware-risk/
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Critical Palo Alto Networks software bug hits exposed firewalls
Tags: access, attack, authentication, data-breach, firewall, mitigation, network, software, threat, updateMitigations first, patches shortly after: While Palo Alto Networks has announced fixes for affected PAN-OS branches, the company is urging customers to immediately reduce exposure rather than wait for patch windows. The vendor said the most important mitigation is restricting access to the User-Id Authentication Portal so it is reachable only from trusted internal IP…
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Spring Vulnerabilities Open Door to Arbitrary File Access and GCP Secret Leaks
Security researchers have identified four new vulnerabilities in the Spring Cloud Config Server, ranging from medium to critical severity. These newly disclosed flaws could allow attackers to access arbitrary files, leak Google Cloud Platform (GCP) secrets, and manipulate system directories. Administrators, please patch your systems immediately to prevent active exploitation. Spring Vulnerabilities Critical Directory Traversal…
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CISA Warning: High-Severity Linux Flaw Puts Unpatched Systems at Risk
CISA warns that the nine-year-old Linux Copy Fail flaw is being actively exploited, allowing local attackers to gain root access on affected systems. The post CISA Warning: High-Severity Linux Flaw Puts Unpatched Systems at Risk appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-linux-kernel-vulnerability-root-access-cisa-warning/
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UAT-8302 Targets Government Agencies With Custom Malware and Open-Source Tools
A new China-linked hacking group, tracked as UAT-8302, that is using custom malware and open-source tools to spy on government organizations in South America and southeastern Europe. The campaign focuses on long-term access and data theft, combining advanced backdoors like NetDraft and CloudSorcerer with aggressive network reconnaissance and credential theft. Researchers assess with high confidence…
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Ten years later, has the GDPR fulfilled its purpose?
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, china, cio, compliance, data, data-breach, dora, finance, flaw, framework, GDPR, governance, government, international, jobs, law, mobile, office, privacy, regulation, risk, service, technology, tool, trainingFernando Maldonado, technology advisor at Foundry. MuleSoft. Gray areas remain: Still, if anything has been demonstrated in the decade since its entry into force, it’s that the GDPR still has a long way to go.Miguel Recio, president of APEP.IA (Spanish Professional Association for Privacy), argues that some of the limitations that have been exposed about the…
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How orphaned applications are quietly fueling your shadow IT problem
Tags: access, ai, api, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, data, finance, framework, governance, infrastructure, monitoring, risk, security-incident, service, threat, tool, updateOperational and financial overhead: Orphaned applications continue consuming licenses and infrastructure while cluttering configuration management databases (CMDBs). They introduce undocumented dependencies that skew asset management and complicate troubleshooting.Security exposure: Applications without active ownership are rarely reviewed. This means updates are missed, underlying components are no longer maintained, and access paths remain open far longer than intended.Hidden data…
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How orphaned applications are quietly fueling your shadow IT problem
Tags: access, ai, api, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, data, finance, framework, governance, infrastructure, monitoring, risk, security-incident, service, threat, tool, updateOperational and financial overhead: Orphaned applications continue consuming licenses and infrastructure while cluttering configuration management databases (CMDBs). They introduce undocumented dependencies that skew asset management and complicate troubleshooting.Security exposure: Applications without active ownership are rarely reviewed. This means updates are missed, underlying components are no longer maintained, and access paths remain open far longer than intended.Hidden data…
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How orphaned applications are quietly fueling your shadow IT problem
Tags: access, ai, api, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, data, finance, framework, governance, infrastructure, monitoring, risk, security-incident, service, threat, tool, updateOperational and financial overhead: Orphaned applications continue consuming licenses and infrastructure while cluttering configuration management databases (CMDBs). They introduce undocumented dependencies that skew asset management and complicate troubleshooting.Security exposure: Applications without active ownership are rarely reviewed. This means updates are missed, underlying components are no longer maintained, and access paths remain open far longer than intended.Hidden data…
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CrowdStrike Providing Massive ‘Benefit’ To Partners With Access To Frontier AI Models: CTO
Regardless of which frontier AI model appears to be leading in terms of relevance to cybersecurity, CrowdStrike is committed to providing as much access as possible to partners so that they can best protect their end customers, according to CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/crowdstrike-providing-massive-benefit-to-partners-with-access-to-frontier-ai-models-cto
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IT-Verantwortlichen kämpfen mit wachsender Identitätslast durch KI-Ausbau
Keeper Security, eine führende Zero-Trust- und Zero-Knowledge-Plattform für Identitätssicherheit und Privileged-Access-Management (PAM), veröffentlicht heute seinen aktuellen Global Insight Report ‘Identitätssicherheit in Maschinen-geschwindigkeit”. Die Studie untersucht die Herausforderungen für Entscheider in Bezug auf Cybersicherheit, da sich Identitäts-ökosysteme ausweiten und neben menschlichen Nutzern zunehmend auch nicht-menschliche Identitäten (NHIs) umfassen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass veraltete Tools und die…
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Salat Malware Abuses QUIC and WebSockets for Stealthy C2 Control
A powerful new Windows malware family dubbed Salat Stealer, a Go-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that blends classic infostealing with a stealthy QUIC/WebSocket command-and-control (C2) channel and resilient blockchain-backed infrastructure. Written in Go, it supports remote shell access, desktop and webcam streaming, keylogging, clipboard theft, browser and crypto”‘wallet data theft, and SOCKS5-based pivoting, giving operators interactive…
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Your AI Agents Are Already Inside the Perimeter. Do You Know What They’re Doing?
Analysts recently confirmed what identity security teams have quietly feared: AI agents are being deployed faster than enterprises can govern them. In their inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, Gartner states that “enterprise adoption of AI agents is accelerating, outpacing maturity of governance policy controls.” Enterprise leaders can request access to the Gartner Market Guide…
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New malware turns Linux systems into P2P attack networks
Persistence through rootkits and PAM backdoors: The researchers also wrote of QLNX’s use of rootkits and Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to establish long term persistence. According to Trend Micro, the malware leverages rootkit functionality to conceal malicious activity, processes, and components from administrative tools and security monitoring systems.The malware was also observed tampering with…
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CloudZ RAT Exploits Microsoft Phone Link to Steal SMS OTPs
CloudZ is a new modular remote access trojan that abuses Microsoft’s built”‘in Phone Link feature to steal SMS one”‘time passwords (OTPs) and other mobile notifications directly from Windows PCs, without infecting the phone itself. Microsoft Phone Link (formerly “Your Phone”) is integrated into Windows 10 and 11 to mirror smartphone SMS messages, application notifications, call…
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Why Security Leadership Makes or Breaks a Pen Test
Tags: accessWell-run security drills go beyond checking audit boxes to identify and address trouble spots. Effective leaders can ensure proper scope, access, and follow-through, but it’s not easy. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/security-leadership-makes-breaks-penetration-tests
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Windows Phone Link Exploited by CloudZ RAT to Steal Credentials and OTPs
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an intrusion that involved the use of a CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) and a previous undocumented plugin dubbed Pheno with the aim of facilitating credential theft.”According to the functionalities of the CloudZ RAT and Pheno plugin, this was with the intention of stealing victims’ credentials and potentially one-time…
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Poisoned truth: The quiet security threat inside enterprise AI
It takes surprisingly little poison to corrupt: Bad internal data is the immediate problem. But the external supply chain may be even harder to control.Research by Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute discovered that as few as 250 maliciously crafted documents can poison LLMs of any size.That creates a massive…
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QLNX Targets Developers in Supply Chain Credential Theft Campaign
QLNX is a newly documented Linux remote access trojan (RAT) that targets the theft on developers’ and DevOps credentials to hijack software supply chains. Recent attacks against popular projects like LiteLLM on PyPI and the Axios npm package have shown how a single compromised maintainer account can be used to push backdoored releases to millions…
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Zero-Auth Vulnerability Enables Cross-Tenant Access at DoD Contractor
A severe authorization vulnerability was recently discovered in Schemata, an AI-powered virtual training platform serving the United States Department of Defense. Security researcher Alex Schapiro, utilizing the open-source AI hacking agent Strix, identified a critical lack of API authorization. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Schemata holds active government contracts to provide immersive 3D simulations for various…
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Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables Remote Code Execution
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, cve, cvss, exploit, flaw, Internet, network, remote-code-execution, software, vulnerabilityPalo Alto Networks has released an advisory warning that a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in its PAN-OS software has been exploited in the wild.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, has been described as a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. It carries a CVSS score of 9.3 if the User-ID Authentication Portal is configured to enable…
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Attackers Bypass Azure AD Conditional Access Using Phantom Device Registration
A recent authorized red team operation by Howler Cell has demonstrated a critical attack path that completely bypasses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Conditional Access. Azure Conditional Access acts as the primary gatekeeper for cloud identity security, enforcing access rules based on user location, device compliance, and calculated risk scores. However, by starting with a…
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Ransomware Gangs Escalate Attacks on Aviation and Aerospace Sector
Ransomware and data extortion groups are increasingly targeting the aviation and aerospace sector, exploiting interconnected systems, shared platforms, and identity-based access models to cause operational disruption and data compromise. Cyber risk across aviation has shifted beyond traditional IT incidents toward ransomware attacks, credential theft, and platform-level compromise. The aviation ecosystem relies heavily on shared IT…
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CISA pushes critical infrastructure operators to prepare to work in isolation
Tags: access, attack, backup, business, ceo, cisa, control, cyber, cybersecurity, endpoint, exploit, government, incident response, infrastructure, iran, network, resilience, service, technology, threat, vpnA familiar playbook under a new name: While the framing of CI Fortify is new, the underlying concepts are not. Several experts say the initiative largely repackages long-standing practices around disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response, areas where many organizations have historically underinvested.”It looks to me like traditional business continuity planning, disaster recovery, and…
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Physical Cargo Theft Gets a Boost From Cybercriminals
Cargo theft is no longer about small groups of criminals operating on the ground, but transnational cybercriminal syndicates using access to supply chain systems to reroute goods. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/physical-cargo-theft-cybercriminals