Tag: automation
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How to determine if agentic AI browsers are safe enough for your enterprise
Automation is transforming web browsing, enabling AI agents to perform tasks once handled by humans. Yet with greater convenience comes a complex security landscape that enterprises can’t afford to ignore. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/agentic-ai-browsers-security-enterprise-risk/
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Top 10 ANZ stories of 2025
The 2025 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with major data breaches even as organisations continue to press on with their digital transformation efforts in areas such as AI and automation First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366636080/Top-10-ANZ-stories-of-2025
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Top 10 ANZ stories of 2025
The 2025 tech landscape in Australia and New Zealand was dotted with major data breaches even as organisations continue to press on with their digital transformation efforts in areas such as AI and automation First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366636080/Top-10-ANZ-stories-of-2025
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Critical n8n Flaw (CVSS 9.9) Enables Arbitrary Code Execution Across Thousands of Instances
A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the n8n workflow automation platform that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code execution under certain circumstances.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68613, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10.0. The package has about 57,000 weekly downloads, according to statistics on npm.”Under certain…
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Preparing Healthcare Workers for Secure, Responsible AI Use
Preparing a healthcare workforce to responsibly engage with AI tools without over relying on automation or undermining human oversight will require awareness training akin to phishing exercises, said Skip Sorrels, field CTO and CISO at security firm Claroty. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/preparing-healthcare-workers-for-secure-responsible-ai-use-i-5510
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2025 Year in Review at Cloud Security Podcast by Google
Tags: 2fa, ai, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, finance, google, hacking, incident response, infrastructure, linux, mandiant, metric, mitigation, offense, phone, privacy, risk, security-incident, siem, soc, technology, threat, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trust(written jointly with Tim Peacock) Five years. It’s enough time to fully launch a cloud migration, deploy a new SIEM, or”Š”, “Šif you’re a very large enterprise”Š”, “Šjust start thinking about doing the first two. It’s also how long Tim and I have been subjecting the world to our thoughts on Cloud Security Podcast by Google. We…
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2025 Holiday Bot Attack Trends
An analysis of holiday bot attack behavior during Cyber 5, including scraping, ATO, and automation trends that persist beyond peak sales. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/2025-holiday-bot-attack-trends/
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DevOps and Cybersecurity: Building a New Line of Defense Against Digital Threats
Learn how DevOps and DevSecOps strengthen cybersecurity through automation, CI/CD, and secure DevOps development services. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/devops-cybersecurity-digital-threats-defense/
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How do NHIs manage secrets securely
What Are Non-Human Identities (NHIs) in Cybersecurity? How do we ensure the security of machine-to-machine communications? Within cybersecurity, Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are crucial for managing secrets and ensuring comprehensive security. NHIs represent machine identities integral to cybersecurity frameworks. They are distinct from human identities, primarily serving as identifiers in processes where automation and machine interactions……
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Scripted Sparrow Utilizes Automation to Generate and Dispatch Attack Messages
Tags: attack, automation, business, cyber, cybersecurity, email, group, infrastructure, intelligenceScripted Sparrow, a prolific Business Email Compromise (BEC) collective with members spanning three continents, has raised significant concerns among cybersecurity researchers due to the sophisticated automation infrastructure underlying their large-scale fraudulent operations. Recent analysis by Fortra’s Intelligence and Research Experts (FIRE) reveals that the group’s staggering operational scale estimated at 3 million highly targeted messages…
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Farm Forecast: Cloudy With a Chance of Hacking
Precision Agriculture Boost Yields but Opens Farmers to Cybersecurity Risk. Precision agriculture is transforming U.S. farming with sensors, drones and automation, boosting productivity yields. But growing digital dependence is also expanding the attack surface, exposing farms to ransomware, disruption and rising cybersecurity risk. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/farm-forecast-cloudy-chance-hacking-a-30334
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Farm Forecast: Cloudy With a Chance of Hacking
Precision Agriculture Boost Yields but Opens Farmers to Cybersecurity Risk. Precision agriculture is transforming U.S. farming with sensors, drones and automation, boosting productivity yields. But growing digital dependence is also expanding the attack surface, exposing farms to ransomware, disruption and rising cybersecurity risk. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/farm-forecast-cloudy-chance-hacking-a-30334
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TruffleNet and Cloud Abuse at Scale: An Identity Architecture Failure
The recent TruffleNet campaign, first documented by Fortinet, highlights a familiar and uncomfortable truth for security leaders: some of the most damaging cloud attacks aren’t exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities. They’re exploiting identity models that were never designed for the scale and automation of modern cloud environments. Nothing about this attack was novel. That’s precisely the problem….…
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TruffleNet and Cloud Abuse at Scale: An Identity Architecture Failure
The recent TruffleNet campaign, first documented by Fortinet, highlights a familiar and uncomfortable truth for security leaders: some of the most damaging cloud attacks aren’t exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities. They’re exploiting identity models that were never designed for the scale and automation of modern cloud environments. Nothing about this attack was novel. That’s precisely the problem….…
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The 12 Months of Innovation: How Salt Security Helped Rewrite API AI Security in 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, data, data-breach, defense, detection, email, exploit, github, governance, injection, insurance, intelligence, privacy, risk, risk-management, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, wafAs holiday lights go up and inboxes fill with year-in-review emails, it’s tempting to look back on 2025 as “the year of AI.” But for security teams, it was something more specific the year APIs, AI agents, and MCP servers collided across the API fabric, expanding the attack surface faster than most organizations could keep…
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LLM-Driven Automation: A New Catalyst for Ransomware and RaaS Ecosystems
SentinelLABS has released a comprehensive assessment regarding the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into the ransomware ecosystem, concluding that while AI is not yet driving a fundamental transformation in tactics, it is significantly accelerating the operational lifecycle. The research indicates that measurable gains in speed, volume, and multilingual reach are reshaping the threat landscape,…
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The 5 power skills every CISO needs to master in the AI era
Tags: ai, automation, breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, framework, governance, identity, jobs, law, leak, metric, network, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, skills, technology, threat, tool, updateWhy traditional skill sets are no longer enough: CISO action item: Run a 1-hour “AI Bias Audit” on your top 3 detection rules this quarter.Ask: “What data is missing? Who is underrepresented?”According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, nearly 40% of core job skills will change by 2030, driven primarily by AI,…
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The 5 power skills every CISO needs to master in the AI era
Tags: ai, automation, breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, framework, governance, identity, jobs, law, leak, metric, network, ransomware, resilience, risk, risk-management, skills, technology, threat, tool, updateWhy traditional skill sets are no longer enough: CISO action item: Run a 1-hour “AI Bias Audit” on your top 3 detection rules this quarter.Ask: “What data is missing? Who is underrepresented?”According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, nearly 40% of core job skills will change by 2030, driven primarily by AI,…
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The new frontline: How AI and automation are securing the supply chain
In today’s digital economy, trust isn’t a given, it’s engineered across the entire supply chain. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/spons/the-new-frontline-how-ai-and-automation-are-securing-the-supply-chain/807541/
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New VolkLocker Ransomware Variant Targets Both Linux and Windows Systems
CyberVolk, a pro-Russia hacktivist group first documented in late 2024, has resurfaced with a sophisticated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering called VolkLocker after months of dormancy caused by Telegram enforcement actions. The group returned in August 2025 with version 2.x, featuring advanced Telegram-based automation and cross-platform capabilities targeting both Linux and Windows systems. VolkLocker is built in…
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New VolkLocker Ransomware Variant Targets Both Linux and Windows Systems
CyberVolk, a pro-Russia hacktivist group first documented in late 2024, has resurfaced with a sophisticated ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering called VolkLocker after months of dormancy caused by Telegram enforcement actions. The group returned in August 2025 with version 2.x, featuring advanced Telegram-based automation and cross-platform capabilities targeting both Linux and Windows systems. VolkLocker is built in…
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Cybersecurity leaders’ top seven takeaways from 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, deep-fake, defense, detection, email, exploit, framework, governance, government, grc, identity, international, malicious, network, nist, phishing, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability2. AI forced companies to rethink their security strategies: At the same time, Abousselham notes how the rapid rollout of AI forced companies to shift their resources to keep pace with the change, while maintaining safe product releases. He calls 2025 the “chaotic introduction of agentic AI”.”I don’t think the industry was ready or expected…
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Cybersecurity leaders’ top seven takeaways from 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, deep-fake, defense, detection, email, exploit, framework, governance, government, grc, identity, international, malicious, network, nist, phishing, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability2. AI forced companies to rethink their security strategies: At the same time, Abousselham notes how the rapid rollout of AI forced companies to shift their resources to keep pace with the change, while maintaining safe product releases. He calls 2025 the “chaotic introduction of agentic AI”.”I don’t think the industry was ready or expected…
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Guided redaction in Tonic Textual: Human-precision, streamlined by AI
Guided Redaction blends AI automation with human judgment to help teams finalize sensitive document redactions faster, more accurately, and with full auditability. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/guided-redaction-in-tonic-textual-human-precision-streamlined-by-ai/
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High-Severity Jenkins Flaw Enables Unauthenticated DoS Through HTTP CLI
Jenkins has released a critical security advisory addressing a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting millions of organizations that rely on the popular automation server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-67635, allows unauthenticated attackers to disrupt Jenkins instances by exploiting improper handling of corrupted HTTP-based CLI connections. Vulnerability Overview The vulnerability resides in Jenkins’ HTTP-based command-line interface, where…