Tag: awareness

Cybercriminals are Winning with AI

Mar 20, 2026 1:10 AM

Tags: ai, attack, awareness, best-practice, business, cybercrime, data, deep-fake, defense, detection, exploit, finance, fraud, guide, phishing, resilience, risk, scam, strategy, tactics, threat, tool

AI has become the most powerful tool for financial fraud since the dawn of the Internet. As predicted, criminals are exploiting it faster, more effectively, and at scale. According to the latest Interpol Global Financial Fraud Report, AI-enhanced fraud is now 4.5 times more profitable than traditional schemes. That’s a significant shift and we’re still…
Your MFA isn’t broken, it’s being bypassed, and your employees can’t tell the difference

Mar 19, 2026 11:09 AM

Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, credentials, cryptography, defense, detection, email, fido, finance, google, Hardware, identity, jobs, linkedin, login, malicious, mfa, microsoft, monitoring, passkey, password, phishing, service, theft, threat, vulnerability

Three failures that keep showing up: Through my research into adversary-in-the-middle attacks and reviewing industry incident reports, I have identified three consistent failures that make these attacks successful. 1. We trained our people for the wrong threat Most security awareness programs still teach the same things: Look for misspellings, check the sender address, hover over…
Your MFA isn’t broken, it’s being bypassed, and your employees can’t tell the difference

Mar 19, 2026 11:09 AM

Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, credentials, cryptography, defense, detection, email, fido, finance, google, Hardware, identity, jobs, linkedin, login, malicious, mfa, microsoft, monitoring, passkey, password, phishing, service, theft, threat, vulnerability

Three failures that keep showing up: Through my research into adversary-in-the-middle attacks and reviewing industry incident reports, I have identified three consistent failures that make these attacks successful. 1. We trained our people for the wrong threat Most security awareness programs still teach the same things: Look for misspellings, check the sender address, hover over…
Rethinking Cyber Awareness: From Blame to Belonging

Mar 18, 2026 2:10 PM

Tags: awareness, cyber, cybersecurity, training

Stop treating employees like the “weakest link.” Discover why traditional cybersecurity awareness training fails and how to build a culture of belonging through human-centered design, security guardrails, and collaborative resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/rethinking-cyber-awareness-from-blame-to-belonging/
Cybersecurity and privacy priorities for 2026: The legal risk map

Mar 18, 2026 11:11 AM

Tags: attack, authentication, awareness, best-practice, breach, communications, country, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, finance, fraud, governance, government, incident, incident response, infrastructure, law, mfa, monitoring, privacy, ransomware, regulation, risk, risk-management, service, strategy, supply-chain, threat, usa

Continued federal interest in cybersecurity and privacy, especially in connection with national security concerns: The evident connection between cybersecurity and privacy and national security have led to a number of federal initiatives in recent years. Most recently in March 2026, the White House announced the current administration’s Cyber Strategy for America, renewing a commitment to…
FAQ on CVE-2026-21514: OLE bypass N-Day in Microsoft Word

Mar 18, 2026 5:10 AM

Tags: access, ai, apt, attack, awareness, backdoor, cctv, cisa, cloud, control, cve, cyber, cyberattack, data, data-breach, detection, email, endpoint, exploit, flaw, fortinet, google, government, group, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iran, kev, malicious, malware, microsoft, mitigation, network, office, phishing, remote-code-execution, risk, technology, theft, threat, training, unauthorized, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-day

An N-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word exposes nearly 14 million assets. Attackers can exploit this flaw to bypass security prompts, enabling deployment of malware and establishing persistent access without triggering user warnings. Key takeaways: CVE-2026-21514 is a Microsoft Word n-day that bypasses OLE and Mark-of-the-Web protections, executing payloads silently without triggering user security prompts Tenable’s…
FAQ on CVE-2026-21514: OLE bypass N-Day in Microsoft Word

Mar 18, 2026 5:10 AM

Tags: access, ai, apt, attack, awareness, backdoor, cctv, cisa, cloud, control, cve, cyber, cyberattack, data, data-breach, detection, email, endpoint, exploit, flaw, fortinet, google, government, group, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iran, kev, malicious, malware, microsoft, mitigation, network, office, phishing, remote-code-execution, risk, technology, theft, threat, training, unauthorized, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-day

An N-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word exposes nearly 14 million assets. Attackers can exploit this flaw to bypass security prompts, enabling deployment of malware and establishing persistent access without triggering user warnings. Key takeaways: CVE-2026-21514 is a Microsoft Word n-day that bypasses OLE and Mark-of-the-Web protections, executing payloads silently without triggering user security prompts Tenable’s…
SecurityTrainings messbar machen

Mar 17, 2026 3:10 PM

Tags: awareness, risk, risk-management, training

Im Gespräch mit Netzpalaver skizzieren Kennedy Sanke, Systemadministrator und Klaus Mayr, IT-Experte, beide bei der Interbite AG aus Liechtenstein, wie sie die Plattform für Human-Risk-Management von KnowBe4 einsetzen. Die Interbite AG ist der IT-Dienstleister der 1967 gegründeten Intamin AG, einer schweizerisch-liechtensteinischen Unternehmensgruppe aus Wollerau im Bereich der Entwicklung und Produktion von Freizeitanlagen und Transportsystemen. Bekannt…
Investigating a New Click-Fix Variant

Mar 13, 2026 3:09 PM

Tags: awareness, cybersecurity, defense, threat

Disclaimer: This report has been prepared by the Threat Research Center to enhance cybersecurity awareness and support the strengthening of defense capabilities. It is based on independent research and observations of the current threat landscape available at the time of publication. The content is intended for informational and preparedness purposes only.Read more blogs around threat…
The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.

Mar 13, 2026 9:10 AM

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-trust

Industry 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…
The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.

Mar 13, 2026 9:10 AM

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-trust

Industry 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…
The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.

Mar 13, 2026 9:10 AM

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-trust

Industry 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…
The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.

Mar 13, 2026 9:10 AM

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-trust

Industry 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…
The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.

Mar 13, 2026 9:10 AM

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-trust

Industry 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…
KnowBe4 launches AI agent to tailor security awareness assessments

Mar 11, 2026 1:49 PM

Tags: ai, awareness, cyber, defense, intelligence, risk, technology, tool

KnowBe4 has expanded its Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents (AIDA) suite with the launch of a new AI-powered assessment tool designed to help organisations measure human cyber risk more accurately. The company has introduced the Custom SAPA (Security Awareness Proficiency Assessment) AI Agent, which generates tailored security awareness assessments based on an organisation’s own technology environment,…
The OT security time bomb: Why legacy industrial systems are the biggest cyber risk nobody wants to fix

Mar 10, 2026 12:47 PM

Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, exploit, firewall, incident, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, ISO-27001, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, office, phishing, ransomware, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, siem, soc, stuxnet, supply-chain, tool, vpn, vulnerability, zero-day

Why everyone knows it’s burning, but nobody pulls the fire alarm: When I talk to OT managers, production leads or plant engineers, I rarely hear, “We didn’t know we had a problem.” Far more often, it’s, “We know it’s critical, but we can’t just shut it down.” This gap between awareness and action is the…
When AI safety constrains defenders more than attackers

Mar 10, 2026 8:47 AM

Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, business, chatgpt, ciso, control, defense, detection, email, exploit, framework, LLM, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, offense, open-source, openai, penetration-testing, phishing, RedTeam, service, social-engineering, spear-phishing, strategy, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability

The attacker advantage: Threat actors operate under no such constraints. They simply use jailbroken models, locally hosted open-source alternatives, or purpose-built malicious tools that have proliferated across underground markets.WormGPT, originally shut down in 2023, has reappeared largely as a recycled brand name for uncensored AI tools. New variants posted on underground marketplace BreachForums between October…
When AI safety constrains defenders more than attackers

Mar 10, 2026 8:47 AM

Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, business, chatgpt, ciso, control, defense, detection, email, exploit, framework, LLM, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, offense, open-source, openai, penetration-testing, phishing, RedTeam, service, social-engineering, spear-phishing, strategy, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability

The attacker advantage: Threat actors operate under no such constraints. They simply use jailbroken models, locally hosted open-source alternatives, or purpose-built malicious tools that have proliferated across underground markets.WormGPT, originally shut down in 2023, has reappeared largely as a recycled brand name for uncensored AI tools. New variants posted on underground marketplace BreachForums between October…
Secure Identity for TAK/ATAK at the Tactical Edge

Mar 10, 2026 12:47 AM

Tags: android, awareness, identity

Team Awareness Kit (TAK) and its Android variant, the Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK), are situational awareness platforms used across the military”, dismounted infantry, vehicle commanders, air crews, SOF operators. If you need a common operating picture in the field, TAK is probably running somewhere in your stack. But there’s a problem that’s easy to…
President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America: What It Means for the U.S. and Why It Matters Globally

Mar 9, 2026 11:48 PM

Tags: access, ai, awareness, business, ceo, cloud, compliance, computing, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, governance, government, healthcare, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, international, malicious, network, regulation, resilience, risk, skills, startup, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, zero-trust

President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America signals a shift toward risk-based security and cooperation across emerging technologies. While centered on U.S. interests, the strategy provides a blueprint to collectively strengthen global cyber resilience. Key takeaways Cybersecurity as a global security imperative: The strategy signals that cybersecurity has evolved beyond a mere “IT issue” to become…
Can the Security Platform Finally Deliver for the Mid-Market?

Mar 9, 2026 1:47 PM

Tags: attack, awareness, business, supply-chain

Mid-market organizations are constantly striving to achieve security levels on a par with their enterprise peers. With heightened awareness of supply chain attacks, your customers and business partners are defining the security level you must meet.What if you could be the enabler for your organization to remain competitive, and help win business, by easily demonstrating…
ClickFix attackers using new tactic to evade detection, says Microsoft

Mar 6, 2026 11:48 PM

Tags: access, attack, awareness, blockchain, ciso, computer, control, crypto, cybersecurity, defense, detection, email, endpoint, infosec, infrastructure, injection, login, malicious, malware, microsoft, phishing, powershell, risk, tactics, tool, training, windows

AppData\Local that is then invoked through cmd.exe to write a VBScript to %Temp%. The batch script is executed via cmd.exe with the /launched command-line argument, and is then executed again through MSBuild.exe, resulting in LOLBin abuse. The script connects to Crypto Blockchain RPC endpoints, indicating etherhiding technique, and also performs QueueUserAPC()-based code injection into chrome.exe…
Middle East Conflict Fuels Opportunistic Cyber Attacks

Mar 6, 2026 9:47 PM

Tags: access, advisory, api, apt, attack, authentication, awareness, backdoor, best-practice, breach, browser, business, chrome, cloud, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, endpoint, exploit, fraud, google, government, identity, infection, Internet, iran, iraq, malicious, malware, mfa, middle-east, military, monitoring, network, password, phishing, PurpleTeam, radius, risk, risk-assessment, scam, service, software, technology, theft, threat, training, unauthorized, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-day

IntroductionThreat actors often take advantage of major global events to fuel interest in their malicious activities. Zscaler ThreatLabz is diligently tracking a surge in cybercriminal activity that capitalizes on the elevated political climate in the Middle East. This increased malicious activity includes discoveries that are directly tied to the ongoing conflict, alongside other related findings. ThreatLabz…
Challenges and projects for the CISO in 2026

Mar 6, 2026 10:47 AM

Tags: access, ai, authentication, automation, awareness, cisco, ciso, cloud, communications, control, credentials, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, endpoint, finance, framework, group, identity, intelligence, leak, mobile, network, service, soc, sophos, strategy, technology, training

Hazel DÃez (Banco Santander), Roberto Lara (Vodafone), Marijus Briedis (NordVPN), Ãlvaro FernÃ¡ndez (Sophos), and Ãngel Ortiz (Cisco). Banco Santander, Vodafone, NordVPN, Sophos y Cisco. Montaje: Foundry Against this backdrop, Cisco defines AI as “the fundamental technology that will set the cybersecurity agenda in 2026,” in the words of Ortiz, who refers to the company’s Integrated…
NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity

Mar 4, 2026 5:46 AM

Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management

Geopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity

Mar 4, 2026 5:46 AM

Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management

Geopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity

Mar 4, 2026 5:46 AM

Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management

Geopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
OAuth phishers make ‘check where the link points’ advice ineffective

Mar 3, 2026 2:47 PM

Tags: authentication, automation, awareness, business, cloud, control, edr, email, encryption, endpoint, exploit, governance, identity, login, malicious, microsoft, monitoring, phishing, saas, threat, tool

Context, not the URL, is the new red flag: Sakshi Grover, Senior Research Manager at IDC Asia/Pacific, said the longstanding advice to hover over a link and verify its domain was built for an era of lookalike domains and that it no longer holds in environments where authentication flows routinely pass through trusted identity providers.”Organizations…
Insider Research im Gespräch – Mehr Awareness durch Security Posture Management

Mar 3, 2026 2:47 PM

Tags: awareness

First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/sandboxes-und-ki-basierte-cybersicherheit-a-bc43aacd5bb4d07ffa84c3c4cf9f51bf/
Innovation without exposure: A CISO’s secure-by-design framework for business outcomes

Mar 2, 2026 1:47 PM

Tags: ai, authentication, awareness, business, chatgpt, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, firmware, framework, fraud, governance, identity, injection, iot, law, leak, LLM, metric, mitre, network, nist, offense, radius, RedTeam, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, social-engineering, threat, tool, unauthorized, update

A detection engineer owning “detection as code” patterns and test harnessesA threat hunter owning telemetry quality improvements and query optimizationAn incident responder owning tabletop iterations and runbook hardeningA cloud security lead owning guardrailed landing zone enhancementsThe critical constraint is this: every experiment needs an exit plan. Either it becomes a supported capability, or it is…