Tag: cloud
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Certain Your Data Is Safe in the Cloud?
Are You Confident Your Data Safety Measures Are Up to Scratch? The rise of digital transformation is not without its pitfalls, one of which is the challenge of maintaining data safety and security. With the majority of businesses relying heavily on cloud-based environments for storing and handling data, the questions arise: are you confident that……
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Earth Kurma APT is actively targeting government and telecommunications orgs in Southeast Asia
Tags: apt, business, cloud, credentials, data, data-breach, espionage, government, malware, risk, theft, threatEarth Kurma APT carried out a sophisticated campaign against government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia. Trend Research exposed the Earth Kurma APT campaign targeting Southeast Asia’s government and telecom sectors. Threat actors use custom malware, rootkits, and cloud storage for espionage, credential theft, and data exfiltration, posing a high business risk with advanced evasion…
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AI looms large on the RSA Conference agenda
Rise of the machines: Charlie Lewis, a partner at management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., similarly predicted that consolidation in cloud security and security operations were key industry trends likely to be showcased during the RSA Conference.”Enterprises need to integrate security into their software development practices,” Lewis told CSO. Enterprises need to deploy AI-based technologies…
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Upwind Acquires Nyx Security to Strengthen Cloud Runtime Security
Tags: cloudFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/upwind-acquires-nyx-security-to-strengthen-cloud-runtime-security
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Erkennung von Deepfakes in Echtzeit
Der Pionier im Bereich eingebetteter Cybersicherheitstechnologien, X-PHY, hat auf der RSA Conference (RSAC) 2025 eine neue Lösung angekündigt: den ‘ Deepfake Detector” ein Tool zur Echtzeit-Erkennung von Deepfakes. Mit ihm können Nutzer die Echtheit von Videos, Audios und Bildern direkt auf ihren Geräten überprüfen ganz ohne Cloud-Anbindung. Die Zahl der verbreiteten Deepfakes ist […] First…
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Exposure Management Works When the CIO and CSO Are in Sync
Tags: access, ai, attack, business, cio, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, finance, infrastructure, jobs, office, risk, strategy, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-dayEach Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In this post, Tenable CIO Patricia Grant looks at how the CIO/CSO relationship is key to a successful exposure management program. You can read the entire Exposure Management Academy series here. When I…
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Ukrainian state and banking services restored after data center outage
A Ukrainian cloud provider said it had restored services after a power outage disrupted operations for customers including government agencies and major companies over the weekend. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ukraine-state-and-banking-services-restored
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4 big mistakes you’re probably still making in vulnerability management”¦and how to fix them
Tags: attack, automation, business, cloud, cve, data, endpoint, mitigation, office, risk, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementWhy is it a problem? Monthly, weekly, or even daily scans used to be adequate. Now? They leave blind spots. Cloud resources, remote endpoints, VMs”¦ can spin up and vanish in minutes, and you’ll never catch those with a scan that runs on a schedule.Fix it! Shift to continuous scanning. Use tools that integrate with…
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Check Point und Illumio stärken gemeinsam Zero-Trust mit proaktiver Bedrohungsabwehr
Check Point Software Technologies und Illumio, der Spezialist für die Eindämmung von Sicherheitsverletzungen, geben eine strategische Partnerschaft bekannt. Diese soll Unternehmen dabei unterstützen, ihre Sicherheit zu stärken und ihre Zero-Trust-Kapazitäten zu verbessern. Die Integration der Check-Point-Infinity- und der Illumio-Platform ermöglicht eine schnelle Identifizierung und Eindämmung von Risiken in Form lateraler Bewegungen in hybriden und Multi-Cloud-Umgebungen…
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The API Imperative: Securing Agentic AI and Beyond
We recently released The Rise of Agentic AI, our API ThreatStats report for Q1 2025, finding that evolving API threats are fueled by the rise of agentic AI systems, growing complexity in cloud-native infrastructure, and a surge in software supply chain risks, and uncovered patterns and actionable insights to help organizations prioritize risks and harden their…
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Earth Kurma Targets Southeast Asia With Rootkits and Cloud-Based Data Theft Tools
Government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia have become the target of a “sophisticated” campaign undertaken by a new advanced persistent threat (APT) group called Earth Kurma since June 2024.The attacks, per Trend Micro, have leveraged custom malware, rootkits, and cloud storage services for data exfiltration. The Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia are among the…
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Google Cloud Enhances Databases with Firestore and MongoDB Features
Discover Google’s Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, enhancing cloud database functionality with serverless architecture. Explore the future of data storage. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/04/google-cloud-enhances-databases-with-firestore-and-mongodb-features/
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Are You Capable of Managing NHIDs Efficiently?
Are You Understanding the Complexities of Managing NHIDs? When it comes to reinforcing cybersecurity, how confident are you in providing adequate protection for your Non-Human Identities (NHIs)? Are you familiar with the mechanisms that drive efficient identity management, specifically focusing on NHIDs and Secrets Management? It’s a pivotal part of fortifying your cloud security, yet……
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Creating Impenetrable Cloud Compliance Practices
Are Your Cloud Compliance Practices Truly Impenetrable? Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Secrets Management have emerged as critical components of an effective cybersecurity strategy. These effectively address the security gaps that often exist between the security and R&D teams within an organization, ensuring a secure and compliant cloud environment. Grasping the Concept of Non-Human Identities NHIs……
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Storm-1977 targets education sector with password spraying, Microsoft warns
Microsoft warns that threat actor Storm-1977 is behind password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector. Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as Storm-1977, using AzureChecker.exe to launch password spray attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector. AzureChecker.exe connected to sac-auth[.]nodefunction[.]vip to download AES-encrypted data, which,…
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Storm-1977 Hits Education Clouds with AzureChecker, Deploys 200+ Crypto Mining Containers
Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year.”The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that is being used by a wide range of threat actors,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team…
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Stay Ahead in Cloud-Native Security
Is Staying Current in Cloud-Native Security Trends Important? Absolutely! Staying ahead in cloud-native security trends is essential for organizations of all sizes and across various industries. Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their secrets are fundamental to these trends, requiring expertise in data management and cybersecurity for effective protection and oversight. What are Non-Human Identities and why……
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Adapting to Modern Threats in Cloud Security
Are You Effectively Managing Your Non-Human Identities? For quite a while, organizations have been grappling with numerous cybersecurity challenges. However, one obstacle stands out the management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their secrets. These NHIs, linked with a unique secret as an identifier, pose quite a number of threats that many fail to address… First…
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What is the xBOM?
Tags: cloud, cryptography, cyber, Hardware, international, resilience, risk, sbom, service, software, supply-chain, technology, tool -
Are You Free from Secrets Sprawl Worry?
Is your organization truly secure against Secrets sprawl? Cloud-based firms face a growing wave of identity and secrets security challenges. Among these, the phenomenon of Secrets sprawl threatens to jeopardize the integrity of data and IT systems. Unchecked, it opens the door to an array of potential digital threats. But fear not, there is a……
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A Smarter Alternative to Entra Permissions Management
Microsoft has announced the retirement of Entra Permissions Management (formerly CloudKnox), with sales ending June 30, 2025. EPM offered valuable visibility into cloud permissions, helping teams identify overprivileged identities across AWS, Azure, and GCP. But for many organizations, that visibility came with significant manual overhead: Policy rewrites, change windows, and time-consuming investigations. As EPM sunsets,……
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New Report Reveals How AI is Rapidly Enhancing Phishing Attack Precision
The Zscaler ThreatLabz 2025 Phishing Report unveils the alarming sophistication of modern phishing attacks, driven by generative AI (GenAI). By examining over 2 billion blocked phishing transactions on the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange cloud security platform from January to December 2024, the report highlights a seismic shift in cybercriminal tactics. Cybercriminals Leverage GenAI for Hyper-Targeted…
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Cloud Infrastructure Security: Threats, Challenges How to Protect Your Data
As cloud environments become more complex, ensuring robust security for your cloud infrastructure is no longer an option, but a necessity. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/04/cloud-infrastructure-security-threats-challenges-how-to-protect-your-data/
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5 Most Common Security Attack Methods in 2024: Mandiant’s M-Trends Report
Mandiant, which was acquired by Google Cloud in 2022, paints a picture of global cyber threats from last year in order to help readers be better prepared this year. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-mandiant-m-trends-security-report/
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Drivelock akquiriert Idgard – Drivelock integriert Sealed-Cloud-Technologie in die Hypersecure Platform
Tags: cloudFirst seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/drivelock-integriert-sealed-cloud-technologie-in-die-hypersecure-platform-a-033c871f4e47393b827ad4f235479c4b/
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HYCU stellt R-Shield vor – neue Maßstäbe für Cyber-Resilienz in SaaS-, Cloud- und On-Prem-Umgebungen
Die neue Technologie ist in HYCUs bewährte Data Resiliency Cloud (R-Cloud) integriert und wurde entwickelt, um Unternehmen umfassend vor Cyberbedrohungen zu schützen über alle Plattformen und Anwendungen hinweg. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/hycu-stellt-r-shield-vor-neue-massstaebe-fuer-cyber-resilienz-in-saas-cloud-und-on-prem-umgebungen/a40581/
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Lesson from huge Blue Shield California data breach: Read the manual
read the documentation of any third party service you sign up for, to understand the security and privacy controls;know what data is being collected from your organization, and what you don’t want shared.”It’s important to understand these giant platforms make it easy for you to share your data across their various services,” he said. “So…
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Beyond the Inbox: ThreatLabz 2025 Phishing Report Reveals How Phishing Is Evolving in the Age of GenAI
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, best-practice, captcha, cloud, control, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, dmarc, email, exploit, finance, google, identity, jobs, login, malicious, malware, mfa, phishing, radius, risk, scam, spam, strategy, tactics, technology, theft, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-day, zero-trustGone are the days of mass phishing campaigns. Today’s attackers are leveraging generative AI (GenAI) to deliver hyper-targeted scams, transforming every email, text, or call into a calculated act of manipulation. With flawless lures and tactics designed to outsmart AI defenses, cybercriminals are zeroing in on HR, payroll, and finance teams”, exploiting human vulnerabilities with…
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Calm Your NHI Management Concerns
What if You Could Calm Your NHI Management Concerns? Where businesses are migrating to the cloud at an astonishing pace, the security of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their associated secrets has become an absolutely critical concern. NHIs and their associated secrets, if not managed correctly, can significantly increase the risk of security breaches and data……
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Microsoft Defender XDR stuft Adobe Acrobat Cloud-Links als bösartig ein Folge war, dass sensible Dokument öffentlich wurden
Es hat mal wieder arg “gerappelt”. Der Microsoft Defender XDR hat beim Adobe Acrobat Cloud-Links fälschlich als “bösartig” eingestuft. Das hatte und hat zur Folge, dass plötzlich Tausende Adobe-Nutzer mehr als 1.700 sensible Dokumente auf der Online-Plattform AnyRun prüfen ließen. … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/04/24/microsoft-defender-xdr-stuft-adobe-acrobat-cloud-links-als-boesartig-ein-folge-war-dass-sensible-dokument-oeffentlich-wurden/