Tag: cloud
-
How can Agentic AI improve cloud security?
How Do Non-Human Identities Fortify Cloud Security? The discourse around Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Secrets Security Management is gaining momentum, but what exactly are NHIs, and how do they bolster cloud security? When organizations increasingly embrace cloud environments, the challenge of ensuring robust security becomes pivotal. NHIs, representing machine identities, become integral in bridging the……
-
Do Agentic AI solutions fit SME budget constraints
How Can Non-Human Identities (NHIs) Secure Cloud Environments for Small and Medium Enterprises? Have you ever wondered how securing non-human identities can protect your business? For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), managing machine identities and their associated secrets is crucial to maintaining a secure and affordable cyber environment. Understanding this complex topic begins by considering……
-
Old Docker authorization bypass pops up despite previous patch
Tags: access, api, botnet, cloud, container, credentials, data, docker, exploit, flaw, monitoring, tool, update, vulnerabilityNo one checked oversized requests: While the previous authorization bypass was triggered when request Content-Length was set to 0, no one checked at the time what would happen in the same function if the request exceeded a certain size.”When an API request body exceeds 1MB, Docker’s middleware silently drops the body before your authorization plugin…
-
TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
-
TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
-
How AutoSecT Simplifies Audit Preparation for Global Enterprises
AutoSecT by Kratikal steps in not as an AI-driven VMDR and pentest tool to add to the stack, but as a unified platform that radically simplifies audit readiness while strengthening security posture at scale. Preparing for security audits is one of the toughest challenges global enterprises face today. With sprawling attack surfaces, cloud environments, complex……
-
Why most zero-trust architectures fail at the traffic layer
Why the traffic layer is the real enforcement point: Security programs often succeed at defining policies. They struggle with enforcing them consistently.The traffic layer is where enforcement becomes real.From a leadership perspective, this is not a tooling problem. It is an architectural one.Principles from the Cloud Security Alliance emphasize placing controls at ingress. What works…
-
AWS Fixes Severe RCE, Privilege Escalation Flaws in Research and Engineering Studio
AWS recently issued a critical security bulletin addressing severe vulnerabilities in its Research and Engineering Studio (RES). RES is an open-source web portal that allows administrators to create and manage secure cloud-based research environments. Security researchers identified three major flaws in the platform that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) and privilege escalation. If…
-
Snowflake-Kunden von Datendiebstahl-Angriffen betroffen
Die gemeldeten Vorfälle, von denen Snowflake-Kunden betroffen sind, veranschaulichen ein wiederkehrendes Muster in der modernen Cloud-Sicherheit: die Ausnutzung vertrauenswürdiger Integrationen und authentifizierter Zugriffe anstatt von Schwachstellen in der Kerninfrastruktur. Ein Kommentar von Shane Barney, CISO von Keeper Security. Nach bisher öffentlich verfügbaren Informationen scheint die Aktivität im Snowflake-Fall mit der Kompromittierung eines Drittanbieters, einem SaaS-Integrator,…
-
In-Memory Loader Drops ScreenConnect
IntroductionIn February 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered an attack chain where attackers used a fake Adobe Acrobat Reader download to lure victims into installing ConnectWise’s ScreenConnect. While ScreenConnect is a legitimate remote access tool, it can be leveraged for malicious purposes. In this blog post, ThreatLabz examines the various stages of this attack, from the download lure to the…
-
XDR vs SIEM vs SOAR: What’s the Right Cybersecurity Strategy in 2026?
A Strategic Approach to Modern Security Operations The Growing Complexity of Security Decisions Cybersecurity in 2026 is no longer defined by the absence of tools-it is defined by the challenge of choosing the right ones and making them work together effectively. As organizations expand across cloud environments, remote workforces, and interconnected systems, security operations have…
-
Claude Managed Agents bring execution and control to AI agent workflows
Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents are a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/09/claude-managed-agents-bring-execution-and-control-to-ai-agent-workflows/
-
On Microsoft’s Lousy Cloud Security
ProPublica has a scoop: In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by…
-
On Microsoft’s Lousy Cloud Security
ProPublica has a scoop: In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by…
-
New Phishing Campaign Exploits Google Storage to Deliver Remcos RAT
A recently observed phishing campaign is abusing Google Cloud Storage to deliver the Remcos remote access trojan (RAT), relying on trusted Google infrastructure and a signed Microsoft binary to evade traditional defenses. Attackers host a fake Google Drive login page on the legitimate domain storage.googleapis.com, making the URL appear trustworthy to both users and security…
-
Certes launches v7 platform with quantum-safe encryption across hybrid cloud and edge environments
Certes has released v7 of its Data Protection and Risk Mitigation (DPRM) platform, extending post-quantum cryptography (PQC) protection to the edge and positioning the update as a direct response to the growing >>harvest now, decrypt later<< threat facing enterprise security teams. The release addresses a specific attack pattern that has been gaining traction among nation-state…
-
Confidential Computing und Cloud Governance – Vertrauliche Datenverarbeitung in TPM-geschützten CPU-Enklaven
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/confidential-computing-cloud-enklaven-deutschland-a-9e27152bec9dea33a63990adda890e89/
-
Weak at the seams
Tags: advisory, ai, attack, automation, business, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, framework, healthcare, infrastructure, insurance, Internet, network, resilience, risk, service, supply-chain, technology, tool, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-dayThe normal choices are the dangerous ones: Consider the stack a typical large enterprise was running in 2024: One vendor for ERP and supply chain, another for perimeter enforcement, another for networking and another for endpoint protection. Standard choices, responsibly made. Within a twelve-month window, each of those categories experienced significant disruptions, from zero-day exploits…
-
Weak at the seams
Tags: advisory, ai, attack, automation, business, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, framework, healthcare, infrastructure, insurance, Internet, network, resilience, risk, service, supply-chain, technology, tool, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-dayThe normal choices are the dangerous ones: Consider the stack a typical large enterprise was running in 2024: One vendor for ERP and supply chain, another for perimeter enforcement, another for networking and another for endpoint protection. Standard choices, responsibly made. Within a twelve-month window, each of those categories experienced significant disruptions, from zero-day exploits…
-
GitLab Addresses Multiple Vulnerabilities Linked to DoS and Code Injection
GitLab has rolled out a crucial security update to fix multiple vulnerabilities across its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) platforms. Organizations utilizing self-managed GitLab instances are strongly advised by GitLab security experts to apply these updates immediately to prevent potential exploitation. Customers utilizing GitLab Dedicated or the cloud-hosted GitLab.com services are already protected…
-
Questions raised about how LinkedIn uses the petabytes of data it collects
CSOonline. “We do disclose that we scan for browser extensions in our privacy policy, in order to detect abuse and provide defense for site stability.” When asked whether it uses that data solely to do those things, LinkedIn did not reply. The key person behind the allegations calls himself Steven Morrell (not his legal name, which…
-
What security innovations do NHIs herald
Tags: cloudHow Secure Are Your Non-Human Identities? Where machine identities outnumber human ones, how efficiently are you managing your Non-Human Identities (NHIs)? When organizations rapidly adopt cloud environments to enhance operational efficiency, the need for robust NHI management has never been more critical. NHIs”, often in machine identities”, are pivotal in ensuring seamless and secure operations…
-
Warum Datenschutz zum entscheidenden Kriterium für Cloud-Speicher wird
Tags: cloudFirst seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/datenschutz-kriterium-cloud-speicher
-
New Chaos Variant Targets Misconfigured Cloud Deployments, Adds SOCKS Proxy
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant ofmalware called Chaosthat’scapable of hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet’s targeting infrastructure.”Chaos malware is increasingly targeting misconfigured cloud deployments, expanding beyond its traditional focus on routers and edge devices,” Darktrace said in a new report. First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/04/new-chaos-variant-targets-misconfigured.html
-
APT28 Deploys PRISMEX Malware in Campaign Targeting Ukraine and NATO Allies
The Russian threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard and Pawn Storm) has been linked to a fresh spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukraine and its allies to deploy a previously undocumented malware suite codenamed PRISMEX.”PRISMEX combines advanced steganography, component object model (COM) hijacking, and legitimate cloud service abuse for command-and-control,” Trend Micro First seen on…
-
AI Security Risks: How Enterprises Manage LLM, Shadow AI and Agentic Threats FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, conference, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, governance, guide, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, microsoft, monitoring, network, nvidia, office, regulation, risk, saas, software, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityApr 08, 2026 – – Quick Facts: Enterprise AI Security Most enterprises are running AI at scale before their security teams have visibility into it. Shadow AI (unsanctioned AI tools spreading department by department) is now the most common entry point for data leakage. Agentic AI introduces a new category of risk: autonomous systems that…
-
Forest Blizzard leverages router compromises to launch AiTM attacks, target Outlook sessions
Invisible path to enterprise systems: This attack poses a serious risk to enterprises because, instead of beginning at the corporate perimeter, it starts from employee environments that are often less secure. Threat actors target vulnerable home or small office routers, which often have weak default passwords or unpatched software.The shift to remote work has dramatically…
-
Chaos malware expands from routers to Linux cloud servers
Chaos, Go-based malware first documented by Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, has historically targeted routers and edge devices. A new variant observed in March 2026 shows the … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/08/chaos-malware-cloud-misconfigured-servers/
-
What Anthropic Glasswing reveals about the future of vulnerability discovery
From backlog management to exposure-window risk: The issue, as Williams frames it, is not simply how many vulnerabilities exist, but how they are managed. “Mythos makes one thing painfully clear,” he says. “This is not a prioritization problem. It’s an exposure-window problem.”Traditional vulnerability management has been built around prioritization, ranking issues by severity, exploitability, and…