Tag: control

Beyond cryptocurrency: Blockchain 101 for CISOs and why it matters

Aug 8, 2025 2:11 PM

Tags: access, ai, api, attack, blockchain, breach, ciso, compliance, container, control, credentials, crypto, data, framework, gartner, governance, identity, incident response, infrastructure, international, malicious, nist, regulation, risk, saas, sbom, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, unauthorized, vulnerability, zero-trust

Decentralization. Eliminates single points of failure or compromise Immutability. Data written to the chain is nearly impossible to change Verifiability. Stakeholders can independently verify logs or data integrity Transparency + confidentiality. You can audit metadata while encrypting sensitive content According to Gartner, 20% of large enterprises will use blockchain for digital trust initiatives by 2025. That’s not hype, it’s…
Beyond cryptocurrency: Blockchain 101 for CISOs and why it matters

Aug 8, 2025 2:11 PM

Tags: access, ai, api, attack, blockchain, breach, ciso, compliance, container, control, credentials, crypto, data, framework, gartner, governance, identity, incident response, infrastructure, international, malicious, nist, regulation, risk, saas, sbom, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, unauthorized, vulnerability, zero-trust

Decentralization. Eliminates single points of failure or compromise Immutability. Data written to the chain is nearly impossible to change Verifiability. Stakeholders can independently verify logs or data integrity Transparency + confidentiality. You can audit metadata while encrypting sensitive content According to Gartner, 20% of large enterprises will use blockchain for digital trust initiatives by 2025. That’s not hype, it’s…
Beyond cryptocurrency: Blockchain 101 for CISOs and why it matters

Aug 8, 2025 2:11 PM

Tags: access, ai, api, attack, blockchain, breach, ciso, compliance, container, control, credentials, crypto, data, framework, gartner, governance, identity, incident response, infrastructure, international, malicious, nist, regulation, risk, saas, sbom, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, unauthorized, vulnerability, zero-trust

Decentralization. Eliminates single points of failure or compromise Immutability. Data written to the chain is nearly impossible to change Verifiability. Stakeholders can independently verify logs or data integrity Transparency + confidentiality. You can audit metadata while encrypting sensitive content According to Gartner, 20% of large enterprises will use blockchain for digital trust initiatives by 2025. That’s not hype, it’s…
Windows UAC Bypass Exploits Character Map Tool for Privilege Escalation

Aug 8, 2025 2:11 PM

Tags: control, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, tool, unauthorized, vulnerability, windows

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new technique that allows attackers to bypass Windows User Account Control (UAC) protections by exploiting an unexpected vulnerability in the system’s Private Character Editor tool, potentially granting unauthorized administrative privileges without user consent. The exploit targets eudcedit.exe, Windows’ Private Character Editor located in C:\Windows\System32, which is typically used for creating…
Windows UAC Bypass Exploits Character Map Tool for Privilege Escalation

Aug 8, 2025 2:11 PM

Tags: control, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, tool, unauthorized, vulnerability, windows

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new technique that allows attackers to bypass Windows User Account Control (UAC) protections by exploiting an unexpected vulnerability in the system’s Private Character Editor tool, potentially granting unauthorized administrative privileges without user consent. The exploit targets eudcedit.exe, Windows’ Private Character Editor located in C:\Windows\System32, which is typically used for creating…
Windows UAC Bypass Exploits Character Map Tool for Privilege Escalation

Aug 8, 2025 2:11 PM

Tags: control, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, tool, unauthorized, vulnerability, windows

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new technique that allows attackers to bypass Windows User Account Control (UAC) protections by exploiting an unexpected vulnerability in the system’s Private Character Editor tool, potentially granting unauthorized administrative privileges without user consent. The exploit targets eudcedit.exe, Windows’ Private Character Editor located in C:\Windows\System32, which is typically used for creating…
CISA Issues 10 ICS Advisories Detailing Vulnerabilities and Exploits

Aug 8, 2025 12:12 PM

Tags: automation, cisa, control, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, infrastructure, vulnerability

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released ten industrial control systems (ICS) advisories on August 7, 2025, highlighting critical vulnerabilities across various industrial automation and control platforms. These advisories represent a comprehensive effort to address security gaps that could potentially impact critical infrastructure operations across multiple sectors including manufacturing, energy, and transportation systems.…
What is a CISO? The top IT security leader role explained

Aug 8, 2025 9:12 AM

Tags: access, authentication, breach, business, ceo, cio, cisa, ciso, compliance, computer, container, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, dns, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, framework, fraud, guide, Hardware, healthcare, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, kubernetes, mitigation, msp, mssp, network, nist, programming, RedTeam, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, skills, software, strategy, technology, threat, training, vpn, zero-day, zero-trust

. You’ll often hear people say the difference between the two is that CISOs focus entirely on information security issues, while a CSOs remit is wider, also taking in physical security as well as risk management.But reality is messier. Many companies, especially smaller ones, have only one C-level security officer, called a CSO, with IT…
Fraud controls don’t guarantee consumer trust

Aug 8, 2025 7:11 AM

Tags: ai, control, fraud, threat

Over a third of companies say they are using AI, including generative AI, to fight fraud, according to Experian. As fraud threats become more complex, companies are … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/08/fraud-threats-become-more-complex/
Black Hat 2025 Recap: A look at new offerings announced at the show

Aug 8, 2025 5:11 AM

Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, automation, chatgpt, cisco, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, dark-web, data, detection, google, governance, group, identity, intelligence, LLM, malware, microsoft, monitoring, network, openai, password, risk, saas, service, soc, software, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trust

Snyk secures AI from inception: Snyk’s new platform capability, Secure at Inception, includes real-time security scanning that begins at the moment of code generation or execution. It offers visibility into generative AI, agentic, and model context protocol (MCP) components in software, and also features a new, experimental scanner for detecting AI-specific MCP vulnerabilities.Secure AI Inception…
We’re a Major Player in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for CNAPP. Here’s Why That Matters for Your Cloud Security.

Aug 7, 2025 7:11 PM

Tags: access, attack, automation, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, governance, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, metric, radius, risk, strategy, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management

“With a strong focus on CNAPP through Tenable Cloud Security and exposure management with Tenable One, Tenable provides visibility and control over hybrid attack surfaces, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments,” according to the report. To successfully tackle your cloud security challenges, you need a partner that understands the landscape and offers you a powerful,…
Malicious Go, npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform Malware, Trigger Remote Data Wipes

Aug 7, 2025 4:11 PM

Tags: control, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, linux, malicious, malware, windows

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of 11 malicious Go packages that are designed to download additional payloads from remote servers and execute them on both Windows and Linux systems.”At runtime the code silently spawns a shell, pulls a second-stage payload from an interchangeable set of .icu and .tech command-and-control (C2) endpoints, and executes it…
Project Ire: Microsoft’s autonomous AI agent that can reverse engineer malware

Aug 7, 2025 3:11 PM

Tags: ai, attack, ceo, cloud, compliance, computing, control, cybersecurity, defense, detection, exploit, finance, governance, government, healthcare, infrastructure, LLM, malicious, malware, microsoft, programming, risk, service, siem, soar, soc, software, threat, tool, training

Real-world testing: In real-world tests on 4,000 “hard-target” files that had stumped automated tools, Project Ire flagged 9 malicious files out of 10 files correctly, and a low 4% false positive rate.This makes Project Ire suitable for organizations that operate in high-risk, high-volume, and time-sensitive environments where traditional human-based threat triage is insufficient.Rawat added that…
New Promptware Attack Hijacks User’s Gemini AI Via Google Calendar Invite

Aug 7, 2025 1:11 PM

Tags: ai, attack, control, cybersecurity, email, google, phishing

Cybersecurity researchers demonstrate a new attack on Google Gemini AI for Workspace. Discover how a simple calendar invite can be used to perform phishing, steal emails, and even control home appliances. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/promptware-attack-hijack-gemini-ai-google-calendar-invite/
‘Ghost Calls’ Attack Exploits Web Conferencing as Hidden CommandControl Channel

Aug 7, 2025 11:11 AM

Tags: attack, business, control, cyber, exploit, tool, usa

Security researchers have unveiled a sophisticated new attack technique called >>Ghost Calls
Nvidia Denies Presence of Backdoors, Kill Switches, or Spyware in Its Chips

Aug 7, 2025 11:11 AM

Tags: backdoor, control, cyber, cybersecurity, Hardware, infrastructure, nvidia, spyware

Nvidia has issued a comprehensive denial regarding allegations that its graphics processing units contain backdoors, kill switches, or spyware, emphasizing that such features would fundamentally undermine global digital infrastructure and cybersecurity principles. The chipmaker’s statement comes amid growing discussions among policymakers and industry observers about potential hardware-level controls that could remotely disable GPUs without user…
Cursor Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-54135)

Aug 7, 2025 10:11 AM

Tags: control, cve, cyber, network, remote-code-execution, vulnerability

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Cursor issued a security bulletin and fixed the Cursor remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-54135); Because Cursor allows files to be written to the workspace without user approval, when an external Model Control Protocol (MCP) server is configured through the Cursor user interface, an attacker can use Agent to rewrite…The…
6 ways hackers hide their tracks

Aug 7, 2025 10:11 AM

Tags: access, ai, antivirus, api, attack, backdoor, breach, captcha, ceo, computer, control, credentials, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, email, endpoint, exploit, github, hacker, injection, intelligence, jobs, law, linux, LLM, login, malicious, malware, monitoring, network, open-source, openai, phishing, programming, RedTeam, resilience, reverse-engineering, risk, rust, service, social-engineering, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, virus, windows

Backdoors in legitimate software libraries: In April 2024, it was revealed that the XZ Utils library had been covertly backdoored as part of years-long supply-chain compromise effort. The widely used data compression library that ships as a part of major Linux distributions had malicious code inserted into it by a trusted maintainer.Over the last decade,…
Windows tips for reducing the ransomware threat

Aug 7, 2025 10:11 AM

Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, cloud, computer, control, credentials, government, identity, infrastructure, login, mfa, microsoft, monitoring, network, ntlm, passkey, privacy, ransomware, risk, service, threat, windows

Susan Bradley / CSOIdeally you should have no such protocols observed.
Cursor Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-54135)

Aug 7, 2025 10:11 AM

Tags: control, cve, cyber, network, remote-code-execution, vulnerability

Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Cursor issued a security bulletin and fixed the Cursor remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-54135); Because Cursor allows files to be written to the workspace without user approval, when an external Model Control Protocol (MCP) server is configured through the Cursor user interface, an attacker can use Agent to rewrite…The…
Beef up AI security with zero trust principles

Aug 7, 2025 8:11 AM

Tags: access, ai, attack, control, data, data-breach, defense, intelligence, LLM, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, risk, strategy, tactics, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-trust

Strategies for CSOs: Brauchler offered three AI threat modelling strategies CSOs should consider:Trust flow tracking, the tracking of the movement of data throughout an application, and monitoring the level of trust that is associated with that data. It’s a defense against an attacker who is able to get untrusted data into an application to control…
Executives Anonymous: What’s a SIEM? (and why you should care)

Aug 7, 2025 6:11 AM

Tags: control, siem

Executives Anonymous (EANON) aims to help inform the decision making process for executives and managers who may be new to the security field or even want (or need) to be better at resource control and optimization of their team’s tools. What You’ll Learn What are logs. What is a SIEM and why it matters. […]…
Executives Anonymous: What’s a SIEM? (and why you should care)

Aug 7, 2025 6:11 AM

Tags: control, siem

Executives Anonymous (EANON) aims to help inform the decision making process for executives and managers who may be new to the security field or even want (or need) to be better at resource control and optimization of their team’s tools. What You’ll Learn What are logs. What is a SIEM and why it matters. […]…
Researchers Uncover ECScape Flaw in Amazon ECS Enabling Cross-Task Credential Theft

Aug 7, 2025 1:12 AM

Tags: access, attack, cloud, container, control, credentials, cybersecurity, data, exploit, flaw, service, theft

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated an “end-to-end privilege escalation chain” in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that could be exploited by an attacker to conduct lateral movement, access sensitive data, and seize control of the cloud environment.The attack technique has been codenamed ECScape by Sweet Security researcher Naor Haziz, who presented the findings today at the…
The AI Security Dilemma: Navigating the High-Stakes World of Cloud AI

Aug 6, 2025 11:11 PM

Tags: access, ai, attack, cloud, container, control, credentials, cve, data, data-breach, flaw, google, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, least-privilege, microsoft, risk, service, software, tool, training, vulnerability, vulnerability-management

AI presents an incredible opportunity for organizations even as it expands the attack surface in new and complex ways. For security leaders, the goal isn’t to stop AI adoption but to enable it securely. Artificial Intelligence is no longer on the horizon; it’s here, and it’s being built and deployed in the cloud at a…
Top use cases for private certificate authorities in public sector organizations

Aug 6, 2025 9:12 PM

Tags: access, authentication, automation, compliance, control, crypto, cybersecurity, governance, identity, service, zero-trust

Public sector organizations face rising cybersecurity, compliance, and operational challenges, especially in complex hybrid environments. Private certificate authorities (CAs) offer enhanced control, automation, and security tailored to internal systems and Zero Trust frameworks. Unlike public CAs, private CAs allow agencies to manage internal identities, devices, and applications while meeting strict regulatory requirements. Key use cases…
New Ghost Calls tactic abuses Zoom and Microsoft Teams for C2 operations

Aug 6, 2025 7:11 PM

Tags: control, exploit, microsoft

A new post-exploitation command-and-control (C2) evasion method called ‘Ghost Calls’ abuses TURN servers used by conferencing apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams to tunnel traffic through trusted infrastructure. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-ghost-calls-tactic-abuses-zoom-and-microsoft-teams-for-c2-operations/
Nvidia patches critical Triton server bugs that threaten AI model security

Aug 5, 2025 3:28 PM

Tags: advisory, ai, attack, breach, control, cve, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, framework, infrastructure, microsoft, nvidia, vulnerability

This could matter to AI everywhere: Wiz researchers focused their analysis on Triton’s Python backend, citing its popularity and central role in the system. While it handles models written in Python, it also serves as a dependency for several other backendsmeaning models configured under different frameworks may still rely on it during parts of the…
5 hard truths of a career in cybersecurity, and how to navigate them

Aug 5, 2025 10:28 AM

Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, cio, ciso, conference, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, finance, firewall, framework, gartner, identity, ISO-27001, jobs, mitigation, network, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, skills, strategy, technology, threat, training, waf

Cybersecurity teams protect systems but neglect people: After all the effort it takes to break into cybersecurity, professionals often end up on teams that don’t feel welcoming or supportive.Jinan Budge, a research director at Forrester who focuses on enabling CISOs and other technical leaders, believes the way most cybersecurity career paths are structured plays a…
Ransomware goes cloud native to target your backup infrastructure

Aug 5, 2025 10:28 AM

Tags: access, api, authentication, backup, cloud, container, control, credentials, cybercrime, data, defense, exploit, google, group, identity, infrastructure, least-privilege, linkedin, linux, malicious, malware, mfa, north-korea, ransomware, social-engineering, strategy, threat, vulnerability, vulnerability-management

Credential compromise and misconfiguration woes: More sophisticated threat groups have developed social engineering techniques to the point where they reliably trick targets into helping them to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) controls before ransacking compromised cloud-hosted environments.For example, threat actors are using compromised OAuth tokens to bypass MFA and inject malicious code into developer ecosystems via…