Tag: control
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Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open
Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple’s practices harm privacy First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/proton_lawsuit_apple/
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Evaluating AI Solutions for the SOC: Why Centralized Autonomy Outperforms Agentic AI
Compare centralized autonomous SOC engines like Morpheus against agentic AI solutions. Learn why unified control beats agent swarms. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/06/evaluating-ai-solutions-for-the-soc-why-centralized-autonomy-outperforms-agentic-ai/
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German BSI Head: Tech Sovereignty Needs Technical Solution
Claudia Plattner Says Complete Switch to European Technologies Is Unrealistic. European ambitions to replace foreign tech solutions with domestic alternatives are unrealistic in the short term, warned the head of the German cybersecurity head cybersecurity agency in a call for greater technological control over cloud platforms. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/german-bsi-head-tech-sovereignty-needs-technical-solution-a-28868
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Hackers Deliver Remcos Malware Via .pif Files and UAC Bypass in Windows
A sophisticated phishing campaign has emerged, distributing the notorious Remcos Remote Access Trojan (RAT) through the DBatLoader malware. This attack chain, analyzed in ANY.RUN’s Interactive Sandbox, leverages a combination of User Account Control (UAC) bypass techniques, obfuscated scripts, Living Off the Land Binaries (LOLBAS) abuse, and persistence mechanisms to infiltrate systems undetected. The campaign begins…
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Rethinking IT Risk Assessments for OT Environments
Sydney Trains’ Maryam Shoraka on Identifying the Blind Spots in OT Systems. IT organizations can apply multiple frameworks to help reduce risk, but relying on them in OT environments could create blind spots. Security leaders must rethink compliance-driven strategies and adapt controls to meet the unique demands of industrial systems, said Sydney Trains’ Maryam Shoraka.…
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Hackers Leverage Critical Langflow Flaw to Deploy Flodrix Botnet and Seize System Control
Tags: ai, botnet, control, cve, cvss, cyber, cyberattack, exploit, flaw, framework, hacker, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA sophisticated cyberattack campaign has emerged, exploiting a critical vulnerability in Langflow, a widely-used Python-based framework for building AI applications, to deploy the destructive Flodrix botnet. Identified as CVE-2025-3248 and carrying a near-perfect CVSS score of 9.8, this unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw impacts Langflow versions prior to 1.3.0. Unveiling a Severe RCE Vulnerability…
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Hackers Breach Norwegian Dam, Triggering Full Valve Opening
Hackers successfully took control of critical operational systems at a dam facility near Risevatnet in Bremanger, Norway, during April. The attackers managed to seize command over the minimum water flow controls and gained access to the dam’s valve closure mechanism, leading to a full valve opening event that lasted several hours before being detected and…
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Norwegian Dam Valve Forced Open for Hours in Cyberattack
Unidentified hackers breached a Norwegian dam’s control system in April, opening its valve for hours due to a weak password. Learn how simple vulnerabilities threaten critical infrastructure. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/norwegian-dam-valve-forced-open-hours-in-cyberattack/
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 51
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Ransomware Gangs Collapse as Qilin Seizes Control Dissecting a Python Ransomware distributed through GitHub repositories SparkKitty, SparkCat’s little brother: A new Trojan spy found in the App Store and Google Play Uncovering a Tor-Enabled Docker Exploit…
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Is Investing in NHI Security Justified?
Is NHI Security Investment Justifiable for Your Organization? Is your organization making a concerted effort towards investing in Non-Human Identities (NHIs) security? Given the increasing sophistication of cyber threats, ensuring tight security controls over machine identities is becoming vital in every industry. This is particularly significant for businesses operating in the cloud, where NHIs and……
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CVE-2025-5777, CVE-2025-6543: Frequently Asked Questions About CitrixBleed 2 and Citrix NetScaler Exploitation
Frequently asked questions about recent Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway vulnerabilities that have reportedly been exploited in the wild, including CVE-2025-5777 known as CitrixBleed 2. Background Tenable’s Research Special Operations (RSO) team has compiled this blog to answer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding CVE-2025-5777 and CVE-2025-6543, two Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway vulnerabilities that have…
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Some Brother printers have a remote code execution vulnerability, and they can’t fix it
The centerpiece of Rapid7’s disclosure is CVE-2024-51978, a vulnerability rated critical (CVSS 9.8 out of 10) that enables attackers to derive the default administrator password from the device’s serial number.While another of the discovered flaws, a medium severity information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2024-51977), potentially allows an attacker to leak the prerequisite unique serial number via the…
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Navigating a Heightened Cyber Threat Landscape: Military Conflict Increases Attack Risks
Tags: advisory, ai, attack, authentication, breach, business, cloud, container, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, finance, firmware, group, hacker, hacking, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iran, mfa, military, network, password, risk, russia, service, strategy, tactics, technology, terrorism, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementThe current geopolitical climate demands a proactive, comprehensive approach to cybersecurity. Here’s what you need to know, and how Tenable can help. The cybersecurity landscape is in constant flux, but rarely do we see such a rapid escalation of threats as we are currently experiencing. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) National Terrorism Advisory…
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How to Keep Client Data Safe in a World Full of Online Threats
Businesses, big or small, must prioritize data security not only to maintain trust but also to stay compliant with evolving regulations. This article explores practical, actionable strategies to safeguard client information, including encryption, access control, employee training, and secure cloud practices. Learn how to build a resilient security culture that protects your clients and your…
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The rise of the compliance super soldier: A new human-AI paradigm in GRC
Tags: ai, automation, awareness, compliance, control, governance, grc, jobs, law, LLM, metric, regulation, risk, skills, strategy, threat, tool, training, updateRegulatory acceleration: Global AI laws are evolving but remain fragmented and volatile. Toolchain convergence: Risk, compliance and engineering workflows are merging into unified platforms. Maturity asymmetry: Few organizations have robust genAI governance strategies, and even fewer have built dedicated AI risk teams. These forces create a scenario where GRC teams must evolve rapidly, from policy monitors to strategic…
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How to Protect Your Drupal Site From Cyberattacks
If you do the basics right”‰”, “‰update regularly, control permissions and protect logins”‰”, “‰you’ll already be ahead of most sites on the web. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/06/how-to-protect-your-drupal-site-from-cyberattacks/
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Mitsubishi Electric AC Flaw Lets Hackers Remotely Control Systems
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in multiple Mitsubishi Electric air conditioning systems, potentially allowing hackers to bypass authentication and remotely control affected units. The flaw, identified as CVE-2025-3699, was disclosed by Mitsubishi Electric on June 26, 2025, and has been assigned a maximum CVSS base score of 9.8, indicating its severity. Authentication Bypass…
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Open VSX Marketplace Flaw Enables Millions of Developers at Risk of Supply Chain Attacks
Tags: attack, control, cyber, cybersecurity, flaw, marketplace, open-source, risk, supply-chain, vulnerabilityA newly disclosed critical vulnerability in the Open VSX Registry, the open-source marketplace for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions, has put millions of developers worldwide at risk of devastating supply chain attacks. The flaw, discovered by cybersecurity researchers at Koi Security, could have allowed attackers to seize control of the entire extensions marketplace, enabling…
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Don’t trust that email: It could be from a hacker using your printer to scam you
Tags: authentication, control, credentials, data, defense, dkim, dmarc, email, endpoint, exploit, framework, hacker, infrastructure, iot, login, mail, microsoft, monitoring, network, phishing, powershell, qr, risk, scam, tactics, tool, vulnerability, zero-daytenantname.mail.protection.outlook.com, and companies’ internal email address formats can be trivial to figure out or easy to scrape from public sources or social media. Once an attacker has the domain and a valid email address, they are able to send emails that appear to come from inside the organization.In the campaign observed by Varonis’ forensics experts,…
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Cisco warns of critical API vulnerabilities in ISE and ISE-PIC
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, best-practice, business, ceo, cisco, ciso, cloud, communications, control, credentials, data, defense, email, endpoint, exploit, firewall, flaw, framework, guide, Hardware, incident response, malicious, microsoft, mobile, network, penetration-testing, programming, risk, router, saas, sans, service, software, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, wafroot user.The fault behind both vulnerabilities: Holes in application programming interfaces (APIs).”Take this vulnerability seriously,” said Moses Frost, senior course instructor on cloud penetration testing at the SANS Institute. “In my experience assessing networks, I have found through testing that many lack essential patches and security hardening on their core network devices. I have seen Cisco…
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Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets
AMI MegaRAC used in servers from AMD, ARM, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, Supermicro, and Qualcomm. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/active-exploitation-of-ami-management-tool-imperils-thousands-of-servers/
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Critical Open VSX Registry Flaw Exposes Millions of Developers to Supply Chain Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in the Open VSX Registry (“open-vsx[.]org”) that, if successfully exploited, could have enabled attackers to take control of the entire Visual Studio Code extensions marketplace, posing a severe supply chain risk.”This vulnerability provides attackers full control over the entire extensions marketplace, and in turn, full control First seen…
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Cisco ISE Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Execute Malicious Commands
Cisco has issued urgent security patches addressing two critical vulnerabilities in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) platforms. These flaws, which both carry the highest possible CVSS severity score of 10.0, could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute malicious commands as the root user, effectively taking complete control of affected…
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Microsoft Teams Adds Feature for Admins to Control 365 Certified Apps with Custom Rules
Microsoft is rolling out a major update to Microsoft Teams, empowering administrators with enhanced control over third-party app availability through new rule-based settings in the Teams admin center. This change”, detailed in Microsoft’s recent Message Center update (MC1085133)”, is set to begin global rollout in mid-August 2025, with completion expected by early September 2025. The…
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Microsoft confirms Family Safety blocks Google Chrome from launching
Microsoft has confirmed that its Family Safety parental control service is blocking users from launching Google Chrome and other web browsers on Windows systems. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-family-safety-blocks-google-chrome-from-launching/
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US University Targeted by Androxgh0st Botnet Operators for C2 Logger Hosting
CloudSEK’s TRIAD team has made the shocking discovery that the Androxgh0st botnet is a persistent and dynamic cyberthreat. It has targeted a subdomain of the University of California, San Diego, specifically the “USArhythms” portal associated with the USA Basketball Men’s U19 National Team for the 2025 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup, to host its command-and-control…
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How to make your multicloud security more effective
Tags: ai, automation, ciso, cloud, container, control, data, infrastructure, LLM, risk, risk-analysis, software, technology, threat, toolIs it time to repatriate to the data center?: Perhaps. Some organizations, such as Zoom, have moved workloads to on-premises because it provides more predictable performance for real-time needs of their apps. John Qian, who once worked there and now is the CISO for security vendor Aviatrix, tells CSO that Zoom uses all three of…
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CISA Issues Alert on ControlID iDSecure Flaws Enabling Bypass Authentication
Tags: access, authentication, cisa, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, flaw, infrastructure, leak, software, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert regarding critical vulnerabilities in ControlID’s iDSecure On-premises software, a widely used vehicle control and access management platform. The alert, designated ICSA-25-175-05 and released on June 24, 2025, highlights multiple security flaws that could allow attackers to bypass authentication, leak sensitive data, and perform…