Tag: control
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From Managing Vulnerabilities to Managing Exposure: The Critical Shift You Can’t Ignore
Tags: ai, attack, best-practice, breach, business, cloud, computing, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, office, risk, service, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementVulnerability management remains core to reducing cyber risk, but as the attack surface grows, teams need a risk-driven strategy that looks beyond vulnerabilities to see the bigger picture. Discover how exposure management unifies data and prioritizes real exposures, keeping teams proactive and ahead of cyber threats. The limits of siloed security Over the years, the…
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CISA warns of cyberattacks targeting the US oil and gas infrastructure
Tags: advisory, cisa, control, cyberattack, cybersecurity, flaw, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, network, open-source, password, risk, threatStronger passwords, segmentation, and manual operations are advised: CISA cited past analysis to emphasize that targeted systems use default or easily guessable (using open-source tools) passwords. Changing default passwords for strong and unique ones is important for public-facing internet devices that have the capability to control OT systems or processes, it added in the advisory.Segmenting…
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Security Tools Alone Don’t Protect You, Control Effectiveness Does
61% of security leaders reported suffering a breach due to failed or misconfigured controls over the past 12 months. This is despite having an average of 43 cybersecurity tools in place.This massive rate of security failure is clearly not a security investment problem. It is a configuration problem. Organizations are beginning to understand that a…
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How to capture forensic evidence for Microsoft 365
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, cloud, compliance, control, data, firewall, microsoft, network, risk, risk-management, windowsA Microsoft 365 E5 license (E5, E5 Compliance, or E5 Insider Risk Management)Workstations that run Windows 11 Enterprise with Microsoft 365 applicationsDevices joined via Microsoft Entra with certain Defender antivirus versions and application versions on boardOnly organizations that meet those criteria will be able to run Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management to get the forensic…
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Cisco IOS XE Wireless Controllers Vulnerability Lets Attackers Seize Full Control
A critical security flaw has been discovered in Cisco IOS XE Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs), potentially allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to gain full control of affected devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20188, lets attackers upload arbitrary files and execute commands with root privileges, posing a severe threat to enterprise wireless networks worldwide. Vulnerability Summary The vulnerability…
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Windows flaw exploited as zero-day by more groups than previously thought
Attackers managed to deploy infostealer: In this attack, the Balloonfly group didn’t get to the stage of deploying the Play ransomware, as that is usually one of the final stages when attackers have control over significant parts of the network for maximum damage. However, the group did deploy an infostealer called Grixba that’s usually part…
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Opening Up Open Banking: The CFPB’s Personal Financial Data Rights Rule
Tags: access, automation, banking, compliance, container, control, credit-card, data, finance, identity, monitoring, privacy, regulation, service, software, switch, toolOpening Up Open Banking: The CFPB’s Personal Financial Data Rights Rule andrew.gertz@t“¦ Tue, 05/06/2025 – 18:23 Explore the impact of the CFPB’s new Personal Financial Data Rights rule and how it aims to empower consumers, drive competition, and reshape open banking in the U.S. Ammar Faheem – Director Product Marketing (CIAM) More About This Author…
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Quantum supremacy: Cybersecurity’s ultimate arms race has China way in front
Tags: ai, authentication, automation, backup, banking, breach, business, china, ciso, computing, control, crypto, cryptography, cybersecurity, data, encryption, finance, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, jobs, military, ml, nist, risk, service, skills, technology, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayThe DeepSeek/Qwen factor: What we learned from recent AI advances, such as DeepSeek and Qwen, that caught the world by surprise is that China’s technology is much more advanced than anyone anticipated. I’d argue that this is a leading indicator that China’s quantum computing capabilities are also in absolute stealth-mode development and ahead of the…
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Researcher Exploits Regex Filter Flaw to Gain Remote Code Execution
Target application included a username field restricted by a frontend regex filter (/^[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,20}$/), designed to accept only alphanumeric characters. While this initially appeared robust, the researcher discovered that the backend failed to revalidate inputs after the regex check. This oversight allowed specially crafted payloads to bypass client-side controls and execute arbitrary commands on the server.…
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OpenAI to Retain Nonprofit Oversight Amid for-Profit Shift
Critics Say Public Benefit Corporation Model May Undermine AI Safety and Oversight. OpenAI’s nonprofit parent will retain control as its for-profit subsidiary becomes a public benefit corporation. While the company frames the change as mission-driven, critics fear it may strip the nonprofit of meaningful control and expose AGI development to uncontrolled commercial interests. First seen…
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GitGuardian urges shift to machine identity control
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/gitguardian-urges-shift-to-machine-identity-control
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Q1 2025 Recap: GitGuardian Doubles Down on Secrets Security and Machine Identity Control
GitGuardian launches new NHI Governance, enhanced synergies with Secret Manager integrations, smarter context analysis, container registry scanning, historical scanning for Jira & Confluence, and more. Take control of your secrets security, and machine identities. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/05/q1-2025-recap-gitguardian-doubles-down-on-secrets-security-and-machine-identity-control/
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Hackers Exploit 21 Apps to Take Full Control of E-Commerce Servers
Tags: attack, backdoor, control, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, hacker, injection, malicious, software, supply-chain, vulnerabilityCybersecurity firm Sansec has uncovered a sophisticated supply chain attack that has compromised 21 popular e-commerce applications, granting hackers full control over hundreds of online stores. This malicious campaign, which began with the injection of backdoors as early as six years ago, was activated this week, exposing vulnerabilities in software from vendors such as Tigren,…
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Top cybersecurity products showcased at RSA 2025
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, awareness, breach, cisco, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, firewall, fortinet, framework, identity, incident response, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, login, malicious, open-source, phishing, risk, siem, soc, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-trustCisco: Foundational AI Security Model: Cisco introduced its Foundation AI Security Model, an open-source framework designed to standardize safety protocols across AI models and applications. This initiative aims to address the growing concerns around AI security and ensure Safer AI deployments. Cisco also unveiled new agentic AI features in its XDR and Splunk platforms, along…
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AI-Enabled App Development Outpacing Cybersecurity Controls
Wiz’s Ami Luttwak on Managing the ‘Speed of AI’ Trade-Off in Security Control. AI is the fastest adopted technology in the history, in the enterprise, said Ami Luttwak, co-founder and chief technology officer at Wiz, explaining how AI-enabled application development has outpaced the speed at which security personnel try to attain complete visibility over stored…
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Hackers Exploit Email Fields to Launch XSS and SSRF Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers are raising alarms as hackers increasingly weaponize email input fields to executecross-site scripting (XSS)andserver-side request forgery (SSRF)attacks. These vulnerabilities, often overlooked in web applications, allow attackers to bypass security controls, steal data, and compromise servers. Email input fields are ubiquitous in login, registration, and contact forms. While developers often implement basic format checks…
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SonicBoom Attack Chain Lets Hackers Bypass Login and Gain Admin Control
Tags: access, attack, authentication, control, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, hacker, login, mobile, vulnerabilityCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a dangerous new exploitation technique, dubbed the >>SonicBoom Attack Chain,
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Supervisory Tech Critical to Managing Agentic AI
EMC Advisors’ Edna Conway on Minimizing Risks of Agentic AI Through Oversight. Agentic artificial intelligence has the potential to transform businesses, but Edna Conway, chief executive officer of EMC Advisors, discusses the top risks associated with agentic AI solutions and why supervisory technologies are needed to monitor and control the technology. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Rethinking Cybersecurity With AI Agents
Anthropic’s Jason Clinton Discusses the Benefits and Challenges of AI Agents. AI agents will be crucial in the software development life cycle to eliminate bugs, improving the quality of software, which could significantly reduce security vulnerabilities. Although managing AI agents for identity and access controls will be hard, said Jason Clinton, CISO at Anthropic. First…
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Hackers Exploit New Eye Pyramid Offensive Tool With Python to Launch Cyber Attacks
Tags: attack, backdoor, control, cyber, exploit, group, hacker, infrastructure, network, open-source, ransomware, toolSecurity researchers from Intrinsec have published a comprehensive analysis revealing significant overlaps in infrastructure between multiple ransomware operations and the open-source offensive tool, Eye Pyramid. Their investigation, which began by examining a Python backdoor used by the RansomHub ransomware group, uncovered a network of interconnected command-and-control (C2) servers, bulletproof hosting providers, and shared toolsets fueling…
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New MCP-Based Attack Techniques and Their Application in Building Advanced Security Tools
MCP, developed by Anthropic, allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to interface seamlessly with external tools, enabling the creation of agentic AI systems that can autonomously perform complex tasks. As organizations increasingly integrate MCP, new attack techniques have emerged, highlighting the importance of robust security controls and innovative defensive strategies. MCP Tool Manipulation and Prompt Injection…
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Seven Malicious Packages Exploit Gmail SMTP to Run Harmful Commands
Tags: control, cyber, exploit, malicious, open-source, security-incident, service, supply-chain, threatA major supply chain security incident has rocked the Python open-source community as researchers at Socket’s Threat Research Team uncovered seven interconnected malicious packages published on the Python Package Index (PyPI). These packages Coffin-Codes-Pro, Coffin-Codes-NET2, Coffin-Codes-NET, Coffin-Codes-2022, Coffin2022, Coffin-Grave, and cfc-bsb-were ingeniously designed to exploit Gmail’s SMTP service, establishing covert command-and-control tunnels and enabling attackers to execute…
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CISA Issues New ICS Advisories Addressing Critical Vulnerabilities and Exploits
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued two new advisories revealing critical vulnerabilities found in widely used Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Released on May 1, 2025, the advisories spotlight severe security risks affecting KUNBUS GmbH’s Revolution Pi devices and the MicroDicom DICOM Viewer, with some vulnerabilities scoring the highest possible rating for risk…
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Building a Scalable Cybersecurity Framework CISO Blueprint
Building a scalable cybersecurity framework is essential in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, enabling organizations to adapt to changing threats while supporting business growth. A scalable cybersecurity framework isn’t merely about adding more security controls as an organization expands. It’s about creating a flexible structure that can evolve with the business, anticipate future challenges, and…