Tag: control
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Windows 11 Dev Build Introduces Improved Secure Boot Oversight and Storage Security
Microsoft has rolled out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26300.8170 to the Dev Channel, bringing crucial updates for system security and storage management. Announced by the Windows Insider Program Team on April 10, 2026, this release delivers enhanced oversight for Secure Boot states. It streamlines User Account Control (UAC) prompts. The update provides users with…
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Hidden VMs: how hackers leverage QEMU to stealthily steal data and spread malware
Tags: control, data, detection, endpoint, hacker, malicious, malware, open-source, ransomware, sophosAttackers abuse QEMU to hide malware in virtual machines, bypass detection, steal data, and deploy ransomware without leaving any trace. Sophos researchers report a rise in attackers abusing QEMU, an open-source emulator, to hide malicious activity inside virtual machines. By running malware in a VM, attackers avoid endpoint security controls and leave minimal traces on…
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Critical sandbox bypass fixed in popular Thymeleaf Java template engine
new keyword followed by an ASCII space, T (Spring Expression Language type references) and @ (SpEL bean references in some code paths). However, the check only looked for ASCII space 0x20 characters, but the SpEL’s parser also accepts tab (0x09), newline (0x0A), and other control characters between new and the class name.Another policy blocked classes…
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Critical sandbox bypass fixed in popular Thymeleaf Java template engine
new keyword followed by an ASCII space, T (Spring Expression Language type references) and @ (SpEL bean references in some code paths). However, the check only looked for ASCII space 0x20 characters, but the SpEL’s parser also accepts tab (0x09), newline (0x0A), and other control characters between new and the class name.Another policy blocked classes…
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We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, best-practice, computer, computing, control, cryptography, data, exploit, google, group, Hardware, metric, programming, risk, rust, technology, tool, update, vulnerabilityTwo weeks ago, Google’s Quantum AI group published a zero-knowledge proof of a quantum circuit so optimized, they concluded that first-generation quantum computers will break elliptic curve cryptography keys in as little as 9 minutes. Today, Trail of Bits is publishing our own zero-knowledge proof that significantly improves Google’s on all metrics. Our result is…
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White House moves to give federal agencies access to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos
Tags: access, ai, control, cyber, defense, framework, government, military, risk, supply-chain, update, vulnerabilityEnterprise implications: Those same assurance questions translate directly to enterprise procurement. The OMB move signals that federal cyber defense is pivoting toward frontier models that can find vulnerabilities faster than human teams can patch them, and the rift between the Pentagon and the White House carries a lesson for private-sector buyers, Shah said.”The rift between…
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Industrial Systems Hit by New Email-Worm Threat Wave
Email-borne worms are driving a fresh wave of incidents against industrial control systems (ICS), even as overall malware activity on these networks appears to be slowly declining. New data from Q4 2025 shows that phishing-driven distribution of the XWorm backdoor has sharply shifted the risk landscape for operational technology (OT) environments worldwide. The share of…
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Industrial Systems Hit by New Email-Worm Threat Wave
Email-borne worms are driving a fresh wave of incidents against industrial control systems (ICS), even as overall malware activity on these networks appears to be slowly declining. New data from Q4 2025 shows that phishing-driven distribution of the XWorm backdoor has sharply shifted the risk landscape for operational technology (OT) environments worldwide. The share of…
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Industrial Systems Hit by New Email-Worm Threat Wave
Email-borne worms are driving a fresh wave of incidents against industrial control systems (ICS), even as overall malware activity on these networks appears to be slowly declining. New data from Q4 2025 shows that phishing-driven distribution of the XWorm backdoor has sharply shifted the risk landscape for operational technology (OT) environments worldwide. The share of…
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Mozilla challenges enterprise AI providers with Thunderbolt, open-source AI client under your control
For organizations that want to keep company data within their own systems and have more control over how AI is deployed, Mozilla is offering an alternative to externally … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/17/mozilla-thunderbolt-open-source-ai-client-enterprise-data-control/
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Critical Flowise Flaw Enables Remote Command Execution via MCP Adapters
OX Security researchers have uncovered a critical, systemic vulnerability built directly into the architecture of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). As the industry standard for AI agent communication, this foundational flaw exposes systems to Arbitrary Command Execution (RCE). Attackers who exploit this vulnerability can seize complete control of affected MCP implementations, gaining direct access to…
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The Shadow AI Trap: Why Your AI Inventory is Your Biggest EU AI Act Compliance Risk FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, automation, ciso, cloud, compliance, computing, control, data, governance, grc, infrastructure, LLM, monitoring, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, toolApr 16, 2026 – Alan Fagan – The EU AI Act cares about evidence, not intentWhen National Competent Authorities begin enforcement on August 2, 2026, they will ask organisations what AI systems they operate, how those systems are being used, and what controls are in place. Many organisations will struggle to answer these questions.The Shadow…
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The Shadow AI Trap: Why Your AI Inventory is Your Biggest EU AI Act Compliance Risk FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, automation, ciso, cloud, compliance, computing, control, data, governance, grc, infrastructure, LLM, monitoring, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, toolApr 16, 2026 – Alan Fagan – The EU AI Act cares about evidence, not intentWhen National Competent Authorities begin enforcement on August 2, 2026, they will ask organisations what AI systems they operate, how those systems are being used, and what controls are in place. Many organisations will struggle to answer these questions.The Shadow…
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Article 12 and the Logging Mandate: What the EU AI Act Actually Requires FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, breach, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, data-breach, finance, GDPR, grc, healthcare, infrastructure, insurance, jobs, metric, monitoring, regulation, risk, saas, service, toolApr 16, 2026 – Lina Romero – When GDPR arrived, the organisations that had mistaken documentation for capability were the ones that struggled the most. They had policies about data retention but no technical controls enforcing those policies. They had breach notification procedures but no systems capable of detecting a breach in time to use…
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Beyond the Spreadsheet: Why Manual AI Audits Are an EU AI Act Compliance Liability FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, finance, framework, GDPR, governance, grc, group, incident response, infrastructure, ISO-27001, monitoring, regulation, risk, saas, service, soc, toolApr 16, 2026 – Alan Fagan – When it comes to the EU AI Act, many organisations take a manual approach to auditing, which looks impressive on paper but collapses under regulatory scrutiny. They use policies, surveys, working groups, and a well-formatted risk register. However, a manual approach does not provide the continuous, automated, technical…
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Beyond the Spreadsheet: Why Manual AI Audits Are an EU AI Act Compliance Liability FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, finance, framework, GDPR, governance, grc, group, incident response, infrastructure, ISO-27001, monitoring, regulation, risk, saas, service, soc, toolApr 16, 2026 – Alan Fagan – When it comes to the EU AI Act, many organisations take a manual approach to auditing, which looks impressive on paper but collapses under regulatory scrutiny. They use policies, surveys, working groups, and a well-formatted risk register. However, a manual approach does not provide the continuous, automated, technical…
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Behind the Mythos hype, Glasswing has just one confirmed CVE
Why is Glasswing still a big deal: VulnCheck’s findings reframe Glasswing’s capabilities. The limited number of directly attributable CVEs is just one way of measuring its impact. Industry observers are interpreting Mythos much differently.Melissa Bischoping, a SANS Technology Institute board member and senior Director of security and product research at Tanium, thinks Mythos potential lies…
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Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that’s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet dubbed PowMix since at least December 2025.”PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the C2 server, to evade the network signature detections,” Cisco Talos First seen on thehackernews.com…
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The endless CISO reporting line debate, and what it says about cybersecurity leadership
Tags: access, business, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, firewall, governance, infrastructure, jobs, monitoring, network, resilience, risk, strategy, technology, vulnerabilityThe governance gap behind the debate: The persistence of this debate reflects a broader governance gap.Historically, information security emerged as a technical discipline embedded within IT departments. Early security teams focused primarily on protecting infrastructure: Firewalls, access controls, network monitoring and vulnerability management. In that environment, it was natural for the security function to sit…
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Copilot and Agentforce fall to form-based prompt injection tricks
PipeLeak: Salesforce Agentforce hijacked by a simple lead: In the Salesforce Agentforce case, attackers embed malicious instructions inside a public-facing lead form. When an internal user later asks the agent to review or process that lead, the agent executes the embedded instructions as if they were part of its task.According to a Capsule demonstration, the…
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Copilot and Agentforce fall to form-based prompt injection tricks
PipeLeak: Salesforce Agentforce hijacked by a simple lead: In the Salesforce Agentforce case, attackers embed malicious instructions inside a public-facing lead form. When an internal user later asks the agent to review or process that lead, the agent executes the embedded instructions as if they were part of its task.According to a Capsule demonstration, the…
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The deepfake dilemma: From financial fraud to reputational crisis
Tags: ai, authentication, business, ceo, communications, control, cyber, data-breach, deep-fake, exploit, finance, fraud, malicious, phone, resilience, risk, threat, toolDeepfakes as tools for financial fraud: Deepfakes have quickly become a powerful enabler of financial fraud. This is largely because most business communication channels, like video and voice calls, remain unauthenticated. A single convincing audio or video call, seemingly from a trusted executive, can bypass established controls in minutes. Employees in these scenarios often follow…
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The deepfake dilemma: From financial fraud to reputational crisis
Tags: ai, authentication, business, ceo, communications, control, cyber, data-breach, deep-fake, exploit, finance, fraud, malicious, phone, resilience, risk, threat, toolDeepfakes as tools for financial fraud: Deepfakes have quickly become a powerful enabler of financial fraud. This is largely because most business communication channels, like video and voice calls, remain unauthenticated. A single convincing audio or video call, seemingly from a trusted executive, can bypass established controls in minutes. Employees in these scenarios often follow…
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7 biggest healthcare security threats
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, cloud, control, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, email, endpoint, google, government, hacking, healthcare, HIPAA, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, phishing, risk, security-incident, service, software, spam, sql, threat, tool, vulnerabilityCloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations: Many healthcare organizations have adopted cloud services as part of broader digital transformation initiatives. As a result, patient health information (PHI) and other sensitive data is increasingly being hosted in vendor cloud environments.The trend has broadened attack surface at healthcare organizations, says Anthony James, vice president of products at Infoblox, especially…
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7 biggest healthcare security threats
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, cloud, control, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, email, endpoint, google, government, hacking, healthcare, HIPAA, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, phishing, risk, security-incident, service, software, spam, sql, threat, tool, vulnerabilityCloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations: Many healthcare organizations have adopted cloud services as part of broader digital transformation initiatives. As a result, patient health information (PHI) and other sensitive data is increasingly being hosted in vendor cloud environments.The trend has broadened attack surface at healthcare organizations, says Anthony James, vice president of products at Infoblox, especially…
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The need for a board-level definition of cyber resilience
Tags: awareness, business, cisa, compliance, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, detection, finance, framework, governance, law, metric, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-analysis, risk-management, service, supply-chain, technologyWhere the literature converges: Organizational outcomes vs. policy and controls It’s consistently agreed that cyber resilience should be tied to organizational outcomes rather than technical controls and policies. Rather than focusing on metrics such as mean time to detection or number of security controls, organizational cyber resilience needs to evaluate levels of business continuity, preservation…
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Mallory Launches AI-Native Threat Intelligence Platform, Turning Global Threat Data Into Prioritized Action
What are the real threat vectors for our organization?What’s actually exploitable in our environment right now?What should we proactively fix?The platform monitors thousands of threat sources, contextualizes them against a user’s actual attack surface, and puts that intelligence to work across hunt, detection, and exposure management use cases. One platform. Answers, not alerts.Modern teams receive…
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Cybersecurity Risks of Hiring a Virtual Assistant and How to Protect Your Business
Virtual assistants boost productivity but add cybersecurity risks. Poor access control, weak devices, and credential sharing can expose sensitive business data. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/cybersecurity-risks-hiring-virtual-assistant-business/
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AI platform n8n abused for stealthy phishing and malware delivery
Attackers abuse AI automation platform n8n to run phishing campaigns, deliver malware, and evade security by using trusted infrastructure. Threat actors are exploiting the popular AI workflow automation platform n8n to launch advanced phishing campaigns, deliver malware, and collect device data through automated emails. By using trusted infrastructure, they can bypass traditional security controls and…
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CVE-2026-33032: severe nginx-ui bug grants unauthenticated server access
An actively exploited critical nginx-ui flaw (CVE-2026-33032) lets attackers bypass authentication and take full control of Nginx servers. A critical vulnerability in nginx-ui, tracked as CVE-2026-33032 (CVSS score of 9.8), is being actively exploited, allowing attackers to bypass authentication and fully take over Nginx servers. The issue stems from improper protection of the /mcp_message endpoint,…