Tag: control
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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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Claude Mythos: Prepare for your board’s cybersecurity questions about the latest AI model from Anthropic
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, best-practice, business, ceo, cisa, cloud, compliance, container, control, cve, cvss, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, fedramp, finance, flaw, framework, governance, group, HIPAA, identity, injection, insurance, kev, law, linkedin, linux, LLM, macOS, network, PCI, risk, service, soc, software, strategy, technology, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, windows, zero-day, zero-trustWith the Federal Reserve Chairman meeting with bank CEOs to discuss the security implications of Claude Mythos, you can bet that your board of directors will ask you about the impact of the AI model on your cybersecurity strategy. Here’s how to prepare. Key takeaways Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview, its most powerful general-purpose frontier…
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Microsoft ends desktop detour for sensitivity labels in Office web apps
Microsoft is rolling out an update to Office for the web that removes a long-standing limitation around document protection, adding new control to browser-based apps. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/15/microsoft-office-sensitivity-labels-permissions/
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How Digital Annotations Are Replacing Paper Markups in Business
Digital Annotations replace paper markups in business, enabling real time collaboration, version control, and secure document workflows across teams. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/digital-annotations-replace-paper-markups-business/
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4 questions to ask before outsourcing MDR
2. Can your team separate real threats from noise?: Alert fatigue is one of the biggest barriers to effective security. Tools generate volumes of signals, but not all alerts represent real risk. When everything looks critical, teams either burn out or miss the alerts that matter most.MDR helps by applying human expertise and threat intelligence…
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New PHP Composer Flaws Enable Arbitrary Command Execution, Patches Released
Two high-severity security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Composer, a package manager for PHP, that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary command execution.The vulnerabilities have been described as command injection flaws affecting the Perforce VCS (version control software) driver. Details of the two flaws are below -CVE-2026-40176 (CVSS First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to…
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Mirax Android RAT Hijacks Infected Phones as Residential Proxies
A new Android banking trojan called Mirax is rapidly gaining traction in the cybercrime ecosystem, combining powerful remote access features with residential proxy capabilities to turn victims’ smartphones into high-value infrastructure nodes. Mirax is marketed as a premium Android RAT and banking malware, offering attackers full, real”‘time control over compromised devices. Once installed, the malware can execute…
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Mirax Android RAT Hijacks Infected Phones as Residential Proxies
A new Android banking trojan called Mirax is rapidly gaining traction in the cybercrime ecosystem, combining powerful remote access features with residential proxy capabilities to turn victims’ smartphones into high-value infrastructure nodes. Mirax is marketed as a premium Android RAT and banking malware, offering attackers full, real”‘time control over compromised devices. Once installed, the malware can execute…
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108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse by injecting ads and arbitrary JavaScript code into every web page visited.According to Socket, the extensions are…
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The AI inflection point: What security leaders must do now
The questions have matured: The AI discussion in security has evolved in phases.First came skepticism from security leaders, asking whether AI actually works in security operations. Given years of overpromised technology, the caution was warranted.Experimentation followed, with questions centering on what types of work AI should handle and where it introduces risk.Now, the dominant questions…
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The AI inflection point: What security leaders must do now
The questions have matured: The AI discussion in security has evolved in phases.First came skepticism from security leaders, asking whether AI actually works in security operations. Given years of overpromised technology, the caution was warranted.Experimentation followed, with questions centering on what types of work AI should handle and where it introduces risk.Now, the dominant questions…
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Review: The Psychology of Information Security
Security controls fail when they are designed without regard for the people who must use them. That is the central argument of Leron Zinatullin’s second edition, and it … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/14/review-the-psychology-of-information-security/
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APT41 Targets Linux Cloud Servers With New Winnti Backdoor
A previously undocumented Linux backdoor attributed to China-linked threat group APT41 (Winnti) has been uncovered, targeting cloud workloads across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud. The ELF-based implant, currently showing zero detections on VirusTotal, transforms Linux servers into stealthy credential theft nodes using a novel SMTP-based command-and-control (C2) mechanism. The discovery indicates a new phase in APT41’s Linux and cloud-targeted…
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29 million leaked secrets in 2025: Why AI agents credentials are out of control
AI agents need credentials to work. They authenticate with LLM platforms, connect to databases, call SaaS APIs, access cloud resources, and orchestrate across dozens of … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/14/gitguardian-ai-agents-credentials-leak/
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Anthropic’s Mythos signals a structural cybersecurity shift
Tags: access, ai, attack, business, ciso, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, exploit, governance, network, offense, risk, supply-chain, technology, updateClaude Mythos Preview is a step up: A separate analysis from the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) evaluated Mythos Preview itself.The evaluations involved both capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and more complex ranges designed to simulate multi-step attack scenarios, where the model outperformed other AI systems.Mythos Preview came out on top in a 32-step corporate network attack…
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France Tees Up Big Public Sector Move Away From US Tech
European Governments Grow Suspicious of Silicon Valley. French abandonment of American software for open-source alternatives continues apace, with all government ministries now facing a fall deadline for outlining plans to reduce their dependence on U.S. tech. France must regain control of our digital destiny, said public action minister David Amiel. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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When AI Finds a Way Out: The Alibaba Incident and Why Zero Trust Matters More Than Ever
Tags: access, ai, control, cybersecurity, data-breach, detection, firewall, flaw, identity, malware, network, software, threat, training, zero-trustThe incidentIn cybersecurity, the most important lessons rarely come from theory, but reality.A recent incident involving an experimental AI agent in the Alibaba ecosystem is one of those moments that forces us to pause and rethink some of our core assumptions. During what should have been just model training, the Alibaba AI agent began behaving…
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Microsegmentation Is Creating More Policy Than Teams Can Manage. AI Won’t Fix It.
Microsegmentation has become a cornerstone of modern security. It promises granular control, reduced lateral movement, and a practical path to Zero Trust. And as organizations expand across hybrid, cloud, and… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/microsegmentation-is-creating-more-policy-than-teams-can-manage-ai-wont-fix-it/
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Iran-Linked CyberAv3ngers Target Water Utilities, Industrial Controllers
Iran-linked threat group CyberAv3ngers is intensifying attacks on U.S. water utilities and industrial control systems, shifting from noisy hacktivism to sustained disruption of operational technology (OT) environments. CyberAv3ngers operates as a state-directed persona for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC), not as an independent hacktivist crew. U.S. Treasury sanctions in February 2024 named six IRGC-CEC…
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Critical Axios Vulnerability Enables Remote Code Execution, PoC Released
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Axios, one of the most widely used HTTP client libraries, exposing applications to Remote Code Execution (RCE) and full cloud infrastructure compromise. Tracked as CVE-2026-40175, this flaw carries a critical CVSS 3.1 score of 9.9 and allows attackers to bypass AWS IMDSv2 security controls to exfiltrate sensitive…
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CISOs tackle the AI visibility gap
Tags: ai, business, ciso, control, data, framework, governance, leak, risk, service, software, strategy, technology, tool, vulnerabilityGaining visibility: CISOs say they’re aware of the consequences of having blind spots, with data leaks and problematic AI outputs being common ones.They’re now working to gain the needed visibility to prevent such issues, says Aaron Momin, CISO and chief risk officer for Synechron, a digital consulting and technology services firm.”The business has a mandate…
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Google Brings EndEnd Encrypted Gmail to Android and iPhone
Google has officially expanded Gmail’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature to Android and iOS devices, empowering organizations and users to protect the confidentiality of email content directly from their mobile devices. This enhancement is part of Gmail’s client-side encryption (CSE) program, enabling stricter compliance controls and preserving data sovereignty across regulated industries. With this new rollout, Gmail users can…
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Hackers claim control over Venice San Marco anti-flood pumps
Hackers breached Venice ‘s San Marco flood system, claiming control of pumps and the ability to disable defenses and flood coastal areas. The technologies that govern the physical world are the quiet infrastructure of modern life. From energy grids to water systems, from factories to flood defenses, operational technology (OT) has long had one essential…