Tag: control
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From Inspection to Authorization: Securing Networks for AI Agents
Tags: access, ai, api, business, ceo, cloud, communications, control, crowdstrike, cryptography, data, encryption, endpoint, finance, firewall, identity, infrastructure, login, network, office, risk, saas, service, usa, vpn<div cla An Industry Perspective By Rajiv Pimplaskar, CEO, Dispersive Holdings, Inc. Agentic AI changes the network security problem from inspection to authorization. As more traffic is generated by agents, models, and workloads operating at machine speed, the network has to make trust decisions continuously, evaluate policy in real time, revoke access automatically, and keep…
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Reco Expands AI Runtime With Browser Controls and Prompt Blocking
Reco is expanding its AI Runtime capability with browser-based enforcement, real-time prompt analysis and blocking, and automated remediation. The company said the update is designed to act on the risk posed by AI agents without requiring security teams to route traffic through a new gateway or proxy. Reco’s Smart Remediation feature turns findings into proposed..…
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Trojanized npm Packages Decode C2 IP From Ethereum Recipient Addresses
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an evolution of the EtherHiding blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) technique that conceals the C2 server IP address inside a made-up destination address of a completely empty Ethereum transfer.The new dead drop resolver approach, observed in two trojanized npm package “bianira-ui” and “fluid-type-ui,” has been codenamed NullReceiver by First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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BigID Adds Agentic Access Controls and Intent Monitoring for AI Agents
BigID has introduced two capabilities aimed at governing what AI agents can access and checking whether their actions match the tasks they were assigned. Announced Aug. 4 in a release tied to Black Hat USA 2026, Agentic Access Control and Intent-Based Activity Monitoring are designed to address the gap between an agent’s permissions and its..…
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Keyfactor will Cofide übernehmen, um verifizierte Identitäten für KI-Agenten und Cloud-Workloads bereitstellen zu können
Keyfactor gibt seine Absicht bekannt, das in Großbritannien beheimatete Unternehmen Cofide, eine Identitätsplattform, die Software-Workloads und KI-Agenten in modernen Cloud-Umgebungen schützt, zu übernehmen. Durch die Übernahme wird die Keyfactor-Trust-Control-Plane auf Workloads und KI-Agenten ausgeweitet werden. Sicherheitsteams werden über ein einziges System verfügen, mit dem sie unternehmensweit nicht-menschliche Identitäten verwalten und steuern können werden. Unternehmen setzen zunehmend…
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Is Your AI Infrastructure Quantum-Ready? Evaluating Threat Detection and Access Control
Is your AI infrastructure quantum-ready? Discover how to defend against Harvest Now, Decrypt Later threats and secure your Model Context Protocol deployments. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/is-your-ai-infrastructure-quantum-ready-evaluating-threat-detection-and-access-control/
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SOC 2 + SSO Checklist for Legal Tech SaaS Selling to Law Firms
A SOC 2 SSO checklist for legal tech SaaS: map CC6 criteria to SAML and SCIM controls, gather evidence, and pass law firm security reviews faster. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/soc-2-sso-checklist-for-legal-tech-saas-selling-to-law-firms/
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Cloudflare gives AI agents wallets with built-in spending controls
Cloudflare’s Wallets will give AI agents running on its platform a human-readable wallet handle for paying APIs and online content within limits set by their creator. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/05/cloudflare-wallets-for-ai-agents/
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Why AI Agents Challenge Identity Governance
CIOs Need New Controls for Discovery, Intent and Token Costs. AI agents can operate within legitimate permissions and still take actions their creators never intended. Saviynt Chief Product Officer Vibhuti Sinha explains why CIOs need stronger discovery, runtime oversight, identity data and cost controls to scale agents safely. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Airlock Digital Unveils Agentic AI Control Governance to Extend Preventative Endpoint Security
Atlanta, GA, August 4th, 2026, CyberNewswire Airlock Digital announces Agentic AI Control & Governance, extending its preventative endpoint security solution with visibility into trusted AI agent behavior and governance over what trusted agents are allowed to do on endpoints. Airlock Digital, a leader in preventative endpoint security, today announced Agentic AI Control & Governance at…
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Greatness PhaaS Adds Device Code Phishing to Bypass MFA and Steal Tokens
The commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit known as Greatness has become the latest crimeware solution to add support for device code phishing, a rapidly growing cyber threat that abuses the legitimate OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and seize control of user accounts.”Greatness supports AiTM [adversary-in-the-middle] credential and First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Airlock Digital Unveils Agentic AI Control Governance to Extend Preventative Endpoint Security
Atlanta, GA, 4th August 2026, CyberNewswire First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/airlock-digital-unveils-agentic-ai-control-governance-to-extend-preventative-endpoint-security/
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Varonis Agent IBAC keeps AI agents within their intended boundaries
AI agents need broad access to be useful, but traditional access controls cannot determine whether an action aligns with a user’s intent. Varonis explains how Agent IBAC detects intent drift and enforces real-time guardrails to keep agents within their intended boundaries. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/varonis-agent-ibac-keeps-ai-agents-within-their-intended-boundaries/
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Cybercriminals Bypass AI Safety Controls by Splitting Malicious Tasks Across Multiple Sessions
Talos read attacker prompt logs and found guardrails fell to task splitting and ownership claims First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/talos-attackers-split-tasks-evade/
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Nvidia-backed Open Secure AI Alliance puts AI security and sovereignty in focus for Middle East
Tags: ai, control, cyber, data, government, infrastructure, intelligence, middle-east, nvidia, risk, toolIndustry coalition aims to develop open tools for securing artificial intelligence systems, a model that could resonate strongly in the UAE and Saudi Arabia as governments and enterprises seek greater control over AI infrastructure, data and cyber risk First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366646515/Nvidia-backed-open-secure-AI-alliance-puts-AI-security-and-sovereignty-in-focus-for-Middle-East
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OWASP Introduces Subtractive Security Top 10 to Eliminate Attack Paths and Reduce Cyber Risk
OWASP has launched the Subtractive Security Top 10 project, a security engineering initiative that shifts the focus from adding more detection controls to removing the architectural conditions that enable cyberattacks. The project, led by Christopher Frenz, promotes a straightforward premise: attackers can only exploit attack paths that exist. Instead of relying primarily on monitoring, alerting,…
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How Vulnerable Are Single Sign-On Systems to Modern Credential Attacks?
SSO credential attacks explained: how vishing, MFA resets, stale OAuth tokens and admin takeover break SSO, and the controls that stop each one. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/how-vulnerable-are-single-sign-on-systems-to-modern-credential-attacks/
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New Mimecast CEO Ranjan Singh: Combating Shadow AI Is ‘No. 1 Opportunity’ For Partners
Mimecast is looking to extend its longtime strength in email security into the rapidly emerging challenge of securing AI agents, while giving channel partners a larger role in helping customers uncover and control shadow AI usage, recently appointed Mimecast CEO Ranjan Singh tells CRN. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/new-mimecast-ceo-ranjan-singh-combating-shadow-ai-is-no-1-opportunity-for-partners
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3rd August Threat Intelligence Report
Minnesota IT Services has confirmed coordinated cyberattacks affecting more than 30 community water utilities across the state. The incidents briefly disrupted a treatment plant in Braham and affected industrial control systems. Officials reported […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/3rd-august-threat-intelligence-report/
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Huntress Makes RMM-Blocking Feature Free for All Customers as Attacks Surge 277%
Cybersecurity vendor Huntress has opened up a new application control capability to its entire customer base for free, as new data shows attacks abusing remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools rose sharply over the past year. The feature, called RMM Guard, is part of a broader product Huntress is building called Managed Endpoint Security Posture…
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TP-Link TL-WR940N Router Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code Remotely
TP-Link has announced a high-severity security vulnerability in its TL-WR940N v6 wireless router that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and potentially take full control of the affected device. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-12935 and has a CVSS v4.0 score of 8.7, categorized as high. TP-Link TL-WR940N Router Flaw According…
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30 days with Claude Mythos Preview: How Tenable adapted our security program, and why yours is next
Tags: ai, api, attack, business, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, injection, LLM, remote-code-execution, risk, service, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityTenable spent 30 days running frontier AI models against our own code. It didn’t just find bugs, it proved they’re real, with reproducible exploits. That fundamentally changes code security from ranking potential code defects to a much higher signal focused on the findings that matter. Read on to learn how it reshaped our security team’s…
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Thermo Fisher Patches Flaw That Could Make DNA File Tampering Nearly Undetectable
Thermo Fisher Scientific has patched a flaw in select Applied Biosystems human identification software that could allow data files to be altered before analysis software loads them.The vendor’s July 31 security bulletin says nearly undetectable changes to .fsa and .hid outputs could occur if laboratory controls are circumvented.Thermo Fisher tracks the issue as CVE-2026-17583 and…
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What the Minnesota Water Attacks Reveal About Securing Remote Access to Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, cisa, control, corporate, credentials, cyberattack, data-breach, exploit, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, law, least-privilege, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, password, risk, router, supply-chain, technology, vpn, zero-day, zero-trustWhen headlines break about cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, the conversation often turns immediately to zero-day exploits, advanced malware, and other sophisticated techniques. The recent attacks on municipal water systems across at least seven US states, including more than 30 Minnesota water and wastewater utilities, illustrate why this assumption can be misleading. As a “recovering CISO” who…
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Critical N-able N-central Flaw Actively Exploited to Gain God-Mode Access to MSP Networks
Tags: access, authentication, control, cve, cyber, exploit, flaw, monitoring, msp, network, vulnerabilityN-able has issued an urgent hotfix to address a critical authentication-bypass vulnerability in its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, following confirmation of active exploitation. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-18577, affects N-central servers running earlier than version 2026.3.1.7. It allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to take over accounts and gain administrative control of the…
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SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Let Attackers Turn One WebSocket Request Into Root Control
SonicWall SMA Secure Mobile Access appliances are again at the center of a zero-day storm, with chained flaws that let attackers turn a single crafted WebSocket request into root-level control on internet-facing VPN gateways. The campaign, dissected by Volexity and other researchers, shows how a previously undocumented threat actor, tracked as UTA0533, abused SonicWall’s wsproxy…
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Writing Suricata rules to detect commandcontrol traffic
Command-and-control traffic is one of the more useful places to apply network detection, because it often leaves repeatable patterns even when the payload is encrypted. Suricata is well suited to this work when you treat it as part of a wider detection stack rather than a single answer. For UK SMEs, the practical goal is……