Tag: control
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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,…
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Best AI Governance Tools for Enterprises (2026)
Compare the best AI governance tools for enterprises in 2026. Learn what most platforms miss and how to actually control AI risk. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/best-ai-governance-tools-for-enterprises-2026/
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Mirax malware campaign hits 220K accounts, enables full remote control
Mirax, a new Android RAT, spread via Meta ads, infected 220,000 users and turns devices into SOCKS5 proxies, giving attackers full remote control. Mirax is a new Android remote access trojan spreading through ads on Meta platforms, targeting mainly Spanish-speaking users and reaching over 220,000 accounts. The malicious code lets attackers fully control infected devices…
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Staatliche gelenkte Angriffe auf industrielle Steuerungselemente
Aktuelle Berichte über staatlich gelenkte Angriffe auf industrielle Steuerungssysteme (Industrial Control Systems, ICS) unterstreichen eine strukturelle Gegebenheit, mit der Sicherheitsteams seit Jahren kämpfen. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/staatliche-angriffe-industrielle-steuerungselemente
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RCE by design: MCP architectural choice haunts AI agent ecosystem
sh, bash, powershell, curl, rm, and other high-risk binaries, they added.The core issue is that there’s currently no check in place to verify that a STDIO command is intended to initialize an MCP server rather than perform a malicious task. Furthermore, the researchers observed that even if the sent command fails to start the server,…
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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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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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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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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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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…