Tag: control
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D&O liability protection rising for security leaders, unless you’re a midtier CISO
Tags: access, best-practice, breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, finance, governance, incident response, insurance, jobs, law, network, risk, risk-management, security-incident, toolA question of indemnity: But Ryan Griffin, US cyber leader at insurance broker McGill and Partners, points out that the difference between D&O insurance and a direct indemnification agreement is often misunderstood.”The most crucial tool for a CISO’s protection is the indemnification agreement with their employer,” Griffin explains. “The D&O policy is how the company…
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The Raspberry Pi wakeup call: Why enterprises must rethink physical security
Tags: ceo, control, dns, Hardware, infrastructure, intelligence, malware, monitoring, network, phoneProceed with caution: Villanustre encouraged anyone discovering such a device to proceed cautiously. “Disconnecting the device could result in losing important forensic information if not careful. It’s not too hard to equip the device with a tiny battery or supercapacitor that would give it enough time to wipe itself out if disconnected from the network or…
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The Raspberry Pi wakeup call: Why enterprises must rethink physical security
Tags: ceo, control, dns, Hardware, infrastructure, intelligence, malware, monitoring, network, phoneProceed with caution: Villanustre encouraged anyone discovering such a device to proceed cautiously. “Disconnecting the device could result in losing important forensic information if not careful. It’s not too hard to equip the device with a tiny battery or supercapacitor that would give it enough time to wipe itself out if disconnected from the network or…
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LLM10: Unbounded Consumption FireTail Blog
Dec 17, 2025 – Lina Romero – The OWASP Top 10 for LLMs was released this year to help security teams understand and mitigate the rising risks to LLMs. In previous blogs, we’ve explored risks 1-9, and today we’ll finally be deep diving LLM10: Unbounded Consumption. Unbounded Consumption occurs when LLMs allow users to conduct…
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CVE-2025-40602: SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Zero-Day Exploited
Tags: access, advisory, attack, authentication, control, cve, cyber, data, exploit, firewall, flaw, injection, international, mobile, ransomware, sql, vulnerability, zero-dayA zero-day vulnerability in SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 was reportedly exploited in the wild in a chained attack with CVE-2025-23006. Key takeaways: CVE-2025-40602 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the appliance management console (AMC) of the SonicWall SMA 1000 appliance. CVE-2025-40602 has been exploited in a chained attack with CVE-2025-23006, a deserialization…
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LLM10: Unbounded Consumption FireTail Blog
Dec 17, 2025 – Lina Romero – The OWASP Top 10 for LLMs was released this year to help security teams understand and mitigate the rising risks to LLMs. In previous blogs, we’ve explored risks 1-9, and today we’ll finally be deep diving LLM10: Unbounded Consumption. Unbounded Consumption occurs when LLMs allow users to conduct…
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‘Ink Dragon’ threat group targets IIS servers to build stealthy global network
Tags: access, attack, china, control, credentials, data, exploit, firewall, government, group, infrastructure, intelligence, microsoft, network, office, threat, vulnerability, wafmodus operandi to several other Chinese threat groups engaged in nation-state surveillance, such as UNC6384, whose campaigns targeted European diplomats.However, during a recent investigation at the office of a European government, Check Point said it had discovered that the group has now pivoted towards what it called “an unusually sophisticated playbook” with longer term goals.Key…
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Smashing Security podcast #448: The Kindle that got pwned
Think your Kindle is harmless? Think again! In this episode, we unpack a Black Hat Europe talk revealing how a boobytrapped audiobook could exploit the Amazon eBook reader – potentially letting an attacker break into your account and seize control of your credit card. First seen on grahamcluley.com Jump to article: grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-448/
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Smashing Security podcast #448: The Kindle that got pwned
Think your Kindle is harmless? Think again! In this episode, we unpack a Black Hat Europe talk revealing how a boobytrapped audiobook could exploit the Amazon eBook reader – potentially letting an attacker break into your account and seize control of your credit card. First seen on grahamcluley.com Jump to article: grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-448/
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Senator Presses EHR Vendors on Patient Privacy Controls
Push Comes as HHS Steps Up Enforcement of Data-Sharing and Record Access Regs. A privacy-minded senator is pressuring U.S. health tech companies to give patients more control over where their patient data goes, framing the matter as a matter of national security as well as privacy. Regulators have ramped up enforcement of rules that promote…
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‘Cellik’ Android RAT Leverages Google Play Store
The remote access Trojan lets an attacker remotely control a victim’s phone and can generate malicious apps from inside the Play Store. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/cellik-android-rat-leverages-google-play-store
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Complying with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Cloud Advisory: How Tenable Can Help
Tags: access, advisory, attack, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, country, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, fintech, framework, google, governance, government, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, kubernetes, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, microsoft, mitigation, monitoring, oracle, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustThe Monetary Authority of Singapore’s cloud advisory, part of its 2021 Technology Risk Management Guidelines, advises financial institutions to move beyond siloed monitoring to adopt a continuous, enterprise-wide approach. These firms must undergo annual audits. Here’s how Tenable can help. Key takeaways: High-stakes compliance: The MAS requires all financial institutions in Singapore to meet mandatory…
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Chinese Hackers Turn Compromised Servers Into ShadowPad Nodes
A sophisticated Chinese threat actor tracked as Ink Dragon has been weaponizing a custom ShadowPad IIS Listener module to convert compromised servers into distributed relay nodes, according to research by Check Point Research. The tactic represents a significant escalation in the group’s operational capabilities, enabling attackers to establish persistent, multi-layered command-and-control infrastructure that spans victim…
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Hackers Can Seize Control of Car Dashboards Through Modem Vulnerabilities
Imagine cruising down the highway in your brand-new electric car when suddenly the multimedia display fills with Doom, the iconic 3D shooter game completely replacing your navigation map and vehicle controls. Shockingly, this isn’t science fiction. Security researchers have demonstrated that this scenario is entirely possible in today’s connected vehicles, exposing a critical vulnerability in…
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Motors WordPress Vulnerability Exposes Sites to Takeover
A critical flaw in the Motors WordPress theme affecting more than 20,000 installations allows low-privileged users to gain full control of websites First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/motors-wordpress-flaw-takeover/
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ClickFix attacks that bypass cyber controls on the rise
NCC’s monthly threat report details the growing prevalence of ClickFix attacks in the wild First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366636555/ClickFix-attacks-that-bypass-cyber-controls-on-the-rise
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The 12 Months of Innovation: How Salt Security Helped Rewrite API AI Security in 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, data, data-breach, defense, detection, email, exploit, github, governance, injection, insurance, intelligence, privacy, risk, risk-management, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, wafAs holiday lights go up and inboxes fill with year-in-review emails, it’s tempting to look back on 2025 as “the year of AI.” But for security teams, it was something more specific the year APIs, AI agents, and MCP servers collided across the API fabric, expanding the attack surface faster than most organizations could keep…
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JumpCloud agent turns uninstall into a system shortcut
Full privilege escalation and denial of service: The vulnerability opens two primary exploitation vectors with significant operational impact: full privilege escalation to system level, and denial of service (DoS).By manipulating filesystem paths and leveraging race conditions, an attacker can redirect the uninstaller’s operations to delete or overwrite protected installer configuration targets, ultimately triggering techniques that…
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JumpCloud agent turns uninstall into a system shortcut
Full privilege escalation and denial of service: The vulnerability opens two primary exploitation vectors with significant operational impact: full privilege escalation to system level, and denial of service (DoS).By manipulating filesystem paths and leveraging race conditions, an attacker can redirect the uninstaller’s operations to delete or overwrite protected installer configuration targets, ultimately triggering techniques that…
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JumpCloud agent turns uninstall into a system shortcut
Full privilege escalation and denial of service: The vulnerability opens two primary exploitation vectors with significant operational impact: full privilege escalation to system level, and denial of service (DoS).By manipulating filesystem paths and leveraging race conditions, an attacker can redirect the uninstaller’s operations to delete or overwrite protected installer configuration targets, ultimately triggering techniques that…
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BlindEagle Targets Colombian Government Agency with Caminho and DCRAT
Tags: access, attack, authentication, cloud, communications, control, cybercrime, defense, detection, dkim, dmarc, dns, email, encryption, flaw, government, group, infrastructure, injection, Internet, malicious, malware, microsoft, open-source, phishing, powershell, rat, service, spear-phishing, startup, tactics, threat, tool, update, usa, windowsIntroductionIn early September 2025, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a new spear phishing campaign attributed to BlindEagle, a threat actor who operates in South America and targets users in Spanish-speaking countries, such as Colombia. In this campaign, BlindEagle targeted a government agency under the control of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism (MCIT) in Colombia using…
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Cellik Android Malware Uses One-Click APK Builder to Hide in Play Store Apps
A newly discovered Android Remote Access Trojan (RAT) called Cellik is democratizing sophisticated mobile surveillance attacks by bundling advanced spyware capabilities with an automated tool that allows attackers to inject malicious code into legitimate Google Play Store applications seamlessly. The malware address a significant escalation in Android-targeted threats, combining complete device control, real-time surveillance, and…
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Cellik Android Malware Uses One-Click APK Builder to Hide in Play Store Apps
A newly discovered Android Remote Access Trojan (RAT) called Cellik is democratizing sophisticated mobile surveillance attacks by bundling advanced spyware capabilities with an automated tool that allows attackers to inject malicious code into legitimate Google Play Store applications seamlessly. The malware address a significant escalation in Android-targeted threats, combining complete device control, real-time surveillance, and…