Tag: control
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Malware Campaign Abuses Booking.com Against Hospitality Sector
Securonix is detailing a multi-stage campaign that starts with a bogus Booking.com message that runs through a ClickFix technique and a fake Blue Screen of Death before dropping the DCRat malware that gives the attackers full remote control of the victim’s system. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/malware-campaign-abuses-booking-com-against-hospitality-sector/
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How the Organizational Risk Culture Standard can supercharge your cybersecurity culture
Tags: automation, ceo, communications, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, finance, framework, group, guide, intelligence, law, metric, nist, phishing, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, tool, updateThe 10 dimensions, translated for cybersecurity: The ORCS framework defines ten dimensions. Treat them as a system. Each one is distinct; together they are complete. Leadership & governance. Leaders set the tone, model the behavior and anchor accountability. If leaders treat cyber as only an IT issue, everyone else will, too. When leaders make risk-informed…
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Attackers Leverage FortiWeb Vulnerabilities to Deploy Sliver C2 for Long-Term Access
Threat researchers have uncovered a sophisticated attack campaign targeting FortiWeb web application firewalls across multiple continents, with adversaries deploying the Sliver command-and-control framework to establish persistent access and establish covert proxy infrastructure. The discovery came from analyzing exposed Silver C2 databases and logs found during routine open-directory threat hunting on Censys, revealing a well-orchestrated operation…
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President Trump blocks $2.9M Emcore chip sale over security concerns
Trump ordered the divestment of a $2.9M chip deal, citing U.S. national security risks if HieFo retained control of Emcore ‘s technology. President Trump ordered the divestment of a $2.9 million chips deal, citing national security risks tied to HieFo Corp.’s control of Emcore ‘s chip technology. HieFo (short for High Efficiency Photonics) is a…
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Single-Tenant vs Multi-Tenant FedRAMP Deployments
Across the ecosystem of federal contractors, a majority of deployments tend to be relatively standard. 80% of them will be FedRAMP impact level Moderate, for example, and most will have a standard set of considerations and concerns, such that a lot of security controls can be automated. It’s those outliers that make FedRAMP challenging. When……
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NDSS 2025 DLBox: New Model Training Framework For Protecting Training Data
Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jaewon Hur (Seoul National University), Juheon Yi (Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK), Cheolwoo Myung (Seoul National University), Sangyun Kim (Seoul National University), Youngki Lee (Seoul National University), Byoungyoung Lee (Seoul National University) PAPER DLBox: New Model Training Framework For Protecting Training Data Sharing training data for deep…
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Are investments in Privileged Access Management justified by results
Are PAM Investments Justified in the Realm of Non-Human Identities? What makes investing in Privileged Access Management (PAM) truly worthwhile when we focus on the management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs)? While we navigate intricate cybersecurity, ensuring robust access controls has become imperative. The stakes are particularly high in industries such as financial services, healthcare, and……
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Predictions for 2026: AI Attack Acceleration, Automated Remediation, Custom-Made AI Security Tools, Machine Identity Threats, and More
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, computer, conference, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, governance, group, identity, intelligence, mitigation, risk, service, threat, tool, zero-dayIn this special edition, Tenable leaders forecast key 2026 trends, including: AI will make attacks more plentiful and less costly; machine identities will become the top cloud risk; preemptive cloud and exposure management will dethrone runtime detection; and automated remediation gets the go-ahead. Key takeaways AI will supercharge the speed and volume of traditional cyber…
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Critical Flaw Puts WHILL Electric Wheelchairs at Risk of Hijacking
A critical Bluetooth flaw could allow nearby attackers to remotely control WHILL electric wheelchairs, posing serious safety risks. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/critical-flaw-puts-whill-electric-wheelchairs-at-risk-of-hijacking/
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RondoDoX Botnet Abuses React2Shell Vulnerability for Malware Deployment
Tags: attack, botnet, control, cyber, data-breach, exploit, infrastructure, iot, malware, threat, vulnerabilityCloudSEK has uncovered a sustained nine-month campaign by the RondoDoX botnet operation, revealing rapid exploitation of emerging vulnerabilities including the critical React2Shell vulnerability. Analysis of exposed command-and-control logs spanning March through December 2025 demonstrates how threat actors swiftly adapted attack infrastructure following public disclosure, pivoting from traditional IoT targets to weaponizing Next.js applications within days…
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Transparent Tribe Launches New RAT Attacks Against Indian Government and Academia
The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting Indian governmental, academic, and strategic entities with a remote access trojan (RAT) that grants them persistent control over compromised hosts.”The campaign employs deceptive delivery techniques, including a weaponized Windows shortcut (LNK) file masquerading as a legitimate PDF document…
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Transparent Tribe Launches New RAT Attacks Against Indian Government and Academia
The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting Indian governmental, academic, and strategic entities with a remote access trojan (RAT) that grants them persistent control over compromised hosts.”The campaign employs deceptive delivery techniques, including a weaponized Windows shortcut (LNK) file masquerading as a legitimate PDF document…
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Transparent Tribe Launches New RAT Attacks Against Indian Government and Academia
The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting Indian governmental, academic, and strategic entities with a remote access trojan (RAT) that grants them persistent control over compromised hosts.”The campaign employs deceptive delivery techniques, including a weaponized Windows shortcut (LNK) file masquerading as a legitimate PDF document…
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From experiment to production, AI settles into embedded software development
AI-generated code is already running inside devices that control power grids, medical equipment, vehicles, and industrial plants. AI moves from experiment to production AI … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/01/02/ai-embedded-systems-development/
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How Webflow Helps Companies Move Faster Without Sacrificing Brand Control
Tags: controlConventional development frequently results in a trade-off between speed and brand consistency, which harms reputation by causing delays… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/webflow-companies-sacrificing-brand-control/
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Granular attribute-based access control for context window injections
Learn how granular attribute-based access control (ABAC) prevents context window injections in AI infrastructure using quantum-resistant security and MCP. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/granular-attribute-based-access-control-for-context-window-injections/
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Critical vulnerability in IBM API Connect could allow authentication bypass
Tags: api, authentication, control, exploit, flaw, governance, ibm, mitigation, monitoring, radius, resilience, service, software, update, vmware, vulnerabilityInterim fixes provided: IBM said that the issue was discovered during internal testing, and it has provided interim fixes for each affected version of the software, with individual update details for VMware, OCP/CP4I, and Kubernetes.The only mitigation suggested for the flaw, according to IBM’s security bulletin, is this: “Customers unable to install the interim fix…
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Critical Apache StreamPipes Flaw Allows Attackers to Take Over Admin Accounts
Apache StreamPipes has released an urgent security advisory addressing CVE-2025-47411, a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting versions 0.69.0 through 0.97.0. The flaw allows attackers with legitimate non-administrator accounts to exploit the user ID creation mechanism and hijack administrator credentials, gaining full control over the streaming data platform. The Vulnerability The vulnerability stems from improper handling…
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Equifax Europe CISO: Notorious breach spurred cybersecurity transformation
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computer, control, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, dora, espionage, finance, framework, google, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, network, nis-2, phishing, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, strategy, technology, threat, updateCloud as a new technological axis: Equifax’s $3 billion migration to the cloud, “which had been brewing for about seven years” and which the company says is the largest technological investment in its history, has involved moving more than 300 systems, over 30 product families, and thousands of customers to the company’s cloud platform, Equifax Cloud, in Spain…
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What consumers expect from data security
Security teams spend years building controls around data protection, then a survey asks consumers a simple question about responsibility and the answer lands close to home. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/31/siia-consumer-data-security-report/
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U.S. Treasury Lifts Sanctions on Three Individuals Linked to Intellexa and Predator Spyware
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday removed three individuals linked to the Intellexa Consortium, the holding company behind a commercial spyware known as Predator, from the specially designated nationals list.The names of the individuals are as follows -Merom HarpazAndrea Nicola Constantino Hermes GambazziSara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou First…
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New Open-Source C2 Framework AdaptixC2 Debuts With Improved Stability and Speed
The open-source community has received a major update with the release of AdaptixC2 Version 1.0. This new version brings significant enhancements to the Command and Control (C2) framework, with a focus on network stability, user interface (UI) performance, and operational speed. The most notable technical improvement in Version 1.0 is the complete overhaul of the…
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Zero-day vulnerabilities: what they are and how to respond
Zero-day vulnerabilities often attract attention and concern because of their unpredictability. They are, by definition, weaknesses that are unknown to software vendors and therefore have no official fix at the point of discovery. When discovered and exploited by malicious actors, they allow attackers to bypass controls before organisations even realise there is a problem. The”¦…
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Top 5 real-world AI security threats revealed in 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, chatgpt, cloud, control, credentials, cybercrime, data, data-breach, defense, email, exploit, flaw, framework, github, gitlab, google, injection, least-privilege, LLM, malicious, malware, microsoft, nvidia, open-source, openai, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, service, software, supply-chain, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilityA critical remote code execution (RCE) in open-source AI agent framework Langflow that was also exploited in the wildAn RCE flaw in OpenAI’s Codex CLIVulnerabilities in NVIDIA Triton Inference ServerRCE vulnerabilities in major AI inference server frameworks, including those from Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open-source projects such as vLLM and SGLangVulnerabilities in open-source compute framework…
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NDSS 2025 CounterSEVeillance: Performance-Counter Attacks On AMD SEV-SNP
Tags: attack, conference, control, data-breach, exploit, germany, Hardware, Internet, leak, malicious, network, oracle, side-channelSession 7B: Trusted Hardware and Execution Authors, Creators & Presenters: Stefan Gast (Graz University of Technology), Hannes Weissteiner (Graz University of Technology), Robin Leander Schröder (Fraunhofer SIT, Darmstadt, Germany and Fraunhofer Austria, Vienna, Austria), Daniel Gruss (Graz University of Technology) – PAPER CounterSEVeillance: Performance-Counter Attacks On AMD SEV-SNP Confidential virtual machines (VMs) promise higher security…
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TDL 012 – The Architect of the Internet on the Future of Trust
Summary In this episode of The Defenders Log, Paul Mockapetris, the architect of DNS, discusses the evolving role of the Domain Name System from a simple directory to a sophisticated security tool. He posits that modern networking requires “making sure DNS doesn’t work when you don’t want it to,” comparing DNS filtering to essential services…
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Unpatched FortiGate Security Flaw Allows Attackers to Bypass 2FA Controls
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiGate devices enables threat actors to circumvent two-factor authentication (2FA) protections through case-sensitive username manipulation. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-12812, affects organizations with specific LDAP integration configurations and remains exploitable on unpatched systems. The vulnerability stems from FortiGate’s default case-sensitive username handling conflicting with LDAP directories that treat usernames…
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CERN: how does the international research institution manage risk?
Tags: access, ai, business, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, framework, governance, group, international, iot, LLM, network, risk, service, strategy, technology, toolStefan Lüders and Tim Bell of CERN. CERNEmploying proprietary technology can introduce risks, according to Tim Bell, leader of CERN’s IT governance, risk and compliance section, who is responsible for business continuity and disaster recovery. “If you’re a visitor to a university, you’ll want to bring your laptop and use it at CERN. We can’t…

