Tag: control
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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…
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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…
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Anthropic Claude Mythos Will Break Vulnerability Management
Tags: access, ai, attack, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, metric, risk, software, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAnthropic’s latest AI Model, Claude Mythos, will break the cybersecurity vulnerability management operational models. Mythos is so good at discovering and building viable exploits it is currently being rolled-out in a controlled manner under “Project Glasswing”. Those cybersecurity companies who have early access are attesting to the blazing speed and accuracy of the model…
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Anthropic Claude Mythos Will Break Vulnerability Management
Tags: access, ai, attack, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, metric, risk, software, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAnthropic’s latest AI Model, Claude Mythos, will break the cybersecurity vulnerability management operational models. Mythos is so good at discovering and building viable exploits it is currently being rolled-out in a controlled manner under “Project Glasswing”. Those cybersecurity companies who have early access are attesting to the blazing speed and accuracy of the model…
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The Engagement Ratchet: How YouTube, Instagram, and Amazon Trained Users to Accept Less Control
Tags: control<div cla Earlier this year, YouTube began rolling out a row of algorithmically recommended videos at the top of the Subscriptions page. The section, labeled “most relevant,” surfaces content the algorithm predicts the user will engage with, pulled from channels the user already follows. The subscription feed still exists below it. But the default view,…
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The Engagement Ratchet: How YouTube, Instagram, and Amazon Trained Users to Accept Less Control
Tags: control<div cla Earlier this year, YouTube began rolling out a row of algorithmically recommended videos at the top of the Subscriptions page. The section, labeled “most relevant,” surfaces content the algorithm predicts the user will engage with, pulled from channels the user already follows. The subscription feed still exists below it. But the default view,…
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TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
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TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
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Nearly 4K industrial control devices vulnerable to Iran-linked hacking campaign
A research firm tallied the internet-exposed devices Iran is targeting and recommended mitigations for any infrastructure operator using them. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-infrastucture-plcs-iran-hacking-censys/817209/
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Nearly 4,000 industrial control devices vulnerable to Iran-linked hacking campaign
A research firm tallied the internet-exposed devices Iran is targeting and recommended mitigations for any infrastructure operator using them. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-infrastucture-plcs-iran-hacking-censys/817209/
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Nearly 4,000 industrial control devices vulnerable to Iran-linked hacking campaign
A research firm tallied the internet-exposed devices Iran is targeting and recommended mitigations for any infrastructure operator using them. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-infrastucture-plcs-iran-hacking-censys/817209/
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Can Anthropic Keep Its Exploit-Writing AI Out of the Wrong Hands?
Its Mythos Preview model, which can allegedly find and exploit critical zero-days, also comes with certain controls, the vendor said. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/anthropic-exploit-writing-mythos-ai-safe
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Why most zero-trust architectures fail at the traffic layer
Why the traffic layer is the real enforcement point: Security programs often succeed at defining policies. They struggle with enforcing them consistently.The traffic layer is where enforcement becomes real.From a leadership perspective, this is not a tooling problem. It is an architectural one.Principles from the Cloud Security Alliance emphasize placing controls at ingress. What works…
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CMMC compliance in the age of AI
Tags: access, ai, automation, awareness, business, compliance, control, data, detection, email, governance, government, grc, metric, risk, tool, trainingThe primary readiness gap: data scope awareness: Central to preparation is gaining a complete understanding of the data subject to CMMC 2.0 controls. Many organizations are still struggling to define the full scope of systems, workflows and third-party relationships that process or store CUI. When contractors conduct detailed CMMC-focused data inventories, it’s common that they’ll…
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TP-Link Devices at Risk as Multiple Security Flaws Enable Takeover
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered five significant security vulnerabilities in the TP-Link Archer AX53 v1.0 router. If left unpatched, these critical flaws could allow attackers to take full control of the device, steal sensitive network data, and compromise connected systems. Because routers serve as the primary gateway for all internet traffic, compromising this device gives attackers…
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I Gave 4 AI Agents a Corporate Bank Account. Here’s How I Stopped Them From Draining It.
A technical build log of the Multi-Agent Control Room, where AI agents pay invoices, escalate denials, and every action is identity-governed through OPA policies, RFC 8693 delegation tokens, and the Maverics AI Identity Gateway. Four AI agents share a corporate bank account with spending limits from $0 to $500K, enforced by OPA Rego policies evaluated……
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What to Know About CyberAv3ngers: The IRGC-Linked Group Targeting Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, authentication, automation, backup, cctv, chatgpt, cisa, communications, compliance, control, credentials, crypto, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, dns, email, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, government, group, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, iot, iran, kev, leak, linux, malicious, malware, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, network, office, openai, password, radius, resilience, risk, router, service, siem, software, strategy, switch, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAn Iran-affiliated threat group has evolved from defacing water utility displays to deploying custom ICS malware and exploiting Rockwell Automation PLCs across multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors. Key takeaways: CyberAv3ngers is a state-directed threat group operating under Iran’s IRGC Cyber-Electronic Command. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned six named officials in February 2024 and the State Department…
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Hackers have been exploiting an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability for months
Tags: access, adobe, attack, ciso, control, data, email, exploit, hacker, incident response, malicious, malware, monitoring, resilience, risk, sans, software, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityA high risk exploit: Kellman Meghu, chief technology officer at Canadian incident response firm DeepCove Security, called the exploit “a very high risk.”So far it looks as though this particular malware just exfiltrates data, he said. But it implies there is an ability or capability to turn it into a vehicle for remote code execution.…
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Who Controls AI on Battlefields – the Military or the Model?
Former DoD CIO Beavers on Ethics, Reliability and AI as a National Security Tool. As AI is increasingly used in defense operations, a critical question emerges: Who controls the system – the military or the model? Former DoD CIO Leslie Beavers explores challenges related to ethics and reliability, vendor risk, and autonomy as AI tools…
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Bug Management in the Mythos Era: ‘Assume You’re Unpatched’
Start Here: Strong Monitoring, Behavior-Based Controls, Virtual Patching Thanks to Anthropic’s Mythos presaging a world in which zero-day exploits are common, one cybersecurity expert says the new mantra is this: assume you are unpatched. Vendors and customers must focus more than ever on strong monitoring, behavior-based controls and virtual patching. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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In-Memory Loader Drops ScreenConnect
IntroductionIn February 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered an attack chain where attackers used a fake Adobe Acrobat Reader download to lure victims into installing ConnectWise’s ScreenConnect. While ScreenConnect is a legitimate remote access tool, it can be leveraged for malicious purposes. In this blog post, ThreatLabz examines the various stages of this attack, from the download lure to the…
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Claude Managed Agents bring execution and control to AI agent workflows
Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents are a suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale, handling sandboxed code execution, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/09/claude-managed-agents-bring-execution-and-control-to-ai-agent-workflows/
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Cryptocurrency ATM giant Bitcoin Depot reports $3.6 million stolen in cyberattack
Bitcoin Depot filed a notice with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) explaining that a threat actor “gained access to certain systems and obtained control of credentials associated with the company’s digital asset settlement accounts.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/crypto-atm-bitcoin-depot-reports-cyberattack