Tag: control
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Poisoned truth: The quiet security threat inside enterprise AI
It takes surprisingly little poison to corrupt: Bad internal data is the immediate problem. But the external supply chain may be even harder to control.Research by Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute discovered that as few as 250 maliciously crafted documents can poison LLMs of any size.That creates a massive…
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Chrome on Android can now hide your exact location from websites
Google is improving location privacy features that give users more control over sharing their location. On Chrome for Android, users can now choose to share their approximate … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/06/google-chrome-android-hide-location/
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AWS open sources Trusted Remote Execution to control what AI agents touch
Production scripts that read a log file generally hold the same permissions as scripts that delete one. The execution context decides what gets touched, and that gap widens … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/06/aws-trusted-remote-execution-rex/
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Trellix Source Code Breach Highlights Growing Supply Chain Threats
Info is scant, but such breaches can reveal where a security product’s controls are located and how detections are designed, giving attackers a leg up. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/trellix-source-code-breach-supply-chain-threats
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CISA pushes critical infrastructure operators to prepare to work in isolation
Tags: access, attack, backup, business, ceo, cisa, control, cyber, cybersecurity, endpoint, exploit, government, incident response, infrastructure, iran, network, resilience, service, technology, threat, vpnA familiar playbook under a new name: While the framing of CI Fortify is new, the underlying concepts are not. Several experts say the initiative largely repackages long-standing practices around disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response, areas where many organizations have historically underinvested.”It looks to me like traditional business continuity planning, disaster recovery, and…
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The Back Door Attackers Know About, and Most Security Teams Still Haven’t Closed
Every AI tool, workflow automation, and productivity app your employees connected to Google or Microsoft this year left something behind: a persistent OAuth token with no expiration date, no automatic cleanup, and in most organizations, no one watching it. Your perimeter controls don’t see it. Your MFA doesn’t stop it. And when an attacker gets…
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Cerberus Stalkerware Hits Google Play, Abuses Accessibility and Firebase for Remote Control
Cerberus Anti-theft, a long-running Android “security” app, is operating as full-featured stalkerware on Google Play, abusing accessibility services and Google Firebase to give abusers near-total remote control over victims’ phones. Once installed, Cerberus lets an abuser push a custom lock”‘screen notification to the victim’s device from a web dashboard at cerberusapp.com or a paired smartwatch.…
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Stealthy malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to siphon SMS OTPs from enterprise PCs
Multi-stage infection chain: The intrusion begins with an unknown initial access vector, followed by the execution of a malicious file disguised as a ScreenConnect update, Talos said.The initial payload is a Rust-compiled loader using filenames such as “systemupdates.exe,” which drops a .NET loader disguised as a text file in a system directory, the post said.Persistence…
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CISOs step up to the security workforce challenge
Tags: ai, attack, automation, ciso, conference, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, jobs, malicious, risk, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, trainingGomez-Sanchez and Turpin are speaking at the CSO Cybersecurity Awards & Conference, May 11-13. Reserve your place. And then there’s AI. When it comes to security, AI may help partially offset cyber skills shortages by automating certain tasks, but it also ramps up cyberattack volumes and expands the organizational attack surface, without fixing CISOs’ ongoing talent…
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Attackers Exploit Amazon SES to Send Authenticated Phishing Emails
Attackers are increasingly abusing Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to deliver highly convincing phishing emails that bypass traditional security controls, marking a growing trend in email-based threats. The primary goal of any phishing campaign is to evade detection while tricking victims into revealing sensitive data. To achieve this, threat actors continuously refine their techniques, using…
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Five Eyes Sound Alarm on Autonomous AI Security Risks
Guidance Warns Autonomous Systems Expand Enterprise Exposure. Federal and Five Eyes cyber agencies warn that agentic AI systems – capable of autonomous action across enterprise environments – are introducing identity, visibility and control risks that could outpace existing defenses without continuous monitoring, zero trust enforcement and human oversight. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Hackers are mass-exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites
Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers are now targeting and hacking thousands of vulnerable websites. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/hackers-are-still-exploiting-the-cpanel-bug-to-gain-control-of-thousands-of-websites/
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Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites
Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers keep targeting and hacking websites. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/hackers-are-still-exploiting-the-cpanel-bug-to-gain-control-of-thousands-of-websites/
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Forbes preliminarily agrees to pay $10 million to settle California wiretapping lawsuit
The preliminary settlement agreement, released on Thursday, said that Forbes has agreed to give users “greater notice” of its use of trackers and will add language to its website providing California residents with more control over how their data is collected and shared with third parties. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/forbes-agrees-10-million-settlement-privacy-class-action
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The Shadow AI Governance Crisis: Why 80% of Fortune 500 Companies Have Already Lost Control of Their AI Infrastructure
80% of Fortune 500 companies now run active AI agents. Only 10% have a clear strategy to manage them. Here is what the other 90% face – and the 5-part framework that fixes it. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/05/the-shadow-ai-governance-crisis-why-80-of-fortune-500-companies-have-already-lost-control-of-their-ai-infrastructure/
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered Phishing, Android Spying Tool, Linux Exploit, GitHub RCE & More
This week, the shadows moved faster than the patches.While most teams were still triaging last month’s alerts, attackers had already turned control panels into kill switches, kernels into open doors, and open-source pipelines into silent delivery systems.The game has shifted from breach to occupation. They’re living inside SaaS sessions, pushing code with trusted commits, and…
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Local Guardrails for Secrets Security in the Age of AI Coding Assistants
Modern developer environments expose sensitive context across files, prompts, logs, and commands. Learn how layered local controls reduce secrets risk. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/05/local-guardrails-for-secrets-security-in-the-age-of-ai-coding-assistants/
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Security agencies draw red lines around agentic AI deployments
Tags: access, advisory, ai, automation, awareness, cisa, control, data, governance, injection, international, monitoring, risk, risk-management, toolContinuous monitoring with human-in-the-loop control: While the first half of the advisory focused on limiting what agents can do, the second was about watching what they actually do, reacting quickly when things go sideways.”Operators should implement continuous monitoring and auditing to maintain awareness of AI agent operation and ensure traceability for decisions and actions,” CISA…
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Cyber-Secure Philanthropy: Tech Infrastructure for Global Donations
Secure philanthropy needs hardened payments, API security, and compliance controls to protect global donations from fraud and attacks. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/cyber-secure-philanthropy-tech-infrastructure-global-donations/
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7 Key Features That Make Secure Browsers Safer
Secure Browsers boost safety with tracking blocks, fingerprint protection, session control, and real-time threat defense against modern web attacks. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/7-key-features-make-secure-browsers-safer/
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Frameworks Don’t Build Trust. Adoption Does
As AI evolves toward autonomy, the Cloud Security Alliance is launching the STAR for AI Catastrophic Risk Annex to codify auditable controls for agentic systems First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/05/frameworks-dont-build-trust-adoption-does/
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Best Oracle GRC Alternatives for Oracle E-Business Suite: Replacing AACG, CCG, TCG and PCG
Many organizations still rely on Oracle GRC Advanced Controls for Oracle E-Business Suite”, including AACG, CCG, TCG and PCG”, as the backbone of their access governance, continuous controls monitoring, and compliance efforts. That was a reasonable choice for a long time. But the world those tools were built for”, on-premise ERP, slower change cycles, and…
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Top Oracle Risk Management Cloud Alternatives for Oracle ERP Cloud in 2026
If your risk and controls strategy feels constrained by what Oracle Risk Management Cloud can do, you’re not alone. Many Oracle customers in 2026 are asking a more strategic question: What role should a Risk Management solution for Oracle ERP Cloud play in our overall risk architecture”, and where do we need something more? This…
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The fake IT worker problem CISOs can’t ignore
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, captcha, cio, ciso, compliance, computer, control, credentials, crowdstrike, data, detection, edr, endpoint, fedramp, fraud, gartner, iam, identity, jobs, linkedin, mitigation, monitoring, network, north-korea, office, phone, risk, skills, tool, training, zero-trustWhat to do if you suspect a fake IT worker: When a CIO suspects a fake IT worker, next steps are important as the issue shifts from recruitment to insider risk management.During his time at MongoDB, George Gerchow, IANS faculty advisor and Bedrock Data CSO, oversaw the investigation after the company detected it had unknowingly…
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How CISOs should utilize data security posture management to inform risk
Tags: access, ai, automation, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, data, detection, finance, iam, incident response, monitoring, open-source, remote-code-execution, risk, service, siem, software, tool, update, vulnerabilityApplying the principles at any maturity level: Whether you’re working with a full DSPM platform, a lightweight open-source scanner or even manual data inventories, CISOs can use this thinking to apply quantification (or at least an order of magnitude) to risk decisions. For example, you may have a written policy in place that a database…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in WebPros cPanel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Tags: cisa, control, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in WebPros cPanel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in Microsoft Defender, tracked as CVE-2026-41940 (CVSS score of 9.3), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. cPanel is a widely used web hosting control panel that lets…
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AI agents can bypass guardrails and put credentials at risk, Okta study finds
Phishing the agent: Why AI guardrails aren’t enough, a report on tests conducted by cloud identity and access management (IAM) company Okta Threat Intelligence, which uncovered all of the problems cited above, and more.Their research focused on OpenClaw, a model-agnostic multi-channel AI assistant which has seen explosive growth inside enterprises since appearing in late 2025.…