Tag: control
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Is the CISO chair becoming a revolving door?
Tags: ai, automation, breach, business, ciso, cloud, control, cybersecurity, framework, governance, jobs, risk, skills, threatIs the stress worth the sacrifice?: For others in the CISO role, including Fullpath CISO Shahar Geiger Maor, the issue is less about boredom and more about the constant strain. “At any time there may be a breach. You live under the assumption that something is going to go wrong, and it’s very stressful,” he…
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CISA Issues Alert on Active Exploitation of Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Flaw
Tags: access, cisa, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, microsoft, vulnerability, windowsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of active exploitation of a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Known as CVE-2021-43226, this flaw resides in the Common Log File System (CLFS) driver. Attackers who gain local access can bypass security controls and elevate their privileges, potentially leading to full system compromise. Background…
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CISA Issues Alert on Active Exploitation of Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Flaw
Tags: access, cisa, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, microsoft, vulnerability, windowsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned of active exploitation of a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. Known as CVE-2021-43226, this flaw resides in the Common Log File System (CLFS) driver. Attackers who gain local access can bypass security controls and elevate their privileges, potentially leading to full system compromise. Background…
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Mustang Panda Adopts New DLL Side-Loading Method to Deploy Malware
The sophisticated China-linked threat actor Mustang Panda has refined its cyber espionage arsenal with an advanced DLL side-loading technique specifically targeting the Tibetan community, according to recent analysis of a campaign first identified by IBM’s X-Force in June 2025. This politically motivated operation demonstrates how threat actors continuously evolve their obfuscation methods to bypass security controls and…
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Mustang Panda Adopts New DLL Side-Loading Method to Deploy Malware
The sophisticated China-linked threat actor Mustang Panda has refined its cyber espionage arsenal with an advanced DLL side-loading technique specifically targeting the Tibetan community, according to recent analysis of a campaign first identified by IBM’s X-Force in June 2025. This politically motivated operation demonstrates how threat actors continuously evolve their obfuscation methods to bypass security controls and…
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13-Year-Old Redis RCE Flaw Lets Attackers Seize Complete Host Control
Tags: control, cve, cvss, cyber, cybersecurity, data, flaw, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA remote code execution vulnerability discovered in Redis, the widely-used in-memory data structure store, has sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity community. The flaw, designated CVE-2025-49844 and dubbed >>RediShell
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TDL 006 – Beyond the Firewall: How Attackers Weaponize Your DNS
Tags: access, attack, breach, business, cisa, ciso, computer, conference, control, cyber, data, data-breach, dns, exploit, firewall, google, government, group, guide, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iraq, jobs, leak, malicious, malware, network, phishing, ransomware, service, software, switch, threat, tool, windowsSummary Beyond the Firewall: How Attackers Weaponize Your DNS For many IT professionals, DNS is the internet’s invisible plumbing, historically managed by a “guy with a Unix beard in the basement,” as Infoblox educator Josh Kuo recalled on the Defenders Log podcast. But this foundational, often overlooked, protocol has become a primary vector for sophisticated…
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Defending Manufacturing from Cyber Attacks with AI-Driven Security
How Seceon’s OTM Platform Protects the Digital Factory Cybersecurity has become the new backbone of modern manufacturing.With smart factories, IoT devices, robotics, and cloud systems connecting every part of the production chain, manufacturers now face unprecedented exposure to cyberattacks. The results can be devastating, halting assembly lines, corrupting industrial controls, or leaking valuable IP. First…
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Defending Manufacturing from Cyber Attacks with AI-Driven Security
How Seceon’s OTM Platform Protects the Digital Factory Cybersecurity has become the new backbone of modern manufacturing.With smart factories, IoT devices, robotics, and cloud systems connecting every part of the production chain, manufacturers now face unprecedented exposure to cyberattacks. The results can be devastating, halting assembly lines, corrupting industrial controls, or leaking valuable IP. First…
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Ghosts in the Machine: ASCII Smuggling across Various LLMs FireTail Blog
Oct 06, 2025 – Alan Fagan – Operationalizing Defense The key to catching ASCII Smuggling is monitoring the raw input payload, the exact string the LLM tokenization engine receives, not just the visible text. Ingestion: FireTail continuously records LLM activity logs from all your integrated platforms. Analysis: Our platform analyzes the raw payload data for…
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DevOps Days Philadelphia 2025: Security As A Control Loop, Resilience, Runtime Risks, And How AI Is Changing It
DevOpsDays Philadelphia 2025 showed how AI governance, secrets security, runtime traces, and ablative resilience work together to reduce operational risk. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/devops-days-philadelphia-2025-security-as-a-control-loop-resilience-runtime-risks-and-how-ai-is-changing-it/
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Signal calls on Germany to vote against ‘Chat Control,’ saying it would leave EU market
The head of the Signal Foundation raised concerns around Germany now refusing to say whether it will support Chat Control in an upcoming vote. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/signal-calls-on-germany-to-vote-no-chat-control
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How Exposure Management Helped Three Companies Transform Their Cybersecurity Program
Tags: application-security, attack, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, identity, infrastructure, iot, law, risk, software, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementPart two of our Exposure Management Academy series on exposure management maturity explores how organizations like Drogaria Araujo, Tenable and Verizon have applied exposure management to strengthen their security postures. Key takeaways: Case studies of Drogaria Araujo, Tenable and Verizon illustrate how exposure management provides tangible benefits to organizations of different sizes and security maturity…
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Cloud Monitor Provides Affordable Visibility and Control at Western Reserve Academy
Western Reserve Academy Balances Security and Privacy in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 Western Reserve Academy is an independent boarding and day school in Hudson, Ohio that prides itself on providing a top-tier learning environment supported by modern technology. Matt Gerber, Chief Information Officer, and Brian Schwartz, Director of Network Administration, lead the school’s technology…
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New ‘Fully Undetectable’ Android RAT Discovered on GitHub
Hosted at the repository “Huckel789/Android-RAT,” this fully undetectable (FUD) RAT is designed to evade antivirus detection permanently, maintain persistence in battery-optimized environments, and deliver a feature-rich command-and-control (C2C) experience entirely from a web interface. This Android RAT sets itself apart by eliminating the traditional requirement for a desktop or laptop in the attack chain. A…
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Security leaders at Okta and Zscaler share lessons from Salesloft Drift attacks
Okta thwarted the supply-chain attack with security controls it had in place. Zscaler did not. Their experiences provide insights into the root of a much broader problem. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/okta-zscaler-security-leaders-salesloft-drift-attacks/
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Ransomware Gangs Exploit Remote Access Tools to Stay Hidden and Maintain Control
Modern ransomware operations have evolved far beyond simple opportunistic attacks into sophisticated, multi-stage campaigns that exploit legitimate Remote Access Tools (RATs) to maintain stealth and persistence while systematically dismantling organizational defenses. Ransomware is one of the most disruptive cyber threats, encrypting critical organizational data and demanding ransom payments for restoration. While early campaigns relied on…
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CISOs rethink the security organization for the AI era
Jill Knesek, CISO, BlackLine BlackLineEchoing Oleksak, Knesek says she feels strongly about utilizing traditional security and having the right controls in place. Getting foundational security right will get you a long way, she says.’Then, as you learn about more sophisticated attacks “¦ we’ll have to pivot our tooling and capabilities to those risks.” For now,…
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CISOs rethink the security organization for the AI era
Jill Knesek, CISO, BlackLine BlackLineEchoing Oleksak, Knesek says she feels strongly about utilizing traditional security and having the right controls in place. Getting foundational security right will get you a long way, she says.’Then, as you learn about more sophisticated attacks “¦ we’ll have to pivot our tooling and capabilities to those risks.” For now,…
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Hackers Turn AWS X-Ray into Command-and-Control Platform
Tags: cloud, control, cyber, framework, hacker, infrastructure, monitoring, network, RedTeam, serviceRed team researchers have unveiled XRayC2, a sophisticated command-and-control framework that weaponizes Amazon Web Services’ X-Ray distributed application tracing service to establish covert communication channels. This innovative technique demonstrates how attackers can abuse legitimate cloud monitoring infrastructure to bypass traditional network security controls. Diagram explaining command and control (C2) servers used by attackers to control…
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Oracle Rushes Patch for CVE-2025-61882 After Cl0p Exploited It in Data Theft Attacks
Oracle has released an emergency update to address a critical security flaw in its E-Business Suite that it said has been exploited in the recent wave of Cl0p data theft attacks.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-61882 (CVSS score: 9.8), concerns an unspecified bug that could allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise…
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Ghost in the Cloud: Weaponizing AWS X-Ray for Command Control
Attackers can weaponize AWS X-Ray as a covert bidirectional C2 channel, abusing legitimate cloud tracing infrastructure for C2. Summary & Background: Before we get started, if you haven’t had a chance to read my MeetC2 log post yet, do give a read. I’ve been using MeetC2 in my RedTeam campaigns for months now, and with the…
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New Obex Tools Blocks Runtime Loading of EDR Dynamic Libraries
Obex, a newly released proof-of-concept utility by security researcher dis0rder0x00, demonstrates a simple but effective user-mode method to stop unwanted security and monitoring modules from loading into Windows processes. The tool launches a target process under debugger control and enforces a configurable DLL blocklist, preventing both startup and runtime loads of designated libraries. A demonstration…
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Descope Gets $35M for AI Agent Identity Controls, Governance
Identity Security Vendor to Expand AI Governance Tools Including MCP Server Defense. Descope raised $35 million to expand its agentic identity hub and MCP authorization capabilities. As enterprises adopt AI, CISOs demand granular governance, auditing and secure identity frameworks for nonhuman agents. Descope aims to lead this emerging space. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Descope Gets $35M for AI Agent Identity Controls, Governance
Identity Security Vendor to Expand AI Governance Tools Including MCP Server Defense. Descope raised $35 million to expand its agentic identity hub and MCP authorization capabilities. As enterprises adopt AI, CISOs demand granular governance, auditing and secure identity frameworks for nonhuman agents. Descope aims to lead this emerging space. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Shadow AI is the new shadow IT: Why a SaaS-first approach wins
Shadow AI is just the latest form of shadow IT. Learn why a SaaS-first security approach gives you the visibility and control to manage AI risks at scale. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/shadow-ai-is-the-new-shadow-it-why-a-saas-first-approach-wins/
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Disaster recovery and business continuity: How to create an effective plan
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, backup, business, cloud, container, control, cyberattack, data, detection, email, gartner, identity, ransomware, risk, saas, security-incident, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, vulnerabilityStep 2: Identify risk, and locate all your data: Identifying risk in a large, distributed enterprise is a complex task. Risks are everywhere, starting with cyberattacks (including insider attacks), and encompass human error, system failures (hardware, software, network), natural disasters, and third-party vulnerabilities associated with supply chains, cloud service providers, and SaaS providers.When Forrester asked…
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Disaster recovery and business continuity: How to create an effective plan
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, backup, business, cloud, container, control, cyberattack, data, detection, email, gartner, identity, ransomware, risk, saas, security-incident, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, vulnerabilityStep 2: Identify risk, and locate all your data: Identifying risk in a large, distributed enterprise is a complex task. Risks are everywhere, starting with cyberattacks (including insider attacks), and encompass human error, system failures (hardware, software, network), natural disasters, and third-party vulnerabilities associated with supply chains, cloud service providers, and SaaS providers.When Forrester asked…