Tag: corporate
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Hackers Exploit Telegram for Initial Access to Corporate VPN, RDP, and Cloud Systems
Tags: access, cloud, corporate, credentials, cyber, data-breach, exploit, hacker, marketplace, network, ransomware, vpnHackers are increasingly abusing Telegram as an initial access marketplace, turning stealer logs and leaked credentials into direct entry points for corporate VPN, RDP, and cloud environments. The platform now acts as a high-speed bridge between compromised credentials and full network compromise, supporting ransomware operators, Initial Access Brokers (IABs), and hacktivist collectives. Telegram hosts popular…
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Huge “Shadow Layer” of Organizations Hit by Supply Chain Attacks
Black Kite reveals 26,000 unnamed corporate victims linked to 136 third-party breaches First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/shadow-layer-organizations-supply/
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Infostealers Drive Massive Brute-Force Attacks on Corporate SSO Gateways with Stolen Credentials
The cybersecurity community is witnessing a rise in credential”‘stuffing attacks targeting corporate Single Sign”‘On (SSO) systems, with recent campaigns focusing on F5 BIG”‘IP devices. To understand the source of the stolen logins, Defused Cyber analyzed a dataset of 70 unique email”‘password pairs used in the attack. When cross”‘referenced with Hudson Rock’s cybercrime database of Infostealer…
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5 trends that should top CISO’s RSA 2026 agendas
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, backup, business, cio, ciso, cloud, conference, control, corporate, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, finance, framework, governance, group, healthcare, identity, incident response, intelligence, network, okta, resilience, risk, saas, service, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-trustCTEM in the spotlight: In another evolutionary trend, most organizations are moving beyond scanning for software snafus to continuous threat exposure management (CTEM). By doing so, security teams hope to get a full picture of all assets, as well as their configurations, locations, software vulnerabilities, ownership, and business criticality.Armed with this data, CTEM platforms look…
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The $19.5 million insider risk problem
Routine employee activity across corporate systems carries an average annual cost of $19.5 million per organization. That figure comes from the 2026 Cost of Insider Risks … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/26/insider-risk-costs-2026/
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Steaelite RAT combines data theft and ransomware management capability in one tool
Tags: access, android, attack, authentication, awareness, business, corporate, credentials, crypto, cybercrime, data, ddos, defense, encryption, endpoint, extortion, infection, infosec, malware, mobile, monitoring, password, phishing, ransomware, rat, remote-code-execution, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsCSO that this isn’t the most sophisticated RAT he’s seen. “The novel aspect here,” he said, “is the convergence. Steaelite bundles remote access, credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and ransomware (currently in development) in a single package.” Traditionally, he explained, these capabilities have occupied different parts of the cybercrime toolchain, but Steaelite unifies the functions, giving…
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The Coming Regulatory Wave for AI Agents Their APIs
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, ciso, compliance, control, corporate, data, endpoint, finance, framework, governance, guide, infrastructure, leak, monitoring, regulation, risk, toolFor the past two years, the adoption of Generative AI has felt like a gold rush. Organizations raced to integrate Large Language Models and build autonomous agents to assist employees. They often bypassed standard governance processes in the name of speed and innovation. That era of unrestricted experimentation is rapidly drawing to a close. A…
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How Discord Can Expose Corporate Data
Discord improves collaboration, but a compromised account can expose credentials, customer data and internal plans. Learn the risks and how to reduce exposure. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/how-discord-can-expose-corporate-data/
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Modern Workplaces Demand a New Meaning for “Site” in Network Security
The Problem with the Traditional Idea of a Site For a long time, the concept of a “site” in networking and security was synonymous with a physical office. This included: a headquarters building a branch office a campus connected to the corporate network This traditional model was built on several assumptions: employees primarily worked from……
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Japanese tech giant Advantest hit by ransomware attack
Advantest Corporation disclosed that its corporate network has been targeted in a ransomware attack that may have affected customer or employee data. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/japanese-tech-giant-advantest-hit-by-ransomware-attack/
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Palo Alto Networks Moves to Secure Agentic Endpoints with Koi Deal
Palo Alto Networks has agreed to acquire Israeli startup Koi Security, marking a timely strategic push to confront the risks of AI agents operating inside corporate systems with broad access to data yet limited oversight. Palo Alto Networks plans to integrate Koi’s technology, known as Agentic Endpoint Security, into its Prisma AIRS AI security platform..…
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Microsoft Patches Security Flaw That Exposed Confidential Emails to AI
Microsoft Corp. confirmed it is addressing a significant security lapse that allowed its Copilot AI to bypass privacy protections and summarize users’ confidential emails without authorization. The bug, which has persisted since late January, effectively ignored data loss prevention (DLP) protocols designed to keep sensitive corporate information out of the reach of large language models..…
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Microsoft Patches Security Flaw That Exposed Confidential Emails to AI
Microsoft Corp. confirmed it is addressing a significant security lapse that allowed its Copilot AI to bypass privacy protections and summarize users’ confidential emails without authorization. The bug, which has persisted since late January, effectively ignored data loss prevention (DLP) protocols designed to keep sensitive corporate information out of the reach of large language models..…
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Cybercrime Goes Corporate: Huntress Report Reveals Rise of Scalable, Stealth-First Attacks
Cybercriminals are no longer lone hackers exploiting flashy zero-days; they are running streamlined, profit-driven operations that mirror legitimate businesses. That’s the key takeaway from the newly released Huntress 2026 Cyber Threat Report, which exposes how organised cybercrime groups are standardising their playbooks to maximise efficiency and revenue. Drawing on telemetry from more than 4.6 million…
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From Shadow APIs to Shadow AI: How the API Threat Model Is Expanding Faster Than Most Defenses
The shadow technology problem is getting worse. Over the past few years, organizations have scaled microservices, cloud-native apps, and partner integrations faster than corporate governance models could keep up, resulting in undocumented or shadow APIs. We’re now seeing this pattern all over again with AI systems. And, even worse, AI introduces non-deterministic behavior, autonomous actions,…
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Critical Ivanti EPMM Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild, Targeting Corporate Networks
Tags: control, corporate, cve, cyber, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, ivanti, mobile, network, remote-code-execution, vulnerability, zero-dayTwo critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), tracked as CVE-2026-1281 and CVE-2026-1340, are being actively exploited to compromise enterprise mobile fleets and corporate networks. Both are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated attackers to run arbitrary commands on exposed EPMM servers, effectively giving them full control of the mobile device…
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AI in the Middle: Turning Web-Based AI Services into C2 Proxies The Future Of AI Driven Attacks
ey Points Introduction AI is rapidly becoming embedded in day-to-day enterprise workflows, inside browsers, collaboration suites, and developer tooling. As a result, AI service domains increasingly blend into normal corporate traffic, often allowed by default and rarely treated as sensitive egress. Threat actors are already capitalizing on this shift. Across the malware ecosystem, AI is…
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EU Parliament Suspends AI Integration on Corporate Devices Over Cybersecurity Fears
The European Parliament has taken a precautionary step by disabling built-in artificial intelligence features on work devices issued to lawmakers and staff members, citing unresolved cybersecurity and data protection risks. The decision follows an internal IT security assessment that identified potential vulnerabilities in how AI-powered tools handle sensitive information. According to an internal communication from the Parliament’s…
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Finding a common language around risk
Tags: ceo, cio, ciso, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, framework, governance, guide, intelligence, lessons-learned, metric, monitoring, phishing, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, updateBuilding one culture from three languages: The Organizational Risk Culture Standard (ORCS) offers something most frameworks miss: it treats culture as the foundation, not the afterthought. You can’t bolt culture onto existing processes and call it done. Culture is how people actually think about risk when no one is watching. It’s the shared beliefs that…
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Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree
Tags: corporateDRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/memory_pc_rush/
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‘Crazy’ Hackers Strike Through Remote Monitoring Software
VoidCrypt Ransomware Variant Taps RMM Tools, Says Huntress. Management isn’t the only advocate for employee monitoring software, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Huntress. RMM tools – simultaneously open to remote connections and with privileged local access – are good for wiggling into corporate networks. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/crazy-hackers-strike-through-remote-monitoring-software-a-30759
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Corporate AI Use Shifts from Hypothetical Risk to Everyday Reality, New Research Shows
Organisations are now deploying AI as a routine part of everyday work, far beyond pilot projects and theoretical risk debates, according to a new January snapshot of real-world usage data released by CultureAI this week. The research highlights how AI is being used in ordinary workflows and reveals the emerging patterns that are generating the…
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What CISOs need to know about the OpenClaw security nightmare
OpenClaw exposes enterprise security gaps: The first big lesson of this whole OpenClaw situation is that enterprises need to do more to get their security fundamentals in place. Because if there are any gaps, anywhere at all, they will now be found and exploited at an unprecedented pace. In the case of OpenClaw, that means…
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OpenClaw Scanner: Open-source tool detects autonomous AI agents
A new free, open source tool is available to help organizations detect where autonomous AI agents are operating across corporate environments. The OpenClaw Scanner identifies … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/12/openclaw-scanner-open-source-tool-detects-autonomous-ai-agents/
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Cybercriminals Exploit Employee Monitoring and SimpleHelp Tools in Ransomware Attacks
Tags: attack, control, corporate, cyber, cybercrime, exploit, monitoring, network, ransomware, threat, toolThreat actors are abusing legitimate remote monitoring tools to hide inside corporate networks and launch ransomware attacks. Net Monitor for Employees Professional is a commercial workforce monitoring tool by NetworkLookout that offers remote screen viewing, full remote control, file management, shell command execution, and stealth deployment. While intended for productivity oversight, these rich administrative capabilities make it…
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Digital Hygiene for High-Profile Individuals
Nisos Digital Hygiene for High-Profile Individuals Digital vulnerability isn’t limited to corporate executives. Any individual with a public profile faces similar – and sometimes even greater – digital exposure risks… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/digital-hygiene-for-high-profile-individuals/