Tag: cyber
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Trump Bans Anthropic AI in Federal Agencies Amid Growing Security Concerns
The United States government has taken a massive step by banning federal agencies from using Anthropic, a domestic AI company known for its model, Claude. For the first time, a U.S. firm has been classified as a supply chain risk to national security, a label usually given to foreign companies like Huawei. President Donald Trump…
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Senate Health Cyber Bill Clears Committee Hurdle
Bipartisan Bill Would Mandate Multifactor Authentication, Pen Testing. Proposed legislation that’s been kicking around Congress for the last few years that aims to help bolster cybersecurity of the healthcare sector cleared a critical hurdle on Thursday. But will the bill gain enough momentum to pass the full Senate, the House and be signed into law?…
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Cities Hosting Major Events Need More Focus on Wireless, Drone Defense
Major events like the FIFA World Cup need to look beyond traditional physical and cyber security to active and passive wireless threats, say experts. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/cities-major-events-wireless-drone-defense
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CISA Leadership Shakeup Amid DHS Shutdown
US Cyber Defense Agency Switches Acting Director Amid Shutdown Turmoil. The U.S. cyber defense agency is going through a major leadership shakeup – again – following months of staffing turnover, budget cuts and shutdowns. Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala is moving into a senior strategy role at the Department of Homeland Security, of which CISA is…
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Catch FireTail at RSAC 2026 FireTail Blog
Feb 27, 2026 – Alan Fagan – RSA Conference is fast approaching, and the FireTail team is packing our bags for San Francisco! We are thrilled to announce that we’ll be exhibiting at the Early Stage Expo (Booth ESE-52) this year.Whether you’re looking to secure your enterprise AI initiatives, grab some great swag, or talk…
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Operationalizing Risk: Automating Cyber Risk Processes
<div cla Modern organizations operate in environments where cyber risks evolve daily, cloud infrastructure changes continuously, and compliance expectations intensify across jurisdictions. In this environment, traditional risk management that relies on staticrisk assessments and manual effort is no longer sufficient. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/operationalizing-risk-automating-cyber-risk-processes/
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The Cyber Express Weekly Roundup: Space Security, Malware Regulatory Alerts
In this week’s edition of The Cyber Express weekly roundup, some interesting news and cybersecurity stories share an interesting shift in the cyber domain. Critical developments span space cybersecurity, AI vulnerabilities, mobile malware, and global regulatory enforcement, highlighting how digital threats are becoming more sophisticated and interconnected. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/tce-weekly-roundup-cybersecurity-updates/
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Researchers Unveil Aeternum C2 Infrastructure with Advanced Evasion and Persistence Tactics
For years, defenders have relied on a simple strategy to dismantle botnets find and seize their command-and-control (C2) servers. That weakness enabled global law enforcement operations to disrupt massive botnets such as Emotet, TrickBot, and QakBot. But a newly identified C2 framework,Aeternum, may render those tactics obsolete. Instead of using centralized servers or domains, Aeternum…
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Stored XSS Vulnerability in RustFS Console Puts S3 Admin Credentials at Risk
A critical security flaw has been identified in the RustFS Console, exposing administrators to a high risk of account takeover. Tracked as CVE-2026-27822, this Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability carries a critical CVSS v3 score of 10.0 and affects versions of the Rust package before 1.0.0-alpha.82. The vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript…
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Zscaler Resilienz-Studie zeigt Defizite bei der Cyber-Resilienz gegen externe Bedrohungen
Im Dezember 2025 beauftragte Zscaler Sapio Research mit der Durchführung einer Umfrage unter 1.750 IT-Entscheidungsträgern (IT-Führungskräften) in 14 Märkten (Australien, Frankreich, Deutschland, Indien, Italien, Japan, Niederlande, Singapur, Japan, Saudi-Arabien, Spanien, Schweden, Großbritannien und Irland, USA). First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/zscaler-resilienz-studie-zeigt-defizite-bei-der-cyber-resilienz-gegen-externe-bedrohungen/a43859/
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Study Finds 87% of Organizations Exposed to Attacks Due to Known Vulnerabilities
Tags: ai, attack, cyber, data, data-breach, intelligence, metric, service, software, supply-chain, threat, vulnerabilityThe 2026 State of DevSecOps report reveals a critical tension between development velocity and security. While organizations rapidly adopt AI-assisted coding, many fail to manage dependencies properly, leaving their software supply chains highly vulnerable to threat actors.”‹ Threat Intelligence Data Threat Vector Key Metric Security Impact Deployed Services 87% of organizations have known vulnerabilities”‹. High…
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Dohdoor Malware Targets U.S. Schools and Healthcare with Multi-Stage Attack
A new backdoor dubbed Dohdoor is actively targeting schools and health care organizations in the United States through a stealthy multi-stage attack chain. UAT-10027 focuses on education and health care entities in the U.S., sectors that handle highly sensitive personal and medical data but often have limited security budgets and legacy systems. Cisco Talos assesses with low…
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UK Vulnerability Monitoring Service Cuts Unresolved Security Flaws by 75%
The UK government says its new Vulnerability Monitoring Service has cut unresolved security flaws by 75% and reduced cyber-attack fix times from nearly two months to just over a week First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-vuln-monitoring-service-cuts/
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National Cyber Security Bill and NIS2: Senior Management’s Compliance Guide
Cybersecurity governance is moving to the highest levels of organizational leadership, a shift highlighted by the European Union’s NIS2 Directive and Ireland’s forthcoming National Cyber Security Bill. At a recent conference hosted by Ireland’s National Cyber Security Centre, attendees were asked: “Where are cybersecurity risks managed in your organization?” Results showed roughly half of organizations assign cyber risk oversight…
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Critical Trend Micro Apex One Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Malicious Code Execution
Trend Micro has disclosed eight security vulnerabilities in its Apex One endpoint protection platform, including two critical-severity flaws that allow unauthenticated remote attackers to upload malicious code and execute commands on affected systems. The company released a Critical Patch on February 24, 2026, under Solution ID KA-0022458, covering Apex One 2019 (on-premises) on Windows and…
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Critical Trend Micro Apex One Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Malicious Code Execution
Trend Micro has disclosed eight security vulnerabilities in its Apex One endpoint protection platform, including two critical-severity flaws that allow unauthenticated remote attackers to upload malicious code and execute commands on affected systems. The company released a Critical Patch on February 24, 2026, under Solution ID KA-0022458, covering Apex One 2019 (on-premises) on Windows and…
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Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor in Developer Environments
Malicious actors are abusing Go’s open-source ecosystem by deploying a backdoored crypto module that steals passwords and installs a Rekoobe Linux backdoor on developer and CI environments. The package imitates Go’s trusted cryptography library to turn ordinary password prompts into a full compromise chain quietly. On pkg.go.dev it appears as a normal cryptography library with…
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Serviceangebot CISO Advantage – Sophos kauft Arco Cyber
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/sophos-kauft-arco-cyber-a-4578fb82960aca661ae41939a37667f0/
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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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1 Million Records from Dutch Telco Odido Leaked Online in Massive Data Breach
The Dutch telecommunications company Odido suffered a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 700,000 customers. The incident, which included an extortion attempt, has raised serious concerns about customer privacy and data security in the telecom sector. Following the breach, attackers leaked the stolen information online in two separate dumps. Extent of…
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Ransomware groups switch to stealthy attacks and long-term access
Tags: access, application-security, attack, ciso, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, extortion, group, identity, intelligence, monitoring, organized, ransomware, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, switch, theft, threat, tool, vulnerability38% drop in encryption over the past 12 months as more cybercriminals turn to silently exfiltrating data for extortion as their main stock in trade.Picus’ suggestion that the volume of ransomware attacks is dropping is disputed by other experts.Tony Anscombe, chief security evangelist at endpoint security vendor Eset, offered a contrasting perspective.”In the recent Eset…
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DeVry University’s CISO on higher education cybersecurity risk
In this Help Net Security interview, Fred Kwong, VP, CISO at DeVry University, outlines how the university balances academic openness with cyber risk. He describes how systems … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/27/fred-kwong-devry-university-higher-education-cybersecurity-risk/
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Microsoft Defender Enhances Security with URL Click Alerts for Microsoft Teams
Microsoft is expanding its threat detection capabilities by extending Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) URL click alerting into Microsoft Teams. This critical update allows security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to potentially malicious link clicks within Teams messages, expanding threat monitoring beyond traditional email vectors. By surfacing these alerts, organizations can identify threats…
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Microsoft Defender Discovers Trojanized Gaming Utility Campaign Stealing Data with RATs
Microsoft Defender researchers have uncovered a new campaign that abuses trojanized gaming utilities to deliver multi”‘stage malware with remote access, data theft, and payload delivery capabilities. Attackers are masquerading as popular tools such as Xeno.exe and RobloxPlayerBeta.exe, tricking gamers into launching the malicious chain via downloads shared through web browsers and chat platforms. Once a…
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Juniper Networks PTX Vulnerability Allows Full Router Takeover, Exposing Networks
Juniper Networks has issued an out-of-cycle critical security bulletin addressing a severe vulnerability affecting its PTX Series routers running Junos OS Evolved. The flaw allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to execute malicious code with root privileges, potentially leading to complete device takeover. This critical security issue underscores the importance of securing core network infrastructure against…
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North Korean APT37 Unleashes Novel Malware to Target Air-Gapped Systems
North Korean threat group APT37 is using a new multi”‘stage toolset to jump air”‘gaps and conduct deep surveillance by abusing removable media, Ruby, and cloud services in a campaign Zscaler ThreatLabz tracks as “Ruby Jumper.””‹ The campaign’s main goal is to move data and commands between internet”‘connected and air”‘gapped systems while deploying powerful surveillance backdoors.…