Tag: cyber
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Cyber Attacks Hit 93% of UK Critical Infrastructure as AI Threats Accelerate
Cyber attacks have now affected almost every UK critical infrastructure (CNI) organisation, with 93% reporting a cyber incident in the past year, according to new research from Bridewell. The findings, published in Bridewell’s Cyber Security in CNI Report 2026, highlight the growing scale and impact of cyber threats across sectors underpinning the UK economy, including…
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Cyber Attacks Hit 93% of UK Critical Infrastructure as AI Threats Accelerate
Cyber attacks have now affected almost every UK critical infrastructure (CNI) organisation, with 93% reporting a cyber incident in the past year, according to new research from Bridewell. The findings, published in Bridewell’s Cyber Security in CNI Report 2026, highlight the growing scale and impact of cyber threats across sectors underpinning the UK economy, including…
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Cisa tells US organisations to harden endpoint management after Stryker attack
Last week’s cyber attack on the systems of a US medical services company by Iranian hacktivists has prompted an alert from Cisa, urging organisations to reinforce their defensive posture First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366640448/Cisa-tells-US-organisations-to-harden-endpoint-management-after-Stryker-attack
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AI makes debut in Bridewell cyber security in CNI report
Regulation has superseded cyber threats as the main driver of cyber security spending, and AI has made its debut for attack and defence, according to a CNI-focused report from Bridewell First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366640469/AI-makes-debut-in-Bridewell-cyber-security-in-CNI-report
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President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America: Why Integrity Is the Foundation of Modern Cyber Defense
<div cla President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America makes a few things very clear: the United States must detect adversaries earlier, secure critical infrastructure, strengthen technology supply chains, and ensure that systems can recover rapidly after cyber incidents. These goals appear throughout the strategy, but when viewed through a technical lens, they all depend on…
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President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America: Why Integrity Is the Foundation of Modern Cyber Defense
<div cla President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America makes a few things very clear: the United States must detect adversaries earlier, secure critical infrastructure, strengthen technology supply chains, and ensure that systems can recover rapidly after cyber incidents. These goals appear throughout the strategy, but when viewed through a technical lens, they all depend on…
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President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America: Why Integrity Is the Foundation of Modern Cyber Defense
<div cla President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America makes a few things very clear: the United States must detect adversaries earlier, secure critical infrastructure, strengthen technology supply chains, and ensure that systems can recover rapidly after cyber incidents. These goals appear throughout the strategy, but when viewed through a technical lens, they all depend on…
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White House pours cold water on cyber ‘letters of marque’ speculation
The Trump administration is not considering cyber “letters of marque” or allowing private companies to carry out cyberattacks on behalf of the U.S. government, senior White House officials said this week, pushing back on growing speculation about the role of industry in U.S. cyber operations. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/offensive-cyber-white-house-hacking
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Ditch ‘big transformation’ cyber strategies for continuous improvement
As artificial intelligence reshapes the enterprise, CISOs must abandon risky big bang security transformation initiatives in favour of incremental changes to build cyber resilience First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366640480/Gartner-Ditch-big-transformation-cyber-strategies-for-continuous-improvement
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CISO Whisperer Names 11 Vendors Leading the Shift from Tools to Outcomes at RSA Conference 2026
Austin, United States, March 19th, 2026, CyberNewswire Cybersecurity has entered a new phase, one defined less by reactive controls and more by continuous, intelligence-driven operations. As attack surfaces expand and adversaries increasingly leverage AI, the modern CISO is tasked with orchestrating resilience at scale. Amid this shift, CISO Whisperer has released its list of “Cybersecurity…
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CISA Calls on Organizations to Strengthen Microsoft Intune Security After Stryker Incident
Tags: cisa, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, endpoint, infrastructure, malicious, microsoft, technologyThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert calling on organizations to aggressively harden their endpoint management systems. Released on March 18, 2026, the critical warning follows a significant cyberattack against U.S.-based medical technology provider Stryker Corporation. The agency observed malicious actors actively targeting endpoint management platforms, explicitly misusing legitimate administrative…
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Tackling the Uncontrolled Growth of AI Agents in Modern SaaS Environments
By 2026, AI agent sprawl has become a critical SaaS security risk. With 80% of organizations reporting unintended agent actions, the “visibility gap” is the new frontier for cyber threats. Learn how to govern autonomous agents using comprehensive inventories, permission mapping, and automated risk scoring. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/tackling-the-uncontrolled-growth-of-ai-agents-in-modern-saas-environments/
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How to Prevent a Brute Force Attack with these 5 Powerful Strategies
Protecting your digital assets from brute force attacks is critical in today’s cyber landscape. Learn from experts how to fortify your defenses. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/how-to-prevent-a-brute-force-attack-with-these-5-powerful-strategies/
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The True Cost of Cyber Downtime: A UK Board-Level Briefing
Tags: attack, backup, business, cloud, communications, compliance, control, cyber, cyberattack, data, finance, GDPR, governance, healthcare, infrastructure, insurance, monitoring, resilience, saas, service, supply-chain, technologyWritten by Sean Tilley, Senior Sales Director EMEA at 11:11 Systems Cyber downtime carries measurable financial consequences, and those consequences are becoming clearer with each major incident. Research from 11:11 Systems shows that 78% of European organisations report losses of up to $500,000 per hour following a cyber-related outage, while 6% face costs exceeding £1 million per…
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Secure endpoint management systems immediately, CISA urges
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that the cyberattack on Stryker Corporation serves as a signal to U.S. organizations that foreign cyber … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/19/cisa-endpoint-management-system-warning/
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Claude Vulnerabilities Allow Data Exfiltration and Malicious Redirect Attacks
Security researchers recently uncovered a critical attack chain within Anthropic’s Claude.ai platform. Dubbed >>Claudy Day,<< this vulnerability sequence allows attackers to silently extract sensitive user data through prompt manipulation and malicious redirects. The exploit requires no external integrations or specialized tools, functioning entirely within a default Claude session. Anthropic has patched the prompt injection flaw…
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Fake Tools and CDNs Power New “Vibe-Coded” Malware Campaign
‘Vibe coding’ has moved from buzzword to battleground, and a new malware campaign shows how attackers are abusing AI-assisted development to scale their operations with minimal effort. Vibe coding, a term popularized in early 2025 to describe programming by prompting large language models instead of writing code manually, has rapidly spread across developer communities and…
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Interlock Ransomware Leveraged Cisco FMC Zero-Day 36 Days Before Patch
Amazon’s threat intelligence teams have uncovered a new cyber campaign linked to the Interlock ransomware group. The campaign centers around a flaw affecting Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/interlock-fmc-cve-2026-20131/
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The multi-billion dollar mistake: Why cloud misconfigurations are your biggest security threat
Most cloud setup errors, 8 out of 10, happen because people slip up, not because code fails.One out of three cloud setups sits empty, ignored by any oversight. A third of online storage spaces get zero attention from monitors.Almost one out of every two hundred storage units on Amazon’s cloud sits open, per a 2024…
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The multi-billion dollar mistake: Why cloud misconfigurations are your biggest security threat
Most cloud setup errors, 8 out of 10, happen because people slip up, not because code fails.One out of three cloud setups sits empty, ignored by any oversight. A third of online storage spaces get zero attention from monitors.Almost one out of every two hundred storage units on Amazon’s cloud sits open, per a 2024…
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Pyronut Package Backdoors Telegram Bots With RCE
Malicious ‘Pyronut’ is a trojanized Python package that backdoors Telegram bots and userbots, giving attackers remote code execution over both the Telegram session and the underlying host system.”‹ The malicious package , pyronut , was uploaded to PyPI as a fake alternative to pyrogram, a widely used Telegram MTProto API framework with around 370,000 monthly downloads. Instead of…
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OpenWebUI Servers Targeted in Attacks Using AI Payloads to Steal Data
A recent campaign has targeted improperly secured Open WebUI systems, allowing threat actors to deploy malicious artificial intelligence payloads. Open WebUI is a highly popular self-hosted interface designed to enhance large language models. Shodan scans reveal over 17,000 active instances globally, making it a lucrative target for scanning attackers. By abusing the Open WebUI Tools…
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FCA Updates Cyber Incident and Third-Party Reporting Rules
The UK’s financial regulator has issued new rules to make incident and third-party reporting clearer First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fca-updates-incident-thirdparty/
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FCA Updates Cyber Incident and Third-Party Reporting Rules
The UK’s financial regulator has issued new rules to make incident and third-party reporting clearer First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fca-updates-incident-thirdparty/
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Horabot Returns in Mexico, Spreading via Phishing and Email Worm Attacks
Horabot has resurfaced in Mexico with a more complex, multi”‘stage kill chain that blends fake CAPTCHA lures, living-off-the-land scripting, and an email worm”‘style spreader to deliver a Latin American banking trojan. In this installment of the SOC Files series, our MDR team dissected a targeted Horabot campaign that we hunted a few months ago, after…
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Regulation Drives Cyber Spending for Critical Infrastructure Orgs
35% of security leaders working in the UK’s critical infrastructure said regulatory requirements are the primary influence on their security programs First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-regulation-drives-cyber/
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CISA Adds Exploited Zimbra Collaboration Suite Flaw to Warning List
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has officially added a critical vulnerability affecting the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Federal agencies and organizations using the platform must apply the necessary updates by April 1, 2026, to mitigate active exploitation risks. Exploited Zimbra Collaboration Suite Flaw Tracked as CVE-2025-66376,…
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Open VSX Extension Delivers RAT and Stealer via GitHub Downloader
An Open VSX extension used by thousands of developers has been caught silently pulling a full-featured remote access trojan and infostealer from GitHub. The KhangNghiem/fast-draft extension, listed on open-vsx.org and tracked at over 26,000 downloads as of March 17, 2026, contained multiple malicious releases that executed a GitHub-hosted downloader and fetched a second-stage payload from…
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Iran-Linked Botnet Exposed After Open Directory Leak Reveals 15-Node Relay Network
A misconfigured open directory on an Iranian server has exposed a live censorship-bypass relay and SSH-based botnet operation, revealing how a single actor stitched together a 15-node network across Iran and Finland using commodity tools and sloppy operational security. The discovery shows how financially or personally motivated actors can reuse tradecraft seen in Iranian APT…
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Cyber-Resilienz braucht Blick auf die ganze Systemarchitektur – Fünf Schichten für effektive Cyber-Resilienz
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/cyber-resilienz-fuenf-schichten-systemarchitektur-a-ac66d343b7dd33833fd6ab3a242347bb/