Tag: cybersecurity
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TLSCompliance.com: Raising the Bar for Cryptographic Trust in a Changing World
Tags: cybersecurityIn cybersecurity, visibility is power. And when it comes to encrypted traffic, most organizations have significant blind spots. Weak ciphers, outdated protocols, and misconfigured certificates are often invisible until they trigger an audit failure”, or worse, a breach. That’s why TrustFour created TLSCompliance.com, a site dedicated to one simple but powerful idea: your connections should…
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News alert: Attaxion launches agentless traffic monitoring to flag threats and prioritize risk
Dover, Del., Aug. 25, 2025, CyberNewswire”, Attaxion announces the addition of the Agentless Traffic Monitoring capability to its exposure management platform. Agentless Traffic Monitoring is a new capability designed to give cybersecurity teams actionable visibility into network traffic flowing to… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/news-alert-attaxion-launches-agentless-traffic-monitoring-to-flag-threats-and-prioritize-risk/
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Phishing Campaign Uses UpCrypter in Fake Voicemail Emails to Deliver RAT Payloads
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new phishing campaign that’s using fake voicemails and purchase orders to deliver a malware loader called UpCrypter.The campaign leverages “carefully crafted emails to deliver malicious URLs linked to convincing phishing pages,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said. “These pages are designed to entice recipients into downloading JavaScript First seen…
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Proxyware Malware Poses as YouTube Video Download Site, Delivering Malicious JavaScript
Cybersecurity researchers at AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) have uncovered a persistent campaign where attackers distribute proxyware malware through fake YouTube video download pages. This operation, which mimics legitimate video downloading services, tricks users into installing malicious executables disguised as benign tools like WinMemoryCleaner. The attackers leverage GitHub for malware hosting, a tactic consistent with…
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How Exposure Management Has Helped Tenable Reduce Risk and Align with the Business
Each Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In the second of a two-part blog series, Tenable CSO Robert Huber shares how exposure management has helped him reduce risk and better align with the business. You can read the entire Exposure…
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Munich Reinsurance unites global security teams to boost resilience, cut costs
Tags: access, best-practice, business, cloud, conference, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, detection, edr, group, incident response, intelligence, jobs, lessons-learned, metric, network, resilience, risk, siem, skills, soc, strategy, tactics, threat, toolConsolidate functions into one incident response team, one threat intelligence team, and one threat-hunting team serving all Munich brands around the clock.Improve team capabilities by blending the strongest skills of each team into more mature, well-rounded functions.Reduce redundancies in responsibilities, tools, and processes to cut costs.To reach these goals, Munich deployed various tactics, including:Combining best…
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2025 CSO Hall of Fame: Meg Anderson on AI, strategic security investments, and life after InfoSec
Tags: ai, automation, business, ciso, conference, cyber, cybersecurity, finance, infosec, jobs, metric, phishing, programming, risk, risk-management, software, strategy, technology, threat, toolWhich technologies are you most cautious about from a CISO’s point of view, and why?: Meg Anderson: I’m cautious of “solutions” that don’t solve a strategic problem. CISOs only have so much budget and mindshare. You need to understand where a tool fits in your investment and strategic roadmap. There were times when my team…
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Need help with AI safety? Stay ahead of risks with these tools and frameworks
Tags: advisory, ai, best-practice, business, cloud, compliance, conference, control, cybersecurity, finance, framework, governance, government, group, healthcare, intelligence, microsoft, privacy, resilience, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, toolComprehensive AI readiness lists for organizations to evaluate how prepared they really are for AI.Usage guidelines that align with existing security and governance practices.Strategies for how to tackle AI ethical risks like bias and transparency.AI security instructions for how to use AI safely to strengthen cybersecurity.Attack resilience guidelines for understanding how AI systems can be…
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How Exposure Management Has Helped Tenable Reduce Risk and Align with the Business
Each Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy provides the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In the second of a two-part blog series, Tenable CSO Robert Huber shares how exposure management has helped him reduce risk and better align with the business. You can read the entire Exposure…
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Blistering Wyden letter seeks review of federal court cybersecurity, citing ‘incompetence,’ ‘negligence’
Tags: cybersecurityThe Oregon Democrat cited recent news of a major hack and years of “covering up” explanations of incidents. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/blistering-wyden-letter-seeks-review-of-federal-court-cybersecurity-citing-incompetence-negligence/
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Fake Google Play Store Websites Deliver Potent RAT to Steal Sensitive Data
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a persistent campaign deploying the AndroidOS SpyNote malware, a sophisticated Remote Access Trojan (RAT) designed for surveillance, data exfiltration, and remote device control. This operation mimics legitimate Google Play Store pages for popular Android apps, tricking users into downloading malicious APK files. The campaign, linked to the same threat actor previously…
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Chinese APT Leverages Proxy and VPN Services to Obfuscate Infrastructure
Tags: apt, china, cyber, cybersecurity, data, group, infrastructure, korea, leak, north-korea, service, threat, vpnA significant data dump surfaced on DDoSecrets.com, purportedly extracted from a workstation belonging to a threat actor targeting organizations in South Korea and Taiwan. The leak, detailed in an accompanying article, attributes the activity to the North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Kimsuky, a sophisticated actor previously highlighted in cybersecurity advisories for…
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Meet the unsung silent hero of cyber resilience you’ve been ignoring
Tags: ai, blockchain, compliance, computing, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, detection, dora, framework, GDPR, governance, infrastructure, iot, monitoring, network, PCI, regulation, resilience, technology, toolFixing this isn’t complicated. It just needs your focused attention: First, secure your sources. Forget public NTP servers from dubious origins. Instead, choose authenticated and secure protocols, such as NTP or Network Time Security (NTS). These protocols offer encrypted and tamper-resistant synchronization, ensuring that your clocks can’t be easily spoofed.Next, redundancy matters. Don’t rely on…
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Attaxion Releases Agentless Traffic Monitoring for Immediate Risk Prioritization
Dover, DE, United States, August 25th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Attaxion announces the addition of the Agentless Traffic Monitoring capability to its exposure management platform. Agentless Traffic Monitoring is a new capability designed to give cybersecurity teams actionable visibility into network traffic flowing to and from their digital assets all without the need to deploy any agents or sensors […]…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Password Manager Flaws, Apple 0-Day, Hidden AI Prompts, In-the-Wild Exploits & More
Cybersecurity today moves at the pace of global politics. A single breach can ripple across supply chains, turn a software flaw into leverage, or shift who holds the upper hand. For leaders, this means defense isn’t just a matter of firewalls and patches”, it’s about strategy. The strongest organizations aren’t the ones with the most…
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Tackling cybersecurity today: Your top challenge and strategy
Shadow IT used to be a fringe problem, a rogue Dropbox account here, a personal Gmail there. Now, it’s everywhere. One customer said it best: “We don’t have a Shadow IT problem. We are Shadow IT.” That stuck. It’s not malice. It’s urgency. People move fast. Procurement doesn’t. So teams swipe cards, spin up tools,…The…
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Tackling cybersecurity today: Your top challenge and strategy
Shadow IT used to be a fringe problem, a rogue Dropbox account here, a personal Gmail there. Now, it’s everywhere. One customer said it best: “We don’t have a Shadow IT problem. We are Shadow IT.” That stuck. It’s not malice. It’s urgency. People move fast. Procurement doesn’t. So teams swipe cards, spin up tools,…The…
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Cybersecurity als holistischer Ansatz – Warum Unternehmen jetzt holistische Cybersecurity brauchen
Tags: cybersecurityFirst seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/steigende-cybercrime-schaeden-sicherheitsstrategien-loesungen-a-dd81d3cc178e55507277c39575ae1582/
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Europol says Telegram post about $50,000 Qilin ransomware award is fake
Some cybersecurity news outlets were duped a few days ago by a claim that Europol was offering a $50,000 bounty for information about two members of the Qilin ransomware group. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/europol-says-telegram-post-about-50-000-qilin-ransomware-award-is-fake
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Threat Actors Exploit Windows Scheduled Tasks for Stealthy Persistence Without Additional Tools
Threat actors continue to use Scheduled Tasks and other built-in Windows features to create persistence in the ever-changing world of cybersecurity threats, frequently avoiding the need of external tools or complex zero-day exploits. As of 2025, despite advancements in attack techniques such as rootkits and dead-drop command-and-control (C2) mechanisms, traditional methods remain prevalent due to…
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CISA Seeks Biden Era’s SBOM Minimum Requirements Guideline Change
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is planning to launch an update to a 2021 guideline for SBOM requirements First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisa-seeks-sbom-requirements-change/
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Hackers Exploit SendGrid to Steal User Login Credentials in Latest Attack
Tags: attack, cloud, communications, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, email, exploit, hacker, login, phishing, serviceCybersecurity researchers at the Cofense Phishing Defense Center (PDC) have uncovered a fresh surge in credential harvesting attacks that leverage the reputable cloud-based email service SendGrid to distribute phishing emails. Attackers are exploiting SendGrid’s trusted status, commonly used for transactional and marketing communications, to craft messages that evade standard email security gateways. By spoofing sender…
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How AI is reshaping cybersecurity operations
Tags: access, ai, attack, business, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, finance, gartner, governance, guide, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, malware, microsoft, monitoring, phishing, regulation, resilience, risk, sans, service, skills, soc, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, updateBecause AI can perform tasks at speeds that supersede human capacity, it exponentially scales the amount of work that a cybersecurity function can do, says Rob T. Lee, chief of research for AI and emerging threats and head of faculty at SANS Institute.Moreover, AI excels at doing repetitive tasks near perfectly every time, so it…
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Hackers Steal Windows Secrets and Credentials Undetected by EDR Detection
A cybersecurity researcher has unveiled a sophisticated new method for extracting Windows credentials and secrets that successfully evades detection by most Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions currently deployed in enterprise environments. The technique, dubbed >>Silent Harvest,
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Why satellite cybersecurity threats matter to everyone
Satellites play a huge role in our daily lives, supporting everything from global communications to navigation, business, and national security. As space becomes more crowded … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/25/brett-loubert-deloitte-satellite-cybersecurity-threats/
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Smart manufacturing demands workers with AI and cybersecurity skills
The manufacturing sector is entering a new phase of digital transformation. According to Rockwell Automation’s 10th Annual State of Smart Manufacturing Report, 56% of … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/25/ai-powered-smart-manufacturing/
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10 Best Endpoint Detection And Response (EDR) Companies in 2025
In 2025, the endpoint remains the primary battleground for cyber attackers, making the implementation of EDR solutions a critical necessity for robust cybersecurity defenses. Laptops, desktops, servers, mobile devices, and cloud workloads are critical entry points and data repositories, making them prime targets for sophisticated cyber threats. While traditional antivirus (AV) software offers a baseline…
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10 Best Endpoint Protection Solutions for MSP/MSSPs in 2025
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) are the guardians of cybersecurity for a vast and diverse clientele. In 2025, their role is more critical than ever as businesses of all sizes face an increasingly sophisticated and relentless barrage of cyber threats. The cornerstone of their defense strategy lies in robust endpoint…
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10 Best Web Content Filtering Solutions 2025
In the modern digital landscape, web content filtering is a fundamental component of cybersecurity and network management. A web content filtering solution is a technology that controls and monitors the web pages, URLs, and IP addresses that users can access. These tools protect organizations by preventing access to malicious sites, blocking inappropriate content, and enforcing…
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Troubling Tech Career Trends: From ‘Quiet Cracking’ to AI Anxiety
Some new terms are becoming popular in tech and cybersecurity careers, along with some unsettling workplace trends around burnout and fear of layoffs as AI gains ground in both the public and private sectors. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/troubling-tech-career-trends-from-quiet-cracking-to-ai-anxiety/