Tag: cybersecurity
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Taiwan Bullet Train Hack Highlights Cybersecurity Gaps in Rail Systems
A Taiwanese student experimenting with software-defined radio technology shut down three bullet trains for nearly an hour, leading to an anti-terrorism response. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/taiwan-incident-highlights-cybersecurity-gaps
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Four OpenClaw Flaws Enable Data Theft, Privilege Escalation, and Persistence
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of four security flaws in OpenClaw that could be chained to achieve data theft, privilege escalation, and persistence. The vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed Claw Chain by Cyera, can permit an attacker to establish a foothold, expose sensitive data, and plant backdoors. A brief description of the flaws is below –…
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Cybersecurity Insider Survey: AI Is Fueling a New Generation of Threat Actors
A recent survey shows cybersecurity professionals increasingly believe AI is making cybercriminals more capable and attacks more scalable. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/artificial-intelligence/cybersecurity-insider-survey-ai-is-fueling-a-new-generation-of-threat-actors/
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Shai-Hulud Worm Steals Dev Secrets Across npm, GitHub, AWS Kubernetes
Tags: credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, github, intelligence, kubernetes, open-source, software, threat, wormShai-Hulud is a major cybersecurity threat targeting the open-source software supply chain. Security researchers are raising alarms over “Shai-Hulud,” a self-propagating npm worm designed to steal sensitive developer credentials from GitHub, AWS, Kubernetes, and local environments. The campaign, tracked by SlowMist’s MistEye threat intelligence platform, is already being described as one of the largest npm…
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Cisco warns of an actively exploited SD-WAN flaw with max severity
Tags: access, advisory, cisco, cloud, control, cve, cvss, cybersecurity, data-breach, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, malicious, mitigation, network, service, software, update, vulnerabilityroot user account,” Cisco said. “Using this account, the attacker could access NETCONF, which would then allow the attacker to manipulate network configuration for the SD-WAN fabric.”The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-20182, received a max-severity rating of CVSS 10.0. The company said that the issue is configuration-independent, meaning vulnerable systems remain exposed regardless of deployment-specific settings.Cisco…
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EU’s Cyber Resiliency Act will put IT leaders to the test
Tags: access, attack, cio, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, exploit, firewall, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, kubernetes, law, malicious, mitigation, open-source, password, programming, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, router, sbom, software, supply-chain, tool, update, vpn, vulnerabilityProduct safety: The CRA says digital products have to be secure by design and default, and can’t ship with known vulnerabilities like obvious default passwords that can be exploited. They also must be updatable if such vulnerabilities are found later, as well as minimize their impact by limiting the attack surface and protecting confidentiality and…
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EU’s Cyber Resiliency Act will put IT leaders to the test
Tags: access, attack, cio, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, exploit, firewall, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, kubernetes, law, malicious, mitigation, open-source, password, programming, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, router, sbom, software, supply-chain, tool, update, vpn, vulnerabilityProduct safety: The CRA says digital products have to be secure by design and default, and can’t ship with known vulnerabilities like obvious default passwords that can be exploited. They also must be updatable if such vulnerabilities are found later, as well as minimize their impact by limiting the attack surface and protecting confidentiality and…
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Wettbewerbsfähig im Wandel: Vier IT-Trends, die 2026 den Unterschied machen
2026 wird IT zur strategischen Führungsaufgabe: KI, Cloud-Souveränität, Cybersecurity und Enterprise Networking entscheiden direkt über Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, Resilienz und Innovationsgeschwindigkeit. KI entwickelt sich vom Einzeltool zur zentralen Steuerungsplattform für Kernprozesse; zugleich machen regulatorische Anforderungen wie der EU AI Act Governance, Transparenz und Kompetenzaufbau zur Pflicht. Souveräne Multi- und Hybrid-Cloud-Modelle werden zum Standard, weil Unternehmen regulatorische Sicherheit,……
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Taiwan Incident Highlights Cybersecurity Gaps in Rail Systems
A Taiwanese student experimenting with software-defined radio technology shut down three bullet trains for nearly an hour, leading to an anti-terrorism response. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/taiwan-incident-highlights-cybersecurity-gaps
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White House cyber official: identity security matters more than ever in the age of AI
While AI tools present unique cybersecurity threats, they still rely on poor identity security by organizations to do the most damage, a White House official said Thursday. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/white-house-federal-identity-security-ai-risks/
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, tracked as CVE-2026-20182 (CVSS score of 10.0), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Cisco fixed CVE-2026-20182, a flaw in SD-WAN control…
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ECB: AI Means European Banks Must Hasten Cybersecurity Pace
France’s Mistral Makes Digital Sovereignty Case for a European Mythos. The European Central Bank added to mounting warnings sent to financial institutions that they must urgently act to protect their systems from artificial intelligence-enabled cyberattacks. British experts warned that gains in AI models’ cyber capabilities appear to be accelerating. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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ECB: AI Means European Banks Must Hasten Cybersecurity Pace
France’s Mistral Makes Digital Sovereignty Case for a European Mythos. The European Central Bank added to mounting warnings sent to financial institutions that they must urgently act to protect their systems from artificial intelligence-enabled cyberattacks. British experts warned that gains in AI models’ cyber capabilities appear to be accelerating. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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ECB: AI Means European Banks Must Hasten Cybersecurity Pace
France’s Mistral Makes Digital Sovereignty Case for a European Mythos. The European Central Bank added to mounting warnings sent to financial institutions that they must urgently act to protect their systems from artificial intelligence-enabled cyberattacks. British experts warned that gains in AI models’ cyber capabilities appear to be accelerating. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Stealer Backdoor Found in 3 Node-IPC Versions Targeting Developer Secrets
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about what has been described as “malicious activity” in newly published versions of node-ipc.According to Socket and StepSecurity, three different versions of the npm package have been confirmed as malicious -node-ipc@9.1.6node-ipc@9.2.3node-ipc@12.0.1“Early analysis indicates that node-ipc@9.1.6, node-ipc@9.2.3, and node-ipc@12.0.1 First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/05/stealer-backdoor-found-in-3-node-ipc.html
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More money is going to physical security, but it’s often CISOs that oversee it: EY
Organizations should centralize physical security and cybersecurity so both are adequately prepared for, the consulting firm says in a survey report. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/more-money-physical-security-cisos-oversee/820240/
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More money is going to physical security, but it’s often CISOs that oversee it: EY
Organizations should centralize physical security and cybersecurity so both are adequately prepared for, the consulting firm says in a survey report. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/more-money-physical-security-cisos-oversee/820240/
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AI Drives Cybersecurity Investments, Widening ‘Valley of Death’
In a role reversal, investment dollars in AI security startups exceeded the value of AI acquisitions in 1Q26 by more than $1 billion, a rare occurrence. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/ai-cybersecurity-investments-valley-death
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QA: Why Vulnerability Scans Are Giving Businesses a False Sense of Security
Phillip Wylie is an internationally recognised cybersecurity expert, ethical hacker and offensive security specialist with more than 28 years’ experience across IT, network security, application security, penetration testing, red teaming and social engineering. As co-author of The Pentester BluePrint, founder of The Pwn School Project and host of The Phillip Wylie Show, Phillip has built his career around…
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Microsoft Research: AI Can Generate Realistic Command-Line and Process Telemetry
Tags: ai, attack, cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, incident response, intelligence, microsoft, risk, threatA new approach showing how artificial intelligence can generate highly realistic command-line data and process telemetry potentially transforming how security teams build and test threat detection systems. Logs and telemetry form modern cybersecurity risk, powering threat detection, incident response, and forensic investigations across endpoints and cloud environments. However, collecting high-quality attack telemetry remains a persistent…
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Windows Zero-Days Expose BitLocker Bypasses And CTFMON Privilege Escalation
An anonymous cybersecurity researcher who disclosed three Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities has returned with two more zero-days involving a BitLocker bypass and a privilege escalation impacting Windows Collaborative Translation Framework (CTFMON).The security defects have been codenamed YellowKey and GreenPlasma, respectively, by the researcher, who goes by the online aliases Chaotic Eclipse First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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What CISOs need to land a board role
Tags: business, ciso, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, finance, governance, government, intelligence, jobs, resilience, risk, skills, strategy, trainingTips for CISOs aiming for a board role: For CISOs interested in contributing to global vendor boards, Morelli advises focusing on becoming a partner, not just a customer. This requires the ability to articulate how a product’s evolution impacts the risk profile of an entire sector.For non-industry or public boards, CISOs must be comfortable contributing…
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Palo Alto Networks bets on identity security for autonomous AI with Idira launch
Tags: ai, attack, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, credentials, cybersecurity, governance, identity, injection, intelligence, least-privilege, mfa, network, RedTeam, risk, soc, threat, tool, vulnerabilityCISOs navigate AI risks: For enterprises, the launch reflects a broader industry shift toward identity-centric cybersecurity models as organizations deploy generative AI tools, autonomous agents, and cloud-native applications at scale.Analysts say the growing number of non-human identities is creating operational and security challenges because many existing identity systems were originally built to manage employees and…
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Lyrie.ai Unveils Open Standard for Agent Security and Joins Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program
DUBAI, UAE, May 14, 2026, As autonomous AI agents begin to handle everything from corporate bank transfers to sensitive code deployments, the digital world is facing a new >>Wild West<< scenario: millions of autonomous entities operating without a badge or a passport. Today, OTT Cybersecurity LLC (the architects behind Lyrie.ai) announced a dual-milestone […] The…
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18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, including a critical flaw that remained undetected for 18 years.The vulnerability, discovered by depthfirst, is a heap buffer overflow issue impacting ngx_http_rewrite_module (CVE-2026-42945, CVSS v4 score: 9.2) that could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution or cause a First seen…
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US bank discloses security lapse after sharing customer data with AI app
Community Bank, which operates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, disclosed a cybersecurity incident that exposed customers’ names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/us-bank-discloses-security-lapse-after-sharing-customer-data-with-ai-app/
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OpenAI Unlocks Cybersecurity Model for Europe
German Financial Regulator Warns Sector to Step Up Defenses. OpenAI is stepping up to do what arch-rival Anthropic still won’t. The AI firm will give European authorities and companies access to its new vulnerability-finding AI model, so they can beef up their cybersecurity. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/openai-unlocks-cybersecurity-model-for-europe-a-31664
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KI und Cybersecurity: Curl-Entwickler sieht keine Gefahr durch Mythos
Nachdem Anthropics KI-Modell Mythos Curl auf Sicherheitslücken überprüft hatte, kam laut dessen Entwickler eine sehr kurze Liste zurück. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/ki-und-cybersecurity-curl-entwickler-sieht-keine-gefahr-durch-mythos-2605-208595.html