Tag: cybersecurity
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Train like you fight: Why cyber operations teams need no-notice drills
Tags: breach, business, cloud, communications, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, detection, framework, healthcare, injection, login, military, psychology, ransomware, risk, skills, soc, threat, training, updateThe Yerkes-Dodson inverted-U curve: Performance rises with arousal to an optimal point, then falls sharply.Wikimedia Commons, CC-ZeroWhat repeated no-notice drills do is shift a team’s position on that curve. By building familiarity with threat-level arousal, they raise the threshold at which stress becomes performance-impairing. The stimulus is no longer novel. The cascade is shorter. Executive…
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UIDAI, NFSU Sign 5-Year Pact to Boost Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics
The collaboration between the Unique Identification Authority of India and the National Forensic Sciences University marks a significant development in India’s security landscape and digital forensics. In a move aimed at strengthening the country’s digital infrastructure, UIDAI and NFSU have formalized a five-year partnership to advance research, training, and operational capabilities in cybersecurity and digital…
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Cyberangriff in 12 Minuten: Neuer Tech-Support-Scam zielt direkt auf CEOs und Vorstände
Die aktuelle Kampagne zeigt erneut: Cybersecurity ist längst keine reine IT-Aufgabe mehr. Gerade Führungskräfte werden zunehmend zum primären Angriffsziel. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/cyberangriff-in-12-minuten-neuer-tech-support-scam-zielt-direkt-auf-ceos-und-vorstaende/a44995/
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North Korean hackers targeted ethnic Koreans in China with Android ‘BirdCall’ malware
Researchers at cybersecurity firm ESET attributed the campaign to APT37 and said the hackers used a backdoor attached to a suite of card games from a company called Sqgame. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-target-ethnic-koreans-in-china
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News brief: Critical infrastructure, OT cybersecurity attacks
Check out the latest security news from TechTarget SearchSecurity’s sister sites, Cybersecurity Dive and Dark Reading. First seen on techtarget.com Jump to article: www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366642732/News-brief-Critical-infrastructure-OT-cybersecurity-attacks
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Researchers report Amazon SES abused in phishing to evade detection
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky reports that the Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is being increasingly abused to send convincing phishing emails that can bypass standard security filters and render reputation-based blocks ineffective. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researchers-report-amazon-ses-abused-in-phishing-to-evade-detection/
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CISA boasts AI automation improvements to threat analysis, mission support
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials said it’s proven a boon in numerous areas, but there are some hurdles to adoption, still. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cisa-ai-automation-security-operations-efficiency-uipath-fusion-event/
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Skills Gap Top CISO Concern, Says New SANS Survey
Security Leaders Face Gaps, Not in Their Org Charts, But in Their Team’s Skills. Concerns about the skills and capabilities of cybersecurity teams have for the first time overtaken worries about headcount and unfilled vacancies among CISOs, according to a new SANS survey. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/skills-gap-top-ciso-concern-says-new-sans-survey-a-31603
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CISA ‘CI Fortify’ Aims to Keep Services Running Under Attack
Critical Infrastructure Operators Urged to Fortify Against Nation-State Attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched CI Fortify, urging critical infrastructure operators to adopt isolation and rapid recovery capabilities to maintain essential services under cyberattacks, amid warnings that nation-state actors are already embedded in operational systems. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/cisa-ci-fortify-aims-to-keep-services-running-under-attack-a-31602
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CISA boasts AI automation improvements to threat analysis, mission support
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials said it’s proven a boon in numerous areas, but there are some hurdles to adoption, still. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cisa-ai-automation-security-operations-efficiency-uipath-fusion-event/
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CISA ‘CI Fortify’ Aims to Keep Services Running Under Attack
Critical Infrastructure Operators Urged to Fortify Against Nation-State Attacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched CI Fortify, urging critical infrastructure operators to adopt isolation and rapid recovery capabilities to maintain essential services under cyberattacks, amid warnings that nation-state actors are already embedded in operational systems. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/cisa-ci-fortify-aims-to-keep-services-running-under-attack-a-31602
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CISA boasts AI automation improvements to threat analysis, mission support
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials said it’s proven a boon in numerous areas, but there are some hurdles to adoption, still. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cisa-ai-automation-security-operations-efficiency-uipath-fusion-event/
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European MEPs Push for Stronger Post-Mythos Cybersecurity
Mythos a Turning Point, Say Lawmakers in Missive to European Commission. Dozens of European lawmakers are pressing the European Commission to act quickly to protect the continent’s cybersecurity, due to the advent of new AI models that have considerable hacking prowess. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/european-meps-push-for-stronger-post-mythos-cybersecurity-a-31599
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CISA pushes critical infrastructure operators to prepare to work in isolation
Tags: access, attack, backup, business, ceo, cisa, control, cyber, cybersecurity, endpoint, exploit, government, incident response, infrastructure, iran, network, resilience, service, technology, threat, vpnA familiar playbook under a new name: While the framing of CI Fortify is new, the underlying concepts are not. Several experts say the initiative largely repackages long-standing practices around disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response, areas where many organizations have historically underinvested.”It looks to me like traditional business continuity planning, disaster recovery, and…
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Response-ready Cybersecurity Reaktionsbereit statt nur geschützt
Cybersecurity war lange Zeit vor allem eines: Prävention. Firewalls, Endpoint-Protection, E-Mail-Filter, Multi-Faktor-Authentifizierung die Strategie lautete, Angriffe möglichst früh zu stoppen, bevor sie Schaden anrichten. Das bleibt wichtig. Doch in der heutigen Bedrohungslage reicht dieser Ansatz allein nicht mehr aus. Die unbequeme Wahrheit lautet: Kein Schutzschild ist lückenlos. Und genau deshalb verschiebt sich der Fokus […]…
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CrowdStrike Promotes Amanda Adams To Global Alliances Leader Amid AI Push
Amanda Adams, a longtime channel executive at CrowdStrike, has been promoted to serve as the new global channel chief at the cybersecurity giant as it sees massive opportunities ahead in AI and services for solution and service provider partners, the company told CRN. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/crowdstrike-promotes-amanda-adams-to-global-alliances-leader-amid-ai-push
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Trellix investigating breach of source code repository
The cybersecurity company said there is no immediate evidence of code being exploited or released. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/trellix-investigating-breach-source-code-repository/819327/
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Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor into Daemon Tools in ‘widespread’ attack
The cybersecurity company says it’s seen thousands of infection attempts, and at least a dozen successful hacks after users installed malicious versions of the popular Windows software. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/kaspersky-suspects-chinese-hackers-planted-a-backdoor-into-daemon-tools-in-widespread-attack/
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Huntress Expands Channel Partnerships to Boost Cybersecurity Reach Across Mid-Market and Public Sector
Global cybersecurity company Huntress has announced a major expansion of its global channel ecosystem, adding four new distribution partners to accelerate growth across the mid-market, public sector, and EMEA regions. The new partnerships with Ingram Micro, Vertosoft, Liquid PC, and QBS Software are designed to broaden access to enterprise-grade cybersecurity tools for organizations increasingly targeted…
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Compliance wächst schneller als die Kapazitäten der IT-Teams
Unternehmen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz stehen wie viele Organisationen weltweit vor der Herausforderung, eine wachsende Zahl an IT- und Cybersecurity-Vorgaben zu erfüllen. Eine aktuelle, von Sophos in Auftrag gegebene internationale Studie zeigt, wie stark regulatorische Anforderungen inzwischen in den Arbeitsalltag eingreifen und welche Folgen das für IT- und Sicherheitsteams hat. Für die Untersuchung…
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CISOs step up to the security workforce challenge
Tags: ai, attack, automation, ciso, conference, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, jobs, malicious, risk, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, trainingGomez-Sanchez and Turpin are speaking at the CSO Cybersecurity Awards & Conference, May 11-13. Reserve your place. And then there’s AI. When it comes to security, AI may help partially offset cyber skills shortages by automating certain tasks, but it also ramps up cyberattack volumes and expands the organizational attack surface, without fixing CISOs’ ongoing talent…
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Educational tech firm Instructure data breach may have impacted 9,000 schools
Instructure, maker of the Canvas learning platform, is investigating a cyber incident that exposed users’ personal data. Instructure is a U.S.-based educational technology company best known for developing Canvas, one of the world’s most widely used learning management systems (LMS). The U.S. firm confirrmed a cybersecurity incident that exposed users’ personal information. The company is working with external…
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New Attribution Framework Links APT Campaigns Across Key Layers
A new attribution framework is reshaping how cybersecurity analysts connect advanced persistent threat (APT) activity, moving beyond static group labels toward a dynamic, multi-layered model that reflects how modern adversaries actually operate. These profiles are built from observed tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPs), malware, and infrastructure. But this approach is increasingly strained. Threat actors evolve constantly…
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Anthropic Mythos spurs White House to weigh pre-release reviews for high-risk AI models
Tags: access, ai, cybersecurity, exploit, framework, government, group, infrastructure, malicious, openai, risk, software, technology, update, vulnerabilityThe Mythos factor: The discussion follows Anthropic’s recent introduction of Mythos, a model the company has described as representing a watershed moment for cybersecurity.Anthropic has said Mythos Preview has found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser, and that AI models have reached a level of coding capability…
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US government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and data centers that rely on Linux. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/u-s-government-warns-of-severe-copyfail-bug-affecting-major-versions-of-linux/
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U.S. government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and datacenters that rely on Linux. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/u-s-government-warns-of-severe-copyfail-bug-affecting-major-versions-of-linux/
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Why Anthropic Draws Line Between Who Can Access Opus, Mythos
Smaller Cybersecurity Partners Get Opus 4.7 But Not Anthropic’s Highest-Risk Model. Anthropic’s Project Glasswing gives CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler privileged access to Claude Mythos Preview, while smaller cybersecurity partners such as SentinelOne and TrendAI can only integrate with Anthropic’s generally available Opus 4.7 model. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/anthropic-draws-line-between-who-access-opus-mythos-a-31588
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U.S. Officials Consider Three-Day Patch Rule in Wake of Anthropic’s Mythos
Reuters reported that U.S. cybersecurity officials are weighing cutting the time federal agencies have to fix critical vulnerabilities from two weeks to three days after Anthropic’s Mythos AI model raises the specter of even faster attacks. Security pros say the idea is a good one, but it may be difficult for organizations to implement it.…
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How Mythos Signals Cybersecurity Disruption
Tags: access, ai, attack, banking, browser, business, cybersecurity, data, exploit, finance, government, hacker, healthcare, infrastructure, microsoft, open-source, risk, software, technology, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-dayWhat is Mythos Mythos is Anthropic’s latest AI model, and it is stirring up a tornado of concern in cybersecurity circles. Even before its release, Mythos discovered thousands of new sensitive vulnerabilities in commercial and open-source software, including all major operating systems and web browsers. One was in existence for over 27 years without the industry…