Tag: data
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Cisco Unified CCX Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-20354, CVE-2025-20358)
Technical details The problem comes from weak authentication in two different CCX components. CVE-2025-20354 targets the Java RMI service. CCX exposes this service to accept remote data, but it does not properly check who is sending it. That means an attacker can upload a specially crafted file and run commands on the underlying operating system.”¦…
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Report: Government data mining has gone too far and AI will make it worse
A digital privacy group says agencies are collecting too much data on Americans and using AI tools to make connections that may not be valid. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/government-data-mining-has-gone-too-far-ai-will-make-it-worse/
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Report: Government data mining has gone too far and AI will make it worse
A digital privacy group says agencies are collecting too much data on Americans and using AI tools to make connections that may not be valid. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/government-data-mining-has-gone-too-far-ai-will-make-it-worse/
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ISMG Editors: Lawsuits Follow Year’s Top Health Data Breach
Conduent Gets Sued; US Government’s Cyber Shutdown Woes; Hacktivist Hits Rise. The latest ISMG Editors’ Panel tackles: post-hack legal fallout for Conduent after it suffered the year’s biggest health data breach, the U.S. government’s shutdown complicating its response to the breach of vendor F5 and the rise in attacks targeting Western critical national infrastructure. First…
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Edtech company fined $5.1 million for poor data security practices leading to hack
Illuminate Education also allegedly failed to monitor its systems for suspicious activity and did not separately secure backup and active databases. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ed-tech-company-fined-5-million-data-breach-security-practices
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Stop Paying the Password Tax: A CFO’s Guide to Affordable Zero-Trust Access
In 2025, stolen credentials remain the most common and fastest path into an organization’s systems. Nearly half of breaches begin with compromised logins. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report puts it bluntly: “Hackers don’t break in anymore, they log in.” Web application attacks have followed suit, with 88% now using stolen credentials as the..…
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Stop Paying the Password Tax: A CFO’s Guide to Affordable Zero-Trust Access
In 2025, stolen credentials remain the most common and fastest path into an organization’s systems. Nearly half of breaches begin with compromised logins. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report puts it bluntly: “Hackers don’t break in anymore, they log in.” Web application attacks have followed suit, with 88% now using stolen credentials as the..…
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“I Paid Twice” Scam Infects Booking.com Users with PureRAT via ClickFix
Cybersecurity firm Sekoia reports a widespread fraud where criminals compromise hotel systems (Booking.com, Expedia and others) with PureRAT malware, then use stolen reservation data to phish and defraud guests. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/i-paid-twice-scam-booking-com-purerat-clickfix/
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“I Paid Twice” Scam Infects Booking.com Users with PureRAT via ClickFix
Cybersecurity firm Sekoia reports a widespread fraud where criminals compromise hotel systems (Booking.com, Expedia and others) with PureRAT malware, then use stolen reservation data to phish and defraud guests. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/i-paid-twice-scam-booking-com-purerat-clickfix/
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“I Paid Twice” Scam Infects Booking.com Users with PureRAT via ClickFix
Cybersecurity firm Sekoia reports a widespread fraud where criminals compromise hotel systems (Booking.com, Expedia and others) with PureRAT malware, then use stolen reservation data to phish and defraud guests. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/i-paid-twice-scam-booking-com-purerat-clickfix/
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ID verification laws are fueling the next wave of breaches
ID laws are forcing companies to store massive amounts of sensitive data, turning compliance into a security risk. Acronis explains how integrated backup and cybersecurity platforms help MSPs reduce complexity and close the gaps attackers exploit. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/id-verification-laws-are-fueling-the-next-wave-of-breaches/
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ID verification laws are fueling the next wave of breaches
ID laws are forcing companies to store massive amounts of sensitive data, turning compliance into a security risk. Acronis explains how integrated backup and cybersecurity platforms help MSPs reduce complexity and close the gaps attackers exploit. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/id-verification-laws-are-fueling-the-next-wave-of-breaches/
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What past ERP mishaps can teach CISOs about security platformization
Tags: ai, automation, business, cio, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, data, finance, metric, resilience, service, technology, tool, training5 tips for getting security platformization right: Current trending suggests that in many enterprises, security platform migration is inevitable in the short- or long-term. Given this, CISOs would be well served by carefully studying the mistakes made with ERP and plan accordingly with proven best practices. Based on my research, here are a few suggestions:Get executive…
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What past ERP mishaps can teach CISOs about security platformization
Tags: ai, automation, business, cio, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, data, finance, metric, resilience, service, technology, tool, training5 tips for getting security platformization right: Current trending suggests that in many enterprises, security platform migration is inevitable in the short- or long-term. Given this, CISOs would be well served by carefully studying the mistakes made with ERP and plan accordingly with proven best practices. Based on my research, here are a few suggestions:Get executive…
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Digital health can’t scale if cybersecurity falls behind
Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, framework, GDPR, governance, government, healthcare, HIPAA, identity, infection, intelligence, malicious, network, nist, phishing, privacy, ransomware, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-management, strategy, technology, threat, training, virus, vulnerability, zero-trustThe unique vulnerabilities of AI systems: Traditional security frameworks are not enough for AI. Attacks on algorithms take subtler forms. I often explain to my clients that when you corrupt data, you corrupt intelligence. Data poisoning occurs when malicious data is inserted into the training process, teaching the AI to make wrong decisions later. Imagine…
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Vibe-coded ransomware proof-of-concept ended up on Microsoft’s marketplace
Tags: access, ai, control, credentials, data, data-breach, github, infrastructure, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, ransomware, toolExtension pointed to a GitHub-based C2: Ransomvibe deployed a rather unusual GitHub-based command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, instead of relying on traditional C2 servers. The extension used a private GitHub repository to receive and execute commands. It routinely checked for new commits in a file named “index.html”, executed the embedded commands, and then wrote the output back…
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Business continuity and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin
Tags: access, ai, attack, backup, breach, business, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, email, finance, framework, google, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, network, nist, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, sans, service, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, training, veeam, vulnerability, zero-trustWhy traditional business continuity plans fail against modern threats: I’ve implemented change management processes in environments requiring 99.99% uptime and I can tell you that most business continuity plans were designed for a different era. They assume that your backup systems, communication channels and recovery procedures will be available when you need them. Today’s threat…
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Vibe-coded ransomware proof-of-concept ended up on Microsoft’s marketplace
Tags: access, ai, control, credentials, data, data-breach, github, infrastructure, malicious, malware, marketplace, microsoft, ransomware, toolExtension pointed to a GitHub-based C2: Ransomvibe deployed a rather unusual GitHub-based command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, instead of relying on traditional C2 servers. The extension used a private GitHub repository to receive and execute commands. It routinely checked for new commits in a file named “index.html”, executed the embedded commands, and then wrote the output back…
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Business continuity and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin
Tags: access, ai, attack, backup, breach, business, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, email, finance, framework, google, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, network, nist, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, sans, service, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, training, veeam, vulnerability, zero-trustWhy traditional business continuity plans fail against modern threats: I’ve implemented change management processes in environments requiring 99.99% uptime and I can tell you that most business continuity plans were designed for a different era. They assume that your backup systems, communication channels and recovery procedures will be available when you need them. Today’s threat…
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Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?
Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trustStop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…