Tag: defense
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Salt Typhoon breach IBM subsidiary in Italy: a warning for Europe’s digital defenses
April 2026 breach at Sistemi Informativi (IBM Italy) raises concerns over Chinese-linked cyber ops in Europe, including Salt Typhoon. In late April 2026, the Italian cybersecurity landscape was shaken by a significant breach targeting Sistemi Informativi, a company wholly owned by IBM Italy that provides IT infrastructure management for key public and private institutions. The…
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CISO Diaries: Victor-Andrei Nicolae on Practical Security, Patience, and AI-Driven Defense
Security leadership is often associated with emerging threats and advanced technologies, but much of the role comes down to disciplined execution, thoughtful decision-making, and balancing protection with business continuity. In CISO Diaries, we speak with leading CISOs around the world to understand what the role actually looks like beyond frameworks and incident headlines, how security…The…
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Addressing the Edge Security Paradox
The paradox of edge security describes how technologies designed to strengthen network defenses can also create new vulnerabilities. Edge devices improve performance and support localized threat detection by processing data closer to its source, yet modern enterprise environments often operate thousands of distributed endpoints. This rapid expansion of edge infrastructure increases the number of systems..…
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New Deep#Door RAT uses stealth and persistence to target Windows
Deep#Door hides a Python RAT inside a batch file, kills Windows defenses, survives via multiple persistence methods, and exfiltrates data through a public TCP tunnel. Security researchers at Securonix uncovered a sophisticated malware campaign called Deep#Door. Threat actors employed a stealthy Python-based backdoor that uses a surprisingly simple delivery method to achieve deep, persistent access…
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prompted 2026 Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?
Author, Creator & Presenter: Jackson Reed, Founder & CEO,Barding Defense Our thanks to [un]prompted for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s outstanding [un]prompted 2026 AI Security Practitioner content on the Organizations’ YouTube Channel. Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/05/unprompted-2026-are-you-thinking-what-im-thinking/
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China-Linked Hackers Target Asian Governments, NATO State, Journalists, and Activists
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new China-aligned espionage campaign targeting government and defense sectors across South, East, and Southeast Asia, along with one European government belonging to NATO.Trend Micro has attributed the activity to a threat activity cluster it tracks under the temporary designation SHADOW-EARTH-053. The adversarial collective is assessed to First seen…
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The Future of AI Defense: Implementing Quantum-Resistant Cryptography for MCP
The Future of AI Defense: Implementing Quantum-Resistant Cryptography for MCP First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/05/the-future-of-ai-defense-implementing-quantum-resistant-cryptography-for-mcp/
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Bank regulator sounds warning over cybersecurity threat posed by AI models
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, banking, cloud, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, defense, finance, flaw, germany, government, penetration-testing, service, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityAccessing Mythos: It’s barely three weeks since Anthropic made Claude Mythos public on April 7 and it’s hard to recall a development that’s caused as much cybersecurity alarm in such a short space of time.Earlier this week, Michael Theurer, the chief supervisor of Bundesbank, Germany’s financial regulator, echoed APRA’s concern, telling Reuters that European banks…
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US agencies promote zero-trust practices for operational technology networks
Many zero-trust defenses work differently in industrial environments than in traditional business networks, five federal agencies said in newly published guidance. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/zero-trust-operational-technology-us-guidance/818950/
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OpenAI Unveils Cyber Defense Roadmap Focused on AI-Powered Security
OpenAI has released a comprehensive cyber defense roadmap titled >>Cybersecurity in the Intelligence Age<< to responsibly equip defenders with AI-powered security tools faster than malicious actors can adapt. Spearheaded by Sasha Baker in April 2026, the action plan outlines five core pillars to democratize advanced defensive capabilities and build lasting national resilience. Five Pillars for…
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WAF Defense in Crisis? NSFOCUS Locks Down “Ghost Bits” Attacks in Advance
Incident Review In April 2026, Black Hat Asia 2026 disclosed a systematic security threat named Ghost Bits, targeting underlying encoding flaws in the Java ecosystem that can render mainstream WAF/IDS defenses completely ineffective. The core of this risk lies in inconsistent encoding interpretations of the same input between the security detection chain and the application……
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…
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Bad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, banking, business, container, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, exploit, finance, fraud, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, LLM, malicious, monitoring, resilience, risk, service, threat, tool, vulnerabilityBad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals josh.pearson@t“¦ Thu, 04/30/2026 – 07:31 The modern internet is becoming less human by the day. Bot traffic is increasing, and human traffic is shrinking. Malicious automated traffic is getting harder to spot. The Thales 2026 Bad Bot Report, now in it’s…
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Researchers unearth industrial sabotage malware that predated Stuxnet by 5 years
fast16.sys, is briefly mentioned in the 2017 Shadow Brokers leak of documents covering exploits and tools used by US National Security Agency cyber teams.”This 2005 attack is a harbinger for sabotage operations targeting ultra expensive high-precision computing workloads of national importance like advanced physics, cryptographic, and nuclear research workloads,” the SentinelOne researchers said in their…
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From Asset Visibility to Attacker Disruption: Why Knowing What You Have Isn’t Enough
<div cla Assets visibility provides awareness of what exists in your defensive stack. It does not determine whether your defenses can actually disrupt an attack. Asset visibility is just an inventory list. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/from-asset-visibility-to-attacker-disruption-why-knowing-what-you-have-isnt-enough/
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Sevii Adds Ability to Dynamically Deploy AI Agents to Combat Cyberattacks
By leveraging Myrmidon Defense Technology (MDT), Sevii enables cybersecurity teams to orchestrate autonomous AI agent swarms to hunt, isolate, and remediate threats at machine speed. This “AI fire with AI fire” approach addresses the critical shortage of security professionals while offering a fixed-cost model that eliminates the unpredictability of AI token consumption. First seen on…
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Sevii Adds Ability to Dynamically Deploy AI Agents to Combat Cyberattacks
By leveraging Myrmidon Defense Technology (MDT), Sevii enables cybersecurity teams to orchestrate autonomous AI agent swarms to hunt, isolate, and remediate threats at machine speed. This “AI fire with AI fire” approach addresses the critical shortage of security professionals while offering a fixed-cost model that eliminates the unpredictability of AI token consumption. First seen on…
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Hackernoon – Why Cloud Monitoring Has Become K12’s Most Critical Cyber Defense Tool
This article was originally published in Hackernoon on 04/23/26 by Charlie Sander. It starts with a simple student login”¦ One account gets phished, a file is dropped into a shared drive, and within minutes, malware has synced and spread across the entire network. By the time IT teams notice, the damage is already systemic ……
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AWS leans on prior ingenuity to face future AI and quantum threats
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cloud, communications, computer, computing, control, credentials, crypto, cryptography, cybersecurity, data, defense, encryption, exploit, google, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, lessons-learned, malicious, penetration-testing, phishing, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, updateSymmetric cryptography and the quantum threat: Back in the early 2010s, most hardware security modules used asymmetric cryptography to protect security keys. Asymmetric cryptography, the kind used to secure online communications, involves pairs of keys, one to lock, another to unlock. It’s a very useful and convenient approach when dealing with multiple parties.Amazon chose to…
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AWS leans on prior ingenuity to face future AI and quantum threats
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cloud, communications, computer, computing, control, credentials, crypto, cryptography, cybersecurity, data, defense, encryption, exploit, google, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, lessons-learned, malicious, penetration-testing, phishing, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, updateSymmetric cryptography and the quantum threat: Back in the early 2010s, most hardware security modules used asymmetric cryptography to protect security keys. Asymmetric cryptography, the kind used to secure online communications, involves pairs of keys, one to lock, another to unlock. It’s a very useful and convenient approach when dealing with multiple parties.Amazon chose to…
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Federal CIO cautious on Anthropic’s Mythos despite planned rollout
Greg Barbaccia told CyberScoop that Anthropic’s Mythos shows real promise for federal cyber defense, but warns that laboratory results and live network conditions are two very different things. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/anthropic-mythos-federal-cybersecurity-evaluation-greg-barbaccia/
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The Evolution of Scattered Spider: How Organizations Are Strengthening Defenses
An On Demand video from ID Dataweb. Scattered Spider is rapidly expanding its reach, exploiting identity processes and help desks to infiltrate organizations. Discover their tactics and the steps you can take now to reduce risk. Watch the webinar. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/evolution-scattered-spider-how-organizations-are-strengthening-defenses-a-31524
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What CISOs need to get right as identity enters the agentic era
Tags: access, ai, ciso, conference, control, credentials, cybersecurity, defense, governance, identity, jobs, least-privilege, malicious, mfa, monitoring, phishing, risk, technology, toolWilcox and Adams are speaking at the CSO Cybersecurity Awards & Conference, May 1113. Reserve your place.As a result, Adams says CISOs will increasingly need to adopt an identity-centric security architecture and there are several key tenets to consider.Build a strong foundation before layering on complexity. The instinct when modernizing an identity program, says Adams, is…
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Stopping AiTM attacks: The defenses that actually work after authentication succeeds
Tags: 2fa, access, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, communications, compliance, control, credentials, data, defense, detection, email, finance, framework, identity, incident response, login, mfa, microsoft, monitoring, nist, passkey, phishing, risk, service, threat, tool, trainingThe 3 controls that close the gap: Control #1: Bind sessions to managed devices The most impactful single control for session security is requiring managed, compliant devices as a condition of accessing sensitive resources. When access policies, such as Microsoft Entra Conditional Access, require that the device presenting a session token is enrolled, managed and…
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Pentagon’s Anthropic Fight Draws Rebuke From Ex-DOD Leaders
Former Officials, Tech Groups Say Anthropic Designation Is Illegal – and Dangerous. Former U.S. defense and intelligence officials argue the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was politically motivated and legally flawed, warning it could erode trust in government contracting and weaken the defense AI ecosystem. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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How CISOs Need To Prepare For The Claude Mythos Era Of Cyberattacks: Experts
As CISOs rethink their approaches to exposure management and cyber defense following revelations about Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and AI-powered vulnerability discovery, gaining improved visibility and implementing compensating controls are the most important steps for many organizations alongside shifting to accelerated patching cycles, cybersecurity experts tell CRN. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/how-cisos-need-to-prepare-for-the-claude-mythos-era-of-cyberattacks-experts
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DDoS Testing vs Protection: The Missing Layer in Your Defense
Key takeaways DDoS protection refers to the tools and architecture deployed to stop attacks (CDNs, WAFs, scrubbing centers, firewall rules) operating continuously in the traffic path DDoS testing is a controlled simulation that validates whether those tools actually work under real-world attack conditions 68% of protection faults found in Red Button simulations were rated… First…