Tag: defense
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Pentagon Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk Over AI Military Dispute
Anthropic on Friday hit back after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate the artificial intelligence (AI) upstart as a “supply chain risk.””This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two exceptions we requested to the lawful use of our AI model, Claude: the mass domestic surveillance of…
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Trump Escalates AI Clash With Anthropic
US President Directs Federal Agencies to Cease Use of AI Firm’s Tech. The Pentagon is escalating its feud with Anthropic after the company refused to loosen safeguards on its Claude model, threatening classified AI deployments and potentially creating months-long capability gaps across defense and contractor networks. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/trump-escalates-ai-clash-anthropic-a-30884
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Security hole could let hackers take over Juniper Networks PTX core routers
The hole is “especially dangerous, because these devices often sit in the middle of the network, not on the fringes,” said Piyush Sharma, CEO of Tuskira. “If an attacker gains control of a PTX, the impact is bigger than a single device compromise because it can become a traffic vantage point and a control point…
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Cities Hosting Major Events Need More Focus on Wireless, Drone Defense
Major events like the FIFA World Cup need to look beyond traditional physical and cyber security to active and passive wireless threats, say experts. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/cities-major-events-wireless-drone-defense
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CISA Leadership Shakeup Amid DHS Shutdown
US Cyber Defense Agency Switches Acting Director Amid Shutdown Turmoil. The U.S. cyber defense agency is going through a major leadership shakeup – again – following months of staffing turnover, budget cuts and shutdowns. Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala is moving into a senior strategy role at the Department of Homeland Security, of which CISA is…
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Catch FireTail at RSAC 2026 FireTail Blog
Feb 27, 2026 – Alan Fagan – RSA Conference is fast approaching, and the FireTail team is packing our bags for San Francisco! We are thrilled to announce that we’ll be exhibiting at the Early Stage Expo (Booth ESE-52) this year.Whether you’re looking to secure your enterprise AI initiatives, grab some great swag, or talk…
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Secure Enterprise Browsers Against AI Threats Blog – Menlo Security
Learn how to protect your browser from AI-driven threats, prompt injection, and HEAT attacks using predictive defense from Menlo Security. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/secure-enterprise-browsers-against-ai-threats-blog-menlo-security/
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The Seam in Cybersecurity Defenses That Nation-States Keep Exploiting
The Notepad++ supply chain compromise is the latest proof that sophisticated adversaries are deliberately targeting the gap between two disciplines: Vulnerability management and detection and response. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/the-seam-in-cybersecurity-defenses-that-nation-states-keep-exploiting/
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Why application security must start at the load balancer
Tags: application-security, attack, authentication, breach, business, compliance, control, credentials, defense, detection, encryption, exploit, finance, guide, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, Internet, nist, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, waf, zero-trustInternet traffic hits the load balancerThe load balancer forwards traffic as fast as possibleSecurity happens laterThe problem is simple. If the first system doesn’t enforce trust, everything behind it is already compromised by design. Example 1: Financial services: The team invested heavily in downstream security tools. But the load balancer accepted weak TLS versions and…
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Hegseth’s Anthropic Deadline Risks Severe Defense AI Gaps
Analysts Warn Pentagon Feud With Anthropic Could Trigger Cascading Defense Impacts. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ultimatum to Anthropic over expanded Claude access could trigger a months-long AI capability gap and disrupt the defense industrial base, as analysts warn that supply chain risk designations and compelled safeguards may destabilize national security AI strategy. First seen on…
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Emulating the Systematic LokiLocker Ransomware
AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the behaviors of LokiLocker ransomware, a .NET based strain active since at least mid-August 2021. The malware combines defense evasion and impact techniques, including disabling Task Manager and Windows Firewall, as well as deleting Volume Shadow Copies to hinder detection and prevent restoration. First seen on…
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MSP Strategic Defense: Building Compliance on Dynamic Attack Surface Reduction
Tags: attack, compliance, control, cyber, defense, dora, HIPAA, insurance, ISO-27001, msp, nis-2, PCI, regulation, soc, supply-chain<div cla Compliance expectations across SMB markets are rising as supply chain regulations and cyber insurance requirements raise the baseline for security maturity. Regulatory standards such as CIS Controls v8, the NIS2 Directive, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, Cyber Essentials, CMMC 2.0, DORA, and the Essential Eight now shape what that baseline looks…
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China-linked hackers used Google Sheets to spy on telecoms and governments across 42 countries
Tags: access, api, apt, china, cloud, communications, cyber, cyberespionage, data, defense, endpoint, espionage, google, government, group, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, linux, mandiant, monitoring, network, phone, radius, service, spy, theft, threat, vpnHow Mandiant found it: The campaign came to light during a Mandiant Threat Defense investigation, when analysts flagged unusual activity on a CentOS server. A binary named xapt, designed to masquerade as the apt package manager on Debian-based Linux systems, had already escalated to root and was running shell commands to confirm its access level,…
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Insights into Claude Code Security: A New Pattern of Intelligent Attack and Defense
On February 20, 2026, AI company Anthropic released a new code security tool called Claude Code Security. This release coincided with the highly sensitive period of global capital markets to AI technology subverting the traditional software industry, which quickly triggered violent fluctuations in the capital market and caused the fall of stock prices of major…The…
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The farmers and the mercenaries: Rethinking the ‘human layer’ in security
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, ciso, control, cybersecurity, defense, detection, intelligence, jobs, monitoring, risk, soc, threat, tool, trainingThe evidence is already in: This isn’t a theoretical complaint, it shows up in research on how real SOCs work. A study by the University of Oxford based on surveys and interviews with SOC practitioners found they “confirmed the high” false-positive rates of tools in use, and that many “false positives” are actually benign triggers…
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It’s an East-West, North-South Thing: ColorTokens and Netskope Have You Covered from All Directions
If you’re a security architect or CISO, these famous words of Lt. General Lewis “Chesty” Puller may hold visceral meaning for you: “We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded.” You, too, are surrounded by a smart and aggressive adversary who is constantly probing your defenses, seeking……
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5 trends that should top CISO’s RSA 2026 agendas
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, backup, business, cio, ciso, cloud, conference, control, corporate, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, finance, framework, governance, group, healthcare, identity, incident response, intelligence, network, okta, resilience, risk, saas, service, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-trustCTEM in the spotlight: In another evolutionary trend, most organizations are moving beyond scanning for software snafus to continuous threat exposure management (CTEM). By doing so, security teams hope to get a full picture of all assets, as well as their configurations, locations, software vulnerabilities, ownership, and business criticality.Armed with this data, CTEM platforms look…
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AI Shocks the Cybersecurity Market
Tags: ai, business, compliance, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, governance, identity, incident response, intelligence, ml, okta, risk, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityThe cybersecurity market was jolted last week after Anthropic dropped a bombshell announcement. The company’s new AI Claude model identified 500 previously unknown high-risk vulnerabilities hidden in widely used software. That is not a minor milestone. It is a technically significant achievement and a clear demonstration of how quickly AI capabilities are advancing. What came…
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AI Shocks the Cybersecurity Market
Tags: ai, business, compliance, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, governance, identity, incident response, intelligence, ml, okta, risk, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityThe cybersecurity market was jolted last week after Anthropic dropped a bombshell announcement. The company’s new AI Claude model identified 500 previously unknown high-risk vulnerabilities hidden in widely used software. That is not a minor milestone. It is a technically significant achievement and a clear demonstration of how quickly AI capabilities are advancing. What came…
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Steaelite RAT combines data theft and ransomware management capability in one tool
Tags: access, android, attack, authentication, awareness, business, corporate, credentials, crypto, cybercrime, data, ddos, defense, encryption, endpoint, extortion, infection, infosec, malware, mobile, monitoring, password, phishing, ransomware, rat, remote-code-execution, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsCSO that this isn’t the most sophisticated RAT he’s seen. “The novel aspect here,” he said, “is the convergence. Steaelite bundles remote access, credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and ransomware (currently in development) in a single package.” Traditionally, he explained, these capabilities have occupied different parts of the cybercrime toolchain, but Steaelite unifies the functions, giving…
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Inside the story of the US defense contractor who leaked hacking tools to Russia
The former boss of a U.S. hacking tools maker was jailed for selling highly sensitive software exploits to a Russian broker. This is how we first learned of his arrest, reported the story, and some of the unanswered questions we still have. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/inside-the-story-of-the-us-defense-contractor-who-leaked-hacking-tools-to-russia/
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Manual Processes Are Putting National Security at Risk
Why automating sensitive data transfers is now a mission-critical priorityMore than half of national security organizations still rely on manual processes to transfer sensitive data, according to The CYBER360: Defending the Digital Battlespace report. This should alarm every defense and government leader because manual handling of sensitive data is not just inefficient, it is a…
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Former U.S. Defense contractor executive sentenced for selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker Operation Zero
A former employee at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris got over 7 years in prison for selling eight zero-days to a Russian broker. Peter Williams, a 39-year-old Australian former L3Harris employee, received a prison sentence of just over seven years for selling eight zero-day exploits to the Russian broker Operation Zero for millions. Williams pleaded guilty…
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US sanctions Russian broker for buying stolen zero-day exploits
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Russian exploit broker who bought stolen hacking tools from a former executive of a U.S. defense contractor. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-sanctions-russian-exploit-broker-for-buying-stolen-zero-days/
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Former Defense Contractor Boss Gets 7+ Years for Selling Zero Days
A former general manager of a US defense contractor has been sentenced after selling zero days to Russia First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/defense-contractor-boss-7-years/
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Starkiller Phishing Framework Bypasses Defenses with Reverse Proxies, Takes an SaaS Approach
Starkiller is a new SaaS-style phishing framework that runs real brand websites inside headless Chrome containers, acting as a live reverse proxy to steal credentials, session tokens, and MFA-protected accounts while evading traditional detection. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/starkiller-phishing-framework-bypasses-defenses-with-reverse-proxies-takes-an-saas-approach/
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Ex-L3Harris exec jailed for selling zero-days to Russian exploit broker
The former head of Trenchant, a specialized U.S. defense contractor unit, was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in federal prison for stealing and selling zero-day exploits to a Russian exploit broker whose clients include the Russian government. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ex-l3harris-exec-jailed-for-selling-zero-days-to-russian-exploit-broker/
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Defense Contractor Employee Jailed for Selling 8 Zero-Days to Russian Broker
A 39-year-old Australian national who was previously employed at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris has been sentenced to a little over seven years in prison for selling eight zero-day exploits to Russian exploit broker Operation Zero in exchange for millions of dollars.Peter Williams pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of trade secrets in October 2025.…
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Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker accused of buying exploits stolen from U.S. defense contractor
The U.S. Treasury announced it was imposing sanctions against a Russian broker of zero-day exploits, its founder and two affiliates, citing a threat to U.S. national security. Another affiliated zero-day broker in the United Arab Emirates was also sanctioned. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/treasury-sanctions-russian-zero-day-broker-accused-of-buying-exploits-stolen-from-u-s-defense-contractor/