Tag: defense
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From Shadow APIs to Shadow AI: How the API Threat Model Is Expanding Faster Than Most Defenses
The shadow technology problem is getting worse. Over the past few years, organizations have scaled microservices, cloud-native apps, and partner integrations faster than corporate governance models could keep up, resulting in undocumented or shadow APIs. We’re now seeing this pattern all over again with AI systems. And, even worse, AI introduces non-deterministic behavior, autonomous actions,…
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You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief
No worries if the US doesn’t want to be friends with Europe anymore First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/jailbreak_an_f35/
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The defense industrial base is a prime target for cyber disruption
Cyber threats against the defense industrial base (DIB) are intensifying, with adversaries shifting from traditional espionage toward operations designed to disrupt production … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/18/luke-mcnamara-google-dib-defense-industrial-base-cybersecurity/
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GitGuardian Doubles Down on AI Agent Defense With $50M Raise
Series C Funding Round Focuses on Secrets Remediation, Agent Governance Expansion. Backed by a $50 million Series C, GitGuardian plans to accelerate U.S. expansion and enhance secrets detection remediation and non-human identity controls as AI agents multiply across enterprises, increasing exposure to credential abuse and lateral movement. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/gitguardian-doubles-down-on-ai-agent-defense-50m-raise-a-30778
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Cyber attacks enabled by basic failings, Palo Alto analysis finds
Changing the paradigm: Unit 42’s answer to this endless cycle of attackers always being one step ahead of defenders is to change the paradigm: cybersecurity has become so specialized, it says, that the answer is to use a managed service built from the ground up to counter real rather than abstract threats.With that in mind,…
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ClickFix Attacks Abuses DNS Lookup Command to Deliver ModeloRAT
ClickFix campaigns have adapted to the latest defenses with a new technique to trick users into infecting their own machines with malware. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/clickfix-attacks-dns-lookup-command-modelorat
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NDSS 2025 Defending Against Membership Inference Attacks On Iteratively Pruned Deep Neural Network
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jing Shang (Beijing Jiaotong University), Jian Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University), Kailun Wang (Beijing Jiaotong University), Jiqiang Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University), Nan Jiang (Beijing University of Technology), Md Armanuzzaman (Northeastern University), Ziming Zhao (Northeastern University) PAPER Defending Against Membership Inference Attacks on Iteratively Pruned Deep Neural Networks Model…
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Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs
Tags: access, attack, chatgpt, credit-card, data, defense, exploit, LLM, monitoring, network, open-source, openai, phone, side-channelHere are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. “Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference”: Abstract: Scaling up language models has significantly increased their capabilities. But larger models are slower models, and so there is now an extensive body of work (e.g., speculative sampling or parallel decoding) that improves the (average case)…
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NDSS 2025 SiGuard: Guarding Secure Inference With Post Data Privacy
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: Xinqian Wang (RMIT University), Xiaoning Liu (RMIT University), Shangqi Lai (CSIRO Data61), Xun Yi (RMIT University), Xingliang Yuan (University of Melbourne) PAPER SIGuard: Guarding Secure Inference with Post Data Privacy Secure inference is designed to enable encrypted machine learning model prediction over encrypted data. It will ease…
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The Promptware Kill Chain
Attacks against modern generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) pose a real threat. Yet discussions around these attacks and their potential defenses are dangerously myopic. The dominant narrative focuses on “prompt injection,” a set of techniques to embed instructions into inputs to LLM intended to perform malicious activity. This term suggests a simple,…
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The El Paso No-Fly Debacle Is Just the Beginning of a Drone Defense Mess
Tags: defenseFears over a drug cartel drone over Texas sparked a recent airspace shutdown in El Paso and New Mexico, highlighting just how tricky it can be to deploy anti-drone weapons near cities. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/the-el-paso-no-fly-debacle-is-just-the-beginning-of-the-drone-defense-mess/
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Finding a common language around risk
Tags: ceo, cio, ciso, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, framework, governance, guide, intelligence, lessons-learned, metric, monitoring, phishing, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, updateBuilding one culture from three languages: The Organizational Risk Culture Standard (ORCS) offers something most frameworks miss: it treats culture as the foundation, not the afterthought. You can’t bolt culture onto existing processes and call it done. Culture is how people actually think about risk when no one is watching. It’s the shared beliefs that…
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10 years later, Bangladesh Bank cyberheist still offers cyber-resiliency lessons
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, automation, backdoor, banking, ceo, cisco, ciso, compliance, control, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, detection, endpoint, exploit, finance, fintech, firewall, framework, infrastructure, intelligence, international, malware, monitoring, network, north-korea, oracle, password, risk, service, software, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilitySecurity shortcomings: Adrian Cheek, senior cybercrime researcher at threat exposure management firm Flare, said the Bangladesh Bank heist was possible because of a number of security shortcomings, including a failure to air gap critical infrastructure.”The Bank of Bangladesh had four servers and the same number of desktops connected to SWIFT,” Cheek says. “This infrastructure, however,…
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NDSS 2025 Diffence: Fencing Membership Privacy With Diffusion Models
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPER Yuefeng Peng (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ali Naseh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances across various tasks, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), wherein adversaries identify if a specific data point was part of…
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NDSS 2025 Diffence: Fencing Membership Privacy With Diffusion Models
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPER Yuefeng Peng (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ali Naseh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Deep learning models, while achieving remarkable performances across various tasks, are vulnerable to membership inference attacks (MIAs), wherein adversaries identify if a specific data point was part of…
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 84
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Stan Ghouls targeting Russia and Uzbekistan with NetSupport RAT Breaking Down ZeroDayRAT New Spyware Targeting Android and iOS Old-School IRC, New Victims: Inside the Newly Discovered SSHStalker Linux Botnet Reynolds: Defense Evasion Capability […]…
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Are there guaranteed cybersecurity benefits with Agentic AI implementation?
Can Non-Human Identities Reinvent Cybersecurity with Agentic AI? What if the key to fortifying cybersecurity lies not in more layers of defense, but in effectively managing the machine identities that already exist within your organization’s infrastructure? Enter Non-Human Identities (NHIs)”, the machine identities that are increasingly important. Understanding Non-Human Identities NHIs function much like machine…
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Suspected Russian hackers deploy CANFAIL malware against Ukraine
A new alleged Russia-linked APT group targeted Ukrainian defense, government, and energy groups, with CANFAIL malware. Google Threat Intelligence Group identified a previously undocumented threat actor behind attacks on Ukrainian organizations using CANFAIL malware. The group is possibly linked to Russian intelligence services and has targeted defense, military, government, and energy entities at both regional…
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NDSS 2025 Automated Mass Malware Factory
Session 12B: Malware Authors, Creators & Presenters: Heng Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Zhiyuan Yao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Bang Wu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Cuiying Gao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Teng Xu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Wei Yuan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology),…
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2026 Predictions: AI Is Breaking Identity, Data Security
Agentic AI Is Reshaping Security Faster Than Traditional Defenses Can Keep Up Agentic artificial intelligence is fundamentally altering organizational workflows and how risk materializes. In 2026, emerging cybersecurity trends will push organizations to move from deterministic, rule-based risk models toward adaptive models built for autonomous, non-deterministic systems. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/2026-predictions-ai-breaking-identity-data-security-p-4042
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Microsoft Under Pressure to Bolster Defenses for BYOVD Attacks
Threat actors are exploiting security gaps to weaponize Windows drivers and terminate security processes in targeted networks, and there may be no easy fixes in sight. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-under-pressure-defenses-byovd-attacks
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Microsoft Under Pressure to Bolster Defenses for BYOVD Attacks
Threat actors are exploiting security gaps to weaponize Windows drivers and terminate security processes in targeted networks, and there may be no easy fixes in sight. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-under-pressure-defenses-byovd-attacks
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Nation-State Hackers Put Defense Industrial Base Under Siege
Espionage groups from China, Russia and other nations burned at least two dozen zero-days in edge devices in attempts to infiltrate defense contractors’ networks. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/nation-state-hackers-defense-industrial-base-under-siege
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Google Ties Suspected Russian Actor to CANFAIL Malware Attacks on Ukrainian Orgs
A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations with malware known as CANFAIL.Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) described the hack group as possibly affiliated with Russian intelligence services. The threat actor is assessed to have targeted defense, military, government, and energy organizations within the Ukrainian regional and First seen on…
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Google Links China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to Coordinated Defense Sector Cyber Operations
Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base (DIB) sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG).The tech giant’s threat intelligence division said the adversarial targeting of the sector is centered around four key themes: striking defense…
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Europe must adapt to ‘permanent’ cyber and hybrid threats, Sweden warns
Cyber and hybrid threats are now a permanent feature of Europe’s security environment, a senior Swedish defense official said, citing Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a turning point. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/sweden-cyber-threats-europe-permanent
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How AutoSecT VMDR Tool Simplifies Vulnerability Management
As it is said, the ‘why’ and ‘how’ is much important than ‘should’. It’s exactly applicable in today’s cyberspace. Every day, organizations survive in an unpredictable cyber-risk climate. If your defense storehouse comprises just fragmented tools and manual processes, you are not playing it safe. If you are ‘not safe’, you are just seconds away……
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MSP Strategic Defense: Where Prevention Meets Compliance
<div cla Imagine a modern office building. Not everyone who works there can go everywhere. Employees can access the building entrance, their own floor, and the meeting rooms they need, but they can’t (and shouldn’t be able to) walk into the server room, access executive offices, or wander freely across every floor. This may seem…