Tag: defense
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TDL 029 – Decoupling Digital Identity: Beyond Carrier-Level Defense – Mark Kreitzman
Why Your Phone Number Is the Ultimate Cyber Target”, and How to Secure It In a recent episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sat down with Mark Kreitzman, General Manager at Efani and a 25-year cybersecurity veteran, to discuss… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/tdl-029-decoupling-digital-identity-beyond-carrier-level-defense-mark-kreitzman/
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Texas a Test Ground for White House Water Cybersecurity Push
Watershed 250 Promises Free Cyber Resources for Small Water Utilities. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and White House National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross Monday announced the launch of Project Watershed 250, connecting Texas water utilities with free cyber defense resources in a pilot program the Trump administration hopes to scale nationwide. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Cloudflare Unveils Adaptive Intelligence to Counter AI-Fueled Bot Attacks
Cloudflare introduces real-time defense against automated cyberattacks. I still have friends who are convinced that every attack on their websites is deliberately targeting their companies. Nah. These days anyone with a modest budget can easily rent networks of compromised devices, mask their location behind real home Internet addresses, and launch AI-enabled attacks that mimic people……
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Judge Orders Pentagon to Reverse Anthropic Blacklisting
Court Says DOD’s Designation Was Illegal First Amendment Retaliation. The U.S. federal judge told the Department of Defense to cancel the supply chain designation it levied against Anthropic in a decision giving the artificial intelligence giant almost everything it asked for in a lawsuit against the Pentagon. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/judge-orders-pentagon-to-reverse-anthropic-blacklisting-a-32684
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Fake Voicemail SVG Attachments Fuel Large-Scale Phishing Campaign
A large-scale phishing campaign used fake voicemail SVG attachments to bypass email defenses, targeting 5527 organizations with over 26,000 malicious messages First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fake-voicemail-svg-files-bypass/
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Russian APT BlueDelta Uses HOOKEDGE to Target Defense and Diplomatic Organizations
BlueDelta (APT28) uses webhook.site and Microsoft Edge to hide HOOKEDGE espionage traffic targeting European governments. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group documented a campaign by BlueDelta, the Russian GRU-linked group that overlaps with the group APT28, running an entire espionage operation against European government targets using webhook.site, a service built for developers to test HTTP requests, as…
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BlueDelta Targets Defense and Diplomatic Organizations With HOOKEDGE Malware
Russian state-linked threat actor BlueDelta has launched a renewed espionage campaign against defense manufacturing, government, and diplomatic organizations in Romania, Spain, and Türkiye using a lightweight Windows backdoor dubbed HOOKEDGE. The activity, tracked from late September 2025 through early April 2026, relied on macro-enabled Microsoft Word documents and legitimate webhook infrastructure to establish access, execute…
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Leaked University Files Reveal How Russia Trains Hackers for Military Cyber Operations
A cache of leaked internal records has exposed what appears to be a structured Russian military cyber-operator pipeline embedded inside Bauman Moscow State Technical University. The documents indicate that the university’s concealed Department No. 4 trained students for intelligence collection, offensive cyber operations, information warfare, and technical defense before moving selected graduates into GRU-linked units.…
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OpenAI Warns AI-Enabled Cyberattacks Will Surge, Calls for Global Cyber Defense
Tags: ai, cisco, crowdstrike, cyber, cyberattack, defense, google, government, infrastructure, microsoft, openai, technologyOpenAI has issued a warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks could become significantly more widespread and sophisticated within months. The organization urges industries, governments, technology providers, and critical infrastructure operators to work together in a coordinated global response to cyber defense. In an open letter signed by over 100 organizations, including Microsoft, Google, AWS, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike,…
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Echo Buys Minimus After Container Defense Startup Winds Down
Echo Says Minimus Acquisition Expands Support for Different Container Approaches. Echo acquired Louisiana-based Minimus’ technology, IP and customer contracts days after the container security startup announced plans to shut down, giving New York-based Echo a second approach to securing container images while preserving Minimus’ platform and customers. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/echo-buys-minimus-after-container-defense-startup-winds-down-a-32676
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Warn of ‘Limited Window’ for AI Cyber Defense
OpenAI and Anthropic are among more than 100 tech companies that are calling for a collective action for creating stronger protections against the threats emerging with the powerful AI models that they’re building. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/openai-anthropic-warn-of-limited-window-for-ai-cyber-defense/
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Breach Roundup: A Call for Cyber Defense Collective Action
e=4>This week: a call for cyber defense, OpenAI banned Russian ChatGPT accounts, critical Gitea flaw, U.K. airport passenger data theft, North Korean remote workers, Barcelona police data, Norway services hit by DDoS, Taiwan charged 9 over AI server exports and Nigeria advanced a sovereign cloud push. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/breach-roundup-call-for-cyber-defense-collective-action-a-32673
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Salt Typhoon Is Already Inside Encryption Doesn’t Solve the Problem
Tags: access, advisory, ai, api, china, cisa, cloud, communications, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, microsoft, network, resilience, risk, router, saas, service, software, strategy, switch, technology, theft, threat, tool<div cla COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY BRIEFING What Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon reveal about the next front in communications security, and why hardened transport is the missing layer Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon mark a deliberate shift in how state-sponsored cyber campaigns operate. Rather than chasing endpoints or applications, these actors have gone after the infrastructure…
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Salt Typhoon Is Already Inside Encryption Doesn’t Solve the Problem
Tags: access, advisory, ai, api, china, cisa, cloud, communications, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, microsoft, network, resilience, risk, router, saas, service, software, strategy, switch, technology, theft, threat, tool<div cla COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY BRIEFING What Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon reveal about the next front in communications security, and why hardened transport is the missing layer Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon mark a deliberate shift in how state-sponsored cyber campaigns operate. Rather than chasing endpoints or applications, these actors have gone after the infrastructure…
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100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI-powered cyber defense
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others say there’s a narrow “defenders’ window” to strengthen security before AI-powered attacks become more sophisticated. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ai-cyber-defense-global-surge/
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From tool stack to defense system: Connecting the security dots
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/resource/from-tool-stack-to-defense-system-connecting-the-security-dots
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From tool stack to defense system: Connecting the security dots
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/resource/from-tool-stack-to-defense-system-connecting-the-security-dots
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A Reported Log4j RCE Is More Complicated Than It Looks
<div cla TL;DR A recently circulated Log4j finding demonstrates a reproducible bypass of a defense-in-depth deserialization control involving FilteredObjectInputStream. Sonatype does not currently consider this a clear-cut Log4j vulnerability. Apache explicitly warns that deserializing untrusted data is unsafe and treats these filters as hardening measures rather than complete security boundaries. Exploitation requires uncommon, legacy-style application…
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A Reported Log4j RCE Is More Complicated Than It Looks
<div cla TL;DR A recently circulated Log4j finding demonstrates a reproducible bypass of a defense-in-depth deserialization control involving FilteredObjectInputStream. Sonatype does not currently consider this a clear-cut Log4j vulnerability. Apache explicitly warns that deserializing untrusted data is unsafe and treats these filters as hardening measures rather than complete security boundaries. Exploitation requires uncommon, legacy-style application…
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A Reported Log4j RCE Is More Complicated Than It Looks
<div cla TL;DR A recently circulated Log4j finding demonstrates a reproducible bypass of a defense-in-depth deserialization control involving FilteredObjectInputStream. Sonatype does not currently consider this a clear-cut Log4j vulnerability. Apache explicitly warns that deserializing untrusted data is unsafe and treats these filters as hardening measures rather than complete security boundaries. Exploitation requires uncommon, legacy-style application…
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A Reported Log4j RCE Is More Complicated Than It Looks
<div cla TL;DR A recently circulated Log4j finding demonstrates a reproducible bypass of a defense-in-depth deserialization control involving FilteredObjectInputStream. Sonatype does not currently consider this a clear-cut Log4j vulnerability. Apache explicitly warns that deserializing untrusted data is unsafe and treats these filters as hardening measures rather than complete security boundaries. Exploitation requires uncommon, legacy-style application…
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Why human-speed defense has failed
Tags: defenseFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/perspective/why-human-speed-defense-has-failed
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Core Werewolf Hackers Deploy New CoreRAT Malware Against Russian Government and Defense Organizations
The Core Werewolf espionage cluster has introduced a previously undocumented remote access trojan dubbed CoreRAT in targeted attacks on Russian public-sector bodies and defense-industry organizations. The shift is notable because Core Werewolf, previously associated with the abuse of legitimate UltraVNC remote-access software and smaller custom backdoors, now operates a full-featured C++ RAT of its own.…
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Is Cyber Facing an Affordability Crisis?
As breach costs reach record highs and defense spending nears $240 billion, small businesses are dangerously exposed, threatening supply chain security. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/is-cyber-facing-an-affordability-crisis-
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After Mythos: When the Attacker Doesn’t Need to Log In
AI Agents Are Rewriting Attack Economics, CISO Risk and Enterprise Defense For years, the attacker’s problem was access. Steal a credential, find an open port and wait. Today, increasingly, the attacker’s problem is simply asking an AI model the right question. That change was the real topic at a recent roundtable of CISOs and Microsoft…
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After Mythos: When the Attacker Doesn’t Need to Log In
AI Agents Are Rewriting Attack Economics, CISO Risk and Enterprise Defense For years, the attacker’s problem was access. Steal a credential, find an open port and wait. Today, increasingly, the attacker’s problem is simply asking an AI model the right question. That change was the real topic at a recent roundtable of CISOs and Microsoft…
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DDoS Testing Tools: How to Choose a Test That Proves Your Defenses Work
A practical guide for security teams comparing free tools, self-service platforms, and expert-led testing DDoS testing tools range from free traffic generators to self-service platforms and expert-led simulations. The right choice is not the tool that can simulate DDoS attack traffic at the highest volume, but the one that produces credible evidence about the risks……
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Salesforce gave every org the same free scanner. Attackers already know what it misses.
Tags: defenseA defense every attacker can rehearse against isn’t a defense. It’s a false sense of security. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/spons/salesforce-gave-every-org-the-same-free-scanner-attackers-already-know-wha/828063/
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Defense contractors still struggling with basic CMMC requirements
Tags: defenseA “confidence disconnect” is plaguing the industry, a consulting firm said. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/defense-contractors-cmmc-cybersecurity-confidence-gap/828494/
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Anthropic Brings Claude Mythos 5 to Cyber Defenders for Vulnerability Scanning and Patching
Anthropic has enhanced its AI-driven cyber defense offerings by integrating Claude Mythos 5 into Claude Security. This new feature enables enterprise customers to scan their own codebases for security vulnerabilities and receive suggested remediation patches. This rollout, announced on August 21, 2026, introduces the company’s most advanced cyber model into a structured workflow that delivers…