Tag: defense
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Navigating the Cybersecurity Budget TugWar
Companies ready to move beyond reactive defense and toward full-spectrum protection need to invest in strategies that rally around resiliency, unified cybersecurity, and data protection. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/navigating-cybersecurity-budget-tug-of-war
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Strengthening Cyber Defense for Underserved Sectors
Former CISA Chief Easterly on AI-Driven Security and Public-Private Partnerships. Jen Easterly, former director of CISA and now a strategic advisory board member for Huntress, is focusing on boosting cyber resilience for small and medium enterprises. These organizations often face sophisticated attacks but lack the resources to defend themselves. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Third-Party Risk Set to Reshape AI Security
Lytical Ventures’ Taylor Margot on Autonomous Agents and New AI Defenses. As AI shifts toward autonomous agents, organizations face growing exposure from third-party systems. Strong permissioning, data orchestration and new defenses are essential to protect against opaque and potentially costly security risks, said Taylor Margot, partner at Lytical Ventures. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Researchers Detail Script-Masking Tactics That Bypass Defenses
Security researchers and cybersecurity professionals are highlighting the growing sophistication of payload obfuscation techniques that allow malicious actors to bypass traditional defense mechanisms. As organizations increasingly rely on web application firewalls (WAFs) and automated security tools, attackers are developing more creative methods to disguise their malicious code as harmless data, presenting significant challenges for enterprise…
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9 things CISOs need know about the dark web
Tags: 2fa, access, ai, attack, automation, backup, blockchain, botnet, breach, captcha, ceo, ciso, communications, corporate, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, ddos, deep-fake, defense, detection, dns, exploit, extortion, finance, fraud, group, guide, hacking, identity, incident, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, law, leak, lockbit, malicious, malware, marketplace, mfa, monitoring, network, open-source, phishing, privacy, ransomware, resilience, risk, russia, saas, scam, service, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayNew groups form after major marketplaces are disrupted: International takedown efforts damage infrastructure and curb cybercrime operations by disrupting larger operations, removing major players from the ecosystem and scattering user bases.However, the dark web is highly adaptive and sophisticated actors often maintain contingency plans, including mirrors, backups, and alternative forums, according to Edward Currie, associate…
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BSidesSF 2025: Netsec Is Dead(?): Modern Network Fingerprinting For Real-World Defense
Creator/Author/Presenter: Vlad Iliushin Our deep appreciation to Security BSides – San Francisco and the Creators, Authors and Presenters for publishing their BSidesSF 2025 video content on YouTube. Originating from the conference’s events held at the lauded CityView / AMC Metreon – certainly a venue like no other; and via the organization’s YouTube channel. Additionally, the…
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UAC-0099 Tactics, Techniques, Procedures and Attack Methods Revealed
Tags: attack, cyber, defense, email, espionage, government, malicious, military, phishing, powershell, spear-phishing, tactics, threat, ukraineUAC-0099, a persistent threat actor active since at least 2022, has conducted sophisticated cyber-espionage operations against Ukrainian government, military, and defense entities, evolving its toolkit across three major campaigns documented in CERT-UA alerts from June 2023, December 2024, and August 2025. Initially relying on the PowerShell-based LONEPAGE loader delivered via spear-phishing emails with malicious attachments…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: BadCam Attack, WinRAR 0-Day, EDR Killer, NVIDIA Flaws, Ransomware Attacks & More
This week, cyber attackers are moving quickly, and businesses need to stay alert. They’re finding new weaknesses in popular software and coming up with clever ways to get around security. Even one unpatched flaw could let attackers in, leading to data theft or even taking control of your systems. The clock is ticking”, if defenses…
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CSO hiring on the rise: How to land a top security exec role
Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, finance, governance, government, healthcare, identity, incident, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, jobs, military, network, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, skills, software, strategy, technology, threat, trainingWide-scale AI adoption shaking up skills sought: In terms of the skills wanted of today’s CSO, Fuller agrees that AI is the game-changer.”Organizations are seeking cybersecurity leaders who combine technical depth, AI fluency, and strong interpersonal skills,” Fuller says. “AI literacy is now a baseline expectation, as CISOs must understand how to defend against AI-driven…
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Can Your Cybersecurity Handle Evolving Threats?
Are Your Cybersecurity Measures Equipped to Handle Evolving Threats? Do you often question the adequacy of your cybersecurity measures against constantly shifting of digital threats? The key lies in comprehensively managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Secrets Security Management. It is a crucial aspect of cybersecurity often overlooked, leaving gaping holes in the defense of many……
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Otorio Buy Fuels Armis’ OT Security and AI-Driven Growth
CEO Yevgeny Dibrov Says Otorio Acquisition Positions Armis for Strong Growth. Armis CEO Yevgeny Dibrov outlines how the Otorio acquisition is driving OT security advances, enabling on-prem deployments and secure remote access. He also details AI’s role in defense, Nvidia collaborations and upcoming products to expand the cyber exposure management suite. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Arctic Wolf Boosts MSP Tools, AI in Endpoint Defense Upgrade
CEO Nick Schneider Says Cylance Integration Expands Security Platform Value. Roughly half of clients adopting Aurora endpoint security are replacing older, legacy endpoint solutions, while the other half are swapping out or augmenting next-gen endpoint tools, said CEO Nick Schneider. Arctic Wolf’s security operations in Cylance’s technology has created a unified platform delivering more than…
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NSA partnering with cyber firms to support under-resourced defense contractors
The spy agency has sought out creative ways to help protect small companies supplying the U.S. military. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nsa-defense-contractors-cybersecurity-help-black-hat/757169/
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What is a CISO? The top IT security leader role explained
Tags: access, authentication, breach, business, ceo, cio, cisa, ciso, compliance, computer, container, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, dns, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, framework, fraud, guide, Hardware, healthcare, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, kubernetes, mitigation, msp, mssp, network, nist, programming, RedTeam, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, skills, software, strategy, technology, threat, training, vpn, zero-day, zero-trust. You’ll often hear people say the difference between the two is that CISOs focus entirely on information security issues, while a CSOs remit is wider, also taking in physical security as well as risk management.But reality is messier. Many companies, especially smaller ones, have only one C-level security officer, called a CSO, with IT…
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CMMC Final Rule: Clear Steps for DoD Contractors
Key Takeaways Understanding the CMMC Final Rule: Why It Matters Now For years, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) has been discussed as a future requirement for defense contractors. But until recently, it served as a framework under development, not enforceable by law. That changed in October 2024, when the Department of Defense (DoD) published……
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#BHUSA: 1000 DoD Contractors Now Covered by NSA’s Free Cyber Services Program
The NSA’s CAPT program, launched in 2024 with Horizon3.ai, now benefits 1000 of the 300,000 US Defense Industrial Base companies First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/dod-contractors-nsa-cyber-services/
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10 Best Red Teaming Companies for Advanced Attack Simulation in 2025
Tags: attack, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, penetration-testing, RedTeam, tactics, threat, vulnerabilityRed teaming companies are specialized cybersecurity firms that use a proactive, adversarial approach to test an organization’s defenses by simulating a real-world cyberattack. Unlike traditional penetration testing, which typically focuses on finding specific vulnerabilities, red teaming emulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor. The goal is to evaluate…
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Hackers Exploit SVG Files with Embedded JavaScript to Deploy Malware on Windows Systems
Threat actors are increasingly using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files to get beyond traditional defenses in the quickly developing field of cybersecurity. Unlike raster formats such as JPEG or PNG, which store pixel-based data, SVGs are XML-structured documents that define vector shapes, paths, and text, enabling seamless scalability. This inherent flexibility, however, permits the embedding…
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KnowBe4 erweitert agentische KI zur Abwehr KI-gestützter Bedrohungen
Die weltweit renommierte Cybersicherheitsplattform KnowBe4, die sich umfassend mit Human-Risk-Management befasst, stellt die Erfolge seiner Kunden in den Mittelpunkt, die mithilfe der HRM+-Plattform tiefgreifende Transformationen ihrer Sicherheitsprogramme erzielen konnten. Durch den Einsatz KI-gestützter Lösungen wie AIDA (Artificial-Intelligence-Defense-Agents) gelang es Unternehmen wie der First Community Credit Union, den ‘Phish-prone Percentage” (PPP) nahezu auf ein Prozent zu…
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Weaponizing Microsoft 365 Direct Send to Bypass Email Security Defenses
Security researchers at StrongestLayer, in collaboration with Jeremy, a seasoned Security Architect at a major manufacturing firm, have exposed a multi-layered spear phishing attack that exploits Microsoft 365’s Direct Send feature to infiltrate corporate email systems. The campaign, flagged initially by StrongestLayer’s AI system TRACE, masqueraded as innocuous voicemail notifications from services like RingCentral, but…
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Project Ire: Microsoft’s autonomous AI agent that can reverse engineer malware
Tags: ai, attack, ceo, cloud, compliance, computing, control, cybersecurity, defense, detection, exploit, finance, governance, government, healthcare, infrastructure, LLM, malicious, malware, microsoft, programming, risk, service, siem, soar, soc, software, threat, tool, trainingReal-world testing: In real-world tests on 4,000 “hard-target” files that had stumped automated tools, Project Ire flagged 9 malicious files out of 10 files correctly, and a low 4% false positive rate.This makes Project Ire suitable for organizations that operate in high-risk, high-volume, and time-sensitive environments where traditional human-based threat triage is insufficient.Rawat added that…
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Hackers Exploit Legitimate Drivers to Disable Antivirus and Weaken System Defenses
Tags: antivirus, cyber, defense, exploit, hacker, kaspersky, malware, ransomware, threat, vulnerabilityThreat actors have been deploying a novel antivirus (AV) killer since at least October 2024, leveraging the legitimate ThrottleStop.sys driver to execute Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) tactics. This malware, detected by Kaspersky as Win64.KillAV., systematically terminates AV processes, paving the way for ransomware deployment like the MedusaLocker variant (Trojan-Ransom.Win32.PaidMeme.). The incident began with…
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The AI-Powered Security Shift: What 2025 Is Teaching Us About Cloud Defense
Now that we are well into 2025, cloud attacks are evolving faster than ever and artificial intelligence (AI) is both a weapon and a shield. As AI rapidly changes how enterprises innovate, security teams are now tasked with a triple burden:Secure AI embedded in every part of the business.Use AI to defend faster and smarter.Fight…
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The AI-Powered Security Shift: What 2025 Is Teaching Us About Cloud Defense
Now that we are well into 2025, cloud attacks are evolving faster than ever and artificial intelligence (AI) is both a weapon and a shield. As AI rapidly changes how enterprises innovate, security teams are now tasked with a triple burden:Secure AI embedded in every part of the business.Use AI to defend faster and smarter.Fight…
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CERT-UA warns of UAC-0099 phishing attacks targeting Ukraine’s defense sector
Ukraine’s CERT-UA warns of phishing attacks by UAC-0099 targeting defense sectors, using malware like MATCHBOIL, MATCHWOK, and DRAGSTARE. Ukraine’s CERT-UA warns of phishing attacks by threat actor UAC-0099 targeting government and defense sectors, delivering malware like MATCHBOIL and DRAGSTARE. The National Cyber Incident, Cyber Attack, and Cyber Threat Response Team CERT-UA investigated multiple attacks against…
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Multiple Ransomware Groups are Using Tool to Kill EDR Defenses: Sophos
Multiple ransomware vendors are using the same EDR killer tool, which not only adds to the trend in developing such payloads to terminate protections for systems but also suggests that competing threat actors are sharing tools and technical knowledge, which is another challenge for security vendors, Sophos says. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article:…