Tag: detection
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North Korea led the world in nation-state hacking in Q2 and Q3
Security leaders should prioritize anomalous-activity detection and zero-trust principles, a new report recommends. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/north-korea-hacking-trellix-report/803641/
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Lazarus group targets European drone makers in new espionage campaign
Drone-component theft meets geopolitical ambition: The targeting of firms linked to UAV design and manufacture is no coincidence. At least two of the companies compromised were tied to critical drone component supply chains and software systems.”The in-the-wild attacks successively targeted three European companies active in the defense sector,” researchers added. “Although their activities are somewhat…
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Shifting from reactive to proactive: Cyber resilience amid nation-state espionage
In recent years, the cybersecurity industry has made significant strides in securing endpoints with advanced Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions, and we have been successful in making life more difficult for our adversaries. While this progress is a victory, it has also produced a predictable and dangerous consequence where threat actors are shifting their…
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Shifting from reactive to proactive: Cyber resilience amid nation-state espionage
In recent years, the cybersecurity industry has made significant strides in securing endpoints with advanced Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions, and we have been successful in making life more difficult for our adversaries. While this progress is a victory, it has also produced a predictable and dangerous consequence where threat actors are shifting their…
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Dataminr to Buy ThreatConnect for $290M in Intelligence Push
Proposed Acquisition Aims to Merge Internal Risk Data With External Threat Signals. Dataminr will acquire ThreatConnect, combining public data detection with internal intelligence to give CISOs an AI-powered, context-aware response platform. The deal is producing results for shared customers and is central to Dataminr’s push toward predictive, client-specific cybersecurity tools. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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NDSS 2025 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) 2025, co-located with the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025 Afternoon, Session 3
Authors, Creators & Presenters: PAPERS Vision: Retiring Scenarios — Enabling Ecologically Valid Measurement in Phishing Detection Research with PhishyMailbox Oliver D. Reithmaier (Leibniz University Hannover), Thorsten Thiel (Atmina Solutions), Anne Vonderheide (Leibniz University Hannover), Markus Dürmuth (Leibniz University Hannover) Vision: Towards True User-Centric Design for Digital Identity Wallets Yorick Last (Paderborn University), Patricia Arias Cabarcos…
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Closing the Loop: The Future of Automated Vulnerability Remediation
At Qualys ROCon 2025, Alan catches up with Eran Livne, senior director of endpoint remediation at Qualys, to discuss how organizations are evolving from vulnerability detection to true automated remediation. Livne, who helped build Qualys’ remediation platform from the ground up, reflects on how the industry’s approach to vulnerability management has changed. For years, the..…
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JumpCloud Acquires Identity Threat Detection Startup Breez
JumpCloud announced Thursday it has acquired a startup, Breez, which will bring capabilities for identity threat detection and response to its platform. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/jumpcloud-acquires-identity-threat-detection-startup-breez
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Agentic AI: A Force Multiplier CISOs Can’t Afford to Ignore
AI-Powered Threats Demand AI-Driven Defense As AI reshapes the cyber battlefield, CISOs face unprecedented pressure to defend at machine speed. Discover how agentic AI and deep observability are transforming defense from detection to foresight. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/agentic-ai-force-multiplier-cisos-cant-afford-to-ignore-p-3959
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Agentic AI: A Force Multiplier CISOs Can’t Afford to Ignore
AI-Powered Threats Demand AI-Driven Defense As AI reshapes the cyber battlefield, CISOs face unprecedented pressure to defend at machine speed. Discover how agentic AI and deep observability are transforming defense from detection to foresight. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/agentic-ai-force-multiplier-cisos-cant-afford-to-ignore-p-3959
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Agentic AI: A Force Multiplier CISOs Can’t Afford to Ignore
AI-Powered Threats Demand AI-Driven Defense As AI reshapes the cyber battlefield, CISOs face unprecedented pressure to defend at machine speed. Discover how agentic AI and deep observability are transforming defense from detection to foresight. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/agentic-ai-force-multiplier-cisos-cant-afford-to-ignore-p-3959
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Smarter Threats Need Smarter Defenses: AI, APIs, and the Reality for Critical Infrastructure Security
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, risk, saas, service, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, wafSmarter Threats Need Smarter Defenses: AI, APIs, and the Reality for Critical Infrastructure Security madhav Thu, 10/23/2025 – 05:36 Critical infrastructure (CI) organizations are, as the name suggests, some of the most important in the global economy. They’re also some of the most technologically complex and, crucially, vulnerable. Their security must reflect that. Data Security…
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Smarter Threats Need Smarter Defenses: AI, APIs, and the Reality for Critical Infrastructure Security
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, risk, saas, service, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, wafSmarter Threats Need Smarter Defenses: AI, APIs, and the Reality for Critical Infrastructure Security madhav Thu, 10/23/2025 – 05:36 Critical infrastructure (CI) organizations are, as the name suggests, some of the most important in the global economy. They’re also some of the most technologically complex and, crucially, vulnerable. Their security must reflect that. Data Security…
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Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization
Tags: access, ai, corporate, defense, detection, guide, risk, risk-assessment, strategy, supply-chain, tool, vulnerability“The main factor in last quarter’s delay was supply chain disruption.””The key outcome was overwhelmingly positive client feedback.””Our takeaway here is in alignment moving forward.””What matters here is the efficiency gains, not the temporary cost overrun.”The techniques are subtle. They employ high-signal phrases such as “key takeaway” and “action item,” keep statements short and clear,…
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Manipulating the meeting notetaker: The rise of AI summarization optimization
Tags: access, ai, corporate, defense, detection, guide, risk, risk-assessment, strategy, supply-chain, tool, vulnerability“The main factor in last quarter’s delay was supply chain disruption.””The key outcome was overwhelmingly positive client feedback.””Our takeaway here is in alignment moving forward.””What matters here is the efficiency gains, not the temporary cost overrun.”The techniques are subtle. They employ high-signal phrases such as “key takeaway” and “action item,” keep statements short and clear,…
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Dataminr to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm ThreatConnect in $290M Deal
The acquisition aims to merge Dataminr’s AI-driven real-time event detection with ThreatConnect’s internal threat management capabilities. The post Dataminr to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm ThreatConnect in $290M Deal appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-dataminr-buys-threatconnect/
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Fileless Remcos Attacks: Injecting Malicious Code into RMClient to Evade EDR
CyberProof researchers detected a significant surge in Remcos (Remote Control & Surveillance Software) campaigns throughout September and October 2025, exploiting sophisticated fileless techniques to evade endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. By leveraging highly obfuscated PowerShell scripts and process hollowing into Microsoft’s RMClient.exe, attackers are gaining stealthy persistence and targeting browser credentials. Although Remcos is…
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‘I am not a robot’: Russian hackers use fake CAPTCHA lures to deploy espionage tools
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, captcha, ceo, communications, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, endpoint, espionage, exploit, group, hacker, incident response, least-privilege, login, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, phishing, powershell, russia, strategy, tactics, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustEvolving tactics and strategies: Analysts said ColdRiver, which for years focused on credential theft and email account compromise, is shifting toward multi-stage intrusions that rely on users to execute malicious code.By using ClickFix pages that mimic CAPTCHA verification screens, the group can bypass email security filters and deliver malware directly to victims’ devices, increasing the…
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Hackers Use ASP.NET Machine Keys to Break Into IIS, Push Malicious Extensions
Tags: china, cyber, cybersecurity, detection, exploit, framework, hacker, malicious, monitoring, threatIn September 2025, Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Cybersecurity, a managed detection and response provider, in collaboration with Elastic Security Labs, uncovered a sophisticated post-exploitation campaign by a Chinese-speaking threat actor. Using this method, the attackers installed a malicious IIS module named TOLLBOOTH, deployed a Godzilla-forked webshell framework, leveraged the GotoHTTP remote monitoring and management…
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Bridging the Remediation Gap: Introducing Pentera Resolve
From Detection to Resolution: Why the Gap PersistsA critical vulnerability is identified in an exposed cloud asset. Within hours, five different tools alert you about it: your vulnerability scanner, XDR, CSPM, SIEM, and CMDB each surface the issue in their own way, with different severity levels, metadata, and context.What’s missing is a system of action.…
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CAASM and EASM: Top 12 attack surface discovery and management tools
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, blockchain, business, cloud, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, detection, dns, endpoint, exploit, framework, guide, hacking, HIPAA, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, marketplace, microsoft, monitoring, network, open-source, PCI, risk, risk-assessment, service, soc, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityCAASM and EASM tools for attack surface discovery and management: Periodic scans of the network are no longer sufficient for maintaining a hardened attack surface. Continuous monitoring for new assets and configuration drift are critical to ensure the security of corporate resources and customer data.New assets need to be identified and incorporated into the monitoring…
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New Rust Malware “ChaosBot” Hides CommandControl Inside Discord
A sophisticated, Rust-based malware dubbed ChaosBot has been exposed utilizing the Discord platform for its Command and Control (C2) operations. This isn’t your average botnet; it’s a new generation of threat that hides its malicious traffic by communicating over the popular, legitimate service, making detection significantly more challenging for traditional security tools. ChaosBot operates by…
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New Rust Malware “ChaosBot” Hides CommandControl Inside Discord
A sophisticated, Rust-based malware dubbed ChaosBot has been exposed utilizing the Discord platform for its Command and Control (C2) operations. This isn’t your average botnet; it’s a new generation of threat that hides its malicious traffic by communicating over the popular, legitimate service, making detection significantly more challenging for traditional security tools. ChaosBot operates by…
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Dead-Drop Resolvers: Malware’s Quiet Rendezvous and Why Adaptive Defense Matters
At this weekend’s BSides NYC, Dr. Jonathan Fuller, CISO of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, delivered an extremely clear talk on how modern malware hides its command-and-control (C2) infrastructure through dead-drop resolvers. Fuller, who co-authored Georgia Tech’s VADER project, described how adversaries increasingly use public platforms-GitHub, Dropbox, Pastebin, even blockchain transactions-as-covert meeting points…
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Russia’s Coldriver Revamps Malware to Evade Detection
Russian Intel Hackers Flexible in Face of Detection. Russia-linked threat group COLDRIVER rapidly replaced its exposed malware with a stealthier PowerShell variant, using fake CAPTCHA prompts and cryptographic key-splitting to evade detection and escalate surveillance on NGOs, dissidents and policy experts, according to new research. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/russias-coldriver-revamps-malware-to-evade-detection-a-29776
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NDSS 2025 Workshop On Security And Privacy Of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG) 2025, Session 1. Panelists Papers SESSION Opening Remarks, Panel And FutureG 2025 Session 1: AI-Assisted NextG
Tags: 5G, ai, conference, detection, government, Internet, LLM, network, open-source, privacy, vulnerabilityPanelists: Ted K. Woodward, Ph.D. Technical Director for FutureG, OUSD (R&E) Phillip Porras, Program Director, Internet Security Research, SRI Donald McBride, Senior Security Researcher, Bell Laboratories, Nokia This panel aims to bring together various participants and stakeholders from government, industry, and academia to present and discuss recent innovations and explore options to enable recent 5G…
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AI-enabled ransomware attacks: CISO’s top security concern, with good reason
Ransomware’s AI-powered future: Although CrowdStrike’s latest survey doesn’t provide a full picture of AI’s use by ransomware gangs, the fact that generative AI is proving highly effective in crafting phishing emails that lead to ransomware infections shows the tip of the iceberg CISOs face.CrowdStrike Field CTO Cristian Rodriguez tells CSO, “We’re seeing AI touch every…
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Erkennung der Risiken von Identitäten und kompromittierten Anmeldeinformationen
Sophos kündigt sein für Sophos-XDR und Sophos-MDR an. Diese neue Lösung überwacht kontinuierlich die Kundenumgebung auf Risiken und Fehlkonfigurationen von Identitäten und durchsucht das Darknet nach kompromittierten Zugangsdaten. Damit ermöglicht sie eine schnelle Erkennung und die Reaktion auf identitätsbasierte Angriffe. Darüber hinaus identifiziert ITDR risikoreiches Benutzerverhalten, welches für […] First seen on netzpalaver.de Jump to…