Tag: incident response
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Attackers Use Legitimate Forensic Driver to Disable Endpoint Security, Huntress Warns
Tags: attack, cybercrime, endpoint, incident response, malicious, software, threat, tool, vulnerabilityCybercriminals are increasingly turning trusted software against defenders, according to new research from Huntress, which has uncovered a real-world attack in which threat actors used a legitimate but vulnerable driver to disable endpoint security tools before deploying further malicious activity. In a detailed incident response analysis, Huntress researchers observed attackers abusing an outdated EnCase forensic…
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The First 90 Seconds: How Early Decisions Shape Incident Response Investigations
Many incident response failures do not come from a lack of tools, intelligence, or technical skills. They come from what happens immediately after detection, when pressure is high, and information is incomplete.I have seen IR teams recover from sophisticated intrusions with limited telemetry. I have also seen teams lose control of investigations they should have…
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Why incident response breaks down when it matters most
Tags: incident responseIn this Help Net Security video, Jon David, Managing Director, NR Labs, discusses why incident response often breaks down during a breach. Drawing on years of experience … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/04/incident-response-failures-pressure-video/
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Notepad++ infrastructure hijacked by Chinese APT in sophisticated supply chain attack
Rapid7 identifies custom malware: Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 also published a detailed technical analysis corroborating Ho’s disclosure and identifying the attack as part of a broader campaign deploying previously undocumented malware. Rapid7’s investigation uncovered a custom backdoor the firm dubbed “Chrysalis,” alongside Cobalt Strike and Metasploit frameworks.”Forensic analysis conducted by the MDR team suggests that the…
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When responsible disclosure becomes unpaid labor
Tags: ai, bug-bounty, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, cve, cvss, cybersecurity, data, email, exploit, finance, flaw, governance, healthcare, incident response, infrastructure, jobs, open-source, ransom, risk, security-incident, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, warfaresupposed to function and how it increasingly does in practice. Enter the gray zone of ethical disclosure: The result is a growing gray zone between ethical research and adversarial pressure. Based on years of reporting on disclosure disputes, that gray zone tends to emerge through a small set of recurring failure modes.Silent treatment and severity…
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NIS2: Lieferketten als Risikofaktor
Tags: awareness, ciso, cloud, compliance, cyberattack, cyersecurity, firewall, incident response, monitoring, nis-2, risk, service, software, supply-chain, updateNIS2 verpflichtet CISOs die Sicherheit der Supply Chain stärker in den Blick zu nehmen. Viele Unternehmen investieren heute erhebliche Mittel, um ihre interne IT abzusichern. Firewalls, Monitoring, Incident-Response-Pläne und Awareness-Programme sind etabliert. Gleichzeitig wächst eine gefährliche Illusion: Die Annahme, dass sich Risiken innerhalb der eigenen Systemgrenzen kontrollieren lassen. Die Realität sieht anders aus. Moderne Geschäftsmodelle…
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Responding to Exposed Secrets An SRE’s Incident Response Playbook
Today, let’s take a closer look at incident response playbooks: how to build one, tailor it for secret leaks, take actions, and learn from incidents. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/responding-to-exposed-secrets-an-sres-incident-response-playbook/
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Overcoming AI fatigue
Tags: access, ai, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, control, data, finance, governance, incident response, jobs, metric, monitoring, privacy, risk, strategy, supply-chain, technology, tool, training, zero-trustbefore it becomes fully entrenched in every corner of the business. It’s a rare opportunity, one we shouldn’t waste. A big part of the confusion comes from the word “AI” itself. We use the same label to talk about a chatbot drafting marketing copy and autonomous agents that generate and implement incident response playbooks. Technically,…
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Incident response lessons learned the hard way
In this Help Net Security video, Ryan Seymour, VP, Consulting and Education at ConnectSecure, shares lessons from more than two decades in cybersecurity incident response. He … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/01/26/incident-response-failures-video/
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Ransomware gang’s slip-up led to data recovery for 12 US firms
Tags: access, attack, backup, breach, business, citrix, cloud, corporate, cyber, data, data-breach, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, group, incident response, infosec, infrastructure, law, linux, network, phishing, powershell, ransom, ransomware, risk, software, spear-phishing, sql, threat, tool, veeam, vulnerabilityscrutinize and audit your backups. If you have a regular backup schedule, is there unexpected or unexplained activity? Von Ramin Mapp notes that crooks are known to time data exfiltration to match corporate off-site backups as a way to hide their work;monitor for encrypted data leaving your environments and see where it goes. Does this…
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Filling the Most Common Gaps in Google Workspace Security
Security teams at agile, fast-growing companies often have the same mandate: secure the business without slowing it down. Most teams inherit a tech stack optimized for breakneck growth, not resilience. In these environments, the security team is the helpdesk, the compliance expert, and the incident response team all rolled into one.Securing the cloud office in…
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13 cyber questions to better vet IT vendors and reduce third-party risk
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, best-practice, breach, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, credit-card, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, extortion, firewall, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, international, ISO-27001, jobs, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, nist, password, PCI, penetration-testing, radius, ransomware, risk, saas, sans, security-incident, service, supply-chain, threat, update, vpn, vulnerabilityVital vendor questions CISOs should ask: To gain that critical information, security leaders and experts recommend CSOs ask IT partners the following cyber-specific questions. 1. What attestation will you provide to prove proper security controls are in place? These are essential, says Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO for cybersecurity and compliance platform Onapsis. Some of the…
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13 cyber questions to better vet IT vendors and reduce third-party risk
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, best-practice, breach, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, credit-card, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, extortion, firewall, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, international, ISO-27001, jobs, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, nist, password, PCI, penetration-testing, radius, ransomware, risk, saas, sans, security-incident, service, supply-chain, threat, update, vpn, vulnerabilityVital vendor questions CISOs should ask: To gain that critical information, security leaders and experts recommend CSOs ask IT partners the following cyber-specific questions. 1. What attestation will you provide to prove proper security controls are in place? These are essential, says Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO for cybersecurity and compliance platform Onapsis. Some of the…
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Fünf Chrome-Erweiterungen, die Unternehmenssitzungen kapern
Forscher haben fünf bösartige Chrome-Erweiterungen entdeckt.Forscher des Security-Anbieters Socket haben eine koordinierte Kampagne entdeckt, die auf bösartigen Chrome-Add-ons basiert. Die Angreifer haben die Abwehrmechanismen des Chrome Web Stores umgangen und Erweiterungen als Produktivitätswerkzeuge beworben.’Die Erweiterungen arbeiten zusammen, um Authentifizierungs-Token zu stehlen, Incident-Response-Funktionen zu blockieren und durch Session-Hijacking die vollständige Übernahme von Konten zu ermöglichen”, erklären…
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Fünf Chrome-Erweiterungen, die Unternehmenssitzungen kapern
Forscher haben fünf bösartige Chrome-Erweiterungen entdeckt.Forscher des Security-Anbieters Socket haben eine koordinierte Kampagne entdeckt, die auf bösartigen Chrome-Add-ons basiert. Die Angreifer haben die Abwehrmechanismen des Chrome Web Stores umgangen und Erweiterungen als Produktivitätswerkzeuge beworben.’Die Erweiterungen arbeiten zusammen, um Authentifizierungs-Token zu stehlen, Incident-Response-Funktionen zu blockieren und durch Session-Hijacking die vollständige Übernahme von Konten zu ermöglichen”, erklären…
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Neue EU-Schwachstellen-Datenbank gestartet
Die neue GCVE-Datenbank soll das Schwachstellenmanagement effizienter und einfacher machen.Mit db.gcve.eu stellt die GCVE-Initiative (Global Cybersecurity Vulnerability Enumeration) ab sofort eine kostenfreie, öffentlich zugängliche Datenbank für IT-Sicherheitslücken bereit. Ziel ist es, die Abhängigkeit von US-Datenbanken zu beenden und die digitale Souveränität in Europa zu stärken. Die Plattform führt Informationen aus verschiedenen öffentlichen Ressourcen zusammen. Dazu…
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The Cost of EKS Auto + Capabilities vs Fairwinds Managed KaaS
<div cla Amazon Web Services (AWS) has shifted more of the infrastructure burden from the customer to the service by automating Kubernetes management with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Auto Mode and EKS Capabilities. These features automate much of the cluster infrastructure (provisioning, scaling, networking, and storage) on top of the core EKS control plane.…
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SpyCloud Launches Supply Chain Solution to Combat Rising Third-Party Identity Threats
Tags: access, ai, authentication, breach, business, communications, compliance, credentials, cybercrime, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, government, grc, group, identity, incident response, infosec, infrastructure, malware, monitoring, phishing, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, toolFor government agencies and critical infrastructure operators, supply chain threats present national security risks that demand heightened vigilance. Public sector organizations managing sensitive data and critical services increasingly rely on contractors and technology vendors whose compromised credentials could provide adversaries with pathways into classified systems or essential infrastructure. Last year alone, the top 98 Defense…
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For application security: SCA, SAST, DAST and MAST. What next?
Tags: advisory, ai, application-security, automation, best-practice, business, cisa, cisco, cloud, compliance, container, control, cve, data, exploit, flaw, framework, gartner, government, guide, ibm, incident response, infrastructure, injection, kubernetes, least-privilege, ml, mobile, network, nist, resilience, risk, sbom, service, software, sql, supply-chain, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, waf<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024" alt="Chart: Posture, provenance and proof." class="wp-image-4115680" srcset="https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?quality=50&strip=all 1430w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=300%2C168&quality=50&strip=all 300w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=768%2C431&quality=50&strip=all 768w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=1024%2C575&quality=50&strip=all 1024w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=1240%2C697&quality=50&strip=all 1240w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=150%2C84&quality=50&strip=all 150w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=854%2C480&quality=50&strip=all 854w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=640%2C360&quality=50&strip=all 640w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/posture-provenance-proof.jpg?resize=444%2C250&quality=50&strip=all 444w” width=”1024″ height=”575″ sizes=”auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px” /> Sunil GentyalaOver the past year the community has admitted the obvious: the battleground is the software supply chain and…
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CMMC Incident Response Timelines and Reporting Rules
Information security frameworks like CMMC are not just about enforcing security. They’re about enforcing accountability. That’s why a whole section of controls and rules that make up CMMC centers around incident response and reporting. You can’t just have security in place, but throw your hands up and do nothing if there’s an incident or breach….…
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Fog Ransomware Targets U.S. Organizations via Compromised VPN Credentials
Tags: access, attack, credentials, cyber, encryption, exploit, incident response, ransomware, tactics, tool, vpn, vulnerabilityArctic Wolf Labs has uncovered a new ransomware variant dubbed >>Fog<< striking US organizations, primarily in education and recreation, through hijacked VPN access. First spotted on May 2, 2024, the attacks highlight vulnerabilities in remote access tools and the rapid encryption tactics used to exploit them."‹ Arctic Wolf's Incident Response team investigated multiple cases starting…
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Fog Ransomware Targets U.S. Organizations via Compromised VPN Credentials
Tags: access, attack, credentials, cyber, encryption, exploit, incident response, ransomware, tactics, tool, vpn, vulnerabilityArctic Wolf Labs has uncovered a new ransomware variant dubbed >>Fog<< striking US organizations, primarily in education and recreation, through hijacked VPN access. First spotted on May 2, 2024, the attacks highlight vulnerabilities in remote access tools and the rapid encryption tactics used to exploit them."‹ Arctic Wolf's Incident Response team investigated multiple cases starting…
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Enterprises still aren’t getting IAM right
Tags: access, ai, api, authentication, automation, cloud, control, credentials, cybersecurity, data, email, governance, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, least-privilege, password, risk, saas, service, toolJust 1% have fully implemented a modern just-in-time (JIT) privileged access model;91% say at least half of their privileged access is always-on (standard privilege), providing unrestricted, persistent access to sensitive systems;45% apply the same privileged access controls to human and AI identities;33% lack clear AI access policies.The research also revealed a growing issue with “shadow…