Tag: infrastructure
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DDoS Malware Targets Jenkins to Hit Valve Game Servers
A new DDoS botnet that abuses exposed Jenkins servers to launch powerful attacks against Valve Source Engine game infrastructure, including servers hosting titles like Counter”‘Strike and Team Fortress 2. The campaign shows how a single misconfigured CI server can be turned into a multi”‘platform attack node capable of UDP, TCP, and application”‘layer floods against online…
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China-Aligned Hackers Deploy ShadowPad in Multi-Stage Espionage Campaign
Tags: china, cyber, espionage, exploit, government, group, hacker, infrastructure, microsoft, threat, vulnerabilityChina-aligned threat actors tracked as SHADOW-EARTH-053 are exploiting old but unpatched Microsoft Exchange and IIS vulnerabilities to run a stealthy, multi-stage espionage campaign across Asian governments, critical infrastructure, and one NATO member state. The group primarily targets government entities and critical infrastructure in South, East, and Southeast Asia, with additional activity against at least one…
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DHS Shutdown Ends as CISA Faces Long Recovery
Bipartisan Deal Funds DHS Components After Record 75-Day Shutdown. The House passed a bipartisan bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, ending a 75-day shutdown that forced the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency into a reactive posture and disrupted preventive cyber operations, even as workforce losses and proposed cuts threaten long-term resilience. First seen on…
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Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): Frequently asked questions about Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability
Tags: access, ai, attack, browser, cisa, cloud, container, crypto, cve, cybersecurity, data, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, linux, mitigation, ransomware, risk, tool, update, vulnerabilityA flaw in the Linux kernel present since 2017 allows a local user to gain root access on virtually every major Linux distribution. A public exploit is available and reported to work reliably. Key Takeaways CVE-2026-31431 is a high severity local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel reportedly affecting virtually every major distribution released…
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Top 5 Strategies for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security in 2026
Top 5 Strategies for Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security in 2026 First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/top-5-strategies-for-post-quantum-ai-infrastructure-security-in-2026/
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SHARED INTEL QA: PKI’s unfinished business”, ‘digital passports’ for content, models and agents
As if keeping track of machine identities wasn’t hard enough. AI agents are now arriving by the thousands, and most enterprises are just handing them borrowed credentials and hoping for the best. Meanwhile, the cryptographic infrastructure asked to absorb… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/shared-intel-qa-pkis-unfinished-business-digital-passports-for-content-models-and-agents/
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Why Enterprises Need an MCP Gateway, Not Native Connectors
Anthropic made the architectural case for MCP gateways at an AI Engineer conference recently. The talk was titled “Why Gateways Are All You Need”. It laid out exactly why enterprise MCP deployments stall and what the path forward looks like. Three specific takeaways were shared: invest in common infrastructure, treat the gateway as your root……
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Dismantle implicit trust in OT networks, CISA tells critical infrastructure operators
Tags: access, ai, cisa, communications, control, data-breach, detection, firewall, guide, infrastructure, network, open-source, siem, tactics, tool, vpn, zero-trustWhat it means for security teams: The publication closes a gap that CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model 2.0 acknowledged, having stated it did not address challenges specific to operational technology. It follows February’s Barriers to Secure OT Communications and earlier CISA warnings that exposed VPNs, firewalls, and legacy edge devices remain the dominant entry points…
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…
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ODNI to CISOs on threat assessments: You’re on your own
Tags: access, ai, china, ciso, computer, control, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, disinformation, encryption, finance, framework, government, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, korea, metric, resilience, risk, russia, service, strategy, technology, theft, threat, tool, warfareThe bifurcated framework: Operational reporting vs. homeland focus: The report now operates on two distinct tracks that risk narrowing the threat horizon for CROs. In a departure from traditional probabilistic forecasting, the IC has transitioned toward active operational reporting. This shift prioritizes immediate success metrics, such as a significant drop in border encounters and fentanyl…
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Bad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, banking, business, container, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, exploit, finance, fraud, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, LLM, malicious, monitoring, resilience, risk, service, threat, tool, vulnerabilityBad Bots in the Agentic Age: What the 2026 Thales Bad Bot Report Reveals josh.pearson@t“¦ Thu, 04/30/2026 – 07:31 The modern internet is becoming less human by the day. Bot traffic is increasing, and human traffic is shrinking. Malicious automated traffic is getting harder to spot. The Thales 2026 Bad Bot Report, now in it’s…
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Wer UCC nur als Meeting-Tool absichert, unterschätzt das Risiko – Unified Communication gehört heute zur kritischen Infrastruktur
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/ucc-sicherheit-kritische-infrastruktur-security-by-design-a-994134541ca28ca73ac75e67a35c50db/
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Bad bots make up 40% of internet traffic
The normalization of AI and automation within internet infrastructure is changing how organizations interpret traffic. Activity that once appeared anomalous is now treated as … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/30/thales-ai-driven-bot-traffic-rise-report/
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KasadaIQ’s Q1 Insights: How AI Became Adversary Infrastructure
KasadaIQ’s Q1 2026 Threat Intelligence Report highlights a structural shift in automated threats: AI is now embedded across the adversary lifecycle. From large-scale account commoditization to verification bypass and AI agent exploitation, organizations face a rapidly evolving and industrialized threat environment. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/kasadaiqs-q1-insights-how-ai-became-adversary-infrastructure/
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KasadaIQ’s Q1 Insights: How AI Became Adversary Infrastructure
KasadaIQ’s Q1 2026 Threat Intelligence Report highlights a structural shift in automated threats: AI is now embedded across the adversary lifecycle. From large-scale account commoditization to verification bypass and AI agent exploitation, organizations face a rapidly evolving and industrialized threat environment. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/kasadaiqs-q1-insights-how-ai-became-adversary-infrastructure/
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KasadaIQ’s Q1 Insights: How AI Became Adversary Infrastructure
KasadaIQ’s Q1 2026 Threat Intelligence Report highlights a structural shift in automated threats: AI is now embedded across the adversary lifecycle. From large-scale account commoditization to verification bypass and AI agent exploitation, organizations face a rapidly evolving and industrialized threat environment. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/kasadaiqs-q1-insights-how-ai-became-adversary-infrastructure/
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Congress, industry ponder government posture for protecting data centers
A hearing of the House Homeland Security panel’s cyber subcommittee weighed whether to designate data centers as a standalone critical infrastructure sector. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/congress-industry-ponder-government-posture-for-protecting-data-centers/
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Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security: Protecting MCP Deployments in 2026
Post-Quantum AI Infrastructure Security: Protecting MCP Deployments in 2026 First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/post-quantum-ai-infrastructure-security-protecting-mcp-deployments-in-2026/
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KI-gesteuerte Bot-Angriffe nehmen um das 12,5-Fache zu
Thales veröffentlicht die Ergebnisse des ‘2026 Bad Bot Reports: Bad Bots in the Agentic Age”. Sie zeigen einen grundlegenden Wandel in der Funktionsweise des Internets auf, denn mittlerweile ist die durch künstliche Intelligenz beschleunigte Automatisierung ein prägendes Merkmal der modernen digitalen Infrastruktur geworden. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen drei wesentliche strukturelle Veränderungen: das Aufkommen von KI-Agenten als neue…
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Visual Studio cloud agents now run inside GitHub Copilot
Microsoft’s April update to Visual Studio introduces cloud agent integration in GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to offload tasks to remote infrastructure for scalable, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/29/microsoft-visual-studio-cloud-agent-integration/
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CISA Warns of ConnectWise ScreenConnect Flaw Exploited in Attacks
Tags: attack, cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning regarding a critical security flaw in ConnectWise ScreenConnect. CVE-2024-1708 is currently being exploited in real-world attacks. Because of this active threat, CISA officially added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on April 28, 2026. This addition serves as a major…
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CISA Warns of ConnectWise ScreenConnect Flaw Exploited in Attacks
Tags: attack, cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning regarding a critical security flaw in ConnectWise ScreenConnect. CVE-2024-1708 is currently being exploited in real-world attacks. Because of this active threat, CISA officially added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on April 28, 2026. This addition serves as a major…
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CISA Warns of ConnectWise ScreenConnect Flaw Exploited in Attacks
Tags: attack, cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning regarding a critical security flaw in ConnectWise ScreenConnect. CVE-2024-1708 is currently being exploited in real-world attacks. Because of this active threat, CISA officially added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on April 28, 2026. This addition serves as a major…
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CISA orders feds to patch Windows flaw exploited as zero-day
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to secure their Windows systems against a vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-patch-windows-flaw-exploited-in-zero-day-attacks/
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GitHub Fixes Critical RCE Bug CVE-2026-3854 Within Hours of Discovery
Tags: cloud, cve, cvss, cybersecurity, flaw, github, infrastructure, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityCybersecurity researchers have revealed critical details about a newly identified RCE vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-3854, affecting both GitHub’s cloud infrastructure and GitHub Enterprise Server deployments. The flaw, which carries a high CVSS score of 8.7, could allow an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code on affected systems with a single crafted First seen on thecyberexpress.com…
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CISA Adds Actively Exploited ConnectWise and Windows Flaws to KEV
Tags: cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, vulnerability, windowsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting ConnectWise ScreenConnect and Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerabilities are listed below -CVE-2024-1708 (CVSS score: 8.4) – A path traversal vulnerability in ConnectWise ScreenConnect First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to…
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CISA Adds Actively Exploited ConnectWise and Windows Flaws to KEV
Tags: cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, vulnerability, windowsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting ConnectWise ScreenConnect and Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerabilities are listed below -CVE-2024-1708 (CVSS score: 8.4) – A path traversal vulnerability in ConnectWise ScreenConnect First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to…
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CISA Adds Actively Exploited ConnectWise and Windows Flaws to KEV
Tags: cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, vulnerability, windowsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting ConnectWise ScreenConnect and Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerabilities are listed below -CVE-2024-1708 (CVSS score: 8.4) – A path traversal vulnerability in ConnectWise ScreenConnect First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to…