Tag: infrastructure
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SecPod launches Saner Cloud: A Revolutionary CNAPP For Preventive Cybersecurity
Moving Beyond Detection to Real-Time, Automated Security Across Workloads, Cloud, and Infrastructure SecPod, a global cybersecurity provider, has announced the General Availability of Saner Cloud, a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform designed to provide automated remediation and workload security across multi-cloud environments. Unlike conventional security solutions that focus primarily on detection, Saner Cloud integrates security using…
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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation in GitHub Action Supply Chain Compromise
Tags: breach, cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, github, infrastructure, kev, malicious, supply-chain, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a vulnerability linked to the supply chain compromise of the GitHub Action, tj-actions/changed-files, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-30066 (CVSS score: 8.6), involves the breach of the GitHub Action to inject malicious code that enables a remote First…
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CISA Issues Security Warning on Fortinet FortiOS Authentication Bypass Exploit
Tags: authentication, cisa, csf, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, fortinet, infrastructure, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a critical security warning regarding a severe vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS and FortiProxy systems. Specifically, CVE-2025-24472, an authentication bypass vulnerability, poses a significant threat as it allows remote attackers to gain super-admin privileges through carefully crafted CSF proxy requests. This exploit is classified under Common Weakness Enumeration…
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Critical vulnerability in AMI MegaRAC BMC allows server’ takeover
Tags: access, advisory, api, apt, attack, authentication, control, credentials, cve, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, firewall, firmware, flaw, group, infrastructure, Internet, linux, malicious, malware, network, ransomware, supply-chain, technology, training, update, vulnerabilityth vulnerability that Eclypsium researchers found in MegaRAC, the BMC firmware implementation from UEFI/BIOS vendor American Megatrends (AMI). BMCs are microcontrollers present on server motherboards that have their own firmware, dedicated memory, power, and network ports and are used for out-of-band management of servers when their main operating systems are shut down.Administrators can access BMCs…
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BEC Attacks Set Sights On Microsoft 365 Infrastructure
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/bec-attacks-set-sights-on-microsoft-365-infrastructure
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Why States Will Need to Step Up Cyber Help for Healthcare
As uncertainty mounts about the range of cyber resources the federal government will continue to offer healthcare and other critical infrastructure sectors during the Trump administration, states will need to step up their support, said Mike Hamilton, field CISO of cybersecurity firm Lumifi Cyber. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/states-will-need-to-step-up-cyber-help-for-healthcare-i-5467
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Actively Exploited ChatGPT Bug Puts Organizations at Risk
A server-side request forgery vulnerability in OpenAI’s chatbot infrastructure can allow attackers to direct users to malicious URLs, leading to a range of threat activity. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/actively-exploited-chatgpt-bug-organizations-risk
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Russia using criminal networks to drive increase in sabotage acts, says Europol
Proxies deploying tactics including migrant smuggling in destabilisation efforts across EU, enforcement agency finds<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/18/trump-putin-call-ukraine-ceasefire-proposals-european-council-meeting-europe-live-news-latest”>Europe live latest updates</li></ul>Russia and other state actors are driving an increase in politically motivated cyber-attacks and sabotage of infrastructure and public institutions in the EU, the bloc’s police enforcement agency has found.Europol’s 80-page serious and organised crime threat assessment for…
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Die Lieferkette als primäres Ziel für Cyberangreifer
Mit dem stetigen Voranschreiten der digitalen Transformation in den letzten Jahren wurden Unternehmen zunehmend abhängig von zahlreichen Partnern und Lieferanten. Diese Verschiebung hat zu einer komplexeren IT-Infrastruktur geführt und signifikant die Angriffsfläche vergrößert, die Cyberkriminelle ausnutzen können. Sie haben es auf das schwächste Glied in der Lieferkette abgesehen, um Zugang zum Gesamtsystem zu bekommen. Ein…
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Sophisticated Phishing Attack Leverages Microsoft 365 Infrastructure to Target Users
Tags: attack, business, control, credentials, cyber, email, exploit, infrastructure, microsoft, phishingA highly sophisticated phishing campaign has been uncovered exploiting Microsoft 365’s trusted infrastructure to facilitate credential harvesting and account takeover attempts. This attack leverages legitimate Microsoft domains and tenant misconfigurations to conduct Business Email Compromise (BEC) operations, effectively bypassing traditional email security controls by exploiting inherent trust mechanisms within the Microsoft ecosystem. Attack Mechanism The…
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Unlocking Data Control Across Regions: Oracle and Thales Enhance CipherTrust Cloud Key Management for OCI Vault EKMS
Tags: access, ai, business, cloud, compliance, computing, control, data, encryption, government, infrastructure, oracle, risk, saas, service, software, strategyUnlocking Data Control Across Regions: Oracle and Thales Enhance CipherTrust Cloud Key Management for OCI Vault EKMS madhav Tue, 03/18/2025 – 04:20 Oracle and Thales are excited to announce CipherTrust Cloud Key Management’s (CCKM) support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) new cross-site replication functionality for its Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer and OCI Alloy offerings. Cross-site replication…
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Hackers Exploit SSRF Vulnerability to Attack OpenAI’s ChatGPT Infrastructure
Tags: attack, chatgpt, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, hacker, infrastructure, openai, threat, vulnerabilityA critical cybersecurity alert has been issued following the active exploitation of a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT infrastructure. According to the Veriti report, the vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-27564, has been weaponized by attackers in real-world attacks, highlighting the dangers of underestimating medium-severity vulnerabilities. CVE-2024-27564: Understanding the Threat CVE-2024-27564 allows attackers to…
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Schutz der Terminalemulation und des Greenscreen-Zugangs vor sich entwickelnden Bedrohungen
Angesichts einer sich ständig verändernden Bedrohungslandschaft ist die Sicherung von Terminalemulationen und Greenscreen-Zugängen entscheidend für die Sicherheit und die Einhaltung von Vorschriften. Der Umfang und die Komplexität moderner Cyberangriffe haben dazu geführt, dass die Möglichkeit eines Angriffs auf die IT-Infrastruktur, einschließlich Mainframes, nur eine Frage von »wann« und nicht »ob« ist. Oftmals geht es… First…
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Not all cuts are equal: Security budget choices disproportionately impact risk
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, awareness, backdoor, breach, bug-bounty, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, monitoring, phishing, risk, risk-management, service, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vulnerability[Source: Splunk] As cyber threats evolve at an unprecedented pace, delaying essential technology upgrades can severely impact an organization. The newest technological updates are introduced to enhance an organization’s security offerings and directly address recently identified challenges.”Outdated systems lack new features and functionality that allow for more sophisticated offerings, like moving to the cloud,” Kirsty…
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CISA Rehires Fired Employees, Immediately Puts Them on Leave
Agency Places Probationary Employees on Administrative Leave Pending Court Decision. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced plans to rehire probationary employees that had been ousted amid an ongoing federal workforce purge, following a temporary court restraining order. Those employees will be immediately placed on administrative leave, a spokesperson said. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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What Is Exposure Management and Why Does It Matter?
Tags: access, attack, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, credentials, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, group, identity, infrastructure, iot, metric, password, phishing, risk, service, software, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementEach Monday, the Tenable Exposure Management Academy will provide the practical, real-world guidance you need to shift from vulnerability management to exposure management. In our first blog in this new series, we get you started with an overview of the differences between the two and explore how cyber exposure management can benefit your organization. Traditional…
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Microsoft 365 Targeted in New Phishing, Account Takeover Attacks
Threat actors are abusing Microsoft 365 infrastructure in a BEC campaign, and target its users in two brand impersonation campaigns. The post Microsoft 365 Targeted in New Phishing, Account Takeover Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/microsoft-365-targeted-in-new-phishing-account-takeover-attacks/
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FCC creates national security council to counter cyber threats from China
Tags: 5G, access, ai, attack, breach, china, communications, computing, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, espionage, government, group, hacking, incident, infrastructure, Internet, microsoft, office, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityThree-pronged strategy: The council will pursue a tripartite strategy focusing on reducing dependency, mitigating vulnerabilities, and ensuring American technological leadership.First, it aims to reduce American technology and telecommunications sectors’ trade and supply chain dependencies on foreign adversaries. This goal aligns with broader government efforts to “friend-shore” critical technology supply chains and decrease reliance on potentially…
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Sicherheit für die OT-Infrastruktur – Warum Cybersecurity für OT-Systeme wichtig ist
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/vermeidung-cyberangriffe-ot-systeme-risiken-sicherheitsstrategien-a-9a3e4c303fd0b26eeb46ccc88e068f50/
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AI development pipeline attacks expand CISOs’ software supply chain risk
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, backdoor, breach, business, ciso, cloud, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, encryption, exploit, flaw, fortinet, government, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, LLM, malicious, malware, ml, network, open-source, password, penetration-testing, programming, pypi, risk, risk-assessment, russia, saas, sbom, service, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, training, vpn, vulnerabilitydevelopment pipelines are exacerbating software supply chain security problems.Incidents of exposed development secrets via publicly accessible, open-source packages rose 12% last year compared to 2023, according to ReversingLabs (RL).A scan of 30 of the most popular open-source packages found an average of six critical-severity and 33 high-severity flaws per package.Commercial software packages are also a…
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PKI Maturity Model Aims to Improve Crypto Infrastructure
Joining a growing group of cybersecurity-related maturity models, PKIMM allows companies to measure their progress and benchmark themselves against other firms. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-analytics/pki-maturity-model-aims-to-improve-crypto-infrastructure
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Agil vs. stabil Ein Konflikt zwischen Erfahrung und Innovation in der IT-Security
Tags: infrastructureWenn »junge« Innovationstreiber auf »alte« Experten treffen Besonders in der IT-Branche begegnen junge, dynamische und kreative Menschen einer Arbeitsumgebung mit sehr vielen Regeln und dem Bestreben einer stabilen Infrastruktur da sind Konflikte vorprogrammiert. Der alteingesessene Security-Verantwortliche, der über viele Jahre hinweg die Security im Unternehmen aufgebaut und erfolgreich geleitet hat, steht vor den Herausforderungen… First…
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7 misconceptions about the CISO role
Tags: api, attack, breach, business, ceo, ciso, compliance, control, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, defense, exploit, finance, firewall, governance, infrastructure, insurance, jobs, network, password, phishing, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, saas, software, startup, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerabilityKatie Jenkins, EVP and CISO, Liberty Mutual Insurance Liberty Mutual InsuranceThe field is changing so rapidly, Jenkins adds, she needs to commit time to keeping up on research and connecting with other CISOs for knowledge exchange.In addition to securing infrastructure, an effective CISO focuses on securing the business, experts say. This requires understanding how security…
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European tech industry coalition calls for ‘radical action’ on digital sovereignty, starting with buying local
A broad coalition drawn from across the ranks of Europe’s tech industry is calling for >>radical action
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Report on ransomware attacks on Fortinet firewalls also reveals possible defenses
Tags: access, attack, authentication, automation, backdoor, backup, ciso, control, credentials, cve, cybercrime, data, data-breach, defense, exploit, firewall, fortinet, group, infrastructure, Internet, lockbit, malicious, monitoring, network, password, radius, ransom, ransomware, risk, router, tactics, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, windowsSigns of intrusion: “This actor exhibits a distinct operational signature that blends elements of opportunistic attacks with ties to the LockBit ecosystem,” Forescout said in its analysis.”Mora_001’s relationship to the broader Lockbit’s ransomware operations underscores the increased complexity of the modern ransomware landscape where specialized teams collaborate to leverage complementary capabilities.”CISOs should note these consistent…
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Feds: Medusa RaaS Gang Conducts Widespread Targeting Of US Critical Infrastructure
Tags: infrastructureFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/feds-medusa-raas-gang-conducts-widespread-targeting-of-us-critical-infrastructure
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Accused LockBit ransomware developer extradited to the US
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Rostislav Panev, who developed code and maintained infrastructure for LockBit, is now in U.S. custody. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/03/14/developer-of-lockbit-ransomware-gets-extradited-to-the-united-states/