Tag: infrastructure
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Iranian hackers launching disruptive attacks at U.S. energy, water targets, feds warn
Iranian government hackers are launching disruptive cyberattacks on American energy and water infrastructure, U.S. government agencies “urgently” warned Tuesday. The hackers are taking aim at devices and systems that control industrial processes, and have harmed victims in the last month following the onset of U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran, according to the joint alert from the…
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Iranian hackers launching disruptive attacks at U.S. energy, water targets, feds warn
Iranian government hackers are launching disruptive cyberattacks on American energy and water infrastructure, U.S. government agencies “urgently” warned Tuesday. The hackers are taking aim at devices and systems that control industrial processes, and have harmed victims in the last month following the onset of U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran, according to the joint alert from the…
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US warns of Iranian hackers targeting critical infrastructure
Iranian-linked hackers are targeting Internet-exposed Rockwell/Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers (PLCs) on the networks of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-warns-of-iranian-hackers-targeting-critical-infrastructure/
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Russian State-Linked APT28 Exploits SOHO Routers in Global DNS Hijacking Campaign
The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard) has been linked to a new campaign that has compromised insecure MikroTik and TP-Link routers and modified their settings to turn them into malicious infrastructure under their control as part of a cyber espionage campaign since at least May 2025.The large-scale exploitation campaign has been…
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Identity Is the New Attack Surface (And Most Teams Aren’t Prepared)
Security has shifted”, but many strategies haven’t For decades, cybersecurity strategies have focused on protecting infrastructure: Firewalls Endpoints Networks But attackers have evolved. Today, they don’t need to break in. They log in. And that shift has made identity the most critical”, and most overlooked”, attack surface. Why identity has become the primary target Several…
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Supply chain security is now a board-level issue: Here’s what CSOs need to know
Tags: access, android, attack, automation, best-practice, compliance, cybersecurity, edr, encryption, firewall, firmware, flaw, infrastructure, linux, mitigation, regulation, risk, sbom, software, supply-chain, switch, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-dayThe hidden complexity that drowns security teams: SBOMs are no longer used solely to track software licensing; they are key to managing supply chain security as they enable the identification and tracking of vulnerabilities across ecosystems.Finding a problem is just the start, you need to determine if the vulnerability affects your implementation. For example, if…
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The rise of proactive cyber: Why defense is no longer enough
Tags: attack, breach, ciso, control, country, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, framework, google, government, hacking, infrastructure, intelligence, korea, law, microsoft, network, north-korea, risk, threat, toolWhat ‘proactive cyber’ means: Despite the more aggressive language, this shift toward private-sector involvement doesn’t envision vigilante-style payback by aggrieved organizations. It instead embraces a more systematic effort to interfere with adversaries earlier in the attack chain using authorities and capabilities that already exist.”To be clear, this is not hacking back,” Joyce said. “This is…
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The noisy tenants: Engineering fairness in multi-tenant SIEM solutions
Tags: ai, apache, api, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, data, defense, detection, edr, endpoint, fedramp, finance, framework, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, login, microsoft, monitoring, risk, saas, security-incident, service, siem, soc, software, strategy, threat, tool, update, vulnerability24/7/365 SOC monitoring: Round-the-clock coverage backed by global experts to validate and prioritize alerts.Proactive threat hunting: Active searches for hidden threats rather than just waiting for automated triggers.AI and machine learning integration: Leveraging everything from basic anomaly detection to “Agentic AI” to reduce noise and accelerate investigations.Active incident response and containment: Capabilities to isolate endpoints…
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Year in Review: Vulnerabilities old and new and something React2
The year was characterized by an unending beat-down on infrastructure that relied on older enmeshed dependencies (e.g., Log4j and PHPUnit), while React2Shell rocketed to the highest percentage of attacks for the entire year within the last three weeks of 2025. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/year-in-review-vulnerabilities-old-and-new-and-something-react2/
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Fortinet FortiClient EMS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Fortinet FortiClient EMS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in Fortinet FortiClient EMS, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score of 9.1), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week, Fortinet released out-of-band patches for a…
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CISA Alerts Defenders to Actively Exploited Fortinet Zero-Day Vulnerability
Tags: cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, fortinet, infrastructure, kev, threat, vulnerability, zero-dayThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning regarding a critical zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet products. The agency officially added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on April 6, 2026, indicating that threat actors are actively exploiting it in the wild. The CISA KEV catalog serves as a…
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Quantum-Safe Key Encapsulation Mechanisms for Sensitive Context Transport
Learn how to implement quantum-resistant Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) to secure sensitive context transport in AI infrastructure and MCP deployments. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/quantum-safe-key-encapsulation-mechanisms-for-sensitive-context-transport/
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Why AI Bot Protection and Control Are Essential for Application Security
Tags: ai, api, application-security, automation, control, infrastructure, Internet, tool, vulnerabilityAI-driven automation is no longer emerging. It is already integrated and accepted as internet traffic. From AI assistants and crawlers to enterprise automation tools, websites are now routinely accessed by non-human actors operating at scale. Vulnerabilities or weaknesses in your application infrastructure, including risky APIs, are no longer difficult to find, as agentic AI tools,……
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Trump’s Budget Proposal Would Slash CISA After Bruising Year
White House Criticizes Cyber Defense Agency – and Proposes a Steep $700 Million Cut. The FY2027 proposal would cut roughly $707 million from CISA, reducing staffing, contractor support and coordination programs while shifting the agency toward a narrower focus on federal networks and critical infrastructure amid rising nation-state cyberthreats. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Trump’s Budget Proposal Would Slash CISA After Bruising Year
White House Criticizes Cyber Defense Agency – and Proposes a Steep $700 Million Cut. The FY2027 proposal would cut roughly $707 million from CISA, reducing staffing, contractor support and coordination programs while shifting the agency toward a narrower focus on federal networks and critical infrastructure amid rising nation-state cyberthreats. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Trump’s Budget Proposal Would Slash CISA After Bruising Year
White House Criticizes Cyber Defense Agency – and Proposes a Steep $700 Million Cut. The FY2027 proposal would cut roughly $707 million from CISA, reducing staffing, contractor support and coordination programs while shifting the agency toward a narrower focus on federal networks and critical infrastructure amid rising nation-state cyberthreats. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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prompted Spring 2026: Threat Hunting In The Matrix
At our previous employer, the global deception and detection infrastructure generates tons of events that eventually make their way into an ever-growing data lake with (as of February 2026) 22 TB of PCAPs and 32 TB of session protocol data. When trying to find novel and truly dangerous attacker behavior, the bottleneck isn’t the data……
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CVE-2026-35616: Fortinet FortiClientEMS improper access control vulnerability exploited in the wild
Exploitation has been observed for CVE-2026-35616, a critical improper access control zero-day vulnerability affecting Fortinet FortiClientEMS devices. Key takeaways: CVE-2026-35616, an improper access control vulnerability, has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. Public exploit code has been identified and Fortinet products have a long history of targeting by malicious actors. Hotfixes have been…
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DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea
Threat actors likely associated with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South Korea.The attack chain, per Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to drop a decoy PDF First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Singapore, US warn of latest Fortinet bug being exploited in wild
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave federal agencies until Thursday to apply the hotfix. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/singapore-us-warn-of-fortinet-bug-exploited
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CISA orders feds to patch exploited Fortinet EMS flaw by Friday
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered federal agencies to secure FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) instances against an actively exploited vulnerability by Friday. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-patch-fortinet-flaw-exploited-in-attacks-by-friday/
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CISA orders feds to patch exploited Fortinet EMS flaw by Friday
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered federal agencies to secure FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) instances against an actively exploited vulnerability by Friday. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-patch-fortinet-flaw-exploited-in-attacks-by-friday/
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Multi-OS Cyberattacks: How SOCs Close a Critical Risk in 3 Steps
Your attack surface no longer lives on one operating system, and neither do the campaigns targeting it. In enterprise environments, attackers move across Windows endpoints, executive MacBooks, Linux infrastructure, and mobile devices, taking advantage of the fact that many SOC workflows are still fragmented by platform. For security leaders, this creates a First seen on…
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How LiteLLM Turned Developer Machines Into Credential Vaults for Attackers
The most active piece of enterprise infrastructure in the company is the developer workstation. That laptop is where credentials are created, tested, cached, copied, and reused across services, bots, build tools, and now local AI agents.In March 2026, the TeamPCP threat actor proved just how valuable developer machines are. Their supply chain attack on First…
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Hackers threaten to leak data after cyberattack on German party Die Linke
Die Linke confirmed in late March that its IT infrastructure had been hit by what it described as a “serious cyberattack.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/hackers-threaten-to-leak-german-political-party-data
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Cybersecurity Leaders to Watch in California’s Artificial Intelligence Industry
California’s artificial intelligence industry includes security leaders working across frontier model development, enterprise AI platforms, data infrastructure, observability, and AI-native software products. The executives in this feature bring experience from high-growth startups, major technology companies, cloud-native environments, offensive security, incident response, compliance, and product security. Their backgrounds reflect how AI security leadership now spans not…The…
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Trump Budget Proposal Would Cut Hundreds of Millions More From CISA
What happened A new federal budget proposal would cut hundreds of millions of dollars more from CISA, sharply reducing funding for the agency’s cybersecurity and critical infrastructure work. The fiscal 2027 proposal would reduce CISA’s total by $707 million, according to the budget summary, though another budget document points to a smaller but still significant…The…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in TrueConf Client to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in TrueConf Client to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in TrueConf Client, tracked as CVE-2026-3502 (CVSS score of 7.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. TrueConf is a videoconferencing platform often used in secure, offline…
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Supply Chain Attacks Surge in March 2026
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, awareness, cloud, container, control, corporate, credentials, crypto, data-breach, github, group, hacking, identity, infrastructure, Internet, kubernetes, least-privilege, linux, LLM, macOS, malicious, malware, mfa, network, north-korea, open-source, openai, phishing, pypi, software, startup, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, windowsIntroductionThere was a significant increase in software supply chain attacks in March 2026. There were five major software supply-chain attacks that occurred including the Axios NPM package compromise, which has been attributed to a North Korean threat actor. In addition, a hacking group known as TeamPCP was able to compromise Trivy (a vulnerability scanner), KICS…