Tag: infrastructure
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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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U.S. CISA adds Motex LANSCOPE flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Motex LANSCOPE flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Motex LANSCOPE flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-61932 (CVSS v4 score of 9.3), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The flaw is an improper verification of source of a communication…
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Warlock Ransomware Exploits SharePoint ToolShell Zero-Day in New Attack Campaign
Tags: attack, china, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, espionage, exploit, group, infrastructure, microsoft, ransomware, threat, zero-dayChinese-linked threat actors behind the Warlock ransomware operation have emerged as a significant cybersecurity concern following their exploitation of a critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability. The group’s sophisticated attack infrastructure, combined with evidence of historical espionage activities dating back to 2019, reveals a complex threat landscape where cybercriminal and state-sponsored operations increasingly converge. Warlock first surfaced…
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“Jingle Thief” Hackers Exploit Cloud Infrastructure to Steal Millions in Gift Cards
Tags: cloud, credentials, cybercrime, cybersecurity, exploit, group, hacker, infrastructure, network, phishing, service, smishingCybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cybercriminal group called Jingle Thief that has been observed targeting cloud environments associated with organizations in the retail and consumer services sectors for gift card fraud.”Jingle Thief attackers use phishing and smishing to steal credentials, to compromise organizations that issue gift cards,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers…
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Critical Lanscope Endpoint Manager Bug Exploited in Ongoing Cyberattacks, CISA Confirms
Tags: cisa, cve, cyberattack, cybersecurity, endpoint, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating it has been actively exploited in the wild.The vulnerability, CVE-2025-61932 (CVSS v4 score: 9.3), impacts on-premises versions of Lanscope Endpoint Manager, specifically Client First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Lokale Rechenzentren: Warum Hyperscaler auf deutsche Infrastruktur setzen Strategischer Vertrauensanker
Für europäische RZ-Betreiber eröffnet sich mit dem EU Data Act eine historische Chance: Sie können sich als neutrale, resiliente und nachhaltige Partner positionieren, die Hyperscaler bei der Erfüllung lokaler Compliance-Anforderungen unterstützen. First seen on ap-verlag.de Jump to article: ap-verlag.de/lokale-rechenzentren-warum-hyperscaler-auf-deutsche-infrastruktur-setzen-strategischer-vertrauensanker/99749/
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Lokale Rechenzentren: Warum Hyperscaler auf deutsche Infrastruktur setzen Strategischer Vertrauensanker
Für europäische RZ-Betreiber eröffnet sich mit dem EU Data Act eine historische Chance: Sie können sich als neutrale, resiliente und nachhaltige Partner positionieren, die Hyperscaler bei der Erfüllung lokaler Compliance-Anforderungen unterstützen. First seen on ap-verlag.de Jump to article: ap-verlag.de/lokale-rechenzentren-warum-hyperscaler-auf-deutsche-infrastruktur-setzen-strategischer-vertrauensanker/99749/
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F5 Networks Breach: A Wake-Up Call for Supply Chain Cybersecurity
When a foundational technology provider like F5 Networks, whose systems power government agencies, critical infrastructure, and enterprises worldwide, suffers a cyber breach, the ripple effects extend far beyond a single organization. This latest attack has once again exposed the growing vulnerabilities within global technology supply chains and the urgent need for unified, proactive cybersecurity visibility.…
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F5 Networks Breach: A Wake-Up Call for Supply Chain Cybersecurity
When a foundational technology provider like F5 Networks, whose systems power government agencies, critical infrastructure, and enterprises worldwide, suffers a cyber breach, the ripple effects extend far beyond a single organization. This latest attack has once again exposed the growing vulnerabilities within global technology supply chains and the urgent need for unified, proactive cybersecurity visibility.…
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Island Hopping on AI Tools: The New Cyberthreat Reality
HITRUST’s Tom Kellermann on Third-Party Risk, Defending Against Persistent Access. Island hopping, AI poisoning and access mining are reshaping cyber risk. Tom Kellermann of HITRUST says organizations must modernize third-party risk management practices and assess AI environments to stop attackers from using trusted infrastructure as a launch pad for broader campaigns. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Auditing MCP Server Access and Usage
6 min readRobust auditing is essential for secure MCP deployments, providing compliance evidence, forensic capabilities, and operational confidence for managing AI agents and context-aware systems at scale. The dynamic nature of MCP makes a lack of visibility dangerous, as attackers can exploit complex workflows and ephemeral infrastructure to hide malicious activity. First seen on securityboulevard.com…
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Is for Security Leaders, Too
Think you know all there is to know about cybersecurity? Guess again. Shadow AI is challenging security leaders with many of the same issues raised by other “shadow” technologies. Only this time, it’s evolving at breakneck speed. Key takeaways: The vast majority of organizations (89%) are either using AI or piloting it. Shadow AI lurks…
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Auditing MCP Server Access and Usage
6 min readRobust auditing is essential for secure MCP deployments, providing compliance evidence, forensic capabilities, and operational confidence for managing AI agents and context-aware systems at scale. The dynamic nature of MCP makes a lack of visibility dangerous, as attackers can exploit complex workflows and ephemeral infrastructure to hide malicious activity. First seen on securityboulevard.com…
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Google ‘Careers’ scam lands job seekers in credential traps
Tags: attack, authentication, breach, control, credentials, cybersecurity, defense, google, identity, infrastructure, jobs, login, mfa, monitoring, north-korea, phishing, scam, strategy, threat, trainingWhat must organizations must: Sublime observed a sophisticated backend infrastructure supporting the phishing operation. Rather than just relying on a static fake login page, the attackers used newly registered domains (like gappywave[.]com, gcareerspeople[.]com) and what appeared to be command-and-control (C2) servers such as satoshicommands[.]com to process stolen credentials.Additionally, the HTML and JavaScript of the fake…
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Google ‘Careers’ scam lands job seekers in credential traps
Tags: attack, authentication, breach, control, credentials, cybersecurity, defense, google, identity, infrastructure, jobs, login, mfa, monitoring, north-korea, phishing, scam, strategy, threat, trainingWhat must organizations must: Sublime observed a sophisticated backend infrastructure supporting the phishing operation. Rather than just relying on a static fake login page, the attackers used newly registered domains (like gappywave[.]com, gcareerspeople[.]com) and what appeared to be command-and-control (C2) servers such as satoshicommands[.]com to process stolen credentials.Additionally, the HTML and JavaScript of the fake…
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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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Millions of Credentials Stolen Each Day by Stealer Malware
The cybercrime ecosystem surrounding stealer malware has reached unprecedented scale, with threat actors now processing millions of stolen credentials daily through sophisticated distribution networks. Security researchers have been monitoring these operations for nearly a year, revealing an alarming infrastructure that processes victim data at industrial volumes through platforms like Telegram, forums, and social media sites.…
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New Salt Typhoon Attacks Leverage Zero-Days and DLL Sideloading
Salt Typhoon represents one of the most persistent and sophisticated cyber threats targeting global critical infrastructure today. Believed to be linked to state-sponsored actors from the People’s Republic of China, this advanced persistent threat group has executed a series of high-impact campaigns against telecommunications providers, energy networks, and government systems”, most notably across the United…
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AWS Outage: Lessons Learned
What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet (and social media), affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Atlassian. The issue originated not…
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AWS Outage: Lessons Learned
What can we learn from the recent AWS outage, and how can we apply those lessons to our own infrastructure? What Happened? On October 20, 2025, AWS experienced a major disruption that rippled across the internet (and social media), affecting widely used services such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Atlassian. The issue originated not…
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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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The Many Shapes of Identity: Inside IAM 360, Issue 3
Tags: access, ai, business, cloud, communications, compliance, container, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, encryption, guide, iam, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, microsoft, passkey, password, risk, software, strategy, technology, threatThe Many Shapes of Identity: Inside IAM 360, Issue 3 josh.pearson@t“¦ Tue, 10/21/2025 – 17:27 The new issue of IAM 360 is here! In this issue, we take on a theme that shows how identity never stands still, reshaping how we live and work as it evolves. We call it Form Factor. Why Form Factor?…
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Self-propagating worm found in marketplaces for Visual Studio Code extensions
Tags: access, application-security, attack, backdoor, backup, best-practice, blockchain, breach, ciso, control, credentials, crime, crypto, cyber, data, data-breach, endpoint, framework, github, gitlab, google, government, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, least-privilege, login, malicious, malware, marketplace, network, open-source, resilience, risk, sans, security-incident, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, wormMarketplaces targeted: The Koi Security report is the latest in a series of warnings that threat actors are increasingly targeting VS Code marketplaces in supply chain attacks. Last week, Koi Security exposed a threat actor dubbed TigerJack spreading malicious extensions. And researchers at Wiz just published research showing the widespread abuse of the OpenVSX and…
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CISA Flags Highly Exploitable Windows SMB Flaw
Tags: attack, cisa, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, microsoft, mitigation, network, ntlm, windowsNTLM Reflection Attack Strikes Again. A three-month old flaw in a network protocol for file sharing used by Microsoft is under active exploitation, warns the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The flaw’s exploitation bypasses mitigations Microsoft has built over the years to prevent NTLM reflection attacks. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/cisa-flags-highly-exploitable-windows-smb-flaw-a-29778