Tag: infrastructure
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109 Fake GitHub Repos Spread SmartLoader, StealC Malware
A coordinated malware operation is abusing fake GitHub repositories to distribute a LuaJIT-based loader, SmartLoader, and a follow-on StealC infostealer, with at least 109 malicious repos active across 103 accounts. The campaign blends cloned open source code, obfuscated Lua stages, and blockchain-backed C2 resolution to evade detection and keep infrastructure agile. Instead of relying on…
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Researchers Uncover SIM Farm-as-a-Service Operation Spanning 87 Panels in 17 Nations
Infrastructure intelligence firm Infrawatch has exposed a globally distributed SIM Farm-as-a-Service ecosystem powered by a single Belarus-based software platform called ProxySmart, identifying 87 exposed control panels across 17 countries and at least 94 physical phone-farm locations. A SIM farm is a physical rack of smartphones or 4G/5G USB modems, each loaded with active SIM cards…
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New GoGra malware for Linux uses Microsoft Graph API for comms
A Linux variant of the GoGra backdoor uses legitimate Microsoft infrastructure, relying on an Outlook inbox for stealthy payload delivery. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-gogra-malware-for-linux-uses-microsoft-graph-api-for-comms/
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Anthropic bets on EPSS for the coming bug surge
Tags: ai, cisco, ciso, cloud, crowdstrike, cve, cvss, cyber, data, exploit, flaw, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, network, update, vulnerabilitySecurity leaders weigh promise versus reality: Security vendors are increasingly incorporating EPSS scores into their systems.According to Roytman, EPSS has been incorporated into more than 120 security vendors’ products, including CrowdStrike, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Qualys, and Tenable platforms.”I do not think other CISOs realize how broadly EPSS has been adopted, but that adoption is…
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Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock
Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/oil_crisis_what_oil_crisis/
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Amazon, Anthropic Expand Alliance With 5GW Compute Push to Power Claude
Amazon and Anthropic have announced a massive expansion of their strategic partnership. The tech giants signed a new agreement to secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of compute capacity for training and deploying the Claude AI model. This aggressive push highlights the immense infrastructure required to securely and efficiently support rapidly advancing generative AI technologies.…
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French Authorities Confirm Data Breach Amid Hackers’ Data Leak Allegations
Tags: breach, cyber, data, data-breach, government, hacker, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, leak, security-incident, threatThe French National Agency for Secure Documents (ANTS) has officially confirmed a severe data breach affecting its central government portal. This critical infrastructure system manages the issuance of national identity cards, passports, vehicle registration certificates, and driver’s licenses nationwide. Recent threat intelligence reports suggest this security incident represents a massive compromise that could impact up…
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French Authorities Confirm Data Breach Amid Hackers’ Data Leak Allegations
Tags: breach, cyber, data, data-breach, government, hacker, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, leak, security-incident, threatThe French National Agency for Secure Documents (ANTS) has officially confirmed a severe data breach affecting its central government portal. This critical infrastructure system manages the issuance of national identity cards, passports, vehicle registration certificates, and driver’s licenses nationwide. Recent threat intelligence reports suggest this security incident represents a massive compromise that could impact up…
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Thousands of Apache ActiveMQ instances still unpatched, weeks after an actively exploited hole discovered
Tags: ai, apache, cybersecurity, defense, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, LLM, software, tool, update, vulnerabilityCSO. “In a world where an LLM can help an attacker weaponize a bug the second it’s announced, taking 12 days to patch is essentially a suicide note for your network”.Vulnerable are versions of ActiveMQ and ActiveMQ Broker before 5.19.4, and 6.0 to before 6.2.3; this means the flaw could have been exploited for over…
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Forescout Uncovers New Security Risks in Widely Used Industrial Networking Devices
Cybersecurity firm Forescout has identified 22 previously unknown vulnerabilities in serial-to-IP converters, devices commonly used to connect legacy industrial equipment to modern networks. The company warns that thousands of these systems are currently exposed online, potentially increasing the risk of cyberattacks across critical infrastructure sectors. The findings are part of a new research initiative called…
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Azure SRE Agent flaw lets outsiders silently eavesdrop on enterprise cloud operations
Tags: access, ai, api, automation, cloud, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, finance, flaw, identity, infrastructure, microsoft, saas, service, toolWatching a privileged operator think out loud: The category of flaw should not be compared too closely to a conventional API bug, said Alexander Hagenah, cybersecurity researcher and executive director at Zurich-based financial infrastructure operator SIX Group.”A normal API issue is usually bound by a specific endpoint, dataset, or permission check. With an AI operations…
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Why identity is the driving force behind digital transformation
Who they are and what they are up to.The project they are working on.Which environment should they use?Using this information, the system can determine which resource someone needs, when they need it and how to use it. The principle behind it is ‘never trust, always verify’. With it, errors that normally occur are reduced, less…
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U.S. CISA adds Cisco Catalyst, Kentico Xperience, PaperCut NG/MF, Synacor ZCS, Quest KACE SMA, and JetBrains TeamCity flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Catalyst, Kentico Xperience, PaperCut NG/MF, Synacor ZCS, Quest KACE SMA, and JetBrains TeamCity flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Cisco Catalyst, Kentico Xperience, PaperCut NG/MF, Synacor ZCS, Quest KACE SMA, and JetBrains TeamCity flaws to its Known…
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The thin gray line: Handala, CyberAv3ngers and Iran’s proxy ops
A state of perpetual interference: To understand how proxy insurgent groups such as Handala fit within Iran’s modern-day intelligence ecosystem, we first need to look at the historical development of the country’s intelligence operations.In 1953, the United States and Britain (via conduit operations of the CIA and MI6, respectively) instigated a coup in Iran that…
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CISA Adds 8 Exploited Vulnerabilities Affecting Cisco, Zimbra, TeamCity
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, commonly referred to as the KEV catalog, with eight newly identified security flaws that are currently being exploited in real-world attacks. The update was announced on April 21, 2026. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/cisa-kev-catalog-vulnerabilities/
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CISA Alerts Defenders to Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Security Flaws
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning to network defenders regarding the active exploitation of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. On April 20, 2026, CISA officially added three distinct security flaws affecting the platform to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager is a critical administrative console used…
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CISA Adds 8 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets April-May 2026 Federal Deadlines
Tags: authentication, cisa, cisco, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including three flaws impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, citing evidence of active exploitation.The list of vulnerabilities is as follows -CVE-2023-27351 (CVSS score: 8.2) – An improper authentication vulnerability in PaperCut First seen on thehackernews.com…
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CISA Warns Compromised Axios npm Package Fueled Major Supply Chain Attack
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert regarding a severe software supply chain compromise affecting the widely used Axios node package manager (npm). Axios is a highly popular JavaScript library that developers rely on to handle HTTP requests in both Node.js and browser environments. Because of its massive global adoption…
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ML-Based Anomaly Detection for Post-Quantum Metadata Exfiltration
Learn how ML-based anomaly detection stops metadata exfiltration in post-quantum AI environments and secures MCP infrastructure against advanced threats. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/ml-based-anomaly-detection-for-post-quantum-metadata-exfiltration/
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Article 5 and the EU AI Act’s Absolute Red Lines FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, awareness, cctv, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, exploit, finance, group, healthcare, ibm, infrastructure, Internet, law, microsoft, monitoring, risk, service, technology, tool, training, vulnerabilityApr 20, 2026 – Alan Fagan – Most conversations about the EU AI Act focus on August 2026, when obligations for high-risk AI systems become fully enforceable. But Article 5 is already live. The Act’s eight prohibited practices became enforceable in February 2025. Fines of up to Euro35 million or 7% of global annual turnover…
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Article 5 and the EU AI Act’s Absolute Red Lines FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, awareness, cctv, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, exploit, finance, group, healthcare, ibm, infrastructure, Internet, law, microsoft, monitoring, risk, service, technology, tool, training, vulnerabilityApr 20, 2026 – Alan Fagan – Most conversations about the EU AI Act focus on August 2026, when obligations for high-risk AI systems become fully enforceable. But Article 5 is already live. The Act’s eight prohibited practices became enforceable in February 2025. Fines of up to Euro35 million or 7% of global annual turnover…
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Crypto infrastructure company blames $290 million theft on North Korean hackers
A theft of nearly $300 million worth of cryptocurrency has been attributed to hackers from North Korea, as the industry grapples with the fallout of a wide-ranging incident involving multiple prominent platforms. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/crypto-north-korea-theft-kelp
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Fireside Chat: PKI has carried digital trust through every tech advance”, now comes the hardest one
Public key infrastructure, the authentication and encryption framework that has held digital commerce together through every chaotic leap forward in technology, is facing a double whammy. Related: Achieveing AI security won’t be easy Autonomous AI agents are flooding… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/fireside-chat-pki-has-carried-digital-trust-through-every-tech-advance-now-comes-the-hardest-one/
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AI Changes Focus to Real-Time Cyber Defense
Cisco’s Jeetu Patel on How Machine-Speed Threats Drive Need for AI-Led Security. Cisco’s Jeetu Patel explains how AI models are compressing exploit timelines to minutes, forcing a shift to machine-speed defense, real-time enforcement and deeper ecosystem collaboration to secure critical infrastructure and stay ahead of adversaries. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/ai-changes-focus-to-real-time-cyber-defense-a-31463
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ZionSiphon Malware Targets Water Infrastructure Systems
ZionSiphon malware targets OT water systems with sabotage and ICS scanning capabilities First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/zionsiphon-malware-water/
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Neue Phishing-Welle nutzt Apple-Server für betrügerische Käufe
Eine neue Kampagne macht sich die automatisierten Sicherheitsmitteilungen von Apple zunutze, um gefälschte Benachrichtigungen über iPhone-Käufe zu versenden. Da die Nachrichten direkt über die offizielle Infrastruktur von Apple generiert werden, umgehen sie mühelos moderne Spam-Filter und täuschen selbst erfahrene Nutzer. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/phishing-welle-apple-server
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SmokedMeat: Open-source tool shows what attackers do inside CI/CD pipelines
Boost Security has released SmokedMeat, an open-source framework that runs attack chains against CI/CD infrastructure so engineering and security teams can see what an … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/20/smokedmeat-ci-cd-pipeline-attacks/
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Critical Gardyn Flaws Open Smart Garden Devices to Remote Hijacking
A recently updated advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed severe vulnerabilities in Gardyn Home Kit systems. These critical flaws carry a maximum CVSS score of 9.3 and could allow malicious actors to hijack smart gardening devices remotely. According to the April 2026 alert, successful exploitation enables unauthenticated attackers to completely…