Tag: infrastructure
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FBI and Indonesian Police Dismantle W3LL Phishing Network Behind $20M Fraud Attempts
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Indonesian National Police, has dismantled the infrastructure associated with a global phishing operation that leveraged an off-the-shelf toolkit called W3LL to steal thousands of victims’ account credentials and attempt more than $20 million in fraud.In tandem, authorities detained the alleged developer, who has& First…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Fiber Optic Spying, Windows Rootkit, AI Vulnerability Hunting and More
Monday is back, and the weekend’s backlog of chaos is officially hitting the fan. We are tracking a critical zero-day that has been quietly living in your PDFs for months, plus some aggressive state-sponsored meddling in infrastructure that is finally coming to light. It is one of those mornings where the gap between a quiet…
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Critical Axios Vulnerability Enables Remote Code Execution, PoC Released
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Axios, one of the most widely used HTTP client libraries, exposing applications to Remote Code Execution (RCE) and full cloud infrastructure compromise. Tracked as CVE-2026-40175, this flaw carries a critical CVSS 3.1 score of 9.9 and allows attackers to bypass AWS IMDSv2 security controls to exfiltrate sensitive…
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Elon Musk Announces XChat Launch With Self-Destructing Messages
Elon Musk has officially announced the launch of XChat, a new secure messaging application scheduled to release on iOS devices on April 17. The platform builds upon the existing direct messaging infrastructure of X (formerly Twitter) but introduces a dedicated environment with advanced privacy controls. This launch represents a significant milestone in Musk’s long-term vision…
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Hackers claim control over Venice San Marco anti-flood pumps
Hackers breached Venice ‘s San Marco flood system, claiming control of pumps and the ability to disable defenses and flood coastal areas. The technologies that govern the physical world are the quiet infrastructure of modern life. From energy grids to water systems, from factories to flood defenses, operational technology (OT) has long had one essential…
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Hackers claim control over Venice San Marco anti-flood pumps
Hackers breached Venice ‘s San Marco flood system, claiming control of pumps and the ability to disable defenses and flood coastal areas. The technologies that govern the physical world are the quiet infrastructure of modern life. From energy grids to water systems, from factories to flood defenses, operational technology (OT) has long had one essential…
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Censys finds 5,219 devices exposed to attacks by Iranian APTs, majority in U.S.
Tags: apt, attack, automation, cisa, cyberattack, data-breach, exploit, infrastructure, Internet, iran, technology, threatCensys researchers found 5,219 exposed Rockwell PLCs online, mostly in the U.S., urging defenders to secure or disconnect them. On April 7, 2026, U.S. agencies, including FBI, CISA, and NSA, warned of Iran-linked APTs exploiting internet-exposed Rockwell Automation PLCs. Threat actors are carrying out cyberattacks targeting internet-connected operational technology (OT) across multiple critical infrastructure sectors.…
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The Phishing-as-a-Service Pipeline: How a Scalable Fraud Ecosystem Is Driving Global Attacks
Flashpoint analysts, working with partner financial institutions, have observed a growing number of PhaaS operations operating with a level of coordination and specialization more commonly associated with legitimate software platforms. These ecosystems bring together phishing kit developers, infrastructure providers, spam delivery services, and financially motivated actors into a single, scalable pipeline for fraud. First seen…
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TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
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TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
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prompted 2026 Anatomy Of An Agentic Personal Al Infrastructure
Author, Creator & Presenter: Daniel Miessler, Founder, Unsupervised Learning Our thanks to [un]prompted for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s outstanding [un]prompted 2026 AI Security Practitioner content on the Organizations’ YouTube Channel. Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/unprompted-2026-anatomy-of-an-agentic-personal-al-infrastructure/
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Nearly 4K industrial control devices vulnerable to Iran-linked hacking campaign
A research firm tallied the internet-exposed devices Iran is targeting and recommended mitigations for any infrastructure operator using them. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-infrastucture-plcs-iran-hacking-censys/817209/
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Nearly 4,000 US industrial devices exposed to Iranian cyberattacks
The attack surface targeted by Iranian-linked hackers in cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure networks includes thousands of Internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) manufactured by Rockwell Automation. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nearly-4-000-us-industrial-devices-exposed-to-iranian-cyberattacks/
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Nearly 4,000 industrial control devices vulnerable to Iran-linked hacking campaign
A research firm tallied the internet-exposed devices Iran is targeting and recommended mitigations for any infrastructure operator using them. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-infrastucture-plcs-iran-hacking-censys/817209/
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Nearly 4,000 industrial control devices vulnerable to Iran-linked hacking campaign
A research firm tallied the internet-exposed devices Iran is targeting and recommended mitigations for any infrastructure operator using them. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/critical-infrastucture-plcs-iran-hacking-censys/817209/
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UK says it exposed Russian submarine activity near undersea cables
A Russian attack submarine and vessels from the country’s Main Directorate of Deep Sea Research (GUGI) were involved in what the UK Ministry of Defence called “nefarious activity over critical undersea infrastructure elsewhere.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/uk-says-it-exposed-russian-submarine-activity
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The cyber winners and losers in Trump’s 2027 budget
Tags: cisa, communications, compliance, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, government, group, infrastructure, international, network, office, risk, service, strategy, threatFigure 1- Top gainers in Trump’s 2027 budget. Compilation from OMB cross-cut tables. CSOSeveral smaller agencies, including the EPA, Department of Education, Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, and the US Army Corps of Engineers, also stand to post modest gains under the 2027 budget. Losers: DHS, VA, and research programs…
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Iran Crisis Highlights Rising Gulf Cybersecurity Risks to Critical Infrastructure
The Persian Gulf is a strategically sensitive region due to energy reserves, maritime trade routes, and ongoing geopolitical rivalries. The recent escalation involving Iran and regional adversaries has reinforced instability in the region and highlighted the growing relevance of Gulf cybersecurity, alongside traditional security concerns. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/iran-crisis-gulf-cybersecurity-middle-east/
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Wie Unternehmen sich gegen die Industrialisierung moderner Cyberangriffe verteidigen können
Neue Analysen der SentinelLABS- und Wayfinder-Teams zeigen, wie Angreifer gezielt die Reibungsflächen zwischen IT-Sicherheit und operativem Betrieb ausnutzen. SentinelOne hat seinen aktuellen Annual Threat Report veröffentlicht [1]ngen. Sie gehen einen Schritt weiter und nutzen systematisch genau jene Identitäts-, Infrastruktur- und Automatisierungssysteme aus, auf denen moderne Unternehmen aufgebaut sind. Im Zeitalter industrialisierter Angriffe stehen Sicherheitsteams vor……
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What to Know About CyberAv3ngers: The IRGC-Linked Group Targeting Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, authentication, automation, backup, cctv, chatgpt, cisa, communications, compliance, control, credentials, crypto, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, dns, email, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, government, group, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, iot, iran, kev, leak, linux, malicious, malware, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, network, office, openai, password, radius, resilience, risk, router, service, siem, software, strategy, switch, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAn Iran-affiliated threat group has evolved from defacing water utility displays to deploying custom ICS malware and exploiting Rockwell Automation PLCs across multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors. Key takeaways: CyberAv3ngers is a state-directed threat group operating under Iran’s IRGC Cyber-Electronic Command. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned six named officials in February 2024 and the State Department…
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Iranian attacks on US critical infrastructure puts 3,900 devices in crosshairs
Censys researchers warned that thousands of devices are exposed to the Iranian government’s campaign targeting energy, water, and U.S. government services and facilities. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/iran-attackers-industrial-ot-government-energy-water-censys/
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Cloudflare ‘actively adjusting’ quantum priorities in wake of Google warning
Tags: android, attack, awareness, browser, chrome, ciso, communications, compliance, computer, computing, crypto, cryptography, cybersecurity, data, encryption, google, government, group, Hardware, infrastructure, Internet, ml, mobile, regulation, risk, service, strategy, technology, threat, vulnerabilityNational Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set a 2030 deadline for depreciating legacy encryption algorithms ahead of their planned retirement in 2035.Late last month Google brought forward its own post-quantum cryptography (PQC) deadline a year to 2029 because advances in quantum computers mean that legacy encryption and digital signature systems are at greater…
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NERC is ‘actively monitoring the grid’ following Iran-linked cyber threat
Hackers have disrupted critical U.S. infrastructure by targeting programmable logic controllers, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nerc-cisa-iran-war-cyber-hacking/817079/
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Nach Cyberangriff auf FBI-Chef – USA melden iranischen Hackerangriff auf Infrastruktur
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/iran-nahe-hacker-angriffe-us-infrastruktur-iranwire-a-099bb19960db4464add450892a23b058/
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Nach Cyberangriff auf FBI-Chef – USA melden iranischen Hackerangriff auf Infrastruktur
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/iran-nahe-hacker-angriffe-us-infrastruktur-iranwire-a-099bb19960db4464add450892a23b058/
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New Phishing Campaign Exploits Google Storage to Deliver Remcos RAT
A recently observed phishing campaign is abusing Google Cloud Storage to deliver the Remcos remote access trojan (RAT), relying on trusted Google infrastructure and a signed Microsoft binary to evade traditional defenses. Attackers host a fake Google Drive login page on the legitimate domain storage.googleapis.com, making the URL appear trustworthy to both users and security…
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Don’t just fight fraud, hunt it
As traditional fraud markers become obsolete, we must treat digital identity as critical infrastructure and adopt a layered, real-time defense to neutralize sophisticated crime rings. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/industrialized-fraud-ai-identity-theft-prevention-op-ed/