Tag: infrastructure
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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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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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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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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…
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Cisco fixes critical IMC auth bypass present in many products
Tags: access, ai, api, apt, attack, authentication, cisco, computing, credentials, cybersecurity, dns, email, exploit, firewall, firmware, flaw, group, infrastructure, linux, malicious, monitoring, network, password, ransomware, risk, router, vulnerability, zero-day[ Related: More Cisco news and insights ] The Cisco IMC is a baseboard management controller (BMC), a dedicated controller embedded into server motherboards with its own RAM and network interface that gives administrators monitoring and management capabilities as if they were physically connected to the server with a keyboard, monitor, and mouse (KVM). Because BMCs run…
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Claude Source Code Leak Highlights Big Supply Chain Missteps
Or, why the software supply chain should be treated as critical infrastructure with guardrails built in at every layer. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/source-code-leaks-highlight-lack-supply-chain-oversight
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Ukraine warns Russian hackers are revisiting past breaches to prepare new attacks
Tags: access, attack, breach, credentials, exploit, hacker, infrastructure, russia, ukraine, vulnerabilityIn a new report, CERT-UA said attackers are revisiting previously breached infrastructure to check whether access is still available, whether exploited vulnerabilities have been patched and whether previously obtained credentials remain valid. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ukraine-warns-russian-hackers-revisiting-old-attacks
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Source Code Leaks Highlight Lack of Supply Chain Oversight
Or, why the software supply chain should be treated as critical infrastructure with guardrails built in at every layer. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/source-code-leaks-highlight-lack-supply-chain-oversight
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Infrastructure Engineer Pleads Guilty to Locking 254 Windows Servers at Former Employer
Daniel Rhyne, a 59-year-old former core infrastructure engineer, pleaded guilty on April 1, 2026, to federal hacking and extortion charges. He admitted to locking out administrators and sabotaging systems at his former New Jersey-based employer in an attack that began in November 2023. Rhyne entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp in…
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CISA Includes TrueConf Security Flaw in KEV Catalog After Exploitation in the Wild
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has officially added a critical security flaw affecting the TrueConf Client to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This addition follows clear evidence that threat actors are actively exploiting the bug in real-world attacks. The Vulnerability (CVE-2026-3502) Tracked as CVE-2026-3502, the flaw is categorized as a >>Download of…
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12 cyber industry trends revealed at RSAC 2026
Tags: access, ai, application-security, authentication, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, defense, detection, edr, endpoint, firewall, gartner, governance, identity, infrastructure, insurance, metric, microsoft, monitoring, mssp, phishing, programming, risk, risk-management, service, siem, skills, soc, software, startup, technology, threat, tool, trainingLegacy security vendors have the inside track on AI, for now: As far as AI technology consumption for cybersecurity, most CISOs I spoke with were open-minded while leaning toward their existing vendors, at least in the short term. This may buy legacy security vendors a bit, but not much time.Remember what happened in the cloud…
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Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot
A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/man-admits-to-extortion-plot-locking-coworkers-out-of-thousands-of-windows-devices/
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Trivy supply chain attack enabled European Commission cloud breach
CERT-EU confirmed that ShinyHunters are behind the recent breach of the cloud infrastructure underpinning websites of the European Commission, and that they stole and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/03/european-commission-cloud-breach/
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Phorpiex Botnet Fuels Ransomware, Sextortion, and Crypto-Theft Attacks
Hackers are abusing the long-running Phorpiex (Trik) botnet to run large-scale ransomware, sextortion, and crypto-clipping operations, turning one infrastructure into a multi-purpose crime machine. A newer variant called Twizt gives the botnet a hybrid architecture that combines traditional command-and-control (C2) with a peer”‘to”‘peer (P2P) protocol, allowing infected machines to share commands and node lists directly with each…
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Microsoft releases open-source toolkit to govern autonomous AI agents
AI agents can book travel, execute financial transactions, write and run code, and manage infrastructure without human intervention at each step. Frameworks like LangChain, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/03/microsoft-ai-agent-governance-toolkit/