Tag: infrastructure
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Why does Agentic AI provide a calm approach to crisis management?
How Can Non-Human Identities Reshape Cybersecurity in Crisis Management? Have you ever considered the hidden guardians of digital infrastructure? These are the often overlooked Non-Human Identities (NHIs), which are pivotal in managing cybersecurity threats across various industries. Understanding NHIs and their significance is imperative within the context of crisis management strategies, especially when organizations increasingly……
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Why does Agentic AI provide a calm approach to crisis management?
How Can Non-Human Identities Reshape Cybersecurity in Crisis Management? Have you ever considered the hidden guardians of digital infrastructure? These are the often overlooked Non-Human Identities (NHIs), which are pivotal in managing cybersecurity threats across various industries. Understanding NHIs and their significance is imperative within the context of crisis management strategies, especially when organizations increasingly……
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A Misconfigured AI Could Trigger Infrastructure Collapse
AI Fumbles, Not Hackers, Pose Next Shutdown Threat by 2028: Gartner. A misconfigured artificial intelligence system could do what hackers have tried and failed to accomplish: shut down an advanced economy’s critical infrastructure. The warning centers on scenarios where AI autonomously shuts down vital services, misinterprets sensor data or triggers unsafe actions. First seen on…
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OysterLoader Evolves With New C2 Infrastructure and Obfuscation
OysterLoader malware evolves into 2026, refining C2 infrastructure, obfuscation & infection stages First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/oysterloader-new-c2-infrastructure/
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Why Borderless AI Is Coming to an End
Countries Are Pouring Billions Into Domestic AI Stacks to Escape US-China Dominance. By 2027, more than one-third of the world’s nations will be locked into region-specific AI platforms built on proprietary data, infrastructure and governance frameworks, according to Gartner. Nations are now safeguarding LLMs in the same way they do critical infrastructure. First seen on…
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Digitale Souveränität gemeinsam gestalten: BSI und Schwarz Digits schließen strategische Partnerschaft
Das BSI und Schwarz Digits kooperieren bei der Entwicklung souveräner Cloud-Lösungen für die öffentliche Verwaltung. Die Partner entwickeln Kontrollschichten und sichere Cloud-Systeme auch für kritische Daten. Souveräne Infrastruktur sichert die Handlungsfähigkeit gegen hybride Bedrohungen und verhindert Vendor Lock-ins. Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) und Schwarz Digits, die IT- und Digitalsparte der… First…
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Digitale Souveränität gemeinsam gestalten: BSI und Schwarz Digits schließen strategische Partnerschaft
Das BSI und Schwarz Digits kooperieren bei der Entwicklung souveräner Cloud-Lösungen für die öffentliche Verwaltung. Die Partner entwickeln Kontrollschichten und sichere Cloud-Systeme auch für kritische Daten. Souveräne Infrastruktur sichert die Handlungsfähigkeit gegen hybride Bedrohungen und verhindert Vendor Lock-ins. Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) und Schwarz Digits, die IT- und Digitalsparte der… First…
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Critical Airleader Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Exploitable Remote Attacks
Tags: attack, cisa, control, cve, cvss, cyber, flaw, infrastructure, remote-code-execution, risk, software, vulnerabilityA critical security vulnerability in Airleader Master software has been disclosed by CISA, exposing industrial control systems across multiple critical infrastructure sectors to potential remote code execution attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-1358, affects versions up to and including 6.381 and carries a maximum CVSS score of 9.8, indicating severe risk to affected systems. The…
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CISO Julie Chatman wants to help you take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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10 years later, Bangladesh Bank cyberheist still offers cyber-resiliency lessons
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, automation, backdoor, banking, ceo, cisco, ciso, compliance, control, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, detection, endpoint, exploit, finance, fintech, firewall, framework, infrastructure, intelligence, international, malware, monitoring, network, north-korea, oracle, password, risk, service, software, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilitySecurity shortcomings: Adrian Cheek, senior cybercrime researcher at threat exposure management firm Flare, said the Bangladesh Bank heist was possible because of a number of security shortcomings, including a failure to air gap critical infrastructure.”The Bank of Bangladesh had four servers and the same number of desktops connected to SWIFT,” Cheek says. “This infrastructure, however,…
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CISA Issues Alert on ZLAN ICS Flaws Enabling Full Device Takeover
Tags: advisory, cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, flaw, infrastructure, network, technology, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a critical advisory regarding significant security flaws discovered in industrial networking equipment manufactured by ZLAN Information Technology Co. The alert, identified as ICSA-26-041-02, focuses on the ZLAN5143D serial-to-Ethernet device server, a component widely utilized to bridge legacy serial devices with modern network infrastructure. These vulnerabilities pose…
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Attackers Exploit Critical BeyondTrust Flaw to Seize Full Active Directory Control
Tags: access, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-1731, affecting self-hosted BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access deployments. This security flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to inject operating system commands, effectively granting them remote code execution capabilities. The severity of this campaign has prompted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to add the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…
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Lotus Blossom Hackers Breach Official Notepad++ Hosting Infrastructure
Between June and December 2025, a state-sponsored threat group known as Lotus Blossom quietly hijacked the official hosting infrastructure used to deliver Notepad++ updates, turning a trusted developer tool into a precision espionage delivery channel. By compromising the shared hosting provider that previously served the Notepad++ update endpoint, the attackers gained the ability to intercept…
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Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Verifiable MCP Tool Execution
Learn how Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) provide verifiable tool execution for Model Context Protocol (MCP) in a post-quantum world. Secure your AI infrastructure today. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/zero-knowledge-proofs-for-verifiable-mcp-tool-execution/
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Welche Länder sabotieren die Russen bevorzugt?
In Deutschland fanden seit Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs bis Ende 2024 die meisten Angriffe auf kritische Infrastruktur statt. Das ist ein Ergebnis einer Erhebung des Londoner Thinktanks International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS [1]). Demzufolge gab es in Deutschland 12 physischen Angriffe auf Objekte, Dienste oder Personen. Es folgen Frankreich (11 Angriffe) und Polen (8 Angriffe)….…
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Are there guaranteed cybersecurity benefits with Agentic AI implementation?
Can Non-Human Identities Reinvent Cybersecurity with Agentic AI? What if the key to fortifying cybersecurity lies not in more layers of defense, but in effectively managing the machine identities that already exist within your organization’s infrastructure? Enter Non-Human Identities (NHIs)”, the machine identities that are increasingly important. Understanding Non-Human Identities NHIs function much like machine…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an BeyondTrust RS and PRA vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score of 9.9), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week BeyondTrust released security updates to…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an BeyondTrust RS and PRA vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score of 9.9), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week BeyondTrust released security updates to…
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Alert: ‘Severe Cyberthreat’ to Critical Infrastructure
Develop ‘Strong Resilience and Recovery Plans,’ Urges UK Cybersecurity Agency. Following Poland’s energy grid being targeted by Russian nation-state attackers, Britain has issued a severe cyberthreat alert to its domestic critical national infrastructure operators, urging them to refine their defensive and resilience posture ahead of any unexpected escalation in targeting. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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New NCSC-Led OT Security Guidance for Nuclear Reactors
Four Principles Positioning the Nuclear Ecosystem for Long-Term Cyber Resilience OT weaknesses are compounding across utilities, with 22% of critical infrastructure firms reporting OT incidents and external access driving half of breaches. U.K. NCSC’s new guidance outlines connectivity principles that utilities can embed to avoid costly retrofits and compliance issues. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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The Rise of Continuous Penetration Testing-as-a-Service (PTaaS)
Traditional penetration testing has long been a cornerstone of cyber assurance. For many organisations, structured annual or biannual tests have provided an effective way to validate security controls, support compliance requirements, and identify material weaknesses across infrastructure, applications, and external attack surfaces. However, enterprise environments now change at a pace that is difficult to reconcile”¦…
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The Rise of Continuous Penetration Testing-as-a-Service (PTaaS)
Traditional penetration testing has long been a cornerstone of cyber assurance. For many organisations, structured annual or biannual tests have provided an effective way to validate security controls, support compliance requirements, and identify material weaknesses across infrastructure, applications, and external attack surfaces. However, enterprise environments now change at a pace that is difficult to reconcile”¦…
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EU can’t be ‘naive’ about enemies shutting down critical infrastructure, warns tech official
The European Union can no longer afford to be “naive” about adversaries’ ability to switch off critical infrastructure, the EU’s top tech official warned Friday, as she called for tougher rules and more investment to protect Europe from cyber and hybrid threats. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/eu-cyber-critical-infrastructure-tech
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CISA orders federal agencies to patch exploited SolarWinds, Apple, Microsoft bugs within weeks
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ten new vulnerabilities to its catalog of exploited bugs this week, forcing all federal civilian agencies to resolve the issues by the first week of March. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cisa-orders-federal-agencies-to-patch-solarwinds-microsoft-apple-bugs
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CISA orders federal agencies to patch exploited SolarWinds, Apple, Microsoft bugs within weeks
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ten new vulnerabilities to its catalog of exploited bugs this week, forcing all federal civilian agencies to resolve the issues by the first week of March. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cisa-orders-federal-agencies-to-patch-solarwinds-microsoft-apple-bugs
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Chrome Extensions Infect 500K Users to Hijack VKontakte Accounts
A long-running Chrome extension malware campaign has silently hijacked more than 500,000 VKontakte (VK) accounts, forcing users into attacker-controlled groups, resetting their settings every 30 days, and abusing VK’s own infrastructure as command-and-control. What appeared to be harmless VK customization tools were in reality a tightly maintained malware project operated by a single threat actor…
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Why key management becomes the weakest link in a post-quantum and AI-driven security world
Tags: access, ai, attack, computer, control, crypto, cryptography, data, data-breach, exploit, governance, incident response, infrastructure, risk, switchWhy post-quantum readiness is really a key lifecycle problem: Post-quantum cryptography is often framed as a future threat. That framing misses the real challenge.The risk is not the moment a quantum computer breaks an algorithm. The risk is the long transition period before and after that moment. During this phase, organizations must support hybrid cryptography,…
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Why key management becomes the weakest link in a post-quantum and AI-driven security world
Tags: access, ai, attack, computer, control, crypto, cryptography, data, data-breach, exploit, governance, incident response, infrastructure, risk, switchWhy post-quantum readiness is really a key lifecycle problem: Post-quantum cryptography is often framed as a future threat. That framing misses the real challenge.The risk is not the moment a quantum computer breaks an algorithm. The risk is the long transition period before and after that moment. During this phase, organizations must support hybrid cryptography,…
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Urgent warnings from UK and US cyber agencies after Polish energy grid attack
A coordinated cyberattack that targeted Poland’s energy infrastructure in late December 2025 has prompted cybersecurity agencies to issue urgent warnings to critical national infrastructure operators on both sides of the Atlantic. First seen on fortra.com Jump to article: www.fortra.com/blog/urgent-warnings-uk-and-us-cyber-agencies-after-polish-energy-grid-attack
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Why key management becomes the weakest link in a post-quantum and AI-driven security world
Tags: access, ai, attack, computer, control, crypto, cryptography, data, data-breach, exploit, governance, incident response, infrastructure, risk, switchWhy post-quantum readiness is really a key lifecycle problem: Post-quantum cryptography is often framed as a future threat. That framing misses the real challenge.The risk is not the moment a quantum computer breaks an algorithm. The risk is the long transition period before and after that moment. During this phase, organizations must support hybrid cryptography,…