Tag: infrastructure
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The Raspberry Pi wakeup call: Why enterprises must rethink physical security
Tags: ceo, control, dns, Hardware, infrastructure, intelligence, malware, monitoring, network, phoneProceed with caution: Villanustre encouraged anyone discovering such a device to proceed cautiously. “Disconnecting the device could result in losing important forensic information if not careful. It’s not too hard to equip the device with a tiny battery or supercapacitor that would give it enough time to wipe itself out if disconnected from the network or…
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Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Preserving MCP Analytics in a Post-Quantum World
Explore homomorphic encryption for privacy-preserving analytics in Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments, addressing post-quantum security challenges. Learn how to secure your AI infrastructure with Gopher Security. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/homomorphic-encryption-for-privacy-preserving-mcp-analytics-in-a-post-quantum-world/
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The Raspberry Pi wakeup call: Why enterprises must rethink physical security
Tags: ceo, control, dns, Hardware, infrastructure, intelligence, malware, monitoring, network, phoneProceed with caution: Villanustre encouraged anyone discovering such a device to proceed cautiously. “Disconnecting the device could result in losing important forensic information if not careful. It’s not too hard to equip the device with a tiny battery or supercapacitor that would give it enough time to wipe itself out if disconnected from the network or…
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‘Ink Dragon’ threat group targets IIS servers to build stealthy global network
Tags: access, attack, china, control, credentials, data, exploit, firewall, government, group, infrastructure, intelligence, microsoft, network, office, threat, vulnerability, wafmodus operandi to several other Chinese threat groups engaged in nation-state surveillance, such as UNC6384, whose campaigns targeted European diplomats.However, during a recent investigation at the office of a European government, Check Point said it had discovered that the group has now pivoted towards what it called “an unusually sophisticated playbook” with longer term goals.Key…
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FBI takes down alleged money laundering service for ransomware groups
According to a DOJ announcement, the exchange E-Note was used to process funds stolen by criminals in cyberattacks on healthcare entities and critical infrastructure, among other targets. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/fbi-takes-down-alleged-money-laundering-operation
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Complying with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Cloud Advisory: How Tenable Can Help
Tags: access, advisory, attack, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, country, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, fintech, framework, google, governance, government, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, kubernetes, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, microsoft, mitigation, monitoring, oracle, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustThe Monetary Authority of Singapore’s cloud advisory, part of its 2021 Technology Risk Management Guidelines, advises financial institutions to move beyond siloed monitoring to adopt a continuous, enterprise-wide approach. These firms must undergo annual audits. Here’s how Tenable can help. Key takeaways: High-stakes compliance: The MAS requires all financial institutions in Singapore to meet mandatory…
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Chinese Hackers Turn Compromised Servers Into ShadowPad Nodes
A sophisticated Chinese threat actor tracked as Ink Dragon has been weaponizing a custom ShadowPad IIS Listener module to convert compromised servers into distributed relay nodes, according to research by Check Point Research. The tactic represents a significant escalation in the group’s operational capabilities, enabling attackers to establish persistent, multi-layered command-and-control infrastructure that spans victim…
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Nagios XI 2026R1.1 Released to Patch Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Nagios has released version 2026R1.1 to address a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting earlier versions of its monitoring platform. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-34288, poses a significant risk to enterprise infrastructure by enabling local attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Vulnerability Details The vulnerability stems from an unsafe interaction between sudo permissions and…
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CISA Adds Actively Exploited Fortinet Signature Verification Flaw to KEV Catalog
Tags: cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, fortinet, infrastructure, kev, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has officially added CVE-2025-59718 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, marking the latest Fortinet vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw affects multiple Fortinet products and poses a significant threat to organisations relying on FortiCloud single sign-on (SSO) authentication. Vulnerability Details CVE-2025-59718 represents an improper…
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Hacking Hardware, Unraveling Malware: Black Hat Europe at 25
Also: macOS Naughty or Nice, Cybercrime Karma, Spoofing Legacy Rail Infrastructure London in December: Early to dark, quick to rain but also festive – and a mecca for cybersecurity researchers there for the annual Black Hat Europe conference. This year’s event featured nearly 50 briefings that touched on everything from hardware hacking to combing infostealer…
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Hacking Hardware, Unraveling Malware: Black Hat Europe at 25
Also: macOS Naughty or Nice, Cybercrime Karma, Spoofing Legacy Rail Infrastructure London in December: Early to dark, quick to rain but also festive – and a mecca for cybersecurity researchers there for the annual Black Hat Europe conference. This year’s event featured nearly 50 briefings that touched on everything from hardware hacking to combing infostealer…
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Attackers Use Stolen AWS Credentials in Cryptomining Campaign
Threat actors wielding stolen AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials leverage Amazon EC and EC2 infrastructure across multiple customer environments. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/attackers-use-stolen-aws-credentials-cryptomining
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SHARED INTEL QA: This is how ‘edge AI’ is forcing a rethink of trust, security and resilience
A seismic shift in digital systems is underway, and most people are missing it. Related: Edge AI at the chip layer While generative AI demos and LLM hype steal the spotlight, enterprise infrastructure is being quietly re-architected, not from… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/shared-intel-qa-this-is-how-edge-ai-is-forcing-a-rethink-of-trust-security-and-resilience/
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The Rise of Precision Botnets in DDoS
For a long time, DDoS attacks were easy to recognize. They were loud, messy, and built on raw throughput. Attackers controlled massive botnets and flooded targets until bandwidth or infrastructure collapsed. It was mostly a scale problem, not an engineering one. That era is ending. A quieter and far more refined threat has taken its……
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Enterprises Gear Up Ahead of 2026’s IT Transformation Shift
Experts predict big changes are coming for IT infrastructure in 2026 driven by AI adoption, hybrid cloud strategies, and evolving security demands. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/enterprises-gear-up-for-2026-s-it-transformation
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Enterprises Gear Up Ahead of 2026’s IT Transformation Shift
Experts predict big changes are coming for IT infrastructure in 2026 driven by AI adoption, hybrid cloud strategies, and evolving security demands. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/enterprises-gear-up-for-2026-s-it-transformation
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Russische APT-Gruppe greift westliche KRITIS-Betreiber an
Tags: access, apt, authentication, backup, blizzard, cloud, credentials, cve, cyberattack, cyberespionage, infrastructure, intelligence, kritis, malware, mfa, mssp, router, service, threat, veeam, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayEine russische Cyberspionage-Kampagne zielt auf Energieversorger.Das Team von Amazon Threat Intelligence stellte fest, dass eine vom russischen Staat geförderte Cyberspionagegruppe vermehrt Energieunternehmen und Anbieter kritischer Infrastrukturen (KRITIS) ins Visier genommen hat.Die Gruppe ist demnach seit mindestens 2021 aktiv und hat es vor allem auf Fehlkonfigurationen von Geräten abgesehen. Die Angreifer nutzen aber auch bekannte Schwachstellen…
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Russische APT-Gruppe greift westliche KRITIS-Betreiber an
Tags: access, apt, authentication, backup, blizzard, cloud, credentials, cve, cyberattack, cyberespionage, infrastructure, intelligence, kritis, malware, mfa, mssp, router, service, threat, veeam, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayEine russische Cyberspionage-Kampagne zielt auf Energieversorger.Das Team von Amazon Threat Intelligence stellte fest, dass eine vom russischen Staat geförderte Cyberspionagegruppe vermehrt Energieunternehmen und Anbieter kritischer Infrastrukturen (KRITIS) ins Visier genommen hat.Die Gruppe ist demnach seit mindestens 2021 aktiv und hat es vor allem auf Fehlkonfigurationen von Geräten abgesehen. Die Angreifer nutzen aber auch bekannte Schwachstellen…
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Russian state hackers targeted Western critical infrastructure for years, Amazon says
Tags: credentials, cyber, exploit, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, network, russia, theft, threat, vulnerabilityAmazon disclosed a years-long Russian state-backed cyber campaign targeting Western critical infrastructure from 2021 to 2025. Amazon Threat Intelligence reports a long-running Russian state-backed campaign (20212025) targeting Western critical infrastructure. Threat actors shifted from exploiting vulnerabilities to abusing misconfigured network edge devices, enabling credential theft and lateral movement with lower risk. The researchers linked the…
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Russian state hackers targeted Western critical infrastructure for years, Amazon says
Tags: credentials, cyber, exploit, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, network, russia, theft, threat, vulnerabilityAmazon disclosed a years-long Russian state-backed cyber campaign targeting Western critical infrastructure from 2021 to 2025. Amazon Threat Intelligence reports a long-running Russian state-backed campaign (20212025) targeting Western critical infrastructure. Threat actors shifted from exploiting vulnerabilities to abusing misconfigured network edge devices, enabling credential theft and lateral movement with lower risk. The researchers linked the…
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Russische APT-Gruppe greift westliche KRITIS-Betreiber an
Tags: access, apt, authentication, backup, blizzard, cloud, credentials, cve, cyberattack, cyberespionage, infrastructure, intelligence, kritis, malware, mfa, mssp, router, service, threat, veeam, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayEine russische Cyberspionage-Kampagne zielt auf Energieversorger.Das Team von Amazon Threat Intelligence stellte fest, dass eine vom russischen Staat geförderte Cyberspionagegruppe vermehrt Energieunternehmen und Anbieter kritischer Infrastrukturen (KRITIS) ins Visier genommen hat.Die Gruppe ist demnach seit mindestens 2021 aktiv und hat es vor allem auf Fehlkonfigurationen von Geräten abgesehen. Die Angreifer nutzen aber auch bekannte Schwachstellen…
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England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion
Tags: infrastructureRegulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefits First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/england_pen_paper_exams/
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BlindEagle Targets Colombian Government Agency with Caminho and DCRAT
Tags: access, attack, authentication, cloud, communications, control, cybercrime, defense, detection, dkim, dmarc, dns, email, encryption, flaw, government, group, infrastructure, injection, Internet, malicious, malware, microsoft, open-source, phishing, powershell, rat, service, spear-phishing, startup, tactics, threat, tool, update, usa, windowsIntroductionIn early September 2025, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a new spear phishing campaign attributed to BlindEagle, a threat actor who operates in South America and targets users in Spanish-speaking countries, such as Colombia. In this campaign, BlindEagle targeted a government agency under the control of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism (MCIT) in Colombia using…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in multiple Fortinet products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. CISA adds a vulnerability impacting multiple products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Fortinet Multiple Products Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59718 (CVSS Score of 9.1), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Threat actors started exploiting two critical flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719 (CVSS score of 9.1),…
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CISA Alerts on Actively Exploited Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox Flaws
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a new alert regarding a critical security vulnerability affecting Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox. The agency has added this flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, indicating that hackers are actively exploiting it in attacks. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-14611, involves a serious issue with how these…
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CISA Alerts on Actively Exploited Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox Flaws
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a new alert regarding a critical security vulnerability affecting Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox. The agency has added this flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, indicating that hackers are actively exploiting it in attacks. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-14611, involves a serious issue with how these…
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FortiGate firewall credentials being stolen after vulnerabilities discovered
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, authentication, best-practice, breach, ceo, cisa, credentials, cve, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, exploit, firewall, flaw, fortinet, hacker, infrastructure, Internet, kev, least-privilege, login, malicious, network, password, software, theft, threat, update, vulnerabilityCSO. “So far, the pattern of activity has appeared to be opportunistic in nature. While it is difficult to estimate the number of devices directly vulnerable to this vulnerability, there are hundreds of thousands of Fortinet appliances accessible on the public internet through specialized search engines. This allows threat actors to opportunistically attempt exploitation against…
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Russian APT group pivots to network edge device misconfigurations
Tags: apt, attack, authentication, breach, cloud, credentials, detection, group, infrastructure, intelligence, mfa, mssp, network, russia, service, technology, theft, threatCredential harvesting: The researchers also observed credential replay attacks against victims’ other online services using stolen domain credentials following network edge device compromises. This indicates that the attackers are likely harvesting credentials by leveraging the traffic capturing and analysis capabilities of the compromised devices.”Time gap between device compromise and authentication attempts against victim services suggests…