Tag: infrastructure
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Response to CISA Advisory (AA25-343A): Pro-Russia Hacktivists Conduct Opportunistic Attacks Against US and Global Critical Infrastructure
AttackIQ has issued recommendations in response to the Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on December 9, 2025, which details the ongoing targeting of critical infrastructure by pro-Russia hacktivists. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/response-to-cisa-advisory-aa25-343a-pro-russia-hacktivists-conduct-opportunistic-attacks-against-us-and-global-critical-infrastructure/
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Russian State-Supported Hacktivist Groups Targeted in Dual DOJ Indictments
The U.S. Department of Justice has unveiled a series of actions against two Russian state-supported cyber collectives, CARR (also known as CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn or CyberArmyofRussia) and NoName057(16), with prosecutors unsealing dual indictments against Ukrainian national Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, 33. Dubranova, known online as “Vika,” “Tory,” and “SovaSonya,” is accused of participating in destructive campaigns against critical…
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Ukrainian hacker charged with helping Russian hacktivist groups
U.S. prosecutors have charged a Ukrainian national for her role in cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure worldwide, including U.S. water systems, election systems, and nuclear facilities, on behalf of Russian state-backed hacktivist groups. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ukrainian-hacker-charged-with-helping-russian-hacktivist-groups/
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CISA and FBI Warn of Pro-Russia Hacktivist Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Worldwide
Tags: advisory, attack, cisa, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, infrastructure, international, russia, tactics, technologyThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and international partners from the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) have released a joint cybersecurity advisory detailing the escalating activities of pro-Russia hacktivist groups. This new advisory highlights a shift in tactics, with hacktivists targeting Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial…
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CISA and FBI Warn of Pro-Russia Hacktivist Attacks on Critical Infrastructure Worldwide
Tags: advisory, attack, cisa, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, infrastructure, international, russia, tactics, technologyThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and international partners from the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) have released a joint cybersecurity advisory detailing the escalating activities of pro-Russia hacktivist groups. This new advisory highlights a shift in tactics, with hacktivists targeting Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial…
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Warning: WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-6218 Under Active Attack by Multiple Threat Groups
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a security flaw impacting the WinRAR file archiver and compression utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6218 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a path traversal bug that could enable code execution. However, for exploitation First…
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Warning: WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-6218 Under Active Attack by Multiple Threat Groups
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a security flaw impacting the WinRAR file archiver and compression utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6218 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a path traversal bug that could enable code execution. However, for exploitation First…
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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows and WinRAR flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Tags: cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, vulnerability, windowsU.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows and WinRAR flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Microsoft Windows and WinRAR flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2025-6218 is a WinRAR directory traversal flaw (formerly…
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Polymorphic AI malware exists, but it’s not what you think
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, automation, business, ciso, credentials, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, detection, edr, email, espionage, government, group, identity, infrastructure, malicious, malware, marketplace, mfa, monitoring, phishing, radius, ransomware, risk, soc, technology, theft, threat, toolwhat the code block should do, or how it’s going to evade an antivirus. It’s just working under the assumption that Gemini just instinctively knows how to evade antiviruses (it doesn’t). There’s also no entropy to ensure the ‘self-modifying’ code differs from previous versions, or any guardrails to ensure it actually works. The function was…
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Polymorphic AI malware exists, but it’s not what you think
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, automation, business, ciso, credentials, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, detection, edr, email, espionage, government, group, identity, infrastructure, malicious, malware, marketplace, mfa, monitoring, phishing, radius, ransomware, risk, soc, technology, theft, threat, toolwhat the code block should do, or how it’s going to evade an antivirus. It’s just working under the assumption that Gemini just instinctively knows how to evade antiviruses (it doesn’t). There’s also no entropy to ensure the ‘self-modifying’ code differs from previous versions, or any guardrails to ensure it actually works. The function was…
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Polymorphic AI malware exists, but it’s not what you think
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, automation, business, ciso, credentials, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, detection, edr, email, espionage, government, group, identity, infrastructure, malicious, malware, marketplace, mfa, monitoring, phishing, radius, ransomware, risk, soc, technology, theft, threat, toolwhat the code block should do, or how it’s going to evade an antivirus. It’s just working under the assumption that Gemini just instinctively knows how to evade antiviruses (it doesn’t). There’s also no entropy to ensure the ‘self-modifying’ code differs from previous versions, or any guardrails to ensure it actually works. The function was…
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BNY Partners With Google on Financial Services AI Platform
Google Says Gemini Enterprise Agentic AI Model Is Ready for Banking Clients. BNY is integrating Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise agentic artificial intelligence platform into its proprietary enterprise AI platform, Eliza. The move represents an evolution from AI as a pilot project to AI as infrastructure for the global financial services organization. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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BNY Partners With Google on Financial Services AI Platform
Google Says Gemini Enterprise Agentic AI Model Is Ready for Banking Clients. BNY is integrating Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise agentic artificial intelligence platform into its proprietary enterprise AI platform, Eliza. The move represents an evolution from AI as a pilot project to AI as infrastructure for the global financial services organization. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Building SOX compliance through smarter training and stronger password practices
A SOX audit can reveal uncomfortable truths about how a company handles access to financial systems. Even organizations that invest in strong infrastructure often discover … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/10/sox-compliance-password-practices/
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Building SOX compliance through smarter training and stronger password practices
A SOX audit can reveal uncomfortable truths about how a company handles access to financial systems. Even organizations that invest in strong infrastructure often discover … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/10/sox-compliance-password-practices/
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GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments
Tags: access, api, authentication, awareness, cloud, credentials, data-breach, detection, exploit, github, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, security-incident, strategy, threat, trainingEasily evading detection: Wiz found that a threat actor with basic read permissions via a PAT can use GitHub’s API code search to discover secret names embedded directly in a workflow’s yaml code, accessed via “${{ secrets.SECRET_NAME }}.”The danger is that this secret discovery method is difficult to monitor because search API calls are not…
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GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments
Tags: access, api, authentication, awareness, cloud, credentials, data-breach, detection, exploit, github, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, security-incident, strategy, threat, trainingEasily evading detection: Wiz found that a threat actor with basic read permissions via a PAT can use GitHub’s API code search to discover secret names embedded directly in a workflow’s yaml code, accessed via “${{ secrets.SECRET_NAME }}.”The danger is that this secret discovery method is difficult to monitor because search API calls are not…
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GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments
Tags: access, api, authentication, awareness, cloud, credentials, data-breach, detection, exploit, github, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, security-incident, strategy, threat, trainingEasily evading detection: Wiz found that a threat actor with basic read permissions via a PAT can use GitHub’s API code search to discover secret names embedded directly in a workflow’s yaml code, accessed via “${{ secrets.SECRET_NAME }}.”The danger is that this secret discovery method is difficult to monitor because search API calls are not…
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Racks, sprawl and the myth of redundancy: Why your failover isn’t as safe as you think
Tags: access, automation, backup, breach, cloud, control, data, data-breach, defense, detection, dns, encryption, firmware, flaw, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, metric, mobile, network, resilience, software, strategy, supply-chain, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-dayCloud complexity and policy traps: Networks, however, no longer stay confined to racks. They live in routing tables, BGP sessions, cloud control planes and software-defined overlays. Many organizations rush to multi-region cloud setups, believing geographic distance alone guarantees resilience. It does not. Last year, I oversaw a global e-commerce platform with active-passive failover across two…
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Racks, sprawl and the myth of redundancy: Why your failover isn’t as safe as you think
Tags: access, automation, backup, breach, cloud, control, data, data-breach, defense, detection, dns, encryption, firmware, flaw, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, metric, mobile, network, resilience, software, strategy, supply-chain, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-dayCloud complexity and policy traps: Networks, however, no longer stay confined to racks. They live in routing tables, BGP sessions, cloud control planes and software-defined overlays. Many organizations rush to multi-region cloud setups, believing geographic distance alone guarantees resilience. It does not. Last year, I oversaw a global e-commerce platform with active-passive failover across two…
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Four Threat Clusters Using CastleLoader as GrayBravo Expands Its Malware Service Infrastructure
Four distinct threat activity clusters have been observed leveraging a malware loader known as CastleLoader, strengthening the previous assessment that the tool is offered to other threat actors under a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model.The threat actor behind CastleLoader has been assigned the name GrayBravo by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, which was previously tracking it as TAG-150.…
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NIS2 umsetzen ohne im Papierkrieg zu enden
Tags: access, ai, compliance, control, cyberattack, detection, encryption, germany, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, least-privilege, mail, monitoring, nis-2, resilience, sbom, service, siem, soc, software, startup, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementDie EU-Richtline NIS2 ist in Deutschland am 06. Dezember 2025 in Kraft getreten. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, wie sich mit DevSecOps ein Großteil der Pflichtarbeit automatisieren lässt.NIS2 ist symbolisch für das Kernproblem europäischer Richtlinien und Verordnungen: Sie erzeugen unnötigen Papierkrieg und entfalten ihre Wirkung zu selten. Sei es das Lieferkettengesetz, die DSGVO”‘Folgenabschätzungen oder das IT”‘Sicherheitsgesetz sie haben…
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NIS2 umsetzen ohne im Papierkrieg zu enden
Tags: access, ai, compliance, control, cyberattack, detection, encryption, germany, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, least-privilege, mail, monitoring, nis-2, resilience, sbom, service, siem, soc, software, startup, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementDie EU-Richtline NIS2 ist in Deutschland am 06. Dezember 2025 in Kraft getreten. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, wie sich mit DevSecOps ein Großteil der Pflichtarbeit automatisieren lässt.NIS2 ist symbolisch für das Kernproblem europäischer Richtlinien und Verordnungen: Sie erzeugen unnötigen Papierkrieg und entfalten ihre Wirkung zu selten. Sei es das Lieferkettengesetz, die DSGVO”‘Folgenabschätzungen oder das IT”‘Sicherheitsgesetz sie haben…
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Microsoft-365-Sicherheit Kuppingercole bescheinigt Coreview herausragende Tiefe
Das Analyseunternehmen Kuppingercole attestiert Coreview herausragende Fähigkeiten im Bereich der Microsoft-365-Sicherheit und -Resilienz: ‘Für Unternehmen, bei denen Microsoft-365 ein Element der kritischen IT-Infrastruktur ist, bietet Coreview wesentliche Cyber-Resilienz-Funktionen, die weder Microsofts native Tools noch breite Plattformlösungen wie generische IAM-Werkzeuge in ausreichender Form bereitstellen.” Da Unternehmen Microsoft-365 zunehmend ‘als ihre sensibelste Identitätsplattform ansehen, ist Coreviews fokussierter…
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Ermittler kappen Tausende Nummern von mutmaßlichen Betrügern
Mehr als 3.500 von Cyberkriminellen genutzte Rufnummern wurden abgeschaltet.Im Kampf gegen Anlagebetrüger, «Enkeltrick»-Kriminelle und falsche Polizisten ist den Ermittlern nach eigenen Angaben ein großer Schlag gelungen. Die Infrastruktur der mutmaßlichen Cyberkriminellen sei erheblich geschwächt worden, teilten das bei der Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Karlsruhe eingerichtete Cybercrime-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg, das baden-württembergische Landeskriminalamt (LKA) und die Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (Bafin) gemeinsam…
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Initial access brokers involved in more attacks, including on critical infrastructure
A research firm also finds nation-states aligning their cyberattacks more closely with geostrategic goals. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/initial-access-brokers-check-point/807315/
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Operation Kitten: Hacktivist Groups Targeting Israel with Cyberattacks
A new platform known as the “kitten” project has emerged as a coordination hub for hacktivist campaigns targeting Israel, operating at the intersection of cyber activism and state-aligned influence. While the operators publicly deny direct ties to Iran, technical evidence and infrastructure traces indicate a close relationship with an Iranian cybersecurity ecosystem and pro-Iranian hacktivist…
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KI schafft neue Sicherheitsrisiken für OT-Netzwerke
Sicherheitsbehörden sehen in der vermehrten Nutzung von KI eine Gefahr für die Sicherheit von OT-Systemen.Die Sicherheit der Betriebstechnik (Operational Technology OT) in kritischen Infrastrukturen ist seit Jahren ein immer wiederkehrendes Thema. Nach Ansicht von Sicherheitsorganisationen könnte die vermehrte Nutzung von KI in der OT die Lage noch verschlimmern.Die US-Cybersicherheitsbehörde CISA hat deshalb vor kurzem gemeinsam…