Tag: mitigation
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VoidLink malware was almost entirely made by AI
What VoidLink signals for enterprise security: Check Point’s analysis frames the malware as an important indicator of how threat development itself is changing. The researchers emphasize that the significance of VoidLink lies less in its current deployment and more in how quickly it was created using AI-driven processes.VoidLink is designed to operate on Linux systems…
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NSFOCUS Enters the Global Top Tier of DDoS Security: NSFOCUS DDoS Solutions Positioned in the MarketsandMarkets Star Quadrant
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan 21, 2026 Recently, MarketsandMarkets, a globally recognized market research and consulting firm, released its Global DDoS Protection and Mitigation Security Market Global Forecast to 2030 report, providing a comprehensive assessment of industry trends, technology evolution, and leading vendors worldwide. Based on its mature technology stack, comprehensive solution portfolio, and strong market…The…
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For cyber risk assessments, frequency is essential
Tags: access, authentication, backup, breach, ciso, cloud, compliance, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, exploit, framework, GDPR, infrastructure, mitigation, network, password, radius, ransomware, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, strategy, tool, vulnerabilityIdentifying vulnerabilities: A cyber risk assessment helps to identify security gaps in a company’s IT infrastructure, networks, and systems. This provides the opportunity to eliminate these vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by cybercriminals.Prioritize risk management measures: Not every system is critical, and not all of a company’s data is equally important. The results of the risk…
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New Study Finds GPT-5.2 Can Reliably Develop Zero-Day Exploits at Scale
Advanced large language models can autonomously develop working exploits for zero-day vulnerabilities, marking a significant shift in the offensive cybersecurity landscape. The research demonstrates that artificial intelligence systems can now perform complex exploit development tasks that previously required specialized human expertise. The agents were challenged to develop exploits under realistic constraints, including modern security mitigations,…
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This Intune update isn’t optional, it’s a kill switch for outdated apps
Tags: access, android, authentication, business, control, corporate, cybersecurity, data, infrastructure, malware, microsoft, mitigation, password, phone, risk, service, switch, threat, tool, updateiOS line-of-business (LOB) and custom iOS apps using the Intune App SDK must update to SDK version 20.8.0 or later for apps compiled with Xcode 16, and to 21.1.0 or later for apps compiled with Xcode 26.Apps using the wrapper must update to the new version of the Intune App Wrapping Tool for iOS: version…
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NDSS 2025 BitShield: Defending Against Bit-Flip Attacks On DNN Executables
Tags: attack, conference, data, defense, framework, intelligence, Internet, mitigation, network, vulnerabilitySession 9B: DNN Attack Surfaces Authors, Creators & Presenters: Yanzuo Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Yuanyuan Yuan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Zhibo Liu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Sihang Hu (Huawei Technologies), Tianxiang Li (Huawei Technologies), Shuai Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science…
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Insider risk in an age of workforce volatility
Tags: access, ai, api, authentication, automation, backdoor, backup, china, ciso, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, exploit, framework, governance, government, identity, jobs, least-privilege, malicious, mitigation, monitoring, network, risk, strategy, supply-chain, threat, zero-trustEarly warnings: The machine as insider risk/threat: These dynamics are not emerging in a vacuum. They represent the culmination of warnings that have been building for years.As early as 2021, in my CSO opinion piece “Device identity: The overlooked insider threat,” Rajan Koo (then chief customer officer at DTEX Systems, now CTO) observed: “There needs…
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2025 Threat Landscape in Review: Lessons for Businesses Moving Into 2026
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, authentication, awareness, backdoor, breach, business, captcha, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, credit-card, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, ddos, defense, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, google, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, leak, malicious, mitigation, monitoring, network, pypi, risk, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, windows2025 Threat Landscape in Review: Lessons for Businesses Moving Into 2026 andrew.gertz@t“¦ Thu, 01/15/2026 – 16:48 Nadav Avital – Senior Director of Threat Research at Thales More About This Author > 2025 was a year that tested how businesses think about security. Some attacks happened in new, unexpected ways, while others employed old tricks, taken…
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CVE-2025-64155: Exploit Code Released for Critical Fortinet FortiSIEM Command Injection Vulnerability
Tags: access, advisory, attack, authentication, cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, fortinet, infrastructure, injection, kev, mitigation, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayExploit code has been published for CVE-2025-64155, a critical command injection vulnerability affecting Fortinet FortiSIEM devices. Key takeaways: CVE-2025-64155 is a critical operating system (OS) command injection vulnerability affecting Fortinet FortiSIEM. Fortinet vulnerabilities have historically been common targets for cyber attackers, with 23 Fortinet CVEs currently on the CISA KEV list. Public exploit code has…
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NDSS 2025 LLMPirate: LLMs For Black-box Hardware IP Piracy
Tags: attack, conference, detection, firmware, Hardware, Internet, LLM, mitigation, network, software, vulnerabilitySession 8C: Hard & Firmware Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Vasudev Gohil (Texas A&M University), Matthew DeLorenzo (Texas A&M University), Veera Vishwa Achuta Sai Venkat Nallam (Texas A&M University), Joey See (Texas A&M University), Jeyavijayan Rajendran (Texas A&M University) PAPER LLMPirate: LLMs for Black-box Hardware IP Piracy The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs)…
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Account Takeover (ATO) Attacks Explained: Detection, Prevention Mitigation
Learn how to detect and prevent Account Takeover (ATO) attacks. Expert guide for CTOs on credential stuffing, MFA bypass, and enterprise single sign-on security. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/account-takeover-ato-attacks-explained-detection-prevention-mitigation/
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Inside Vercel’s sleep-deprived race to contain React2Shell
Talha Tariq quickly found his company at the center of a fast-moving, high-stakes mitigation effort. The result: a bounty program, a cat-and-mouse patch fight, and a debate about open-source security coordination. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/vercel-cto-security-react2shell-vulnerability/
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NDSS 2025 HADES Attack: Understanding And Evaluating Manipulation Risks Of Email Blocklists
Tags: attack, conference, dns, email, exploit, infrastructure, Internet, malicious, mitigation, network, risk, service, spam, technologySession 8A: Email Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Ruixuan Li (Tsinghua University), Chaoyi Lu (Tsinghua University), Baojun Liu (Tsinghua University;Zhongguancun Laboratory), Yunyi Zhang (Tsinghua University), Geng Hong (Fudan University), Haixin Duan (Tsinghua University;Zhongguancun Laboratory), Yanzhong Lin (Coremail Technology Co. Ltd), Qingfeng Pan (Coremail Technology Co. Ltd), Min Yang (Fudan University), Jun Shao (Zhejiang Gongshang University)…
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Open WebUI bug turns the ‘free model’ into an enterprise backdoor
Tags: access, api, authentication, backdoor, data, exploit, flaw, malicious, mitigation, network, nvd, remote-code-execution, risk, tool, updateEscalating to Remote Code Execution: The risk doesn’t stop at account takeover. If the compromised account has workspace.tools permissions, attackers can leverage that session token to push authenticated Python code through Open WebUI’s Tools API, which executes without sandboxing or validation.This turns a browser-level compromise into full remote code execution on the backend server. Once…
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Why Arbor Edge Defense and CDN-Based DDoS protection are better together
Tags: ai, attack, botnet, cloud, control, data, ddos, defense, firewall, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, mitigation, network, router, threat, vulnerabilityLow-volume, stealthy application-layer attacksTransmission Control Protocol (TCP) state exhaustion attacksOutbound threats from compromised internal hostsAttacks that bypass CDN routing (for example, direct-to-IP attacks)These gaps leave critical infrastructure vulnerable, especially when attackers use dynamic, multivector techniques designed to evade upstream defenses. Arbor Edge Defense: The first and last line of defense: NETSCOUT’s AED is uniquely positioned…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Predictions for 2026: AI Attack Acceleration, Automated Remediation, Custom-Made AI Security Tools, Machine Identity Threats, and More
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, computer, conference, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, governance, group, identity, intelligence, mitigation, risk, service, threat, tool, zero-dayIn this special edition, Tenable leaders forecast key 2026 trends, including: AI will make attacks more plentiful and less costly; machine identities will become the top cloud risk; preemptive cloud and exposure management will dethrone runtime detection; and automated remediation gets the go-ahead. Key takeaways AI will supercharge the speed and volume of traditional cyber…
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Critical vulnerability in IBM API Connect could allow authentication bypass
Tags: api, authentication, control, exploit, flaw, governance, ibm, mitigation, monitoring, radius, resilience, service, software, update, vmware, vulnerabilityInterim fixes provided: IBM said that the issue was discovered during internal testing, and it has provided interim fixes for each affected version of the software, with individual update details for VMware, OCP/CP4I, and Kubernetes.The only mitigation suggested for the flaw, according to IBM’s security bulletin, is this: “Customers unable to install the interim fix…
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75,000 MongoDBs Exposed as Attackers Exploit ‘MongoBleed’
Tags: data, data-breach, exploit, flaw, group, Internet, mitigation, ransomware, risk, software, vulnerabilityPatches Issued for MongoBleed as Ransomware Groups Target Flaw to Steal Data. Tens of thousands of internet-exposed MongoDB databases are at risk as attackers actively target a critical vulnerability in the software to steal sensitive data, with ransomware groups having joined the fray, researchers warn. MongoDB has issued patches and mitigation advice. First seen on…
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NDSS 2025 GadgetMeter: Quantitatively And Accurately Gauging The Exploitability Of Speculative Gadgets
Tags: attack, conference, detection, exploit, framework, Internet, linux, mitigation, network, software, vulnerabilitySession 6D: Software Security: Vulnerability Detection Authors, Creators & Presenters: Qi Ling (Purdue University), Yujun Liang (Tsinghua University), Yi Ren (Tsinghua University), Baris Kasikci (University of Washington and Google), Shuwen Deng (Tsinghua University) PAPER GadgetMeter: Quantitatively And Accurately Gauging The Exploitability Of Speculative Gadgets Since their emergence in 2018, speculative execution attacks have proven difficult…
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2025 Year in Review at Cloud Security Podcast by Google
Tags: 2fa, ai, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, finance, google, hacking, incident response, infrastructure, linux, mandiant, metric, mitigation, offense, phone, privacy, risk, security-incident, siem, soc, technology, threat, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trust(written jointly with Tim Peacock) Five years. It’s enough time to fully launch a cloud migration, deploy a new SIEM, or”Š”, “Šif you’re a very large enterprise”Š”, “Šjust start thinking about doing the first two. It’s also how long Tim and I have been subjecting the world to our thoughts on Cloud Security Podcast by Google. We…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Pros Emerge as Bold AI Adopters, While AI Changes Data Security Game, CSA Reports Say
Tags: advisory, ai, api, attack, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credit-card, crime, crimes, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, finance, framework, google, governance, guide, healthcare, injection, intelligence, law, LLM, lockbit, malicious, metric, mitigation, monitoring, network, office, openai, ransom, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, skills, sql, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerabilityFormerly “AI shy” cyber pros have done a 180 and become AI power users, as AI forces data security changes, the CSA says. Plus, PwC predicts orgs will get serious about responsible AI usage in 2026, while the NCSC states that, no, prompt injection isn’t the new SQL injection. And much more! Key takeaways Cyber…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Pros Emerge as Bold AI Adopters, While AI Changes Data Security Game, CSA Reports Say
Tags: advisory, ai, api, attack, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credit-card, crime, crimes, crypto, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, finance, framework, google, governance, guide, healthcare, injection, intelligence, law, LLM, lockbit, malicious, metric, mitigation, monitoring, network, office, openai, ransom, ransomware, risk, risk-management, service, skills, sql, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerabilityFormerly “AI shy” cyber pros have done a 180 and become AI power users, as AI forces data security changes, the CSA says. Plus, PwC predicts orgs will get serious about responsible AI usage in 2026, while the NCSC states that, no, prompt injection isn’t the new SQL injection. And much more! Key takeaways Cyber…