Tag: mitigation
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AWS Service Disruption on October 21, 2025, MojoAuth Infrastructure Update
MojoAuth experienced a temporary service disruption on October 21, 2025, caused by an AWS regional outage. This post-incident report outlines the timeline, root cause, mitigation steps, and permanent improvements we’ve implemented to enhance reliability and ensure zero-downtime authentication going forward. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/aws-service-disruption-on-october-21-2025-mojoauth-infrastructure-update/
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AWS Service Disruption on October 21, 2025, MojoAuth Infrastructure Update
MojoAuth experienced a temporary service disruption on October 21, 2025, caused by an AWS regional outage. This post-incident report outlines the timeline, root cause, mitigation steps, and permanent improvements we’ve implemented to enhance reliability and ensure zero-downtime authentication going forward. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/aws-service-disruption-on-october-21-2025-mojoauth-infrastructure-update/
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NDSS 2025 BULKHEAD: Secure, Scalable, And Efficient Kernel Compartmentalization With PKS
Tags: conference, data, exploit, Hardware, least-privilege, linux, mitigation, network, software, technology, vulnerabilitySESSION Session 1D: System-Level Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Yinggang Guo (State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University; University of Minnesota), Zicheng Wang (State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University), Weiheng Bai (University of Minnesota), Qingkai Zeng (State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University), Kangjie Lu (University of Minnesota)…
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Bias in der KI erkennen und reduzieren: IDnow bringt Forschungserkenntnisse in die Praxis
Im Rahmen des EU-geförderten Projekts MAMMOth zeigt IDnow, wie sich Verzerrungen in KI-Systemen erkennen und reduzieren lassen ein wichtiger Schritt hin zu vertrauenswürdiger digitaler Identitätsprüfung. Das EU-geförderte Projekt MAMMOth (Multi-Attribute, Multimodal Bias Mitigation in AI Systems) hat nach drei Jahren intensiver Arbeit zentrale Ergebnisse zur Verringerung von Verzerrungen in KI-Systemen veröffentlicht [1]. Gefördert… First seen…
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Bias in der KI erkennen und reduzieren: IDnow bringt Forschungserkenntnisse in die Praxis
Im Rahmen des EU-geförderten Projekts MAMMOth zeigt IDnow, wie sich Verzerrungen in KI-Systemen erkennen und reduzieren lassen ein wichtiger Schritt hin zu vertrauenswürdiger digitaler Identitätsprüfung. Das EU-geförderte Projekt MAMMOth (Multi-Attribute, Multimodal Bias Mitigation in AI Systems) hat nach drei Jahren intensiver Arbeit zentrale Ergebnisse zur Verringerung von Verzerrungen in KI-Systemen veröffentlicht [1]. Gefördert… First seen…
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Cyber agencies produce ‘long overdue’ best practices for securing Microsoft Exchange Server
The guidance: The guidance states admins should treat on-prem Exchange servers as being “under imminent threat,” and itemizes key practices for admins:First, it notes, “the most effective defense against exploitation is ensuring all Exchange servers are running the latest version and Cumulative Update (CU)”;It points out that Microsoft Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) is the…
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Cyber agencies produce ‘long overdue’ best practices for securing Microsoft Exchange Server
The guidance: The guidance states admins should treat on-prem Exchange servers as being “under imminent threat,” and itemizes key practices for admins:First, it notes, “the most effective defense against exploitation is ensuring all Exchange servers are running the latest version and Cumulative Update (CU)”;It points out that Microsoft Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) is the…
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Chinese hackers target Western diplomats using hardpatch Windows shortcut flaw
Tags: access, attack, china, control, cyber, endpoint, exploit, flaw, group, hacker, intelligence, mitigation, monitoring, rat, russia, threat, ukraine, update, vulnerability, windowsMitigation: In the absence of a patch, organizations worried about .LNK attacks should consider blocking .LNK files or disabling their execution in Windows Explorer, Arctic Wolf advised.”This should be put in place across all Windows systems, prioritizing endpoints used by personnel with access to sensitive diplomatic or policy information. While this vulnerability was disclosed in…
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Claude AI vulnerability exposes enterprise data through code interpreter exploit
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, control, data, exploit, google, injection, malicious, mitigation, monitoring, network, risk, vulnerabilityBypassing AI safety controls: Rehberger’s report stated that developing a reliable exploit proved challenging due to Claude’s built-in safety mechanisms. The AI initially refused requests containing plaintext API keys, recognizing them as suspicious. However, Rehberger added that mixing malicious code with benign instructions, such as simple print statements, was sufficient to bypass these safeguards.”I tried…
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Claude AI vulnerability exposes enterprise data through code interpreter exploit
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, control, data, exploit, google, injection, malicious, mitigation, monitoring, network, risk, vulnerabilityBypassing AI safety controls: Rehberger’s report stated that developing a reliable exploit proved challenging due to Claude’s built-in safety mechanisms. The AI initially refused requests containing plaintext API keys, recognizing them as suspicious. However, Rehberger added that mixing malicious code with benign instructions, such as simple print statements, was sufficient to bypass these safeguards.”I tried…
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Cybersecurity management for boards: Metrics that matter
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, business, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, deep-fake, detection, dora, finance, firewall, governance, insurance, jobs, metric, mitigation, nis-2, nist, phishing, ransomware, regulation, resilience, risk, scam, soc, threat, trainingWhy does this matter? Resilience aligns with your actual business goals: continuity, trust and long-term value. It reflects your appetite for risk and your ability to adapt. And with regulations like DORA and NIS2 pushing accountability higher up the ladder, your board is on the hook. Financial impact and continuity metrics: You can’t fight cyber…
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New Attack Chains Ghost SPNs and Kerberos Reflection to Elevate SMB Privileges
Microsoft has addressed a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Windows environments worldwide. Attackers can exploit misconfigured Service Principal Names (SPNs) combined with Kerberos reflection attacks to gain SYSTEM-level access on domain-joined machines, even when previous Kerberos mitigations are in place. Attribute Details CVE ID CVE-2025-58726 Vulnerability Type SMB Server Elevation of Privilege CVSS 3.1 Score…
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New Attack Chains Ghost SPNs and Kerberos Reflection to Elevate SMB Privileges
Microsoft has addressed a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Windows environments worldwide. Attackers can exploit misconfigured Service Principal Names (SPNs) combined with Kerberos reflection attacks to gain SYSTEM-level access on domain-joined machines, even when previous Kerberos mitigations are in place. Attribute Details CVE ID CVE-2025-58726 Vulnerability Type SMB Server Elevation of Privilege CVSS 3.1 Score…
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NDSS 2025 Revealing The Black Box Of Device Search Engine Session 1B: Internet Security
Tags: access, conference, framework, Internet, malicious, mitigation, network, privacy, risk, service, strategy, technology, tool, vulnerabilityAuthors, Creators & Presenters: Mengying Wu (Fudan University), Geng Hong (Fudan University), Jinsong Chen (Fudan University), Qi Liu (Fudan University), Shujun Tang (QI-ANXIN Technology Research Institute; Tsinghua University), Youhao Li (QI-ANXIN Technology Research Institute), Baojun Liu (Tsinghua University), Haixin Duan (Tsinghua University; Quancheng Laboratory), Min Yang (Fudan University) PAPER Revealing the Black Box of Device…
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CISA Issues Alert on Active Exploitation of Dassault Systèmes Security Flaws
Tags: cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, mitigation, risk, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a critical security alert regarding two severe vulnerabilities discovered in Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso, a widely used manufacturing execution system. The agency has added these flaws to its official list of vulnerabilities that pose immediate risks to organisations and require urgent mitigation action. CVE ID Product…
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CISA Issues Alert on Active Exploitation of Dassault Systèmes Security Flaws
Tags: cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, mitigation, risk, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a critical security alert regarding two severe vulnerabilities discovered in Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso, a widely used manufacturing execution system. The agency has added these flaws to its official list of vulnerabilities that pose immediate risks to organisations and require urgent mitigation action. CVE ID Product…
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Top 7 agentic AI use cases for cybersecurity
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, ceo, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, fraud, identity, infrastructure, jobs, mitigation, monitoring, office, phishing, resilience, risk, scam, service, soc, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trust2. Security operations center support: Security operations centers (SOCs) are a great use case for agentic AI because they serve as the frontline for detecting and responding to threats, says Naresh Persaud, principal, cyber risk services, at Deloitte.With thousands of incidents to triage daily, SOCs are experiencing mounting alert fatigue. “Analysts can spend an average…
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Top 7 agentic AI use cases for cybersecurity
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, ceo, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, fraud, identity, infrastructure, jobs, mitigation, monitoring, office, phishing, resilience, risk, scam, service, soc, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trust2. Security operations center support: Security operations centers (SOCs) are a great use case for agentic AI because they serve as the frontline for detecting and responding to threats, says Naresh Persaud, principal, cyber risk services, at Deloitte.With thousands of incidents to triage daily, SOCs are experiencing mounting alert fatigue. “Analysts can spend an average…
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OpenAI Restructures, Nonprofit Foundation Retains Control
Nonprofit Foundation Holds Equity, Oversight Around $130B For-Profit Corporation. The nonprofit OpenAI Foundation now controls a $130 billion for-profit arm after a recapitalization process approved by attorneys general in California and Delaware. The nonprofit retains governance authority and will fund global health and AI risk mitigation programs, backed by regulatory approval. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Atlas browser exploit lets attackers hijack ChatGPT memory
Tags: ai, attack, browser, business, ceo, chatgpt, chrome, cloud, credentials, detection, exploit, identity, mitigation, monitoring, phishing, soc, threat, update, vulnerabilityHow to detect a hit: Detecting a memory-based compromise in ChatGPT Atlas is not like hunting for traditional malware. There are no files, registry keys, or executables to isolate. Instead, security teams need to look for behavioral anomalies such as subtle shifts in how the assistant responds, what it suggests, and when it does so.”There…
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Atlas browser exploit lets attackers hijack ChatGPT memory
Tags: ai, attack, browser, business, ceo, chatgpt, chrome, cloud, credentials, detection, exploit, identity, mitigation, monitoring, phishing, soc, threat, update, vulnerabilityHow to detect a hit: Detecting a memory-based compromise in ChatGPT Atlas is not like hunting for traditional malware. There are no files, registry keys, or executables to isolate. Instead, security teams need to look for behavioral anomalies such as subtle shifts in how the assistant responds, what it suggests, and when it does so.”There…
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Atlas browser exploit lets attackers hijack ChatGPT memory
Tags: ai, attack, browser, business, ceo, chatgpt, chrome, cloud, credentials, detection, exploit, identity, mitigation, monitoring, phishing, soc, threat, update, vulnerabilityHow to detect a hit: Detecting a memory-based compromise in ChatGPT Atlas is not like hunting for traditional malware. There are no files, registry keys, or executables to isolate. Instead, security teams need to look for behavioral anomalies such as subtle shifts in how the assistant responds, what it suggests, and when it does so.”There…
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Volvo’s recent security breach: 5 tips to speed incident response while preserving forensic integrity
Tags: access, automation, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, guide, incident, incident response, insurance, metric, mitigation, nist, resilience, risk, risk-management, saas, security-incident, siem, soar, supply-chain, vulnerabilityIdentify and catalog your evidence sources in advance (endpoints, memory, logs, cloud assets)Stage scripts or agents that can snapshot memory and archive logs immediately when an IR trigger firesMake forensic collection part of containment, not something you tack on afterwardModern approaches and even NIST’s updated guidance emphasize that evidence gathering should begin during, not after,…
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Volvo’s recent security breach: 5 tips to speed incident response while preserving forensic integrity
Tags: access, automation, breach, business, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, guide, incident, incident response, insurance, metric, mitigation, nist, resilience, risk, risk-management, saas, security-incident, siem, soar, supply-chain, vulnerabilityIdentify and catalog your evidence sources in advance (endpoints, memory, logs, cloud assets)Stage scripts or agents that can snapshot memory and archive logs immediately when an IR trigger firesMake forensic collection part of containment, not something you tack on afterwardModern approaches and even NIST’s updated guidance emphasize that evidence gathering should begin during, not after,…
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The 10 biggest issues CISOs and cyber teams face today
Tags: ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ceo, ciso, computing, crime, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, defense, email, encryption, exploit, finance, fraud, governance, group, hacker, international, mitigation, organized, phishing, ransom, risk, scam, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability2. Escalating, and accelerating, AI-enabled attacks: A 2025 survey from Boston Consulting Group found that 80% of CISOs worldwide cited AI-powered cyberattacks as their top concern, a 19-point increase from the previous year. A 2025 survey from Darktrace, a security technology firm, found that 78% of CISOs reported a significant impact from AI-driven threats, up…
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NDSS 2025 Oreo: Protecting ASLR Against Micro-Architectural Attacks
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Shixin Song (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Joseph Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Mengjia Yan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) PAPER Oreo: Protecting ASLR Against Microarchitectural Attacks Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is one of the most prominently deployed mitigations against memory corruption attacks. ASLR randomly shuffles program virtual addresses to prevent attackers…
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NDSS 2025 Rediscovering Method Confusion in Proposed Security Fixes for Bluetooth
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Maximilian von Tschirschnitz (Technical University of Munich), Ludwig Peuckert (Technical University of Munich), Moritz Buhl (Technical University of Munich), Jens Grossklags (Technical University of Munich) Session 1A, PAPER Rediscovering Method Confusion in Proposed Security Fixes for Bluetooth Previous works have shown that Bluetooth is susceptible to so-called Method Confusion attacks. These…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Top Advice for Detecting and Preventing AI Attacks, and for Securing AI Systems
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, best-practice, breach, business, chatgpt, china, ciso, cloud, computing, container, control, credentials, crime, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, email, exploit, extortion, finance, flaw, framework, fraud, google, governance, government, group, guide, hacker, hacking, healthcare, iam, identity, incident response, intelligence, LLM, malicious, malware, mitigation, monitoring, network, open-source, openai, organized, phishing, ransom, risk, risk-management, russia, sans, scam, service, skills, soc, strategy, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-trustAs organizations eagerly adopt AI, cybersecurity teams are racing to protect these new systems. In this special edition of the Cybersecurity Snapshot, we round up some of the best recent guidance on how to fend off AI attacks, and on how to safeguard your AI systems. Key takeaways Developers are getting new playbooks from groups…
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F5 vulnerability highlights weak points in DHS’s CDM program
The Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program is oft-praised, but there are areas where it doesn’t yet excel, as a recent CISA emergency directive shows. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/f5-vulnerability-highlights-weak-points-in-dhss-cdm-program/