Tag: mitigation
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CVE-2025-5777, CVE-2025-6543: Frequently Asked Questions About CitrixBleed 2 and Citrix NetScaler Exploitation
Frequently asked questions about recent Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway vulnerabilities that have reportedly been exploited in the wild, including CVE-2025-5777 known as CitrixBleed 2. Background Tenable’s Research Special Operations (RSO) team has compiled this blog to answer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding CVE-2025-5777 and CVE-2025-6543, two Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway vulnerabilities that have…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: U.S. Gov’t Urges Adoption of Memory-Safe Languages and Warns About Iran Cyber Threat
Tags: access, advisory, ai, api, attack, authentication, best-practice, cisa, computer, computing, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, encryption, exploit, finance, framework, google, governance, government, group, hacker, healthcare, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, Internet, iran, login, mfa, military, mitigation, mitre, network, nist, passkey, password, programming, ransomware, risk, rust, service, software, strategy, tactics, technology, terrorism, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, warfareCheck out the U.S. government’s latest call for developers to use memory-safe programming languages, as well as its warning for cybersecurity teams regarding cyber risk from hackers tied to Iran. Plus, get the latest on ransomware trends, the quantum computing cyber threat and more! Dive into five things that are top of mind for the…
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The Toxic Cloud Trilogy: Why Your Workloads Are a Ticking Time Bomb
Tags: access, attack, breach, business, cloud, container, credentials, cve, data, data-breach, detection, exploit, group, iam, identity, infrastructure, Internet, least-privilege, mitigation, monitoring, network, remote-code-execution, risk, service, vulnerabilityDon’t let hidden cloud risks become tomorrow’s headline breach. The time to dismantle the toxic cloud trilogy is now. Here’s how Tenable Cloud Security can help. In today’s cloud environments, individual misconfigurations or vulnerabilities are dangerous, but it’s their combinations that can lead to catastrophic breaches. The Tenable Cloud Security Risk Report 2025 reveals that…
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Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost
Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/ubuntu-disables-intel-gpu-security-mitigations-promises-20-performance-boost/
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From Insight to Action: How Tenable One KPIs Drive Exposure Management Success
Tags: attack, breach, business, cloud, compliance, cyber, data, detection, group, metric, mitigation, monitoring, risk, service, technology, tool, vulnerabilityTenable One empowers security teams to go beyond surface-level risk tracking and drive measurable improvements across their security programs. With unified visibility and customizable dashboards, Tenable One makes it easy to monitor the KPIs that matter most, helping teams shift from reactive firefighting to proactive, strategic exposure management. The importance of KPIs in exposure management…
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CISA Releases New ICS Advisories Highlighting Ongoing Threats and Exploits
Tags: cisa, control, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, infrastructure, mitigation, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released eight new Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on June 24, 2025, addressing critical vulnerabilities and ongoing threats to essential infrastructure. These advisories provide detailed technical information and mitigation guidance for a range of ICS products used worldwide. 1.Kaleris Navis N4 Terminal Operating System: Remote Exploits and…
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Heightened Cyber Threat from Iran Sparks Urgent Calls for Vigilance and Mitigation
Following last week’s U.S. airstrikes targeting Iranian nuclear sites, cybersecurity experts and government officials are now warning of a possible digital retaliation, a surge in cyber threats originating from Iran. On June 22, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin warning of a >>heightened threat environment
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FBI Issues Play Ransomware Security Advisory Mitigation Steps to Take Now
The Play ransomware group has hit about 900 organizations globally so far and uses “double extortion” after data theft. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-play-ransomware-fbi-security-advisory/
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Hackers Are Stealing Salesforce Data, Google Warns
By Christy Lynch This post summarizes the June 4, 2025 threat intelligence update from Google and offers additional recommendations from Reveal Security based on similar and recently observed attack patterns targeting SaaS applications and cloud infrastructure. Reveal Security monitors the overall cyber landscape for unique threats that can evade legacy detection methodologies. This UNC6040 campaign…
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Get out of the audit committee: Why CISOs need dedicated board time
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, data, framework, mitigation, resilience, risk, risk-management, strategy, technology, threat, updateThe full partnership model between CISO and board: Full and frank security discussions are more than just a ‘nice to have’. The SEC has indicated it expects public companies with senior leadership to be transparent in how they assess and communicate cybersecurity risks.By extension, CISOs have an important role in communicating risks to senior leadership…
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Development vs. security: The friction threatening your code
Developers are driven to deliver new features quickly, while security teams prioritize risk mitigation, which often puts the two at odds. 61% of developers said that it’s … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/06/03/developer-security-team-friction/
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F5 Buys Startup Fletch to Automate Security With Agentic AI
Context-Driven Insights, Automation Fuel Faster, Clearer Decisions for Cyber Teams. With its acquisition of San Francisco-based startup Fletch, F5 is embedding agentic AI into its security platform to automate threat detection and response. The technology provides real-time context, filters irrelevant alerts and helps security teams prioritize urgent risks and mitigation tasks. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Frequently Asked Questions About BadSuccessor
Frequently asked questions about “BadSuccessor,” a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in Active Directory domains with at least one Windows Server 2025 domain controller. Background Tenable’s Research Special Operations (RSO) and the Identity Content team has compiled this blog to answer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) regarding a newly disclosed zero-day in Active Directory called BadSuccessor. FAQ…
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The Sequential Kill Chain for AI FireTail Blog
May 30, 2025 – Timo Rüppell – The Sequential Kill Chain for AI-Powered Attacks Excerpt: We’ve talked before about Mean Time To Attack, or MTTA, which has grown alarmingly short for new vulnerabilities across the cyber landscape. In this blog, we’ll dive into the “how” and “why” of this”¦ Summary: In our current cyber landscape,…
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Tenable Bolsters AI Controls With Apex Security Acquisition
Apex Security Detection Tools Help Tenable Spot Accidental and Malicious AI Misuse. Tenable is acquiring Israeli startup Apex Security to extend AI security features that go beyond asset discovery. With user-level controls and risk mitigation for AI usage, Tenable aims to accelerate its exposure management roadmap by integrating Apex into Tenable One later this year.…
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RSAC Fireside Chat: Cyber risk mitigation turns personaldefending the CEO as an attack vector
Executives are under digital siege”, and most don’t even know it. Related: Shareholders sue over murder At RSAC 2025, I sat down with Chuck Randolph, SVP of Strategic Intelligence and Security at 360 Privacy, to unpack a… (more”¦) First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/05/rsac-fireside-chat-cyber-risk-mitigation-turns-personal-defending-the-ceo-as-an-attack-vector/
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Check Point to Acquire Veriti to Transform Threat Exposure Management
Check Point Software has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Veriti Cybersecurity, the first fully automated, multi-vendor pre-emptive threat exposure and mitigation platform. The acquisition aims to respond to the uptick in AI-fuelled attacks facing organisations, as well as the increasing connectivity of IT environments. Founded in 2021, Veriti pioneered the Preemptive Exposure Management (PEM)…
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If you use OneDrive to upload files to ChatGPT or Zoom, don’t
Tags: access, api, chatgpt, compliance, corporate, cybersecurity, data, google, governance, least-privilege, microsoft, mitigation, risk, saas, security-incident, service, strategy, threat, toolWeb app vendors aren’t off the hook: This could be bad news for security teams, according to Eric Schwake, director of cybersecurity strategy at Salt Security. “Sensitive secrets required for this access are often stored in an insecure manner by default,” Schwake said. “This situation presents a key API security challenge for security teams, and…
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LLM03: Supply Chain FireTail Blog
Tags: ai, compliance, cyber, data, encryption, exploit, LLM, malicious, mitigation, monitoring, open-source, organized, privacy, risk, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, training, update, vulnerabilityMay 21, 2025 – Lina Romero – LLM03: Supply Chain 20/5/2025 Excerpt The OWASP Top 10 List of Risks for LLMs helps developers and security teams determine where the biggest risk factors lay. In this blog series from FireTail, we are exploring each risk one by one, how it manifests, and mitigation strategies. This week,…
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M&S says cyberattack will hit profits by £300 million, disruption to last until July
British retailer M&S reported that a recent cyberattack will have a £300 million impact on its operating profit “before cost mitigation, insurance and trading actions.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/marks-spencer-cyberattack-hit-to-profits-300m
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Threat intelligence platform buyer’s guide: Top vendors, selection advice
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, cloud, computing, credentials, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, deep-fake, detection, dns, edr, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, fraud, gartner, google, group, guide, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, kubernetes, law, malicious, malware, microsoft, mitigation, monitoring, network, open-source, phishing, privacy, risk, service, siem, soar, soc, sophos, sql, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found that since 2023 the majority of exploits were zero days, meaning exploiting heretofore unknown methods. And according to the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations report (DBIR), the percentage of AI-assisted malicious emails doubled to 10% of the totals they observed over the past two years, making staying…