Tag: monitoring
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Why Traditional Security Tools Fail-and How Unified AI Platforms Solve the Problem
When More Tools Create More Problems For years, organizations have approached cybersecurity with a simple mindset-add more tools to strengthen defenses. Firewalls, endpoint solutions, intrusion detection systems, and monitoring platforms have all been layered together to create what appears to be a comprehensive security posture. Yet, despite this growing investment, security outcomes have not improved…
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SEO Poisoning Attack Uses Microsoft Binary to Install RMM Tool
New research has exposed a search engine poisoning campaign that delivers a trojanized TestDisk installer, abuses a Microsoft-signed binary for DLL sideloading, and silently deploys the ScreenConnect remote monitoring and management (RMM) client for hands-on keyboard access. The rogue domain copies the branding of the real open-source data recovery tool, presenting itself as “The Ultimate…
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The Shadow AI Trap: Why Your AI Inventory is Your Biggest EU AI Act Compliance Risk FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, automation, ciso, cloud, compliance, computing, control, data, governance, grc, infrastructure, LLM, monitoring, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, toolApr 16, 2026 – Alan Fagan – The EU AI Act cares about evidence, not intentWhen National Competent Authorities begin enforcement on August 2, 2026, they will ask organisations what AI systems they operate, how those systems are being used, and what controls are in place. Many organisations will struggle to answer these questions.The Shadow…
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The Shadow AI Trap: Why Your AI Inventory is Your Biggest EU AI Act Compliance Risk FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, automation, ciso, cloud, compliance, computing, control, data, governance, grc, infrastructure, LLM, monitoring, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, toolApr 16, 2026 – Alan Fagan – The EU AI Act cares about evidence, not intentWhen National Competent Authorities begin enforcement on August 2, 2026, they will ask organisations what AI systems they operate, how those systems are being used, and what controls are in place. Many organisations will struggle to answer these questions.The Shadow…
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Article 12 and the Logging Mandate: What the EU AI Act Actually Requires FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, breach, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, data-breach, finance, GDPR, grc, healthcare, infrastructure, insurance, jobs, metric, monitoring, regulation, risk, saas, service, toolApr 16, 2026 – Lina Romero – When GDPR arrived, the organisations that had mistaken documentation for capability were the ones that struggled the most. They had policies about data retention but no technical controls enforcing those policies. They had breach notification procedures but no systems capable of detecting a breach in time to use…
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Beyond the Spreadsheet: Why Manual AI Audits Are an EU AI Act Compliance Liability FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, finance, framework, GDPR, governance, grc, group, incident response, infrastructure, ISO-27001, monitoring, regulation, risk, saas, service, soc, toolApr 16, 2026 – Alan Fagan – When it comes to the EU AI Act, many organisations take a manual approach to auditing, which looks impressive on paper but collapses under regulatory scrutiny. They use policies, surveys, working groups, and a well-formatted risk register. However, a manual approach does not provide the continuous, automated, technical…
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Beyond the Spreadsheet: Why Manual AI Audits Are an EU AI Act Compliance Liability FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, finance, framework, GDPR, governance, grc, group, incident response, infrastructure, ISO-27001, monitoring, regulation, risk, saas, service, soc, toolApr 16, 2026 – Alan Fagan – When it comes to the EU AI Act, many organisations take a manual approach to auditing, which looks impressive on paper but collapses under regulatory scrutiny. They use policies, surveys, working groups, and a well-formatted risk register. However, a manual approach does not provide the continuous, automated, technical…
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Insurance carriers quietly back away from covering AI outputs
Coverage in flux: Phil Karecki, CTO for the insurance sector at managed services provider Ensono, also sees some carriers backing away from covering AI outputs, although he’s not sure whether it’s a major trend. Insurance carriers continuously experiment with how to provide coverage, he notes.Carriers have tried to separate tightly governed AI deployments from more…
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The endless CISO reporting line debate, and what it says about cybersecurity leadership
Tags: access, business, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, firewall, governance, infrastructure, jobs, monitoring, network, resilience, risk, strategy, technology, vulnerabilityThe governance gap behind the debate: The persistence of this debate reflects a broader governance gap.Historically, information security emerged as a technical discipline embedded within IT departments. Early security teams focused primarily on protecting infrastructure: Firewalls, access controls, network monitoring and vulnerability management. In that environment, it was natural for the security function to sit…
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4 questions to ask before outsourcing MDR
2. Can your team separate real threats from noise?: Alert fatigue is one of the biggest barriers to effective security. Tools generate volumes of signals, but not all alerts represent real risk. When everything looks critical, teams either burn out or miss the alerts that matter most.MDR helps by applying human expertise and threat intelligence…
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5 trends defining the future of AI-powered cybersecurity
Tags: ai, automation, backup, breach, business, cloud, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, endpoint, framework, government, metric, monitoring, msp, regulation, resilience, threatSee how AI is altering the landscape in the new N-able and Futurum report, Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: Moving from Fragile to Resilient. Get key insights on building a modern framework for business resilience. 2. From perimeter security to continuous cyber resilience: The “castle and moat” approach is obsolete. In a world of…
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“MomentTime” GRC Is Becoming Obsolete
New native ServiceNow application embeds continuous compliance monitoring, risk quantification and remediation workflows directly into enterprise IT and security operations. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/moment-in-time-grc-is-becoming-obsolete/
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China-linked cloud credential heist runs on typos and SMTP
Typosquatting for cloud-native espionage: The campaign relies heavily on deception, the researchers pointed out, using C2 domains closely resembling legitimate Alibaba Cloud services. The typosquatting approach allows malicious traffic to blend into routine cloud operations, specifically in environments where outbound filtering is absent.The implant used is an obfuscated ELF binary, with an executable designed for…
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Volle Transparenz für kritische Kommunikation: Wie Retarus neue Maßstäbe im Monitoring setzt
Tags: monitoringWas bislang oft fragmentiert und verzögert sichtbar war, wird nun greifbar: Zustellraten, Systemverfügbarkeiten oder Verarbeitungszeiten lassen sich präzise und in Echtzeit verfolgen. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/volle-transparenz-fuer-kritische-kommunikation-wie-retarus-neue-massstaebe-im-monitoring-setzt/a44611/
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Why Network Monitoring Alone Misses Application Attacks
Tags: application-security, attack, defense, detection, exploit, monitoring, network, tool, vulnerability, waf<div cla TL;DR Network security monitoring excels at traffic analysis and perimeter defense, yet research shows WAF alerts generate overwhelming noise with minimal correlation to actual exploit attempts. The gap exists because network tools operate at the packet level or network edge, while application attacks exploit vulnerabilities during code execution. Runtime application security through Application…
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What Is Identity Risk Intelligence? (And Why It’s Replacing Monitoring)
Tags: attack, credentials, cybersecurity, data-breach, identity, intelligence, monitoring, risk, toolA new category is emerging in cybersecurity For years, organizations have relied on monitoring tools to detect compromised credentials and exposed data. But as identity has become the primary attack surface, those tools are no longer enough. A new category is emerging in response: Identity Risk Intelligence This isn’t just a new label. It represents……
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CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT.The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00…
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Old Docker authorization bypass pops up despite previous patch
Tags: access, api, botnet, cloud, container, credentials, data, docker, exploit, flaw, monitoring, tool, update, vulnerabilityNo one checked oversized requests: While the previous authorization bypass was triggered when request Content-Length was set to 0, no one checked at the time what would happen in the same function if the request exceeded a certain size.”When an API request body exceeds 1MB, Docker’s middleware silently drops the body before your authorization plugin…
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Little Snitch for Linux shows what your apps are connecting to
Network monitoring on Linux has long been a gap for users who want per-process visibility into outbound connections. Existing tools either operate at the command line or were … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/10/little-snitch-for-linux-privacy/
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Little Snitch for Linux shows what your apps are connecting to
Network monitoring on Linux has long been a gap for users who want per-process visibility into outbound connections. Existing tools either operate at the command line or were … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/10/little-snitch-for-linux-privacy/
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What to Know About CyberAv3ngers: The IRGC-Linked Group Targeting Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, authentication, automation, backup, cctv, chatgpt, cisa, communications, compliance, control, credentials, crypto, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, dns, email, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, government, group, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, iot, iran, kev, leak, linux, malicious, malware, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, network, office, openai, password, radius, resilience, risk, router, service, siem, software, strategy, switch, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAn Iran-affiliated threat group has evolved from defacing water utility displays to deploying custom ICS malware and exploiting Rockwell Automation PLCs across multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors. Key takeaways: CyberAv3ngers is a state-directed threat group operating under Iran’s IRGC Cyber-Electronic Command. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned six named officials in February 2024 and the State Department…
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Hackers have been exploiting an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability for months
Tags: access, adobe, attack, ciso, control, data, email, exploit, hacker, incident response, malicious, malware, monitoring, resilience, risk, sans, software, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityA high risk exploit: Kellman Meghu, chief technology officer at Canadian incident response firm DeepCove Security, called the exploit “a very high risk.”So far it looks as though this particular malware just exfiltrates data, he said. But it implies there is an ability or capability to turn it into a vehicle for remote code execution.…
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Bug Management in the Mythos Era: ‘Assume You’re Unpatched’
Start Here: Strong Monitoring, Behavior-Based Controls, Virtual Patching Thanks to Anthropic’s Mythos presaging a world in which zero-day exploits are common, one cybersecurity expert says the new mantra is this: assume you are unpatched. Vendors and customers must focus more than ever on strong monitoring, behavior-based controls and virtual patching. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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NERC is ‘actively monitoring the grid’ following Iran-linked cyber threat
Hackers have disrupted critical U.S. infrastructure by targeting programmable logic controllers, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nerc-cisa-iran-war-cyber-hacking/817079/
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Arelion employs NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS protection products
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, ddos, defense, detection, government, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, mitigation, monitoring, network, risk, router, service, strategy, tactics, technology, threat“As a Tier-1 Internet carrier supporting the majority of global Internet traffic, this continued collaboration reflects our ongoing investment in best-of-breed network security solutions to protect the technology ecosystem. Our partnership combines Arelion’s global network performance and NETSCOUT’s leading Arbor DDoS attack protection solutions to provide world-class experiences for our customers.” Scott Nichols, Chief Commercial…
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AI Security Risks: How Enterprises Manage LLM, Shadow AI and Agentic Threats FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, conference, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, email, endpoint, exploit, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, governance, guide, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, microsoft, monitoring, network, nvidia, office, regulation, risk, saas, software, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityApr 08, 2026 – – Quick Facts: Enterprise AI Security Most enterprises are running AI at scale before their security teams have visibility into it. Shadow AI (unsanctioned AI tools spreading department by department) is now the most common entry point for data leakage. Agentic AI introduces a new category of risk: autonomous systems that…