Tag: monitoring
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Hackers Using RMM Tools LogMeIn and PDQ Connect to Deploy Malware as Legitimate Software
Tags: attack, backdoor, cyber, cybersecurity, data, hacker, intelligence, malware, monitoring, software, theft, toolCybersecurity researchers at AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) have uncovered a sophisticated attack campaign leveraging legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) tools to deploy backdoor malware on unsuspecting users’ systems. The attacks abuse LogMeIn Resolve (GoTo Resolve) and PDQ Connect, transforming trusted administrative tools into weapons for data theft and remote system compromise. While the…
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NDSS 2025 Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China
Tags: attack, china, conference, data-breach, dns, firewall, injection, Internet, monitoring, network, privacy, risk, side-channel, update, vulnerabilitySESSION Session 3A: Network Security 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Shencha Fan (GFW Report), Jackson Sippe (University of Colorado Boulder), Sakamoto San (Shinonome Lab), Jade Sheffey (UMass Amherst), David Fifield (None), Amir Houmansadr (UMass Amherst), Elson Wedwards (None), Eric Wustrow (University of Colorado Boulder) PAPER Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of…
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Nacha Revises Fraud Monitoring Rules for FIs
Nacha’s Devon Marsh on Banks Proving They ‘Reasonably Intended’ to Identify Fraud. Nacha’s 2026 rule amendments pivot from commercially reasonable to reasonably intended fraud detection standards. Nacha’s Devon Marsh explains what this shift means for RDFIs and ODFIs and how banks and financial institutions can define and demonstrate reasonable practices. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Introduction to REST API Security FireTail Blog
Tags: access, api, application-security, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, control, data, data-breach, ddos, detection, encryption, finance, firewall, group, identity, infrastructure, monitoring, network, password, radius, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityNov 11, 2025 – Jeremy Snyder – A common analogy for APIs is that they are LEGO blocks, or more specifically, APIs are the little studs and slots that allow you to attach LEGO pieces to each other and build something bigger than any individual piece. The LEGO pieces in this analogy would be individual…
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Introduction to REST API Security FireTail Blog
Tags: access, api, application-security, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, control, data, data-breach, ddos, detection, encryption, finance, firewall, group, identity, infrastructure, monitoring, network, password, radius, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityNov 11, 2025 – Jeremy Snyder – A common analogy for APIs is that they are LEGO blocks, or more specifically, APIs are the little studs and slots that allow you to attach LEGO pieces to each other and build something bigger than any individual piece. The LEGO pieces in this analogy would be individual…
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Senate moves to restore lapsed cybersecurity laws after shutdown
Tags: cisa, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, government, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, law, monitoring, network, service, threatWhat the lapse meant for enterprises: The expiration of CISA 2015 eliminated legal protections for sharing threat information, disrupting the real-time intelligence exchanges that had become routine over the past decade. Without its statutory shields, organizations faced potential liability for monitoring networks, sharing defensive measures, and coordinating responses with peers and federal agencies.The law had…
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Senate moves to restore lapsed cybersecurity laws after shutdown
Tags: cisa, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, government, infrastructure, intelligence, jobs, law, monitoring, network, service, threatWhat the lapse meant for enterprises: The expiration of CISA 2015 eliminated legal protections for sharing threat information, disrupting the real-time intelligence exchanges that had become routine over the past decade. Without its statutory shields, organizations faced potential liability for monitoring networks, sharing defensive measures, and coordinating responses with peers and federal agencies.The law had…
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Cybersecurity Maturity and Why Your API Security is Lagging Behind FireTail Blog
Tags: access, api, attack, awareness, breach, cloud, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, framework, malicious, monitoring, network, nist, risk, threat, vulnerabilityNov 11, 2025 – Jeremy Snyder – Understanding Cybersecurity Maturity Models (CMM) Cybersecurity maturity models offer valuable guidance for organizations seeking to enhance their security posture. While the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) version 1.0, originally created by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), has been widely adopted, it’s important to note that there are…
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Beyond silos: How DDI-AI integration is redefining cyber resilience
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, business, cctv, cloud, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, dns, endpoint, finance, firewall, guide, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iot, malicious, monitoring, network, penetration-testing, phishing, phone, RedTeam, resilience, risk, service, siem, soar, soc, sql, threat, tool, training, zero-trustDDI as the nervous system of enterprise security: DDI, including DNS, DHCP and IP address management, is the nervous system of the network. It records every connection, every name resolution and every IP allocation, maintaining the only comprehensive, authoritative record of normal network behavior.By itself, DDI data is simply a massive stream of logs. For…
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Beyond silos: How DDI-AI integration is redefining cyber resilience
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, business, cctv, cloud, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, dns, endpoint, finance, firewall, guide, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iot, malicious, monitoring, network, penetration-testing, phishing, phone, RedTeam, resilience, risk, service, siem, soar, soc, sql, threat, tool, training, zero-trustDDI as the nervous system of enterprise security: DDI, including DNS, DHCP and IP address management, is the nervous system of the network. It records every connection, every name resolution and every IP allocation, maintaining the only comprehensive, authoritative record of normal network behavior.By itself, DDI data is simply a massive stream of logs. For…
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Maßnahmen zur Gewährleistung der IT”‘Sicherheit in Kommunen
Der öffentliche Sektor muss Governance, Personal, Technik, Prozesse und Partnerschaften systematisch verbessern, kombiniert mit Sensibilisierung, Monitoring und klarer Verantwortung, um Angriffe zu verhindern, Schäden zu begrenzen und digitale Dienste resilient bereitzustellen. Strategische Governance und Verantwortlichkeiten Zentrale Steuerung für IT”‘Sicherheit etablieren (z. B. IT”‘Sicherheitsbeauftragte, Governance”‘Gremien) zur Koordination zwischen Verwaltung, IT und Recht…. First seen on ap-verlag.de…
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Maßnahmen zur Gewährleistung der IT”‘Sicherheit in Kommunen
Der öffentliche Sektor muss Governance, Personal, Technik, Prozesse und Partnerschaften systematisch verbessern, kombiniert mit Sensibilisierung, Monitoring und klarer Verantwortung, um Angriffe zu verhindern, Schäden zu begrenzen und digitale Dienste resilient bereitzustellen. Strategische Governance und Verantwortlichkeiten Zentrale Steuerung für IT”‘Sicherheit etablieren (z. B. IT”‘Sicherheitsbeauftragte, Governance”‘Gremien) zur Koordination zwischen Verwaltung, IT und Recht…. First seen on ap-verlag.de…
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How GlassWorm wormed its way back into developers’ code, and what it says about open source security
Tags: access, ai, attack, blockchain, ciso, control, credentials, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, framework, github, google, infrastructure, law, malicious, malware, marketplace, monitoring, open-source, resilience, service, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, wormadhamu.history-in-sublime-merge (downloaded 4,000 times)ai-driven-dev.ai-driven-dev (downloaded 3,300 times)yasuyuky.transient-emacs (downloaded 2,400 times)All three GlassWorm extensions are “still literally invisible” in code editors, the researchers note. They are encoded in unprintable Unicode characters that look like blank space to the human eye, but execute as JavaScript.The attackers have posted new transactions to the Solana blockchain that outline updated…
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How GlassWorm wormed its way back into developers’ code, and what it says about open source security
Tags: access, ai, attack, blockchain, ciso, control, credentials, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, framework, github, google, infrastructure, law, malicious, malware, marketplace, monitoring, open-source, resilience, service, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, wormadhamu.history-in-sublime-merge (downloaded 4,000 times)ai-driven-dev.ai-driven-dev (downloaded 3,300 times)yasuyuky.transient-emacs (downloaded 2,400 times)All three GlassWorm extensions are “still literally invisible” in code editors, the researchers note. They are encoded in unprintable Unicode characters that look like blank space to the human eye, but execute as JavaScript.The attackers have posted new transactions to the Solana blockchain that outline updated…
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Runtime bugs break container walls, enabling root on Docker hosts
Console and Write-Gadget Lurkers: CVE-2025-52565 & CVE-2025-52881: The second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-52565, targets “/dev/console” bind-mount handling. An attacker can replace the target path with a symlink, which will cause runc to bind-mount the wrong target, allowing the attacker to gain write access to procfs paths.”As with CVE-2025-31133, this happens after pivot_root(2) and so cannot…
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Runtime bugs break container walls, enabling root on Docker hosts
Console and Write-Gadget Lurkers: CVE-2025-52565 & CVE-2025-52881: The second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-52565, targets “/dev/console” bind-mount handling. An attacker can replace the target path with a symlink, which will cause runc to bind-mount the wrong target, allowing the attacker to gain write access to procfs paths.”As with CVE-2025-31133, this happens after pivot_root(2) and so cannot…
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Runtime bugs break container walls, enabling root on Docker hosts
Console and Write-Gadget Lurkers: CVE-2025-52565 & CVE-2025-52881: The second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-52565, targets “/dev/console” bind-mount handling. An attacker can replace the target path with a symlink, which will cause runc to bind-mount the wrong target, allowing the attacker to gain write access to procfs paths.”As with CVE-2025-31133, this happens after pivot_root(2) and so cannot…
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Ransomware Operators Exploit RMM Tools to Deploy Medusa and DragonForce
Tags: attack, breach, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, exploit, group, infrastructure, monitoring, ransomware, service, software, supply-chain, tool, vulnerabilityCybersecurity researchers at Zensec have exposed a sophisticated supply-chain attack campaign that weaponised trusted Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) infrastructure to deploy ransomware across multiple UK organisations throughout early 2025. The investigation reveals how two prominent ransomware-as-a-service groups exploited critical vulnerabilities in SimpleHelp RMM software to breach downstream customers through their managed service providers. The…
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Ransomware Operators Exploit RMM Tools to Deploy Medusa and DragonForce
Tags: attack, breach, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, exploit, group, infrastructure, monitoring, ransomware, service, software, supply-chain, tool, vulnerabilityCybersecurity researchers at Zensec have exposed a sophisticated supply-chain attack campaign that weaponised trusted Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) infrastructure to deploy ransomware across multiple UK organisations throughout early 2025. The investigation reveals how two prominent ransomware-as-a-service groups exploited critical vulnerabilities in SimpleHelp RMM software to breach downstream customers through their managed service providers. The…
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Balancer hack analysis and guidance for the DeFi ecosystem
Tags: access, attack, blockchain, control, crypto, exploit, finance, flaw, guide, intelligence, monitoring, oracle, radius, risk, software, strategy, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityTL;DR The root cause of the hack was a rounding direction issue that had been present in the code for many years. When the bug was first introduced, the threat landscape of the blockchain ecosystem was significantly different, and arithmetic issues in particular were not widely considered likely vectors for exploitation. As low-hanging attack paths…
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The Government Shutdown Is a Ticking Cybersecurity Time Bomb
Many critical systems are still being maintained, and the cloud provides some security cover. But experts say that any lapses in protections like patching and monitoring could expose government systems. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/the-government-shutdown-is-a-ticking-cybersecurity-time-bomb/
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Congressional Budget Office implementing new security controls following cyberattack
A spokesperson for the CBO confirmed the security incident and said the agency has taken immediate action to contain it while also implementing “additional monitoring and new security controls to further protect the agency’s systems going forward.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cbo-implements-controls-following-cyberattack-reports
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Congressional Budget Office implementing new security controls following cyberattack
A spokesperson for the CBO confirmed the security incident and said the agency has taken immediate action to contain it while also implementing “additional monitoring and new security controls to further protect the agency’s systems going forward.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cbo-implements-controls-following-cyberattack-reports
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Congressional Budget Office implementing new security controls following cyberattack
A spokesperson for the CBO confirmed the security incident and said the agency has taken immediate action to contain it while also implementing “additional monitoring and new security controls to further protect the agency’s systems going forward.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cbo-implements-controls-following-cyberattack-reports
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Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?
Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trustStop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…
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Why can’t enterprises get a handle on the cloud misconfiguration problem?
Tags: access, ai, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, communications, computing, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, governance, hacker, infrastructure, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, risk, saas, service, technology, tool, training, usa, zero-trustStop. Reassess. Reconfigure: Last year, according to Ayan Roy, EY Americas cybersecurity competency leader, the highest number of breaches were caused by shared cloud repositories. “That’s where we saw the maximum amount of data exfiltration,” he says. “A lot was from shared cloud stores and SaaS applications.” That’s despite the fact that the clients have…