Tag: RedTeam
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KI greift erstmals autonom an
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyberattack, cybercrime, dns, group, injection, intelligence, malware, openai, ransomware, RedTeam, sans, strategy, threat, toolDas KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude Code hat einem Cyberkriminellen dabei geholfen, in Netzwerke einzudringen.CISOs und Sicherheitsentscheider rechnen schon seit längerem damit, dass Cyberangriffe nicht mehr von Menschen mit KI-Tools, sondern von KI-Systemen selbst ausgehen. Diese Befürchtung hat sich nun mit neuen Forschungserkenntnissen bestätigt. So offenbart Anthropics aktueller Threat Intelligence Report , dass das KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude…
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Anthropic detects the inevitable: genAI-only attacks, no humans involved
Tags: ai, attack, business, ciso, control, cybercrime, cybersecurity, defense, dns, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, malicious, malware, open-source, openai, RedTeam, threat, tool, warfarenot find.”There is potentially a lot of this activity we’re not seeing. Anthropic being open about their platform being used for malicious activities is significant, and OpenAI has recently shared the same as well. But will others open up about what is already likely happening?” Brunkard asked. “Or maybe they haven’t shared because they don’t…
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Securden Unified PAM Flaw Allows Attackers to Bypass Authentication
Securden Unified PAM is a comprehensive privileged access management platform that is used to store, manage, and monitor credentials across human, machine, and AI identities in a variety of environments. Security researchers discovered four critical vulnerabilities in this platform during a series of ongoing red teaming operations using Rapid7’s Vector Command service. These flaws, spanning…
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Behind the Coinbase breach: Bribery emerges as enterprise threat
Coinbase’s widely praised incident response: Coinbase’s transparency, firm stance against the ransom, quick remediation, and willingness to compensate its customers earned wide praise from cybersecurity professionals.According to Coinbase’s Martin, the hackers resorted to paying help desk workers in India precisely because the company had built such a robust security program. Bribery, according to Martin, was…
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Why AI Security Needs Continuous Red Teaming
NIST’s Apostol Vassilev Explains Need for Dynamic Response, Not Static Testing. As AI models grow in scale and power, leading to even more unpredictable outcomes, security teams are grappling with how to defend technologies that some experts can’t begin to fully comprehend. Cyber response teams are exploring the practice of continuous red teaming, said NIST’s…
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UK Red Teamers “Deeply Skeptical” of AI
Commercial red team experts believe AI’s current impact on cyber is overstated First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-red-teamers-deeply-skeptical-of/
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OMEN Improvements
“If I had an hour to solve a problem, I would spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes finding the solution.” – Albert Einstein Introduction: I’m a big fan of graphing password cracking sessions. It’s a good way to figure out what’s working and what isn’t by highlighting trends that get lost in…
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What is a CISO? The top IT security leader role explained
Tags: access, authentication, breach, business, ceo, cio, cisa, ciso, compliance, computer, container, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, dns, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, framework, fraud, guide, Hardware, healthcare, infosec, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, kubernetes, mitigation, msp, mssp, network, nist, programming, RedTeam, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, skills, software, strategy, technology, threat, training, vpn, zero-day, zero-trust. You’ll often hear people say the difference between the two is that CISOs focus entirely on information security issues, while a CSOs remit is wider, also taking in physical security as well as risk management.But reality is messier. Many companies, especially smaller ones, have only one C-level security officer, called a CSO, with IT…
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10 Best Red Teaming Companies for Advanced Attack Simulation in 2025
Tags: attack, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, penetration-testing, RedTeam, tactics, threat, vulnerabilityRed teaming companies are specialized cybersecurity firms that use a proactive, adversarial approach to test an organization’s defenses by simulating a real-world cyberattack. Unlike traditional penetration testing, which typically focuses on finding specific vulnerabilities, red teaming emulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor. The goal is to evaluate…
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MCP: securing the backbone of Agentic AI
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, business, ciso, control, credentials, cyber, data, detection, injection, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, RedTeam, risk, security-incident, service, supply-chain, trainingFour cornerstones for securing MCP servers: CISOs can largely rely on the proven basic principles of cyber security for MCP they just need to adapt them in a few places. Pure checklists fall short here. Instead, a clear, principles-based approach is required. Four central pillars have proven themselves in practice: Strong authentication and clean credential…
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Cervantes: Open-source, collaborative platform for pentesters and red teams
Cervantes is an open-source collaborative platform built for pentesters and red teams. It offers a centralized workspace to manage projects, clients, vulnerabilities, and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/23/cervantes-open-source-collaborative-platform-pentesters-red-teams/
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Red Teaming AI Systems: Why Traditional Security Testing Falls Short
What if your AI-powered application leaked sensitive data, generated harmful content, or revealed internal instructions and none of your security tools caught it? This isn’t hypothetical. It’s happening now and exposing critical gaps in how we secure modern AI systems. When AI systems like LLMs, agents, or AI-driven applications reach production, many security teams.. First…
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Octalyn Stealer Harvests VPN Configs, Passwords, and Cookies in Organized Folder Structure
The Octalyn Forensic Toolkit, which is openly accessible on GitHub, has been revealed as a powerful credential stealer that poses as a research tool for red teaming and digital forensics. This is a worrying development for cybersecurity. Developed with a C++-based payload module and a Delphi-built graphical user interface (GUI) builder, the toolkit lowers the…
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AI poisoning and the CISO’s crisis of trust
Tags: access, ai, breach, ceo, ciso, compliance, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, disinformation, exploit, framework, healthcare, identity, infosec, injection, LLM, monitoring, network, privacy, RedTeam, resilience, risk, russia, saas, threat, tool, trainingFoundation models began parroting Kremlin-aligned propaganda after ingesting material seeded by a large-scale Russian network known as the “Pravda Network.”A high-profile AI-generated reading list published by two American news outlets included 10 hallucinated book titles mistakenly attributed to real authors.Researchers showed that imperceptible perturbations in training images could trigger misclassification. Researchers in the healthcare domain demonstrated…
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Why skipping security prompting on Grok’s newest model is a huge mistake
An AI red-teaming company found that xAI’s Grok 4 is “not suitable for enterprises” without substantial security prompting. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/grok4-security-flaws-prompts-splxai-research/
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MCP is fueling agentic AI, and introducing new security risks
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, best-practice, ceo, cloud, corporate, cybersecurity, gartner, injection, LLM, malicious, monitoring, network, office, open-source, penetration-testing, RedTeam, risk, service, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityMitigating MCP server risks: When it comes to using MCP servers there’s a big difference between developers using it for personal productivity and enterprises putting them into production use cases.Derek Ashmore, application transformation principal at Asperitas Consulting, suggests that corporate customers don’t rush on MCP adoption until the technology is safer and more of the…
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A Practical Guide to Building a Red Teaming Strategy for AI
Start your red teaming journey with intent, not ambition. Designate a lead with both AI literacy and a security mindset. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/a-practical-guide-to-building-a-red-teaming-strategy-for-ai/
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Hackers weaponize Shellter red teaming tool to spread infostealers
Hackers are abusing the legitimate red teaming tool Shellter to spread stealer malware after a licensed copy was leaked. Elastic Security Labs has identified several malware campaigns using the commercial AV/EDR evasion tool SHELLTER. The tool was originally built for legitimate red team operations, however, threat actors have now adopted it to bypass security measures…
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Hackers ‘Shellter’ Various Stealers in Red-Team Tool to Evade Detection
Researchers have uncovered multiple campaigns spreading Lumma, Arechclient2, and Rhadamanthys malware by leveraging key features of the AV/EDR evasion framework. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/hackers-shellter-red-team-tool-evade-detection
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Hackers Use Leaked Shellter Tool License to Spread Lumma Stealer and SectopRAT Malware
In yet another instance of threat actors repurposing legitimate tools for malicious purposes, it has been discovered that hackers are exploiting a popular red teaming tool called Shellter to distribute stealer malware.The company behind the software said a company that had recently purchased Shellter Elite licenses leaked their copy, prompting malicious actors to weaponize the…
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Hackers ‘Shellter’ Various Stealers in Red Team Tool to Evade Detection
Researchers have uncovered multiple campaigns spreading Lumma, Arechclient2, and Rhadamanthys malware by leveraging key features of the AV/EDR evasion framework. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/hackers-shellter-red-team-tool-evade-detection
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Red Team Tool Developer Shellter Admits ‘Misuse’ by Adversaries
The company behind AV/EDR evasion tool Shellter has confirmed the product is being used by threat actors First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/red-team-tool-dev-shellter-misuse/
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Hackers abuse leaked Shellter red team tool to deploy infostealers
Shellter Project, the vendor of a commercial AV/EDR evasion loader for penetration testing, confirmed that hackers used its Shellter Elite product in attacks after a customer leaked a copy of the software. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse-leaked-shellter-red-team-tool-to-deploy-infostealers/
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How cybersecurity leaders can defend against the spur of AI-driven NHI
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, cloud, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, email, exploit, framework, gartner, governance, group, guide, identity, infrastructure, least-privilege, LLM, login, monitoring, password, phishing, RedTeam, risk, sans, service, software, technology, tool, vulnerabilityVisibility Yageo Group had so many problematic machine identities that information security operations manager Terrick Taylor says he is almost embarrassed to say this, even though the group has now automated the monitoring of both human and non-human identities and has a process for managing identity lifecycles. “Last time I looked at the portal, there…
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OneClik Red Team Campaign Targets Energy Sector Using Microsoft ClickOnce and Golang Backdoors
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new campaign dubbed OneClik that leverages Microsoft’s ClickOnce software deployment technology and bespoke Golang backdoors to compromise organizations within the energy, oil, and gas sectors.”The campaign exhibits characteristics aligned with Chinese-affiliated threat actors, though attribution remains cautious,” Trellix researchers Nico Paulo First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2025/06/oneclik-malware-targets-energy-sector.html