Tag: risk
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The real-world effects of EU’s DORA regulation on global businesses
In this Help Net Security video, Matt Cooper, Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance at Vanta, discusses the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and its … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/19/eu-dora-regulation-video/
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The real-world effects of EU’s DORA regulation on global businesses
In this Help Net Security video, Matt Cooper, Director of Governance, Risk, and Compliance at Vanta, discusses the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and its … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/19/eu-dora-regulation-video/
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Insider Threats and the Power of JustTime Privileged Access
September marks National Insider Threat Awareness Month, a reminder that some of the biggest security risks to an organization do not come from shadowy external hackers, but from the people already inside the walls. Employees, contractors, and trusted partners all… Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/insider-threats-and-the-power-of-just-in-time-privileged-access/
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Cyberthreat Law at Risk in Washington Spending Showdown
Senate Homeland Security Cancels Markup Session. Lawmakers are racing to extend a key cyber sharing law before it expires Sept. 30, but partisan gridlock and proposed restrictions on the U.S. cyber defense agency’s disinformation work threaten reauthorization – risking federal insight into active threats and chilling private cooperation. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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TikTok Deal Won’t End Enterprise Risks
Tags: riskThe proposed restructuring plan would address many concerns related to the social media platform, but risks remain for security teams. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/tiktok-deal-enterprise-risks
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What’s New in Tenable Cloud Security: A More Personalized, Global and Comprehensive Experience
Tags: best-practice, cloud, compliance, container, control, data, fintech, framework, infrastructure, kubernetes, least-privilege, microsoft, oracle, risk, service, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityCheck out the latest enhancements to our CNAPP product, including a more intuitive user experience with customizable dashboards, and stronger workload protection and data security. These improvements are designed to help you personalize workflows and gain deeper visibility across workloads, compliance frameworks and cloud databases. Key takeaways Tenable Cloud Security is now more personalized and…
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Meet ShadowLeak: ‘Impossible to detect’ data theft using AI
Tags: ai, attack, business, ciso, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, email, exploit, gartner, governance, injection, LLM, malicious, RedTeam, resilience, risk, sans, service, sql, supply-chain, technology, theft, tool, update, vulnerabilityWhat CSOs should do: To blunt this kind of attack, he said CSOs should:treat AI agents as privileged actors: apply the same governance used for a human with internal resource access;separate ‘read’ from ‘act’ scopes and service accounts, and where possible sanitize inputs before LLM (large language model) ingestion. Strip/neutralize hidden HTML, flatten to safe…
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How Top CISOs Approach Exposure Management in the Context of Managing Cyber Risk
Tags: ai, attack, best-practice, business, ciso, control, cvss, cyber, cybersecurity, data, framework, group, intelligence, leak, metric, monitoring, risk, software, strategy, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementWondering what your peers think of exposure management? New reports from the Exposure Management Leadership Council, a CISO working group sponsored by Tenable, offer insights. Key takeaways The CISOs who make up the Exposure Management Leadership Council see exposure management as a strategic and game-changing approach to unified proactive security. They believe exposure management can…
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AI Threats Top Focus at London Financial Services Summit
CISOs, Regulators, Innovators Unite to Strengthen Resilience in Financial Services. The London Financial Services Summit tackled today’s most urgent issues, from AI-powered fraud and third-party risks to compliance mandate, equipping participants with insights to secure finance in an era of volatility and disruption. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/ai-threats-top-focus-at-london-financial-services-summit-a-29474
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Target-rich environment: Why Microsoft 365 has become the biggest risk
Microsoft 365’s dominance and tight integration makes it a massive target in today’s cyber landscape. Its tight integration expands the attack surface and amplifies risk. Learn from Acronis TRU why backup blind spots & lateral movement risks demand stronger defenses. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/target-rich-environment-why-microsoft-365-has-become-the-biggest-risk/
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Palo Alto Networks acknowledges browser malware risks, validating SquareX’s LMR attack findings
Palo Alto Networks first to break the silence: While SquareX directly disclosed the LMR vulnerability to all major vendors, Palo Alto Networks is the first to publicly confirm it. The acknowledgement came in the form of a September 4 announcement where Palo Alto Networks unveiled new capabilities added to its Prisma Browser.In the announcement, the…
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Microsoft schaltet gefährliches Phishing-Netzwerk ab
Über die Phishing-as-a-Service-Plattform RaccoonO365 sollen mehr als 5.000 Microsoft-Accounts in 94 Ländern kompromittiert worden sein.Die Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) von Microsoft hat die Phishing-as-a-Service-Plattform RaccoonO365 lahmgelegt. Wie das Unternehmen aus Redmond berichtet, wurden dabei 338 Webseiten beschlagnahmt, um die Infrastruktur zu zerstören.Das von Microsoft als Storm-2246 verfolgte kriminelle Netzwerk hinter der Plattform hat sich auf…
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KnowBe4 Report Reveals UK Retail Sector on High Alert for Cyber Scams
KnowBe4, the human risk management platform, has released a new report entitled IT and Cybersecurity Trends in UK Retail: 2025 Survey Insights. The findings revealed nearly all (99.6%) of the 250 UK retail IT security professionals surveyed are facing a significant increase in cyber threats. Notably, 58% cited an increase in helpdesk/IT support scams that…
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SonicWall Advises Users to Reset Logins After Config Backup Leak
SonicWall has alerted its customers to reset all login credentials after a recent leak exposed firewall configuration backups. The vendor emphasizes three critical stages”, containment, remediation, and monitoring”, to minimize risk and restore secure access. Users should follow each stage in order, beginning with containment to block further exposure, proceeding to remediation to reset passwords…
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SonicWall Advises Users to Reset Logins After Config Backup Leak
SonicWall has alerted its customers to reset all login credentials after a recent leak exposed firewall configuration backups. The vendor emphasizes three critical stages”, containment, remediation, and monitoring”, to minimize risk and restore secure access. Users should follow each stage in order, beginning with containment to block further exposure, proceeding to remediation to reset passwords…
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Who Owns Threat and Exposure Management in Your Organization?
A study conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, in partnership with Tenable shows responsibility for exposure management scattered across multiple teams with conflicting priorities. It’s time to build the team of the future, discover what ‘good’ looks like and how to get there. Key takeaways Teams are fragmented, with most organizations lacking…
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Who Owns Threat and Exposure Management in Your Organization?
A study conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, in partnership with Tenable shows responsibility for exposure management scattered across multiple teams with conflicting priorities. It’s time to build the team of the future, discover what ‘good’ looks like and how to get there. Key takeaways Teams are fragmented, with most organizations lacking…
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Who Owns Threat and Exposure Management in Your Organization?
A study conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, in partnership with Tenable shows responsibility for exposure management scattered across multiple teams with conflicting priorities. It’s time to build the team of the future, discover what ‘good’ looks like and how to get there. Key takeaways Teams are fragmented, with most organizations lacking…
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Qualys kommentiert die Risiken durch veraltete Software
Jede Software hat einen Lebenszyklus. Selbst Systeme, die jahrzehntelang zentrale Funktionen erfüllen, werden irgendwann ersetzt. Die zentrale Herausforderung liegt darin, Abhängigkeiten zu vermeiden, bei denen das Abschalten selbst als Risiko gilt. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/qualys-kommentiert-die-risiken-durch-veraltete-software/a42061/
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Stealth in Plain Sight: Cryptojackers Hijack PowerShell and Windows Processes to Evade Detection
Darktrace researchers uncovered a sophisticated cryptojacking attempt using PowerShell scripts to inject NBMiner into Windows processes. Experts warn that modern cryptomining malware is more than a nuisance”, posing risks to productivity, data security, and energy costs while exploiting “living off the land” tactics to evade detection. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/stealth-in-plain-sight-cryptojackers-hijack-powershell-and-windows-processes-to-evade-detection/
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Where CISOs need to see Splunk go next
Tags: ai, api, automation, cisco, ciso, cloud, communications, compliance, conference, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, finance, framework, google, incident response, intelligence, jobs, metric, microsoft, open-source, RedTeam, resilience, risk, router, siem, soar, strategy, tactics, threat, tool, vulnerabilityResilience resides at the confluence of security and observability: There was also a clear message around resilience, the ability to maintain availability and recover quickly from any IT or security event.From a Cisco/Splunk perspective, this means a more tightly coupled relationship between security and observability.I’m reminded of a chat I had with the chief risk…
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Open-Source Tool Greenshot Hit by Severe Code Execution Vulnerability
A security vulnerability has been discovered in Greenshot, the widely used open-source screenshot tool for Windows. The Greenshot vulnerability exposes to the risk of arbitrary code execution, potentially allowing attackers to bypass established security protocols and launch further malicious activities. A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has already been released, drawing attention to the critical nature of…
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Malicious Typosquatted PyPI Packages Spreading SilentSync RAT
On August 4, 2025, Zscaler ThreatLabz uncovered two malicious Python packages”, sisaws and secmeasure”, that deliver SilentSync, a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT), to unsuspecting developers. Both packages leverage typosquatting to impersonate legitimate libraries in the Python Package Index (PyPI), posing a serious supply-chain risk to projects that install them. SilentSync’s versatile capabilities include remote…
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Malicious Typosquatted PyPI Packages Spreading SilentSync RAT
On August 4, 2025, Zscaler ThreatLabz uncovered two malicious Python packages”, sisaws and secmeasure”, that deliver SilentSync, a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT), to unsuspecting developers. Both packages leverage typosquatting to impersonate legitimate libraries in the Python Package Index (PyPI), posing a serious supply-chain risk to projects that install them. SilentSync’s versatile capabilities include remote…
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API-Sicherheit im KI-Zeitalter – Warum APIs zum größten Risiko und Schlüssel für Innovation werden
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/api-security-ki-risiken-strategien-a-0268a20cdfa03a7a2c3b017c3a02fc91/
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Shadow AI is breaking corporate security from within
Cybersecurity leaders know the attack surface has been growing for years, but the latest State of Information Security Report 2025 from IO shows how fast new risks are … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/18/ai-attack-surface-risks/
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Global hiring risks: What you need to know about identity fraud and screening trends
Hiring new employees has always carried some risk, but that risk is growing in new ways, and identity fraud is becoming more common in the hiring process. HireRight’s 2025 … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/18/global-hiring-risks-2025/
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Malicious PyPI Packages Deliver SilentSync RAT
IntroductionZscaler ThreatLabz regularly monitors for threats in the popular Python Package Index (PyPI), which contains open source libraries that are frequently used by many Python developers. In July 2025, a malicious Python package named termncolor was identified by ThreatLabz. Just a few weeks later, on August 4, 2025, ThreatLabz uncovered two more malicious Python packages…
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Firms urged to adopt risk-based data sovereignty strategy
Geopolitical uncertainty is forcing organisations to rethink where their data is located, but a full retreat from the public cloud is not the answer First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366631258/Firms-urged-to-adopt-risk-based-data-sovereignty-strategy