Tag: risk
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The Guardian view on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet? | Editorial
Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internetAnthropic announced its latest AI model, <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/08/anthropic-ai-cybersecurity-software”>Claude Mythos, this month but said it would not be released publicly, because it turns computers into crime scenes. The company claimed that it could find previously unknown…
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Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO
Push to protect minors risks hitting everyone online First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/proton_ceo_age_checks_id_checkpoint/
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Measuring Cyber Risk Performance: How CISOs Can Report to the Board
<div cla Cybersecurity has matured significantly over the past decade. Most enterprise cyber risk management programs now operate with sophisticated tooling, continuous monitoring, formalized governance models, and structured risk management processes. Yet one challenge remains persistent across industries and companies of varying levels of digital maturity: translating cyber risk into language that resonates in the…
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District Administration – How Cloud Monitoring Protects Districts From New Cyber Threats
This article was originally published in District Administration on 04/20/26 by Charlie Sander. As cyber threats evolve, districts need real-time visibility into cloud activity to detect and stop risks early With rising cybersecurity concerns, schools are relying on real-time cloud sync to monitor administrative movements and student activity inside school accounts. However, real-time cloud sync…
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Offer customers passkeys by default, UK’s NCSC tells enterprises
How passkeys change the attack model: The NCSC added that passkeys reduce risk by removing reliance on shared secrets and binding authentication to the legitimate service.According to the agency, this prevents credential reuse and relay attacks, as authentication cannot be intercepted and reused by an attacker.Passkeys use cryptographic key pairs stored on a user’s device,…
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Using AI to manage insider risk amid Middle East conflict
As geopolitical tensions reshape the cyber threat landscape across the region, organisations are turning to artificial intelligence-driven behaviour analytics, investigative automation and monitoring of AI agents to detect insider risk faster and strengthen operational resilience First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642038/Using-AI-to-manage-insider-risk-amid-Middle-East-conflict
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UK’s NCSC calls passkeys the default, says passwords are no longer fit for the purpose
How passkeys change the attack model: The NCSC added that passkeys reduce risk by removing reliance on shared secrets and binding authentication to the legitimate service.According to the agency, this prevents credential reuse and relay attacks, as authentication cannot be intercepted and reused by an attacker.Passkeys use cryptographic key pairs stored on a user’s device,…
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Electricity Is a Growing Area of Cyber Risk
IT has long been concerned about ensuring systems receive the right amount of electricity. Cyberattackers are realizing they can manipulate voltage fluctuations for their purposes, too. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/electricity-growing-area-cyber-risk
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Supply Chain Resilience for UK SMEs: Practical Steps to Reduce Third-Party Risk
For many UK SMEs, supply chain resilience is not a specialist security project. It is a business continuity issue. If a key supplier cannot deliver, a software provider has an outage, or a partner mishandles data, the impact can show up quickly in customer service, cash flow, and reputation. The good news is that you……
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Supply Chain Resilience for UK SMEs: Practical Steps to Reduce Third-Party Risk
For many UK SMEs, supply chain resilience is not a specialist security project. It is a business continuity issue. If a key supplier cannot deliver, a software provider has an outage, or a partner mishandles data, the impact can show up quickly in customer service, cash flow, and reputation. The good news is that you……
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Google gets agent-ready for the Mythos age
Wiz, AI-BOMs, and securing the AI development sprawl: Google has expanded its Wiz portfolio to tackle the chaos of AI development and multi-cloud risk.Wiz is being positioned as the connective tissue across environments, supporting everything from AWS and Azure to SaaS platforms and AI agent studios.”Wiz now supports Databricks as well as new agent studios…
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Supply Chain Resilience for UK SMEs: Practical Steps to Reduce Third-Party Risk
For many UK SMEs, supply chain resilience is not a specialist security project. It is a business continuity issue. If a key supplier cannot deliver, a software provider has an outage, or a partner mishandles data, the impact can show up quickly in customer service, cash flow, and reputation. The good news is that you……
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Riddled with flaws, serialEthernet converters endanger critical infrastructure
Tags: access, authentication, control, credentials, data, data-breach, exploit, firmware, flaw, infrastructure, malicious, network, open-source, password, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, service, threat, update, vulnerabilityNew RCE and other vulnerabilities: Aside from all the known vulnerabilities from open-source components, the Forescout researchers also performed manual security analysis and identified previously unknown flaws in the firmware of three specific devices from two vendors: Lantronix EDS3000PS Series, Lantronix EDS5000 Series, and Silex SD330-AC.The web-based management interface of the Lantronix EDS5000 had five…
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Riddled with flaws, serialEthernet converters endanger critical infrastructure
Tags: access, authentication, control, credentials, data, data-breach, exploit, firmware, flaw, infrastructure, malicious, network, open-source, password, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, service, threat, update, vulnerabilityNew RCE and other vulnerabilities: Aside from all the known vulnerabilities from open-source components, the Forescout researchers also performed manual security analysis and identified previously unknown flaws in the firmware of three specific devices from two vendors: Lantronix EDS3000PS Series, Lantronix EDS5000 Series, and Silex SD330-AC.The web-based management interface of the Lantronix EDS5000 had five…
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Malicious pgserve, automagik developer tools found in npm registry
Advice to victimized developers: Developers who have downloaded the malicious versions of pgserver and automagik need to act fast, says Tanya Janca, head of Canadian secure coding consultancy SheHacksPurple.”Rotate every credential you can think of, right now, before you do anything else,” she said. “Then harden your CI/CD network egress controls so your build runners…
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5 Red Flags für Unternehmen, bei denen Infrastruktur zum Risiko wird
First seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/5-red-flags-unternehmen-infrastruktur-risiko
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You’re Not Watching MCPs. Anthropic’s Vulnerability Shows Why You Should Be.
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, breach, control, credentials, cve, data, framework, hacker, infrastructure, injection, LLM, remote-code-execution, risk, saas, siem, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerabilityLast week, researchers at OX Security published findings that should stop every security leader in their tracks. They discovered a critical vulnerability baked directly into Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol SDK, affecting every supported language: Python, TypeScript, Java, and Rust. The result: remote code execution on any system running a vulnerable MCP implementation, with direct access…
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Global S3: Another C2 Channel for AgentCore Code Interpreters
Introduction Building on recent research identifying DNS-based exfiltration risks in Sandbox mode AgentCore Code Interpreters, I identified global S3 access as another Command & Control channel for sandboxed code interpreters. Unlike DNS-based exfiltration, which has since been fully mitigated, S3 access is a useful and fully-documented feature of AgentCore code interpreters that nevertheless creates a……
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CyberStrong Product Update: What’s New in Release 4.14
<div cla What’s New in CyberStrong We’re excited to share everything that’s new in the latest CyberStrong releases. From expanded questionnaire capabilities to smarter risk reporting and a more intuitive personal work view, this cycle is packed with updates designed to help you work faster and manage risk more effectively. Here’s a look at what’s…
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Ausfallzeiten nach Sicherheitsverstoß minimieren
Unternehmen investieren jährlich enorme Summen in die Cybersicherheit, um Risiken zu managen und Verluste zu minimieren. Oftmals drehen sich die Diskussionen dabei um Technologien, heruntergebrochen auf das Wesentliche gibt es jedoch nur zwei Ergebnisse, die schlussendlich von Bedeutung sind: die Betriebsausfallzeit und der finanzielle Gesamtverlust als Folge des Sicherheitsvorfalls. Diese beiden Ergebnisse hängen zwar miteinander…
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Router Security Hardening Steps for 2026: From Default Credential Audits to Automated Firmware Risk Monitoring
Network edge devices are now among the most targeted entry points in cyberattacks. Recent intelligence shows that threat actors are focusing more on routers, firewalls, and VPN concentrators than on end-user machines, a trend highlighted in multiple 2025 threat intelligence reports. For IT teams responsible for Dutch enterprise environments, that shift makes a structured and…
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Toxic Combinations: When Cross-App Permissions Stack into Risk
On January 31, 2026, researchers disclosed that Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, had left its database wide open, exposing 35,000 email addresses and 1.5 million agent API tokens across 770,000 active agents.The more worrying part sat inside the private messages. Some of those conversations held plaintext third-party credentials, including OpenAI API keys…
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CyberSmart Partners with Renaissance to Deliver Complete Cyber Confidence for SMEs
Irish reseller Renaissance has announced a strategic partnership with CyberSmart, a UK-based cybersecurity provider focused on delivering continuous protection, compliance, and cyber risk management for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This collaboration brings CyberSmart’s cybersecurity solutions to a wider market, spanning real-time threat detection, vulnerability management, compliance assurance, and cybersecurity awareness training. Designed for simplicity…
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Anthropic investigates report of rogue access to hack-enabling Mythos AI
‘Handful’ of people allegedly gain unauthorised access to model adept at detecting cybersecurity vulnerabilities<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/apr/22/uk-inflation-increase-fuel-prices-oil-falls-trump-ceasefire-extended-business-live-news-updates”>Business live latest updates</li></ul>The AI developer Anthropic has confirmed it is investigating a report that unauthorised users have gained access to its Mythos model, which it has warned <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/08/anthropic-ai-cybersecurity-software”>poses risks to cybersecurity.The US startup made the statement after Bloomberg reported…
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UK Faces a Cyber ‘Perfect Storm’ Driven by Tech Advances and Nation State Threats, NCSC Warns
The convergence of global tensions and rapid technological change is driving a new era of cyber risk, the NCSC warns First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-faces-a-cyber-perfect-storm-ncsc/
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Neues Tool von Mondoo deckt Risiken in KI-Agenten-Skills frühzeitig auf
Mit dem AI Skills Check erweitert Mondoo sein Portfolio im Bereich Schwachstellenmanagement und positioniert sich zugleich in einem Feld, das gerade erst entsteht First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/neues-tool-von-mondoo-deckt-risiken-in-ki-agenten-skills-fruehzeitig-auf/a44717/