Tag: risk
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How to Spot a North Korean Job Candidate
Prompt Candidates to Wave, Check IP Addresses and Ask About Their Supposed Location. They’re young, tech-savvy and often the most productive remote worker on the team. They’re a major security risk numbering in the thousands that a multitude of Fortune 500 companies have unwittingly ushered into their network. They are North Korean IT workers. First…
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ISMG Editors: No Honor Among Ransomware Thieves
Also: AI, Machine Identity Risks; Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Push. In this week’s panel, four ISMG editors examined how cybercriminals may be turning on each other, what security leaders are really saying about machine identities and AI risk, and how shifting U.S.-Europe dynamics are reshaping technology resilience and digital sovereignty. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Over 41% of Popular OpenClaw Skills Found to Contain Security Vulnerabilities
An audit of 2,890+ OpenClaw skills found 41.7% contain serious security vulnerabilities, exposing systemic risk in AI agent ecosystems. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/over-41-of-popular-openclaw-skills-found-to-contain-security-vulnerabilities/
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QA: Organisations Are Spending Millions on Cybersecurity and Still Getting It Wrong
Cybersecurity threats continue to escalate in scale, speed and sophistication, placing growing pressure on organisations to move beyond reactive defences and rethink how risk is governed at leadership level. As digital systems underpin everything from national infrastructure to day-to-day business operations, failures in governance, communication and accountability are increasingly being exposed as critical vulnerabilities. At…
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Dynamic Objects in Active Directory: The Stealthy Threat
Active Directory’s “dynamic objects” feature offers attackers a perfect evasion cloak. These objects automatically self-destruct without a trace, so they allow adversaries to bypass quotas, pollute access lists, and persist in the cloud, leaving forensic investigators with nothing to analyze. Key takeaways The threat: Dynamic objects self-delete without leaving any traces, or “tombstones” in AD…
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NDSS 2025 A Comprehensive Study Of Security Risks In Deno And Its Ecosystem
Tags: access, api, attack, conference, control, Internet, network, programming, risk, rust, software, supply-chainSession 13A: JavaScript Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Abdullah AlHamdan (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Cristian-Alexandru Staicu (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security) PAPER Welcome to Jurassic Park: A Comprehensive Study of Security Risks in Deno and its Ecosystem Node.js and its ecosystem npm are notoriously insecure, enabling the proliferation of supply chain attacks.…
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Critical Jenkins Flaw Exposes Build Environments to XSS Attacks
A popular open-source automation server used by developers worldwide to build, test, and deploy software faces serious security risks from recent flaws. On February 18, 2026, two vulnerabilities were detailed in the core Jenkins software. The most critical issue is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could allow attackers to inject malicious scripts into…
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Critical Jenkins Flaw Exposes Build Environments to XSS Attacks
A popular open-source automation server used by developers worldwide to build, test, and deploy software faces serious security risks from recent flaws. On February 18, 2026, two vulnerabilities were detailed in the core Jenkins software. The most critical issue is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could allow attackers to inject malicious scripts into…
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AI in the SOC: Why Complete Autonomy Is the Wrong Goal
Dan Petrillo, VP of Product at BlueVoyant As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply embedded in security operations, a divide has emerged in how its role is defined. Some argue the security operations centre (SOC) should be fully autonomous, with AI replacing human analysts. Others believe that augmentation is the right path, using AI to support and extend existing teams. Augmentation probably reflects…
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AI in the SOC: Why Complete Autonomy Is the Wrong Goal
Dan Petrillo, VP of Product at BlueVoyant As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more deeply embedded in security operations, a divide has emerged in how its role is defined. Some argue the security operations centre (SOC) should be fully autonomous, with AI replacing human analysts. Others believe that augmentation is the right path, using AI to support and extend existing teams. Augmentation probably reflects…
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How Enterprise CISOs Design Their Cyber Risk Management Strategy
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, finance, regulation, risk, risk-management, strategy<div cla For today’s CISOs, enterprise cyber risk management is no longer a technical exercise. It’s a leadership mandate that sits at the intersection of security, business risk, regulation, and executive accountability. Aligning proactive cybersecurity risk management strategies with the business’s overall risk posture is an ongoing, necessary process. A lack of alignment between cybersecurity…
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Why Most Breaches Happen After Launch: SaaS Security Testing Best Practices
As SaaS platforms expand in complexity, security cannot stop at deployment. Post-launch environments introduce new integrations, user access changes, and configuration updates that significantly increase risk exposure. Without continuous validation and monitoring, vulnerabilities can quietly develop into major breaches. A structured and ongoing security strategy, supported by experts like StrongBox IT, helps organisations reduce these……
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The Cyber Express Weekly Roundup: AI Disruption, Regulatory Pressure, and the Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future-facing concept; it is actively reshaping cyber risk, regulatory enforcement, and enterprise security strategy in real time. This week’s The Cyber Express weekly roundup reflects the modern environment where AI-driven fraud, deepfake investigations, ransomware incidents, and mobile malware innovations are unfolding simultaneously across multiple regions. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/ai-deepfakes-ransomware-weekly-roundup/
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Real-Time Risk Detection with Automated Vulnerability Assessment Tools
The global vulnerability landscape continues to expand rapidly, with thousands of new CVEs published every year. Thus, allowing hackers to weaponize newly disclosed flaws at an instant. Public reporting and threat intelligence analyses consistently show that exploitation often begins within days, and sometimes hours, of disclosure. That reality has fundamentally changed what “vulnerability assessment tools”……
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LLM-Generated Passwords Expose Security Risks with Predictability and Weakness
LLM-generated passwords may look complex and “high entropy,” but new research shows they are highly predictable, frequently repeated, and far weaker than traditional cryptographic password generators. At the core of a secure password generator is a CSPRNG, which produces characters from a uniform, unpredictable distribution, making each position in the password hard to guess. Large…
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Why AISPM Isn’t Enough for the Agentic Era
AI agents have moved from novelty to operational reality, acting autonomously across business systems in ways traditional AI security posture management (AISPM) and IAM can’t fully govern. Learn why risk now emerges at runtime, where existing posture tools fall short, and how Agentic SPM enables continuous discovery, runtime decision control, and auditability for autonomous agents.…
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PayPal launches latest struggle to get rid of SMS for MFA
Tags: authentication, ceo, ciso, communications, compliance, cybersecurity, email, finance, fraud, government, group, login, mfa, mobile, nfc, passkey, password, phishing, risk, service, strategy, switch, updateMuddled effort, mixed messages Flavio Villanustre, CISO for the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, says he’s “always found it odd” that PayPal still supports SMS as its primary secondary authentication factor.”Everyone in financial services and government has abandoned it for not being sufficiently secure and are moving to even phishing-resistant authentication, such as passkeys, Yubikeys,” he…
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The CISO view of fraud risk across the retail payment ecosystem
In this Help Net Security interview, Paul Suarez, VP and CISO at Casey’s, explains how his team manages patching and upgrades for fuel payment systems with long hardware … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/20/paul-suarez-caseys-convenience-store-payment-fraud/
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AI Agents Are Quietly Redefining Enterprise Security Risk
AI agents now operate across enterprise systems, creating new risk via prompt injection, plugins, and persistent memory. Here’s how to adapt security. The post AI Agents Are Quietly Redefining Enterprise Security Risk appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-agents-enterprise-security-zero-trust-moltbook-risk/
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Chance statt Risiko: Wie künstliche Intelligenz verantwortungsvoll eingesetzt wird
Künstliche Intelligenz entscheidet zunehmend darüber, ob Unternehmen in komplexen, dynamischen oder kritischen Situationen handlungsfähig bleiben und richtige Entscheidungen treffen. Das aktuelle Allianz Risk Barometer 2026 [1] zeigt: Über ein Viertel der deutschen Unternehmen sieht den KI-Einsatz inzwischen als Risiko insbesondere bei Haftungsfragen. Die rasante Verbreitung von GenAI-Systemen in Verbindung mit ihrer zunehmenden Nutzung in… First…
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Chance statt Risiko: Wie künstliche Intelligenz verantwortungsvoll eingesetzt wird
Künstliche Intelligenz entscheidet zunehmend darüber, ob Unternehmen in komplexen, dynamischen oder kritischen Situationen handlungsfähig bleiben und richtige Entscheidungen treffen. Das aktuelle Allianz Risk Barometer 2026 [1] zeigt: Über ein Viertel der deutschen Unternehmen sieht den KI-Einsatz inzwischen als Risiko insbesondere bei Haftungsfragen. Die rasante Verbreitung von GenAI-Systemen in Verbindung mit ihrer zunehmenden Nutzung in… First…
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Your Most Dangerous User Is Not Human: How AI Agents and MCP Servers Broke the Internal API Walled Garden
Highlights The Perimeter is Porous: Modern Agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) have effectively turned internal data centers inside out, making the “internal API” security model obsolete. The “Confused Deputy” Risk: Legitimate AI agents act as trusted internal entities but can be exploited to bypass Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, as seen in…
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Treasury AI Plan Faces Calls for Enforceable Controls
Analysts Urge Mandatory Guardrails on AI Agents, Identity and Privilege. Security leaders are pressing Treasury to embed enforceable guardrails – covering adversarial testing, AI inventory, identity privilege mapping and real-time monitoring – into its forthcoming financial-sector AI guidance as deepfake fraud, data poisoning and autonomous agent risks escalate. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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US dominance of agentic AI at the heart of new NIST initiative
Moving too slowly: According to Gary Phipps, head of customer success at agentic AI security startup Helmet Security, a problem with NIST is that its initiatives are being outpaced by real-world developments. “History says that anything NIST comes up with will likely not emerge fast enough to address agentic AI,” said Phipps.”From the time NIST…
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Audit Finds Security Weaknesses at VA Spokane Medical Center
Access, Vulnerability Management, Configuration Lapses. A federal watchdog agency inspection of information security at the VA health system in Spokane, Wash. last year found deficiencies across three areas – configuration management, vulnerability management and access controls – that could potentially put sensitive data at risk, a new report said. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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NDSS 2025 NDSS 2025 BARBIE: Robust Backdoor Detection Based On Latent Separability
Session 12D: ML Backdoors Authors, Creators & Presenters: Hanlei Zhang (Zhejiang University), Yijie Bai (Zhejiang University), Yanjiao Chen (Zhejiang University), Zhongming Ma (Zhejiang University), Wenyuan Xu (Zhejiang University) PAPER BARBIE: Robust Backdoor Detection Based On Latent Separability Backdoor attacks are an essential risk to deep learning model sharing. Fundamentally, backdoored models are different from benign…
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NDSS 2025 NDSS 2025 BARBIE: Robust Backdoor Detection Based On Latent Separability
Session 12D: ML Backdoors Authors, Creators & Presenters: Hanlei Zhang (Zhejiang University), Yijie Bai (Zhejiang University), Yanjiao Chen (Zhejiang University), Zhongming Ma (Zhejiang University), Wenyuan Xu (Zhejiang University) PAPER BARBIE: Robust Backdoor Detection Based On Latent Separability Backdoor attacks are an essential risk to deep learning model sharing. Fundamentally, backdoored models are different from benign…
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Texas Sues TP-Link Over Alleged Security Risks and Supply Chain Deception
Texas has sued TP-Link over alleged supply chain deception and router security flaws linked to Chinese threat actors. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/texas-sues-tp-link-over-alleged-security-risks-and-supply-chain-deception/