Tag: risk
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Vulnerability Exposes Email Data Risk
Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) recently patched a cluster of high”‘impact vulnerabilities that could have allowed attackers to read and enumerate marketing emails and subscriber data across tenants, including Fortune 500 organizations. Modern enterprises rely on centralised marketing clouds to deliver branded, trackable campaigns at massive scale. SFMC (formerly ExactTarget) is one of the dominant platforms, powering dynamic…
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Train like you fight: Why cyber operations teams need no-notice drills
Tags: breach, business, cloud, communications, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, detection, framework, healthcare, injection, login, military, psychology, ransomware, risk, skills, soc, threat, training, updateThe Yerkes-Dodson inverted-U curve: Performance rises with arousal to an optimal point, then falls sharply.Wikimedia Commons, CC-ZeroWhat repeated no-notice drills do is shift a team’s position on that curve. By building familiarity with threat-level arousal, they raise the threshold at which stress becomes performance-impairing. The stimulus is no longer novel. The cascade is shorter. Executive…
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Poisoned truth: The quiet security threat inside enterprise AI
It takes surprisingly little poison to corrupt: Bad internal data is the immediate problem. But the external supply chain may be even harder to control.Research by Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute discovered that as few as 250 maliciously crafted documents can poison LLMs of any size.That creates a massive…
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Attackers Bypass Azure AD Conditional Access Using Phantom Device Registration
A recent authorized red team operation by Howler Cell has demonstrated a critical attack path that completely bypasses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Conditional Access. Azure Conditional Access acts as the primary gatekeeper for cloud identity security, enforcing access rules based on user location, device compliance, and calculated risk scores. However, by starting with a…
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Ransomware Gangs Escalate Attacks on Aviation and Aerospace Sector
Ransomware and data extortion groups are increasingly targeting the aviation and aerospace sector, exploiting interconnected systems, shared platforms, and identity-based access models to cause operational disruption and data compromise. Cyber risk across aviation has shifted beyond traditional IT incidents toward ransomware attacks, credential theft, and platform-level compromise. The aviation ecosystem relies heavily on shared IT…
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EU finance firms urged to get on with anti-money laundering compliance
Two-thirds of finance firms in the European Union are at risk of missing next year’s deadline to comply with anti-money laundering regulations First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642629/EU-finance-firms-urged-to-get-on-with-anti-money-laundering-compliance
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BlueVoyant Prepares SaaS Push Under New CEO John Hernandez
BlueVoyant Seeks to Expand Beyond MDR Clients Into Firms With Mature In-House SOCs. BlueVoyant named John Hernandez – the former leader of Quest’s Microsoft security business – as its next CEO to drive an agentic AI SaaS platform that expands the vendor beyond managed services and helps customers accelerate detection, response and supply-chain risk management.…
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Google Update: Android Flaw Could Put Billions of Devices at Risk
Google patched an Android zero-click RCE flaw affecting multiple versions. Here’s what IT teams should know and how to reduce mobile risk. The post Google Update: Android Flaw Could Put Billions of Devices at Risk appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-android-zero-click-rce-patch/
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Google Update: Android Flaw Could Put Billions of Devices at Risk
Google patched an Android zero-click RCE flaw affecting multiple versions. Here’s what IT teams should know and how to reduce mobile risk. The post Google Update: Android Flaw Could Put Billions of Devices at Risk appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-android-zero-click-rce-patch/
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Google Update: Android Flaw Could Put Billions of Devices at Risk
Google patched an Android zero-click RCE flaw affecting multiple versions. Here’s what IT teams should know and how to reduce mobile risk. The post Google Update: Android Flaw Could Put Billions of Devices at Risk appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-android-zero-click-rce-patch/
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Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords in Process Memory, Posing Enterprise Risk
A proof-of-concept exploit (PoC) shows how someone with admin privileges can exploit the issue to steal passwords, and thus use them to engage in further malicious activity. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/microsoft-edge-passwords-enterprise-risk
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AI Adoption Outpaces Safety Policies, Leaving Organizations Exposed to Cyber Risk
ISACA report warns that while AI has become the norm, many organizations are yet to formally apply safety or security policies around its use First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-adoption-outpaces-safety-policy/
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CISOs step up to the security workforce challenge
Tags: ai, attack, automation, ciso, conference, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, jobs, malicious, risk, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, trainingGomez-Sanchez and Turpin are speaking at the CSO Cybersecurity Awards & Conference, May 11-13. Reserve your place. And then there’s AI. When it comes to security, AI may help partially offset cyber skills shortages by automating certain tasks, but it also ramps up cyberattack volumes and expands the organizational attack surface, without fixing CISOs’ ongoing talent…
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CSA: Take AI cyber threats to the boardroom
Current cyber risk assumptions may no longer be valid given the speed of advanced AI, warns the chief executive of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642800/CSA-Take-AI-cyber-threats-to-the-boardroom
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Qualcomm Chipset Vulnerabilities Raise Alarm Over Remote Code Execution Risk
Tags: cyber, exploit, Internet, open-source, remote-code-execution, risk, software, threat, vulnerabilityQualcomm Technologies has released its May 2026 security bulletin, addressing a sweeping array of vulnerabilities across its proprietary and open-source software ecosystems. Threat actors could exploit these security gaps to compromise smartphones, automotive systems, and industrial Internet of Things devices without requiring user interaction. The semiconductor giant is strongly urging original equipment manufacturers to deploy…
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Fake “Notepad++ for Mac” Site May Pose Malware Risk for Mac Users
A deceptive website is circulating online that claims to offer an official “Notepad++ for Mac” download, and it has already misled some users and even tech media outlets into believing that Notepad++ has finally launched a native macOS version. The site operates under the domain notepad-plus-plus-mac[.]org. It is branded to look like an official extension…
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pnpm 11 Enables Default Release-Age Guard to Curb npm Supply Chain Attacks
pnpm 11 has been released with a strong focus on reducing software supply chain risk, introducing security-first defaults that directly address modern package ecosystem threats. The most significant change in pnpm 11 is the introduction of a default Minimum Release Age of 24 hours (1440 minutes). This means newly published package versions are not eligible…
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One in four MCP servers opens AI agent security to code execution risk
Enterprise deployments of AI agents lean on two extension mechanisms that introduce risk at different layers of the stack. MCP servers expose deterministic code functions with … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/05/ai-agent-security-skills-blind-spots/
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Anthropic Mythos spurs White House to weigh pre-release reviews for high-risk AI models
Tags: access, ai, cybersecurity, exploit, framework, government, group, infrastructure, malicious, openai, risk, software, technology, update, vulnerabilityThe Mythos factor: The discussion follows Anthropic’s recent introduction of Mythos, a model the company has described as representing a watershed moment for cybersecurity.Anthropic has said Mythos Preview has found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser, and that AI models have reached a level of coding capability…
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US government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and data centers that rely on Linux. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/u-s-government-warns-of-severe-copyfail-bug-affecting-major-versions-of-linux/
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U.S. government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and datacenters that rely on Linux. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/u-s-government-warns-of-severe-copyfail-bug-affecting-major-versions-of-linux/
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Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner
Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/gartner_state_of_mainframes/
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Five Eyes Sound Alarm on Autonomous AI Security Risks
Guidance Warns Autonomous Systems Expand Enterprise Exposure. Federal and Five Eyes cyber agencies warn that agentic AI systems – capable of autonomous action across enterprise environments – are introducing identity, visibility and control risks that could outpace existing defenses without continuous monitoring, zero trust enforcement and human oversight. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Why Anthropic Draws Line Between Who Can Access Opus, Mythos
Smaller Cybersecurity Partners Get Opus 4.7 But Not Anthropic’s Highest-Risk Model. Anthropic’s Project Glasswing gives CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler privileged access to Claude Mythos Preview, while smaller cybersecurity partners such as SentinelOne and TrendAI can only integrate with Anthropic’s generally available Opus 4.7 model. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/anthropic-draws-line-between-who-access-opus-mythos-a-31588
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How Mythos Signals Cybersecurity Disruption
Tags: access, ai, attack, banking, browser, business, cybersecurity, data, exploit, finance, government, hacker, healthcare, infrastructure, microsoft, open-source, risk, software, technology, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-dayWhat is Mythos Mythos is Anthropic’s latest AI model, and it is stirring up a tornado of concern in cybersecurity circles. Even before its release, Mythos discovered thousands of new sensitive vulnerabilities in commercial and open-source software, including all major operating systems and web browsers. One was in existence for over 27 years without the industry…
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Canvas Breach May Put 275M Users, 9,000 Schools at Risk
Instructure confirms a Canvas breach involving user information and messages as hackers claim 275M users and nearly 9,000 schools were affected. The post Canvas Breach May Put 275M Users, 9,000 Schools at Risk appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-canvas-instructure-breach-275m-users/
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The Half of Agent Security You’re Not Governing
The governance of AI agents faces a fundamental asymmetry: while MCP servers provide structured logs, the “Skills” that drive agent reasoning remain forensic black holes. As high-risk capabilities”, such as arbitrary code execution and state changes”, become prevalent in nearly 60% of enterprise deployments, traditional models like the “Rule of Two” are failing to prevent…
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Web App Pentest by AutoSecT
Web applications run almost every business today. They handle logins, payments, user data, and daily operations. As usage grows, risk grows too. Hackers look for small gaps. Even a minor flaw can lead to a serious attack. This is why web app pentest is now a basic need. It helps you find weak points before……