Tag: risk
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Intruder Expands ‘Intel’ Vulnerability Intelligence Platform with AI-Generated CVE Descriptions
Intel by Intruder now uses AI to contextualize NVD descriptions, helping security teams assess risk faster. Intruder, a leader in attack surface management, has launched AI-generated descriptions for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) within its free vulnerability intelligence platform, Intel. This new feature enhances cybersecurity professionals’ ability to quickly understand and assess vulnerabilities, addressing a…
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Fake-News und Desinformationskampagnen bedrohen die Demokratie
Am 23. Februar findet die Wahl zum 21. Deutschen Bundestag statt. Grund genug für Dr. Sebastian Schmerl, Vice President Security Services EMEA bei Arctic Wolf, die Risiken zu betrachten und zu bewerten, die durch die Verbreitung von Fake-News und Desinformation drohen und somit unsere Demokratie destabilisieren können. Freie und unabhängige Wahlen sind die Basis einer…
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Immer mehr Ransomware-Bedrohungen in SaaS-Umgebungen
Ransomware ist und bleibt eines der höchsten Risiken für Unternehmen. Laut Aussagen von Security-Experten sind knapp 60 Prozent der Unternehmen Opfer eines Ransomware-Angriffs Tendenz steigend. Nach Angaben von Microsoft haben Cyber-Bedrohungen, die es auf SaaS-Umgebungen abgesehen haben, stark zugenommen. Demnach wurden 7.000 Passwort-Angriffe pro Sekunde blockiert (allein in Entra ID) und Phishing-Attacken sind um 58 […]…
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XCSSET macOS malware reappears with new attack strategies, Microsoft sounds alarm
Xcode developers targeted through infected projects: Microsoft reported that XCSSET continues to spread via compromised Xcode projects, a technique that has been in use since the malware’s discovery in 2020. Once an infected project is cloned or downloaded, the malware can embed itself within the developer’s system and further propagate when the infected code is…
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How CISOs can rebuild trust after a security incident
Tags: attack, breach, business, cisco, ciso, cloud, communications, cybersecurity, data, firewall, group, incident response, jobs, linux, mobile, monitoring, risk, security-incident, service, software, strategy, vulnerabilityMaintaining sensitivity in accountability: Cisco’s Lidz emphasizes that transparency does not end at incident resolution.”Being transparent, internally in particular, by making sure stakeholders understand you and your team have learned from the incident, that there are things you would do better not just in terms of protections, but how you respond and react to incidents”…
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Black-Hat SEO Poisioning Attacks Exploit Indian Government and Financial Websites
A sophisticated black-hat SEO poisoning campaign has compromised over 150 Indian government websites and financial institutions, redirecting millions of users to fraudulent gambling platforms promoting rummy and high-risk “investment” games. The operation, exploits vulnerabilities in government portals (.gov.in) and educational domains (.ac.in), leveraging search engine manipulation to siphon users toward scam websites. Exploiting Trusted Domains…
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Password managers under increasing threat as infostealers triple and adapt
Tags: access, attack, authentication, automation, breach, ceo, cloud, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, defense, email, encryption, exploit, finance, hacker, identity, intelligence, least-privilege, login, malicious, malware, mfa, password, phishing, ransomware, risk, service, switch, tactics, theft, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustMalware-as-a-service infostealers: For example, RedLine Stealer is specifically designed to target and steal sensitive information, including credentials stored in web browsers and other applications. It is often distributed through phishing emails or by tricking prospective marks into visiting booby-trapped websites laced with malicious downloaders.Another threat comes from Lumma stealer, offered for sale as a malware-as-a-service,…
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Sorglosigkeit beenden und massiv in Cybersicherheit investieren
Wie wir uns vor digitalen Bedrohungen aus dem Cyberraum besser schützen können. Durch die zunehmende Digitalisierung und Vernetzung gewinnt Cybersicherheit immer mehr an Bedeutung. Gleichzeitig nehmen die Risiken durch Cyberangriffe dramatisch zu. Insbesondere der Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine hat die Lage in den vergangen drei Jahren wesentlich verschärft. Auf der 11. Munich Cyber… First…
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The risks of autonomous AI in machinemachine interactions
In this Help Net Security, Oded Hareven, CEO of Akeyless Security, discusses how enterprises should adapt their cybersecurity strategies to address the growing need for … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/02/18/oded-hareven-akeyless-security-machine-to-machine-m2m-security/
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ChatGPT Operator Prompt Injection Exploit Leaks Private Data
According to recent findings by cybersecurity researcher Johann Rehberger, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Operator, an experimental agent designed to automate web-based tasks, faces critical security risks from prompt injection attacks that could expose users’ private data. In a demonstration shared exclusively with OpenAI last month, Rehberger showcased how malicious actors could hijack the AI agent to extract…
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Cybersecurity as a Business Imperative: Embracing a Risk Management Approach
Cybersecurity is much more than just a technical challenge. It’s now a critical business imperative that requires a strategic risk management approach. By integrating cybersecurity into broader risk management frameworks, you can proactively address threats, improve resilience, and align your security efforts with your core business objectives. Shifting your organization’s collective mindset around this concept…
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Best Policy Templates for Compliance: Essential Documents for Regulatory Success
Policy management is the sturdy scaffolding that supports governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) objectives while shaping corporate culture and ensuring adherence to regulatory obligations. Yet, many organizations struggle with a disjointed approach”, policies scattered across departments, processes misaligned, and technology underutilized. Why Policy Management Maturity Matters Organizations with disconnected policies end up with fragments of…
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Cyber Security GRC and Quantifying ROI – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/cyber-security-grc-and-quantifying-roi-kovrr/
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Nico Lange: ‘Cybersicherheit ist eine Frage der Verteidigung”
Tags: ai, china, conference, cyberattack, cybercrime, cyersecurity, germany, governance, government, infrastructure, iran, north-korea, risk, ukraine, usaMunich Security Conference Live Studio powered by APCO in Munich, Germany on February 15, 2025. (Photo by Christopher Pike / christopherpike.com) APCO.Welches sind laut dem Münchner Sicherheitsindex die größten Risiken für Europa im Jahr 2025?Nun, ich denke, das größte Risiko besteht in der sogenannten Multipolarisierung. Europa wird Schwierigkeiten haben, sein Geschäftsmodell fortzuführen, das auf den…
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IDOR Vulnerability in ExHub Allows Attackers to Alter Hosting Configurations
A security researcher recently uncovered a high-risk Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability in ExHub, a cloud hosting and collaboration platform used by over 2 million developers. The flaw enabled attackers to manipulate web hosting configurations for any project hosted on the platform without authorization, potentially disrupting critical services or enabling further exploits. The discovery…
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How to evaluate and mitigate risks to the global supply chain
Tags: access, business, ceo, ciso, communications, compliance, control, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, framework, governance, government, intelligence, international, ISO-27001, kaspersky, microsoft, mitigation, monitoring, office, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, russia, service, soc, software, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityMaintain a diversified supply chain: Organizations that source from international technology suppliers need to ensure they are not overly reliant on a single vendor, single region or even a single technology. Maintaining a diversified supply chain can mitigate costly disruptions from a cyberattack or vulnerability involving a key supplier, or from disruptions tied to regulatory…
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IT-Systeme sichern und Risiken managen – Was NIS2 für Internetknoten und ihre Kunden bedeutet
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/nis2-richtlinie-digitale-wirtschaft-europa-a-7d8a36c03cee1d5856d1f836a8a9d8bf/
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Ransomware-Bedrohungen vervierfachen sich in einem Jahr voller komplexer Cyberbedrohungen
Die jährliche Auswertung zu XDR-Erkennungs- und Vorfalldaten von Barracuda Networks zeigt: Ransomware-Bedrohungen haben sich im Jahr 2024 vervierfacht [1]. Der Anstieg ist wahrscheinlich auf zahlreiche Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS)-Aktivitäten zurückzuführen. E-Mail-Bedrohungen, die es bis in die E-Mail-Posteingänge der Nutzer schafften, waren auf Platz fünf der am häufigsten erkannten Bedrohungen. Das verdeutlicht das wachsende Risiko ausgefeilter und ausweichender……
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Software Bill of Material umsetzen: Die besten SBOM-Tools
Tags: api, business, compliance, container, cyberattack, data, docker, gartner, github, gitlab, healthcare, linux, monitoring, open-source, risk, saas, sbom, service, software, tool, update, vulnerabilityNur wenn Sie wissen, was drinsteckt, können Sie sich sicher sein, dass alles mit rechten Dingen zugeht. Das gilt für Fast Food wie für Software. Um Software abzusichern, muss man wissen, was in ihrem Code steckt. Aus diesem Grund ist eine Software Bill of Material, SBOM oder Software-Stückliste heute unerlässlich. Der SolarWinds-Angriff sowie die Log4j-Schwachstelle…
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The Hidden Cybersecurity Crisis: How GenAI is Fueling the Growth of Unchecked Non-Human Identities
Proper GenAI governance will control and manage the risks associated with NHI growth, bringing equilibrium and balance between security and AI innovation to IT ecosystems. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/the-hidden-cybersecurity-crisis-how-genai-is-fueling-the-growth-of-unchecked-non-human-identities/
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Swipe Left on Scams: Cyber Experts Expose Valentine’s Day Fraudsters
This week marks Valentine’s Day 2025! As the popularity of this romantic occasion has grown, so too have the cyber risks associated with dating, gift-giving, and online transactions. We have gathered insights from cybersecurity experts who share their thoughts on Valentine’s Day scams”, from the threats facing love-struck consumers to the best practices for staying…
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CISO success story: How LA County trains (and retrains) workers to fight phishing
Tags: ai, awareness, breach, business, chatgpt, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, computing, control, corporate, cybersecurity, data, dos, election, email, endpoint, government, hacker, healthcare, incident response, jobs, law, lessons-learned, malicious, marketplace, network, phishing, privacy, regulation, risk, risk-management, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability(The following interview has been edited for clarity and length.)At first glance, LA County’s reporting structure who reports to whom seems, well, fairly complex.We have a federated model: I report to the county CIO. Each department acts as an independent business and has its own department CIO and information security officer. Their job is to…
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Police risk losing society’s trust in fight against cybercrime, warns Europol chief
Catherine De Bolle, the chief of Europol, said at the Munich Cyber Security Conference that societies must understand why law enforcement agencies need new powers to fight increasingly sophisticated cybercrime operations. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/eurpol-chief-cybercrime-law-enforcement-powers-society-trust
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SonicWall firewalls now under attack: Patch ASAP or risk intrusion via your SSL VPN
Roses are red, violets are blue, CVE-2024-53704 is sweet for a ransomware crew First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/sonicwall_firewalls_under_attack_patch/
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Cloud security report shows growing remediation gap amid increased risk awareness
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/cloud-security-report-shows-growing-remediation-gap-amid-increased-risk-awareness
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Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaw risks authentication bypass
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/palo-alto-networks-pan-os-flaw-risks-authentication-bypass
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SailPoint’s Public Return Highlights SaaS Growth Strategy
President Matt Mills Shares M&A Vision, Machine Identity Security, Market Expansion. SailPoint returns to the public markets, and President Matt Mills discusses the company’s SaaS evolution and market expansion plans. He outlines how proceeds from the IPO will be used and highlights new tools for managing the growing risk from unmanaged machine identities. First seen…