Tag: risk
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No more orange juice? Why one ship reveals America’s maritime cybersecurity crisis
This is a workforce problem, not a vendor problem: The new regulations require all 3,000 MTSA facilities to designate a cybersecurity officer (why the Coast Guard named them CySOs and couldn’t just call them CISOs, I do not know). Finding hundreds of qualified people who understand both operational technology in maritime environments and cybersecurity is…
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Next Gen Awareness Training: KnowBe4 Unveils Custom Deepfake Training
In today’s world, it can be hard for awareness training to keep up with the modern threats that are constantly emerging. Today, KnowBe4 has announced a new custom deepfake training experience to counteract the risk of ‘deepfake’ attacks as they continue to rise. The experience, which is now available, aims to help employees defend against…
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A Browser Extension Risk Guide After the ShadyPanda Campaign
In early December 2025, security researchers exposed a cybercrime campaign that had quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions on a massive scale.A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda spent seven years playing the long game, publishing or acquiring harmless extensions, letting them run clean for years to build trust and gain millions of installs, then…
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Microsoft stellt neue Sicherheitsstrategie vor
Tags: ai, bug-bounty, cloud, cyberattack, governance, hacking, microsoft, open-source, phishing, RedTeam, risk, saas, service, strategy, tool, vulnerabilityMicrosoft hat angekündigt, dass sein Bug-Bounty-Programm ausgeweitet werden soll.Cyberangriffe beschränken sich heutzutage nicht auf bestimmte Unternehmen, Produkte oder Dienstleistungen sie finden dort statt, wo die Schwachstellen sind. Zudem werden die Attacken mit Hilfe von KI-Tools immer ausgefeilter. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat Microsoft seinen neuen Security-Ansatz ‘In Scope by Default” auf der Black Hat Europe angekündigt.Demnach…
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Microsoft stellt neue Sicherheitsstrategie vor
Tags: ai, bug-bounty, cloud, cyberattack, governance, hacking, microsoft, open-source, phishing, RedTeam, risk, saas, service, strategy, tool, vulnerabilityMicrosoft hat angekündigt, dass sein Bug-Bounty-Programm ausgeweitet werden soll.Cyberangriffe beschränken sich heutzutage nicht auf bestimmte Unternehmen, Produkte oder Dienstleistungen sie finden dort statt, wo die Schwachstellen sind. Zudem werden die Attacken mit Hilfe von KI-Tools immer ausgefeilter. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat Microsoft seinen neuen Security-Ansatz ‘In Scope by Default” auf der Black Hat Europe angekündigt.Demnach…
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Can Your AI Initiative Count on Your Data Strategy and Governance?
Launching an AI initiative without a robust data strategy and governance framework is a risk many organizations underestimate. Most AI projects often stall, deliver poor…Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/12/can-your-ai-initiative-count-on-your-data-strategy-and-governance/
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Identity Risk Is Now the Front Door to Enterprise Breaches (and How Digital Risk Protection Stops It Early)
Most enterprise breaches no longer begin with a firewall failure or a missed patch. They begin with an exposed identity. Credentials harvested from infostealers. Employee logins are sold on criminal forums. Executive personas impersonated to trigger wire fraud. Customer identities stitched together from scattered exposures. The modern breach path is identity-first, and that shift… First…
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Storm-0249: EDR Process Sideloading to Conceal Malicious Activity
Initial access broker Storm-0249 has evolved from a mass phishing operation into a sophisticated threat actor weaponizing legitimate Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) processes through sideloading techniques to conceal malicious activity as routine security operations. This represents a significant escalation in the group’s capabilities and poses a critical risk to organizations relying on traditional defense…
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Storm-0249: EDR Process Sideloading to Conceal Malicious Activity
Initial access broker Storm-0249 has evolved from a mass phishing operation into a sophisticated threat actor weaponizing legitimate Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) processes through sideloading techniques to conceal malicious activity as routine security operations. This represents a significant escalation in the group’s capabilities and poses a critical risk to organizations relying on traditional defense…
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CISA Alerts on Actively Exploited Google Chromium Zero-Day Flaw
Tags: access, browser, chrome, cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, google, infrastructure, risk, vulnerability, zero-dayThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert regarding a critical zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome that is being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw, tracked asCVE-2025-14174, poses a significant risk to millions of users across multiple web browsers. Vulnerability Details Security researchers discovered an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability within…
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Cybersecurity leaders’ top seven takeaways from 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, deep-fake, defense, detection, email, exploit, framework, governance, government, grc, identity, international, malicious, network, nist, phishing, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability2. AI forced companies to rethink their security strategies: At the same time, Abousselham notes how the rapid rollout of AI forced companies to shift their resources to keep pace with the change, while maintaining safe product releases. He calls 2025 the “chaotic introduction of agentic AI”.”I don’t think the industry was ready or expected…
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Cybersecurity leaders’ top seven takeaways from 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, deep-fake, defense, detection, email, exploit, framework, governance, government, grc, identity, international, malicious, network, nist, phishing, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability2. AI forced companies to rethink their security strategies: At the same time, Abousselham notes how the rapid rollout of AI forced companies to shift their resources to keep pace with the change, while maintaining safe product releases. He calls 2025 the “chaotic introduction of agentic AI”.”I don’t think the industry was ready or expected…
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Cohesity-Studie ‘Risk-Ready or Risk-Exposed: The Cyber Resilience Divide” – ‘Typisch deutsches” Abwarten spart oft Kosten
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/cyberresilienz-deutsche-zurueckhaltung-kosten-a-005374c3ca4f03f99215dedc4bea5acf/
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Manufacturing is becoming a test bed for ransomware shifts
Manufacturing leaders may feel that ransomware risk has settled, but new data shows the threat is shifting in ways that require attention, according to a Sophos report. A … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/15/sophos-manufacturing-ransomware-risks-report/
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NDSS 2025 RAIFLE: Reconstruction Attacks On Interaction-Based Federated Learning
Session 5C: Federated Learning 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Dzung Pham (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Shreyas Kulkarni (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst) PAPER RAIFLE: Reconstruction Attacks on Interaction-based Federated Learning with Adversarial Data Manipulation Federated learning has emerged as a promising privacy-preserving solution for machine learning domains that rely on…
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Cryptohack Roundup: Android Chips Hot Wallet Attack
Also: 700M Euro Fraud Busted, 2 Arrested in Crypto-Linked Killing Case. This week, Ledger flagged physical attack risks to Android hot wallets, a 700M euro fraud network was dismantled, a suspect in the $243M Genesis theft was reportedly detained and a member of a $263M crypto scam pleaded guilty. Two men arrested in a Vienna…
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OpenAI Enhances Defensive Models to Mitigate Cyber-Threats
OpenAI has reported a surge in performance as GPT-5.1-Codex-Max reaching 76% in capability assessments, and warned of upcoming cyber-risks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/openai-enhances-defensive-models/
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Grid-scale battery energy storage systems face heightened risk of cyberattack
Experts warn that state-linked threat groups are actively searching for ways to disrupt the industry amid growing power demand in the U.S. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/battery-energy-storage-systems-risk-cyberattack/807675/
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Cybersecurity isn’t underfunded, It’s undermanaged
Tags: business, ciso, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, governance, jobs, network, resilience, risk, strategyThe first 100 days: Where trust is won or lost: Quite a lot of that disconnect is effectively built up in the first 100 days of the CISO.Many CISOs come into a new job with pre-conceived views, sometimes created at interview time: Things that have worked elsewhere, pet subjects, vendors or consultants.Many also feel that…
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Kyndryl Aims New Quantum Safe Assessment At Future Security Risks
Kyndryl’s Quantum Safe Assessment service aims to help businesses understand their vulnerabilities as quantum computers start to be used in security attacks. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/kyndryl-aims-new-quantum-safe-assessment-at-future-security-risks-from-quantum-computing
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Kyndryl Aims New Quantum Safe Assessment At Future Security Risks
Kyndryl’s Quantum Safe Assessment service aims to help businesses understand their vulnerabilities as quantum computers start to be used in security attacks. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2025/kyndryl-aims-new-quantum-safe-assessment-at-future-security-risks-from-quantum-computing
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96 Prozent der Unternehmen haben im KI-Zeitalter Schwierigkeiten bei der Absicherung des menschlichen Faktors
Der Bericht ‘State of Human Risk 2025″ von KnowBe4 zeigt einen Anstieg sowohl bei sicherheitsrelevanten Vorfällen durch Menschen als auch bei Verstößen im Zusammenhang mit KI-Anwendungen. Für die internationale Studie, die auch Daten aus dem DACH-Raum enthält, wurden 700 Cybersicherheits-Vverantwortliche und 3.500 Mitarbeiter von Unternehmen befragt, die im vergangenen Jahr einen Sicherheitsvorfall mit Mitarbeitern erlebt…
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Microsoft Copilot Studio Security Risk: How Simple Prompt Injection Leaked Credit Cards and Booked a $0 Trip
The no-code power of Microsoft Copilot Studio introduces a new attack surface. Tenable AI Research demonstrates how a simple prompt injection attack of an AI agent bypasses security controls, leading to data leakage and financial fraud. We provide five best practices to secure your AI agents. Key takeaways: The no-code interface available in Microsoft Copilot…
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Microsoft Copilot Studio Security Risk: How Simple Prompt Injection Leaked Credit Cards and Booked a $0 Trip
The no-code power of Microsoft Copilot Studio introduces a new attack surface. Tenable AI Research demonstrates how a simple prompt injection attack of an AI agent bypasses security controls, leading to data leakage and financial fraud. We provide five best practices to secure your AI agents. Key takeaways: The no-code interface available in Microsoft Copilot…
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Empowering Security and Control: Thales CipherTrust Cloud Key Management Integrates with Oracle Fusion Cloud Services
Tags: access, ai, automation, best-practice, business, cloud, compliance, computing, container, control, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, GDPR, governance, government, guide, healthcare, HIPAA, intelligence, network, oracle, PCI, resilience, risk, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, tool, zero-trustEmpowering Security and Control: Thales CipherTrust Cloud Key Management Integrates with Oracle Fusion Cloud Services madhav Thu, 12/11/2025 – 06:50 In a landscape where the safeguarding of sensitive information is paramount, the collaboration between Thales and Oracle Fusion Cloud Services helps create operational independence, data sovereignty, and uncompromising control for organizations worldwide. At Thales, our…
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Empowering Security and Control: Thales CipherTrust Cloud Key Management Integrates with Oracle Fusion Cloud Services
Tags: access, ai, automation, best-practice, business, cloud, compliance, computing, container, control, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, GDPR, governance, government, guide, healthcare, HIPAA, intelligence, network, oracle, PCI, resilience, risk, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, tool, zero-trustEmpowering Security and Control: Thales CipherTrust Cloud Key Management Integrates with Oracle Fusion Cloud Services madhav Thu, 12/11/2025 – 06:50 In a landscape where the safeguarding of sensitive information is paramount, the collaboration between Thales and Oracle Fusion Cloud Services helps create operational independence, data sovereignty, and uncompromising control for organizations worldwide. At Thales, our…
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Microsoft’s December Security Update of High-Risk Vulnerability Notice for Multiple Products
Overview On December 10, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the December Security Update patch, which fixed 57 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, Azure, etc., including high-risk vulnerability types such as privilege escalation and remote code execution. Among the vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft’s monthly update this…The…
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Microsoft’s December Security Update of High-Risk Vulnerability Notice for Multiple Products
Overview On December 10, NSFOCUS CERT detected that Microsoft released the December Security Update patch, which fixed 57 security issues involving widely used products such as Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, Azure, etc., including high-risk vulnerability types such as privilege escalation and remote code execution. Among the vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft’s monthly update this…The…