Tag: sans
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US NSA alleged to have launched a cyber attack on a Chinese agency
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, china, ciso, cloud, communications, control, country, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, finance, hacker, infrastructure, international, login, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, RedTeam, resilience, sans, service, spy, supply-chain, technology“NSA does not confirm nor deny allegations in the media regarding its operations. Our core focus is countering foreign malign activities persistently targeting American interests, and we will continue to defend against adversaries wishing to threaten us.”The Chinese post says the country “shattered the US cyber attack plot of stealing secrets and infiltration and sabotage,…
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US NSA alleged to have launched a cyber attack on a Chinese agency
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, china, ciso, cloud, communications, control, country, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, finance, hacker, infrastructure, international, login, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, RedTeam, resilience, sans, service, spy, supply-chain, technology“NSA does not confirm nor deny allegations in the media regarding its operations. Our core focus is countering foreign malign activities persistently targeting American interests, and we will continue to defend against adversaries wishing to threaten us.”The Chinese post says the country “shattered the US cyber attack plot of stealing secrets and infiltration and sabotage,…
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Threat actors are spreading malicious extensions via VS marketplaces
What are VS extensions: Extensions and themes can be added to Visual Studio code to make life easier for developers, as well as to enhance functionality. An extension can add features like debuggers, new languages, or other development tools, while a theme is a type of extension that changes the appearance of the editor, controlling things like colors…
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Threat actors are spreading malicious extensions via VS marketplaces
What are VS extensions: Extensions and themes can be added to Visual Studio code to make life easier for developers, as well as to enhance functionality. An extension can add features like debuggers, new languages, or other development tools, while a theme is a type of extension that changes the appearance of the editor, controlling things like colors…
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Source code and vulnerability info stolen from F5 Networks
Tags: access, apt, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, ceo, ciso, control, credentials, crowdstrike, cybercrime, data, data-breach, detection, edr, endpoint, exploit, group, guide, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, mitigation, monitoring, network, programming, risk, sans, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityF5 mitigations: IT and security leaders should make sure F5 servers, software, and clients have the latest patches. In addition, F5 has added automated hardening checks to the F5 iHealth Diagnostics Tool, and also suggests admins refer to its threat hunting guide to strengthen monitoring, and its best practices guides for hardening F5 systems.As a…
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Source code and vulnerability info stolen from F5 Networks
Tags: access, apt, attack, automation, best-practice, breach, ceo, ciso, control, credentials, crowdstrike, cybercrime, data, data-breach, detection, edr, endpoint, exploit, group, guide, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, mitigation, monitoring, network, programming, risk, sans, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityF5 mitigations: IT and security leaders should make sure F5 servers, software, and clients have the latest patches. In addition, F5 has added automated hardening checks to the F5 iHealth Diagnostics Tool, and also suggests admins refer to its threat hunting guide to strengthen monitoring, and its best practices guides for hardening F5 systems.As a…
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Sans 2025 SOC Survey – 42 Prozent der SOCs sind ohne Daten-Strategie
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/effektive-strategien-fuer-verwaltung-analyse-von-soc-daten-fehlen-a-d543f6b159491ca9fed0c649ce401a45/
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SANS veröffentlicht das Toolkit -Secure the Generations-
Tags: sansDas Toolkit enthält individuelle Informationsblätter, die auf Kinder, Jugendliche, die Generation X/Millennials und Senioren zugeschnitten sind, ein Cheatsheet-Poster und ein Quiz zum Thema digitale Sicherheit. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/sans-veroeffentlicht-das-toolkit-secure-the-generations/a42242/
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Hackers Actively Probe Palo Alto PAN-OS GlobalProtect Vulnerability for Exploitation
An uptick in internet-wide scanning activity indicates that threat actors are actively probing for systems vulnerable toCVE-2024-3400, a critical GlobalProtect flaw in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS. Security researchers at SANS ISC observed a single source IP address 141.98.82.26, systematically targeting the GlobalProtect portal’s file-upload endpoint in an attempt to place and retrieve session files on…
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Webinar: The BAS Summit 2025: Redefining Attack Simulation through AI
Join Picus Security, SANS, Hacker Valley, and leading CISOs at The BAS Summit 2025 to learn how AI is redefining Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) and why it’s becoming the … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/30/webinar-picus-security-the-state-of-bas-2025/
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Meet ShadowLeak: ‘Impossible to detect’ data theft using AI
Tags: ai, attack, business, ciso, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, email, exploit, gartner, governance, injection, LLM, malicious, RedTeam, resilience, risk, sans, service, sql, supply-chain, technology, theft, tool, update, vulnerabilityWhat CSOs should do: To blunt this kind of attack, he said CSOs should:treat AI agents as privileged actors: apply the same governance used for a human with internal resource access;separate ‘read’ from ‘act’ scopes and service accounts, and where possible sanitize inputs before LLM (large language model) ingestion. Strip/neutralize hidden HTML, flatten to safe…
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AI is altering entry-level cyber hiring, and the nature of the skills gap
The certification trap and broken pipelines: Other experts argued that an over reliance on CVs and certifications is one of the biggest barriers to hiring success in cybersecurity because it acts to shut out otherwise qualified candidates.”Despite bringing valuable experience and perspectives, people with 10 years of work experience are put off because there is…
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Warning: Hackers have inserted credential-stealing code into some npm libraries
Tags: api, attack, authentication, ciso, cloud, credentials, github, google, hacker, Hardware, incident response, malware, mfa, monitoring, open-source, phishing, sans, software, supply-chain, threatMore than 40 packages affected: One of the researchers who found and flagged the hack Monday was French developer François Best, and it was also described in blogs from StepSecurity, Socket, ReversingLabs and Ox Security. These blogs contain a full list of compromised packages and indicators of compromise.Researchers at Israel-based Ox Security said there was a…
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CISOs brace for a new kind of AI chaos
AI is being added to business processes faster than it is being secured, creating a wide gap that attackers are already exploiting, according to the SANS Institute. The scale … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/12/sans-ai-security-blueprint/
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CISOs brace for a new kind of AI chaos
AI is being added to business processes faster than it is being secured, creating a wide gap that attackers are already exploiting, according to the SANS Institute. The scale … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/12/sans-ai-security-blueprint/
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SANS Institute unterstützt mit AI-Blueprints die Einführung von KI
Der AI Blueprint bietet Führungskräften strukturierte Leitlinien zur Abstimmung von Sicherheit, Betrieb und Compliance bei der Einführung von KI in Unternehmen First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/sans-institute-unterstuetzt-mit-ai-blueprints-die-einfuehrung-von-ki/a41973/
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Expert Advice for Securing Critical Infrastructure’s OT and Industrial Control Systems, IoT Devices and Network Infrastructure
Tags: access, advisory, apt, attack, authentication, breach, china, cisa, cisco, cloud, compliance, computer, computing, control, credentials, cryptography, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, espionage, exploit, firmware, framework, google, government, guide, hacker, Hardware, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iot, login, mfa, military, mitigation, monitoring, network, nist, organized, password, phishing, ransomware, regulation, risk, russia, sans, service, software, technology, theft, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-trustDestructive cyber attacks against critical infrastructure have unfortunately become increasingly frequent. Just last week, multinational government agencies blared the alarm about a global cyber espionage campaign targeting critical infrastructure networks. With this type of cyber threat in the spotlight, we’re rounding up recent cyber advice for securing critical infrastructure. In case you missed it, here…
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Hacker nutzen gravierende Schwachstelle bei SAP S/4HANA aus
Tags: access, authentication, bug, ciso, cloud, cve, cvss, cyberattack, exploit, flaw, germany, hacker, injection, monitoring, password, reverse-engineering, sans, sap, service, update, vulnerabilityEin Exploit für die Schwachstelle wurde bereits in freier Wildbahn beobachtet.Vergangenen Monat hat SAP einen Patch für S/4HANA herausgebracht, der die gewaltige Schwachstelle CVE-2025-42957 mit einem CVSS-Score von 9,9 beheben soll. Der nun aufgetauchte Exploit ermöglicht es einem User mit geringen Berechtigungen, mittels Code-Injection in der SAP-Programmiersprache ABAP die vollständige Kontrolle über ein S/4HANA-System zu…
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Hacker nutzen gravierende Schwachstelle bei SAP S/4HANA aus
Tags: access, authentication, bug, ciso, cloud, cve, cvss, cyberattack, exploit, flaw, germany, hacker, injection, monitoring, password, reverse-engineering, sans, sap, service, update, vulnerabilityEin Exploit für die Schwachstelle wurde bereits in freier Wildbahn beobachtet.Vergangenen Monat hat SAP einen Patch für S/4HANA herausgebracht, der die gewaltige Schwachstelle CVE-2025-42957 mit einem CVSS-Score von 9,9 beheben soll. Der nun aufgetauchte Exploit ermöglicht es einem User mit geringen Berechtigungen, mittels Code-Injection in der SAP-Programmiersprache ABAP die vollständige Kontrolle über ein S/4HANA-System zu…
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Alert: Exploit available to threat actors for SAP S/4HANA critical vulnerability
Tags: access, attack, authentication, business, ciso, credentials, data, exploit, malicious, monitoring, password, programming, sans, sap, service, threat, vulnerability, zero-daydelete and insert data directly in the SAP Database;creating SAP users with SAP_ALL; download password hashes; modify business processes.”Historically, it has been difficult to apply patches to these complex systems, and many organizations will require careful (and slow) testing before the patches are deployed in production,” Johannes Ullrich, dean of research at the SANS Institute, told CSO.”ERP…
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SANS SOC-Umfrage 2025 zeigt Lücken bei Datenstrategie und Tool-Einsatz
Die Umfrage bewertet SOCs nach ihren Fähigkeiten, ihrer Architektur, der Personalausstattung sowie danach, ob diese intern oder extern abgedeckt werden. Für Sicherheitsverantwortliche bietet der Bericht damit wertvolle Einblicke: Wie bauen andere ihr SOC auf? Wo stehen wir im Vergleich? Und welche Stellschrauben haben wir selbst in der Hand? First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article:…
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KI als Cybercrime-Copilot
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyberattack, cybercrime, dns, group, injection, intelligence, malware, openai, ransomware, RedTeam, sans, strategy, threat, toolDas KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude Code hat einem Cyberkriminellen dabei geholfen, in Netzwerke einzudringen.CISOs und Sicherheitsentscheider rechnen schon seit längerem damit, dass Cyberangriffe nicht mehr von Menschen mit KI-Tools, sondern von KI-Systemen selbst ausgehen. Diese Befürchtung hat sich nun mit neuen Forschungserkenntnissen bestätigt. So offenbart Anthropics aktueller Threat Intelligence Report , dass das KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude…
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KI als Cybercrime-Copilot
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyberattack, cybercrime, dns, group, injection, intelligence, malware, openai, ransomware, RedTeam, sans, strategy, threat, toolDas KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude Code hat einem Cyberkriminellen dabei geholfen, in Netzwerke einzudringen.CISOs und Sicherheitsentscheider rechnen schon seit längerem damit, dass Cyberangriffe nicht mehr von Menschen mit KI-Tools, sondern von KI-Systemen selbst ausgehen. Diese Befürchtung hat sich nun mit neuen Forschungserkenntnissen bestätigt. So offenbart Anthropics aktueller Threat Intelligence Report , dass das KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude…
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KI greift erstmals autonom an
Tags: ai, business, ciso, cyberattack, cybercrime, dns, group, injection, intelligence, malware, openai, ransomware, RedTeam, sans, strategy, threat, toolDas KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude Code hat einem Cyberkriminellen dabei geholfen, in Netzwerke einzudringen.CISOs und Sicherheitsentscheider rechnen schon seit längerem damit, dass Cyberangriffe nicht mehr von Menschen mit KI-Tools, sondern von KI-Systemen selbst ausgehen. Diese Befürchtung hat sich nun mit neuen Forschungserkenntnissen bestätigt. So offenbart Anthropics aktueller Threat Intelligence Report , dass das KI-gestützte Entwickler-Tool Claude…