Tag: service
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AuthZed Adds Self-Service Cloud for Infrastructure Authorization
AuthZed today unfurled a self-service edition of its platform for managing infrastructure authorizations that can be deployed in a cloud computing environment. Company CEO Jake Moshenko said this AuthZed Cloud option will make it simpler for some organizations to comply with various data sovereignty requirements that may require them to deploy an edition of AuthZed..…
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DOJ takes action against 22-year-old running RapperBot Botnet
DOJ charges 22-year-old Ethan Foltz of Oregon for running RapperBot, a DDoS botnet behind 370K+ attacks in 80+ countries since 2021. The U.S. DOJ charged 22-year-old Ethan Foltz of Oregon for running the RapperBot botnet, used in over 370,000 DDoS-for-hire attacks since 2021. The criminal service is active in over 80 countries, RapperBot enabled large-scale…
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Feds Seize Powerful DDoSHire Service ‘Rapper Botnet’
22-Year-Old Oregon Man Charged With Selling DDoS Attacks Using Mirai Variant. Federal prosecutors have charged Oregon man Ethan Foltz, 22, with administering an on-demand service for disrupting websites called Rapper Bot. Resulting distributed-denial-of-service attacks disrupted DeepSeek and X, as well as the U.S. Department of Defense, which is leading the investigation. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Threat Actors Exploit GenAI Platforms to Craft Sophisticated and Realistic Phishing Attacks
The proliferation of generative AI (GenAI) platforms has revolutionized web-based services, enabling rapid code assistance, natural language processing, chatbot deployment, and automated site construction. However, telemetry data reveals a concerning evolution in the GenAI ecosystem, where threat actors are increasingly exploiting these tools to orchestrate advanced phishing campaigns. By leveraging AI-driven capabilities, adversaries can generate…
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Hackers steal Microsoft logins using legitimate ADFS redirects
Hackers are using a novel technique that combines legitimate office.com links with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to redirect users to a phishing page that steals Microsoft 365 logins. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-steal-microsoft-logins-using-legitimate-adfs-redirects/
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Feds charge alleged administrator of ‘sophisticated’ Rapper Bot botnet
A 22-year-old Oregon man has been charged with running a powerful botnet-for-hire service used to launch hundreds of thousands of cyberattacks worldwide, the U.S. Justice Department said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/feds-charge-botnet-admin
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Lenovo-Chatbot Lena Kritische XSS-Schwachstellen offenbaren fatale Sicherheitslücken in KI-Implementierungen
Lenovo wollte mit seinem KI-Chatbot Lena eigentlich den Kundenservice modernisieren. Stattdessen öffnete die digitale Assistentin ein Einfallstor für Angriffe, die bis hin zum Diebstahl sensibler Daten und der Kompromittierung interner Systeme reichen konnten. Cybernews-Forscher entdeckten gleich mehrere kritische XSS-Schwachstellen, die ein erschreckendes Licht auf den Umgang mit Sicherheit in KI-gestützten Services werfen. Ein einziger Prompt…
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Forscher entdeckt offenen Zugang zu Intel-Mitarbeiterdaten
Einem Sicherheitsforscher ist es gelungen, auf sensible Daten von Intel zu zugreifen.Der Sicherheitsforscher Eaton Zveare meldete kürzlich, dass mindestens vier interne Websysteme des Chip-Herstellers Intel nicht ausreichend abgesichert waren. Dem Experten zufolge ermöglichten mehrere Schwachstellen, das weltweite Mitarbeiterverzeichnis zu kopieren. In manchen Fällen konnten sogar Zugriffe über Admin-Rechte erlangt werden.Das erste von Zveare entdeckte Sicherheitsproblem…
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How Passwordless Authentication Can Fortify Your Payment Integration Services
Discover how passwordless authentication enhances payment integration security, reduces fraud risks, and improves customer experience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/how-passwordless-authentication-can-fortify-your-payment-integration-services/
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New Salty 2FA PhaaS Platform Targets Microsoft 365 Users to Steal Login Credentials
The majority of events globally are caused by phishing, which continues to be the most common vector for cyberattacks in the constantly changing world of cyber threats. The proliferation of affordable Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms such as Tycoon2FA, EvilProxy, and Sneaky2FA has exacerbated this issue, enabling even novice attackers to deploy sophisticated campaigns. These services are…
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Microsoft Teams “Couldn’t Connect” Issue After Sidebar Update Gets a Fix
Microsoft is actively rolling out a solution to address a widespread service disruption affecting Teams users globally, where the application displays a >>couldn’t connect to this app
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DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks
A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet called RapperBot.Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon, has been identified as the administrator of the service, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. The botnet has been used to carry out large-scale DDoS-for-hire attacks…
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Why CISOs in business services must close the edge security gap
Cloud adoption is speeding ahead in the business services sector, but security for remote and edge environments is falling behind. At the same time, generative AI is moving … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/20/genai-business-services-network-security/
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Understand Identity Verification Services
Ensuring that users are who they claim to be is more important than ever. Identity verification services play a crucial role in preventing fraud, enhancing secu First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/understand-identity-verification-services/
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Speed cameras knocked out after cyber attack
A hack of the Netherlands’ Public Prosecution Service has had an unusual side effect – causing some speed cameras to be no longer capturing evidence of motorists breaking the rules of the road. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/speed-cameras-knocked-out-after-cyber-attack
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Cyberangriff auf Colt: Support-Systeme nach Lösegelddrohung offline
Tags: access, api, china, cve, cyberattack, exploit, extortion, hacker, infrastructure, mail, microsoft, ransomware, rce, remote-code-execution, service, technology, update, vulnerabilityDer TK-Konzern Colt kämpft seit einer Woche mit den Folgen einer Ransomware-Attacke.Colt Technology Services, ein britischer Telekommunikationskonzern, der 900 Rechenzentren in Europa, Asien und Nordamerika miteinander verbindet, wurde am 12. August 2025 Opfer eines Cyberangriffs.Der Fall wurde zunächst als ‘technisches Problem” bezeichnet. Inzwischen hat das Unternehmen jedoch den Angriff bestätigt und seine interne Support-Systeme, darunter…
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Cyberangriff auf Colt: Support-Systeme nach Lösegelddrohung offline
Tags: access, api, china, cve, cyberattack, exploit, extortion, hacker, infrastructure, mail, microsoft, ransomware, rce, remote-code-execution, service, technology, update, vulnerabilityDer TK-Konzern Colt kämpft seit einer Woche mit den Folgen einer Ransomware-Attacke.Colt Technology Services, ein britischer Telekommunikationskonzern, der 900 Rechenzentren in Europa, Asien und Nordamerika miteinander verbindet, wurde am 12. August 2025 Opfer eines Cyberangriffs.Der Fall wurde zunächst als ‘technisches Problem” bezeichnet. Inzwischen hat das Unternehmen jedoch den Angriff bestätigt und seine interne Support-Systeme, darunter…
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Flaw in Too-Trusting Lenovo Chatbot Could Have Let Hackers In
Using a single, carefully-crafted prompt, Cybernews researchers were able to manipulate Lenovo’s customer service AI chatbot, Lena, into giving up customer agent session cookies, which opened up the possibility of multiple lines of attack, from dropping backdoors and stealing to laterally moving through corporate networks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/flaw-in-too-trusting-lenovo-chatbot-could-have-let-hackers-in/
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US says UK has agreed to drop encryption ‘back door’ demands against Apple
US and UK end diplomatic row over UK encryption ‘back door’ order against Apple, but it remains unclear whether Apple will restore advance encryption services to UK users First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366629434/US-says-UK-has-agreed-to-drop-encryption-back-door-demands-against-Apple
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Cooking with Code: A DevOps Kitchen Secured by Thales
Tags: access, ai, api, cctv, cloud, compliance, control, data, encryption, GDPR, identity, infrastructure, injection, least-privilege, malicious, mfa, military, monitoring, PCI, service, software, strategy, tool, waf, zero-day, zero-trustCooking with Code: A DevOps Kitchen Secured by Thales madhav Tue, 08/19/2025 – 05:13 In today’s hyperconnected digital world, deploying applications is a lot like running a high-performance, Michelin-star kitchen. You need the right setup, a disciplined process, and seamless coordination, where every tool, role, and task moves in harmony, executed flawlessly. Speed and precision…
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7 signs it’s time for a managed security service provider
Tags: access, best-practice, breach, business, ciso, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, edr, incident, incident response, intelligence, mitigation, monitoring, mssp, ransomware, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management2. Your security team is wasting time addressing and evaluating alerts: When your SOC team is ignoring 300 daily alerts and manually triaging what should be automated, that’s your cue to consider an MSSP, says Toby Basalla, founder and principal data consultant at data consulting firm Synthelize.When confusion reigns, who in the SOC team knows…
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Microsoft Entra Private Access brings conditional access to on-prem Active Directory
Susan Bradley / CSOThe deepest level of auditing, including workgroup and domain authentication attempts that use NTLM, can be achieved by setting:Network security: Restrict NTLM: Outgoing NTLM traffic to remote servers = Audit AllNetwork security: Restrict NTLM: Audit NTLM authentication in this domain = Enable allNetwork security: Restrict NTLM: Audit Incoming NTLM Traffic = Enable…
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QUIC-LEAK (CVE-2025-54939): New High-Risk Pre-Handshake Remote Denial of Service in LSQUIC QUIC Implementation
Imperva Offensive team discovered that threat actors could smuggle malformed packets to exhaust memory and crash QUIC servers even before a connection handshake is established, therefore, bypassing QUIC connection-level safeguards. Executive Summary QUIC-LEAK (CVE-2025-54939) is a newly discovered pre-handshake memory exhaustion vulnerability in the LSQUIC QUIC implementation, the second most widely used implementation after Quiche….…
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Securing Non-Human Identities and Workloads in the Generative-AI Era, TrustFour’s Role
Generative-AI systems are a dense web of non-human identities (NHIs)”, APIs, services, agents, schedulers, model endpoints, data pipelines”, talking to each other over Transport Layer Security (TLS). Attackers now target these NHIs to move laterally, hijack tools, exfiltrate models/data, and impersonate trusted workloads. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/08/securing-non-human-identities-and-workloads-in-the-generative-ai-era-trustfours-role/
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How to Stay Relaxed in a World of Increasing Cyber Threats
Is There a Simple Way to Stay Calm in the Face of Rising Cyber Threats? It’s no secret that cyber threats are increasing at an alarming pace. From financial services and healthcare to travel and development operations, we all grapple with the constant worry are our systems safe? While we can’t negate the rapid… First…
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ERMAC Android malware source code leak exposes banking trojan infrastructure
The source code for version 3 of the ERMAC Android banking trojan has been leaked online, exposing the internals of the malware-as-a-service platform and the operator’s infrastructure. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ermac-android-malware-source-code-leak-exposes-banking-trojan-infrastructure/