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Don’t confuse asset inventory with exposure management
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, chatgpt, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, flaw, framework, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, least-privilege, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, regulation, risk, saas, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAsset discovery tells you what IT exists in your environment. Exposure management tells you what will get you breached. If your platform can’t connect vulnerabilities, identities, misconfigurations, and AI systems into real attack paths, you don’t have exposure management. You have inventory. Key takeaways True exposure management requires more than asset inventory. It’s about merging…
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Don’t confuse asset inventory with exposure management
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, chatgpt, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, flaw, framework, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, least-privilege, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, regulation, risk, saas, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAsset discovery tells you what IT exists in your environment. Exposure management tells you what will get you breached. If your platform can’t connect vulnerabilities, identities, misconfigurations, and AI systems into real attack paths, you don’t have exposure management. You have inventory. Key takeaways True exposure management requires more than asset inventory. It’s about merging…
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Don’t confuse asset inventory with exposure management
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, business, chatgpt, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, flaw, framework, governance, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, leak, least-privilege, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, regulation, risk, saas, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAsset discovery tells you what IT exists in your environment. Exposure management tells you what will get you breached. If your platform can’t connect vulnerabilities, identities, misconfigurations, and AI systems into real attack paths, you don’t have exposure management. You have inventory. Key takeaways True exposure management requires more than asset inventory. It’s about merging…
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Researchers Warn of Global Surge in Fake Shipment Tracking Scams
Some of these campaigns are linked to Darcula, a Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service platform First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/global-surge-fake-shipment/
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LiveChat Abuse: How Phishers Are Exploiting SaaS Support Tools to Steal Sensitive Data
Tags: attack, credentials, credit-card, cybercrime, data, email, exploit, finance, mfa, phishing, saas, service, threat, toolThreat actors are abusing the LiveChat SaaS platform to impersonate brands like PayPal and Amazon in phishing campaigns designed to steal credentials, credit card details, MFA codes, and other sensitive data. Victims are lured through phishing emails and directed to LiveChat pages where attackers use chat interactions to request personal and financial information. The campaign…
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Flaw in UK’s corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records
Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperwork First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/16/companies_house_breach/
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MEA Shipment Phishing Scams Surge, Stealing Banking Data in Real Time
Every day, billions of people rely on postal and courier services to deliver everything from handwritten letters to high value online orders.The rapid growth of global e-commerce has made parcel delivery services a critical part of everyday life. According to the Universal Postal Union’s State of the Postal Sector report, postal services now support approximately 7.3 billion…
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Advanced Protection Mode in Android 17 prevents apps from misusing Accessibility Services
Android 17 will block non-accessibility apps from using the Accessibility API under Advanced Protection Mode to reduce malware abuse. Android 17 introduces a new security feature in Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM) that blocks apps without accessibility functions from accessing the Accessibility API. The change, first reported by Android Authority and included in Android 17 Beta…
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Google Unveils Android 17 Advanced Protection Mode to Stop Malicious Services
Google is preparing to launch Android 17, introducing a comprehensive suite of new features aimed at fundamentally improving device security, user privacy, and performance debugging. At the forefront of this release is the highly anticipated Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM), a powerful new feature designed to safeguard users from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and stop malicious…
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Google Unveils Android 17 Advanced Protection Mode to Stop Malicious Services
Google is preparing to launch Android 17, introducing a comprehensive suite of new features aimed at fundamentally improving device security, user privacy, and performance debugging. At the forefront of this release is the highly anticipated Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM), a powerful new feature designed to safeguard users from increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and stop malicious…
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Google Looker Studio Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers to Exfiltrate Data from Google Services
Tenable Research recently uncovered “LeakyLooker,” a critical set of nine novel cross-tenant vulnerabilities within Google Looker Studio that enabled attackers to silently exfiltrate or modify sensitive data across various Google Cloud Platform services. Following responsible disclosure by security researchers, Google has successfully patched all nine vulnerabilities globally, neutralizing the threat without requiring any manual updates…
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What Are Your DDoS Testing Options in 2026?
No modern business can afford to ignore the threat of DDoS attacks. For many enterprises, reliable online services are critical to operations and reputation”, while attackers continue to refine their tools and tactics. As a result, security teams can’t simply assume their defenses will hold. They need to test them. The most effective way to…
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Android 17 Blocks Non-Accessibility Apps from Accessibility API to Prevent Malware Abuse
Google is testing a new security feature as part of Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM) that prevents certain kinds of apps from using the accessibility services API.The change, incorporated in Android 17 Beta 2, was first reported by Android Authority last week.AAPM was introduced by Google in Android 16, released last year. When enabled, it…
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Microsoft Issues OutBand Patch for Critical Windows 11 RRAS RCE Flaws
Microsoft released an urgent out-of-band security update on March 13, 2026, to address a series of critical vulnerabilities in Windows 11. The update, identified as hotpatch KB5084597, specifically resolves Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaws within the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) management tool. Because these security gaps pose an immediate risk of remote…
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How do AI-driven solutions fit upscale budgets
Is Your Organization Ready to Harness the Power of AI Solutions for Budget Management? An often overlooked aspect is the management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs). With industries like financial services, healthcare, and DevOps rely increasingly on cloud-based infrastructures, the need for advanced security management has never been greater. But how does this fit? Understanding the……
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How independent can AI ethics governance become
How Secure Are Your Machine Identities and Their Secrets? How often do organizations truly consider the security of non-human identities (NHIs) within their systems? Where cybersecurity threats are evolving rapidly, the management of NHIs plays a crucial role in protecting digital assets across industries, particularly those heavily reliant on cloud infrastructure such as financial services,……
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Fake rooms, props and a script to lure victims: inside an abandoned Cambodia scam centre
Sprawling compound, including mock-up banks and police offices, uncovered by Thai military during border clashesIt is as if you have walked into a branch of one of Vietnam’s banks. A row of customer service desks, divided by plastic screens, with landline phones, promotional leaflets and staff business cards. A seated waiting area and a private…
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An AI Agent Didn’t Hack McKinsey. Its Exposed APIs Did.
This week’s McKinsey incident should be a wake-up call for every enterprise moving fast to deploy AI. Not because AI itself is inherently insecure. But because too many organizations are still thinking about AI security at the model layer, while the real enterprise risk sits in the action layer: the APIs, MCP servers, internal services,…
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How SMBs Can Proactively Strengthen Cybersecurity
Tags: access, attack, best-practice, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, identity, infrastructure, resilience, risk, service, tool, updateCyber attackers increasingly target SMBs because they are often the easiest path into larger supply chains. As cyberattacks are ramping up, specifically against Critical Infrastructure sectors, Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) are feeling the pressure and asking what they can do to better protect themselves in reasonable ways. Don’t Accept Failure SMBs often feel overwhelmed when…
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Top 5 AI Access Risks for CISOs and How AI Governance Closes the Gaps
AI agents, copilots, or service accounts acting in ERP/SaaS systems are already making real decisions in your business, often with more access and less oversight than many human users. In many enterprises, non-human identities are often provisioned with broad permissions without explicit owners. For CISOs, the most urgent risks now sit where AI, identity, and……
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Mapping the Unknown: Introducing Pius for Organizational Asset Discovery
Asset discovery is an essential part of Praetorian’s service delivery process. When we are engaged to carry out continuous external penetration testing, one key action is to build and maintain a thorough target asset inventory that goes beyond any lists or databases provided by the system owner. Pius is our open-source attack surface mapping tool……
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US and European authorities disrupt socksEscort proxy service tied to AVrecon botnet
Authorities in the US and Europe disrupted the SocksEscort proxy service, which used the AVrecon botnet and infected about 360,000 devices since 2020. Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe have disrupted SocksEscort, a malicious proxy service powered by the AVrecon botnet. Active since 2020, the service hijacked roughly 360,000 devices and allowed cybercriminals…
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Authorities Shut Down Proxy Service Linked to Malware Campaign Targeting Thousands of Users
A coordinated international law enforcement operation successfully dismantled SocksEscort, a massive malicious residential proxy network. Led by the U.S. Justice Department alongside several European allies, the operation disrupted a sophisticated infrastructure that compromised thousands of residential and small business routers globally. By executing seizure warrants against dozens of U.S.-registered domains, authorities effectively halted a criminal…
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How Breach-Focused Microsegmentation Could Have Contained AWS’s AI Agent Outages
The AWS AI Agent Incidents This report reviews the”¯breaking news”¯about AWS AI outages, analyzes architectural failure modes, and demonstrates how ColorTokens Xshield microsegmentation, designed to stop breach proliferation, could have changed the outcome. In late 2024 and 2025, Amazon Web Services reportedly suffered at least two significant outages linked to its own AI operations and……
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Law Enforcement Dismantles SocksEscort Proxy Network in Operation Lightning
Operation Lightning sees international law enforcement partners shut down ‘SocksEscort,’ a major malicious proxy service used by cybercriminals worldwide First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/socksescort-proxy-network-op/
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Iran War Bait Fuels TA453, TA473 Phishing Campaigns
Tags: cloud, credentials, cyber, espionage, exploit, government, iran, malware, middle-east, phishing, service, theft, threatTA453, TA473, and several emerging threat clusters are exploiting breaking news about the Iran war to run highly targeted phishing campaigns against governments and policy organizations across the Middle East and beyond. These operations blend traditional espionage with opportunistic credential theft and malware delivery, often abusing compromised government accounts and trusted cloud services to increase…
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Hybrid resilience: Designing incident response across on-prem, cloud and SaaS without losing your mind
Tags: access, authentication, business, cloud, communications, data, data-breach, group, identity, incident response, metric, mitigation, network, radius, resilience, saas, service, strategy, technology, updateSeverity is driven by customer impact, not by who is pagedWe maintain one current hypothesis, even if it is wrongWe keep one shared timeline that captures decisions, not just symptomsWe communicate on a predictable cadence, even when answers are incompleteEvery action has a named owner and an explicit “time we expect to learn”The biggest behavior…
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Hybrid resilience: Designing incident response across on-prem, cloud and SaaS without losing your mind
Tags: access, authentication, business, cloud, communications, data, data-breach, group, identity, incident response, metric, mitigation, network, radius, resilience, saas, service, strategy, technology, updateSeverity is driven by customer impact, not by who is pagedWe maintain one current hypothesis, even if it is wrongWe keep one shared timeline that captures decisions, not just symptomsWe communicate on a predictable cadence, even when answers are incompleteEvery action has a named owner and an explicit “time we expect to learn”The biggest behavior…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…
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The cyber perimeter was never dead. We just abandoned it.
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, awareness, backup, cisa, ciso, cloud, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, email, exploit, firewall, flaw, governance, government, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, resilience, risk, router, rust, service, software, strategy, technology, update, zero-trustIndustry has comforted itself with the idea that the perimeter is dead. It is not. What happened is far worse. We ignored the edge, let unsupported hardware decay in place, and effectively donated our perimeter to adversaries who were more than willing to accept it.The FBI’s Winter SHIELD effort is the operational side of the…