Tag: service
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South Korea Expands AI Cybersecurity to Safeguard Cloud-Based Education Systems
South Korea is stepping up its digital defenses for kids by expanding the reach of AI-powered cybersecurity systems, with a particular focus on private cloud environments used for teaching and learning. The Ministry of Education, working alongside the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), announced a series of upgrades designed to strengthen protection across…
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Hackers Tie Iranian Espionage to CastleRAT and ChainShell
A direct operational link between Iran’s MuddyWater espionage group and the Russian TAG-150 CastleRAT malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform, showing how state and criminal ecosystems are now tightly intertwined. Investigators recovered 15 malware samples, including at least two CastleRAT “builds” and a PowerShell script named reset.ps1 that deploys a previously undocumented JavaScript/Node.js agent dubbed ChainShell. On this server, two native…
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Apple Intelligence flaw kept stolen tokens reusable on another device
Apple claims that Apple Intelligence, a GenAI service provided on its operating systems, is designed with an extra focus on user security and privacy through a two-stage … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/22/apple-intelligence-token-vulnerability-serpent-attack/
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Oracle April 2026 Critical Patch Update Addresses 241 CVEs
Oracle addresses 241 CVEs in its second quarterly update of 2026 with 481 patches, including 34 critical updates. Key takeaways: The second Critical Patch Update (CPU) for 2026 contains fixes for 241 unique CVEs in 481 security updates 34 issues (7.1% of all patches) were assigned a critical severity rating Oracle Communications received the highest…
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Seceon Recognized in the 2026 Gartner® “Voice of the Customer” Report for Security Information and Event Management
Seceon earns a 4.6 out of 5.0 overall rating from 82 verified customer reviews, with 90% of reviewers willing to recommend the platform, reflecting strong real-world satisfaction across the global services and financial sectors WESTFORD, Mass., April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/, Seceon Inc., a leading provider of AI-driven cybersecurity solutions for enterprises and managed security service providers (MSSPs),…
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Bridewell Among First to Achieve Level 2 Defence Cyber Certification
Bridewell has become one of the first organisations to achieve Level 2 Defence Cyber Certification (DCC), marking a significant milestone in efforts to strengthen cyber security across the UK defence supply chain. The Reading-based cyber security services provider is currently one of only two organisations accredited at this level, underscoring its role in supporting critical…
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Ukraine busts ‘bot farm’ supplying thousands of fake Telegram accounts to Russian spies
Ukrainian authorities have dismantled a so-called “bot farm” that police say was supplying thousands of fake social media accounts to Russian intelligence services for use in disinformation campaigns against Ukraine. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ukraine-sbu-busts-bot-farm-supplying-russian-spies
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5 Places where Mature SOCs Keep MTTR Fast and Others Waste Time
Security teams often present MTTR as an internal KPI. Leadership sees it differently: every hour a threat dwells inside the environment is an hour of potential data exfiltration, service disruption, regulatory exposure, and brand damage. The root cause of slow MTTR is almost never “not enough analysts.” It is almost always the same structural problem:…
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Azure SRE Agent flaw lets outsiders silently eavesdrop on enterprise cloud operations
Tags: access, ai, api, automation, cloud, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, finance, flaw, identity, infrastructure, microsoft, saas, service, toolWatching a privileged operator think out loud: The category of flaw should not be compared too closely to a conventional API bug, said Alexander Hagenah, cybersecurity researcher and executive director at Zurich-based financial infrastructure operator SIX Group.”A normal API issue is usually bound by a specific endpoint, dataset, or permission check. With an AI operations…
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Crook claims to leak ‘video surveillance footage’ of companies
Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren’t affected First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/21/be_prime_cctv_leak/
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A single platform powers SIM farm proxy networks across 17 countries
Racks of phones and 4G modems, connected to carrier networks and rented out as commercial mobile proxy services, are operating across at least 94 locations in 17 countries. An … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/21/sim-farm-proxy-network-cybercrime/
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Bluesky hit by 24-hour DDoS attack as pro-Iran group claims responsibility
Bluesky suffered a 24-hour DDoS attack that caused outages. A pro-Iran hacker group claimed responsibility for the disruption. Bluesky experienced a sophisticated DDoS attack that disrupted its services for about 24 hours, starting on April 15. Bluesky is a decentralized, open-source microblogging social media platform similar to X (formerly Twitter). It allows users to post…
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Bluesky hit by 24-hour DDoS attack as pro-Iran group claims responsibility
Bluesky suffered a 24-hour DDoS attack that caused outages. A pro-Iran hacker group claimed responsibility for the disruption. Bluesky experienced a sophisticated DDoS attack that disrupted its services for about 24 hours, starting on April 15. Bluesky is a decentralized, open-source microblogging social media platform similar to X (formerly Twitter). It allows users to post…
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Bluesky, Fast-Growing X Alternative, Hit by Sophisticated DDoS Attack
A service disruption at Bluesky last week exposed the growing challenges faced by fast-expanding social media platforms, after the company confirmed that a “sophisticated” distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incident was behind widespread outages. The Bluesky cyberattack began late on April 15, 2026, and quickly escalated, interrupting core functions across the app and leaving users unable to…
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Manhattan DA Bragg Pushes Meta to Put a Stop to Immigration Scams
Scammers dressed up like Catholic Charities and legitimate pro bone legal services on social media platforms are targeting immigrants and bilking them for money. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is pressing Meta to follow its own terms and shut them down. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/manhattan-da-bragg-pushes-meta-to-put-a-stop-to-immigration-scams/
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Palantir’s NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break
£330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/palantir_nhs_break_clause/
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Article 5 and the EU AI Act’s Absolute Red Lines FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, awareness, cctv, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, exploit, finance, group, healthcare, ibm, infrastructure, Internet, law, microsoft, monitoring, risk, service, technology, tool, training, vulnerabilityApr 20, 2026 – Alan Fagan – Most conversations about the EU AI Act focus on August 2026, when obligations for high-risk AI systems become fully enforceable. But Article 5 is already live. The Act’s eight prohibited practices became enforceable in February 2025. Fines of up to Euro35 million or 7% of global annual turnover…
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Article 5 and the EU AI Act’s Absolute Red Lines FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, awareness, cctv, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, exploit, finance, group, healthcare, ibm, infrastructure, Internet, law, microsoft, monitoring, risk, service, technology, tool, training, vulnerabilityApr 20, 2026 – Alan Fagan – Most conversations about the EU AI Act focus on August 2026, when obligations for high-risk AI systems become fully enforceable. But Article 5 is already live. The Act’s eight prohibited practices became enforceable in February 2025. Fines of up to Euro35 million or 7% of global annual turnover…
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Vercel Traces Customer Data Theft to Agentic AI Tool Breach
Attacker First Compromised AI Tool Used by Vercel Employee, Platform Provider Finds. Cloud platform provider Vercel said an attacker breached its systems and stole customer data after compromising a third-party agentic artificial intelligence tool used by an employee, called Context.ai, and stealing from it credentials and OAuth tokens tied to multiple services and customers. First…
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Italian regulator fines national postal service orgs $15 million for data privacy violations
The regulator fined Poste Italiane SpA, the postal service provider, Euro6.6 million ($7.8 million) and Postepay SpA, a digital payments subsidiary, Euro5.9 million ($7 million) for allegedly illegally processing millions of users’ personal data. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/italian-regulator-fines-postal-service-orgs-15-million-privacy
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DFIR Report The Gentlemen SystemBC: A Sneak Peek Behind the Proxy
ey Points The Gentlemen RaaS The Gentlemen ransomware”‘as”‘a”‘service (RaaS) operation is a relatively new group that emerged around mid”‘2025. The operators advertise their services across multiple underground forums, promoting their ransomware platform and inviting penetration testers (and other technically skilled actors) to join as affiliates. The RaaS provides affiliates with multi”‘OS lockers for Windows, Linux,…
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Microsoft pulls service update causing Teams launch failures
Microsoft has reverted a recent service update that was preventing some customers from launching the Microsoft Teams desktop client. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-teams-client-launch-failures-caused-by-service-update/
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TBK DVR Vulnerability CVE-2024-3721 Exploited to Spread Nexcorium DDoS Malware
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in TBK digital video recorder (DVR) devices to deploy a new Mirai-based botnet called Nexcorium. The campaign leverages CVE-2024-3721, an OS command injection vulnerability, highlighting how poorly secured IoT devices continue to fuel large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Threat actors exploit CVE-2024-3721 by manipulating the “mdb” and “mdc”…
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Microsoft-Signed Malware Built With FUD Crypt Packs Persistence and C2
Hackers are abusing a service called FUD Crypt to generate fully undetected, Microsoft”‘signed malware that installs persistence and connects to a dedicated command”‘and”‘control (C2) platform with zero effort on the buyer’s part. This Malware”‘as”‘a”‘Service (MaaS) offering turns ordinary payloads into polymorphic, signed loaders that are extremely hard for both security tools and human analysts to…
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Researchers Detect ZionSiphon Malware Targeting Israeli Water, Desalination OT Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called ZionSiphon that appears to be specifically designed to target Israeli water treatment and desalination systems.The malware has been codenamed ZionSiphon by Darktrace, highlighting its ability to set up persistence, tamper with local configuration files, and scan for operational technology (OT)-relevant services on the local subnet. First seen…
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EU pushes for stronger cloud sovereignty, awards Euro180 million to four providers
The European Commission is stepping up efforts to strengthen the EU’s digital sovereignty by awarding a cloud services tender worth up to Euro180 million over six years. The … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/20/eu-sovereign-cloud-tender-180-million-eu/
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In Praise of CISA
Lately, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been buried under troubling headlines. Steep workforce reductions. $700 million 2027 budget cut. Leadership uncertainty. Impacts from the months-long partial government shutdown. Canceled 2026 CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service program. But, to borrow and twist a phrase from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, “I come to praise CISA, not…The…
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Operation PowerOFF: 75K Users of DDoSHire Services Identified and Warned
Operation PowerOFF identifies and warns 75K users of DDoS-for-hire services, nets 4 arrests, and seizes 53 domains in a Europol-led crackdown. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/operation-poweroff-ddos-for-hire-services-identified/
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Nexcorium Mirai Variant Weaponises TBK DVR Vulnerability in Fresh IoT Botnet Push
A newly discovered Mirai malware variant named Nexcorium is actively targeting unpatched Internet of Things (IoT) devices. According to recent threat research from FortiGuard Labs, attackers are exploiting a severe vulnerability in TBK DVR systems to build a massive botnet capable of launching destructive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The campaign primarily focuses on CVE-2024-3721, a…