Tag: service
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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…
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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…
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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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Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries
A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud.”SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. “The malware allowed SocksEscort to direct internet First seen on thehackernews.com…
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OpenSSH GSSAPI Flaw Can Be Exploited to Crash SSH Child Processes
A newly discovered vulnerability in the GSSAPI Key Exchange patch for OpenSSH is putting multiple Linux distributions at risk. Tracked as CVE-2026-3497, the flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to crash SSH child processes using a single crafted packet. This leads to reliable denial-of-service conditions and to privilege separation boundary violations. The issue was discovered by security…
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Canadian retail giant Loblaw notifies customers of data breach
Still, out of an abundance of caution, Loblaw says it has automatically logged out all customers from their accounts. Account holders who need to access the company’s digital services will have to log in again. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/canadian-retail-giant-loblaw-notifies-customers-of-data-breach/
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IO River Embraces Wasm to Enable Any WAF to Run on Any CDN
IO River this week revealed it is leveraging the portable WebAssembly (Wasm) binary instruction format to make it possible to deploy any web application firewall (WAF) on a content delivery network (CDN). Starting with running the Check Point WAF on the Akamai CDN service, the overall goal is to eliminate the need to acquire and..…
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Medical giant Stryker crippled after Iranian hackers remotely wipe computers
Tags: access, attack, authentication, best-practice, ceo, computer, credentials, cyber, cyberattack, data, flaw, group, hacker, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, jobs, mobile, phone, service, software, supply-chain, theft, threat, updateHandala claims credit: The Handala threat group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack. While the group’s involvement is just a claim for now, Stryker employees reportedly saw a version of the Handala logo a cartoon of a Palestinian boy with his back turned and hands crossed behind him on affected devices.Handala’s identity is hard to…
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US sanctions North Korea IT worker networks in Laos, Vietnam
The latest round of sanctions targeted Amnokgang Technology Development Company, a North Korean company that manages delegations of IT workers, and Quangvietdnbg International Services Company, a Vietnamese firm used by North Korean actors for currency conversion services. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/us-sanctions-north-korea-it-worker-networks-laos-vietnam
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Law enforcement shuts down botnet made of tens of thousands of hacked routers
An international law enforcement operation shut down a service called SocksEscort, which allegedly helped cybercriminals all over the world launch ransomware and DDoS attacks, as well as distribute child sexual abuse material. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/law-enforcement-shuts-down-botnet-made-of-tens-of-thousands-of-hacked-routers/
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Fake government and Starlink apps used in malware campaign targeting Brazil
The malware, dubbed BeatBanker by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, infects smartphones through fake applications that mimic legitimate services, including the Starlink satellite internet app and the Brazilian government portal INSS Reembolso. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/fake-gov-apps-malware-android-brazil
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The UK government’s digital identity scheme: Dystopian nightmare or modernised public services?
Critics and supporters of digital ID are honing their arguments for the government’s consultation but it’s the public that will decide. How should you choose? First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366640072/The-UK-governments-digital-identity-scheme-Dystopian-nightmare-or-modernised-public-services
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North Korean fake IT worker tradecraft exposed
Opportunistic and broadly targeted: These suspect code silos were abused in a variety of illicit projects split between targeting job-seeking programmers and fake IT worker operations.”Based on our visibility, malware operations targeting individual developers seeking employment are most common,” Oliver Smith, senior threat intelligence engineer at GitLab, told CSO. “Threat actors appear to have a…
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North Korean fake IT worker tradecraft exposed
Opportunistic and broadly targeted: These suspect code silos were abused in a variety of illicit projects split between targeting job-seeking programmers and fake IT worker operations.”Based on our visibility, malware operations targeting individual developers seeking employment are most common,” Oliver Smith, senior threat intelligence engineer at GitLab, told CSO. “Threat actors appear to have a…
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Ericsson US Hit by Cyber Attack, Hackers Steal Personal Data of Employees and Customers
Ericsson Inc., the United States subsidiary of the Swedish telecommunications giant, has confirmed a data breach affecting 15,661 of its employees and customers. The security incident did not breach Ericsson’s own networks but instead compromised a third-party service provider responsible for handling the company’s sensitive personal data.”‹”‹ Incident Details and Attack Vector The breach traces…
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Ericsson US Hit by Cyber Attack, Hackers Steal Personal Data of Employees and Customers
Ericsson Inc., the United States subsidiary of the Swedish telecommunications giant, has confirmed a data breach affecting 15,661 of its employees and customers. The security incident did not breach Ericsson’s own networks but instead compromised a third-party service provider responsible for handling the company’s sensitive personal data.”‹”‹ Incident Details and Attack Vector The breach traces…
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Cybersecurity for MSPs and MSSPs: Securing Client Environments in an Era of Expanding Threat Surfaces
The Expanding Security Responsibility of Service Providers Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) have become critical partners for organizations navigating today’s complex digital environments. As businesses expand cloud infrastructure, support remote workforces, and adopt new digital platforms, the attack surface continues to grow. Many organizations lack the internal expertise and resources…