Tag: skills
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The top scorer for World Cup coverage | Brief letters
Barney Ronay | England’s World Cup | Former PMs fund | Jobs for hackers | Chatty waitersNow that it’s all over, it’s time to praise the skills of the Guardian football writers. Top scorer is Barney Ronay’s description of Thomas Tuchel’s pitch-side demeanour (<a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/10/nosferatu-golf-weekend-england-players-trust-thomas-tuchel”>10 July). “Nosferatu on a golfing weekend” is up there with…
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Agentische KI: Produktivität mit hohem Risiko
Management Summary Agentische KI eröffnet Unternehmen erhebliche Produktivitätspotenziale, erweitert aber zugleich die Angriffsfläche, da KI-Agenten selbstständig auf Systeme, Daten und Anwendungen zugreifen können. Schatten-KI entsteht, wenn Mitarbeitende private oder nicht freigegebene Tools nutzen; dadurch können vertrauliche Informationen unkontrolliert an externe Dienste gelangen. Besonders kritisch sind Erweiterungen, Skills und Plugins, die manipuliert sein können und mit……
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ESET-Warnung: Schadhafte AI Skills bieten KI-Agenten neue Angriffsflächen
First seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/eset-warnung-schadhaft-ai-skills-ki-agenten-neu-angriffsflaechen
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Malicious AI agent skills can slip past the scanners built to stop them
Developers who build with AI coding agents grab capabilities off public marketplaces the same way they grab packages from npm or PyPI. The add-ons are called agent skills. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/09/malicious-ai-agent-skills-scan/
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Thousands of malicious AI skills found capable of stealing data, running malware
AI agents can browse the web, use external tools, execute commands, and perform tasks on behalf of users. Many rely on skills that define how they interact with services and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/08/eset-ai-threat-trends-report/
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Middle East urged to prioritise prevention as cyber workforce gap hits 300,000
As cyber attacks accelerate and organisations expand their digital footprints, security leaders are being urged to prioritise prevention and zero-trust architectures over expectations that AI will close the region’s growing skills gap First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366645533/Middle-East-urged-to-prioritize-prevention-as-cyber-workforce-gap-hits-300000
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Malicious Agent Skills Can Steal Credentials, Exfiltrate Source Code, and Install Backdoors
Malicious AI agent skills can be packaged to steal credentials, exfiltrate source code, and install backdoors while still bypassing many current skill-auditing systems. The paper finds that static scanners are especially weak against payload-preserving evasions, while runtime behavior auditing is far more resilient. The core threat is simple but serious: an agent skill is not…
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SkillCloak Lets Malicious AI Agent Skills Evade Static Scanners with Self-Extracting Packing
Scanners meant to catch malicious add-on “skills” for AI coding agents can be fooled by a few simple changes that leave the malware working, according to a new study from researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.Their strongest trick slipped past every scanner tested more than 90% of the time, and the…
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ClawHavoc Attack Hits ClawHub With 1,184 Malicious Skills and 247,000 Installations
The AI-agent ecosystem experienced its largest supply-chain compromise to date when ClawHavoc detonated across ClawHub, the official skill marketplace for OpenClaw. Our full AIG-powered scan of nearly 50,000 ClawHub Skills found 1,184 clearly malicious packages tied to 12 compromised publisher accounts and confirmed 247,693 installations. The campaign combined typosquatting, ranking manipulation, and multi-stage payload delivery…
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Weiterhin Engpässe bei Personal für Cybersecurity Sicherheit bleibt eine der gefragtesten Skills
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/cloud-sicherheitskompetenzen-bedarf-waechst-a-4f0090f0904e65ca587dfe5b5b044f21/
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More Malicious OpenClaw Skills Threaten AI Supply Chain
OpenClaw removed five packages from ClawHub, its skills marketplace, that bypassed security checks even though they included infostealers and other threats. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/malicious-openclaw-skills-clawhub-threaten-ai-supply-chain
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Google’s open standard for AI agents to discover and verify tools
AI agents depend on tools, skills, and other agents spread across many teams, organizations, and platforms. These capabilities live in separate systems with their own … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/18/google-agentic-resource-discovery/
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AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity Training Priorities
ISC2 Survey Says AI Skills Top Training Agendas, But Teams Need to Act Quickly. AI now tops cybersecurity training priorities for 47% of security leaders, as critical cyber skills gaps are growing, according to an ISC2 survey. Most organizations train in-house, and 53% cite time – not budget – as the biggest barrier to effective…
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Partners can help secure AI and increase trust
Context and Veeam underline the challenges and importance of securing artificial intelligence, while Arrow takes steps to increase partner skills around the technology First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/366643947/Partners-can-help-secure-AI-and-increase-trust
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ClawHub, Cisco, and Vercel Skill Detection Tools Evaded by Malicious Uploads
Security researchers have shown that AI skill security scanners from ClawHub, Cisco, and Vercel’s skills.sh can be reliably bypassed using simple techniques, raising serious concerns about agentic AI supply chain defenses. In tests conducted by Trail of Bits, multiple malicious skills designed to exfiltrate data, hijack agents, or execute arbitrary code were successfully uploaded and…
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NVIDIA goes open source with a big batch of physical AI agent tools
NVIDIA just dropped a big batch of open-source >>physical AI<< skills and tools, and they're designed to make a roboticist's life a whole lot easier. The … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/01/nvidia-open-source-physical-ai-skills/
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JFrog-Report 2026: KI-Governance hinkt hinterher – Angriffe auf Software-Lieferketten explodieren
Besonders brisant ist die Entwicklung rund um KI-Agenten und automatisierte Entwicklerwerkzeuge. Viele manipulierte KI-Agenten-Skills mit gefährlichen Payloads First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/jfrog-report-2026-ki-governance-hinkt-hinterher-angriffe-auf-software-lieferketten-explodieren/a45250/
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How Parts Inventory Management Software Fixes Inventory Challenges
Why do maintenance teams struggle? Is it because they lack skills? Or do they need more advanced resources?… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/parts-inventory-management-software-inventory-challenges/
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UAE Cyber Security Council and Dell launch cyber security centre to strengthen digital resilience
Abu Dhabi initiative supports the UAE’s sovereign cyber strategy with AI-driven security, advanced skills development and accelerated local innovation First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642990/UAE-Cyber-Security-Council-and-Dell-launch-cyber-security-centre-to-strengthen-digital-resilience
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What CISOs need to land a board role
Tags: business, ciso, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, finance, governance, government, intelligence, jobs, resilience, risk, skills, strategy, trainingTips for CISOs aiming for a board role: For CISOs interested in contributing to global vendor boards, Morelli advises focusing on becoming a partner, not just a customer. This requires the ability to articulate how a product’s evolution impacts the risk profile of an entire sector.For non-industry or public boards, CISOs must be comfortable contributing…
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8 guiding principles for reskilling the SOC for agentic AI
Tags: ai, automation, business, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, data, governance, incident response, jobs, penetration-testing, sans, skills, soc, technology, tool, training, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementSet the tone from the top: The second principle for reskilling security teams for agentic AI is all about leadership.As Baker says, CISOs must set the tone. That means building a culture of rapid experimentation, iteration, and innovation. “Fail fast and move forward,” he says.A key aspect of CISO leadership is understanding the needs of…
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Train like you fight: Why cyber operations teams need no-notice drills
Tags: breach, business, cloud, communications, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, detection, framework, healthcare, injection, login, military, psychology, ransomware, risk, skills, soc, threat, training, updateThe Yerkes-Dodson inverted-U curve: Performance rises with arousal to an optimal point, then falls sharply.Wikimedia Commons, CC-ZeroWhat repeated no-notice drills do is shift a team’s position on that curve. By building familiarity with threat-level arousal, they raise the threshold at which stress becomes performance-impairing. The stimulus is no longer novel. The cascade is shorter. Executive…
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Skills Gap Top CISO Concern, Says New SANS Survey
Security Leaders Face Gaps, Not in Their Org Charts, But in Their Team’s Skills. Concerns about the skills and capabilities of cybersecurity teams have for the first time overtaken worries about headcount and unfilled vacancies among CISOs, according to a new SANS survey. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/skills-gap-top-ciso-concern-says-new-sans-survey-a-31603
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CISOs step up to the security workforce challenge
Tags: ai, attack, automation, ciso, conference, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, jobs, malicious, risk, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, trainingGomez-Sanchez and Turpin are speaking at the CSO Cybersecurity Awards & Conference, May 11-13. Reserve your place. And then there’s AI. When it comes to security, AI may help partially offset cyber skills shortages by automating certain tasks, but it also ramps up cyberattack volumes and expands the organizational attack surface, without fixing CISOs’ ongoing talent…
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Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner
Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/gartner_state_of_mainframes/
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The fake IT worker problem CISOs can’t ignore
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, captcha, cio, ciso, compliance, computer, control, credentials, crowdstrike, data, detection, edr, endpoint, fedramp, fraud, gartner, iam, identity, jobs, linkedin, mitigation, monitoring, network, north-korea, office, phone, risk, skills, tool, training, zero-trustWhat to do if you suspect a fake IT worker: When a CIO suspects a fake IT worker, next steps are important as the issue shifts from recruitment to insider risk management.During his time at MongoDB, George Gerchow, IANS faculty advisor and Bedrock Data CSO, oversaw the investigation after the company detected it had unknowingly…
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Windows shell spoofing vulnerability puts sensitive data at risk
A difficult balance: Erik Avakian, technical counselor at Info-Tech Research Group, noted that when it set the patching deadline, CISA had been operating within the guidelines laid down in Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01, which requires US federal agencies to patch vulnerabilities within the timelines outlined under the policy, which range from 14 to 21…
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Two American Cybersecurity Workers Jailed for BlackCat Ransomware Attacks
The cybersecurity workers used their knowledge and skills to conduct ransomware attacks for notorious gang, rather than protect victims against them First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cybersecurity-workers-jailed/