Tag: software
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When AI Finds a Way Out: The Alibaba Incident and Why Zero Trust Matters More Than Ever
Tags: access, ai, control, cybersecurity, data-breach, detection, firewall, flaw, identity, malware, network, software, threat, training, zero-trustThe incidentIn cybersecurity, the most important lessons rarely come from theory, but reality.A recent incident involving an experimental AI agent in the Alibaba ecosystem is one of those moments that forces us to pause and rethink some of our core assumptions. During what should have been just model training, the Alibaba AI agent began behaving…
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Critical flaw in Marimo Python notebook exploited within 10 hours of disclosure
Tags: access, advisory, ai, api, attack, authentication, breach, cloud, credentials, cve, data-breach, exploit, firewall, flaw, Internet, open-source, rce, remote-code-execution, software, theft, tool, update, vulnerabilityCredentials stolen in under three minutes: To track real-world exploitation, deployed honeypot servers running vulnerable Marimo instances across multiple cloud providers and observed the first exploitation attempt within 9 hours and 41 minutes of disclosure. No ready-made exploit tool existed at the time. The attacker had built one using only the advisory description, Sysdig researchers…
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Hackers hijacked CPUID downloads, served STX RAT to victims
If you tried to download software from CPUID’s website late last week, you might have downloaded malware instead. >>Investigations are still ongoing, but it appears … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/13/cpuid-download-malware/
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CISOs tackle the AI visibility gap
Tags: ai, business, ciso, control, data, framework, governance, leak, risk, service, software, strategy, technology, tool, vulnerabilityGaining visibility: CISOs say they’re aware of the consequences of having blind spots, with data leaks and problematic AI outputs being common ones.They’re now working to gain the needed visibility to prevent such issues, says Aaron Momin, CISO and chief risk officer for Synechron, a digital consulting and technology services firm.”The business has a mandate…
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NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round
Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/nhs_benchmarking_microsoft/
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I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable
AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/12/vibe_coding_works/
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Apache Tomcat Flaws Enable EncryptInterceptor Bypass
Tags: apache, communications, cyber, exploit, flaw, open-source, risk, software, update, vulnerabilityThe Apache Software Foundation has released critical security updates for Apache Tomcat to address three newly disclosed vulnerabilities. Because Apache Tomcat is a widely deployed open-source web server, these flaws pose a significant risk to many enterprise environments. The newly discovered vulnerabilities could allow attackers to compromise encrypted communications, exploit flawed patches, and bypass client…
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Anthropic Mythos AI Model Strikes Fear in Trump Administration, U.S. Banks
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell call a meeting with the CEOs of the largest U.S. banks to caution them of the cybersecurity dangers of Anthropic’s powerful new Mythos Preview frontier AI model, which can quicky identify software vulnerabilities and, in wrong hands, generate exploits for them. First seen on securityboulevard.com…
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Anthropic Mythos AI Model Strikes Fear in Trump Administration, U.S. Banks
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell call a meeting with the CEOs of the largest U.S. banks to caution them of the cybersecurity dangers of Anthropic’s powerful new Mythos Preview frontier AI model, which can quicky identify software vulnerabilities and, in wrong hands, generate exploits for them. First seen on securityboulevard.com…
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Anthropic Mythos AI Model Strikes Fear in Trump Administration, U.S. Banks
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell call a meeting with the CEOs of the largest U.S. banks to caution them of the cybersecurity dangers of Anthropic’s powerful new Mythos Preview frontier AI model, which can quicky identify software vulnerabilities and, in wrong hands, generate exploits for them. First seen on securityboulevard.com…
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CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT.The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00…
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Anthropic Claude Mythos Will Break Vulnerability Management
Tags: access, ai, attack, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, metric, risk, software, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAnthropic’s latest AI Model, Claude Mythos, will break the cybersecurity vulnerability management operational models. Mythos is so good at discovering and building viable exploits it is currently being rolled-out in a controlled manner under “Project Glasswing”. Those cybersecurity companies who have early access are attesting to the blazing speed and accuracy of the model…
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Anthropic Claude Mythos Will Break Vulnerability Management
Tags: access, ai, attack, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, metric, risk, software, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAnthropic’s latest AI Model, Claude Mythos, will break the cybersecurity vulnerability management operational models. Mythos is so good at discovering and building viable exploits it is currently being rolled-out in a controlled manner under “Project Glasswing”. Those cybersecurity companies who have early access are attesting to the blazing speed and accuracy of the model…
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The Phishing-as-a-Service Pipeline: How a Scalable Fraud Ecosystem Is Driving Global Attacks
Flashpoint analysts, working with partner financial institutions, have observed a growing number of PhaaS operations operating with a level of coordination and specialization more commonly associated with legitimate software platforms. These ecosystems bring together phishing kit developers, infrastructure providers, spam delivery services, and financially motivated actors into a single, scalable pipeline for fraud. First seen…
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TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
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TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
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Crushing the Axios supply chain threat with Tenable Hexa AI: Use cases for agentic AI
Tags: ai, attack, business, credentials, crypto, cve, data, data-breach, malicious, moveIT, network, okta, radius, risk, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-daySee how you can use Tenable Hexa AI to determine in minutes if you’re impacted by the Axios npm supply chain attack. Learn how easy it is to automate configuration of scans, identify impacted assets, prioritize remediation, and more using agentic AI from Tenable. Key takeaways: Tenable Hexa AI, the agentic engine of the Tenable…
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Crushing the Axios supply chain threat with Tenable Hexa AI: Use cases for agentic AI
Tags: ai, attack, business, credentials, crypto, cve, data, data-breach, malicious, moveIT, network, okta, radius, risk, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-daySee how you can use Tenable Hexa AI to determine in minutes if you’re impacted by the Axios npm supply chain attack. Learn how easy it is to automate configuration of scans, identify impacted assets, prioritize remediation, and more using agentic AI from Tenable. Key takeaways: Tenable Hexa AI, the agentic engine of the Tenable…
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Dutch hospitals face disruptions after ransomware attack on software provider ChipSoft
A ransomware attack on Dutch healthcare software vendor ChipSoft has forced the company to disable parts of its digital services used by hospitals and patients across the Netherlands, the national cybersecurity center for the healthcare sector said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/chipsoft-ransomware-attack-disrupts-dutch-hospitals
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GitHub, GitLab Abused for Malware and Phishing Campaigns
Hackers are increasingly abusing trusted software development platforms GitHub and GitLab to host malware and credential phishing campaigns, making defensive detection significantly harder for enterprises. Because these Git-based platforms are deeply integrated into development and business workflows, organizations cannot simply block them at the network edge, giving threat actors a powerful, trusted delivery channel. GitHub…
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BSI ist besorgt: Anthropics neues KI-Modell könnte Cyberlandschaft umwälzen
Anthropic will mit Mythos Tausende teils kritische Software-Lücken entdeckt haben. Das BSI erwartet erhebliche Folgen für den Cybersektor. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/bsi-ist-besorgt-anthropics-neues-ki-modell-koennte-cyberlandschaft-umwaelzen-2604-207407.html
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What to Know About CyberAv3ngers: The IRGC-Linked Group Targeting Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, authentication, automation, backup, cctv, chatgpt, cisa, communications, compliance, control, credentials, crypto, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, dns, email, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, government, group, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, iot, iran, kev, leak, linux, malicious, malware, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, network, office, openai, password, radius, resilience, risk, router, service, siem, software, strategy, switch, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAn Iran-affiliated threat group has evolved from defacing water utility displays to deploying custom ICS malware and exploiting Rockwell Automation PLCs across multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors. Key takeaways: CyberAv3ngers is a state-directed threat group operating under Iran’s IRGC Cyber-Electronic Command. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned six named officials in February 2024 and the State Department…
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Hackers have been exploiting an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability for months
Tags: access, adobe, attack, ciso, control, data, email, exploit, hacker, incident response, malicious, malware, monitoring, resilience, risk, sans, software, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityA high risk exploit: Kellman Meghu, chief technology officer at Canadian incident response firm DeepCove Security, called the exploit “a very high risk.”So far it looks as though this particular malware just exfiltrates data, he said. But it implies there is an ability or capability to turn it into a vehicle for remote code execution.…
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Software, Cybersecurity Stocks Drop Despite Anthropic AI Collaboration
Investors are airing renewed concerns over potential disruption to the software and cybersecurity sectors from AI advancements, according to reports, leading to a major drop in the stock prices of numerous top players Thursday. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/software-cybersecurity-stocks-drop-despite-anthropic-ai-collaboration
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Mythos and Like AI Tools Raise Stakes for Healthcare Cyber
Experts Warn of Faster and Higher Volume Attacks, Rising Patient Safety Worries. Emerging powerful AI tools – such as Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos – that are capable of autonomously identifying and exploiting software bugs in a flash could reshape the healthcare cyber landscape by accelerating attacks and raising the risk of widespread operational disruption, experts…
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Healthcare IT solutions provider ChipSoft hit by ransomware attack
Dutch healthcare software vendor ChipSoft has been impacted by a ransomware attack that forced the company to take offline its website and digital services for patients and healthcare providers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/healthcare-it-solutions-provider-chipsoft-hit-by-ransomware-attack/