Tag: software
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What to Look for When Choosing an ASPM Platform
Application security posture management (ASPM) has become a foundational capability for software-as-a-service (SaaS) and software companies building increasingly complex, artificial intelligence-assisted applications. As engineering velocity increases and AI-generated code becomes part of everyday development workflows, security teams are under pressure to unify visibility, reduce fragmented tooling, and improve how risk isidentifiedand prioritized across the software…
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Microsoft dismantled malware-signing network Fox Tempest
Microsoft disrupted Fox Tempest, a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) that allowed attackers to sign malware with fake trusted certificates. Microsoft said it disrupted a cybercrime operation run by a threat actor named Fox Tempest, which helped threat actors sign malware with short-lived certificates to make malicious software appear legitimate. The service abused Microsoft Artifact Signing and supported…
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The Invisible Workforce: Why Your Household Apps Now Have Their Own Digital IDs
Most people understand what it means to protect a human identity because the dangers of someone impersonating you online or stealing and cloning your card are immediately obvious. Today, organisations rely on thousands of non-human identities that belong to software applications, cloud workloads, APIs, bots, and now AI agents as well, which can affect almost…
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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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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Closes With $1.3 Million in Zero-Day Payouts
Cybersecurity researchers successfully demonstrated 47 unique zero-day exploits at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, targeting major enterprise software and AI platforms. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/pwn2own-berlin-2026-closes-zero-day-payouts/
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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Closes With $1.3 Million in Zero-Day Payouts
Cybersecurity researchers successfully demonstrated 47 unique zero-day exploits at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, targeting major enterprise software and AI platforms. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/pwn2own-berlin-2026-closes-zero-day-payouts/
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Mini Shai-Hulud returns, compromising hundreds of npm packages
Another malware wave is washing through open-source software repos, stealing publishing tokens, installing OS”‘level backdoors and persisting in developer tools and CI pipelines. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/mini-shai-hulud-malware-npm-packages-compromised-again/
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Microsoft disrupts cybercrime service that abused software verification systems en masse
Fox Tempest, a financially-motivated threat group, allowed ransomware operators and other cybercriminals to slip malware-laced software past security controls. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/microsoft-digital-crimes-unit-disrupts-fox-tempest/
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6 Milliarden gestohlene Passwörter Warum Unternehmen 2026 noch immer dieselben Fehler machen
Trotz jahrelanger Security-Awareness-Kampagnen, komplexer Passwortregeln und wachsender MFA-Verbreitung bleibt eine der ältesten Schwachstellen der IT erschreckend aktuell: schwache und wiederverwendete Passwörter. Der aktuelle ‘2026 Breached Password Report” von Specops Software analysiert mehr als sechs Milliarden durch Malware gestohlene Zugangsdaten und zeichnet ein alarmierendes Bild moderner Identitätssicherheit. Die zentrale Erkenntnis: Nicht Brute-Force-Angriffe sind heute das […]…
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Analysis: Amid Claude Mythos FUD, Don’t Forget About Identity
While updating your patching practices will be essential amid powerful AI vulnerability discovery technologies such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, preventing attackers from fully utilizing software flaws will require identity hardening as well. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/analysis-amid-claude-mythos-fud-don-t-forget-about-identity
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Verizon Breach Report: Vulnerability Exploitation Surges
Tags: access, breach, data, data-breach, exploit, hacker, Hardware, ransomware, software, update, vulnerabilityPatch Rollout Slows and Ransomware Incident Volume Rises, Finds Latest Verizon DBIR. The frequency of hackers exploiting vulnerabilities in hardware and software to gain initial access to a victim’s environment continues to surge, and half of all successful breaches also now involve some type of ransomware action, according Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report. First…
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Internet Explorer may be dead, but its ghost still runs malware
A legacy Windows tool that refuses to die: Bitdefender’s findings suggest MSHTA remains attractive because it checks several boxes attackers like. These include it being Microsoft-signed, preinstalled on Windows, capable of in-memory execution, and still implicitly trusted in many environments.Other sophisticated campaigns picked it up too. Bitdefender detailed PurpleFox using MSHTA to launch ‘msiexec’ commands…
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Betrugsversuche zur Fußball-WM 2026 Check Point entdeckt Tausende Scams zu Tickets, Fanartikeln und Wetten
Check Point Software Technologies warnt Fußball-Fans und Unternehmen vor einer massiven Zunahme cyberkrimineller Aktivitäten im Vorfeld der FIFA Fußball-WM 2026. Die Sicherheitsforscher von Check Point Research (CPR) haben einen beispiellosen Anstieg betrügerischer Domain-Registrierungen, gefälschter Online-Shops für vermeintliche Ticketverkäufe und Fanartikel sowie manipulierte Wettplattformen entdeckt, die gezielt die Vorfreude auf das Turnier ausnutzen. Die wichtigsten Ergebnisse…
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KI-Modell ‘Mythos” stellt Vertrauen in E-Mail-Kommunikation grundlegend infrage
Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die IT-Sicherheitslandschaft nachhaltig. Mit ‘Mythos”, einem neuen Modell von Anthropic, können Schwachstellen in Software deutlich schneller und komplexer identifiziert werden als bisher. Dies verschärft nicht nur die Bedrohungslage, sondern erhöht auch den Druck auf Unternehmen, ihre Sicherheitsstrategien grundlegend zu überdenken. Besonders kritisch bleibt der Angriffsvektor E-Mail. Während das Kommunikationsmittel weiterhin ein zentrales…
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AI Raises the Bar on Vulnerability Awareness and Secure-by-Design Software
AI-powered vulnerability scanning leaves no excuse for unpatched bugs as the EU Cyber Resilience Act pushes firms toward secure-by-design software First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-raises-vulnerability-awareness/
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macOS Malware Abuses Fake Google Update for Persistence
A newly observed variant of the SHub macOS infostealer, dubbed “Reaper,” is expanding its capabilities with stealthier delivery, enhanced data theft, and a persistence mechanism disguised as a legitimate Google software update. The Reaper variant continues SHub’s use of fake application installers, notably masquerading as WeChat and Miro downloads. However, its infection chain stands out…
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Ende der Cybersecurity durch KI? Was Claude Mythos Preview für Software bedeutet
First seen on t3n.de Jump to article: t3n.de/news/cybersecurity-ki-claude-mythos-preview-1742439/
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Popular GitHub Action Tags Redirected to Imposter Commit to Steal CI/CD Credentials
In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server.”Every existing tag in the repository has been moved to point to an imposter commit that does not appear in the action’s normal commit…
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Mythos Preview Automates PoC Exploit Creation for Vulnerability Research
A new AI model from Anthropic is changing how security teams find and prove software vulnerabilities. It is raising hard questions about what happens when the same technology falls into the wrong hands. Cloudflare has published findings from its participation in Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s controlled research program, revealing that Mythos Preview, a security-focused large language model, can…
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GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack Redirects Tags to Steal CI/CD Credentials
In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server.”Every existing tag in the repository has been moved to point to an imposter commit that does not appear in the action’s normal commit…
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Mini Shai-Hulud Pushes Malicious AntV npm Packages via Compromised Maintainer Account
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has compromised various npm packages associated with the @antv ecosystem as part of the ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud attack wave.”The attack affects packages tied to the npm maintainer account atool, including echarts-for-react, a widely used React wrapper for Apache ECharts with roughly 1.1 million…
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Shai-Hulud Worm Clones Spread After Code Release
The release of Shai-Hulud source code spells trouble for software developers as researchers worry the self-replicating worm could scale. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/shai-hulud-worm-clones-spread-code-release
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Apple’s Siri Revamp May Add Auto-Deleting Chats
Apple’s reported Siri revamp may add auto-deleting AI chats as the company prepares a privacy-focused software push at WWDC 2026. The post Apple’s Siri Revamp May Add Auto-Deleting Chats appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-apple-siri-revamp-auto-deleting-chats/
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Apple’s Siri Revamp May Add Auto-Deleting Chats
Apple’s reported Siri revamp may add auto-deleting AI chats as the company prepares a privacy-focused software push at WWDC 2026. The post Apple’s Siri Revamp May Add Auto-Deleting Chats appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-apple-siri-revamp-auto-deleting-chats/
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AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports
AI-assisted vulnerability research has exploded, unleashing a firehose of low-quality reports on overworked software maintainers who are wasting hours sifting through noise … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/18/problems-with-ai-assisted-vulnerability-research/
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18th May Threat Intelligence Report
Vodafone, a major international telecom, has sustained a source code leak claimed by the Lapsus$ extortion group. The company confirmed limited access to GitHub files through compromised third-party development software, while stating that […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/18th-may-threat-intelligence-report/
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Cyberangriffe in der DACH-Region steigen um 124 Prozent
Check Point Software Technologies veröffentlicht die Ergebnisse des ‘DACH Threat Landscape 2025 Reports”. Der Bericht zusammengestellt vom Check-Point-Exposure-Management-Team offenbart für das Jahr 2025 eine drastische Verschärfung der Cyberrisiken für Unternehmen und Behörden in der DACH-Region. Die geopolitische Lage spiegelt sich direkt in der Cyberbedrohungslandschaft wider. Im Jahr 2025 entfielen rund 18 Prozent aller in Europa…
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Developer Workstations Are Now Part of the Software Supply Chain
Supply chain attackers are not only trying to slip malicious code into trusted software. They are trying to steal the access that makes trusted software possible. Recently, three separate campaigns hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub in a 48-hour window, and all three targeted secrets from developer environments and CI/CD pipelines, including API keys, cloud…