Tag: switch
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Firewalls umgangen: Hacker infiltrieren Netzwerk einer Bank per Raspberry Pi
Der Raspberry Pi wurde einfach am Switch eines Geldautomaten angeschlossen. Dank 4G-Modem konnten sich die Angreifer danach im Netzwerk austoben. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/firewalls-umgangen-hacker-infiltrieren-netzwerk-einer-bank-per-raspberry-pi-2507-198674.html
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UNC2891 Hackers Breach ATMs Using Raspberry Pi Devices for Network Access
A Raspberry Pi device that was directly attached to an internal network switch was used by the financially motivated threat actor group UNC2891 to breach ATM networks in a sophisticated cyber campaign that targeted banking infrastructure. This embedded hardware, equipped with a 4G modem, facilitated remote access over mobile data, bypassing perimeter firewalls and establishing…
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Microsoft SharePoint Hackers Switch Gears to Spread Ransomware
Threat actors exploit SharePoint flaws to access internal systems, steal sensitive data, and carry out surveillance, impersonation, and extortion. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/microsoft/sharepoint-vulnerabilities-exploitation/
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FBI seized multiple piracy sites distributing pirated video games
FBI seizes multiple piracy sites for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 games, dismantling their infrastructure. The FBI, with the help of the Dutch FIOD, seized multiple piracy sites distributing pirated video games, including nsw2u.com, ps4pkg.com, and mgnetu.com, dismantling their infrastructure. These sites, active for over four years, offered early access to popular game titles and…
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Piracy sites for Nintendo Switch, PS4 games taken down by FBI
Last week, the FBI’s Atlanta field office announced the seizure of nsw2u.com, nswdl.com, game-2u.com, bigngame.com, ps4pkg.com, ps4pkg.net and mgnetu.com, placing FBI banners on all of the sites. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/piracy-sites-for-nintendo-switch-ps4-games-taken-down
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Cloned Phones, Stolen Identities: The eSIM Hack No One Saw Coming
Embedded SIMs (eSIMs), officially known as Kigen eUICC, are transforming connectivity by allowing users to switch operators without physically swapping cards. These chips store digital profiles and support secure over-the-air provisioning, a boon for smartphones, IoT devices, and connected vehicles. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/breaking-euicc-security/
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Mis-scoped AWS Organizations Policy Allowed Hackers to Seize Full Control of AWS Environment
Security professionals have uncovered serious vulnerabilities in AWS Organizations in a ground-breaking study by Cymulate Research Labs that might allow attackers to switch between accounts, increase privileges, and take control the entire organization.l takeover. The research focuses on how misconfigured delegation mechanisms intended as a best practice for distributing administrative tasks can be weaponized by…
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How talent-strapped CISOs can tap former federal government cyber pros
Tags: cio, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, government, jobs, risk, service, skills, software, switch, technology, threat, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementLuring federal talent to the private sector: In the past, the federal government represented a stable career path. Many highly skilled people spent their entire careers within the federal government. But the current shakeup makes some of that talent, trusted and honed by federal agencies, available to industry CISOs.Federal workers may look to state and…
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How talent-strapped CISOs can tap former federal government cyber pros
Tags: cio, ciso, cyber, cybersecurity, government, jobs, risk, service, skills, software, switch, technology, threat, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementLuring federal talent to the private sector: In the past, the federal government represented a stable career path. Many highly skilled people spent their entire careers within the federal government. But the current shakeup makes some of that talent, trusted and honed by federal agencies, available to industry CISOs.Federal workers may look to state and…
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Fedora 43 won’t drop 32-bit app support or adopt Xlibre
Tags: switchCommunity vetoes plans to axe i686 compatibility and switch X11 forks First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/fedora_43_i686_32bit/
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German BSI Head: Tech Sovereignty Needs Technical Solution
Claudia Plattner Says Complete Switch to European Technologies Is Unrealistic. European ambitions to replace foreign tech solutions with domestic alternatives are unrealistic in the short term, warned the head of the German cybersecurity head cybersecurity agency in a call for greater technological control over cloud platforms. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/german-bsi-head-tech-sovereignty-needs-technical-solution-a-28868
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Hackers switch to targeting U.S. insurance companies
Threat intelligence researchers are warning of hackers breaching multiple U.S. companies in the insurance industry using all the tactics observed with Scattered Spider activity. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-warns-scattered-spider-hackers-now-target-us-insurance-companies/
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Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence
Denmark’s digital affairs ministry says it plans to switch to the open source LibreOffice software and away from Microsoft products as part of an effort to make the government more digitally independent. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence
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Switch 2 Gamechat: Nintendo warnt Nutzer vor der Weitergabe der Kommunikation
Tags: switchNintendo kündigt an, dass Audio- und Videodateien vom Switch 2 GameChat gespeichert und bei Bedarf an die Behörden übermittelt werden können. First seen on tarnkappe.info Jump to article: tarnkappe.info/artikel/gaming/switch-2-gamechat-nintendo-warnt-nutzer-vor-der-weitergabe-der-kommunikation-316095.html
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Mit diesem neuen Playstation-Handheld will Sony der Switch 2 Konkurrenz machen laut Leak
First seen on t3n.de Jump to article: t3n.de/news/playstation-handheld-switch-2-konkurrenz-1689985/
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New Russian APT group Void Blizzard targets NATO-based orgs after infiltrating Dutch police
Tags: access, api, apt, attack, authentication, blizzard, cloud, credentials, data, defense, detection, edr, email, fido, framework, group, hacker, identity, least-privilege, login, mfa, microsoft, open-source, passkey, password, phishing, qr, risk, russia, siem, spear-phishing, switch, threat, toolSwitch to spear phishing: In recent months the group seems to have pivoted from password spraying to targeted spear phishing attacks that direct users to fake Microsoft Entra login pages using adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques. Such a campaign led to the compromise of 20 NGOs in April.In its campaign against NGOs, Void Blizzard sent emails masquerading…
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Operation Endgame 2.0: DanaBusted
Tags: access, attack, backup, banking, breach, business, cloud, communications, control, crypto, cybercrime, data, defense, detection, email, espionage, firewall, fraud, government, group, Hardware, infection, intelligence, international, law, malicious, malware, middle-east, network, programming, ransomware, russia, service, supply-chain, switch, threat, tool, ukraine, update, windowsIntroductionOn May 22, 2025, international law enforcement agencies released information about additional actions that were taken in conjunction with Operation Endgame, an ongoing, coordinated effort to dismantle and prosecute cybercriminal organizations, including those behind DanaBot. This action mirrors the original Operation Endgame, launched in May 2024, which disrupted SmokeLoader, IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, and Bumblebee. Zscaler…
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What Kind of Identity Should Your AI Agent Have?
7 min readAI agents don’t neatly fit into your IAM chart. They switch roles, borrow authority, and rewrite what identity means at runtime. Here’s what that means for you. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/05/what-kind-of-identity-should-your-ai-agent-have/
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Cisco IOS Software SISF Vulnerability Could Enable Attackers to Launch DoS Attacks
Cisco has released security updates addressing a critical vulnerability in the Switch Integrated Security Features (SISF) of multiple software platforms that could allow unauthenticated attackers to cause denial of service (DoS) conditions. The vulnerability stems from incorrect handling of DHCPv6 packets and affects Cisco IOS Software, IOS XE Software, NX-OS Software, and Wireless LAN Controller…
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Opening Up Open Banking: The CFPB’s Personal Financial Data Rights Rule
Tags: access, automation, banking, compliance, container, control, credit-card, data, finance, identity, monitoring, privacy, regulation, service, software, switch, toolOpening Up Open Banking: The CFPB’s Personal Financial Data Rights Rule andrew.gertz@t“¦ Tue, 05/06/2025 – 18:23 Explore the impact of the CFPB’s new Personal Financial Data Rights rule and how it aims to empower consumers, drive competition, and reshape open banking in the U.S. Ammar Faheem – Director Product Marketing (CIAM) More About This Author…
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Critical Planet Technology switch vulnerabilities pose total takeover risk
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/critical-planet-technology-switch-vulnerabilities-pose-total-takeover-risk
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Planet Technology Industrial Switch Flaws Risk Full Takeover Patch Now
Immersive security researchers discovered critical vulnerabilities in Planet Technology network management and switch products, allowing full device control…. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/planet-technology-industrial-switch-flaws-full-takeover/
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10 key questions security leaders must ask at RSA 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, authentication, automation, business, cisa, ciso, cloud, conference, control, corporate, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, endpoint, fido, finance, gartner, google, government, healthcare, infrastructure, microsoft, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, mssp, network, nist, passkey, password, phone, programming, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, software, strategy, switch, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, zero-trustIs agentic AI more myth than reality?: Building on 2024’s AI enthusiasm, this year will be all about agentic AI, defined as “a type of AI that enables software systems to act autonomously, making decisions and taking actions based on goals, with minimal human intervention,” according to AI itself (source: Google Gemini). We’ll see lots…
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Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption
When the power went out, they didn’t switch on First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/google_cloud_useast5c_outage_report/
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10 things you should include in your AI policy
Tags: access, ai, best-practice, breach, business, ceo, ciso, compliance, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, framework, gartner, GDPR, governance, incident response, insurance, law, monitoring, privacy, regulation, risk, software, strategy, switch, technology, tool, training, updateInput from all stakeholders: At Aflac, the security team took the initial lead on developing the company’s AI policy. But AI is not just a security concern. “And it’s not just a legal concern,” Ladner says. “It’s not just a privacy concern. It’s not just a compliance concern. You need to bring all the stakeholders…
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Hunters International shifts from ransomware to pure data extortion
The Hunters International Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation is shutting down and rebranding with plans to switch to date theft and extortion-only attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hunters-international-rebrands-as-world-leaks-in-shift-to-data-extortion/
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Google to Switch on E2EE for All Gmail Users
Google is set to roll out end-to-end encryption for all Gmail users, boosting security, compliance and data sovereignty efforts First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/google-switch-e2ee-all-gmail-users/
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Salt Typhoon may have upgraded backdoors for efficiency and evasion
CrowDoor and attributed to the Earth Estries APT group in November 2024.”GhostSparrow, aka Salt Typhoon (Microsoft), Earth Estries (Trend Micro), Ghost Emperor (Kaspersky Labs), and UNC2286 (Mandiant), has escalated cyber espionage, breaching US telecom networks and accessing data on over a million individuals. One of the key features ESET reported on the two previously unseen…

