Tag: threat
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4 questions to ask before outsourcing MDR
2. Can your team separate real threats from noise?: Alert fatigue is one of the biggest barriers to effective security. Tools generate volumes of signals, but not all alerts represent real risk. When everything looks critical, teams either burn out or miss the alerts that matter most.MDR helps by applying human expertise and threat intelligence…
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5 trends defining the future of AI-powered cybersecurity
Tags: ai, automation, backup, breach, business, cloud, compliance, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, endpoint, framework, government, metric, monitoring, msp, regulation, resilience, threatSee how AI is altering the landscape in the new N-able and Futurum report, Cybersecurity in the Age of AI: Moving from Fragile to Resilient. Get key insights on building a modern framework for business resilience. 2. From perimeter security to continuous cyber resilience: The “castle and moat” approach is obsolete. In a world of…
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UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype
New model is the first AI system to complete a difficult multi-step infiltration challenge. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/uk-govs-mythos-ai-tests-help-separate-cybersecurity-threat-from-hype/
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McGraw-Hill confirms data breach following extortion threat
Education company McGraw-Hill has confirmed in a statement to BleepingComputer that hackers exploited a Salesforce misconfiguration and accessed its internal data. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mcgraw-hill-confirms-data-breach-following-extortion-threat/
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Claude Mythos Changed Everything. Your APIs Are the First Target.
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, ceo, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, exploit, finance, flaw, infrastructure, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-dayAnthropic just released Claude Mythos Preview. They did not make it publicly available. That decision alone should tell you everything you need to know about what this model can do. During internal testing, Mythos autonomously discovered and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. It found a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD.…
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State-sponsored threats: Different objectives, similar access paths
A look at 2025 state-sponsored threats, exploring how actors linked to China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran use vulnerabilities, identity, and trusted access paths to achieve their goals. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/state-sponsored-threats-different-objectives-similar-access-paths/
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Keine Entwarnung trotz Rückgang der Cyber-Angriffe in Deutschland um zwölf Prozent
Check Point Research (CPR), die Sicherheitsforschung-sabteilung von Check Point Software Technologies, hat in seinem seinen Monthly-Cyber-Threat-Report für März 2026 erstmals seit langem einen großflächigen Rückgang der Cyberangriffe beobachtet. Global waren Unternehmen durchschnittlich 1995 Cyber-Angriffe pro Woche ausgesetzt, fünf Prozent weniger als im Vorjahreszeitraum. In der DACH-Region spiegelt sich dieser Trend verstärkt wider: In Deutschland sanken…
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Mirax Android RAT Turns Devices into SOCKS5 Proxies, Reaching 220,000 via Meta Ads
A nascent Android remote access trojan called Mirax has been observed actively targeting Spanish-speaking countries, with campaigns reaching more than 220,000 accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads through advertisements on Meta.”Mirax integrates advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capabilities, allowing threat actors to fully interact with compromised devices in real First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Secretary Mullin must help finish the job: Urge the Senate to confirm Plankey
With global cyber threats escalating and budget cuts looming, CISA needs a Senate-confirmed director. It’s time to confirm Sean Plankey. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/national-security-ntsc-op-ed-sean-plankey-cisa-confirmed-director/
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How AI is transforming threat detection
Tags: ai, attack, automation, best-practice, business, ceo, cisa, cve, cyber, data, detection, email, endpoint, framework, google, governance, group, incident response, intelligence, international, jobs, kev, malware, network, nist, organized, phishing, risk, skills, soc, switch, technology, threat, toolReducing alert fatigue: In alert triage, AI agents are reducing alert fatigue by clustering alert patterns and enabling risk-based prioritization, adds Dipto Chakravarty, chief product and technology officer at Black Duck.For example, natural language processing agents can summarize threat alerts at scale and correlate them with threat intel feeds such as CVE.org and the CISA KEV Catalog,…
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Hackers Exploit Kali Forms Vulnerability to Take Over WordPress Sites
A recently disclosed Kali Forms vulnerability affecting a widely used WordPress plugin has escalated into an active security threat, enabling unauthenticated attackers to achieve Remote Code Execution on affected websites. The flaw impacts Kali Forms, a drag-and-drop form builder with more than 10,000 active installations, and has already been exploited in the wild shortly after…
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Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready
In this Help Net Security interview, Idan Habler, AI Security Researcher at Cisco, breaks down a threat most security teams haven’t named yet: agentic memory as an … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/14/idan-habler-cisco-agentic-ai-memory-attacks/
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APT41 Targets Linux Cloud Servers With New Winnti Backdoor
A previously undocumented Linux backdoor attributed to China-linked threat group APT41 (Winnti) has been uncovered, targeting cloud workloads across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud. The ELF-based implant, currently showing zero detections on VirusTotal, transforms Linux servers into stealthy credential theft nodes using a novel SMTP-based command-and-control (C2) mechanism. The discovery indicates a new phase in APT41’s Linux and cloud-targeted…
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CISA Warns Fortinet SQL Injection Flaw Is Being Actively Exploited
Tags: cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, fortinet, infrastructure, injection, kev, sql, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning regarding a critical security flaw in Fortinet software. On April 13, 2026, CISA added CVE-2026-21643 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This action confirms that threat actors are actively exploiting this weakness in real-world cyberattacks. CISA maintains this authoritative database to help…
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Rockstar’s GTA Game Hacked, 78.6 Million Records Published Online
Rockstar Games has suffered a significant data breach after the infamous threat group ShinyHunters leaked over 78.6 million internal records on April 14, 2026. The incident did not involve a direct attack on Rockstar’s primary network infrastructure. Instead, the hackers executed a supply-chain attack through a third-party analytics platform, highlighting the escalating risk of integrated…
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NSFOCUS Threat Intelligence Interviewed in The Top Trends Shaping Threat Intelligence in Asia Pacific Report by International Authority
Forrester, an international authoritative consulting firm, released “The Top Trends Shaping Threat Intelligence in Asia Pacific”. With its deep technical accumulation, product system and mature solutions in the field of threat intelligence, NSFOCUS was interviewed for the report. As enterprises cope with the rapidly changing cybersecurity and regulatory environment in the Asia-Pacific region, threat intelligence…The…
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Best of the Worst: Five Attacks That Already Knew Your Name
<div cla TL;DR This week’s Attack of the Day posts revealed a clear shift from volume to precision. A phishing PDF auto-launched a credential harvest page the instant it opened, no click required. A QR code inside another PDF had the target’s email address pre-encoded in base64, so the landing page pre-filled the victim’s username…
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How is Agentic AI driving innovation in cybersecurity?
What Role Do Non-Human Identities Play in Cybersecurity? Securing digital environments often brings to mind defending against human threats, but what about machine identities? Known as Non-Human Identities (NHIs), these are crucial elements that are becoming increasingly relevant in cybersecurity frameworks. With the rapid evolution of Agentic AI innovation and other advanced technologies, the management……
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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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APT41 Delivers ‘Zero-Detection’ Backdoor to Harvest Cloud Credentials
The prolific China-backed threat group is targeting AWS, Google, Azure, and Alibaba cloud environments and using typosquatting to obscure C2 communication. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/apt41-zero-detection-backdoor-harvest-cloud-credentials
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APT41 Delivers ‘Zero-Detection’ Backdoor to Harvest Cloud Credentials
The prolific China-backed threat group is targeting AWS, Google, Azure, and Alibaba cloud environments and using typosquatting to obscure C2 communication. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/apt41-zero-detection-backdoor-harvest-cloud-credentials
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Mailbox Rule Abuse Emerges as Stealthy Post-Compromise Threat
Attackers are abusing Microsoft 365 mailbox rules to hide activity, exfiltrate data and retain access after account compromise, researchers warn First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/mailbox-rule-abuse-stealthy-post/
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13th April Threat Intelligence Report
The Los Angeles Police Department has reported a data breach involving a digital storage system used by the L.A. City Attorney’s Office. The exposure included 7.7 terabytes and more than 337,000 files, […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/13th-april-threat-intelligence-report/
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Your MTTD Looks Great. Your Post-Alert Gap Doesn’t
Anthropic restricted its Mythos Preview model last week after it autonomously found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Palo Alto Networks’ Wendi Whitmorewarned that similar capabilities are weeks or months from proliferation. CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report puts average eCrime breakout time at 29 minutes. Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 First seen…
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Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data amid ShinyHunters threat of ‘Pay or leak’
Gang claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/shinyhunters_rockstar_breach/
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Iran-Linked CyberAv3ngers Target Water Utilities, Industrial Controllers
Iran-linked threat group CyberAv3ngers is intensifying attacks on U.S. water utilities and industrial control systems, shifting from noisy hacktivism to sustained disruption of operational technology (OT) environments. CyberAv3ngers operates as a state-directed persona for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber-Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC), not as an independent hacktivist crew. U.S. Treasury sanctions in February 2024 named six IRGC-CEC…
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Basic-Fit Suffers Data Breach Affecting Millions Across Multiple Nations
European fitness operator Basic-Fit has confirmed a significant data breach affecting approximately one million members across its network. The incident heavily impacted users in the Netherlands, which accounted for 200,000 of the compromised accounts. This breach underscores the persistent targeting of consumer lifestyle platforms by threat actors seeking massive datasets. The cyber incident targeted the…
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CPUID watering hole attack spreads STX RAT malware
Threat actors compromised the CPUID website and spread STX RAT through fake CPU-Z and HWMonitor downloads. Attackers breached the website CPUID and replaced download links for CPU-Z and HWMonitor with malicious files for several hours. Users who downloaded them got infected with the STX RAT, giving attackers remote access to their systems. The short attack…