Tag: tool
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Threat Actors Exploiting Open-Source C2 Frameworks to Deploy Malicious Payloads
Tags: control, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, exploit, framework, hacking, intelligence, malicious, open-source, russia, threat, toolThreat intelligence researchers have uncovered a growing campaign where cybercriminals are weaponizing AdaptixC2, a legitimate open-source Command and Control framework designed for authorized penetration testers. The discovery reveals how threat actors are exploiting ethical hacking tools to conduct sophisticated cyberattacks, with significant ties linking the framework’s development to Russian criminal networks. Silent Push threat analysts…
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Threat Actors Exploiting Open-Source C2 Frameworks to Deploy Malicious Payloads
Tags: control, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, exploit, framework, hacking, intelligence, malicious, open-source, russia, threat, toolThreat intelligence researchers have uncovered a growing campaign where cybercriminals are weaponizing AdaptixC2, a legitimate open-source Command and Control framework designed for authorized penetration testers. The discovery reveals how threat actors are exploiting ethical hacking tools to conduct sophisticated cyberattacks, with significant ties linking the framework’s development to Russian criminal networks. Silent Push threat analysts…
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Aembit Introduces Identity and Access Management for Agentic AI
Tags: access, ai, control, credentials, government, iam, identity, least-privilege, risk, startup, toolBlended Identity, which gives every AI agent its own verified identity and, when needed, binds it to the human it represents. This establishes a single, traceable identity for each agent action and allows Aembit to issue a secure credential that reflects that combined context.MCP Identity Gateway, which receives that identity credential and controls how agents…
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AI-powered bug hunting shakes up bounty industry, for better or worse
Tags: access, ai, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, business, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, data, detection, exploit, flaw, guide, identity, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, risk, risk-management, sql, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerabilityFirehose of ‘false positives’: Gunter Ollmann, CTO at Cobalt.io, warns that AI is exacerbating the existing problem that comes from vendors getting swamped with often low-quality bug submissions.Security researchers turning to AI is creating a “firehose of noise, false positives, and duplicates,” according to Ollmann.”The future of security testing isn’t about managing a crowd of…
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Aembit Introduces Identity and Access Management for Agentic AI
Tags: access, ai, control, credentials, government, iam, identity, least-privilege, risk, startup, toolBlended Identity, which gives every AI agent its own verified identity and, when needed, binds it to the human it represents. This establishes a single, traceable identity for each agent action and allows Aembit to issue a secure credential that reflects that combined context.MCP Identity Gateway, which receives that identity credential and controls how agents…
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AI-powered bug hunting shakes up bounty industry, for better or worse
Tags: access, ai, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, business, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, data, detection, exploit, flaw, guide, identity, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, risk, risk-management, sql, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerabilityFirehose of ‘false positives’: Gunter Ollmann, CTO at Cobalt.io, warns that AI is exacerbating the existing problem that comes from vendors getting swamped with often low-quality bug submissions.Security researchers turning to AI is creating a “firehose of noise, false positives, and duplicates,” according to Ollmann.”The future of security testing isn’t about managing a crowd of…
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CISA Alerts on Active Exploitation of VMware Tools and Aria Operations 0-Day
Tags: access, cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, risk, tool, vmware, vulnerability, zero-dayThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has raised alarm over active exploitation of a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Broadcom’s VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations. Tracked as CVE-2025-41244, this 0-day flaw poses significant risk to organizations managing virtualized infrastructure, potentially allowing attackers to gain root-level access to compromised systems. CVE ID Vendor Affected…
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Kimsuky and Lazarus Hackers Deploy New Backdoor Tools for Remote Access Attacks
North Korean state-sponsored threat actors have escalated their cyber operations with the deployment of sophisticated new malware variants designed to establish persistent backdoor access to compromised systems. Recent investigations by threat intelligence researchers have uncovered two distinct toolsets from prominent DPRK-aligned hacking groups: Kimsuky’s newly identified HttpTroy backdoor and an upgraded version of Lazarus’s BLINDINGCAN…
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AI chatbots are sliding toward a privacy crisis
AI chat tools are taking over offices, but at what cost to privacy? People often feel anonymous in chat interfaces and may share personal data without realizing the risks. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/31/ai-chatbots-privacy-and-security-risks/
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CISA Flags VMware Zero-Day Exploited by China-Linked Hackers in Active Attacks
Tags: attack, china, cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, hacker, infrastructure, kev, tool, vmware, vulnerability, zero-dayThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a high-severity security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-41244 (CVSS score: 7.8), which could be exploited by an attacker to attain…
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New Agent-Aware Cloaking Technique Uses ChatGPT Atlas Browser to Feed Fake Content
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated attack vector that exploits how AI search tools and autonomous agents retrieve web content. The vulnerability, termed >>agent-aware cloaking,
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Malicious packages in npm evade dependency detection through invisible URL links: Report
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, control, detection, edr, endpoint, exploit, flaw, github, governance, hacker, malicious, malware, microsoft, open-source, programming, service, software, supply-chain, threat, tool, trainingCampaign also exploits AI: The names of packages uploaded to npm aren’t typosquats of common packages, a popular tactic of threat actors. Instead the hackers exploit AI hallucinations. When developers ask AI assistants for package recommendations, the chatbots sometimes suggest plausible-sounding names that are close to those of legitimate packages, but that don’t actually exist.…
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U.S. CISA adds XWiki Platform, and Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds XWiki Platform, and Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added XWiki Platform, and Broadcom VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws…
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OpenAI’s Aardvark is an AI Security Agent Combating Code Vulnerabilities
OpenAI on Thursday launched Aardvark, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent designed to autonomously detect and help fix security vulnerabilities in software code, offering defenders a potentially valuable tool against malicious hackers. The GPT-5-powered tool, currently in private beta, represents what OpenAI calls a >>defender-first model
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Minimize the Vulnerability Blast Radius in the Cloud
Tenable Cloud Security unifies visibility across code, build, and runtime stages. It correlates vulnerabilities, identities, and misconfigurations to prioritize exploitability and automate containment, helping teams detect, control, and remediate risks across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Key takeaways: Vulnerabilities can emerge at any point in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, and the potential blast radius of…
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CISA orders feds to patch VMware Tools flaw exploited by Chinese hackers
CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom’s VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools software, exploited by Chinese hackers since October 2024. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-patch-vmware-tools-flaw-exploited-since-october-2024/
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Minimize the Vulnerability Blast Radius in the Cloud
Tenable Cloud Security unifies visibility across code, build, and runtime stages. It correlates vulnerabilities, identities, and misconfigurations to prioritize exploitability and automate containment, helping teams detect, control, and remediate risks across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Key takeaways: Vulnerabilities can emerge at any point in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, and the potential blast radius of…
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Strengthening security with a converged security and networking platform
created new security risks. Products are designed with different fundamental security assumptions. Each has a separate security policy and requires a specially trained administrator, making it difficult to coordinate security policies and use products together. The result is a fragmented security infrastructure with inconsistent rules and poor visibility. Conflicting policies and uneven enforcement create the…
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Strengthening security with a converged security and networking platform
created new security risks. Products are designed with different fundamental security assumptions. Each has a separate security policy and requires a specially trained administrator, making it difficult to coordinate security policies and use products together. The result is a fragmented security infrastructure with inconsistent rules and poor visibility. Conflicting policies and uneven enforcement create the…
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Open-source AdaptixC2 hacking tool has fans in Russian cybercrime underground
Available on GitHub and promoted to professional penetration testers, the tool AdaptixC2 has been used to spread loader malware associated with Russian ransomware groups, researchers said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/open-source-adaptixc2-red-teaming-tool-russian-cybercrime
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Open-source AdaptixC2 hacking tool has fans in Russian cybercrime underground
Available on GitHub and promoted to professional penetration testers, the tool AdaptixC2 has been used to spread loader malware associated with Russian ransomware groups, researchers said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/open-source-adaptixc2-red-teaming-tool-russian-cybercrime
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Rethinking identity security in the age of autonomous AI agents
AI agents now make decisions and access systems on their own, creating identity blind spots traditional tools can’t see. Learn how Token Security brings identity-first security to agentic AI, making every agent verified, owned, and accountable. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rethinking-identity-security-in-the-age-of-autonomous-ai-agents/
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Rethinking identity security in the age of autonomous AI agents
AI agents now make decisions and access systems on their own, creating identity blind spots traditional tools can’t see. Learn how Token Security brings identity-first security to agentic AI, making every agent verified, owned, and accountable. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rethinking-identity-security-in-the-age-of-autonomous-ai-agents/
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Russian Hackers Exploit Adaptix Pentesting Tool in Ransomware Attacks
Silent Push wars of Russian hackers exploiting Adaptix, a pentesting tool built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, in ransomware campaigns. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/russian-hackers-adaptix-pentest-ransomware/
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Russian-Linked Cyberattacks Continue to Target Ukrainian Organizations
Sandworm targets Ukrainian networks using stealthy, low-malware attacks that exploit legitimate Windows tools to evade detection. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/russian-linked-cyberattacks-continue-to-target-ukrainian-organizations/
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When Windows Helpers Turn Hostile: DLL Hijacks Return
A Windows flaw in the Narrator tool enables DLL hijacks and persistence. Learn how attackers exploit it and how to harden systems. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/news/windows-helper-dll-hijack/
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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: October 2025
This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments. Chekov: … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/30/hottest-cybersecurity-open-source-tools-of-the-month-october-2025/
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Threat Actors Abuse AzureHound Tool to Enumerate Azure and Entra ID Environments
Tags: attack, cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, malicious, microsoft, penetration-testing, threat, toolThe cybersecurity landscape continues to shift toward cloud-based attacks, with threat actors increasingly exploiting legitimate security tools for malicious reconnaissance. AzureHound, a penetration testing utility designed for authorized security professionals, has become a weapon of choice for attackers seeking to understand and compromise Azure and Microsoft Entra ID environments. Understanding the Threat AzureHound is a…
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AI Search Tools Easily Fooled by Fake Content
New research shows AI crawlers like Perplexity, Atlas, and ChatGPT are surprisingly easy to fool. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/ai-search-tools-easily-fooled-by-fake-content
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AI Search Tools Easily Fooled by Fake Content
New research shows AI crawlers like Perplexity, Atlas, and ChatGPT are surprisingly easy to fool. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/ai-search-tools-easily-fooled-by-fake-content