Tag: tool
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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
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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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Shadow AI: One In Four Employees Use Unapproved AI Tools, Research Finds
Over a quarter of employees work with AI tools that had not been authorized by their company First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/shadow-ai-employees-use-unapproved/
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Threat Actors Weaponizing Open Source AdaptixC2 Tied to Russian Underworld
AdaptixC2, a legitimate and open red team tool used to assess an organization’s security, is being repurposed by threat actors for use in their malicious campaigns. Threat researchers with Silent Push have linked the abuse of the technology back to a Russian-speaking bad actor who calls himself “RalfHacker.” First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article:…
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Threat Actors Weaponizing Open Source AdaptixC2 Tied to Russian Underworld
AdaptixC2, a legitimate and open red team tool used to assess an organization’s security, is being repurposed by threat actors for use in their malicious campaigns. Threat researchers with Silent Push have linked the abuse of the technology back to a Russian-speaking bad actor who calls himself “RalfHacker.” First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article:…
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TechTalk: Mit den richtigen Tools lassen sich KI-Bedrohungen in M365-Umgebungen erkennen
Auch Microsoft 365-Anwender:innen und -Plattformen sind diversen Cyberbedrohungen ausgesetzt, speziell durch den vermehrten Einsatz von KI-Technologien. Wie sich das im Praxisalltag von Unternehmen auswirken kann und welche Antworten der Sicherheitsanbieter Hornetsecurity auf diese KI-Bedrohungen hat, darüber durften wir auf der Sicherheitsveranstaltung it-sa 2025 mit Dr. Yvonne Bernard sprechen. Herausgekommen ist dieses knapp 2-minütige Video. First…
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NDSS 2025 Revealing The Black Box Of Device Search Engine Session 1B: Internet Security
Tags: access, conference, framework, Internet, malicious, mitigation, network, privacy, risk, service, strategy, technology, tool, vulnerabilityAuthors, Creators & Presenters: Mengying Wu (Fudan University), Geng Hong (Fudan University), Jinsong Chen (Fudan University), Qi Liu (Fudan University), Shujun Tang (QI-ANXIN Technology Research Institute; Tsinghua University), Youhao Li (QI-ANXIN Technology Research Institute), Baojun Liu (Tsinghua University), Haixin Duan (Tsinghua University; Quancheng Laboratory), Min Yang (Fudan University) PAPER Revealing the Black Box of Device…
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Former Trenchant exec pleads guilty to selling cyber exploits to Russian broker
The former executive sold the trade secrets to a Russian cyber-tools broker that “publicly advertises itself as a reseller of cyber exploits to various customers, including the Russian government,” according to the Department of Justice. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/trenchant-exec-pleads-guilty-russia-secrets
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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker
Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of involvement. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/former-l3harris-trenchant-boss-pleads-guilty-to-selling-zero-day-exploits-to-russian-broker/
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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss pleads guilty to selling zero-day exploits to Russian broker
Prosecutors confirmed Peter Williams, the former Trenchant boss, sold eight exploits to a Russian buyer. TechCrunch exclusively reported that the Trenchant division was investigating a leak of its hacking tools, after another employee was accused of involvement. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/former-l3harris-trenchant-boss-pleads-guilty-to-selling-zero-day-exploits-to-russian-broker/
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Microsoft fixes Media Creation Tool broken on some Windows PCs
Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) is working again on Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 11 25H2 systems. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-media-creation-tool-broken-on-some-windows-pcs/
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Russian hackers, likely linked to Sandworm, exploit legitimate tools against Ukrainian targets
Russian actors, likely linked to Sandworm, targeted Ukrainian firms using LotL tactics and dual-use tools to steal data and stay hidden, says Symantec and Carbon Black. Russian threat actors, likely linked to the APT Sandworm, targeted Ukrainian organizations to steal sensitive data and maintain long-term network access, Symantec Threat Hunter Team and Carbon Black report.…
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Sanctions won’t stop cyberattacks, but they can still >>bite<<
Sanctions are one of the tools Western governments use when they want to hit back at state-sponsored cyber threat actors. But do they actually work? That’s the question a … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/29/sanctions-wont-stop-cyberattacks-but-they-can-still-bite/
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Obsidian: SaaS Vendors Must Adopt Security Standards as Threats Grow
Obsidian Security says it is creating a working group of security leaders to pressure SaaS vendors to adopt standards like the SSCF to make their online applications safer as the cyber threats against them escalate and the use of AI agents in SaaS tools continues to expand. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/obsidian-saas-vendors-must-adopt-security-standards-as-threats-grow/
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Obsidian: SaaS Vendors Must Adopt Security Standards as Threats Grow
Obsidian Security says it is creating a working group of security leaders to pressure SaaS vendors to adopt standards like the SSCF to make their online applications safer as the cyber threats against them escalate and the use of AI agents in SaaS tools continues to expand. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/10/obsidian-saas-vendors-must-adopt-security-standards-as-threats-grow/
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Russian Hackers Target Government with Stealthy “Livingthe-Land” Tactics
Russian-linked attackers have intensified their targeting of Ukrainian organizations through sophisticated intrusions that rely heavily on legitimate Windows tools rather than malware. The attackers demonstrated remarkable restraint in their malware deployment, instead leveraging living-off-the-land tactics and dual-use tools to evade detection while accomplishing their objectives. A recent investigation by our Threat Hunter Team revealed two…
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Russian Hackers Target Government with Stealthy “Livingthe-Land” Tactics
Russian-linked attackers have intensified their targeting of Ukrainian organizations through sophisticated intrusions that rely heavily on legitimate Windows tools rather than malware. The attackers demonstrated remarkable restraint in their malware deployment, instead leveraging living-off-the-land tactics and dual-use tools to evade detection while accomplishing their objectives. A recent investigation by our Threat Hunter Team revealed two…
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StrongestLayer Adds AI Reasoning Engine to Validate Emails
StrongestLayer has launched AI Advisor, an advanced email protection tool powered by large language models (LLMs) that evaluates message provenance in real time to detect phishing attacks. By triangulating sender legitimacy and assigning dynamic risk scores, AI Advisor cuts false positives to under 1% and saves security teams hundreds of analyst hours each quarter. First…
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Top 7 agentic AI use cases for cybersecurity
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, ceo, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, fraud, identity, infrastructure, jobs, mitigation, monitoring, office, phishing, resilience, risk, scam, service, soc, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trust2. Security operations center support: Security operations centers (SOCs) are a great use case for agentic AI because they serve as the frontline for detecting and responding to threats, says Naresh Persaud, principal, cyber risk services, at Deloitte.With thousands of incidents to triage daily, SOCs are experiencing mounting alert fatigue. “Analysts can spend an average…
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Notable post-quantum cryptography initiatives paving the way toward Q-Day
Tags: attack, awareness, cisa, cisco, communications, computer, computing, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, finance, framework, google, government, group, guide, ibm, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iot, linux, microsoft, mitre, ml, nist, nvidia, open-source, service, side-channel, software, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilityIndustry heavyweights line up behind PQC: Google”¯Chrome became the first mainstream browser to support hybrid post”‘quantum key exchanges by default late last year.The approach combines classical elliptic-curve encryption, for backwards compatibility, with lattice-based PQC derived from ML-KEM.Other industry giants, including Amazon and IBM, have also begun laying foundations for quantum-safe cryptography. For example, IBM has…
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Top 7 agentic AI use cases for cybersecurity
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, ceo, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, fraud, identity, infrastructure, jobs, mitigation, monitoring, office, phishing, resilience, risk, scam, service, soc, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trust2. Security operations center support: Security operations centers (SOCs) are a great use case for agentic AI because they serve as the frontline for detecting and responding to threats, says Naresh Persaud, principal, cyber risk services, at Deloitte.With thousands of incidents to triage daily, SOCs are experiencing mounting alert fatigue. “Analysts can spend an average…
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Notable post-quantum cryptography initiatives paving the way toward Q-Day
Tags: attack, awareness, cisa, cisco, communications, computer, computing, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, finance, framework, google, government, group, guide, ibm, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iot, linux, microsoft, mitre, ml, nist, nvidia, open-source, service, side-channel, software, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilityIndustry heavyweights line up behind PQC: Google”¯Chrome became the first mainstream browser to support hybrid post”‘quantum key exchanges by default late last year.The approach combines classical elliptic-curve encryption, for backwards compatibility, with lattice-based PQC derived from ML-KEM.Other industry giants, including Amazon and IBM, have also begun laying foundations for quantum-safe cryptography. For example, IBM has…
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Proximity: Open-source MCP security scanner
Proximity is a new open-source tool that scans Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. It identifies the prompts, tools, and resources that a server makes available, and it can … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/29/proximity-open-source-mcp-security-scanner/
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Ethical Prompt Injection: Fighting Shadow AI with Its Own Weapon
AI language models like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Copilot are transforming business operations at lightning speed. They help us generate documents, summarise meetings, and even make decisions faster than ever before. But this rapid adoption comes at a price. Employees often use unapproved AI tools on personal devices, risking sensitive company information leaking into ungoverned spaces.…
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Atroposia malware kit lowers the bar for cybercrime, and raises the stakes for enterprise defenders
Tags: apt, authentication, automation, ciso, credentials, crime, cybercrime, defense, detection, dns, endpoint, infrastructure, mail, malicious, malware, mfa, monitoring, rat, service, spam, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityRAT toolkits proliferating: Atroposia is one of a growing number of RAT tools targeting enterprises; Varonis has also recently discovered SpamGPT and MatrixPDF, a spam-as-a-service platform and malicious PDF builder, respectively.Shipley noted that these types of packages which identify additional avenues to maintain persistence have been around for some time; Mirai, which goes back to…