Tag: tool
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OpenAI Disrupts Russian, North Korean, and Chinese Hackers Misusing ChatGPT for Cyberattacks
Tags: access, ai, chatgpt, china, credentials, cyberattack, hacker, intelligence, malware, north-korea, openai, russia, threat, toolOpenAI on Tuesday said it disrupted three activity clusters for misusing its ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) tool to facilitate malware development.This includes a Russian”‘language threat actor, who is said to have used the chatbot to help develop and refine a remote access trojan (RAT), a credential stealer with an aim to evade detection. The operator…
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OpenAI Disrupts Russian, North Korean, and Chinese Hackers Misusing ChatGPT for Cyberattacks
Tags: access, ai, chatgpt, china, credentials, cyberattack, hacker, intelligence, malware, north-korea, openai, russia, threat, toolOpenAI on Tuesday said it disrupted three activity clusters for misusing its ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) tool to facilitate malware development.This includes a Russian”‘language threat actor, who is said to have used the chatbot to help develop and refine a remote access trojan (RAT), a credential stealer with an aim to evade detection. The operator…
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Threat actors use us to be efficient, not make new tools
A new report from the leader in the generative AI boom says AI is being used in existing workflows, instead of to create new ones dedicated to malicious hacking. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/openai-threat-report-ai-cybercrime-hacking-scams/
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Threat actors use us to be efficient, not make new tools
A new report from the leader in the generative AI boom says AI is being used in existing workflows, instead of to create new ones dedicated to malicious hacking. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/openai-threat-report-ai-cybercrime-hacking-scams/
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Don’t Let Your Cloud Security Catch a Bad Case of Permission Creep
Tags: access, attack, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, exploit, governance, iam, identity, international, Internet, kubernetes, least-privilege, mfa, risk, service, software, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityCloud security teams are often blind to one of the biggest threats to cloud environments: a web of over-privileged identities that create pathways for attackers. Learn how to regain control of your cloud identities by automating the enforcement of least privilege across your environment. Key takeaways The gradual accumulation of excessive and unused cloud permissions,…
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Don’t Let Your Cloud Security Catch a Bad Case of Permission Creep
Tags: access, attack, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, exploit, governance, iam, identity, international, Internet, kubernetes, least-privilege, mfa, risk, service, software, technology, threat, tool, vulnerabilityCloud security teams are often blind to one of the biggest threats to cloud environments: a web of over-privileged identities that create pathways for attackers. Learn how to regain control of your cloud identities by automating the enforcement of least privilege across your environment. Key takeaways The gradual accumulation of excessive and unused cloud permissions,…
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Hackers Exploit RMM Tools to Deploy Malware
Tags: access, attack, cybercrime, defense, exploit, hacker, malware, monitoring, msp, ransomware, supply-chain, toolAttacks on RMM Tools Surged in 2025, With 51 Solutions Flagged as Targets. Cybercriminals are hijacking trusted remote monitoring and management tools to bypass defenses, gain persistent access and quietly stage ransomware attacks. Experts warn MSPs and enterprises that supply chain exposure amplifies the scale of these intrusions. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Hackers Exploit RMM Tools to Deploy Malware
Tags: access, attack, cybercrime, defense, exploit, hacker, malware, monitoring, msp, ransomware, supply-chain, toolAttacks on RMM Tools Surged in 2025, With 51 Solutions Flagged as Targets. Cybercriminals are hijacking trusted remote monitoring and management tools to bypass defenses, gain persistent access and quietly stage ransomware attacks. Experts warn MSPs and enterprises that supply chain exposure amplifies the scale of these intrusions. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Hackers Exploit RMM Tools to Deploy Malware
Tags: access, attack, cybercrime, defense, exploit, hacker, malware, monitoring, msp, ransomware, supply-chain, toolAttacks on RMM Tools Surged in 2025, With 51 Solutions Flagged as Targets. Cybercriminals are hijacking trusted remote monitoring and management tools to bypass defenses, gain persistent access and quietly stage ransomware attacks. Experts warn MSPs and enterprises that supply chain exposure amplifies the scale of these intrusions. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Beyond Chatbots: Why Agent Security Is the Industry’s Next Major Challenge
The Shift from Answering Questions to Taking Action AI systems are evolving beyond conversation. Today’s autonomous agents book flights, manage calendars, and execute business workflows without constant human oversight. This represents a fundamental shift: from tools that respond to tools that act. This autonomy creates a problem. When an AI agent acts using your credentials,..…
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Beyond Chatbots: Why Agent Security Is the Industry’s Next Major Challenge
The Shift from Answering Questions to Taking Action AI systems are evolving beyond conversation. Today’s autonomous agents book flights, manage calendars, and execute business workflows without constant human oversight. This represents a fundamental shift: from tools that respond to tools that act. This autonomy creates a problem. When an AI agent acts using your credentials,..…
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Google DeepMind launches an AI agent to fix code vulnerabilities automatically
Reactive and proactive security: The tool takes both reactive and proactive approaches to code security, Google DeepMind said. Reactively, it instantly patches new vulnerabilities. Proactively, it rewrites and secures existing code to eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities.In one proactive example, Google DeepMind deployed CodeMender to apply -fbounds-safety annotations to parts of libwebp, a widely used…
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XWorm 6.0 Returns with 35+ Plugins and Enhanced Data Theft Capabilities
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of XWorm malware, turning it into a versatile tool for supporting a wide range of malicious actions on compromised hosts.”XWorm’s modular design is built around a core client and an array of specialized components known as plugins,” Trellix researchers Niranjan Hegde and Sijo Jacob said in an analysis published…
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XWorm 6.0 Returns with 35+ Plugins and Enhanced Data Theft Capabilities
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of XWorm malware, turning it into a versatile tool for supporting a wide range of malicious actions on compromised hosts.”XWorm’s modular design is built around a core client and an array of specialized components known as plugins,” Trellix researchers Niranjan Hegde and Sijo Jacob said in an analysis published…
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Cavalry Werewolf APT Targets Russian Organizations Using FoalShell and Telegram C2
Cavalry Werewolf, a Russian-focused advanced persistent threat (APT) cluster, has intensified its offensive operations by experimenting with new malware variants and leveraging Telegram-based command-and-control (C2). Security teams must prioritize real-time visibility into the tools employed by this group to maintain effective detection and prevention measures. Without timely insights into FoalShell and StallionRAT, defenders risk falling…
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Introducing Seceon aiSIEM CGuard 2.0: A Revolutionary Leap in Cloud Threat Detection and Response
In today’s cloud-first world, cybersecurity teams are drowning in complexity. Enterprises and MSSPs juggle dozens of disconnected tools, each addressing a single slice of the threat landscape, leaving blind spots, integration gaps, and rising operational costs. Seceon’s aiSIEM CGuard 2.0 redefines what unified defense means, delivering an AI/ML-driven, all-in-one security platform that detects, correlates, responds,…
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TDL 006 – Beyond the Firewall: How Attackers Weaponize Your DNS
Tags: access, attack, breach, business, cisa, ciso, computer, conference, control, cyber, data, data-breach, dns, exploit, firewall, google, government, group, guide, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iraq, jobs, leak, malicious, malware, network, phishing, ransomware, service, software, switch, threat, tool, windowsSummary Beyond the Firewall: How Attackers Weaponize Your DNS For many IT professionals, DNS is the internet’s invisible plumbing, historically managed by a “guy with a Unix beard in the basement,” as Infoblox educator Josh Kuo recalled on the Defenders Log podcast. But this foundational, often overlooked, protocol has become a primary vector for sophisticated…
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Zeroday Cloud hacking contest offers $4.5 million in bounties
A new hacking competition called Zeroday Cloud, focused on open-source cloud and AI tools, announced a total prize pool of $4.5 million in bug bounties for researchers that submit exploits for various targets. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zeroday-cloud-hacking-contest-offers-45-million-in-bounties/
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ChatGPT Pulse is coming to the web, but no word on free or Plus roll out
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pulse, which is a tool that gives you personalised updates based on usage patterns, is coming to the web. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-pulse-is-coming-to-the-web-but-no-word-on-free-or-plus-roll-out/
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OpenAI is testing ChatGPT-powered Agent Builder
AI startups are convinced AI agents are the future, and OpenAI is building a tool that will allow you to create your own AI Agents. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-is-testing-chatgpt-powered-agent-builder/
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How Exposure Management Helped Three Companies Transform Their Cybersecurity Program
Tags: application-security, attack, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, identity, infrastructure, iot, law, risk, software, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementPart two of our Exposure Management Academy series on exposure management maturity explores how organizations like Drogaria Araujo, Tenable and Verizon have applied exposure management to strengthen their security postures. Key takeaways: Case studies of Drogaria Araujo, Tenable and Verizon illustrate how exposure management provides tangible benefits to organizations of different sizes and security maturity…
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Hackers Allegedly Breach Huawei Technologies, Leak Source Code and Internal Tools
Cybersecurity researchers are reporting an alleged security breach involving Chinese technology giantHuawei Technologies, with hackers claiming to have accessed and leaked sensitive source code and internal development tools. The incident, which surfaced through social media channels, represents a potentially significant security compromise of one of the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers. Hacker illustrating world’s biggest…
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Gemini Trifecta: AI autonomy without guardrails opens new attack surface
Exfiltration via the browsing tool: Even after prompt injection, the attacker needs a way to pull data out, and that’s what the third flaw affecting the Gemini Browsing Tool allowed. Tenable researchers crafted prompts to trick Gemini to fetch external web content using the Browser Tool, embedding user data into the query string of that…
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The Political Weaponization of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity should be guided by technical principles”, not politics. Yet recent incidents in the U.S. highlight how cybersecurity decisions and dismissals are increasingly being used to advance partisan agendas. From cloud data migrations to high-profile government firings, security is becoming a political tool rather than a neutral safeguard. True cybersecurity must return to its foundation:…
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Ransomware Gangs Exploit Remote Access Tools to Stay Hidden and Maintain Control
Modern ransomware operations have evolved far beyond simple opportunistic attacks into sophisticated, multi-stage campaigns that exploit legitimate Remote Access Tools (RATs) to maintain stealth and persistence while systematically dismantling organizational defenses. Ransomware is one of the most disruptive cyber threats, encrypting critical organizational data and demanding ransom payments for restoration. While early campaigns relied on…
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CISOs rethink the security organization for the AI era
Jill Knesek, CISO, BlackLine BlackLineEchoing Oleksak, Knesek says she feels strongly about utilizing traditional security and having the right controls in place. Getting foundational security right will get you a long way, she says.’Then, as you learn about more sophisticated attacks “¦ we’ll have to pivot our tooling and capabilities to those risks.” For now,…
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CISOs rethink the security organization for the AI era
Jill Knesek, CISO, BlackLine BlackLineEchoing Oleksak, Knesek says she feels strongly about utilizing traditional security and having the right controls in place. Getting foundational security right will get you a long way, she says.’Then, as you learn about more sophisticated attacks “¦ we’ll have to pivot our tooling and capabilities to those risks.” For now,…