Tag: tool
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CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT.The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00…
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GlassWorm evolves with Zig dropper to infect multiple developer tools
The GlassWorm campaign uses a Zig-based dropper hidden in a fake IDE extension to infect developer tools and compromise systems. The GlassWorm campaign, active since 2025, has evolved from malicious npm packages to large-scale supply chain attacks across GitHub, npm, and VS Code, even deploying RATs via fake browser extensions. In its latest iteration, threat…
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GlassWorm evolves with Zig dropper to infect multiple developer tools
The GlassWorm campaign uses a Zig-based dropper hidden in a fake IDE extension to infect developer tools and compromise systems. The GlassWorm campaign, active since 2025, has evolved from malicious npm packages to large-scale supply chain attacks across GitHub, npm, and VS Code, even deploying RATs via fake browser extensions. In its latest iteration, threat…
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CVE-2026-39987: Marimo RCE exploited in hours after disclosure
A critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-39987, in the open-source Python notebook tool Marimo was exploited within 10 hours of disclosure. A critical flaw in Marimo, tracked as CVE-2026-39987 (CVSS score of 9.3) was exploited just 10 hours after disclosure (On April 8, 2026). Sysdig Threat Research Team observed exploitation of the Marimo flaw within 9…
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Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc.The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firms merged in July…
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Breaking the Patch Sound Barrier: Your Vulnerability Remediation Will Not Keep Up With AI Exploit”¦
Breaking the Patch Sound Barrier: Your Vulnerability Remediation Will Not Keep Up With AI Exploit Speed. So? Many years ago while at Gartner, I wrote a blog post where I defined the concept of the “Patch Sound Barrier.” (original via Archive if you don’t believe that I was that smart back in 2013 🙂) This was an…
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Anthropic Claude Mythos Will Break Vulnerability Management
Tags: access, ai, attack, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, metric, risk, software, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAnthropic’s latest AI Model, Claude Mythos, will break the cybersecurity vulnerability management operational models. Mythos is so good at discovering and building viable exploits it is currently being rolled-out in a controlled manner under “Project Glasswing”. Those cybersecurity companies who have early access are attesting to the blazing speed and accuracy of the model…
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Anthropic Claude Mythos Will Break Vulnerability Management
Tags: access, ai, attack, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, metric, risk, software, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAnthropic’s latest AI Model, Claude Mythos, will break the cybersecurity vulnerability management operational models. Mythos is so good at discovering and building viable exploits it is currently being rolled-out in a controlled manner under “Project Glasswing”. Those cybersecurity companies who have early access are attesting to the blazing speed and accuracy of the model…
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Top Vendor Privileged Access Management Solutions
Vendor access is one of the most overlooked and abused entry points in modern environments. Third party vendors, contractors, service providers, and partners often need privileged access to critical systems. Unlike employees, they operate outside your organization’s direct control. That is where the risk begins. Many organizations still rely on VPNs or basic remote access tools to support vendor……
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Old Docker authorization bypass pops up despite previous patch
Tags: access, api, botnet, cloud, container, credentials, data, docker, exploit, flaw, monitoring, tool, update, vulnerabilityNo one checked oversized requests: While the previous authorization bypass was triggered when request Content-Length was set to 0, no one checked at the time what would happen in the same function if the request exceeded a certain size.”When an API request body exceeds 1MB, Docker’s middleware silently drops the body before your authorization plugin…
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UK government threatens tech bosses with jail time if they do not adequately fight nudification tools
A U.K. communications regulator, Ofcom, has said it will be cracking down on the spread of the images in the aftermath of the Grok scandal, which led to millions of “nudified” images of women and children to be circulated worldwide. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/uk-threatens-tech-bosses-with-jail-ai-nudification
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TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
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TDL 019 – The Psychology Behind a Cyber Breach and the Leaders Who Survive It – Nim Nadarajah
Tags: access, ai, apple, automation, breach, business, cctv, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computing, conference, control, corporate, crowdstrike, cve, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, dns, edr, email, finance, firewall, governance, group, healthcare, incident, incident response, infrastructure, injection, insurance, Internet, jobs, law, LLM, metric, microsoft, msp, network, office, powershell, privacy, programming, psychology, risk, saas, service, siem, soar, soc, software, startup, strategy, supply-chain, switch, technology, threat, tool, training, usa, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustLeading Through the Cyber Abyss In Episode 019 of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Nim Nadarajah, CISO and Managing Partner of Critical Matrix, to explore the evolving landscape of cybersecurity leadership. From the “annual pilgrimage” of RSAC 2026 to the front lines of incident response, the conversation shifts from technical bits…
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CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads
Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/cpuid_site_hijacked/
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CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads
Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/10/cpuid_site_hijacked/
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How AutoSecT Simplifies Audit Preparation for Global Enterprises
AutoSecT by Kratikal steps in not as an AI-driven VMDR and pentest tool to add to the stack, but as a unified platform that radically simplifies audit readiness while strengthening security posture at scale. Preparing for security audits is one of the toughest challenges global enterprises face today. With sprawling attack surfaces, cloud environments, complex……
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How Acronis and SuperOps help MSPs work smarter with integrated cyber protection
The integration between Acronis and SuperOps was built to address these challenges head-on. By connecting cyber protection services directly into the SuperOps ecosystem, MSPs gain better visibility, fewer handoffs between tools and more consistent service delivery, while maintaining strong security standards. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/how-acronis-and-superops-help-msps-work-smarter-with-integrated-cyber-protection/
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Renovate Dependabot: The New Malware Delivery System
Recent supply chain attacks stayed live for hours. Automation tools silently merged their malware in minutes. Read how upgrade bots and AI agents became the insider threat. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/renovate-dependabot-the-new-malware-delivery-system/
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CMMC compliance in the age of AI
Tags: access, ai, automation, awareness, business, compliance, control, data, detection, email, governance, government, grc, metric, risk, tool, trainingThe primary readiness gap: data scope awareness: Central to preparation is gaining a complete understanding of the data subject to CMMC 2.0 controls. Many organizations are still struggling to define the full scope of systems, workflows and third-party relationships that process or store CUI. When contractors conduct detailed CMMC-focused data inventories, it’s common that they’ll…
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Little Snitch for Linux shows what your apps are connecting to
Network monitoring on Linux has long been a gap for users who want per-process visibility into outbound connections. Existing tools either operate at the command line or were … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/10/little-snitch-for-linux-privacy/
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Little Snitch for Linux shows what your apps are connecting to
Network monitoring on Linux has long been a gap for users who want per-process visibility into outbound connections. Existing tools either operate at the command line or were … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/10/little-snitch-for-linux-privacy/
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Middle East Espionage Attack Uses Fake Secure Messaging Apps to Deliver ProSpy
Hackers are impersonating popular secure messaging apps to deploy a sophisticated Android spyware tool called ProSpy against journalists, activists, and political figures across the Middle East, in a hack”‘for”‘hire campaign linked to the BITTER APT group. The campaign has been active since at least 2022. It primarily targets civil society members and potentially government officials in countries…
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TeamPCP griff EU und Cisco an – Massive Supply-Chain-Angriffe über Trivy-Tool und Telnyx-PyPI
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/teampcp-supply-chain-angriffe-trivy-telnyx-a-ce4e1dc1ec2f5930ec814664eefd2541/
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What to Know About CyberAv3ngers: The IRGC-Linked Group Targeting Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, authentication, automation, backup, cctv, chatgpt, cisa, communications, compliance, control, credentials, crypto, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, dns, email, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, government, group, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, iot, iran, kev, leak, linux, malicious, malware, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, network, office, openai, password, radius, resilience, risk, router, service, siem, software, strategy, switch, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAn Iran-affiliated threat group has evolved from defacing water utility displays to deploying custom ICS malware and exploiting Rockwell Automation PLCs across multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors. Key takeaways: CyberAv3ngers is a state-directed threat group operating under Iran’s IRGC Cyber-Electronic Command. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned six named officials in February 2024 and the State Department…
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Hackers have been exploiting an unpatched Adobe Reader vulnerability for months
Tags: access, adobe, attack, ciso, control, data, email, exploit, hacker, incident response, malicious, malware, monitoring, resilience, risk, sans, software, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityA high risk exploit: Kellman Meghu, chief technology officer at Canadian incident response firm DeepCove Security, called the exploit “a very high risk.”So far it looks as though this particular malware just exfiltrates data, he said. But it implies there is an ability or capability to turn it into a vehicle for remote code execution.…
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Mythos and Like AI Tools Raise Stakes for Healthcare Cyber
Experts Warn of Faster and Higher Volume Attacks, Rising Patient Safety Worries. Emerging powerful AI tools – such as Anthropic’s new Claude Mythos – that are capable of autonomously identifying and exploiting software bugs in a flash could reshape the healthcare cyber landscape by accelerating attacks and raising the risk of widespread operational disruption, experts…
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Who Controls AI on Battlefields – the Military or the Model?
Former DoD CIO Beavers on Ethics, Reliability and AI as a National Security Tool. As AI is increasingly used in defense operations, a critical question emerges: Who controls the system – the military or the model? Former DoD CIO Leslie Beavers explores challenges related to ethics and reliability, vendor risk, and autonomy as AI tools…
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In-Memory Loader Drops ScreenConnect
IntroductionIn February 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered an attack chain where attackers used a fake Adobe Acrobat Reader download to lure victims into installing ConnectWise’s ScreenConnect. While ScreenConnect is a legitimate remote access tool, it can be leveraged for malicious purposes. In this blog post, ThreatLabz examines the various stages of this attack, from the download lure to the…
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SASE für das KI-Zeitalter
Island, die Plattform für Enterprise-Work und Entwickler des Enterprise-Browsers, präsentiert eine grundlegend neue Secure-Access-Service-Edge (SASE) -Architektur. Ihr Kern: das Konzept des ‘Perfect Packet”. Es wurde für eine Arbeitswelt entwickelt, in der KI-Agenten, verteilte Remote-Teams und lokale Tools das Büro als Zentrum der Arbeit abgelöst haben. Das Ergebnis: Bis zu 90 Prozent des Datenverkehrs laufen direkt…