Tag: tool
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Hackers Target Developers Using Malicious VS Code and Cursor AI Extensions
Visual Studio Code and AI-powered IDEs such as Cursor AI and Windsurf are emerging as one of the most critical and overlooked attack surfaces in the modern software supply chain. Installed on millions of developer machines worldwide, these tools often run with access to source code, secrets, and production credentials. New research shows that compromising…
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Strengthening Fraud Prevention with Real-Time Mobile Identity Signals
Fraud is rising quickly in digital channels, making it harder for businesses to stay secure without adding customer friction. Deterministic, mobile-based identity signals provide the real-time, authoritative verification that outdated probabilistic tools can’t, enabling stronger fraud prevention with smoother onboarding. The post Strengthening Fraud Prevention with Real-Time Mobile Identity Signals appeared first on TechRepublic. First…
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Offensive security takes center stage in the AI era
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, ciso, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, framework, hacker, hacking, incident response, intelligence, malicious, offense, phishing, RedTeam, regulation, risk, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, windowsRed teaming, where ethical hackers simulate real-world attacks to test detection and response capabilities. Red teams aim to emulate threat actors by using stealthy tactics to bypass controls and achieve objectives such as data exfiltration or privilege escalation.Adversary emulation, where security pros re-create known threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) based on threat intelligence…
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NVIDIA research shows how agentic AI fails under attack
Enterprises are rushing to deploy agentic systems that plan, use tools, and make decisions with less human guidance than earlier AI models. This new class of systems also … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/08/nvidia-agentic-ai-security-framework/
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Shanya EDR Killer: The New Favorite Tool for Ransomware Operators
A sophisticated new >>packer-as-a-service>EDR killer
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Critical Vulnerabilities Found in GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Claude, and Other AI Tools Affect Millions
A groundbreaking security research project has uncovered a new class of vulnerabilities affecting virtually every major AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE) and coding assistant on the market. Dubbed >>IDEsaster,
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Qualys blickt ins Jahr 2026: KI-Angriffe, Risk Operations und neue Sicherheitsanforderungen
2026 wird für Security-Teams ein Jahr, in dem Risiko-Priorisierung, Transparenz und Kontext entscheidender werden als schiere Datenmengen oder Tool-Vielfalt. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/qualys-blickt-ins-jahr-2026-ki-angriffe-risk-operations-und-neue-sicherheitsanforderungen/a43080/
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Researchers Uncover 30+ Flaws in AI Coding Tools Enabling Data Theft and RCE Attacks
Tags: ai, attack, data, flaw, injection, intelligence, rce, remote-code-execution, theft, tool, vulnerabilityOver 30 security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in various artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that combine prompt injection primitives with legitimate features to achieve data exfiltration and remote code execution.The security shortcomings have been collectively named IDEsaster by security researcher Ari Marzouk (MaccariTA). They affect popular First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article:…
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Warning: React2Shell vulnerability already being exploited by threat actors
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, china, cloud, communications, credentials, data, data-breach, exploit, firewall, framework, group, infosec, intelligence, linux, malicious, malware, open-source, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, wafSystem.Management.Automation.AmsiUtils.amsiInitFailed = true (a standard AMSI bypass), and iex executes the next stage.JFrog’s security research team also today reported finding a working proof of concept that leads to code execution, and they and others have also reported finding fake PoCs containing malicious code on GitHub. “Security teams must verify sources before testing [these PoCs],” warns JFrog.Amitai Cohen, attack…
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More evidence your AI agents can be turned against you
Aikido found that AI coding tools from Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and others regularly embed untrusted prompts into software development workflows. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ai-coding-tools-can-be-turned-against-you-aikido-github-prompt-injection/
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Hardening browser security with zero-trust controls
Tags: access, api, authentication, automation, browser, chrome, cisa, cloud, compliance, container, control, corporate, credentials, crowdstrike, data, data-breach, detection, edr, email, encryption, endpoint, exploit, fido, finance, framework, google, governance, group, Hardware, identity, kubernetes, least-privilege, login, malicious, malware, mfa, microsoft, network, nist, okta, passkey, password, phishing, phone, risk, risk-assessment, sap, service, soar, theft, threat, tool, update, wifi, windows, zero-trust1. Identity-first access control Network proximity is now an inferior trust signal. Only federated, cryptographically verifiable identity tokens issued by centralized enterprise IdPs using OIDC or SAML are permitted as gates to corporate resources. This transition, well-documented by FIDO Alliance and Microsoft research, transfers the very concept of “inside” the organization from the network to…
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Hackers Using CastleRAT Malware to Attack Windows Systems and Gain Remote Access
The cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve as threat actors deploy increasingly sophisticated tools to compromise Windows-based infrastructure. CastleRAT, a Remote Access Trojan that emerged around March 2025, represents a significant addition to the malware arsenal that defenders must now contend with. This newly discovered threat demonstrates the convergence of multiple attack techniques, enabling attackers to…
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Cloudflare Outage Triggers Widespread 500 Internal Server Errors
Cloudflare has announced that it is currently experiencing a significant outage impacting its Dashboard and Cloudflare API services. Many users around the world are reporting issues such as 500 Internal Server Errors, failed API requests, and sudden disruptions in tools that depend on Cloudflare’s backend systems. According to the cloudflare, the problem mainly affects the…
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So finden Sie den richtigen USB-Stick für Ihre Daten
Angesichts der zunehmenden Verfügbarkeit fortschrittlicher Hacking-Tools ist es wichtiger denn je, Speicherlösungen zu wählen, die einen zuverlässigen und sicheren Datenschutz bieten. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/so-finden-sie-den-richtigen-usb-stick-fuer-ihre-daten/a42964/
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15 years in, zero trust remains elusive, with AI rising to complicate the challenge
Legacy systems that weren’t designed for zero trust principles,Fragmented identity and access tools that make unified enforcement difficult, andCultural and organizational resistance to changing long-standing trust models.Kyle Wickert, field CTO at AlgoSec, says zero trust remains one of the most misunderstood transformations in cybersecurity.”Many organizations still hesitate to pursue it because they associate zero trust…
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CISA, NSA Alert on BRICKSTORM Malware Targeting VMware ESXi and Windows Systems
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA), joined by Canadian cyber authorities, have issued a joint alert warning of a sophisticated new malware campaign dubbed >>BRICKSTORM.
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New iOS Zero-Day Exploit Chain Enables Advanced Surveillance by Mercenary Spyware
Despite extensive scrutiny and public reporting, commercial surveillance vendors continue to operate with alarming sophistication. Intellexa, a prominent mercenary spyware provider known for its >>Predator
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LummaC2 Infects North Korean Hacker Device Linked to Bybit Heist
LummaC2 infostealer infects North Korean hacker’s device, exposing ties to $1.4B Bybit heist and revealing tools, infrastructure and OPSEC failures. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/north-korean-hacker-device-lummac2-infostealer-bybit/
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From feeds to flows: Using a unified linkage model to operationalize threat intelligence
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, container, control, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, finance, firewall, framework, github, government, iam, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, ISO-27001, malicious, metric, mitre, monitoring, network, nist, open-source, phishing, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, saas, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-trustwhat to watch for, but not why it matters or how it moves through your environment.The result is a paradox of abundance: CISOs have more data than ever before, but less operational clarity. Analysts are overwhelmed by indicators disconnected from context or mission relevance.Each feed represents a snapshot of a potential threat, but it does…
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AWS Adds Bevy of Tools and Capilities to Improve Cloud Security
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made an AWS Security Hub for analyzing cybersecurity data in near real time generally available, while at the same time extending the GuardDuty threat detection capabilities it provides to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2025..…
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Wi-Fi Hack, npm Worm, DeFi Theft, Phishing Blasts”, and 15 More Stories
Think your Wi-Fi is safe? Your coding tools? Or even your favorite financial apps? This week proves again how hackers, companies, and governments are all locked in a nonstop race to outsmart each other.Here’s a quick rundown of the latest cyber stories that show how fast the game keeps changing. DeFi exploit drains funds Critical…
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Hackers Weaponize Velociraptor DFIR for Stealthy C2 and Ransomware Deployment
Tags: access, control, cyber, exploit, hacker, incident response, infrastructure, open-source, ransomware, threat, tool, vulnerabilityThreat actors are increasingly weaponizing Velociraptor, a legitimate open-source digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) tool, to establish command-and-control (C2) infrastructure and facilitate ransomware attacks. Huntress analysts have documented multiple incidents spanning September through November 2025 where attackers exploited critical vulnerabilities to gain initial access before deploying Velociraptor for persistent remote access and lateral movement.…
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PickleScan Uncovers 0-Day Vulnerabilities Allowing Arbitrary Code Execution via Malicious PyTorch Models
JFrog Security Research has uncovered three critical zero-day vulnerabilities in PickleScan, a widely-adopted industry-standard tool for scanning machine learning models and detecting malicious content. These vulnerabilities would enable attackers to completely bypass PickleScan’s malware detection mechanisms, potentially facilitating large-scale supply chain attacks by distributing malicious ML models containing undetectable code. The discoveries underscore a fundamental…
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New Scanner Released to Detect Exposed ReactJS and Next.js RSC Endpoints (CVE-2025-55182)
Security researchers have released a specialized scanning tool to identify vulnerable React Server Component (RSC) endpoints in modern web applications, addressing a critical gap in the detection of CVE-2025-55182. New Detection Approach Challenges Existing Security Assumptions A newly available Python-based scanner is transforming how organizations assess their exposure to CVE-2025-55182 by introducing a sophisticated surface…
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Malicious VSCode Extension Deploys Anivia Loader and OctoRAT
In late November 2025, a sophisticated supply-chain attack leveraging the Visual Studio Code extension ecosystem came to light, demonstrating how threat actors are increasingly targeting developer tools to gain persistent access to high-value systems. On November 21, a malicious extension masquerading as the popular Prettier code formatter appeared briefly on the official VSCode Marketplace before…
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Wie Unternehmen sich gegen neue KI-Gefahren wappnen
Tags: ai, china, cyberattack, cyersecurity, hacker, hacking, injection, iran, ml, penetration-testing, phishing, risk, tool, vulnerabilityKI ist nicht nur ein Tool für Hacker, sondern kann auch selbst zur Gefahr werden.In der Welt der Cybersicherheit gibt es ein grundlegendes Prinzip, das auf den ersten Blick widersprüchlich klingen mag: ‘Wir hacken, bevor Cyberkriminelle die Gelegenheit dazu bekommen.” Um dies umzusetzen und Produktionsstraßen oder Maschinen zu schützen, setzen Unternehmen wie Siemens auf zwei…
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Developers urged to immediately upgrade React, Next.js
create-next-app and built for production is vulnerable without any specific code modifications by the developer,” Wiz also warns.The problem in React’s server package, designated CVE-2025-55182, is a logical deserialization vulnerability allowing the server to processes RSC payloads in an unsafe way. When a server receives a specially crafted, malformed payload, say Wiz researchers, it fails to validate the…
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RCE flaw in OpenAI’s Codex CLI highlights new risks to dev environments
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, backdoor, cloud, exploit, flaw, google, malicious, open-source, openai, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, service, tool, vulnerabilityMultiple attack vectors: For this flaw to be exploited, the victim needs to clone the repository and run Codex on it and an attacker needs to have commit access to the repo or have their malicious pull request accepted.”Compromised templates, starter repos, or popular open-source projects can weaponize many downstream consumers with a single commit,”…