Tag: tool
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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AI-powered attack kits go open source, and CyberStrikeAI may be just the beginning
100-plus prebuilt tool recipes and a human-readable YAML-based extension system;Attack-chain graph, risk scoring, and “step-by-step replay”;Password-protected web user interfaces (UIs) and audit logs;A knowledge base with vector search, hybrid retrieval, and searchable archives;Vulnerability management with create, read, update, delete (CRUD) operations, severity tracking, status workflow, and statistics;Batch task management that can organize task queues and…
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Interplay between Iranian Targeting of IP Cameras and Physical Warfare in the Middle East
ey Findings Introduction As highlighted in theCyber Security Report 2026, cyber operations have increasingly become an additional tool in interstate conflicts, used both to support military operations and to enable ongoing battle damage assessment (BDA). During the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran in June 2025, the compromise of cameras was likely used to support…
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A suite of government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminals
Security researchers say exploits used by governments to hack into Apple iPhones have been found used by cybercriminals. They warned of an emerging market for “second hand” exploits. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/a-suite-of-government-hacking-tools-targeting-iphones-is-now-being-used-by-cybercriminals/
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Data Sovereignty: What Infrastructure Leaders Must Know
Discover the top DCIM software trends shaping the future of data centers in 2025. From AI-powered predictive maintenance to sustainability-focused tools, hybrid cloud management, and real-time monitoring, these advancements are redefining data center operations. Learn how next-gen DCIM solutions can optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure compliance while driving scalability and innovation. First seen on…
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Fake Zoom and Google Meet Pages Trick Users Into Installing Monitoring Tool
Fake Zoom and Google Meet pages trick users into installing a monitoring software on Windows systems through phishing links and fake updates. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/zoom-google-meet-phishing-monitoring-tool/
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NDSS 2025 Be Careful Of What You Embed: Demystifying OLE Vulnerabilities
Tags: conference, cve, data, detection, exploit, Internet, malicious, microsoft, network, office, remote-code-execution, risk, tool, vulnerability, windowsSession 14C: Vulnerability Detection Authors, Creators & Presenters: Yunpeng Tian (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Feng Dong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Haoyi Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Meng Xu (University of Waterloo), Zhiniang Peng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Sangfor Technologies Inc.), Zesen Ye (Sangfor Technologies Inc.), Shenghui Li…
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AI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, cyber, data, deep-fake, encryption, governance, identity, infrastructure, risk, saas, skills, software, strategy, theft, threat, toolAI Emerges as the New Insider Threat: Thales Releases the 2026 Data Threat Report madhav Tue, 03/03/2026 – 15:00 Over the past year, I’ve watched AI move to operational reality across nearly every industry we work with. The conversation is no longer about whether AI will transform business. It already has. Cybersecurity Todd Moore –…
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AI and Deepfakes Supercharge Sophisticated Cyber-Attacks, Says Cloudflare
Cloudflare Threat Report warns that AI tools enable attackers who lacked required skills to generate effective attacks rapidly and at scale First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-deepfakes-supercharge/
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Analyse von Knowbe4 – Angreifer missbrauchen RMM-Tools als Backdoor
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/knowbe4-entdeckt-gefaehrliche-phishing-angriffskampagne-a-03dba37a8f860661e1ad565dff24d2c6/
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Addressing the God Key Challenge in Agentic AI for MCP Servers, Effective Solutions Explained
The Agentic AI wave is accelerating rapidly. What began as chatbots equipped with simple tools is now evolving into autonomous digital workers that are deeply integrated into enterprise workflows. As these deployments mature, a critical security gap is becoming increasingly apparent. Many current agent architectures still rely on what can be described as a God……
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Secure by Design: Building security in at the beginning
Tags: toolSecure by Design is not a single tool, product, or one”‘time activity. It is a holistic approach that requires security to be deliberately embedded from the very beginning, at … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/03/center-for-internes-security-secure-by-design-guide/
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SloppyLemming Espionage Campaign Targets Pakistan, Bangladesh with BurrowShell Backdoor and Rust RAT
SloppyLemming, an India-linked espionage group also known as Outrider Tiger and Fishing Elephant, has run a year-long cyber campaign against high”‘value targets in Pakistan and Bangladesh using a new BurrowShell backdoor and a Rust-based remote access tool (RAT). This activity builds directly on earlier operations exposed by Cloudflare’s CloudForce One in 2024. However, it shows…
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OAuth phishers make ‘check where the link points’ advice ineffective
Tags: authentication, automation, awareness, business, cloud, control, edr, email, encryption, endpoint, exploit, governance, identity, login, malicious, microsoft, monitoring, phishing, saas, threat, toolContext, not the URL, is the new red flag: Sakshi Grover, Senior Research Manager at IDC Asia/Pacific, said the longstanding advice to hover over a link and verify its domain was built for an era of lookalike domains and that it no longer holds in environments where authentication flows routinely pass through trusted identity providers.”Organizations…
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Shannon: Autonomous AI Tool with Nmap Integration Can Uncover and Exploit Security Flaws
Keygraph has released Shannon, a fully autonomous AI-powered penetration testing tool designed to identify and actively exploit real vulnerabilities in web applications before malicious actors can. Unlike traditional scanners that generate alerts, Shannon delivers proven, reproducible exploits, closing the dangerous security gap that exists between annual pentests and continuous code deployments. How Shannon Works Shannon emulates…
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Shannon: Autonomous AI Tool with Nmap Integration Can Uncover and Exploit Security Flaws
Keygraph has released Shannon, a fully autonomous AI-powered penetration testing tool designed to identify and actively exploit real vulnerabilities in web applications before malicious actors can. Unlike traditional scanners that generate alerts, Shannon delivers proven, reproducible exploits, closing the dangerous security gap that exists between annual pentests and continuous code deployments. How Shannon Works Shannon emulates…
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Shannon: Autonomous AI Tool with Nmap Integration Can Uncover and Exploit Security Flaws
Keygraph has released Shannon, a fully autonomous AI-powered penetration testing tool designed to identify and actively exploit real vulnerabilities in web applications before malicious actors can. Unlike traditional scanners that generate alerts, Shannon delivers proven, reproducible exploits, closing the dangerous security gap that exists between annual pentests and continuous code deployments. How Shannon Works Shannon emulates…
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New Defender deployment tool streamlines Windows device onboarding with single executable
Microsoft’s Defender deployment tool for Windows helps administrators manage device onboarding at scale with updated progress visibility and additional controls. Simplified … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/03/microsoft-defender-deployment-tool-for-windows-update/
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Zerobot Malware Exploits Tenda Command Injection Vulnerabilities to Deploy Malicious Payloads
An active Zerobot campaign abusing two critical vulnerabilities CVE-2025-7544 in Tenda AC1206 routers and CVE-2025-68613 in the n8n workflow automation platform to deploy a Mirai-based payload dubbed Zerobotv9. The campaign uses common download tools and multi-architecture binaries to rapidly enroll compromised systems into a botnet that can be leveraged for denial-of-service attack and further intrusion…
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Fortinet FortiGate Devices Targeted by CyberStrikeAI, Allowing Hackers to Bypass Security
Threat intelligence researchers at Team Cymru have uncovered an open-source AI-powered offensive security tool called CyberStrikeAI, actively used to target Fortinet FortiGate devices at scale, with its developer carrying suspected ties to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS).”‹ CyberStrikeAI is an AI-native security testing platform written in Go, developed by a GitHub user named Ed1s0nZ.…
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Epic Fury introduces new layer of enterprise risk
Tags: access, apt, attack, business, cisa, ciso, communications, country, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, disinformation, exploit, group, infrastructure, intelligence, international, Internet, iran, malware, middle-east, network, ransomware, resilience, risk, rust, service, software, technology, tool, ukrainePhysical attacks on US-linked locations through direct action or partner groups. We are already seeing Iranian missile launches into a variety of nations in the region.Cyber operations that include disruptive activity, targeted intrusions, credential and access harvesting, destructive malware deployment, and the use of compromised infrastructure to support broader influence or operational objectives.Proxy networks across…
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7 factors impacting the cyber skills gap
Tags: ai, attack, automation, breach, business, ciso, control, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, group, incident response, intelligence, jobs, risk, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability2. Emerging technologies: New technologies, particularly AI, are contributing to a cyber landscape that’s evolving so quickly it’s hard for even highly skilled cybersecurity professionals to pace, says Dan Lohrmann, CISO at enterprise strategy and consulting firm Presidio.AI-driven threats keep moving the target, allowing cybercriminals to attack with unprecedented levels of speed and agility, Lohrmann…
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MS-Agent Vulnerability Exposes AI Agents to Remote Hijacking, Granting Full System Control
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the MS-Agent framework, a lightweight software tool used to build and run autonomous AI agents. Tracked as CVE-2026-2256, this command injection flaw allows remote attackers to hijack these AI agents, potentially granting them full control over the underlying computer systems. MS-Agent is designed to help developers create AI…
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Cyberattackers Exploit OpenVSX Aqua Trivy with Malicious AI Prompts to Hijack Coding Tools
Threat actors compromised the Aqua Trivy VS Code extension on OpenVSX by publishing malicious versions 1.8.12 and 1.8.13 on February 27-28, 2026. These versions injected prompts to hijack local AI coding tools for system reconnaissance and data exfiltration. Aqua Trivy is a popular open-source vulnerability scanner with a VS Code extension, hosted on OpenVSX under…
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CyberStrikeAI tool adopted by hackers for AI-powered attacks
Researchers warn that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cyberstrikeai-tool-adopted-by-hackers-for-ai-powered-attacks/
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Critical OpenClaw Vulnerability Exposes AI Agent Risks
The now-patched flaw is the latest in a growing string of security issues associated with the viral AI tool, which has seen rapid adoption among developers. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/critical-openclaw-vulnerability-ai-agent-risks