Tag: tool
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OpenAI Announced $1B in Defensive Tools for Water Utilities
OpenAI pledges $1B in subsidized Daybreak AI cybersecurity tools for under-resourced critical infrastructure defenders. OpenAI announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders on September 3, 2026, committing $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cyber models, training, and technical support to help organizations that protect essential services in the United States and internationally. >>A $1 billion…
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AI is finding vulnerabilities faster. Who is funding the people expected to fix them?
Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports and enquiries a month. It now receives around 70. AI tools can examine source code and identify potential security issues at a scale that would previously have required significant human…
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AI is finding vulnerabilities faster. Who is funding the people expected to fix them?
Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports and enquiries a month. It now receives around 70. AI tools can examine source code and identify potential security issues at a scale that would previously have required significant human…
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AI is finding vulnerabilities faster. Who is funding the people expected to fix them?
Artificial intelligence is changing vulnerability discovery. At OpenSSL, we are seeing that change first-hand. A year ago, our security address received around nine separate reports and enquiries a month. It now receives around 70. AI tools can examine source code and identify potential security issues at a scale that would previously have required significant human…
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Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face deal could benefit enterprises
The chipmaker’s acquisition could eventually bring additional security resources and model evaluation tools to the platform, according to experts. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/Nvidia-acquires-hugging-face-enterprises/829697/
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OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion in AI Cybersecurity Tools to Protect Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, ai, cyber, cybersecurity, infrastructure, intelligence, openai, threat, tool, trainingOpenAI announced a $1 billion initiative on Thursday to provide subsidized access to its artificial intelligence (AI) cybersecurity tools, technical support, and training for critical infrastructure operators. The rollout comes amid mounting warnings that AI-driven cyber threats are rapidly escalating. The company’s Daybreak for Frontline Defenders global program aims to equip under-resourced organizations protecting essential..…
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Hackers Turn HiveMQ and Element Messenger Into Control Channels for Windows Backdoors
Tags: backdoor, control, cyber, data-breach, group, hacker, infrastructure, malware, ransomware, threat, tool, windowsThe financially motivated threat actor Toy Ghouls has expanded its custom malware arsenal with two Windows backdoors that abuse HiveMQ’s public MQTT infrastructure and the Matrix-based Element messaging ecosystem for command-and-control communications. The development marks a notable evolution for the group, which previously leaned on publicly available tools and leaked ransomware builders before introducing its…
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Hackers Turn HiveMQ and Element Messenger Into Control Channels for Windows Backdoors
Tags: backdoor, control, cyber, data-breach, group, hacker, infrastructure, malware, ransomware, threat, tool, windowsThe financially motivated threat actor Toy Ghouls has expanded its custom malware arsenal with two Windows backdoors that abuse HiveMQ’s public MQTT infrastructure and the Matrix-based Element messaging ecosystem for command-and-control communications. The development marks a notable evolution for the group, which previously leaned on publicly available tools and leaked ransomware builders before introducing its…
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Detecting livingthe-land binaries with Sysmon process events
Living-off-the-land binaries, often shortened to LOLBins, are legitimate Windows executables that attackers abuse to carry out malicious activity while blending in with normal administration. The binaries themselves are not the problem. The issue is that tools such as PowerShell, cmd.exe,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/detecting-living-off-the-land-binaries-with-sysmon-process-events/
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Detecting livingthe-land binaries with Sysmon process events
Living-off-the-land binaries, often shortened to LOLBins, are legitimate Windows executables that attackers abuse to carry out malicious activity while blending in with normal administration. The binaries themselves are not the problem. The issue is that tools such as PowerShell, cmd.exe,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/detecting-living-off-the-land-binaries-with-sysmon-process-events/
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Detecting livingthe-land binaries with Sysmon process events
Living-off-the-land binaries, often shortened to LOLBins, are legitimate Windows executables that attackers abuse to carry out malicious activity while blending in with normal administration. The binaries themselves are not the problem. The issue is that tools such as PowerShell, cmd.exe,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/detecting-living-off-the-land-binaries-with-sysmon-process-events/
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Detecting livingthe-land binaries with Sysmon process events
Living-off-the-land binaries, often shortened to LOLBins, are legitimate Windows executables that attackers abuse to carry out malicious activity while blending in with normal administration. The binaries themselves are not the problem. The issue is that tools such as PowerShell, cmd.exe,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/detecting-living-off-the-land-binaries-with-sysmon-process-events/
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OpenAI Pledges $1bn to Bring its AI Cybersecurity Tools to Essential Services
OpenAI has committed to subsidizing access to Daybreak, helping defenders deploy its AI models in its existing cybersecurity infrastructure First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/openai-pledges-ai-tools-essential/
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Detecting livingthe-land binaries with Sysmon process events
Living-off-the-land binaries, often shortened to LOLBins, are legitimate Windows executables that attackers abuse to carry out malicious activity while blending in with normal administration. The binaries themselves are not the problem. The issue is that tools such as PowerShell, cmd.exe,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/detecting-living-off-the-land-binaries-with-sysmon-process-events/
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Detecting livingthe-land binaries with Sysmon process events
Living-off-the-land binaries, often shortened to LOLBins, are legitimate Windows executables that attackers abuse to carry out malicious activity while blending in with normal administration. The binaries themselves are not the problem. The issue is that tools such as PowerShell, cmd.exe,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/detecting-living-off-the-land-binaries-with-sysmon-process-events/
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New York City to ban children’s use of GenAI tools in school
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has moved to restrict children’s use of AI tools in the city’s public school system. First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366650066/New-York-City-to-ban-childrens-use-of-GenAI-tools-in-school
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Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested
This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/prediction-market-betting-is-getting-people-banned-and-arrested/
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How AI Agents Expand the Identity Security Attack Surface
Why Autonomous Tools Can Execute Requests Humans Would Recognize as Unsafe. Menlo Security CEO Bill Robbins said AI agents can combine their own identities with users’ delegated credentials, requiring enterprises to govern both agent access and human authority to prevent malicious prompts from enabling data theft or other harmful actions. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Bankrupting the Adversary: Why Cybersecurity is an Economic War
When security leaders present ROI, they almost always rely on the same defensive metrics. They’ll point to a dashboard and proudly announce that their perimeter gateway blocked 50,000 suspicious emails, calculate how many hours their automated sorting tools saved the security… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/bankrupting-the-adversary-why-cybersecurity-is-an-economic-war/
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Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/abliteration-ai-is-making-a-business-out-of-removing-ai-guardrails/
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ThreatsDay: CEO Phishing Kits, 5K Dropbox Account Hacks, OAuth Traps + 17 More Stories
The worst part is how normal these attacks look. A call from IT. A shared file. A trusted app. A simple request to click “Allow.” Why break in when someone might open the door?That idea runs through this edition. Attackers use real tools, fake login pages, old account links, and software guides that point to…
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ThreatsDay: CEO Phishing Kits, 5K Dropbox Account Hacks, OAuth Traps + 17 More Stories
The worst part is how normal these attacks look. A call from IT. A shared file. A trusted app. A simple request to click “Allow.” Why break in when someone might open the door?That idea runs through this edition. Attackers use real tools, fake login pages, old account links, and software guides that point to…
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Hijacked ScreenConnect Installs Are Spreading Malware Like a Worm, Huntress Warns
Cybersecurity firm Huntress has uncovered a wave of malicious installations of ScreenConnect, a widely used remote-support tool, that spread between machines without any further action from a victim or an attacker, a self-propagating attack chain researchers likened to a computer worm. In a blog post published this week, Huntress said its Security Operations Center (SOC)…
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8 Signs Your School District Has Outgrown Its Web Content Filtering Solution
The digital classroom has changed dramatically over the past decade. Today’s K12 schools rely on 1:1 device initiatives, cloud-based platforms like Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, AI-powered educational tools, and hybrid learning models that extend instruction well beyond the classroom…. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/8-signs-your-school-district-has-outgrown-its-web-content-filtering-solution/
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Attackers Turn Trusted Node.js Runtime Into Malware Delivery Tool in Targeted Attacks
Threat actors are leveraging the trusted Node.js JavaScript runtime in multiple cyber attacks as a way to deploy malicious payloads.According to a new report published by the Symantec Threat Hunter Team today, the attack method has been put to use in attacks targeting government departments, technology companies, and hotels since February 2026.”The technique’s appeal is…
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Attackers Turn Trusted Node.js Runtime Into Malware Delivery Tool in Targeted Attacks
Threat actors are leveraging the trusted Node.js JavaScript runtime in multiple cyber attacks as a way to deploy malicious payloads.According to a new report published by the Symantec Threat Hunter Team today, the attack method has been put to use in attacks targeting government departments, technology companies, and hotels since February 2026.”The technique’s appeal is…
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Shai-Hulud’s Reach Just Grew to 469 Credential Locations. Here’s What That Means
In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environments, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling, cloud configurations, and even AI tool configs.Earlier variants of the infostealer worm only checked 189 paths. The jump says a lot. Attackers have First seen…
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This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/flock-ai-search-user-interface/
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Lücke in Backup-Tool gefährdet Millionen von Websites
In einem WordPress-Plug-in mit über 5 Millionen Installationen klafft eine gefährliche Sicherheitslücke. Admins sollten dringend handeln. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/wordpress-luecke-in-backup-tool-gefaehrdet-millionen-von-websites-2609-212585.html