Tag: tool
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Log4j am Limit: KI-Schrott lähmt Open-Source-Projekt
Massig KI-generierte Bug-Reports bremsen die Entwicklung von Open-Source-Tools wie Log4j. Ein Entwickler schlägt Alarm und will Lösungen sehen. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/log4j-am-limit-ki-schrott-laehmt-open-source-projekt-2602-205903.html
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OpenClaw Vulnerability Exposes How an Open-Source AI Agent Can Be Hijacked
When the open-source AI agent for OpenClaw burst onto the scene, it did so with astonishing speed. In just five days, the project surpassed 100,000 stars on GitHub, becoming one of the fastest-growing open-source AI tools in history. Developers quickly embraced it as a personal assistant that could run locally, plug into calendars and messaging platforms, execute…
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OpenClaw Insights: A CISO’s Guide to Safe Autonomous Agents FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, breach, ciso, compliance, control, data, data-breach, detection, endpoint, finance, firewall, framework, governance, guide, LLM, network, open-source, risk, risk-management, software, strategy, technology, tool, vulnerabilityFeb 27, 2026 – Alan Fagan – The “OpenClaw” crisis has board members asking, “Could this happen to us?” The answer isn’t to ban AI agents. It’s to govern them. By now, the dust is settling on the OpenClaw (aka MoltBot) incident. The technical post-mortems (including our own) have been written, the exposed ports have…
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Ransomware groups switch to stealthy attacks and long-term access
Tags: access, application-security, attack, ciso, control, crime, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, extortion, group, identity, intelligence, monitoring, organized, ransomware, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, switch, theft, threat, tool, vulnerability38% drop in encryption over the past 12 months as more cybercriminals turn to silently exfiltrating data for extortion as their main stock in trade.Picus’ suggestion that the volume of ransomware attacks is dropping is disputed by other experts.Tony Anscombe, chief security evangelist at endpoint security vendor Eset, offered a contrasting perspective.”In the recent Eset…
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Microsoft Defender Discovers Trojanized Gaming Utility Campaign Stealing Data with RATs
Microsoft Defender researchers have uncovered a new campaign that abuses trojanized gaming utilities to deliver multi”‘stage malware with remote access, data theft, and payload delivery capabilities. Attackers are masquerading as popular tools such as Xeno.exe and RobloxPlayerBeta.exe, tricking gamers into launching the malicious chain via downloads shared through web browsers and chat platforms. Once a…
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HHS Seeks Sector Input on AI for Fighting Healthcare Fraud
Request for Information Is Part of a Broader Medicare, Medicaid Fraud ‘Crackdown’. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will use advanced AI tools to more quickly detect Medicare and Medicaid fraud before scam claims are paid. As part of the major crackdown on healthcare fraud, HHS is also seeking public input on AI…
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Microsoft Copilot DLP Bypass: A Data Trust Wake-Up Call for AI Security
Tags: access, ai, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, data, data-breach, detection, email, endpoint, infrastructure, leak, microsoft, monitoring, risk, risk-management, saas, toolWhen Microsoft confirmed that a bug allowed Copilot to surface and summarize emails marked confidential despite existing DLP controls, it reignited urgent questions about Microsoft Copilot security, DLP bypass risk and enterprise AI data protection. The reaction was immediate. For many CISOs and security leaders responsible for Microsoft 365 security and AI risk management, it…
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NDSS 2025 Translating C To Rust: Lessons From A User Study
Session 13D: Software Security: Code and Compiler Authors, Creators & Presenters: Ruishi Li (National University of Singapore), Bo Wang (National University of Singapore), Tianyu Li (National University of Singapore), Prateek Saxena (National University of Singapore), Ashish Kundu (Cisco Research) PAPER Translating C To Rust: Lessons From A User Study Rust aims to offer full memory…
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NDSS 2025 Translating C To Rust: Lessons From A User Study
Session 13D: Software Security: Code and Compiler Authors, Creators & Presenters: Ruishi Li (National University of Singapore), Bo Wang (National University of Singapore), Tianyu Li (National University of Singapore), Prateek Saxena (National University of Singapore), Ashish Kundu (Cisco Research) PAPER Translating C To Rust: Lessons From A User Study Rust aims to offer full memory…
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NDSS 2025 Translating C To Rust: Lessons From A User Study
Session 13D: Software Security: Code and Compiler Authors, Creators & Presenters: Ruishi Li (National University of Singapore), Bo Wang (National University of Singapore), Tianyu Li (National University of Singapore), Prateek Saxena (National University of Singapore), Ashish Kundu (Cisco Research) PAPER Translating C To Rust: Lessons From A User Study Rust aims to offer full memory…
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NDSS 2025 Translating C To Rust: Lessons From A User Study
Session 13D: Software Security: Code and Compiler Authors, Creators & Presenters: Ruishi Li (National University of Singapore), Bo Wang (National University of Singapore), Tianyu Li (National University of Singapore), Prateek Saxena (National University of Singapore), Ashish Kundu (Cisco Research) PAPER Translating C To Rust: Lessons From A User Study Rust aims to offer full memory…
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What to Know About the Notepad++ Supply-Chain Attack
The cybersecurity community is still grappling with a sobering realization: one of the most ubiquitous tools in the developer’s toolkit, Notepad++, was hiding a critical vulnerability for over six months. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/what-to-know-about-the-notepad-supply-chain-attack/
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Hacker kompromittieren immer schneller
Tags: access, ai, crowdstrike, cyberattack, cybercrime, hacker, LLM, malware, north-korea, threat, toolDer Einsatz von KI-Tools macht Cyberangriffe nicht nur schneller, sondern erhöht auch die Taktzahl.Crowdstrike hat die aktuelle Ausgabe seines Global Threat Report veröffentlicht mit mehreren bemerkenswerten Erkenntnissen.So benötigte ein Angreifer im Jahr 2025 im Schnitt nur noch 29 Minuten, um sich vollständigen Zugriff auf ein Netzwerk zu verschaffen. Damit läuft die Kompromittierung rund 65 Prozent…
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Kritische Sicherheitslücken in Anthropics Claude-Code
Check Point Research (CPR), die Sicherheitsforschungsabteilung von Check Point Software Technologies hat kritische Schwachstellen in Anthropics KI-basiertem Coding-Tool ‘Claude Code” identifiziert (CVE-2025-59536, CVE-2026-21852). Diese ermöglichten die Ausführung von Remote-Code und den Diebstahl von API-Anmeldedaten. Durch den Missbrauch integrierter Mechanismen wie Hooks, Model-Context-Protocol (MCP)-Integrationen und Umgebungsvariablen konnten Angreifer beliebige Shell-Befehle ausführen und API-Schlüssel exfiltrieren, wenn Entwickler…
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Kritische Sicherheitslücken in Anthropics Claude-Code
Check Point Research (CPR), die Sicherheitsforschungsabteilung von Check Point Software Technologies hat kritische Schwachstellen in Anthropics KI-basiertem Coding-Tool ‘Claude Code” identifiziert (CVE-2025-59536, CVE-2026-21852). Diese ermöglichten die Ausführung von Remote-Code und den Diebstahl von API-Anmeldedaten. Durch den Missbrauch integrierter Mechanismen wie Hooks, Model-Context-Protocol (MCP)-Integrationen und Umgebungsvariablen konnten Angreifer beliebige Shell-Befehle ausführen und API-Schlüssel exfiltrieren, wenn Entwickler…
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Kritische Sicherheitslücken in Anthropics Claude-Code
Check Point Research (CPR), die Sicherheitsforschungsabteilung von Check Point Software Technologies hat kritische Schwachstellen in Anthropics KI-basiertem Coding-Tool ‘Claude Code” identifiziert (CVE-2025-59536, CVE-2026-21852). Diese ermöglichten die Ausführung von Remote-Code und den Diebstahl von API-Anmeldedaten. Durch den Missbrauch integrierter Mechanismen wie Hooks, Model-Context-Protocol (MCP)-Integrationen und Umgebungsvariablen konnten Angreifer beliebige Shell-Befehle ausführen und API-Schlüssel exfiltrieren, wenn Entwickler…
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SMBs Struggle to Translate Cybersecurity Investment into Real-World Resilience, Study Finds
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) continue to face significant cyber risk despite growing investment in cybersecurity tools and training, according to new research from privacy company Proton AG. The company’s SMB Cybersecurity Report 2026, based on a survey of 3,000 business leaders across six global markets, including the UK, found that one in four SMBs…
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Zoom Update Scam Infects 1,437 Users in 12 Days to Deploy Surveillance Tools
A dangerous new scam is targeting Zoom users by exploiting their trust in video meeting invites. Over just twelve days, 1,437 Windows users unknowingly installed a malicious version of the Teramind monitoring agent after visiting a fake Zoom meeting page designed to trigger silent downloads. The operation starts at uswebzoomus[.]com/zoom/ a domain mimicking Zoom’s legitimate interface. When opened, it displays…
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Insights into Claude Code Security: A New Pattern of Intelligent Attack and Defense
On February 20, 2026, AI company Anthropic released a new code security tool called Claude Code Security. This release coincided with the highly sensitive period of global capital markets to AI technology subverting the traditional software industry, which quickly triggered violent fluctuations in the capital market and caused the fall of stock prices of major…The…
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The farmers and the mercenaries: Rethinking the ‘human layer’ in security
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, ciso, control, cybersecurity, defense, detection, intelligence, jobs, monitoring, risk, soc, threat, tool, trainingThe evidence is already in: This isn’t a theoretical complaint, it shows up in research on how real SOCs work. A study by the University of Oxford based on surveys and interviews with SOC practitioners found they “confirmed the high” false-positive rates of tools in use, and that many “false positives” are actually benign triggers…
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5 trends that should top CISO’s RSA 2026 agendas
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, backup, business, cio, ciso, cloud, conference, control, corporate, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, finance, framework, governance, group, healthcare, identity, incident response, intelligence, network, okta, resilience, risk, saas, service, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-trustCTEM in the spotlight: In another evolutionary trend, most organizations are moving beyond scanning for software snafus to continuous threat exposure management (CTEM). By doing so, security teams hope to get a full picture of all assets, as well as their configurations, locations, software vulnerabilities, ownership, and business criticality.Armed with this data, CTEM platforms look…
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DarkCloud Infostealer Escalates as Major Enterprise Threat with Scalable Credential Theft
Infostealers continue to dominate the initial access landscape in 2026, driving breaches through scalable credential theft. Among these, DarkCloud has emerged as a major threat, illustrating how low-cost, commercialized malware is reshaping enterprise compromise dynamics worldwide. Despite being promoted as “surveillance software,” its real function is unmistakable highvolume credential harvesting across browsers, email clients, file transfer tools, and…
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Kali Linux Introduces Claude AI for Automated Penetration Testing Using Model Context Protocol
Offensive security operations are evolving with a new method for running Kali Linux. By combining Kali with Anthropic’s Claude AI via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), security analysts can now execute penetration testing tools using simple natural language. This moves operations beyond traditional terminal commands into an AI-assisted graphical interface. While command-line execution remains standard,…
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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: February 2026
This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments. Pompelmi: … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/26/hottest-cybersecurity-open-source-tools-of-the-month-february-2026/
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AI Shocks the Cybersecurity Market
Tags: ai, business, compliance, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, governance, identity, incident response, intelligence, ml, okta, risk, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityThe cybersecurity market was jolted last week after Anthropic dropped a bombshell announcement. The company’s new AI Claude model identified 500 previously unknown high-risk vulnerabilities hidden in widely used software. That is not a minor milestone. It is a technically significant achievement and a clear demonstration of how quickly AI capabilities are advancing. What came…
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AI Shocks the Cybersecurity Market
Tags: ai, business, compliance, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, governance, identity, incident response, intelligence, ml, okta, risk, service, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityThe cybersecurity market was jolted last week after Anthropic dropped a bombshell announcement. The company’s new AI Claude model identified 500 previously unknown high-risk vulnerabilities hidden in widely used software. That is not a minor milestone. It is a technically significant achievement and a clear demonstration of how quickly AI capabilities are advancing. What came…
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Steaelite RAT combines data theft and ransomware management capability in one tool
Tags: access, android, attack, authentication, awareness, business, corporate, credentials, crypto, cybercrime, data, ddos, defense, encryption, endpoint, extortion, infection, infosec, malware, mobile, monitoring, password, phishing, ransomware, rat, remote-code-execution, theft, threat, tool, training, windowsCSO that this isn’t the most sophisticated RAT he’s seen. “The novel aspect here,” he said, “is the convergence. Steaelite bundles remote access, credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and ransomware (currently in development) in a single package.” Traditionally, he explained, these capabilities have occupied different parts of the cybercrime toolchain, but Steaelite unifies the functions, giving…