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How to create a ransomware playbook that works

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, best-practice, breach, business, communications, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, law, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, mobile, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, skills, social-engineering, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Staffing, skills, and training: Many organizations continue to find that cybersecurity experts are in short supply, so staffing up teams is a challenge. That can be problematic for a ransomware strategy. Companies need to have a variety of skills in place, including expertise in incident detection and prevention, incident response, firewall configuration, and other areas.They…
How to create a ransomware playbook that works

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, best-practice, breach, business, communications, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, law, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, mobile, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, skills, social-engineering, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Staffing, skills, and training: Many organizations continue to find that cybersecurity experts are in short supply, so staffing up teams is a challenge. That can be problematic for a ransomware strategy. Companies need to have a variety of skills in place, including expertise in incident detection and prevention, incident response, firewall configuration, and other areas.They…
How to create a ransomware playbook that works

Dec 16, 2025 9:19 AM

Tags: access, antivirus, attack, authentication, awareness, backup, best-practice, breach, business, communications, corporate, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, edr, email, encryption, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, law, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, mobile, phishing, ransom, ransomware, risk, skills, social-engineering, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability

Staffing, skills, and training: Many organizations continue to find that cybersecurity experts are in short supply, so staffing up teams is a challenge. That can be problematic for a ransomware strategy. Companies need to have a variety of skills in place, including expertise in incident detection and prevention, incident response, firewall configuration, and other areas.They…
AI might be the answer for better phishing resilience

Dec 16, 2025 8:19 AM

Tags: ai, phishing, resilience, training

Phishing is still a go-to tactic for attackers, which is why even small gains in user training are worth noticing. A recent research project from the University of Bari looked … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/16/ai-generated-phishing-training-study/
Security for AI: How Shadow AI, Platform Risks, and Data Leakage Leave Your Organization Exposed

Dec 15, 2025 7:19 PM

Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, business, chatgpt, china, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, endpoint, governance, guide, infrastructure, injection, leak, LLM, malicious, microsoft, mitigation, monitoring, network, open-source, openai, privacy, RedTeam, risk, saas, service, strategy, threat, tool, training, vulnerability

Your employees are using AI whether you’ve sanctioned it or not. And even if you’ve carefully vetted and approved an enterprise-grade AI platform, you’re still at risk of attacks and data leakage. Key takeaways: Security teams face three key risks as AI usage becomes widespread at work: Shadow AI, the challenge of safely sanctioning tools,…
Security for AI: How Shadow AI, Platform Risks, and Data Leakage Leave Your Organization Exposed

Dec 15, 2025 7:19 PM

Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, business, chatgpt, china, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, endpoint, governance, guide, infrastructure, injection, leak, LLM, malicious, microsoft, mitigation, monitoring, network, open-source, openai, privacy, RedTeam, risk, saas, service, strategy, threat, tool, training, vulnerability

Your employees are using AI whether you’ve sanctioned it or not. And even if you’ve carefully vetted and approved an enterprise-grade AI platform, you’re still at risk of attacks and data leakage. Key takeaways: Security teams face three key risks as AI usage becomes widespread at work: Shadow AI, the challenge of safely sanctioning tools,…
KnowBe4 startet Deepfake-Training gegen KI-gestützte Social Engineering Bedrohungen

Dec 15, 2025 5:19 PM

Tags: ai, cyersecurity, deep-fake, social-engineering, training

Deepfake-Videoinhalte werden immer realistischer und sind immer schwerer von der Realität zu unterscheiden. Führungskräfte im Bereich Cybersicherheit müssen ihre Unternehmen auf neue und aufkommende Bedrohungen vorbereiten und einen proaktiven Ansatz für ihre gesamten Schutzmaßnahmen verfolgen. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/knowbe4-startet-deepfake-training-gegen-ki-gestuetzte-social-engineering-bedrohungen/a43213/
No more orange juice? Why one ship reveals America’s maritime cybersecurity crisis

Dec 15, 2025 3:19 PM

Tags: breach, business, cisa, ciso, corporate, cybersecurity, finance, framework, government, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, malware, mitigation, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, usa

This is a workforce problem, not a vendor problem: The new regulations require all 3,000 MTSA facilities to designate a cybersecurity officer (why the Coast Guard named them CySOs and couldn’t just call them CISOs, I do not know). Finding hundreds of qualified people who understand both operational technology in maritime environments and cybersecurity is…
No more orange juice? Why one ship reveals America’s maritime cybersecurity crisis

Dec 15, 2025 3:19 PM

Tags: breach, business, cisa, ciso, corporate, cybersecurity, finance, framework, government, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, international, jobs, malware, mitigation, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, service, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, usa

This is a workforce problem, not a vendor problem: The new regulations require all 3,000 MTSA facilities to designate a cybersecurity officer (why the Coast Guard named them CySOs and couldn’t just call them CISOs, I do not know). Finding hundreds of qualified people who understand both operational technology in maritime environments and cybersecurity is…
Next Gen Awareness Training: KnowBe4 Unveils Custom Deepfake Training

Dec 15, 2025 3:19 PM

Tags: attack, awareness, deep-fake, risk, threat, training

In today’s world, it can be hard for awareness training to keep up with the modern threats that are constantly emerging. Today, KnowBe4 has announced a new custom deepfake training experience to counteract the risk of ‘deepfake’ attacks as they continue to rise. The experience, which is now available, aims to help employees defend against…
AIs Exploiting Smart Contracts

Dec 11, 2025 8:32 PM

Tags: ai, api, cyber, exploit, training, vulnerability, zero-day

I have long maintained that smart contracts are a dumb idea: that a human process is actually a security feature. Here’s some interesting research on training AIs to automatically exploit smart contracts: AI models are increasingly good at cyber tasks, as we’ve written about before. But what is the economic impact of these capabilities? In…
NDSS 2025 RAIFLE: Reconstruction Attacks On Interaction-Based Federated Learning

Dec 11, 2025 8:32 PM

Tags: attack, conference, control, data, framework, Internet, network, privacy, risk, training

Session 5C: Federated Learning 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Dzung Pham (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Shreyas Kulkarni (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst) PAPER RAIFLE: Reconstruction Attacks on Interaction-based Federated Learning with Adversarial Data Manipulation Federated learning has emerged as a promising privacy-preserving solution for machine learning domains that rely on…
INE Highlights Enterprise Shift Toward Hands-On Training Amid Widening Skills Gaps

Dec 11, 2025 7:32 PM

Tags: ai, cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, jobs, skills, training, usa

Cary, North Carolina, USA, December 11th, 2025, CyberNewsWire As AI accelerates job transformation, INE supports organizations reallocating Q4 budgets to experiential, performance-driven upskilling. With 90% of organizations facing critical skills gaps (ISC2) and AI reshaping job roles across cybersecurity, cloud, and IT operations, enterprises are rapidly reallocating L&D budgets toward hands-on training that delivers measurable,…
INE Highlights Enterprise Shift Toward Hands-On Training Amid Widening Skills Gaps

Dec 11, 2025 7:32 PM

Tags: ai, cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, jobs, skills, training, usa

Cary, North Carolina, USA, December 11th, 2025, CyberNewsWire As AI accelerates job transformation, INE supports organizations reallocating Q4 budgets to experiential, performance-driven upskilling. With 90% of organizations facing critical skills gaps (ISC2) and AI reshaping job roles across cybersecurity, cloud, and IT operations, enterprises are rapidly reallocating L&D budgets toward hands-on training that delivers measurable,…
INE Highlights Enterprise Shift Toward Hands-On Training Amid Widening Skills Gaps

Dec 11, 2025 2:32 PM

Tags: skills, training, usa

Cary, North Carolina, USA, 11th December 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/ine-highlights-enterprise-shift-toward-hands-on-training-amid-widening-skills-gaps/
Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme

Dec 11, 2025 2:32 PM

Tags: cisco, cyber, skills, training

Skills gained later fed Beijing’s cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/salt_typhoon_cisco_training/
INE Highlights Enterprise Shift Toward Hands-On Training Amid Widening Skills Gaps

Dec 11, 2025 2:32 PM

Tags: skills, training, usa

Cary, North Carolina, USA, 11th December 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/ine-highlights-enterprise-shift-toward-hands-on-training-amid-widening-skills-gaps/
INE Highlights Enterprise Shift Toward Hands-On Training Amid Widening Skills Gaps

Dec 11, 2025 2:32 PM

Tags: skills, training, usa

Cary, North Carolina, USA, 11th December 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/ine-highlights-enterprise-shift-toward-hands-on-training-amid-widening-skills-gaps/
Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme

Dec 11, 2025 2:32 PM

Tags: cisco, cyber, skills, training

Skills gained later fed Beijing’s cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/salt_typhoon_cisco_training/
INE Highlights Enterprise Shift Toward Hands-On Training Amid Widening Skills Gaps

Dec 11, 2025 2:32 PM

Tags: skills, training, usa

Cary, North Carolina, USA, 11th December 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/ine-highlights-enterprise-shift-toward-hands-on-training-amid-widening-skills-gaps/
Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme

Dec 11, 2025 2:32 PM

Tags: cisco, cyber, skills, training

Skills gained later fed Beijing’s cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/salt_typhoon_cisco_training/
SafeSplit: A Novel Defense Against Client-Side Backdoor Attacks In Split Learning

Dec 10, 2025 10:32 PM

Tags: attack, backdoor, conference, data, defense, framework, Internet, malicious, metric, network, training

Session 5C: Federated Learning 1 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Phillip Rieger (Technical University of Darmstadt), Alessandro Pegoraro (Technical University of Darmstadt), Kavita Kumari (Technical University of Darmstadt), Tigist Abera (Technical University of Darmstadt), Jonathan Knauer (Technical University of Darmstadt), Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Technical University of Darmstadt) PAPER SafeSplit: A Novel Defense Against Client-Side Backdoor Attacks in…
Quantum meets AI: The next cybersecurity battleground

Dec 10, 2025 3:32 PM

Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, chatgpt, computer, computing, control, corporate, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, framework, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, intelligence, Internet, malicious, password, privacy, regulation, threat, training, unauthorized

When AI meets quantum power: The concept of AI systems greatly depends on data input into the AI algorithm, which means the more data that is fed into the Algorithm, the better the output. Most AI systems are commonly faced with hardware limitations, and some of the largest AI systems, like ChatGPT and DeepMind’s AlphaFold,…
Quantum meets AI: The next cybersecurity battleground

Dec 10, 2025 3:32 PM

Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, chatgpt, computer, computing, control, corporate, cryptography, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, encryption, finance, framework, governance, government, Hardware, healthcare, intelligence, Internet, malicious, password, privacy, regulation, threat, training, unauthorized

When AI meets quantum power: The concept of AI systems greatly depends on data input into the AI algorithm, which means the more data that is fed into the Algorithm, the better the output. Most AI systems are commonly faced with hardware limitations, and some of the largest AI systems, like ChatGPT and DeepMind’s AlphaFold,…
Key cybersecurity takeaways from the 2026 NDAA

Dec 10, 2025 8:32 AM

Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, best-practice, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, framework, governance, government, group, guide, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, international, malicious, military, ml, mobile, monitoring, network, nist, privacy, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, service, spyware, supply-chain, theft, threat, tool, training, unauthorized, vulnerability

AI and machine learning security and procurement requirements: Recognizing that AI now underpins everything from battlefield planning to intelligence analysis, the bill introduces sweeping requirements to safeguard these systems from emerging digital threats.The NDAA spells out a spate of policy and procurement practices that the military should meet regarding artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML).…
Key cybersecurity takeaways from the 2026 NDAA

Dec 10, 2025 8:32 AM

Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, best-practice, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, framework, governance, government, group, guide, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, international, malicious, military, ml, mobile, monitoring, network, nist, privacy, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, service, spyware, supply-chain, theft, threat, tool, training, unauthorized, vulnerability

AI and machine learning security and procurement requirements: Recognizing that AI now underpins everything from battlefield planning to intelligence analysis, the bill introduces sweeping requirements to safeguard these systems from emerging digital threats.The NDAA spells out a spate of policy and procurement practices that the military should meet regarding artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML).…
Building SOX compliance through smarter training and stronger password practices

Dec 10, 2025 6:32 AM

Tags: access, compliance, finance, infrastructure, password, training

A SOX audit can reveal uncomfortable truths about how a company handles access to financial systems. Even organizations that invest in strong infrastructure often discover … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/10/sox-compliance-password-practices/
Building SOX compliance through smarter training and stronger password practices

Dec 10, 2025 6:32 AM

Tags: access, compliance, finance, infrastructure, password, training

A SOX audit can reveal uncomfortable truths about how a company handles access to financial systems. Even organizations that invest in strong infrastructure often discover … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/10/sox-compliance-password-practices/
GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments

Dec 10, 2025 5:33 AM

Tags: access, api, authentication, awareness, cloud, credentials, data-breach, detection, exploit, github, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, security-incident, strategy, threat, training

Easily evading detection: Wiz found that a threat actor with basic read permissions via a PAT can use GitHub’s API code search to discover secret names embedded directly in a workflow’s yaml code, accessed via “${{ secrets.SECRET_NAME }}.”The danger is that this secret discovery method is difficult to monitor because search API calls are not…
GitHub Action Secrets aren’t secret anymore: exposed PATs now a direct path into cloud environments

Dec 10, 2025 5:33 AM

Tags: access, api, authentication, awareness, cloud, credentials, data-breach, detection, exploit, github, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, security-incident, strategy, threat, training

Easily evading detection: Wiz found that a threat actor with basic read permissions via a PAT can use GitHub’s API code search to discover secret names embedded directly in a workflow’s yaml code, accessed via “${{ secrets.SECRET_NAME }}.”The danger is that this secret discovery method is difficult to monitor because search API calls are not…