Tag: vpn
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Root causes of security breaches remain elusive, jeopardizing resilience
Tags: attack, breach, business, ciso, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, framework, governance, incident response, intelligence, lessons-learned, monitoring, resilience, security-incident, service, siem, skills, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vpn, vulnerabilityTracing an attack path: Preparation is key, so businesses need to have dedicated tools and skills for digital forensics in place before an incident occurs through technologies such as security incident and event management (SIEM).SIEM devices are important because, for example, many gateway and VPN devices have a local storage that overwrites itself within hours.”If…
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GlobalProtect VPN portals probed with 2.3 million scan sessions
A major spike in malicious scanning against Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect portals has been detected, starting on November 14, 2025. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/globalprotect-vpn-portals-probed-with-23-million-scan-sessions/
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The Akira Playbook: How Ransomware Groups Are Weaponizing MFA Fatigue
Akira ransomware is exploiting MFA push-spam, weak VPN security and identity gaps. Learn why these attacks succeed and the counter-playbook defenders must deploy now. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/the-akira-playbook-how-ransomware-groups-are-weaponizing-mfa-fatigue/
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The Akira Playbook: How Ransomware Groups Are Weaponizing MFA Fatigue
Akira ransomware is exploiting MFA push-spam, weak VPN security and identity gaps. Learn why these attacks succeed and the counter-playbook defenders must deploy now. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/the-akira-playbook-how-ransomware-groups-are-weaponizing-mfa-fatigue/
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Hackers Launch 2.3 Million Attacks on Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN Portals
Security researchers at GreyNoise have uncovered a massive spike in cyberattacks targeting Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect VPN systems. The assault began on November 14, 2025, and quickly escalated into a coordinated campaign striking millions of login portals worldwide. Massive Attack Surge in Just 24 Hours The attack intensity surged 40-fold in a single day, marking…
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Hackers Launch 2.3 Million Attacks on Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN Portals
Security researchers at GreyNoise have uncovered a massive spike in cyberattacks targeting Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect VPN systems. The assault began on November 14, 2025, and quickly escalated into a coordinated campaign striking millions of login portals worldwide. Massive Attack Surge in Just 24 Hours The attack intensity surged 40-fold in a single day, marking…
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Datenpanne bei Eurofiber France
Tags: access, bug, cloud, computer, cyberattack, data-breach, group, hacker, infrastructure, mail, software, sql, vpnDer TK-Anbieter Eurofiber France ist von Datendiebstahl betroffen.Der TK-Konzern Eurofiber Group hat sich auf die digitale Infrastruktur von Unternehmen spezialisiert und betreibt ein Glasfasernetz in den Niederlanden, Belgien, Frankreich und Deutschland. Die Tochtergesellschaft Eurofiber France meldete kürzlich, dass sich Hacker über eine Software-Lücke Zugriff auf das Ticket-Management-System verschafft hätten.Demnach wurden dabei auch Daten abgezogen. Um…
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Half of Ransomware Access Due to Hijacked VPN Credentials
Beazley Security data finds the top cause of initial access for ransomware in Q3 was compromised VPN credentials First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/half-ransomware-access-hijacked/
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Half of Ransomware Access Due to Hijacked VPN Credentials
Beazley Security data finds the top cause of initial access for ransomware in Q3 was compromised VPN credentials First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/half-ransomware-access-hijacked/
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Fortinet Exploited, China’s AI Hacks, PhaaS Empire Falls & More
This week showed just how fast things can go wrong when no one’s watching. Some attacks were silent and sneaky. Others used tools we trust every day, like AI, VPNs, or app stores, to cause damage without setting off alarms.It’s not just about hacking anymore. Criminals are building systems to make money, spy, or spread…
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Akira ransomware expands to Nutanix AHV, raising stakes for enterprise security
Tags: access, attack, backup, breach, business, cisco, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, firewall, infrastructure, leak, mfa, monitoring, network, ransomware, resilience, strategy, threat, update, veeam, vpn, vulnerability, windowsThreat that thrives in enterprise blind spots: Experts indicate that Akira leverages the blind spots that enterprises acknowledge but rarely fix. Of the blind spots, remote access tops the list, followed by patching.”Akira wins not because it has reinvented ransomware, but because it has perfected the parts enterprises fail to take seriously. It exploits the…
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Akira ransomware expands to Nutanix AHV, raising stakes for enterprise security
Tags: access, attack, backup, breach, business, cisco, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, firewall, infrastructure, leak, mfa, monitoring, network, ransomware, resilience, strategy, threat, update, veeam, vpn, vulnerability, windowsThreat that thrives in enterprise blind spots: Experts indicate that Akira leverages the blind spots that enterprises acknowledge but rarely fix. Of the blind spots, remote access tops the list, followed by patching.”Akira wins not because it has reinvented ransomware, but because it has perfected the parts enterprises fail to take seriously. It exploits the…
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Fighting AI with AI: Adversarial bots vs. autonomous threat hunters
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, backup, breach, bug-bounty, cloud, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, endpoint, exploit, hacker, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, Internet, iot, least-privilege, malicious, network, phishing, startup, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayWhile there’s no doubt AI holds great potential for cybersecurity, in practice, it’s mainly being used to automate what we’re already doing. For companies to stand a chance, we need new approaches to AI-powered defense, not optimized ones. Attackers already have systemic advantages that AI amplifies dramatically. While there are some great examples of how…
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Fighting AI with AI: Adversarial bots vs. autonomous threat hunters
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, backup, breach, bug-bounty, cloud, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, endpoint, exploit, hacker, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, Internet, iot, least-privilege, malicious, network, phishing, startup, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayWhile there’s no doubt AI holds great potential for cybersecurity, in practice, it’s mainly being used to automate what we’re already doing. For companies to stand a chance, we need new approaches to AI-powered defense, not optimized ones. Attackers already have systemic advantages that AI amplifies dramatically. While there are some great examples of how…
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Your passwordless future may never fully arrive
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, breach, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, group, infrastructure, insurance, mfa, network, passkey, password, risk, service, strategy, technology, vpn, zero-trustAll-in passwordless strategies fall short: Jim Taylor, chief product and strategy officer at RSA, says today’s enterprise environment and existing passwordless approaches make “100% passwordless not possible just yet,” adding that “85% is possible, with the 15% representing the complicated and the very specialized” needs such as “security admins who need to log in to…
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Your passwordless future may never fully arrive
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, breach, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, group, infrastructure, insurance, mfa, network, passkey, password, risk, service, strategy, technology, vpn, zero-trustAll-in passwordless strategies fall short: Jim Taylor, chief product and strategy officer at RSA, says today’s enterprise environment and existing passwordless approaches make “100% passwordless not possible just yet,” adding that “85% is possible, with the 15% representing the complicated and the very specialized” needs such as “security admins who need to log in to…
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Faster Than Real-Time: Why Your Security Fails and What to Do Next
Tags: access, ai, apple, attack, breach, business, ceo, cio, cloud, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, dns, endpoint, fintech, framework, identity, infrastructure, Internet, iot, jobs, LLM, malware, network, nist, privacy, resilience, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, vpn, zero-day, zero-trust“Security systems fail. When it fails, what do you do?” This critical question from Spire Connect’s Pankaj Sharma set the stage at Gitex 2025 for a conversation with Francois Driessen, the “Human Ambassador” of ADAMnetworks. His core message is blunt: in cybersecurity, even real-time is not fast enough. By the time a threat is detected,…
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Faster Than Real-Time: Why Your Security Fails and What to Do Next
Tags: access, ai, apple, attack, breach, business, ceo, cio, cloud, control, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, dns, endpoint, fintech, framework, identity, infrastructure, Internet, iot, jobs, LLM, malware, network, nist, privacy, resilience, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, vpn, zero-day, zero-trust“Security systems fail. When it fails, what do you do?” This critical question from Spire Connect’s Pankaj Sharma set the stage at Gitex 2025 for a conversation with Francois Driessen, the “Human Ambassador” of ADAMnetworks. His core message is blunt: in cybersecurity, even real-time is not fast enough. By the time a threat is detected,…
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Whisper Leak uses a side channel attack to eavesdrop on encrypted AI conversations
Tags: ai, api, attack, ciso, cloud, cyberattack, data, finance, healthcare, leak, LLM, microsoft, mitigation, network, openai, service, side-channel, vpnInside Microsoft’s proof-of-concept: Researchers at Microsoft simulated a real-world scenario in which the adversary could observe encrypted traffic but not decrypt it. They chose “legality of money laundering” as the target topic for the proof-of-concept.For positive samples, the team used a”¯language model”¯to generate 100 semantically similar variants of questions about this topic. For negative”¯noise”¯samples,”¯it randomly…
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Whisper Leak uses a side channel attack to eavesdrop on encrypted AI conversations
Tags: ai, api, attack, ciso, cloud, cyberattack, data, finance, healthcare, leak, LLM, microsoft, mitigation, network, openai, service, side-channel, vpnInside Microsoft’s proof-of-concept: Researchers at Microsoft simulated a real-world scenario in which the adversary could observe encrypted traffic but not decrypt it. They chose “legality of money laundering” as the target topic for the proof-of-concept.For positive samples, the team used a”¯language model”¯to generate 100 semantically similar variants of questions about this topic. For negative”¯noise”¯samples,”¯it randomly…
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Whisper Leak uses a side channel attack to eavesdrop on encrypted AI conversations
Tags: ai, api, attack, ciso, cloud, cyberattack, data, finance, healthcare, leak, LLM, microsoft, mitigation, network, openai, service, side-channel, vpnInside Microsoft’s proof-of-concept: Researchers at Microsoft simulated a real-world scenario in which the adversary could observe encrypted traffic but not decrypt it. They chose “legality of money laundering” as the target topic for the proof-of-concept.For positive samples, the team used a”¯language model”¯to generate 100 semantically similar variants of questions about this topic. For negative”¯noise”¯samples,”¯it randomly…
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Whisper Leak uses a side channel attack to eavesdrop on encrypted AI conversations
Tags: ai, api, attack, ciso, cloud, cyberattack, data, finance, healthcare, leak, LLM, microsoft, mitigation, network, openai, service, side-channel, vpnInside Microsoft’s proof-of-concept: Researchers at Microsoft simulated a real-world scenario in which the adversary could observe encrypted traffic but not decrypt it. They chose “legality of money laundering” as the target topic for the proof-of-concept.For positive samples, the team used a”¯language model”¯to generate 100 semantically similar variants of questions about this topic. For negative”¯noise”¯samples,”¯it randomly…
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How Fast and Secure Customer Support Relies on Internet Privacy Tools
Discover how free VPNs enhance customer support speed, privacy, and trust by securing user connections and ensuring smooth, safe service interactions. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/how-fast-and-secure-customer-support-relies-on-internet-privacy-tools/
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How Fast and Secure Customer Support Relies on Internet Privacy Tools
Discover how free VPNs enhance customer support speed, privacy, and trust by securing user connections and ensuring smooth, safe service interactions. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/how-fast-and-secure-customer-support-relies-on-internet-privacy-tools/
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How Fast and Secure Customer Support Relies on Internet Privacy Tools
Discover how free VPNs enhance customer support speed, privacy, and trust by securing user connections and ensuring smooth, safe service interactions. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/11/how-fast-and-secure-customer-support-relies-on-internet-privacy-tools/
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Beyond the Vault: 1Password’s Strategic Pivot to Extended Access Management
The enterprise IT perimeter dissolved years ago, taking with it any illusion that security teams can dictate which applications employees use or which devices they work from. Today’s reality: employees install applications freely, work from anywhere, and routinely bypass VPN requirements to maintain productivity. At the recent Security Field Day, 1Password laid out its strategic..…
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Beyond the Vault: 1Password’s Strategic Pivot to Extended Access Management
The enterprise IT perimeter dissolved years ago, taking with it any illusion that security teams can dictate which applications employees use or which devices they work from. Today’s reality: employees install applications freely, work from anywhere, and routinely bypass VPN requirements to maintain productivity. At the recent Security Field Day, 1Password laid out its strategic..…
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Proton Brings Privacy-Focused AI to the Workplace with Lumo for Business
Proton, the company best known for Proton Mail and Proton VPN, has launched Lumo for Business, a new version of its privacy-first AI assistant designed specifically for teams. The move marks the third major update to Lumo in just three months and signals Proton’s push to bring confidential, end-to-end encrypted AI to the enterprise market.…