Tag: access
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Starlink restrictions hit Russian forces as Moscow seeks workarounds
Ukraine’s security service said Russia was trying to recruit locals to help restore access to blocked Starlink satellite internet terminals. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/starlink-restrictions-hit-russian-forces
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Operation DoppelBrand: Weaponizing Fortune 500 Brands
GS7 targets US financial institutions, among others, with near-perfect imitations of phishing portals to steal credentials, paving the way for remote access and other threat activity First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/operation-doppelbrand-weaponizing-fortune-500-brands
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ClickFix added nslookup commands to its arsenal for downloading RATs
Microsoft researchers found a ClickFix campaign that uses the nslookup tool to have users infect their own system with a Remote Access Trojan. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/clickfix-added-nslookup-commands-to-its-arsenal-for-downloading-rats/
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The Promptware Kill Chain
Attacks against modern generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) pose a real threat. Yet discussions around these attacks and their potential defenses are dangerously myopic. The dominant narrative focuses on “prompt injection,” a set of techniques to embed instructions into inputs to LLM intended to perform malicious activity. This term suggests a simple,…
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New ZeroDayRAT Mobile Spyware Enables Real-Time Surveillance and Data Theft
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new mobile spyware platform dubbed ZeroDayRAT that’s being advertised on Telegram as a way to grab sensitive data and facilitate real-time surveillance on Android and iOS devices.”The developer runs dedicated channels for sales, customer support, and regular updates, giving buyers a single point of access to a fully…
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PIM Login Security
Learn how PIM login security protects product data with strong authentication, access controls, and secure identity management. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/pim-login-security/
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CISO Julie Chatman wants to help you take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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10 years later, Bangladesh Bank cyberheist still offers cyber-resiliency lessons
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, automation, backdoor, banking, ceo, cisco, ciso, compliance, control, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, detection, endpoint, exploit, finance, fintech, firewall, framework, infrastructure, intelligence, international, malware, monitoring, network, north-korea, oracle, password, risk, service, software, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilitySecurity shortcomings: Adrian Cheek, senior cybercrime researcher at threat exposure management firm Flare, said the Bangladesh Bank heist was possible because of a number of security shortcomings, including a failure to air gap critical infrastructure.”The Bank of Bangladesh had four servers and the same number of desktops connected to SWIFT,” Cheek says. “This infrastructure, however,…
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Attackers Exploit Critical BeyondTrust Flaw to Seize Full Active Directory Control
Tags: access, control, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-1731, affecting self-hosted BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access deployments. This security flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to inject operating system commands, effectively granting them remote code execution capabilities. The severity of this campaign has prompted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to add the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…
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Identity Risk Scoring Only Works If Attribution Is Defensible
Identity risk scoring has become a critical input for fraud prevention, security operations, and trust decisions. Organizations increasingly rely on risk scores to decide when to step up authentication, block access, or flag activity for investigation. But despite widespread adoption, many identity risk programs struggle with the same problem: Risk scores are generated, but teams……
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NDSS 2025 Black-Box Membership Inference Attacks Against Fine-Tuned Diffusion Models
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: Yan Pang (University of Virginia), Tianhao Wang (University of Virginia) PAPER Black-box Membership Inference Attacks against Fine-tuned Diffusion Models With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based image-generative models, the quality of generated images has become increasingly photorealistic. Moreover, with the release of high-quality pre-trained image-generative models, a growing…
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Romo: DJI-Staubsaugerroboter gehackt
Eine Sicherheitslücke im DJI Romo Saugroboter erlaubte den Zugriff auf rund 7.000 Geräte weltweit – inklusive Live-Kameras und Wohnungsgrundrissen. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/romo-dji-staubsaugerroboter-gehackt-2602-205411.html
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Die Frage ist, worauf ein KI-Agent Zugriff hat
Die Series-C-Finanzierung zielt darauf ab, GitGuardian so zu skalieren, dass Unternehmen Maschinenidentitäten und Zugangsdaten über den gesamten Lebenszyklus hinweg governancefähig verwalten können, da autonome KI-Agenten und deren Zugangsdaten exponentiell zunehmen. Ein aktueller Fall mit dem KI-Agenten Moltbot zeigt, wie schnell und unkontrolliert Zugangsdaten entstehen und in öffentliche Repositories gelangen, was erhebliche Sicherheitsrisiken birgt. GitGuardian reagiert……
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Critical BeyondTrust RS vulnerability exploited in active attacks
remote access.exe and others.”The attackers also managed to create domain accounts using the net user command and then added them to administrative groups such as “enterprise admins” or “domain admins.”The AdsiSearcher tool was used to search the Active Directory environment for other computers and PSexec was used to install SimpleHelp on multiple devices.The researchers also…
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‘Crazy’ Hackers Strike Through Remote Monitoring Software
VoidCrypt Ransomware Variant Taps RMM Tools, Says Huntress. Management isn’t the only advocate for employee monitoring software, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Huntress. RMM tools – simultaneously open to remote connections and with privileged local access – are good for wiggling into corporate networks. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/crazy-hackers-strike-through-remote-monitoring-software-a-30759
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Can AI Ads Pay the Bills?
OpenAI Tests Promos, Anthropic Rejects Them Amid Rising Compute Costs. OpenAI has a problem: Most users don’t pay for access to ChatGPT. The company is now doing what almost every Silicon Valley company before it has done and turning to digital advertising. Whether ads can bridge OpenAI’s well-documented revenue gap without users fleeing is another…
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Can AI Ads Pay the Bills?
OpenAI Tests Promos, Anthropic Rejects Them Amid Rising Compute Costs. OpenAI has a problem: Most users don’t pay for access to ChatGPT. The company is now doing what almost every Silicon Valley company before it has done and turning to digital advertising. Whether ads can bridge OpenAI’s well-documented revenue gap without users fleeing is another…
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Why PAM Implementations Struggle
Privileged Access Management (PAM) is widely recognized as a foundational security control for Zero Trust, ransomware prevention, and compliance with frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2. Yet despite heavy investment, many organizations struggle to realize the promised value of PAM. Projects stall, adoption remains low, and security teams are left managing complex systems that deliver limited risk reduction. ……
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New NCSC-Led OT Security Guidance for Nuclear Reactors
Four Principles Positioning the Nuclear Ecosystem for Long-Term Cyber Resilience OT weaknesses are compounding across utilities, with 22% of critical infrastructure firms reporting OT incidents and external access driving half of breaches. U.K. NCSC’s new guidance outlines connectivity principles that utilities can embed to avoid costly retrofits and compliance issues. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Estonia spy chief calls on Europe to invest in its own offensive cyber capabilities
These capabilities are needed not just to mirror what the continent’s most capable adversaries can do, but also to match Europe’s defensive posture with credible tools to gain access to target networks, he said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/estonia-spy-chief-calls-on-europe-to-invest-in-own-offense
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Hackers probe, exploit newly patched BeyondTrust RCE flaw (CVE-2026-1731)
Attackers are exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731) in internet-facing BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access instances. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/13/beyondtrust-cve-2026-1731-poc-exploit-activity/
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Why key management becomes the weakest link in a post-quantum and AI-driven security world
Tags: access, ai, attack, computer, control, crypto, cryptography, data, data-breach, exploit, governance, incident response, infrastructure, risk, switchWhy post-quantum readiness is really a key lifecycle problem: Post-quantum cryptography is often framed as a future threat. That framing misses the real challenge.The risk is not the moment a quantum computer breaks an algorithm. The risk is the long transition period before and after that moment. During this phase, organizations must support hybrid cryptography,…
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Why key management becomes the weakest link in a post-quantum and AI-driven security world
Tags: access, ai, attack, computer, control, crypto, cryptography, data, data-breach, exploit, governance, incident response, infrastructure, risk, switchWhy post-quantum readiness is really a key lifecycle problem: Post-quantum cryptography is often framed as a future threat. That framing misses the real challenge.The risk is not the moment a quantum computer breaks an algorithm. The risk is the long transition period before and after that moment. During this phase, organizations must support hybrid cryptography,…
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Why key management becomes the weakest link in a post-quantum and AI-driven security world
Tags: access, ai, attack, computer, control, crypto, cryptography, data, data-breach, exploit, governance, incident response, infrastructure, risk, switchWhy post-quantum readiness is really a key lifecycle problem: Post-quantum cryptography is often framed as a future threat. That framing misses the real challenge.The risk is not the moment a quantum computer breaks an algorithm. The risk is the long transition period before and after that moment. During this phase, organizations must support hybrid cryptography,…
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Researchers Observe InWild Exploitation of BeyondTrust CVSS 9.9 Vulnerability
Threat actors have started to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products, according to watchTowr.”Overnight we observed first in-the-wild exploitation of BeyondTrust across our global sensors,” Ryan Dewhurst, head of threat intelligence at watchTowr, said in a post on X. “Attackers are abusing First…