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Over the last four years, I’ve watched organizations get blindsided by threats that originated in a third-party network. More than 35% of data breaches are caused by a compromised vendor or partner, not by any failure in the organization’s controls. While many organizations know that the biggest threats to their security come from forces entirely outside their control, that risk is accelerating this year.   Some of those forces come from beyond their network and even far beyond their region.

Writing a conference preview is an act of professional speculation. You read the agenda, map the schedule session density, and make your personal best call about where the intellectual energy will concentrate. From my perspective going in, RSA Conference 2026 outlined a defining tension for CISOs today: how to enable AI adoption fast enough to stay competitive while securing the enterprise against a threat landscape AI itself is reshaping. Now that RSAC 2026 has run its course, it’s wort

Writing a conference preview is an act of professional speculation. You read the agenda, map the schedule session density, and make your personal best call about where the intellectual energy will concentrate. From my perspective going in, RSA Conference 2026 outlined a defining tension for CISOs today: how to enable AI adoption fast enough to stay competitive while securing the enterprise against a threat landscape AI itself is reshaping. Now that RSAC 2026 has run its course, it’s wort

Writing a conference preview is an act of professional speculation. You read the agenda, map the schedule session density, and make your personal best call about where the intellectual energy will concentrate. From my perspective going in, RSA Conference 2026 outlined a defining tension for CISOs today: how to enable AI adoption fast enough to stay competitive while securing the enterprise against a threat landscape AI itself is reshaping. Now that RSAC 2026 has run its course, it’s wort

Tayler Derden | shutterstock.com Nach jahrelangen Cybercrime-Angriffen auf mehr als Hundert Unternehmen und Einrichtungen in Deutschland haben Ermittler zwei zentrale Verdächtige identifiziert. Der eine sei der mutmaßliche Kopf von zwei Hackergruppen, der andere der mutmaßliche Programmierer der von diesen Gruppen genutzten Schadsoftware. Dies teilten das bei der Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Karlsruhe eingerichtete Cybercrime-Zentrum und das Landeskriminalamt Baden-Württemberg mit. Es sei e

Tayler Derden | shutterstock.com Nach jahrelangen Cybercrime-Angriffen auf mehr als Hundert Unternehmen und Einrichtungen in Deutschland haben Ermittler zwei zentrale Verdächtige identifiziert. Der eine sei der mutmaßliche Kopf von zwei Hackergruppen, der andere der mutmaßliche Programmierer der von diesen Gruppen genutzten Schadsoftware. Dies teilten das bei der Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Karlsruhe eingerichtete Cybercrime-Zentrum und das Landeskriminalamt Baden-Württemberg mit. Es sei e

The popular HTTP client known as Axios has suffered a supply chain attack after two newly published versions of the npm package introduced a malicious dependency. Versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 of Axios have been found to inject "plain-crypto-js" version 4.2.1 as a fake dependency. According to StepSecurity, the two versions were published using the compromised npm credentials of the primary AxiosView the full article

Yet another critical flaw in a Fortinet product has come to light as attackers continue to target the company, this time by actively exploiting a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the cybersecurity company’s management server. The vulnerability, (CVE-2026-21643), allows unauthenticated threat actors to execute arbitrary code on unpatched systems via specifically-crafted HTTP requests. These low-complexity attacks target the FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS), a widely-used cy

A previously unknown vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT allowed sensitive conversation data to be exfiltrated without user knowledge or consent, according to new findings from Check Point. "A single malicious prompt could turn an otherwise ordinary conversation into a covert exfiltration channel, leaking user messages, uploaded files, and other sensitive content," the cybersecurity company said inView the full article

A new campaign has leveraged the ClickFix social engineering tactic as a way to distribute a previously undocumented malware loader referred to as DeepLoad. "It likely uses AI-assisted obfuscation and process injection to evade static scanning, while credential theft starts immediately and captures passwords and sessions even if the primary loader is blocked," ReliaQuest researchers ThassanaiView the full article

Some weeks are loud. This one was quieter but not in a good way. Long-running operations are finally hitting courtrooms, old attack methods are showing up in new places, and research that stopped being theoretical right around the time defenders stopped paying attention. There's a bit of everything this week. Persistence plays, legal wins, influence ops, and at least one thing that looks boringView the full article

What is really slowing Tier 1 down: the threat itself or the process around it? In many SOCs, the biggest delays do not come from the threat alone. They come from fragmented workflows, manual triage steps, and limited visibility early in the investigation. Fixing those process gaps can help Tier 1 move faster, reduce unnecessary escalations, and improve how the entire SOC responds under pressureView the full article

Security researchers are warning that applications using AI frameworks without proper safeguards can expose sensitive information in basic, yet critical, non-AI ways. According to a recent Cyera analysis, widely used AI orchestration tools, LangChain and LangGraph, are vulnerable to critical input validation flaws that could allow attackers to access sensitive enterprise data. In a recent blog post, the cybersecurity company outlined how a newly discovered flaw in LangChain, along with t

Anthropic didn’t intend to introduce Mythos this way. Details of what it calls its most capable AI model yet surfaced through a data leak in its content management system (CMS), revealing a LLM with sharply improved reasoning and coding skills. The data leak, which was the result of the company’s staffers inadvertently exposing material about the LLM, including a draft blog post about it, via a publicly accessible data repository, was first identified by independent security researchers last

Secrets sprawl isn't slowing down: in 2025, it accelerated faster than most security teams anticipated. GitGuardian's State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report analyzed billions of commits across public GitHub and uncovered 29 million new hardcoded secrets in 2025 alone, a 34% increase year over year and the largest single-year jump ever recorded. This year's findings reveal three core trends: AI hasView the full article

Recent breaches suggest attackers are shifting beyond traditional endpoints to target application programming interfaces (APIs). But typical perimeter protections can completely miss this vector. “We used to talk about defense-in-depth and endpoint protection,” says Sean Murphy, CISO at BECU, a nationwide credit union. “That morphed into identity, and now the API is the new perimeter.” BECU’s backend architecture is heavily based on microservices and APIs, making this an important — and

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote access toolkit of Russian-origin that's distributed via malicious Windows shortcut (LNK) files that are disguised as private key folders. The CTRL toolkit, according to Censys, is custom-built using .NET and includes various executables" to facilitate credential phishing, keylogging, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) hijacking, and reverse tunnelingView the full article

Three threat activity clusters aligned with China have targeted a government organization in Southeast Asia as part of what has been described as a "complex and well-resourced operation." The campaigns have led to the deployment of various malware families, including HIUPAN (aka USBFect, MISTCLOAK, or U2DiskWatch), PUBLOAD, EggStremeFuel (aka RawCookie), EggStremeLoader (aka Gorem RAT), MASOLView the full article

Data Security Posture Management erfordert nicht nur die richtigen Tools, sondern auch eine entsprechende Vorbereitung. Foto: Rawpixel.com | shutterstock.com Cloud Computing ist von Natur aus dynamisch und flüchtig: Daten können schnell und einfach erstellt, gelöscht oder verschoben werden. Das sorgt dafür, dass auch die Cloud-Angriffsfläche sehr dynamisch ist – was Schutzmaßnahmen erschwert. Ein lästiges Problem stellt dabei insbesondere dar, sensible Daten innerhalb von Cloud-Umgebungen aufzu

Threat actors with ties to Iran successfully broke into the personal email account of Kash Patel, the director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and leaked a cache of photos and other documents to the internet. Handala Hack Team, which carried out the breach, said on its website that Patel "will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims." In a statementView the full article

A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway is witnessing active reconnaissance activity, according to Defused Cyber and watchTowr. The vulnerability, CVE-2026-3055 (CVSS score: 9.3), refers to a case of insufficient input validation leading to memory overread, which an attacker could exploit to leak potentially sensitive information. PerView the full article

Proofpoint has disclosed details of a targeted email campaign in which threat actors with ties to Russia are leveraging the recently disclosed DarkSword exploit kit to target iOS devices. The activity has been attributed with high confidence to the Russian state-sponsored threat group known as TA446, which is also tracked by the broader cybersecurity community under the monikers Callisto,View the full article

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical security flaw impacting F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-53521 (CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which could allow a threat actor to achieve remote code execution. "When aView the full article

The European Commission is continuing to investigate the theft of data from its cloud infrastructure earlier this week. On Thursday, the Commission revealed there had been an attack on its Europa.eu platform, offering few details, then, on Friday, security news site Bleeping Computer reported that the attack had involved the compromise of an account or accounts on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The news site said an unnamed threat actor who claimed responsibility told it that they had stolen

Lloyds Banking Group has identified the glitch that led to some of its customers being able to see details of other customers’ transactions on March 12. It revealed the information in a letter to the UK Parliament’s Treasury Committee, setting out the details of the incident and how it has been handled. The issue arose after an overnight IT change meant that two customers who accessed their accounts simultaneously could have sight of each other’s accounts, it said. The bank said that fau

Apple is now sending Lock Screen notifications to iPhones and iPads running older versions of iOS and iPadOS to alert users of web-based attacks and urge them to install the update. The development was first reported by MacRumors. "Apple is aware of attacks targeting out-of-date iOS software, including the version on your iPhone. Install this critical update to protect your iPhone," theView the full article

Name : National Cyber Security Show Website: https://www.nationalcybersecurityshow.com/ Date: April 28-30, 2026 Location: NEC Birmingham, United Kingdom The National Cyber Security Show is the UK’s premier cybersecurity trade event, taking place 28–30 April 2026 at the NEC in Birmingham. It brings together cybersecurity professionals, industry experts, vendors, and solution providers to address the latest digital threats and resilience strategies. Across three days, attendees can explore 100

TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the supply chain attack targeting Trivy, KICS, and litellm, has now compromised the telnyx Python package by pushing two malicious versions to steal sensitive data. The two versions, 4.87.1 and 4.87.2, published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository on March 27, 2026, concealed their credential harvesting capabilities within a .WAV file. Users areView the full article

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched bug impacting Open VSX's pre-publish scanning pipeline to cause the tool to allow a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension to pass the vetting process and go live in the registry. "The pipeline had a single boolean return value that meant both 'no scanners are configured' and 'all scanners failed to run,'" KoiView the full article

Attackers have exploited a critical Langflow RCE within hours of disclosure, prompting the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to formally flag it for urgent remediation. The flaw, which allows running arbitrary code on vulnerable Langflow instances without >credentials, was weaponized within 20 hours of the open-source AI-pipeline tool disclosing it. According to a Sysdig report, crooks started hitting a fleet of honeypot nodes with vulnerable instances across

Threat actors are using adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing pages to seize control of TikTok for Business accounts in a new campaign, according to a report from Push Security. Business accounts associated with social media platforms are a lucrative target, as they can be weaponized by bad actors for malvertising and distributing malware. "TikTok has been historically abused to distributeView the full article

Rising geopolitical tensions are reflected (or in some cases preceded) by cyber operations, while technology itself has become politicized. Let’s admit it: we are in the middle of it.  Introduction: One tech power to rule them all is a thing of the past  The relative safety, peace and prosperity that much of the world has enjoyed since 1945 was not accidental. It emerged from the ashesView the full article

Studio-M – shutterstock.com Die Linke ist nach eigenen Angaben Opfer einer schweren Cyberattacke geworden und vermutet dahinter russischsprachige Hacker. Man habe am Donnerstag sofort reagiert und Teile der IT-Infrastruktur vom Netz genommen, teilte Bundesgeschäftsführer Janis Ehling mit.  «Nach derzeitigen Erkenntnissen zielen die Täter darauf ab, sensible Daten aus dem inneren Bereich der Parteiorganisation sowie personenbezogene Informationen von Mitarbeitenden der Parteizentrale zu v

Studio-M – shutterstock.com Die Linke ist nach eigenen Angaben Opfer einer schweren Cyberattacke geworden und vermutet dahinter russischsprachige Hacker. Man habe am Donnerstag sofort reagiert und Teile der IT-Infrastruktur vom Netz genommen, teilte Bundesgeschäftsführer Janis Ehling mit.  «Nach derzeitigen Erkenntnissen zielen die Täter darauf ab, sensible Daten aus dem inneren Bereich der Parteiorganisation sowie personenbezogene Informationen von Mitarbeitenden der Parteizentrale zu v

A pro-Ukrainian group called Bearlyfy has been attributed to more than 70 cyber attacks targeting Russian companies since it first surfaced in the threat landscape in January 2025, with recent attacks leveraging a custom Windows ransomware strain codenamed GenieLocker. "Bearlyfy (also known as Labubu) operates as a dual-purpose group aimed at inflicting maximum damage upon Russian businesses;View the full article

Many leaders know empowered teams deliver better results, but not all leaders understand how to get there. It all starts with knowing what empowerment truly means. Put simply: Empowerment is the absence of micromanagement. Empowerment provides the foundation for people to develop autonomy; to take action, responsibility, and accountability; and to have the room necessary to grow to become better at execution. More to the point, however, empowerment requires leaders who are mature, capabl

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security vulnerabilities impacting LangChain and LangGraph that, if successfully exploited, could expose filesystem data, environment secrets, and conversation history. Both LangChain and LangGraph are open-source frameworks that are used to build applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). LangGraph is built on the foundations ofView the full article

sp3n | shutterstock.com Selbst wenn Sie bei der Absicherung Ihres Rechenzentrums, Ihrer Cloud-Implementierungen und der physischen Sicherheit Ihres Firmengebäudes alle Register ziehen – mit Hilfe von Social Engineering finden gewiefte Cyberkriminelle meistens einen Weg, diese Maßnahmen zu umgehen. Social Engineering – Definition Social Engineering bezeichnet die “Kunst”, menschliche Schwächen auszunutzen, um sich Zugang zu Gebäuden, Systemen oder Daten zu verschaffen. Anstatt zu vers

Google isn’t just responsible for the encryption of a big chunk of the communications on the internet. It is also building its own quantum computers, so it’s well placed to evaluate how close the technology is to fruition. Until now, the company has been aligned with the NIST timeline, which specifies 2030 for deprecating quantum-unsafe algorithms and their full disallowance by 2035. But on Wednesday, Google said that 2029 is now the deadline for the migration to post-quantum cryptograph

Move over shadow IT; shadow AI is the new risk on the scene. The explosion of available AI tools, leadership’s enthusiasm for the new technology, the push for employees to do more with less, nascent governance and the sheer speed at which AI is evolving has created the perfect environment for shadow AI to flourish. “Every CISO I talk to has discovered some form of shadow AI,” says Andrew Walls, vice president analyst at Gartner. Vendors are turning AI capabilities on in their products, o

A long-term and ongoing campaign attributed to a China-nexus threat actor has embedded itself in telecom networks to conduct espionage against government networks. The strategic positioning activity, which involves implanting and maintaining stealthy access mechanisms within critical environments, has been attributed to Red Menshen, a threat cluster that's also tracked as Earth Bluecrow,View the full article

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Google Chrome Extension that could have been exploited to trigger malicious prompts simply by visiting a web page. The flaw "allowed any website to silently inject prompts into that assistant as if the user wrote them," Koi Security researcher Oren Yomtov said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "No clicks, noView the full article

Databricks has previewed a new open agentic Security Information and Event Management software (SIEM) named Lakewatch that signals its first deliberate step beyond data warehousing into security analytics. The data warehouse-provider is pitching Lakewatch as a lower-cost alternative to traditional security tools, arguing that consolidating security analytics into its data platform can reduce overall spend. “Right now, existing solutions’ (rival SIEMs) ingestion costs force teams to disca

Unmasking impostors is something the art world has faced for decades, and there are valuable lessons from the works of Elmyr de Hory that can apply to the world of defensive cybersecurity. During the 1960s, de Hory gained infamy as a premier forger, passing off counterfeit masterworks of Picasso, Matisse, and Renoir to unsuspecting collectors and renowned museums. Over the next several decades,View the full article

Some weeks in security feel loud. This one feels sneaky. Less big dramatic fireworks, more of that slow creeping sense that too many people are getting way too comfortable abusing things they probably shouldn’t even be touching. There’s a little bit of everything in this one, too. Weird delivery tricks, old problems coming back in slightly worse forms, shady infrastructure doingView the full article

Threat actors are actively exploiting OpenClaw’s viral popularity to run a phishing campaign that targets developers on GitHub with lures of free crypto tokens. According to a disclosure by OX Security, the campaign involves fake “CLAW” token airdrops that promise thousands of dollars in rewards. Developers are being tricked into malicious GitHub repositories and discussions, and eventually redirected to convincingly cloned websites that prompt them to connect their crypto wallets. “The

Most teams have security tools in place. Alerts are firing, dashboards look clean, threat intel is flowing in. On the surface, everything feels under control. But one question usually stays unanswered: Would your defenses actually stop a real attack? That’s where things get shaky. A control exists, so it’s assumed to work. A detection rule is active, so it’s expected to catch something. But veryView the full article

The kernel exploit for two security vulnerabilities used in the recently uncovered Apple iOS exploit kit known as Coruna is an updated version of the same exploit that was used in the Operation Triangulation campaign back in 2023, according to new findings from Kaspersky. "When Coruna was first reported, the public evidence wasn't sufficient to link its code to Triangulation — sharedView the full article

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new payment skimmer that uses WebRTC data channels as a means to receive payloads and exfiltrate data, effectively bypassing security controls. "Instead of the usual HTTP requests or image beacons, this malware uses WebRTC data channels to load its payload and exfiltrate stolen payment data," Sansec said in a report published this week. The attack,View the full article

A new critical vulnerability that is similar to the widely-exploited CitrixBleed and CitrixBleed2 holes should be patched in NetScaler devices immediately, say experts. The hole, CVE-2026-3055, is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway devices configured as SAML IDP for approving identity and authentication. It’s rated at 9.3 in severity on the CVSS scale, “The implications of leaving it unpatched are serious,” Ryan Emmons, staff secur

Cisco’s widely deployed Catalyst 9300 Series enterprise switches have four security vulnerabilities, two of which could be chained to cause a denial-of-service outage, infrastructure security company Opswat has revealed. The two most operationally significant are CVE-2026-20114 and CVE-2026-20110, which the researchers found could be chained to make possible a dangerous privilege escalation. Opswat’s Unit 515 Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Lab discovered them and reported them to C

The alleged administrator of the LeakBase cybercrime forum has been arrested by Russian law enforcement authorities, state media reported Thursday. According to TASS and MVD Media, a news website linked to the Russian Interior Ministry, the suspect is a resident of the city of Taganrog. The suspect is said to have been detained for creating and managing a criminal site that allowed stolenView the full article

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new evolution of the GlassWorm campaign that delivers a multi-stage framework capable of comprehensive data theft and installing a remote access trojan (RAT), which deploys an information-stealing Google Chrome extension masquerading as an offline version of Google Docs. "It logs keystrokes, dumps cookies and session tokens, captures screenshots, andView the full article

What started as a supply chain attack on Trivy, a widely used security scanner, has become a Lapsus$-linked extortion campaign, with more than 1,000 enterprise SaaS environments already compromised. Charles Carmakal, CTO of Mandiant Consulting, made the assessment at a Google-hosted threat briefing held alongside the RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco on Tuesday. “We know of over 1,000 impacted SaaS environments right now that are actively dealing with this particular threat campaign,”

In September 2025, Anthropic disclosed that a state-sponsored threat actor used an AI coding agent to execute an autonomous cyber espionage campaign against 30 global targets. The AI handled 80-90% of tactical operations on its own, performing reconnaissance, writing exploit code, and attempting lateral movement at machine speed. This incident is worrying, but there's a scenario that shouldView the full article

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said a Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison for managing a botnet that was used to launch ransomware attacks against U.S. companies. Ilya Angelov, 40, of Tolyatti, Russia, was also fined $100,000. Angelov, who went by the online aliases "milan" and "okart," is said to have co-managed a Russia-based cybercriminal group known as TA551 (akaView the full article

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an active device code phishing campaign that's targeting Microsoft 365 identities across more than 340 organizations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Germany. The activity, per Huntress, was first spotted on February 19, 2026, with subsequent cases appearing at an accelerated pace since then. Notably, the campaign leveragesView the full article

PyPI is warning of possible credential theft from AI applications and developer pipelines after two malicious versions of the widely used Python middleware for large language models, LiteLLM, were briefly published. “Anyone who has installed and run the project should assume any credentials available to the LiteLLM environment may have been exposed, and revoke/rotate them accordingly,” PyPI said in an advisory that linked the incident to an exploited Trivy dependency from the ongoing TeamPCP

The identity and access management (IAM) market has shifted its focus from traditional “login and MFA” mechanisms toward treating identity as a security control plane. Buyers are prioritizing phishing-resistant authentication, including passkeys, and the management of non-human identities, according to an array of experts quizzed on developments in the market by CSO. “Workforce access is still the anchor, but more programs now pull in governance, privileged access, and controls for non-h

Traditionally, enterprise security operating models operated a fixed and regular cycle: Findings surfaced through periodic scans, security teams triaged results and remediation followed through ticket-based workflows. It was almost an SOP of sorts; the accountability existed, but it was often implicit and fragmented. The remediation would travel across tools, teams and handoffs rather than designed into the system itself. The result? Your product was already live, your security teams had raised

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Monday that it was banning the import of new, foreign-made consumer routers, citing "unacceptable" risks to cyber and national security. The action was designed to safeguard Americans and the underlying communications networks the country relies on, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in a post on X. The development means that new models ofView the full article

earthphotostock – shutterstock.com In vielen Unternehmen stoßen IT-Sicherheitsrichtlinien auf Widerstand, da Mitarbeitende sie als hinderlich oder praxisfern empfinden. Dies erschwert die Umsetzung, untergräbt die Wirksamkeit und belastet die Zusammenarbeit zwischen der Sicherheitsabteilung und den Fachbereichen. Statt als Partner wird Cybersecurity oft als Bremser wahrgenommen – ein fatales Sicherheitsrisiko. Für CISOs (Chief Security Information Officer) bedeutet das, dass neben technisch

TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recent compromises of Trivy and KICS, has now compromised a popular Python package named litellm, pushing two malicious versions containing a credential harvester, a Kubernetes lateral movement toolkit, and a persistent backdoor. Multiple security vendors, including Endor Labs and JFrog, revealed that litellm versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 were published onView the full article

A large-scale malvertising campaign active since January 2026 has been observed targeting U.S.-based individuals searching for tax-related documents to serve rogue installers for ConnectWise ScreenConnect that drop a tool named HwAudKiller to blind security programs using the bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) technique. "The campaign abuses Google Ads to serve rogue ScreenConnect (View the full article

An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting French-speaking corporate environments with fake resumes that lead to the deployment of cryptocurrency miners and information stealers. "The campaign uses highly obfuscated VBScript files disguised as resume/CV documents, delivered through phishing emails," Securonix researchers Shikha Sangwan, Akshay Gaikwad, and Aaron Beardslee said in a report sharedView the full article

Gcore Radar Laut dem halbjährlich erscheinenden Radar-Report des luxemburgischen Softwareanbieters Gcore haben sich die registrierten DDoS-Angriffe von Juli bis Dezember 2025 gegenüber dem ersten Halbjahr verdoppelt. Insgesamt zählte Gcore weltweit rund 2,25 Millionen DDoS-Angriffe im zweiten Halbjahr 2025 gegenüber etwa 1,17 Millionen im ersten Halbjahr. DDoS im Jahresvergleich Das summiert sich für 2025 auf insgesamt 3,42 Millionen Angriffe. Im Vorjahr 2024 registrierte der Softwar

Gcore Radar Laut dem halbjährlich erscheinenden Radar-Report des luxemburgischen Softwareanbieters Gcore haben sich die registrierten DDoS-Angriffe von Juli bis Dezember 2025 gegenüber dem ersten Halbjahr verdoppelt. Insgesamt zählte Gcore weltweit rund 2,25 Millionen DDoS-Angriffe im zweiten Halbjahr 2025 gegenüber etwa 1,17 Millionen im ersten Halbjahr. DDoS im Jahresvergleich Das summiert sich für 2025 auf insgesamt 3,42 Millionen Angriffe. Im Vorjahr 2024 registrierte der Softwar

The Trusted Platform Module (TPM), developed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), is a mandatory security component in any computer running Windows 11. It stores sensitive information such as encryption keys in a separate, secure chip, passing it to the CPU as required. However, there’s a problem. If an attacker can get physical access to the device, they can use hardware costing less than $20, running readily available software, to grab those encryption keys as they are sent to the CPU, al

The Trusted Platform Module (TPM), developed by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), is a mandatory security component in any computer running Windows 11. It stores sensitive information such as encryption keys in a separate, secure chip, passing it to the CPU as required. However, there’s a problem. If an attacker can get physical access to the device, they can use hardware costing less than $20, running readily available software, to grab those encryption keys as they are sent to the CPU, al

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new set of malicious npm packages that are designed to steal cryptocurrency wallets and sensitive data. The activity is being tracked by ReversingLabs as the Ghost campaign. The list of identified packages, all published by a user named mikilanjillo, is below - react-performance-suite react-state-optimizer-core react-fast-utilsa ai-fast-auto-traderView the full article

A newly disclosed malware strain dubbed “StoatWaffle” is giving fresh teeth to the notorious, developer-targeting “Contagious Interview” threat campaign. According to NTT Security findings, the malware marks an evolution from the long-running campaign’s user-triggered execution to a near-frictionless compromise embedded directly in developer workflows. Attackers are using blockchain-themed project repositories as decoys, embedding a malicious VS Code configuration file that triggers code exe

On February 25, 2026, Gartner published its inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, marking an important milestone for this emerging category. For those unfamiliar with the various Gartner report types, “a Market Guide defines a market and explains what clients can expect it to do in the short term. With the focus on early, more chaotic markets, a Market Guide does not rate or positionView the full article

Cybersecurity has changed fast. Roles are more specialized, and tooling is more advanced. On paper, this should make organizations more secure. But in practice, many teams struggle with the same basic problems they faced years ago: unclear risk priorities, misaligned tooling decisions, and difficulty explaining security issues in terms the business understands. These challenges do notView the full article

Two AI releases early this year are prompting users to give up control and let autonomous agentic tools complete tasks on their behalf. IT leaders should be ready to deal with the consequences. Anthropic rolled out its agentic platform Claude Cowork in January for macOs and February for Windows, and use of agentic tool OpenClaw skyrocketed early this year after developer Peter Steinberger, now with OpenAI, launched the open-source project in late 2025. While most organizations are focuse

Two more GitHub Actions workflows have become the latest to be compromised by credential-stealing malware by a threat actor known as TeamPCP, the cloud-native cybercriminal operation also behind the Trivy supply chain attack. The workflows, both maintained by the supply chain security company Checkmarx, are listed below - checkmarx/ast-github-action checkmarx/kics-github-action Cloud securityView the full article

AI is the new space race for data centers, and consistency at speed is the rocket fuel that colocation and hyperscale providers need to reach orbit. Everything you already know about physical security still applies but it won’t matter unless you have the right plan and partnerships in place to scale without sacrificing quality. Growth that isn’t intentional quickly becomes chaotic. And in a market this competitive, chaos means falling behind.  Only a flexible, scalable security strategy, one

The nightmare begins with our protagonist trying to find a way inside to get to the firm’s files, but every door is bolted shut. Then they spot a back entrance and they’re in, first walking, then running down one corridor, then another, and another, feeling that they’re getting ever closer to that file and a payday they’ve dreamt about for years. But something doesn’t feel right. The corridors, it seems, just lead to more corridors. For the first time, our protagonist feels like they’re being wa

A 26-year-old Russian citizen has been sentenced in the U.S. to 6.75 years (81 months) in prison for his role in assisting major cybercrime groups, including the Yanluowang ransomware crew, in conducting numerous attacks against U.S. companies and other organizations. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), Aleksei Olegovich Volkov facilitated dozens of ransomware attacks across theView the full article

Citrix has released security updates to address two vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including a critical flaw that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from the application. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-3055 (CVSS score: 9.3) - Insufficient input validation leading to memory overread CVE-2026-4368 (CVSS score: 7.7) - Race condition leading to userView the full article

Mit einer ISO 27001-Zertifizierung weisen Unternehmen nach, dass sie ein wirksames Informationssicherheits-Managementsystems (ISMS) betreiben. Lesen Sie, weshalb der Zertifizierungsprozess häufig schief geht. Foto: mentalmind – shutterstock.com ISO-Zertifizierungen, aber auch die Einführung eines Informationssicherheits-Managementsystems (ISMS) nach IT-Grundschutz, werden von vielen Unternehmen als Beweis für ihre Qualität und ihren professionellen Ansatz bei der Durchführung ihrer Geschäftstät

As CISOs worry about AI agent sprawl, Palo Alto Networks has announced an update to its Prisma AIRS security platform and enterprise browser to include the ability to discover AI agents, models, and connections across the entire IT environment, to scan agents for vulnerabilities, and to allow admins to simulate red team tests for agents. Assuming the completion of Palo Alto Networks’ planned acquisition of Koi Security, it said, Prisma AIRS 3.0 will soon also offer an AI Agent Gateway provid

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that's distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects. The use of VS Code "tasks.json" to distribute malware is a relatively new tactic adopted by the threat actor since December 2025, with the attacksView the full article

A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran’s time zone or have Farsi set as the default language. Experts say the wiper campaign against Iran materialized this past weekend and came from a relatively new cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. In December 2025, the group began compromising corporate cloud environments usin

Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 report, released today at the RSA Conference, shows that attackers are moving faster, operating more collaboratively, and increasingly focusing on the systems organizations rely on to recover from breaches. The report, based on more than 500,000 hours of incident response engagements in 2025, finds that attackers are compressing key phases of the attack lifecycle, even as median dwell time increased to 14 days, up from 11 days the previous year. In addition, it r

Another week, another reminder that the internet is still a mess. Systems people thought were secure are being broken in simple ways, showing many still ignore basic advisories. This edition covers a mix of issues: supply chain attacks hitting CI/CD setups, long-abused IoT devices being shut down, and exploits moving quickly from disclosure to real attacks. There are also new malware tricksView the full article

AWS Bedrock is Amazon's platform for building AI-powered applications. It gives developers access to foundation models and the tools to connect those models directly to enterprise data and systems. That connectivity is what makes it powerful – but it’s also what makes Bedrock a target. When an AI agent can query your Salesforce instance, trigger a Lambda function, or pull from a SharePointView the full article

A new infostealer is bypassing Chrome’s Application-Bound Encryption (ABE), using a debugger-based technique researchers say hasn’t been seen in the wild before. Called “VoidStealer,” the stealer seems to have found a way around ABE, introduced in Chrome 127 in 2024, a security control aimed at locking sensitive browser data like passwords and cookies behind tighter encryptions, tying decryption to a privileged system service. While ABE bypasses have existed before, through techniques th

Microsoft has warned of fresh campaigns that are capitalizing on the upcoming tax season in the U.S. to harvest credentials and deliver malware. The email campaigns take advantage of the urgency and time-sensitive nature of emails to send phishing messages masquerading as refund notices, payroll forms, filing reminders, and requests from tax professionals to deceive recipients into openingView the full article

The North Korea fake IT worker scheme has become a pernicious threat across several industries. While best practices emphasize precautions throughout the hiring phase, once onboarded such operatives can be challenging to detect. Combinations of behavioral analytics, threat intelligence, and other points of information are taking shape as essential defenses, as a recent case attests.   According to a recent report from LevelBlue SpiderLabs, a suspected North Korea-linked operative was hired,

Last year, I asked a room of infrastructure, identity and application leaders a simple question: “Where in our environment do we rely on RSA or elliptic curve cryptography?” The first answers were the usual suspects: TLS on the edge, our VPN and the certificates on laptops. Then we pulled up a dependency map and the mood changed. Crypto wasn’t just in a few obvious places. It was buried in API gateways, service meshes, database drivers, firmware update pipelines and third-party SaaS. Some of

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious artifacts distributed via Docker Hub following the Trivy supply chain attack, highlighting the widening blast radius across developer environments. The last known clean release of Trivy on Docker Hub is 0.69.3. The malicious versions 0.69.4, 0.69.5, and 0.69.6 have since been removed from the container image library. "New image tags 0.69.5 andView the full article

Insider threats are coming back in a consequential way. According to the State of Human Risk Report from Mimecast, 42% of organizations have experienced an increase in malicious insider incidents over the past year, with 42% also reporting a rise in negligent incidents for the first time. The report further found that organizations experienced an average of six insider-driven incidents per month at an estimated cost of $13.1 million per incident. Additionally, 66% of the 2,500 surveyed I

Threat actors are suspected to be exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA), according to Arctic Wolf. The cybersecurity company said it observed malicious activity starting the week of March 9, 2026, in customer environments that's consistent with the exploitation of CVE-2025-32975 on unpatched SMA systems exposed to the internet. It'sView the full article

Threat actors affiliated with Russian Intelligence Services are conducting phishing campaigns to compromise commercial messaging applications (CMAs) like WhatsApp and Signal to seize control of accounts belonging to individuals with high intelligence value, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday. "The campaignView the full article

Oracle has released security updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Identity Manager and Web Services Manager that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21992, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "This vulnerability is remotely exploitable without authentication," Oracle said in an advisory. "If successfullyView the full article

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added five security flaws impacting Apple, Craft CMS, and Laravel Livewire to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, urging federal agencies to patch them by April 3, 2026. The vulnerabilities that have come under exploitation are listed below - CVE-2025-31277 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A vulnerability in AppleView the full article

The threat actors behind the supply chain attack targeting the popular Trivy scanner are suspected to be conducting follow-on attacks that have led to the compromise of a large number of npm packages with a previously undocumented self-propagating worm dubbed CanisterWorm. The name is a reference to the fact that the malware uses an ICP canister, which refers to tamperproof smart contracts onView the full article

Attackers have compromised the widely used open-source Trivy vulnerability scanner, injecting credential-stealing malware into official releases and GitHub Actions used by thousands of CI/CD workflows. The breach could trigger a cascade of additional supply-chain compromises if impacted projects and organizations don’t rotate their secrets immediately. The attack, disclosed by Trivy maintainers today, results from an earlier compromise announced late last month that also leveraged insecure G

A senior member of the Cyber Monitoring Center (CMC), an organization formed last year to monitor, define and classify cyber events impacting UK organizations, this week questioned whether a £1.5 billion (about $2 billion) government loan guarantee provided to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) should have happened in the first place. Speaking at an event hosted by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) that reviewed the CMC’s activities in its first year of operation, Ciaran Martin, chair of the C