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AI Is Supercharging Phishing: Here’s How to Fight Back

AI has given cybercriminals the ability to operate like Fortune‑500‑scale marketing departments—except their product is account takeover, data theft, and identity fraud. The post AI Is Supercharging Phishing: Here’s How to Fight Back appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Application Containment: How to Use Ringfencing to Prevent the Weaponization of Trusted Software

Application Containment: How to Use Ringfencing to Prevent the Weaponization of Trusted Software

The challenge facing security leaders is monumental: Securing environments where failure is not an option. Reliance on traditional security postures, such as Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to chase threats after they have already entered the network, is fundamentally risky and contributes significantly to the half-trillion-dollar annual cost of cybercrime.Read More »Application Containment: How to Use Ringfencing to Prevent the Weaponization of Trusted Software

Largest Azure DDoS Attack Powered by Aisuru Botnet

Microsoft said the DDoS attack was aimed at an endpoint in Australia and reached 15.72 Tbps and 3.64 Bpps. The post Largest Azure DDoS Attack Powered by Aisuru Botnet appeared first on SecurityWeek.

EdgeStepper Implant Reroutes DNS Queries to Deploy Malware via Hijacked Software Updates

EdgeStepper Implant Reroutes DNS Queries to Deploy Malware via Hijacked Software Updates

The threat actor known as PlushDaemon has been observed using a previously undocumented Go-based network backdoor codenamed EdgeStepper to facilitate adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. EdgeStepper “redirects all DNS queries to an external, malicious hijacking node, effectively rerouting the traffic from legitimate infrastructure used for software updates to attacker-controlled infrastructure

ServiceNow AI Agents Can Be Tricked Into Acting Against Each Other via Second-Order Prompts

ServiceNow AI Agents Can Be Tricked Into Acting Against Each Other via Second-Order Prompts

Malicious actors can exploit default configurations in ServiceNow’s Now Assist generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform and leverage its agentic capabilities to conduct prompt injection attacks. The second-order prompt injection, according to AppOmni, makes use of Now Assist’s agent-to-agent discovery to execute unauthorized actions, enabling attackers to copy and exfiltrate sensitive

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