Security doesn’t fail at the point of breach. It fails at the point of impact. That line set the tone for this year’s Picus Breach and Simulation (BAS) Summit, where researchers, practitioners, and CISOs all echoed the same theme: cyber defense is no longer about prediction. It’s about proof. WhenRead More »The Death of the Security Checkbox: BAS Is the Power Behind Real Defense
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned CISOs that hacktivists are increasingly targeting internet-exposed ICS. The post Canada Says Hackers Tampered With ICS at Water Facility, Oil and Gas Firm appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Interesting article about the arms race between AI systems that invent/design new biological pathogens, and AI systems that detect them before they’re created: The team started with a basic test: use AI tools to design variants of the toxin ricin, then test them against the software that is used toRead More »The AI-Designed Bioweapon Arms Race
The packages deployed malicious code harvesting system information, credentials, tokens, API keys, and other sensitive information. The post 136 NPM Packages Delivering Infostealers Downloaded 100,000 Times appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The comfort zone in cybersecurity is gone. Attackers are scaling down, focusing tighter, and squeezing more value from fewer, high-impact targets. At the same time, defenders face growing blind spots — from spoofed messages to large-scale social engineering. This week’s findings show how that shrinking margin of safety is redrawingRead More »ThreatsDay Bulletin: DNS Poisoning Flaw, Supply-Chain Heist, Rust Malware Trick and New RATs Rising
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered yet another active software supply chain attack campaign targeting the npm registry with over 100 malicious packages that can steal authentication tokens, CI/CD secrets, and GitHub credentials from developers’ machines. The campaign has been codenamed PhantomRaven by Koi Security. The activity is assessed to have begunRead More »PhantomRaven Malware Found in 126 npm Packages Stealing GitHub Tokens From Devs
Peter Williams stole trade secrets from his US employer and sold them to a Russian cybersecurity tools broker. The post Former US Defense Contractor Executive Admits to Selling Exploits to Russia appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a spike in automated attacks targeting PHP servers, IoT devices, and cloud gateways by various botnets such as Mirai, Gafgyt, and Mozi. “These automated campaigns exploit known CVE vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations to gain control over exposed systems and expand botnet networks,” the QualysRead More »Experts Reports Sharp Increase in Automated Botnet Attacks Targeting PHP Servers and IoT Devices
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new security issue in agentic web browsers like OpenAI ChatGPT Atlas that exposes underlying artificial intelligence (AI) models to context poisoning attacks. In the attack devised by AI security company SPLX, a bad actor can set up websites that serve different content to browsers andRead More »New AI-Targeted Cloaking Attack Tricks AI Crawlers Into Citing Fake Info as Verified Facts
MITRE has unveiled the latest version of ATT&CK, with the most significant changes in the defensive part of the framework. The post MITRE Unveils ATT&CK v18 With Updates to Detections, Mobile, ICS appeared first on SecurityWeek.
