Transfer across AWS Cloud partitions. Different identity planes. Long-lived IAM user credentials. As an enterprise customer, you might need to bring together security, operational, and compliance data from multiple AWS partitions. Creating a holistic view of these types of data is critical to support operations and applications but understanding …
Researchers tried to get ChatGPT to do evil, but it didn't do a good job LLMs are getting better at writing malware - but they're still not ready for prime time.... [...]
In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep — an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that promises to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites — after KrebsOnSecurity revealed Onerep’s founder had created dozens of people-search services and was continuing to …
Data from Italy's national railway operator, the FS Italiane Group, has been exposed after a threat actor breached the organization's IT services provider, Almaviva. [...]
Data from Italy's national railway operator, the FS Italiane Group, has been exposed after a threat actor breached the organization's IT services provider, Almaviva. [...]
A major spike in malicious scanning against Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect portals has been detected, starting on November 14, 2025. [...]
Certificates and the hierarchy of trust they create are the backbone of a secure infrastructure. AWS Private Certificate Authority is a highly available certificate authority (CA) that you can use to create private CA hierarchies, secure your applications and devices with private certificates, and manage certificate lifecycles. A certificate …
Salesforce says it revoked refresh tokens linked to Gainsight-published applications while investigating a new wave of data theft attacks targeting customers. [...]
PowerShell script locked thousands of workers out of their accounts An Ohio IT contractor has pleaded guilty to breaking into his former employer's systems and causing nearly $1 million worth of damage after being fired.... [...]
Networking vendor claims rival helped portray it as a national-security risk in the US TP-Link is suing rival networking vendor Netgear, alleging that the rival and its CEO carried out a smear campaign by falsely suggesting, it says, that the biz had been infiltrated by the Chinese government.... [...]
American cybersecurity company SonicWall urged customers today to patch a high-severity SonicOS SSLVPN security flaw that can allow attackers to crash vulnerable firewalls. [...]
D-Link is warning of three remotely exploitable command execution vulnerabilities that affect all models and hardware revisions of its DIR-878 router, which has reached end-of-service but is still available in several markets. [...]
Windows 11 migration is inevitable as Windows 10 support ends, and unsupported systems create major security and ransomware risks. Acronis explains how to use this migration to review backups, strengthen cybersecurity, and ensure data stays recoverable. [...]
Privacy cops say attack wasn't just bad luck but a result of sloppy homework Canadian privacy watchdogs say that school boards must shoulder part of the blame for the PowerSchool mega-breach, not just the ed-tech giant that lost control of millions of student and staff records.... [...]
Photocall, a TV piracy streaming platform with over 26 million users annually, has ceased operations following a joint investigation by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and DAZN. [...]
Google has filed a complaint in court that details the scam : In a complaint filed Wednesday, the tech giant accused “a cybercriminal group in China” of selling “phishing for dummies” kits. The kits help unsavvy fraudsters easily “execute a large-scale phishing campaign,” tricking hordes of unsuspecting people into “disclosing …
GlobalProtect login endpoints targeted, sparking concern that something bigger may be brewing Malicious traffic targeting Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect portals surged almost 40-fold in the space of 24 hours, hitting a 90-day high and putting defenders on alert for whatever comes next.... [...]
The founders of the Samourai Wallet (Samourai) cryptocurrency mixing service have been sent to prison for helping criminals launder over $237 million. [...]
A new Android banking trojan named Sturnus can capture communication from end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram, as well as take complete control of the device. [...]
Company thinks you’ll contemplate replacing most security kit in the next few years to stay safe Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has suggested hostile nation-states will possess quantum computers in 2029, or even a little earlier, at which point most security appliances will need to be replaced …
‘Bulletproof’ hosts partly dodged the last attack of this sort Cybercrime fighters in the US, UK, and Australia have imposed sanctions on several Russia-linked entities they claim provide hosting services to ransomware gangs Lockbit, BlackSuit, and Play.... [...]
Attackers may be joining the dots to enable unauthenticated RCE Fortinet has confirmed that another flaw in its FortiWeb web application firewall has been exploited as a zero-day and issued a patch, just days after disclosing a critical bug in the same product that attackers had found and abused …
Getting credentials for local development with AWS is now simpler and more secure. A new AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) command, aws login, lets you start building immediately after signing up for AWS without creating and managing long-term access keys. You use the same sign-in method you already …
Amazon Web Services has been designated as a critical third-party provider (CTPP) by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) under the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This designation is a key milestone in the EU’s implementation of DORA, which took effect in January 2025 and aims …
Sneaky2FA, a popular among cybercriminals phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) kit, has added Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) capabilities, giving "customers" the option to launch highly deceptive attacks. [...]
Microsoft’s warning on Tuesday that an experimental AI agent integrated into Windows can infect devices and pilfer sensitive user data has set off a familiar response from security-minded critics: Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and …
AWS Network Firewall now supports managed rules curated by AWS Partners—giving you pre-built threat intelligence and security controls that reduce the need to create and maintain your own rule sets. This new capability helps organizations strengthen their network security posture with continuously updated AWS partner managed protection. What …
And companies are getting caught in the crossfire interview Warfare has become a joint cyber-kinetic endeavor, with nations using cyber operations to scope out targets before launching missiles. And private companies, including shipping, transportation, and electronics manufacturers, are getting caught in the crossfire, according to Amazon.... [...]
The new threat landscape The line between cyber warfare and traditional kinetic operations is rapidly blurring. Recent investigations by Amazon threat intelligence teams have uncovered a new trend that they’re calling cyber-enabled kinetic targeting in which nation-state threat actors systematically use cyber operations to enable and enhance physical …
A critical flaw in the W3 Total Cache (W3TC) WordPress plugin can be exploited to run PHP commands on the server by posting a comment that contains a malicious payload. [...]
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2025. Today, Phil Venables, Google Cloud’s current strategic security advisor and former CISO, and creator of this newsletter, shares his thoughts on how the role of the CISO is evolving in the AI era, and how organizations should shift …
Today, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia announced sanctions targeting Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) providers that have supported ransomware gangs and other cybercrime operations. [...]
Thousands of ASUS WRT routers, mostly end-of-life or outdated devices, have been hijacked in a global campaign called Operation WrtHug that exploits six vulnerabilities. [...]
DevOps repos on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps face risks from weak access controls, misconfigurations, outages, and accidental deletions. GitProtect provides automated, immutable backups and fast recovery to secure your DevOps data. [...]
An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet’s top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform temporarily so that visitors could still access their websites. But security experts say doing so may have also triggered an …
CISA has ordered U.S. government agencies to secure their systems within a week against another vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiWeb web application firewall, which was exploited in zero-day attacks. [...]
Two-day exploit opened up 3.5 billion users to myriad potential harms Researchers in Austria used a flaw in WhatsApp to gather the personal data of more than 3.5 billion users in what they believe amounts to the "largest data leak in history."... [...]
An in-development build of the upcoming ShinySp1d3r ransomware-as-a-service platform has surfaced, offering a preview of the upcoming extortion operation. [...]
A 45-year-old from Irvine, California, has pleaded guilty to laundering at least $25 million stolen in a massive $230 million cryptocurrency heist. [...]
Kendra Albert gave an excellent talk at USENIX Security this year, pointing out that the legal agreements surrounding vulnerability disclosure muzzle researchers while allowing companies to not fix the vulnerabilities—exactly the opposite of what the responsible disclosure movement of the early 2000s was supposed to prevent. This is …
The China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) tracked as 'PlushDaemon' is hijacking software update traffic to deliver malicious payloads to its targets. [...]
Researchers say attacks are laying the groundwork for stealthy espionage activity Around 50,000 ASUS routers have been compromised in a sophisticated attack that researchers believe may be linked to China, according to findings released today by SecurityScorecard's STRIKE team.... [...]
The C-suite will have zero interest in zero trust without a good business case Partner Content In today's enterprise environment, technology investments are no longer judged solely by their technical sophistication. Approval depends on their ability to support business goals, mitigate risk, and create value for shareholders. CIOs and …
MI5 sounds the alarm about attempts to source sensitive information Chinese spies are using social media and fake recruitment agents to recruit sources with access to sensitive information in the UK.... [...]
Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service have launched a new dashboard that simplifies the analysis of AWS Network Firewall logs. Previously, in our blog post How to analyze AWS Network Firewall logs using Amazon OpenSearch Service we demonstrated the required services and steps to create an OpenSearch dashboard. The …
Using AI to attack AI Malefactors are actively attacking internet-facing Ray clusters and abusing the open source AI framework to spread a self-replicating botnet that mines for cryptocurrency, steals data, and launches distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.... [...]
As Kent Halliburton stood in a bathroom at the Rosewood Hotel in central Amsterdam, thousands of miles from home, running his fingers through an envelope filled with 10,000 euros in crisp banknotes, he started to wonder what he had gotten himself into. Halliburton is the cofounder and CEO …
Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in 2024, that required telecom carriers to adopt basic security controls.... [...]
When? Sean Cairncross wouldn't say America is fed up with being the prime target for foreign hackers. So US National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross says Uncle Sam is going on the offensive – he just isn't saying when.... [...]
Seventh Chrome 0-day this year Google pushed an emergency patch on Monday for a high-severity Chrome bug that attackers have already found and exploited in the wild.... [...]