Service desks have become a favored target for attackers seeking password resets, MFA changes, and access to corporate accounts. Specops Software breaks down how service desk social engineering attacks work and how organizations can defend against them. […]
macOS Weaknesses Chained to Silently Disable Endpoint Security Agents
A standard non-admin account is sufficient to conduct an attack that exploits legitimate OS behavior rather than software vulnerabilities.
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Third DraftKings Hacker Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison
Nathan Austad has been ordered to pay roughly $1.8 million in forfeiture and restitution, and the sentence also includes 3 years of supervised release.
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Cordyceps CI/CD Flaws Expose 300+ GitHub Repositories to Supply-Chain Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new class of CI/CD workflow weakness that allows attackers to hijack workflows and compromise open-source supply chains.
The “critical exploitable pattern” has been codenamed Cordyceps by Novee Security. The issue can allow full attacker control of repositories at dozens of the largest organizations worldwide, including Microsoft, Google, Apache, and
Critical Ubiquiti Vulnerabilities in Attackers’ Crosshairs
The flaws allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to make system changes, access underlying accounts, and inject commands.
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New CISA Guide Assists Federal Agencies with Transitioning to Modernized Zero Trust Architectures
Agentic AI Security: Wrong Context, Wrong Decisions at Machine Speed
Context is the central plank of AI in general, and agentic AI in particular. If an AI system doesn’t have the correct context, it cannot make the correct decisions.
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New ‘Mistic’ RAT Opens Door to Several Ransomware Families
Mistic is used by Woodgnat, an initial access broker working with Qilin, Interlock, Rhysida, Akira, 8Base, and Black Basta.
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Dawn of the Apex Agentic Adversary
We are standing at the end of an era we never thought to mourn: the era of human-speed threats.
For years, cybersecurity moved to a rhythm organizations could follow. A researcher found a bug, a CVE was cataloged, a vendor navigated a patch cycle, and weeks or even months later, a fix was deployed. In this era, dwell time was measured in days, sometimes weeks. We are now approaching an
Exploitable CI/CD Vulnerabilities Expose Millions of Repositories to Hijacking
The security defects allow unauthenticated users to take control of the open source software supply chain.
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