A Russian hacker got 2 years in prison, $100K fine, and $1.6M judgment for running a botnet used in ransomware attacks on U.S. firms. Russian national Ilya Angelov (40) was sentenced to 24 months in prison for operating a botnet used to carry out ransomware attacks on dozens of U.S. companies. He was also fined…
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Chained vulnerabilities in Cisco Catalyst switches could induce denial-of-service
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…
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MY YAKE: A decade of cyber collaboration, built under Obama, is now hostage to a political grudge
SAN FRANCISCO — I was in the room at Stanford in February 2015 when President Obama used the bully pulpit to launch what became a decade of hard-won public-private collaboration in cybersecurity. It didn’t take much to tear it asunder. At RSAC 2026 this week, that decade of work is suddenly on the line —…
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LexisNexis® Risk Solutions’ latest Cybercrime Report reveals key global fraud trends emerging over the past year. Derived from analysis of more than 116 billion online transactions detected through our LexisNexis® Digital Identity Network® in 2025, t
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions’ latest Cybercrime Report reveals key global fraud trends emerging over the past year. Derived from analysis of more than 116 billion online transactions detected through our LexisNexis® Digital Identity Network® in 2025, the report shows a significant 8% rise in global fraud rates driven by attacks targeting the gaming and gambling and ecommerce sectors, cost of living pressures and new emerging fraud tactics.
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LexisNexis® Risk Solutions’ latest Cybercrime Report reveals key global fraud trends emerging over the past year. Derived from analysis of more than 116 billion online transactions detected through our LexisNexis® Digital Identity Network® in 2025, t
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions’ latest Cybercrime Report reveals key global fraud trends emerging over the past year. Derived from analysis of more than 116 billion online transactions detected through our LexisNexis® Digital Identity Network® in 2025, the report shows a significant 8% rise in global fraud rates driven by attacks targeting the gaming and gambling and ecommerce sectors, cost of living pressures and new emerging fraud tactics.
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Patch now: TP-Link Archer NX routers vulnerable to firmware takeover
TP-Link patched a high severity flaw (CVE-2025-15517) in Archer NX routers that could let attackers bypass authentication and install malicious firmware. TP-Link issued security updates for its Archer NX router series to fix multiple vulnerabilities, including CVE-2025-15517 (CVSS score of 8.6), a critical authentication bypass flaw. The vulnerability impacts multiple models, including NX200, NX210, NX500,…
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HPE Introduces Sweeping Security To Strengthen AI Adoption
New HPE Juniper Networking SRX400 Series Firewalls extend consistent protection from core to edge as AI expands across distributed sites Expanded hybrid mesh firewall puts enterprise guardrails around AI to reduce exposure without slowing productivity Built-in security enhancements support resilience as a core business requirement across the hybrid cloud foundation
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Auvik: Shadow IT, AI Gaps Challenge IT Teams in 2026
Auvik’s 2026 IT Trends Report finds a growing disconnect between AI ambition and operational reality, as IT teams struggle with visibility, staffing, and shadow IT despite rising budgets. While most organizations are increasing investment and expressing optimism around AI, the report shows many lack the governance, time, and infrastructure needed to translate that momentum into…
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WatchGuard Expands NDR Capabilities, Making Advanced Network Threat Detection Practical for MSPs and Midmarket Organisations
Embedded detection, managed services, and automated response simplify NDR adoption for SMEs and MSPs
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Barracuda Advances Cybersecurity Platform and Partner Program
Accelerates Innovation to Strengthen Cyber Resilience and Fuel Partner Growth News highlights: Barracuda unveils BarracudaONE cybersecurity platform innovations and modernised global partner program. New BarracudaONE innovations strengthen cyber resilience across email, network access and generative AI usage. The enhanced partner program introduces new benefits, incentives and tools to help MSPs, resellers and hybrid partners accelerate…
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Trivy supply chain breach compromises over 1,000 SaaS environments, Lapsus$ joins the extortion wave
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…
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Telemetry Pipeline: How It Works and Why It Matters in 2026
A telemetry pipeline has become a core layer in modern security operations because teams no longer send data from applications, infrastructure, and cloud services straight into a single backend and hope for the best. In 2026, most environments are distributed across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem systems, which means more services, more data sources, more formats,…
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FCC targets foreign router imports amid rising cybersecurity concerns
The FCC will ban new foreign-made routers in the U.S. over security risks, unless approved by DHS or defense authorities. The U.S. FCC announced a ban on importing new foreign-made consumer routers, citing unacceptable cyber and national security risks. The decision, backed by Executive Branch assessments, means such devices can no longer be sold or…
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Kamasers Analysis: A Multi-Vector DDoS Botnet Targeting Organizations Worldwide
DDoS attacks are no longer only an infrastructure problem. They can quickly turn into a business issue, affecting uptime, customer experience, and operational stability. Kamasers is a strong example of this new reality, with broad attack capabilities and resilient command-and-control mechanisms that allow it to remain active under pressure. Let’s explore the Kamasers botnet through…
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Kamasers Analysis: A Multi-Vector DDoS Botnet Targeting Organizations Worldwide
DDoS attacks are no longer only an infrastructure problem. They can quickly turn into a business issue, affecting uptime, customer experience, and operational stability. Kamasers is a strong example of this new reality, with broad attack capabilities and resilient command-and-control mechanisms that allow it to remain active under pressure. Let’s explore the Kamasers botnet through…
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6 key trends reshaping the IAM market
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…
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AI is breaking traditional security models — Here’s where they fail first
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…
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Codenotary introduces AgentX for autonomous Linux infrastructure security
Codenotary has announced the availability of AgentX, an autonomous platform designed to manage, secure, and protect large-scale Linux infrastructure in the cloud or on-premises through coordinated networks of AI agents. AgentX introduces a new approach to infrastructure operations by allowing distributed AI agents to collaborate, automating security enforcement, operational tasks, and lifecycle management while maintaining…
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Barracuda strengthens cyber resilience with BarracudaONE platform updates
Barracuda Networks has announced advancements to the BarracudaONE cybersecurity platform and Barracuda Partner Success Program. The latest innovations strengthen cyber resilience across email, network access and generative AI usage, while the enhanced partner program delivers new benefits, incentives and tools that help partners accelerate growth and profitability. “Email and identity‑based attacks are intensifying at an…
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HPE enhances security to support AI and distributed enterprise environments
HPE has unveiled new security innovations designed to help organizations scale distributed operations, reduce cyber risk, and maintain consistent governance as AI adoption accelerates across the enterprise. To help enterprises securely adopt AI and turn resilience into a core business capability, HPE is introducing the HPE Juniper Networking SRX400 Series Firewalls, an expanded hybrid mesh…
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FCC Bans New Foreign-Made Routers Over Supply Chain and Cyber Risk Concerns
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…
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Kali Linux 2026.1 ships BackTrack mode, eight new tools, and a kernel upgrade to 6.18
Penetration testers running Kali Linux have a new release to work with. Version 2026.1 delivers the annual theme refresh, a new BackTrack-inspired mode in kali-undercover, eight tools added to the network repositories, a kernel bump to 6.18, and several Kali NetHunter changes. 2026 theme refresh Each year’s first Kali release brings a visual overhaul, and…
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SmartApeSG campaign pushes Remcos RAT, NetSupport RAT, StealC, and Sectop RAT (ArechClient2), (Wed, Mar 25th)
Introduction This diary provides indicators from the SmartApeSG (ZPHP, HANEYMANEY) campaign I saw on Tuesday, 2026-03-24. SmartApeSG is one of many campaigns that use the ClickFix technique. This past week, I’ve seen NetSupport RAT as follow-up malware from Remcos RAT pushed by this campaign. But this time, I also saw indicators for StealC malware and…
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OpenAI’s Foundation play reframes the AI roadmap for IT leaders
OpenAI’s non-profit arm has revealed its plans to tackle “humanity’s hardest problems.” The OpenAI Foundation has announced a sweeping range of investment and research goals, from building safeguards around how AI behaves in the wild to pushing for shared data ecosystems and funding disease research. The stated roadmap could serve as a blueprint for how…
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Why Prevention Isn’t Enough: Shifting to True Operational Resilience in 2026
As cyber threats grow in sophistication and scale, traditional prevention-first security models are proving insufficient for modern enterprises. This article examines the evolution toward operational resilience, emphasizing the protection of identity systems, rapid containment, and recovery as essential capabilities. It explores how organizations can adopt an “assume breach” mindset, strengthen identity infrastructure, and build recovery-focused…
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Critics call FCC router rule a ‘big swing’ that could create more supply chain uncertainty
The Federal Communications Commission’s move to ban foreign-made routers touches on a real threat, but critics say the agency rule is overly broad, practically unworkable and doesn’t meaningfully address weaknesses in router security that have led to major breaches on American governments and businesses. Under the Secure Equipment Act and Secure Networks Act, the FCC…
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Palantir Will No Longer Profit Off of New Yorkers’ Health Data
A controversial multimillion-dollar deal between New York City’s public hospital system and military contractor Palantir, first reported by The Intercept, is coming to an end, according to recent testimony before the city council. Related Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals The Intercept reported in February that the New York City…
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Exclusive Networks Launches Ignition in North America
Exclusive Networks is expanding its incubation model for emerging cybersecurity vendors into North America, aiming to give MSPs and solution providers earlier access to next-generation, AI-driven technologies while accelerating vendor go-to-market timelines. Exclusive Networks launches Ignition in North America at RSA Conference Exclusive Networks this week announced the North American debut of its “Ignition” program,…
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QualDerm Partners December 2025 data breach impacts over 3 Million people
Over 3.1M people affected as QualDerm Partners suffered a December 2025 breach, exposing personal, medical, and health insurance data. Over 3.1 million people are affected by a December 2025 data breach at QualDerm Partners, where hackers stole personal, medical, and health insurance information from the company’s internal systems. QualDerm Partners is a U.S.-based healthcare management…
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News alert: DDoS attacks surge 150%—Gcore analysis shows faster, cheaper more frequent attacks
LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg, March 24, 2026, CyberNewswire— Gcore, the global infrastructure and software provider for AI, cloud, network, and security solutions, today announced the findings of its Q3-Q4 2025 Gcore Radar report DDoS attack trends. The report reveals growing attack volumes, increasingly sophisticated tactics, and changes in attack locations driven by evolving botnet infrastructure. The DDoS attack…
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“It is not the customer’s job to know what they want” rings true in cyber
Ever since I embarked on the founder journey and started working on my own startup, I’ve developed different perspectives and some strong opinions about founder life. In today’s issue, I am going to share one of them – about the fact that there has never been a billion-dollar security company built based on Gartner’s* insight…
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Barracuda Adds to Cybersecurity Platform & Partner Program
Barracuda Networks has announced advancements to its BarracudaONE cybersecurity platform and its Barracuda Partner Success Program. Accelerating innovation to boost cyber resilience The cybersecurity company is strengthening resilience across email, network access, and generative AI usage with the BarracudaONE updates. The platform delivers cyber resilience for MSPs and their customers through an open ecosystem. Among…
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Russian access broker sentenced to over 6 years in prison for ransomware schemes
A federal court in Indiana sentenced a Russian cybercriminal to 81 months in prison on charges related to his role as an initial access broker for ransomware groups. Aleksei Volkov, 26, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty in November 2025 to six federal charges stemming from his work with the Yanluowang ransomware group and other…
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Detecting IP KVMs, (Tue, Mar 24th)
I have written about how to use IP KVMs securely, and recently, researchers at Eclypsium published yet another report on IP KVM vulnerabilities. But there is another issue I haven’t mentioned yet with IP KVMs: rogue IP KVMs. IP KVMs are often used by criminals. For example, North Koreans used KVMs to connect remotely to laptops sent…
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DDoS-Angriffe haben sich verdoppelt
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Russian initial access broker helped ransomware gangs extort millions, sentenced to 81 months
A Russian citizen, Aleksei Volkov, was sentenced to 81 months in prison for helping ransomware groups carry out attacks causing over $9 million in actual losses and over $24 million in intended losses, after being arrested in Italy and extradited to the United States where he pleaded guilty. According to prosecutors, Volkov was an initial…
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Telstra Changes To Mobile Plans From 5 May 2026: More Choice And Support For Customers
Our customers are doing more on our network than ever before and we’re investing to deliver the best experience available, while helping Australians to stay connected.
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Good Drinks Australia brews stronger network and security with Macquarie Telecom
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Independent Australian brewer improves reliability, efficiency and cyber security with AI powered SASE network solution
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China’s use of open‑source AI threatens the US lead in AI development, US Commission warns
China’s open-source AI strategy is building a self-reinforcing competitive advantage that US export controls were not designed to counter, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission has warned. “US export controls primarily target the digital loop, restricting access to advanced chips used for frontier model training — but are not well suited to addressing the…
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81-month sentence for Russian hacker behind major ransomware campaigns
U.S. sentences Russian hacker Aleksei Volkov to 81 months in prison for aiding ransomware attacks, causing over $9M in damages. A U.S. court sentenced Aleksei Olegovich Volkov to 81 months in prison for supporting ransomware groups like Yanluowang. He helped carry out dozens of attacks, causing over $9M in losses. Arrested in Italy in 2024…
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Lumu enhances Defender to detect compromise across network, cloud, endpoint, and identity
Lumu has upgraded its Lumu Defender NDR solution, extending Continuous Compromise Assessment beyond the network to include endpoints, cloud environments, and user behavior for unified visibility. The past year marks a strategic shift in attack methods, with threat actors pivoting from high-profile malware to increasingly sophisticated, stealth-based tactics. The increase of AI-driven security attacks, attackers…
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Tuskira replaces centralized detection model with real-time, distributed approach
Tuskira has released its Federated Detection Engine, a new capability within its Agentic SecOps platform that enables real-time threat detection across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, SaaS, infrastructure, and legacy SIEM environments, without relying on centralized logging. Detection engineering still depends on centralized log architectures and manual rule authoring. That model is expensive to scale, slow…
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ZeroTier Quantum brings quantum-resistant security to high-performance global networking
ZeroTier has launched ZeroTier Quantum, a software-defined networking platform designed for data center–level performance and built with quantum-resistant cryptography aligned with NIST and NSA CNSA 2.0 standards. Organizations operate far beyond network boundaries, autonomous devices, machines, vehicles, agents, and infrastructure span continents, oceans, and remote environments, constantly transmitting sensitive data that must stay secure. At…
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Streamline physical security to enable data center growth in the era of AI
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…
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Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS 3.0 closes visibility gaps in autonomous AI systems
Palo Alto Networks has advanced its AI security platform with Prisma AIRS 3.0, securing the agentic AI lifecycle and enabling enterprises to move from observation to safe autonomous execution. The shift toward an AI-powered enterprise introduces systemic security challenges, ranging from unmanaged shadow AI to the critical new frontiers of agentic identity, runtime security, and…
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Caught in the Iranian War crossfire: Big Tech, Microsoft and Windows
Iran’s most potent weapon in the war with the United States is pretty clear: attack the world’s oil and gas infrastructure by closing off access to the Strait of Hormuz. But Big Oil isn’t the only industry Iran is aiming for — it’s also attacking Big Tech. And that includes Microsoft, which is directly in…
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Why CISOs should embrace AI honeypots
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…
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Palo Alto updates security platform to discover AI agents
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.…
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Experts insist Trump administration’s cyber strategy is already paying off
SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration’s two-week old cyber strategy that aims to promote more proactive, offensive actions while bolstering federal networks and critical infrastructure, is a significant shift that’s already materializing in meaningful ways, a group of experts said Monday at the RSAC 2026 Conference. Despite the federal government’s absence from the industry’s largest…
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QNAP fixed four vulnerabilities demonstrated at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025
QNAP fixed four vulnerabilities shown at Pwn2Own 2025 that could enable code execution, data access, or system disruption. Taiwanese vendor QNAP has addressed multiple vulnerabilities, including four SD-WAN router issues (CVE-2025-62843 to CVE-2025-62846) demonstrated at the Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 by Team DDOS. The team chained multiple bugs in QNAP devices to gain root access and…
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Broadcom Launches CBX Platform as CISPE Files Complaint
Broadcom has launched a new cloud-based security platform while facing a fresh antitrust complaint in Europe tied to its VMware partner strategy. The company introduced Symantec CBX, an XDR platform combining Symantec and Carbon Black technologies, as the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) filed a competition complaint over Broadcom’s planned changes to its…
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Zero Networks Launches New Kubernetes Capability
Provider of zero-trust security solutions, Zero Networks, is debuting a new Kubernetes capability to give security and DevOps teams instant, shared visibility into Kubernetes connectivity. Shared Kubernetes visibility without guesswork The Kubernetes Access Matrix is a real-time visual map that reveals allowed and denied rules inside Kubernetes clusters. With this new capability, users will be…
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NVIDIA GTC Recap: Updates From the Next-Gen AI Conference
NVIDIA GTC 2026, one of the largest AI conferences focused on next-gen AI, featured no shortage of product and service announcements. Among the announcements are those that open new opportunities for the channel with AI agent-as-a-service offerings and strengthening NVIDIA’s position as a platform orchestrator within the channel ecosystem. MSPs and MSSPs will also be…
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IAM policy types: How and when to use them
June 3, 2022: Original publication date of this post. This post has been updated to add the additional IAM policy types: Resource control policies. You manage access in AWS by creating policies and attaching them to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals (roles, users, or groups of users) or AWS resources. AWS evaluates these…
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What’s coming next for LLMs and AI agents?
“Three or four years ago, we were super excited when our [AI] models could solve eighth-grade math problems,” Jeff Dean, chief scientist, Google DeepMind and Google Research, said during a panel discussion at Nvidia’s GTC developer show last week. By last year, Google’s Gemini had reached the gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad and…
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‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran
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…
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Faster attacks and ‘recovery denial’ ransomware reshape threat landscape
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…
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The phone call is the new phishing email
Voice-based phishing, a form of social engineering where attackers call employees or IT help desks under false pretenses in an attempt to gain access to victim networks, surged in 2025, Mandiant said Monday in its annual M-Trends report. These points of intrusion, which have been a hallmark of attacks attributed to members of the cybercrime…
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New device categories enter top enterprise risk rankings
Enterprise networks keep adding connected devices, expanding the attack surface as threat actors target a wider range of systems, many of which are difficult to inventory, secure, and patch consistently. (Source: Forescout) Forescout’s 2026 Riskiest Devices research maps that shift in IT, IoT, OT, and IoMT environments, with 11 new riskiest asset types entering the…
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Lightstorm Upgrades JGA Submarine Cable with Ciena to Support 400Gbps Services Enabling Next-Generation Cloud and AI Connectivity Between Japan and Australia
COMPANY NEWS: Lightstorm, a leading cloud and AI network infrastructure platform delivering high-performance terrestrial and subsea connectivity across Asia-Pacific, today announced the successful quadrupling of client service capacity of its Japan–Guam–Australia (JGA) submarine cable system. Powered by Ciena’s WaveLogic coherent optical technology, the upgrade significantly increases capacity and performance across the JGA route. This enables scalable,…
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Police Shut Down 373,000 Dark Web Sites in Single-Operator CSAM Network
Police shut down 373K dark web sites in a one-man CSAM and cybercrime network run by a 35-year-old man in China, with global probe ongoing.
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AppGate delivers identity-based ZTNA for secure access across OT systems
AppGate has announced the launch of its Operational Technology (OT) ZTNA solution. Designed to secure industrial control systems, manufacturing plants, energy facilities, and other critical infrastructure, the offering extends AppGate’s direct-routed ZTNA architecture into OT environments. It enables secure remote access without compromising performance or operational stability. As IT and OT systems grow increasingly interconnected,…
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6 Best Unified Threat Management (UTM) Devices & Software
Unified threat management devices provide a quick path to comprehensive security for SMEs, offering an all-in-one approach to network protection without the need to manage multiple tools. Many products that were once labeled UTM are now marketed as firewalls, but they still serve a similar purpose. Not all solutions deliver the same level of protection,…
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FBI warns of Handala hackers using Telegram in malware attacks
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned network defenders that Iranian hackers linked to the country’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) are using Telegram in malware attacks. […]
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Zero Networks Kubernetes Access Matrix exposes hidden access paths and blast radius
Zero Networks has announced the Kubernetes Access Matrix, a real time visual map that exposes every allowed and denied rule inside Kubernetes clusters. The new capability enables security and DevOps teams to see, understand, and control Kubernetes access at scale, closing “understanding what is going on inside K8s” gaps that leave organizations exposed to lateral…
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Why US companies must be ready for quantum by 2030: A practical roadmap
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…
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Most Secure Cloud Storage for Privacy & Protection
Cloud storage makes it easy to store and access files from anywhere, but it also introduces real security risks. Every time you upload sensitive data, you rely on a provider to protect it from breaches, unauthorized access, and data exposure. Not all cloud storage services offer the same level of security. Some lack zero-knowledge encryption,…
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International police Operation Alice take down 373,000 dark web sites exploiting children
Operation Alice: Police dismantle a massive dark web network with 373,000 fake sites luring users seeking child sexual abuse material. An international law enforcement operation, code named Operation Alice, shut down one of the largest dark web scams, uncovering over 373,000 fake sites tricking users seeking child sexual abuse content. The operation, first investigated in…
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NIST updates its DNS security guidance for the first time in over a decade
DNS infrastructure underpins nearly every network connection an organization makes, yet security configurations for it have gone largely unrevised at the federal guidance level for more than twelve years. NIST published SP 800-81r3, the Secure Domain Name System Deployment Guide, superseding a version that dates to 2013. The document covers three main areas: using DNS…
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Amazon Launches eero Outdoor 7 in Australia: Multi-Gigabit Wi-Fi 7 For Outside
The Outdoor 7 takes your wifi outside and is now available in Australia. Your eero network can finally adventure to the great outdoors, regardless of the season.
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Oracle fixes critical RCE flaw CVE-2026-21992 in Identity Manager
Oracle fixed a critical severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21992, enabling unauthenticated remote code execution in Identity Manager. Oracle released security updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21992 (CVSS score of 9.8), affecting Identity Manager and Web Services Manager. The flaw lets unauthenticated attackers over HTTP take control of Oracle Identity Manager and Web…
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U.S. CISA adds Apple, Laravel Livewire and Craft CMS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple, Laravel Livewire and Craft CMS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Apple, Laravel Livewire and Craft CMS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2025-31277 (CVSS score of 8.8)…
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FIRESIDE CHAT: In the AI age, your MFA, authentication apps can be compromised in minutes
The authentication layer that corporate America spent a decade building is now a liability. Listen to the podcast:The day MFA became the problem That’s the blunt assessment of Kevin Surace, chairman of Token, a Rochester, N.Y.-based security company whose biometric hardware is drawing attention from enterprise security teams and federal regulators alike. Surace made the…
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 89
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter New Payload ransomware – malware analysis DRILLAPP: new backdoor targeting Ukrainian entities with possible links to Laundry Bear When Trusted Websites Turn Malicious: WordPress Compromises Advance Global Stealer Operation AI Coding Tools Under Fire:…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 568 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. WorldLeaks ransomware group breached the City of Los Angels PolyShell flaw exposes Magento and Adobe Commerce…
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WorldLeaks ransomware group breached the City of Los Angels
WorldLeaks group hit Los Angeles and its Metro system, forcing a shutdown, while two Bay Area cities declared emergencies after ransomware attacks. WorldLeaks group hit Los Angeles and its Metro, forcing a shutdown, while two Bay Area cities declared emergencies after ransomware attacks. This week, local media reported that an unauthorized activity hit Metro’s internal…
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MY TAKE: As RSAC 2026 opens, AI has bifurcated cybersecurity into two wars—the clock is running
SAN FRANCISCO — RSAC 2026 opens here Monday at Moscone Center, with upwards of 40,000 cybersecurity professionals, executives, and policy leaders, myself among them, filing in to take stock of an industry under acute pressure. Related: RSAC 2026’s full agenda The dominant undercurrent is already unmistakable: AI hasn’t just arrived in cybersecurity. It has split…
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Trivy vulnerability scanner backdoored with credential stealer in supply chain attack
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…
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Cyber OpSec Fail: Beast Gang Exposes Ransomware Server
Files on a central cloud server used by the ransomware group highlight a systematic, aggressive attack on network backups as a key TTP.
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Ubiquiti defect poses account takeover risk for UniFi Networking Application users
Researchers and threat hunters are scrambling to contain a maximum-severity defect in Ubiquiti’s UniFi Network Application that attackers could exploit to take over user accounts by accessing and manipulating files. The path-traversal vulnerability — CVE-2026-22557 — affects software used to manage UniFi networking devices, including access points, gateways and switches. The vendor disclosed and released…
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Justice Department disrupts botnet networks that hijacked 3 million devices
Authorities seized infrastructure powering four botnets that hijacked a combined three million devices and launched more than 300,000 DDoS attacks collectively, the Justice Department said Thursday. The botnets — Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad — enabled operators to sell access to the infected devices for various cybercrimes. The aftermath spanned thousands of attacks, including some…
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Meet Your Incident Responders
Somewhere right now, a Cisco colleague is on a call with a company facing the worst day of their professional lives. Their network is compromised, their data may be stolen, and their business is at risk. That Cisco colleague is calm, focused, and already three steps into solving the problem. Meet Cisco Talos Incident Response, or Talos IR – our frontline…
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Global law enforcement operation targets AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid botnet operators
DoJ disrupted IoT botnets’ C2 infrastructure with global partners, targeting operators behind AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and others. The U.S. DoJ disrupted command-and-control infrastructure used by several IoT botnets, including AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad. The operation involved authorities from Canada and Germany, along with major tech companies, to target botnet operators and weaken their global…
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Data Centers Are Military Targets Now
In retaliation for the ongoing U.S.–Israeli war, Iran responded with a novel form of counterattack. For the first time in military history, private sector data centers came under deliberate attack. In an era when companies known for e-commerce, social networks, and search engines have also become close collaborators with militaries, is bombing their servers fair…
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GSocket Backdoor Delivered Through Bash Script, (Fri, Mar 20th)
Yesterday, I discovered a malicious Bash script that installs a GSocket backdoor on the victim’s computer. I don’t know the source of the script not how it is delivered to the victim. GSocket[1] is a networking tool, but also a relay infrastructure, that enables direct, peer-to-peer–style communication between systems using a shared secret instead of…
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The dark side of chatbots with ‘personality’
They say you can find anything on Amazon. Now, you can even get a personality. Not for yourself, but for your AI “friend,” Alexa. Amazon has announced four new “conversation styles” or “personalities” for its voice-interaction Alexa+ AI chatbot. Users can now choose between “Brief,” “Chill,” “Sweet,” and “Sassy” styles and pick from a range…
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The espionage reality: Your infrastructure is already in the collection path
Threat actors have always sought advantage over their targets. Recently we’ve seen two efforts designed for long-term intelligence gain. This activity surfaced right where you would expect inside the enterprise. Enterprises now sit directly in the adversary’s collection path. They don’t have to be the target; they are on the board and in play because…
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North Carolina tech worker found guilty of insider attack netting $2.5M ransom
A 27-year-old North Carolina man was found guilty of six counts of extortion for a series of crimes he committed while working as a data analyst contractor for a D.C.-based international technology company, the Justice Department said Thursday. Cameron Nicholas Curry, also known as “Loot,” stole a trove of corporate data, including sensitive employee and…
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Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks
The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets — named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad — are responsible for a…
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CISA urges IT to harden endpoint management systems after cyberattack by pro-Iranian group
The US is urging infosec leaders to harden their endpoint management system configurations after last week’s hack of American medical supplies provider Stryker by pro-Iranian threat actor Handala. The warning from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is principally for organizations using Microsoft Intune, a cloud-based unified endpoint management (UEM) service that Handala,…
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CISA urges IT to harden endpoint management systems after cyberattack by pro-Iranian group
The US is urging infosec leaders to harden their endpoint management system configurations after last week’s hack of American medical supplies provider Stryker by pro-Iranian threat actor Handala. The warning from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is principally for organizations using Microsoft Intune, a cloud-based unified endpoint management (UEM) service that Handala,…
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That cheap KVM device could expose your network to remote compromise
Researchers have found nine vulnerabilities in four popular low-cost KVM-over-IP devices, ranging from unauthenticated command injection to weak authentication defenses and insecure firmware updates. The flaws are particularly concerning given the growing presence of such devices in business environments, whether deployed intentionally by IT administrators and managed service providers or introduced as shadow IT. KVM-over-IP…
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8 Best Encryption Software & Tools in 2026
This guide is for businesses and IT decision-makers evaluating encryption software in 2026, covering how these tools work and how to choose the right solution for your needs. Encryption software obfuscates data to render it unreadable without a decryption key, protecting it against unauthorized access or theft. However, the best tool depends heavily on the…
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Critical Ubiquiti UniFi UniFi security flaw allows potential account hijacking
Ubiquiti fixed two UniFi vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw that could let attackers take over user accounts. Ubiquiti patched two vulnerabilities in its UniFi Network app, including a maximum-severity flaw that could enable account takeover. The software is widely used to manage UniFi networking devices like access points, switches, and gateways. The Ubiquiti UniFi Network…
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Can Zero Trust survive the AI era?
For the past decade, cybersecurity experts in the federal government have argued that trust, or a lack of it, was key to developing effective security policies for agency systems and data. But today, cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers are using artificial intelligence to develop and launch cyberattacks more quickly and efficiently. Governments and businesses are facing…
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Telstra and Bendigo Bank announce new five-year partnership
Bendigo Bank has entered into a new arrangement with Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, to supply telecommunications to its business and extensive, national retail network.
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Ransomware group exploited Cisco firewall vulnerability as a zero day, weeks before a patch appeared
One of the world’s most active ransomware groups, Interlock, started exploiting a critical-rated Cisco firewall vulnerability as a zero day weeks before it was patched in early March, Amazon has revealed. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20131, a remotely exploitable deserialization flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software which was given a maximum…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Cisco FMC and Cisco SCC Firewall Management to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Cisco FMC and Cisco SCC Firewall Management to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management, tracked as CVE-2026-20131 (CVSS score…
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Beijing wants its own quantum-resistant encryption standards rather than adopt NIST’s
China is reportedly planning to develop its own national post-quantum cryptography standards within the next three years, even as most of the world has already begun migrating to those finalized by the US in 2024. Post-quantum cryptography deals with algorithms that can protect data from the threat proposed by future quantum computers, which are expected…
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9 Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Solutions in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders, network administrators, and security teams evaluating next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), and it covers how they work, key features, and what to look for in 2026 solutions. NGFWs have evolved beyond traditional firewalls to deliver deep packet inspection, application awareness, and integrated threat prevention, helping organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks.…