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Vulnerabilities from years ago still opening doors for attackers

Exploitation timelines continued to compress in enterprise environments, with newly disclosed flaws reaching active use almost immediately and older weaknesses remaining active years after disclosure. (Source: Cisco Talos) Findings from Cisco Talos’ 2025 Year in Review show how attackers combined rapid weaponization with long-term exposure spanning infrastructure, identity systems, and user workflows. Top-targeted vulnerabilities show…

New ‘StoatWaffle’ malware auto‑executes attacks on developers

A newly disclosed malware strain dubbed “StoatWaffle” is giving fresh teeth to the notorious, developer-targeting “Contagious Interview” threat campaign. According to NTT Security findings, the malware marks an evolution from the long-running campaign’s user-triggered execution to a near-frictionless compromise embedded directly in developer workflows. Attackers are using blockchain-themed project repositories as decoys, embedding a malicious…

Microsoft details AI prompt abuse techniques targeting AI assistants

Prompt abuse occurs when crafted inputs manipulate an AI system into producing unintended behavior, such as attempting to access sensitive information or overriding built-in safety instructions. Prompt injection is also recognized as one of the top risks in the 2025 OWASP guidance for LLM applications. “Detecting abuse is challenging because it exploits natural language, such…

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…

Protos AI delivers agent-driven threat intelligence without vendor lock-in

Protos Labs has announced the launch of a freemium edition of Protos AI, a platform that deploys specialized AI agents augmenting cyber threat intelligence (CTI) analyst teams by executing structured investigations from planning to reporting. The new tier enables security teams to operationalize AI-driven investigations without committing to closed vendor ecosystems or overhauling existing security…

AiStrike cuts alert noise with Continuous Detection Engineering

AiStrike has launched Continuous Detection Engineering, a capability that transforms how security operations teams manage detections, shifting from reactive alert triage to proactive, intelligence-driven optimization. The detection quality gap Security teams today are overwhelmed by alerts, but the root cause is not volume, it’s detection quality. AiStrike’s analysis across enterprise environments revealed that: More than…

Sectigo Unveils Multi-Tenant Certificate Management Platform

Sectigo has recently announced a new multi-tenant partner platform purpose-built to enable MSPs, MSSPs, VARs, and distributors to scale and monetize certificate management operations. Unlocking high-margin recurring revenue streams The Sectigo Partner Platform (SPP) will enable partners to build a portfolio of certificate lifecycle management (CLM) services to reduce operational risk caused by mismanaged or…

GitHub-hosted malware campaign uses split payload to evade detection

A large-scale malware delivery campaign has been targeting developers, gamers, and general users through fake tools hosted on GitHub, Netskope researchers have warned. These “lures” are highly polished and appear legitimate, occasionally mimicking real projects, thus making them difficult to distinguish from safe software. A dual-component trojan is delivered Netskope threat researchers first discovered a…

SecurityScorecard automates third-party risk management with TITAN AI

SecurityScorecard has introduced TITAN AI to automate third-party risk management, replacing manual processes with continuous, AI-driven intelligence. TITAN AI is built on top of SecurityScorecard’s Ratings and TPRM platform with AI-driven technology and enhanced threat intelligence, delivering a powerful solution built for the demands of today’s risk landscape. With TITAN AI, organizations will be able…

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…

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…

Zenity advances context-aware security for AI agents

Zenity has unveiled continuous, contextual security for AI agents, a new approach that transforms how enterprise AI systems are secured and sets the foundation for Guardian Agents. According to Gartner, “Guardian Agents represent the next evolution in AI governance, shifting from passive monitoring to active, real-time protection of AI systems.” Zenity’s continuous, contextual security delivers…

Coro automates security operations with end-to-end threat detection and response

Coro has expanded AI-driven security operations capabilities that automate the full lifecycle of threat detection and response, enabling organizations to identify, investigate, and remediate security incidents without manual intervention. The announcement builds on Coro’s intrinsic use of AI across its platform and introduces deeper automation across security workflows, including cross-module response actions and SOC-level task…

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…

Canada-Based Organization Health Shared Services Accelerates SOC Investigations with ANY.RUN 

ANY.RUN spoke with the Interim CISO and Director of Cyber Operations at Health Shared Services, who provided insights into how their team addressed alert fatigue, improved MTTD and MTTR, and strengthened their investigation workflow with ANY.RUN.  In this new addition to our success story series, we explore how the healthcare organization’s SOC team improved detection, triage, and response efficiency while maintaining the existing operational processes.  Organization Overview  Health Shared Services is a healthcare support organization based in Alberta, Canada.  Its SOC team consists of 16…

Canada-Based Organization Health Shared Services Accelerates SOC Investigations with ANY.RUN 

ANY.RUN spoke with the Interim CISO and Director of Cyber Operations at Health Shared Services, who provided insights into how their team addressed alert fatigue, improved MTTD and MTTR, and strengthened their investigation workflow with ANY.RUN.  In this new addition to our success story series, we explore how the healthcare organization’s SOC team improved detection, triage, and response efficiency while maintaining the existing operational processes.  Organization Overview  Health Shared Services is a healthcare support organization based in Alberta, Canada.  Its SOC team consists of 16…

Dell expands security stack with quantum-ready protections and AI threat detection

Dell Technologies has introduced new security by design and cyber resilience capabilities to help organizations secure, detect and recover from next-generation threats. The enhancements address emerging risks from quantum computing and AI by hardening device foundations, strengthening cyber resilience when incidents occur and extending threat detection into AI data platforms. Why it matters AI is…

The Hidden Cost of Cybersecurity Specialization: Losing Foundational Skills

Cybersecurity has changed fast. Roles are more specialized, and tooling is more advanced. On paper, this should make organizations more secure. But in practice, many teams struggle with the same basic problems they faced years ago: unclear risk priorities, misaligned tooling decisions, and difficulty explaining security issues in terms the business understands. These challenges do not

How Businesses Can Protect Sensitive Mailroom Workflow in a Digital Age

In this post, you will learn how businesses can protect sensitive mailroom workflow in a digital age. Mailrooms are no longer just a place where packages are received and sorted. They are critical control points where sensitive information, valuable assets, and internal operations intersect. Yet many businesses still rely on outdated processes that expose them…

Autonomous AI adoption is on the rise, but it’s risky

Two AI releases early this year are prompting users to give up control and let autonomous agentic tools complete tasks on their behalf. IT leaders should be ready to deal with the consequences. Anthropic rolled out its agentic platform Claude Cowork in January for macOs and February for Windows, and use of agentic tool OpenClaw…

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TeamPCP Hacks Checkmarx GitHub Actions Using Stolen CI Credentials

Two more GitHub Actions workflows have become the latest to be compromised by credential-stealing malware by a threat actor known as TeamPCP, the cloud-native cybercriminal operation also behind the Trivy supply chain attack. The workflows, both maintained by the supply chain security company Checkmarx, are listed below – checkmarx/ast-github-action checkmarx/kics-github-action Cloud security

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…

GitHub leans on hybrid detection model to expand vulnerability coverage

GitHub is expanding its application security capabilities with AI-powered security detections designed to identify risks earlier in the development process, with public preview planned for early Q2. The update is intended to improve code scanning, secret detection, and dependency analysis within repositories hosted on the platform. The company said the new detections are designed to…

RSA ID Plus Sovereign Deployment delivers full-stack identity for high-risk environments

RSA has unveiled RSA ID Plus Sovereign Deployment, a high-assurance identity solution built for organizations requiring continuous availability, data sovereignty, and resilience against advanced threats. RSA ID Plus Sovereign Deployment is the next evolution in RSA ID Plus, the identity and access management (IAM) security platform featuring complete multi-factor authentication (MFA), SSO, and access capabilities.…

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…

Relyance AI’s Lyo addresses data security gaps in autonomous systems

Relyance AI has announced the commercial availability of Lyo, an autonomous data defense engineer that monitors and secures how AI agents interact with enterprise data. Lyo emerges at an inflection point for the cybersecurity industry as autonomous AI agents spread across enterprise environments, gaining access to sensitive data, triggering workflows, provisioning infrastructure, and calling APIs…

Hadrian unveils Nova, enabling continuous, AI-powered offensive security testing

Hadrian has announced the launch of its agentic penetration testing solution, Nova. Built as an extension of its core external exposure management platform, Nova delivers on-demand pentesting without the delays or operational disruption typical of human-led engagements. By autonomously replicating the methodologies of offensive security professionals, Nova enables organizations to identify and respond to emerging,…

North Korea-linked threat actors abuse VS Code auto-run to spread StoatWaffle malware

North Korea-linked threat actors use VS Code auto-run tasks to spread StoatWaffle malware via malicious projects that execute on folder open. North Korea-linked threat actor Team 8 behind the Contagious Interview campaign is spreading StoatWaffle malware through malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code projects. Since late 2025, they have abused the “tasks.json” auto-run feature in Microsoft…

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…

U.S. Sentences Russian Hacker to 6.75 Years for Role in $9M Ransomware Damage

A 26-year-old Russian citizen has been sentenced in the U.S. to 6.75 years (81 months) in prison for his role in assisting major cybercrime groups, including the Yanluowang ransomware crew, in conducting numerous attacks against U.S. companies and other organizations. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), Aleksei Olegovich Volkov facilitated dozens of ransomware…

Measuring security performance in real-time, not once a quarter

Most organizations have invested heavily in security products over the past decade. The assumption embedded in that spending is that more tools equal better protection. Tim Nan, CEO of digiDations, says that assumption is the most persistent misconception he encounters when working with security leaders across industries. “Adversaries don’t operate on averages,” Nan says. “They…

Attackers are handing off access in 22 seconds, Mandiant finds

Exploits remain the leading entry point for attackers for the sixth consecutive year, according to Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 report, which draws on more than 500,000 hours of incident response work conducted in 2025. The data shows attackers speeding up their internal hand-offs, shifting away from email phishing, and targeting backup and virtualization infrastructure with greater…

Citrix Urges Patching Critical NetScaler Flaw Allowing Unauthenticated Data Leaks

Citrix has released security updates to address two vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including a critical flaw that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from the application. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-3055 (CVSS score: 9.3) – Insufficient input validation leading to memory overread CVE-2026-4368 (CVSS score: 7.7) – Race condition…

Product showcase: Cross-platform and third-party endpoint patching with Action1

Keeping endpoints patched is one of the more annoying chores in IT operations. Action1 is a cloud-based autonomous endpoint management platform that addresses this challenge head-on, covering third-party apps and OS updates (Windows, macOS, and now Linux) from a single, centralized console. Built as a SaaS solution, it requires no on-premises infrastructure, no VPN tunnels,…

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: March 24, 2026

Application Security Analyst Alignerr | USA | Remote – View job details As an Application Security Analyst, you will review and analyze application security scenarios across code, APIs, and system behavior. You will classify vulnerabilities such as authentication flaws, injection risks, and business logic issues, and evaluate secure coding practices and remediation strategies. You will…

Weekly Update 496

Watching OpenClaw do its thing must be like watching the first plane take flight. It’s a bit rickety and stuck together with a lot of sticky tape, but squint and you can see the potential for agentic AI to change the world as we know it. And I don’t think that’s hyperbolic. A lot of…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

State officials, election experts question California sheriff’s seizure of ballots

A California county sheriff and Republican contender for the state’s gubernatorial race has seized 650,000 physical ballots from Riverside County, saying they were part of an investigation into election fraud tied to redistricting wars. State officials and election security experts say that the underlying allegations are spurious and local law enforcement do not have the…

HONOR and ARRI Announced Strategic Technical Collaboration to Bring ARRI Image Science into Next-Generation Consumer Devices

Leading AI device ecosystem company HONOR has entered into a strategic technical collaboration with ARRI, the world-renowned designer and manufacturer of professional camera technology for cinematic storytelling. This landmark partnership marks a significant step in extending established cinematic standards into the rapidly evolving world of mobile imaging.

Trend Micro’s Enterprise Business Is Now TrendAI

  New identity for solving enterprise challenges reflects company’s evolution and AI leadership. The global leader in AI cybersecurity has adopted a name to match. TrendAI™ is the new name for the enterprise cybersecurity business unit of parent company Trend Micro Incorporated. The new identity aligns with the company’s focus on solving real-world security challenges as AI…

FBI: Iranian hackers targeting opponents with Telegram malware

Iranian government-connected groups are deploying malware via the Telegram messaging app, taking aim at dissidents and other opponents of Tehran around the world, the FBI said in an alert Friday. The FBI said attackers linked to the Ministry of Intelligence and Security are behind the campaign, which stretches back to 2023. The bureau is escalating…

North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that’s distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects. The use of VS Code “tasks.json” to distribute malware is a relatively new tactic adopted by the threat actor since…

An AI-powered phishing campaign has compromised hundreds of organizations

A phishing campaign tied to AI cloud-hosting service Railway has given hackers access to the Microsoft cloud accounts for hundreds of businesses, according to researchers at Huntress. Rich Mozeleski, product manager for Huntress’ identity team, told CyberScoop the campaign is currently tied to a smaller actor and approximately a dozen IP addresses, but has managed…

Informatica Expands Microsoft Collaboration with Open Mirroring Support for Microsoft Fabric and Geographic Expansion for Microsoft Azure Point-of-Delivery

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT:  Informatica from Salesforce, a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, today announced deeper integration with Microsoft at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Atlanta. The announcement includes general availability of support for Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring, as well as the launch of a new Microsoft Azure-based IDMC point-of-delivery…

BeyondTrust Delivers Industry’s First Unified Privileged Identity Solution for AI Agent Coworkers and Workloads, From the Desktop to the Cloud

COMPANY NEWS:  New capabilities in the BeyondTrust Pathfinder Platform secure AI agent coworkers on endpoints and AI agent workloads across cloud infrastructure and SaaS platforms Security teams gain visibility into AI agent identities, privileges, and secrets across platforms including OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Salesforce Agentforce, ServiceNow, and Google Vertex AI