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HPE Heads to Discover with Wider Networking, Cloud Portfolio

HPE is heading into its annual Discover conference with a broader portfolio than in recent years and a clear push to become a go-to enterprise provider for networking and private cloud operations. The focus will inevitably be on artificial intelligence and the new ways HPE can meet customer demand across the entire networking stack. Its…

AI Is Reshaping the Future of Cyber Resilience

Cyber resilience has been a core focus in cybersecurity for years.  During my recent conversation with Brandon Willitts, Director of Product Management for Cyber Resilience at Everpure, it became clear that artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how organizations approach resilience strategies.  According to Willitts, AI is not creating entirely new security problems as much…

Possible ACR Stealer From Page Impersonating Claude, (Tue, May 26th)

Introduction In recent weeks, I’ve searched for pages impersonating Claude that distribute malware. In recent weeks, I’ve reliably found these sites through malicious ads in Google searches that lead to these pages, often concealed in URLs for sites.google[.]com, such as this example from 2026-05-11. These fake Claude pages generally show instructions for macOS malware when…

Six new dnsmasq vulnerabilities open the door to DNS cache poisoning, local root

Recent disclosures have revealed that open-source networking tool dnsmasq is grappling with a serious set of vulnerabilities. The problems span memory safety and input validation, with researchers identifying heap buffer overflows, heap corruption, and code execution bugs among the issues. Taken together, the security flaws open the door to various attacks: poisoning cached DNS entries,…

Mythos AI: What Security Leaders Should Do Next

The recent discussion around Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing has caught the attention of the cybersecurity industry for good reason. Mythos is not just another AI announcement. It is being positioned as a frontier model with advanced cybersecurity capability, particularly around finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. Anthropic has stated that Project Glasswing is…

Microsoft Defender Flags DigiCert Certificates as Malware 

A recent Microsoft Defender update incorrectly flagged legitimate DigiCert root certificates as malware, triggering widespread alerts.  In some cases, it also removed trusted certificates from Windows systems, causing disruption.  “Earlier today we determined false positive alerts were mistakenly triggered and updated the alert logic,” Microsoft said, as reported by BleepingComputer.   Inside the DigiCert False Positive…

The fake IT worker problem CISOs can’t ignore

Hiring fake IT workers has been a growing problem in recent years — but it’s often a problem very few want to admit to. From Fortune 500 companies down to smaller organizations, remote hiring practices have been exploited to grant trusted access to individuals who are not who they claim to be creating an insider…

A technical walkthrough of multicloud full-stack security using AWS Security Hub Extended

Building on our recent announcement of AWS Security Hub Extended —our full-stack enterprise security offering — we want to show you how we’re simplifying security procurement and operations for your multicloud environments. Whether you’re a security architect evaluating solutions or a CISO looking to streamline vendor management, this post walks through the streamlined experience that…

Why identity is the driving force behind digital transformation

Identity centric technologies have undergone a significant transformation in recent times. Gone are the days when it was all about logging in and out of any given system. Today, identity has become the backbone of all digital enterprises. It’s the ‘invisible engine’ that powers everything. From security to how modern-day products are sold. Today’s Identity…

Inside the FBI’s router takedown that cut off APT28’s ‘tremendous access’

The recent FBI-led operation to knock Russian government hackers off routers sought to topple an especially insidious and threateningly contagious cyberespionage campaign, top bureau cyber official Brett Leatherman told CyberScoop. Researchers, along with U.S. and foreign government agencies, revealed details of the campaign this week by which APT28 — also known as Forest Blizzard or…

Nvidia’s SchedMD acquisition puts open-source AI scheduling under scrutiny

Nvidia’s recent acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the Slurm workload manager, is raising concerns among AI industry executives and supercomputing specialists who fear the chip giant could use its new position to favour its own hardware over competing chips, whether through code prioritization or roadmap decisions. The concern, as industry sources frame it, is…

How often are redirects used in phishing in 2026?, (Mon, Apr 6th)

In one of his recent diaries, Johannes discussed how open redirects are actively being sought out by threat actors[1], which made me wonder about how commonly these mechanisms are actually misused… Although open redirect is not generally considered a high-impact vulnerability on its own, it can have multiple negative implications. Johannes already covered one in…

Trivy supply chain attack enabled European Commission cloud breach

CERT-EU confirmed that ShinyHunters are behind the recent breach of the cloud infrastructure underpinning websites of the European Commission, and that they stole and subsequently leaked approximately 340 GB of data. “Analysis of the published dataset has so far confirmed the presence of personal data, including lists of names, last names, usernames, and email addresses,…

APIs are the new perimeter: Here’s how CISOs are securing them

Recent breaches suggest attackers are shifting beyond traditional endpoints to target application programming interfaces (APIs). But typical perimeter protections can completely miss this vector. “We used to talk about defense-in-depth and endpoint protection,” says Sean Murphy, CISO at BECU, a nationwide credit union. “That morphed into identity, and now the API is the new perimeter.”…

LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack Exposes Credentials Across AI Ecosystems

A widely used AI development library was compromised in a recent supply chain attack, potentially exposing a large number of systems to risk.  Malicious LiteLLM packages on PyPI were backdoored to quietly steal credentials, tokens, and sensitive infrastructure data from both development and production environments.  “The LiteLLM compromise shows just how quickly supply chain attacks…

TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 Likely via Trivy CI/CD Compromise

TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recent compromises of Trivy and KICS, has now compromised a popular Python package named litellm, pushing two malicious versions containing a credential harvester, a Kubernetes lateral movement toolkit, and a persistent backdoor. Multiple security vendors, including Endor Labs and JFrog, revealed that litellm versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 were published…

GUEST ESSAY: Executives trust AI security even as security teams confront blind spots, new risks

In our recent report, Beyond the Black Box, we found a striking gap: 80% of executives believe their organizations have strong security coverage for AI systems. Only about 40% of AppSec practitioners agree. Related: AI moves mainstream That’s not just a perception problem. It’s a visibility problem. The numbers back that up. Sixty-three percent of…

Attack on Stryker’s Microsoft environment wiped employee devices without malware

The recent cyberattack on Stryker wiped tens of thousands of employee devices through its Microsoft environment, and systems are still offline. A recent cyberattack on medical technology giant Stryker targeted its internal Microsoft environment and remotely wiped tens of thousands of employee devices without using malware. The company confirmed that its medical devices were not…

Report: AI Accelerates Attacks on Trusted Identities

A recent report from ConnectWise found that attackers are increasingly exploiting trusted identities, along with remote access infrastructure and software supply chains, while AI continues to accelerate in speed and scale. 2026 MSP Threat Report shows trusted identities and legitimate tools are top targets The research, ConnectWise’s 2026 MSP Threat Report, provides global threat intelligence…

No, it’s not ‘unnecessarily burdensome’ to control your own data

According to a recent report, the State Department sent a cable urging U.S. diplomats to oppose international data sovereignty regulations like GDPR, characterizing these guardrails as “unnecessarily burdensome.”  In the cable, the State Department claims that data sovereignty regulations “disrupt global data flows, increase costs and cybersecurity risks, limit Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud services, and…

Reclaim Security secures $26 million to automate cybersecurity remediation

Reclaim Security has raised $26 million in total funding, including a recent $20 million Series A round led by Acrew Capital, with participation from QP Ventures and Ibex Investors. The funding will accelerate the company’s mission to eliminate what many security leaders consider cybersecurity’s most persistent gap: remediation. As attacker breakout times have fallen to…

Anthropic AI ultimatums and IP theft: The unspoken risk

Two recent high-profile events concerning Anthropic’s Claude AI underscore a little-discussed risk at the heart of the enterprise’s rush to capitalize on leading AI capabilities. The first incident involved a China-based extraction campaign against Anthropic’s intellectual property. The second was the Trump administration’s banning of Claude for federal use after the company resisted US demands…

Anthropic to Department of Defense: Drop dead

In recent weeks, AI giant Anthropic has been locked in a high‑stakes confrontation with the Trump administration’s Department of Defense (DoD) over new standard terms the Pentagon wants to impose on AI vendors. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had demanded contract language that would give the military “any lawful use” of Anthropic’s models, effectively stripping out…

One of the ‘most influential cybersecurity’ roles will pay under $175,000

A recent job ad  is causing plenty of head-shaking, suggesting that some government high-ups  appear to be out of touch with the current state of the cybersecurity job market. There is plenty of evidence that the world needs cybersecurity talent. According to a recent ISC2 survey, 33% of organizations cannot staff their security teams adequately…

The hard part of purple teaming starts after detection

In my recent articles for CSO, I’ve talked about the limits of current SOC models and the importance of rehearsal. This time, I want to focus on something that’s becoming increasingly clear: purple teaming has lost its depth. We’ve turned one of the most powerful tools for resilience into a transactional exercise that feels reassuring…

SolarWinds WHD zero-days from January are under attack

SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) is under attack, with recent incidents exploiting a chain of zero-day and patched vulnerabilities dating back to late 2025, an analysis of customer reports by security company Huntress has found. Until now, it has been unclear which combination of recent WHD vulnerabilities were behind a series of compromises of customer…

After major Poland energy grid cyberattack, CISA issues warning to U.S. audience

A recent attempt at a destructive cyberattack on Poland’s power grid has prompted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to publish a warning for U.S. critical infrastructure owners and operators. Tuesday’s alert follows a Jan. 30 report from Poland’s Computer Emergency Response Team concluded the December attack overlapped significantly with infrastructure used by a Russian…

CVE-2026-21643: Critical FortiClient EMS Vulnerability Enables Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Shortly after our recent coverage of high-impact FortiOS SSO zero-day exploitation (CVE-2026-24858), defenders are facing another urgent patching priority in the Fortinet ecosystem. On February 6, Fortinet released a fix for a critical SQL injection flaw that can be triggered remotely and doesn’t require authentication, potentially leading to unauthorized code or command execution.  Although there…

Attackers exploit decade‑old Windows driver flaw to shut down modern EDR defenses

In a recent incident, attackers abused a legitimate but vulnerable Windows kernel driver to shut down endpoint security tools during an ongoing incident response. According to a Huntress report, the activity was observed during a customer investigation in early 2026 and involved the use of an old EnCase forensic driver (by Guidance Software) as part…

AI-Driven Attack Gains AWS Admin Privileges in Under 10 Minutes

Threat actors are using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate cloud intrusions.  In a recent incident observed by Sysdig researchers, attackers escalated from stolen credentials to full administrative access in an AWS environment in under 10 minutes, illustrating how AI can shorten cloud attack timelines. “The threat actor achieved administrative privileges in under 10 minutes, compromised…

Intro to Dropshipping: How to Start Dropshipping

The dropshipping business model has become increasingly popular in recent years as a simplified way to break into the e-commerce market. If you’re interested in expanding your product selection without the added cost of maintaining extra inventory yourself, it may be worthwhile to explore dropshipping. Jump to: What is dropshipping? Benefits of dropshipping Challenges of […]

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