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Learn what Unit 42 discovered about attacker use of AI-powered red team tools, and how to mitigate these attacks. The post ARTEX and AI-Powered Red Teaming Tools: What Defenders Need to Know appeared first on Unit 42 .
この対策パッケージには、官民合同のサイバー対応チーム、経済省が主導するAI専門チーム、および政府の新たな能動的サイバー防衛権限の行使に関する裁量の拡大が含まれている。
Researchers dubbed an attack chain "Greeter" after discovering that attackers deliberately covered their trail by leaving "hello" messages in logs.
An organization's ability to quickly recover from a business disruption will be a competitive advantage in an era of AI-driven threats and business enablement.
It's hard to detect whether someone is using artificial intelligence (AI) to cheat on IT certification exams, but new tools and processes are emerging to boost trust.
The RMM provider also released a hotfix as a recommended mitigation to address public exploits for the alleged zero-days, which allow for attacker takeover.
Threat actors are deploying GSocket on compromised Linux servers to keep encrypted remote access after the original vulnerability is patched. Learn how to detect, investigate, and remediate this activity. The post The global socket: how threat actors are...
Microsoft continues its AI-induced patch surge, addressing 1,260 different vulnerabilities this month. 68 of these vulnerabilities are considered critical. 167 of the vulnerabilities are Chromium issues affecting Microsoft Edge.
The cybercrime group Qilin has emerged as the world's most active ransomware affiliate program, claiming at least 365 victim organizations in the past three months alone. But even top Russian hackers make operational security mistakes, and the...
Microsoft FORGE Lab researchers used codename MDASH to investigate Linux kernel vulnerabilities, resulting in 59 upstream bug reports, 33 assigned CVEs, and 38 merged fixes. The research includes eight demonstrated local root privilege-escalation exploits...
Zoom has released software updates to address two security flaws impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in privilege escalation on affected systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-108186 (CVSS...
Fortinet explores how graduated containment, independent enforcement, and human oversight can limit AI agent harm and preserve business continuity.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a campaign in which an emerging agentic penetration testing platform called AntiFox has been used to steal Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials and pivot laterally into compromised environments. "In...
We uncover Falcon C2, a browser-based threat framework targeting governments via malicious scripts, extensions, and the Antino implant. The post The XG Files: Falcon C2 Flying Under The (Browser) Radar appeared first on Unit 42 .
Cloudflare is building an experimental consensus service using a never-before-deployed consensus algorithm, QuePaxa. In this post we explain how QuePaxa works and why we chose it.
Threat actors have been observed targeting Qlik Sense servers to unsuccessfully deliver PowerShell reverse shell commands against multiple environments in October 2026. Cynet's CyOps and Research teams said they identified the suspicious activity in...
Of the 37,571 Grok-built apps that security company Claroc found online, 35,578 were open to anyone without a sign-in, the researchers said yesterday. They included 24 apps built by staff at the social network X and at SpaceXSI, the company that makes the...
It’s hard to believe how lucrative this crime can be: According to a press release from the United States attorney’s office for the southern district of New York, three men Jacob Soall, Sharon Hazan, and Guy Sheetrit were arrested for using AI to alter...
We tell customers three things about securing AI agents: they need their own identities, access that fits the job they’re given, and traceability that’s separate from any human’s. That was true for us at Token as well. Then, we built an agent that broke...
The in-house Python script behind eMudhra's October key compromise has now cost the company 8 more of its intermediate certificate authorities (CAs), even though it did not weaken their keys. Each intermediate CA has its own private key, which the company...
We break down the Citrus Ransomware group's attacks: the attackers' TTPs and tooling, including VLESS traffic tunneling and LLM use, plus their links to Toy Ghouls.
Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for a total of 1,259 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, the second consecutive month where the patch volume has exceeded 1,000 flaws. These cover 726 flaws in Windows, 174 in Office, 61 in Developer...
AI provider keys that customers stored on Railway were stolen in an October breach and used to commit an estimated $740,000 in unauthorized spending, the platform-as-a-service provider said yesterday. It has promised to pay those charges itself when an AI...
An AI model can be given a hidden backdoor by editing fewer than 10 of its rarely used neurons, without retraining the model, Microsoft researchers have shown. When a chosen trigger appears, the model outputs an attacker's command, which an agent using...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Tuesday added two security flaws impacting Cisco BroadWorks and Openwave Messaging Webtop Media Transcoder to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Meta Detectron2. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Meta Detectron2. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Meta Detectron2. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Meta Detectron2. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI...
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Meta Detectron2. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI...