Author: HackWatchit

Palo Alto Networks announced Prisma AIRS, an AI security platform that serves as the cornerstone for AI protection, designed to protect the entire enterprise AI ecosystem – AI apps, agents, models, and data – at every step. Building upon the company’s Secure AI by Design portfolio launched last year, Prisma AIRS enables customers to deploy AI bravely and addresses the critical need for security in the face of rapid AI adoption across enterprises. Enterprises are rapidly embracing AI, deploying AI apps and LLMs in nearly every function, from customer support to code generation, driving innovation but also introducing security blind…

In brief Mastercard is partnering with payments processor Nuvei and crypto exchange OKX with its latest digital asset ambitions. The move will allow individuals to spend stablecoins as point of sales. Stablecoins are considered to be the backbone of the crypto ecosystem. Mastercard will enable clients to execute transactions in stablecoins, its latest initiative in an expanding effort to offer crypto-related services, the payments giant announced Monday.New York-based Mastercard said that it had teamed up with crypto exchange OKX and payments processor Nuvei to create an end-to-end ecosystem, where clients can spend crypto via their cards and merchants can accept…

CrowdStrike is a strategic launch partner for the new Microsoft Edge for Business security connector framework, a new initiative that brings critical browser security data direction into CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM. Today’s organizations face relentless attacks across devices, identities, and cloud workloads. The more security telemetry they can unify, the faster they can detect, investigate, and stop threats. This collaboration integrates critical browser telemetry into the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform’s unified console — streamlining visibility and accelerating threat detection. As part of this partnership, Microsoft Edge for Business seamlessly integrates browser security data into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. This new out-of-the-box integration…

BreachForums posts a PGP-signed message explaining the sudden April 2025 shutdown. Admins cite MyBB 0day vulnerability impacting the site, plan return, deny seizure, and warn of clones. In early April 2025, the well-known cybercrime and data breach forum BreachForums disappeared from the internet without explanation. The forum, administered and owned by the hacker group ShinyHunters, went offline without any farewell note or clarification, triggering widespread speculation about a possible law enforcement seizure. Despite these concerns, DNS records for BreachForums remained unchanged, showing the original nameservers at DDoS-Guard, not the typical Cloudflare nameservers seen when the FBI seizes criminal infrastructure. This…

Capturing the Essence of Powerful Secrets Scanning Wondering how to enhance your organization’s cybersecurity measures? Among the vast spectrum of cybersecurity tools available, secrets scanning is one that holds paramount significance. Secrets scanning, as an integral part of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) management, is a powerful practice that helps mitigate security risks posed by NHIs in a cloud. Navigating the Complexities of NHIs One term that is bound to cross our path is NHIs. But what exactly are these? Simply put, NHIs are machine identities used in cybersecurity. They are a blend of a unique identifier called a “Secret” and the…

Over the past 2 to 4 hours, several countries, including Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, have been grappling with widespread power outages. While the exact cause remains under investigation, it is speculated that severe weather changes or a potential cyber-attack originating from Russia might be responsible. As of now, authorities have not officially confirmed any cyber-attack linked to Russia, and investigations are ongoing to determine the root cause of the blackouts. Government sources have indicated that by 4 PM, power was restored in parts of the Iberian Peninsula, including France, but significant outages persist across large areas of Spain…

Several years into the drive for zero trust cybersecurity, the government has a long way to go. But zero trust is helping agencies modernize too. Sean Phuphanich, a principal technologist at AWS, put it this way: “The push for zero trust has gotten stronger. But at the same time, I see agencies dealing with a lot of different challenges.” Many of the challenges stem simply from the “immense breadth of government — all the different teams, all the different departments, the technical debt,” Phuphanich said during Federal News Network’s Accelerate Together: Zero Trust 2025. Defining the cyber building blocks of modernization…

John Strand // In this blog, I want to walk through how we can set up Sysmon to easily get improved logging over what we get from normal (and just plain awful) logging in Windows. Basically, trying to get information from standard Windows logs is a lot like playing tennis against curtains.  Sure, you can go through the right motions, and you can try really hard, but no matter what, it is going to suck.  For this blog, we will be using ADHD which you can get here: https://www.activecountermeasures.com/free-tools/adhd/ I hope that by the time you do this, I will…

Three years ago, we anticipated the future of security operations by introducing Cortex XSIAM, which converges best-in-class SecOps capabilities in a single platform driven by unified data, AI and automation. It consolidates and normalizes all cybersecurity data to fuel advanced, real-time analytics and automation, making disjointed point products obsolete. Leading organizations have embraced XSIAM and transformed their security operations, achieving unrivaled improvements in security outcomes: a 98% reduction in MTTR with 75% less manual work. Not surprisingly, in just two years since its introduction, Cortex XSIAM crossed $1 billion in cumulative bookings, showcasing the unprecedented demand for its transformational capabilities. …