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For business leaders around the globe, AI promises an exciting edge in innovation and efficiency. The rapid evolution of AI models – and the agentic AI applications they facilitate – look like a game-changer for companies in all categories. AI systems can talk to customers, automate manual processes and analyze masses of data to address issues more quickly.   The vast majority of businesses implementing AI are opting to leverage the power of pre-trained models from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft as the engine for their own AI systems. For many, however, security is seen as an afterthought,…

Dale Hobbs // One thing that I almost always find when performing an internal network penetration test is Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) configured with default community strings. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a widely-used protocol for managing and monitoring network devices such as routers, switches, and servers. It allows network administrators to manage and monitor the performance of network devices and to troubleshoot issues when they arise. SNMP is based on a “manager-agent” model, where a central network management system (NMS) acts as the manager and communicates with SNMP agents on each network device. The NMS sends requests…

San Jose, United States / California, March 12th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Aptori’s AI-Driven AppSec Platform Proactively Eliminates Vulnerabilities to Minimize Risk and Ensure Compliance. Aptori, a leader in AI-driven application security, today announced the launch of its AI-driven AppSec Platform on Google Cloud Marketplace as part of graduating from Google Cloud’s ISV Startup Springboard program. This new agentic AI solution leverages semantic reasoning to analyze application code and logic in real time, delivering deterministic vulnerability detection, contextual risk prioritization, and automated remediation. Aptori’s AI-driven approach goes beyond traditional static analysis. Unlike conventional tools, its proprietary semantic reasoning technology understands application logic…

China-linked APT UNC3886 targets EoL Juniper routers Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2025 Mandiant researchers warn that China-linked actors are deploying custom backdoors on Juniper Networks Junos OS MX routers. In mid-2024, Mandiant identified custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos OS routers, and attributed the attacks to a China-linked espionage group tracked as UNC3886. These TINYSHELL-based backdoors had various capabilities, including active and passive access and a script to disable logging. Mandiant collaborated with Juniper Networks to investigate, finding that the affected Juniper MX routers were running outdated hardware and software, making them vulnerable to exploitation. UNC3886 is a sophisticated China-linked cyber…

Cybersecurity is a lot like maintaining a car. At first, everything runs fine; but skip enough oil changes, ignore the odd rattle and before you know it, you’re broken down on the side of the road. Or worse, you’ve triggered a multi-car pileup on the highway. Businesses that don’t regularly reassess their security tools and processes face the same fate. Over time, outdated or redundant measures start causing more harm than good. Instead of protecting the business, they slow it down, frustrate employees and leave gaps for attackers to exploit. And let’s be clear: It’s not a matter of if a…

Electricity could be traded like this. Picture yourself standing in a busy market, eyeing stalls piled high with fresh tomatoes, peppers, and onions. You have options—bargain with the vendor who is cheapest today, skip the one who is overpriced, or buy from the one with the most decent price and cart away with it. Now, picture that same freedom, but for your electricity. No more being stuck with one provider who raises prices and leaves you with little or no choice. Instead, you are in control, picking the best deal from a lineup of suppliers, all thanks to blockchain.A Broken…

CrowdStrike Incident Response (IR) services sees firsthand why organizations facing today’s evolving threat landscape require advanced capabilities to detect, respond, and remediate cyberattacks in near real time. These observations continue to shape our approach to delivering unparalleled incident response. In this blog, we detail how CrowdStrike IR has evolved to leverage a 24/7 global response model, AI augmented analysis, and the vertically integrated CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to help organizations most effectively respond to modern attacks. More than Just an Investigation CrowdStrike’s IR services go beyond traditional investigation and recovery methods. From immediate threat containment to rapid remediation and real-time visibility,…

Introduction to Kubernetes and Amazon EKS As a key technology for container orchestration, Kubernetes has been widely used in many industries to effectively manage and deploy applications. But its increasing popularity has also made it a prime target for cyberattacks. A managed Kubernetes solution, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), makes Kubernetes administration easier and offers resources to improve workload and infrastructure security. Amazon EKS stands out for its capacity to handle contemporary threats while integrating easily with AWS’s security ecosystem, which is important for businesses to prioritize cybersecurity in 2024. The Role of Amazon EKS in Cybersecurity By fusing AWS…

Cybersecurity firm Dragos has revealed a prolonged cyber attack by the Chinese threat actor Volt Typhoon into the United States electric grid, specifically targeting the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD) in Massachusetts. This breach lasted over 300 days from February to November 2023. The incident came to light just before Thanksgiving in 2023 when the FBI alerted LELWD to a potential compromise. Following investigations, with assistance from Dragos, revealed that the Volt Typhoon had infiltrated the utility’s systems as early as February 2023. According to Dragos’s report, during this extensive period, the threat actors collected sensitive operational technology…