Falcon Customers Can Enable Network Vulnerability Assessment in Minutes If you’re already using the Falcon unified agent, activating Network Vulnerability Assessment takes just minutes — no extra scanners, agents, or hardware required. Within hours, you’ll uncover unmanaged devices, prioritize risks with AI-driven intelligence, and automate remediation — all seamlessly … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike Expands Security to Unmanaged Network Assets
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Cisco Co-Authors Update to NIST Adversarial Machine Learning Taxonomy
The rapid evolution and enterprise adoption of AI has motivated bad actors to target these systems with greater frequency and sophistication. Many security leaders recognize the importance and urgency of AI security, but don’t yet have processes in place to effectively manage and mitigate emerging AI risks with comprehensive coverage of the entire adversarial AI threat … [Read more...] about Cisco Co-Authors Update to NIST Adversarial Machine Learning Taxonomy
Critical Ingress NGINX Controller Vulnerability Allows RCE Without Authentication
Mar 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security A set of five critical security shortcomings have been disclosed in the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution, putting over 6,500 clusters at immediate risk by exposing the component to the public internet. The vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-24513, … [Read more...] about Critical Ingress NGINX Controller Vulnerability Allows RCE Without Authentication
Coinbase Initially Targeted in GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack; 218 Repositories’ CI/CD Secrets Exposed
The supply chain attack involving the GitHub Action "tj-actions/changed-files" started as a highly-targeted attack against one of Coinbase's open-source projects, before evolving into something more widespread in scope. "The payload was focused on exploiting the public CI/CD flow of one of their open source projects – agentkit, probably with the purpose of leveraging it for … [Read more...] about Coinbase Initially Targeted in GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack; 218 Repositories’ CI/CD Secrets Exposed
U.S. Treasury Lifts Tornado Cash Sanctions Amid North Korea Money Laundering Probe
Mar 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananFinancial Security / Cryptocurrency The U.S. Treasury Department has announced that it's removing sanctions against Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer service that has been accused of aiding the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group to launder their ill-gotten proceeds. "Based on the Administration's review of the novel legal and policy issues raised … [Read more...] about U.S. Treasury Lifts Tornado Cash Sanctions Amid North Korea Money Laundering Probe
UAT-5918 Targets Taiwan’s Critical Infrastructure Using Web Shells and Open-Source Tools
Mar 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Hunting / Vulnerability Threat hunters have uncovered a new threat actor named UAT-5918 that has been attacking critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan since at least 2023. "UAT-5918, a threat actor believed to be motivated by establishing long-term access for information theft, uses a combination of web shells and open-sourced tooling to … [Read more...] about UAT-5918 Targets Taiwan’s Critical Infrastructure Using Web Shells and Open-Source Tools
Announcing the CrowdStrike 2025 Global Crowd Tour
Cybersecurity leaders today face relentless threats — breaches happen in seconds, adversaries constantly evolve, and security teams must adapt faster than ever. CrowdTour 2025 is built for you — the security professionals on the front lines who use CrowdStrike every day — coming together to learn from peers, share real-world defense strategies, and strengthen the community’s … [Read more...] about Announcing the CrowdStrike 2025 Global Crowd Tour
CrowdStrike Researchers Develop Custom XGBoost Objective
All of this means that if we want to minimize surprise FPs between model releases, we must ensure DV ordering preservation. XGBoost is flexible because its Newton-Raphson solver requires only the gradient and Hessian of the objective rather than the objective itself. By adding small perturbations to the gradient and to the Hessian, we can replace the standard XGBoost … [Read more...] about CrowdStrike Researchers Develop Custom XGBoost Objective
Cisco Introduces the State of AI Security Report for 2025
As one of the defining technologies of this century, artificial intelligence (AI) seems to witness daily advancements with new entrants to the field, technological breakthroughs, and creative and innovative applications. The landscape for AI security shares the same breakneck pace with streams of newly proposed legislation, novel vulnerability discoveries, and emerging threat … [Read more...] about Cisco Introduces the State of AI Security Report for 2025
YouTube Game Cheats Spread Arcane Stealer Malware to Russian-Speaking Users
Mar 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Analysis YouTube videos promoting game cheats are being used to deliver a previously undocumented stealer malware called Arcane likely targeting Russian-speaking users. "What's intriguing about this malware is how much it collects," Kaspersky said in an analysis. "It grabs account information from VPN and gaming clients, and all … [Read more...] about YouTube Game Cheats Spread Arcane Stealer Malware to Russian-Speaking Users