CISA urges critical infrastructure firms to ‘fortify’ before it’s too late
As concerns mount about potential cyber sabotage by the Chinese government, the U.S. is warning operators to practice maintaining services in a degraded state. Source…
Month: May 2026
CISA wants critical infrastructure to operate ‘weeks to months’ in isolation during conflict
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging critical infrastructure owners and operators to plan for delivering essential services under emergency conditions – potentially for…
Supply-chain attacks take aim at your AI coding agents
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the US National Security Agency, and their Five Eyes partners recently published a joint advisory on the adoption…
Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack
One of the follow-on payloads pushed to about a dozen organizations was what Kaspersky described as a “minimalistic backdoor.” It has the ability to execute…
Cisco moves to acquire Astrix Security to strengthen control over AI agents, API keys, and service account risks
Cisco announced on Monday its intention to acquire Astrix Security to strengthen its push into securing AI-driven environments, particularly the growing risk surface created by…
SANS, SERC introduce ICS456 training program to accelerate cybersecurity skills and critical infrastructure protection
SANS Institute and SERC Reliability Corporation announced a partnership to expand advanced cybersecurity training for electric utilities nationwide. Launching August 3-7, 2026, SERC will host…
Introducing AI traffic analysis dashboards for AWS WAF
As AI agents, bots, and programmatic access become an increasingly significant portion of web traffic, organizations need better tools to understand, analyze, and manage this…
Proactive threat hunting with Elastic’s AI-generated hunting leads — Elastic Security Labs
Threat hunting has always been a human art; a practitioner staring at logs, forming a hypothesis, and patiently chasing it down. What if the hardest…
DAEMON Tools trojanized in supply-chain attack to deploy backdoor
Hackers trojanized installers for the DAEMON Tools software and since April 8, delivered a backdoor to thousands of systems that downloaded the product from the…
Optimize SOC Costs with Better Threat Intelligence
Robust defense systems are built on a clear understanding of current threats and the ability to translate it into consistent decisions and measurable outcomes at optimal cost. High-performing SOCs achieve this by eliminating unnecessary work and operationalizing threat data. At the…
Proton Mail rolls out post-quantum encryption for all users as industry braces for ‘harvest now, decrypt later’ threat
Proton Mail has today announced the rollout of post-quantum encryption (PQC) across its email platform, making quantum-resistant key generation available to all users, including those…
Hackers Abuse DAEMON Tools Distribution Channel to Deliver Malicious Payloads
A sophisticated supply-chain attack has compromised the official distribution channel for DAEMON Tools, delivering multi-stage malware to users worldwide. Since April 8, 2026, threat actors…