From Threat to Tool: Leveraging Refusal-Aware Injection Attacks for Safety Alignment

Safely aligning large language models LLMs often demands extensive human-labeled preference data, a process that's both costly and time-consuming. While synthetic data offers a promising alternative, current methods frequently rely on complex iterative prompting or auxiliary models. To address...

A Large Language Model-Supported Threat Modeling Framework for Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems

Modern transportation systems rely on cyber-physical systems CPS, where cyber systems interact seamlessly with physical systems like transportation-related sensors and actuators to enhance safety, mobility, and energy efficiency. However, growing automation and connectivity increase exposure to...

SecReEvalBench: a Multi-Turned Security Resilience Evaluation Benchmark for Large Language Models

The increasing deployment of large language models in security-sensitive domains necessitates rigorous evaluation of their resilience against adversarial prompt-based attacks. While previous benchmarks have focused on security evaluations with limited and predefined attack domains, such as...

Towards Effective Identification of Attack Techniques in Cyber Threat Intelligence Reports Using Large Language Models

This work evaluates the performance of Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI extraction methods in identifying attack techniques from threat reports available on the web using the MITRE ATT&CK framework. We analyse four configurations utilising state-of-the-art tools, including the Threat Report ATT&CK...

Year in Review: Attacks on identity and MFA

For our third focussed topic for Talos' 2024 Year in Review, we tell the story of how identity has become the pivot point for adversarial campaigns. The main themes of this story are credential abuse, Active Directory attacks, and MFA workarounds. Valid account usage was the 1 way attackers got i...

CVE-2025-22390

An issue was discovered in Optimizely EPiServer.CMS.Core before 12.32.0. A medium-severity vulnerability exists in the CMS due to insufficient enforcement of password complexity requirements. The application permits users to set passwords with a minimum length of 6 characters, lacking adequate...

Cybersecurity Blind Spots in IaC and PaC Tools Expose Cloud Platforms to New Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new attack techniques against infrastructure-as-code IaC and policy-as-code PaC tools like HashiCorp's Terraform and Styra's Open Policy Agent OPA that leverage dedicated, domain-specific languages DSLs to breach cloud platforms and exfiltrate data...

CISA Releases Insights from Red Team Assessment of a U.S. Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization

Today, CISA released Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from CISA Red Team Assessment of a U.S. Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization in coordination with the assessed organization. This cybersecurity advisory details lessons learned and key findings from an assessment, including the Red...

Threat actor believed to be spreading new MedusaLocker variant since 2022

Cisco Talos has discovered a financially motivated threat actor, active since 2022, recently observed delivering a MedusaLocker ransomware variant. Intelligence collected by Talos on tools regularly employed by the threat actor allows us to see an estimate of the amount and countries of origin of...

AIX is vulnerable to information disclosure due to openCryptoki (CVE-2024-0914)

IBM SECURITY ADVISORY First Issued: Mon Jun 3 08:50:37 CDT 2024 The most recent version of this document is available here: https://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/opencryptokiadvisory.asc Security Bulletin: AIX is vulnerable to information disclosure due to openCryptoki CVE-2024-0914...

4-Step Approach to Mapping and Securing Your Organization's Most Critical Assets

You're probably familiar with the term "critical assets". These are the technology assets within your company's IT infrastructure that are essential to the functioning of your organization. If anything happens to these assets, such as application servers, databases, or privileged identities, the...

GHSA-9FCX-CV56-W58P Mautic vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal / Arbitrary File Deletion due to GrapesJS builder

Impact Prior to the patched version, logged in users of Mautic are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal/Arbitrary File Deletion. Regardless of the level of access the Mautic user had, they could delete files other than those in the media folders such as system files, libraries or other important...

Combine Qualys TruRisk™ and MITRE ATT&CK to Adopt Threat-Informed Defense to Reduce Risk

There are so many vulnerabilities disclosed daily that no one can patch all of them. Unfortunately, attackers can exploit them while you are still in the process of reviewing, prioritizing, and patching. Effective risk-based prioritization focuses your limited resources and remediation efforts...

Cloud storage security: What’s new in the threat matrix

Today, we announce the release of a second version of the threat matrix for storage services, a structured tool that assists in identifying and analyzing potential security threats on data stored in cloud storage services. The matrix, first released in April 2021 as detailed in the blog post Thre...

Decoding the DNA of Ransomware Attacks: Unveiling the Anatomy Behind the Threat

Decoding the DNA of Ransomware Attacks: Unveiling the Anatomy Behind the Threat By Trellix Advanced Research Center · August 28, 2023 Introduction Ransomware, a malicious software that encrypts valuable data and demands a ransom for its release, has a notorious history marked by its evolution fro...

Understanding Active Directory Attack Paths to Improve Security

Introduced in 1999, Microsoft Active Directory is the default identity and access management service in Windows networks, responsible for assigning and enforcing security policies for all network endpoints. With it, users can access various resources across networks. As things tend to do, times,...

Surviving the 800 Gbps Storm: Gain Insights from Gcore's 2023 DDoS Attack Statistics

Gcore Radar is a quarterly report prepared by Gcore that provides insights into the current state of the DDoS protection market and cybersecurity trends. This report offers you an understanding of the evolving threat landscape and highlights the measures required to protect against attacks...

DevOps threat matrix

The use of DevOps practices, which enable organizations to deliver software more quickly and efficiently, has been on the rise. This agile approach minimizes the time-to-market of new features and bug fixes. More and more companies are implementing DevOps services, each with its own infrastructur...

The Bug Report - March 2023 Edition

The Bug Report – March 2023 Edition By Trellix · April 05, 2023 This story was also written by Kasimir Schulz. It really is bussin, though. Why am I here? Welcome back to the Bug Report, Ides of March edition! Last month was highlighted by glimpses into the past, with a historic attack technique...

2023 Browser Security Report Uncovers Major Browsing Risks and Blind Spots

As a primary working interface, the browser plays a significant role in today's corporate environment. The browser is constantly used by employees to access websites, SaaS applications and internal applications, from both managed and unmanaged devices. A new report published by LayerX, a browser...