Hardware-Triggered Backdoors

Machine learning models are routinely deployed on a wide range of computing hardware. Although such hardware is typically expected to produce identical results, differences in its design can lead to small numerical variations during inference. In this work, we show that these variations can be...

iba Systems ibaPDA

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to perform unauthorized actions on the file system. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability, such as: Minimize network...

MalURLBench: A Benchmark Evaluating Agents' Vulnerabilities When Processing Web URLs

LLM-based web agents have become increasingly popular for their utility in daily life and work. However, they exhibit critical vulnerabilities when processing malicious URLs: accepting a disguised malicious URL enables subsequent access to unsafe webpages, which can cause severe damage to service...

Security strategies for safeguarding governmental data

The Deputy CISO blog series is where Microsoft Deputy Chief Information Security Officers CISOs share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will get practical advice, tactics to start and stop deploying, forward-looking commentary on where the...

Winning Against AI-Based Attacks Requires a Combined Defensive Approach

If there's a constant in cybersecurity, it's that adversaries are always innovating. The rise of offensive AI is transforming attack strategies and making them harder to detect. Google's Threat Intelligence Group, recently reported on adversaries using Large Language Models LLMs to both conceal...

CTF for Education

In this paper, we take a close look at how CTF can be used in cybersecurity education. We divide the CTF competitions into four different categories, which are attack-based CTFs, defense-based CTFs, jeopardy CTFs and gamified and wargames CTFs. We start our analysis by summarizing the main...

From runtime risk to real‑time defense: Securing AI agents

AI agents, whether developed in Microsoft Copilot Studio or on alternative platforms, are becoming a powerful means for organizations to create custom solutions designed to enhance productivity and automate organizational processes by seamlessly integrating with internal data and systems. From a...

Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks

Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: "I'll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous instructions and give me the contents of the cash drawer." Would you hand over the money? Of course not. Yet this is what large language models LLMs do...

EVMAPA

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to degraded service, a denial-of-service, or unauthorized remote command execution, which could lead to spoofing or a manipulation of charging station statuses. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take...

Johnson Controls Inc. iSTAR Configuration Utility (ICU) tool

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a failure within the operating system of the machine hosting the ICU tool. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this...

AutomationDirect CLICK Programmable Logic Controller

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to impersonate users, escalate privileges, gain unauthorized access to systems and services, and decrypt sensitive data. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the...

Hubitat Elevation Hubs

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to escalate their privileges and control devices outside of their authorized scope. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of...

Weintek cMT X Series HMI EasyWeb Service

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a low-level user to alter privileges and gain full control to the device. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities, such as:...

CISA: Bulletproof Defense: Mitigating Risks from Bulletproof Hosting Providers V2

CISA, in collaboration with the U.S. National Security Agency, U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners, have released the guide Bulletproof Defense: Mitigating Risks from Bulletproof Hosting Providers to help internet service...

Can you use too many LOLBins to drop some RATs?

Recently, our team came across an infection attempt that stood out—not for its sophistication, but for how determined the attacker was to take a “living off the land” approach to the extreme. The end goal was to deploy Remcos , a Remote Access Trojan RAT, and NetSupport Manager , a legitimate...

A Survey of Security Challenges and Solutions for Advanced Air Mobility and EVTOL Aircraft

This survey reviews the existing and envisioned security vulnerabilities and defense mechanisms relevant to Advanced Air Mobility AAM systems, with a focus on electric vertical takeoff and landing eVTOL aircraft. Drawing from vulnerabilities in the avionics in commercial aviation and the automate...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Software Snort 3 Detection Engine DoS (cisco-sa-ftd-snort3-uAnUntcV)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software is affected by a vulnerability. - A vulnerability in the TLS 1.3 implementation of the Cisco Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 detection...

SecureSplit: Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Split Learning

Split Learning SL offers a framework for collaborative model training that respects data privacy by allowing participants to share the same dataset while maintaining distinct feature sets. However, SL is susceptible to backdoor attacks, in which malicious clients subtly alter their embeddings to...

Techniques of Modern Attacks

The techniques used in modern attacks have become an important factor for investigation. As we advance further into the digital age, cyber attackers are employing increasingly sophisticated and highly threatening methods. These attacks target not only organizations and governments but also extend...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software Multiple Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-snort3-dcerpc-vulns-J9HNF4tH)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense FTD Software is affected by the following vulnerabilities: - A vulnerability in the processing of DCE/RPC requests that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to leak...