AEGIS: Adversarial Entropy-Guided Immune System -- Thermodynamic State Space Models for Zero-Day Network Evasion Detection

As TLS 1.3 encryption limits traditional Deep Packet Inspection DPI, the security community has pivoted to Euclidean Transformer-based classifiers e.g., ET-BERT for encrypted traffic analysis. However, these models remain vulnerable to byte-level adversarial morphing -- recent pre-padding attacks...

Unifying Cloud Risk and Network Defense: Wiz and Check Point

Bring network context into the Security Graph to enrich cloud visibility and strengthen posture...

CVE-2025-38512 wifi: prevent A-MSDU attacks in mesh networks

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: prevent A-MSDU attacks in mesh networks This patch is a mitigation to prevent the A-MSDU spoofing vulnerability for mesh networks. The initial update to the IEEE 802.11 standard, in response to the FragAttacks, missed this...

Training RL Agents for Multi-Objective Network Defense Tasks

Open-ended learning OEL -- which emphasizes training agents that achieve broad capability over narrow competency -- is emerging as a paradigm to develop artificial intelligence AI agents to achieve robustness and generalization. However, despite promising results that demonstrate the benefits of...

New Best Practices Guide for Securing AI Data Released

Today, CISA, the National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners released a joint Cybersecurity Information Sheet on AI Data Security: Best Practices for Securing Data Used to Train & Operate AI Systems. This information sheet highlights the critical role...

Disable the System from Responding to ICMP Broadcast Packets

Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP transmits query packets and error packets. You can configure a policy of not receiving ICMP broadcast packets to defend against ICMP packet attacks. This parameter determines whether a device needs to respond to the ICMP echo messages and timestamp requests...

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...

CISA Red Team’s Operations Against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch Organization Highlights the Necessity of Defense-in-Depth

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In early 2023, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA conducted a SILENTSHIELD red team assessment against a Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB organization. During SILENTSHIELD assessments, the red team first performs a no-notice, long-term simulation of...

NCSC Says Newer Threats Need Network Defense Strategy

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What is a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform CNAPP ?

Revealing the Secrets of the Cloud-specific Application Safety Platform CSASP In the landscape of online safety, the notion of the Cloud-specific Application Safety Platform CSASP is something relatively unheard of, but rapidly gaining popularity. Intuitively from its name, CSASP is a system...

NSA and CISA Release Advisory on Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations

Today, the National Security Agency NSA and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released a joint cybersecurity advisory CSA, NSA and CISA Red and Blue Teams Share Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations, which provides the most common cybersecurity misconfigurations in large...

US Cyber Command Operations During the 2022 Midterm Elections

The head of both US Cyber Command and the NSA, Gen. Paul Nakasone, broadly discussed that first organizations offensive cyber operations during the runup to the 2022 midterm elections. He didnt name names, of course: We did conduct operations persistently to make sure that our foreign adversaries...

Defenders beware: A case for post-ransomware investigations

Ransomware is one of the most pervasive threats that Microsoft Detection and Response Team DART responds to today. The groups behind these attacks continue to add sophistication to their tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs as most network security postures increase. In this blog, we detail a...

Introducing Malwarebytes Managed Detection and Response (MDR)

With our Managed Detection and Response MDR service now generally available for businesses and MSPs, you may be wondering: What is MDR, how does Malwarebytes MDR work, and do I need it? Underpinned by our award-winning EDR technology, Malwarebytes MDR offers powerful and affordable threat...

Wordfence Launches Wordfence Intelligence for Hosts and Network Defenders

This morning the Wordfence team is launching Wordfence Intelligence live at Black Hat 2022 in Las Vegas. Our entire team is here in Las Vegas, including our international team members. Id like to tell you more about what were launching and how Wordfence Intelligence will help us go even further t...

Log4j Bringing You Down? Try Infection Monkey’s New Log4Shell Attack Simulation

What if you could see how a real cyberattack might unfold in your network? Imagine the insights you would gain into your security posture if you could safely and easily simulate the behavior of malicious actors before they hit your defenses. That’s what the Infection Monkey does...

Ransomware Awareness for Holidays and Weekends

Summary Immediate Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against Ransomware • Make an offline backup of your data. • Do not click on suspicious links. • If you use RDP, secure and monitor it. • Update your OS and software. • Use strong passwords. • Usemulti-factor authentication. The Federal Bureau ...

Detecting Credential Stealing Attacks Through Active In-Network Defense

ARCHIVED STORY Detecting Credential Stealing Attacks Through Active In-Network Defense By Chintan Shah · September 22, 2021 Executive Summary Today, enterprises tend to use multiple layers of security defenses, ranging from perimeter defense on network entry points to host based security solution...

DDoS Attacks: A Flourishing Business for Cybercrooks – Podcast

Distributed denial-of-service DDoS started out as an inconvenience: They were a roadblock that kept customers from getting at systems. That’s bad enough. Keeping availability away from customers via DDoS can have a painful impact on businesses as they find their doors blocked to customers, keepin...

Angry Affiliate Leaks Conti Ransomware Gang Playbook

An apparently vengeful affiliate of the Conti Gang has leaked the playbook of the ransomware group after alleging that the notorious cybercriminal organization underpaid him for doing its dirty work. A security researcher shared a comment from an online forum allegedly posted by someone who did...