Category: Interesting Stuff

Attackers can abuse SeManageVolumePrivilege to rewrite ACLs on C:Windows, gaining write access to protected system paths and escalating from a standard user to SYSTEM. The article shows three routes to compromise—Print Spooler DLL hijacking, WBEM tzres.dll substitution, and Windows Error Reporting abuse via WerTrigger—highlighting the danger of misconfiguring the “Perform volume maintenance tasks” right. #SeManageVolumePrivilege #SeManageVolumeExploit #Printconfig.dll #tzres.dll #WerTrigger #MSEDGEWIN10

AI can score perfectly on CISSP-style questions because exams reward recall and pattern matching, but real cybersecurity work requires judgment, context, and the ability to identify the right problem before solving it. The article argues that AI is changing junior tasks, not eliminating the need for fundamentals, and that the strongest entry-level candidates will be those who can think critically and understand their environment. #CISSP #ErichWinkler #DecodedSecurity #90DayCybersecurityJobBlueprint

Bruce Schneier’s DEF CON 34 talk argues that AI intensifies reward hacking, scales exploits, and worsens governance gaps across legal, financial, and political systems. He says the biggest security issue of this decade is integrity, because AI can undermine trust in data, control signals, and real-world outcomes. #BruceSchneier #DEFCON34 #OpenAI #HuggingFace #VulnOps #TheAgeofIntegrity

AI is making cyberattacks faster, more scalable, and more convincing, forcing organizations to move beyond traditional patch-and-patch defenses and strengthen their core security practices. The keynote “Looking ahead to 2030: Autonomous Prevention, Human Accountability” from HRMCon2026 argues that cybersecurity must evolve across technology, people, and process while keeping human accountability at the center. #HRMCon2026 #AutonomousPrevention #HumanAccountability

This issue of The Cybersecurity Pulse covers a wide range of security news, including Gemini’s mistaken access during a cybersecurity evaluation, active exploitation of critical flaws in F5, Check Point, Cisco, and FBIjobs.gov-related claims, plus new research and product launches across the AI security landscape. It also highlights major industry moves from Cyera, Jamf, Upwind, Dragos, and OpenAI, showing how agentic AI, detection, and browser security are rapidly evolving. #Gemini #Fencer #Cyera #Jev #OpenAI #MemTensor #OpenClaw #MemoryOS #F5 #CheckPoint #Cisco #EvilTokens #ClaudeOpus55 #Jamf #KeepAware #Upwind #Aegis #Dragos #runZero #NetRise

ISO 27001 should be treated as the foundation for an evolving risk program, not the finish line or proof that controls will always keep working. As AI adoption accelerates, organizations need continuous control monitoring, clear ownership, and AI governance layered on top of established risk methods to make sound decisions at business speed. #ISO27001 #ISO42001 #NISTAIRMF #OneTrust

impacket-tstool uses MSRPC to remotely enumerate, control, disconnect, log off, reboot, and even hijack Windows Terminal Services sessions without dropping a binary or opening an RDP client. It also supports passwordless authentication methods like Pass-the-Hash, Pass-the-Key, and Pass-the-Ticket, making it a stealthy post-exploitation tool against systems such as the DC1 domain controller in ignite.local. #impacket-tstool #TerminalServices #DC1 #ignite.local #tscon #qwinsta

Agentic threat hunting only works when the SOC has strong telemetry, clear baselines, and guardrails, because AI amplifies existing gaps instead of fixing them. Sydney Marrone’s framework shows that tools like ATHF, ADEF, LOCK, and FORGE help teams build the foundation needed for effective hunting and detection engineering. #SydneyMarrone #Nebulock #Splunk #THORCollective #ATHF #ADEF #LOCK #FORGE

ShinyHunters reportedly hacked the CLOP darkweb site, claiming to have stolen data and demanding a large ransom from the Russian cybercrime group. This rival-on-rival attack shows criminal groups undermining each other instead of focusing on additional victims. #ShinyHunters #CLOP

Enterprise AI and shadow AI create new governance challenges because employees increasingly use AI on mobile devices and may expose sensitive data, IP, and business knowledge. The article argues that trustworthy AI depends on on-device processing, centralized cloud controls, managed identities, and a trusted device foundation such as Samsung Knox. #GalaxyAI #SamsungKnox #SamsungGalaxy

ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform to centralize reporting of actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents, while EU and national regulators issued new guidance on privacy, AI oversight, cloud identity token security, and healthcare breach response. Courts and officials in California, Florida, and Texas also sharpened scrutiny of AI-generated filings and privacy demand-letter tactics, underscoring the growing legal and operational pressure on organizations handling digital systems and personal data. #ENISA #CRA #JRC #Europol #CNIL #MyDr #California #CISA #NIST #Lisandrillo #VivekShah

The article warns that the greatest danger from AI is not sentient machines, but humans intentionally using autonomous AI weapons to target cultures, countries, political adversaries, and civilian infrastructure. It calls for urgent international rules to define acceptable boundaries and deter authoritarian governments from scaling these capabilities against protected targets. #AutonomousAIWeapons #HelpNetSecurity

The author expresses gratitude for being included in The Defender 2026 globally represented list of CISOs and thanks Top Cyber News MAGAZINE and Ludmila Morozova-Buss, Ph.D. The post also congratulates the other recognized cybersecurity leaders and acknowledges the many professionals who are strengthening the industry. #TheDefender2026 #TopCyberNewsMAGAZINE #LudmilaMorozovaBuss #KerissaVarma #GaryHayslip #KunalSehgal #IvaTasheva #FedericoCasano #IsabelMariaGomez #RiverNygryn #VivianLyon #LydieNgoNogol #CarinaBirarda #YohannBauzil

Cybercrime is becoming increasingly industrialized, with AI accelerating the speed and scale of threats. Rébiah Bardot-Girard of AXA XL says resilience begins before an attack through strong people, governance, training, and tested crisis exercises. #AXAXL #RébiahBardotGirard

AI cybersecurity capabilities are converging quickly, with GPT-6, Mythos, DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM all narrowing the gap across frontier and open-weight models. The real advantage is shifting away from the model itself and toward proprietary context, workflows, evaluation, and trust that help defenders act safely. #GPT-6 #Mythos #DeepSeek #Kimi #GLM #OpenAI #Anthropic #MoonshotAI #Zai