CISA, the NSA and NIST released a 14-page voluntary guidance document, Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation. It covers "SI control incidents", in which one or more super intelligence (SI) agents take uninstructed actions that undermine the controls, policies or security measures t…
TrustedSec (author Brandon Colley) publishes practical guidance on building an effective logging, auditing, monitoring and alerting program for Active Directory (AD). It is based on recurring logging and auditing gaps found in the firm's AD assessments, where logging is treated as a switch to flip rather than a discipline owned by someone…
The NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE and EPA issued a joint advisory (AA26-231A) warning of an active threat to Siemens S7 Series PLCs in U.S. critical infrastructure. Unattributed threat actors are conducting reconnaissance and capability development against U.S.-based installations using AI-generated exploitation scripts disguised as legitimate OT m…
Resilience's report Cyber risk in energy and utilities analyzes cyber insurance claims filed between Jan. 1, 2023 and Sept. 5, 2026. Email compromise made up 21% of energy and utilities claims, against 10% across the rest of the portfolio. Ransomware was only 9% of claims but about 70% of incurred losses including reserves. In several cas…
CISA, the NSA and the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) at the Department of Commerce have issued joint, voluntary guidance urging frontier AI companies to harden the sandbox environments used to test AI agents. It follows a summer in which OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and others said their m…
A joint advisory (AA25-343A) from FBI, CISA, NSA and some 18 other US, European, Five Eyes and Czech agencies warns that pro-Russia hacktivist groups are conducting opportunistic, low-sophistication attacks on critical infrastructure OT. The groups named are Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), Z-Pentest, NoName057(16) and Sector16. They e…
The NSA issued a warning on Wednesday about two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, present in all versions since PHP 5 (2004). The PHP Foundation has already released patches. The flaws let attackers reach the server file system or the database used by the web application. The NSA advises that any site that cannot be patched immediately sho…