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A stranger has been reading Salesforce and ServiceNow portals worldwide for 17 months

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A stranger has been reading Salesforce and ServiceNow portals worldwide for 17 months 2026-08-12 at 16:51 By Mirko Zorz Most security stories start with something broken. This one starts with everything working as designed. Researchers at Reco have been tracking a campaign they call City-Forum, named after a domain registered in 2002, abandoned, and now […]

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Unsecured Perforce Servers Expose Sensitive Data From Major Orgs

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Unsecured Perforce Servers Expose Sensitive Data From Major Orgs 2026-04-21 at 15:49 By Eduard Kovacs Things are improving, but a researcher has still identified over 1,500 Perforce P4 instances allowing attackers to read files on the server. The post Unsecured Perforce Servers Expose Sensitive Data From Major Orgs appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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ShinyHunters claims new campaign targeting Salesforce Experience Cloud sites

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ShinyHunters claims new campaign targeting Salesforce Experience Cloud sites 2026-03-11 at 20:28 By Zeljka Zorz Salesforce customers have, once again, been targeted by the ShinyHunters group – or, at least, it’s what the group claims. Attackers modified and abused benign tool On Saturday, Saleforce confirmed that its security team has identified an attack campaign by

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Exposed training apps are showing up in active cloud attacks

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Exposed training apps are showing up in active cloud attacks 2026-01-22 at 09:06 By Sinisa Markovic Security teams often spin up vulnerable applications for demos, training, or internal testing. A recent Pentera research report documents how those environments are being left exposed on the public internet and actively exploited. The research focuses on intentionally vulnerable

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Complex Routing, Misconfigurations Exploited for Domain Spoofing in Phishing Attacks

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Complex Routing, Misconfigurations Exploited for Domain Spoofing in Phishing Attacks 2026-01-07 at 13:46 By Ionut Arghire Threat actors spoof legitimate domains to make their phishing emails appear to have been sent internally. The post Complex Routing, Misconfigurations Exploited for Domain Spoofing in Phishing Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek

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Misconfig Mapper: Open-source tool to uncover security misconfigurations

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Misconfig Mapper: Open-source tool to uncover security misconfigurations 2025-02-24 at 07:33 By Mirko Zorz Misconfig Mapper is an open-source CLI tool built in Golang that discovers and enumerates instances of services used within your organization. It performs large-scale detection and misconfiguration assessments, leveraging customizable templates with detection and misconfiguration fingerprints to identify potential security risks

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Strategies for CISOs navigating hybrid and multi-cloud security

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Strategies for CISOs navigating hybrid and multi-cloud security 2024-11-11 at 07:11 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Alex Freedland, CEO at Mirantis, discusses the cloud security challenges that CISOs need to tackle as multi-cloud and hybrid environments become the norm. He points out the expanded attack surfaces, the importance of consistent security

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Linux systems targeted with stealthy “Perfctl” cryptomining malware

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Linux systems targeted with stealthy “Perfctl” cryptomining malware 2024-10-07 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz Thousands of Linux systems are likely infected with the highly elusive and persistent “perfctl” (or “perfcc“) cryptomining malware and many others still could be at risk of getting compromised, Aqua Security researchers revealed last week. “In all the attacks observed, the

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Transforming cloud security with real-time visibility

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Transforming cloud security with real-time visibility 2024-10-07 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Amiram Shachar, CEO at Upwind, discusses the complexities of cloud security in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. He outlines the need for deep visibility into configurations and real-time insights to achieve a balance between agility and security. Shachar

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Versa Director zero-day exploited to compromise ISPs, MSPs (CVE-2024-39717)

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Versa Director zero-day exploited to compromise ISPs, MSPs (CVE-2024-39717) 2024-08-27 at 19:01 By Zeljka Zorz Advanced, persistent attackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-39717) in Versa Director to compromise US-based managed service providers with a custom-made web shell dubbed VersaMem by the researchers. The malware harvests credentials enabling the attackers to access the providers’ downstream

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Cloud Misconfigurations Expose 110,000 Domains to Extortion in Widespread Campaign

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Cloud Misconfigurations Expose 110,000 Domains to Extortion in Widespread Campaign 2024-08-16 at 17:46 By Ionut Arghire Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks discover a threat actor extorting organizations after compromising their cloud environments using inadvertently exposed environment variables. The post Cloud Misconfigurations Expose 110,000 Domains to Extortion in Widespread Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Hide yo environment files! Or risk getting your cloud-stored data stolen and held for ransom

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Hide yo environment files! Or risk getting your cloud-stored data stolen and held for ransom 2024-08-15 at 17:16 By Zeljka Zorz Cybercriminals are breaking into organizations’ cloud storage containers, exfiltrating their sensitive data and, in several cases, have been paid off by the victim organizations to not leak or sell the stolen data. “The attackers

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Building a strong cloud security posture

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Building a strong cloud security posture 2024-05-01 at 06:31 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, David Kellerman, Field CTO at Cymulate, discusses how cloud security still seems to lag even as the cloud grows in popularity and usage. Many leaders are unaware that they need to secure the cloud the same

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Common cloud security mistakes and how to avoid them

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Common cloud security mistakes and how to avoid them 2024-02-07 at 08:01 By Helga Labus According to recent surveys, 98% of organizations keep their financial, business, customer and/or employee information in the cloud but, at the same time, 95% of cloud security professionals are not sure their security protections and their team would manage to

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Customer Information of Toyota Insurance Company Exposed Due to Misconfigurations

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Customer Information of Toyota Insurance Company Exposed Due to Misconfigurations 2024-01-18 at 14:32 By Ionut Arghire Exposed credentials for an email address at an Indian Toyota insurance broker led to customer information compromise. The post Customer Information of Toyota Insurance Company Exposed Due to Misconfigurations appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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DIY attack surface management: Simple, cost-effective and actionable perimeter insights

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DIY attack surface management: Simple, cost-effective and actionable perimeter insights 16/10/2023 at 11:46 By Help Net Security Modern-day attack surface management (ASM) can be an intimidating task for most organizations, with assets constantly changing due to new deployments, assets being decommissioned, and ongoing migrations to cloud providers. Assets can be created and forgotten about, only

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How to avoid the 4 main pitfalls of cloud identity management

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How to avoid the 4 main pitfalls of cloud identity management 28/09/2023 at 08:02 By Help Net Security Securing cloud identities isn’t easy. Organizations need to complete a laundry list of actions to confirm proper configuration, ensure clear visibility into identities, determine and understand who can take what actions, and on top of it all

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The blueprint for a highly effective EASM solution

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The blueprint for a highly effective EASM solution 11/09/2023 at 08:04 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Adrien Petit, CEO at Uncovery, discusses the benefits that organizations can derive from implementing external attack surface management (EASM) solutions, the essential capabilities an EASM solution should possess, and how it deals with uncovering hidden

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Experts demand clarity as they struggle with cloud security prioritization

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Experts demand clarity as they struggle with cloud security prioritization 28/08/2023 at 06:32 By Help Net Security Cloud Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPPs) have emerged as a critical category of security tooling in recent years due to the complexity of comprehensively securing multi-cloud environments, according to Cloud Security Alliance. Secure cloud computing environment Much of

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Maintaining consistent security in diverse cloud infrastructures

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Maintaining consistent security in diverse cloud infrastructures 22/08/2023 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz As cloud infrastructures become increasingly API-driven and dynamically spread across expansive attack surfaces, achieving clarity proves difficult. Compounding this challenge is the integration of DevOps practices, microservices, and container technologies, which, while fostering agility and scalability, introduce additional layers of complexity and

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