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CISA Releases Guidance on Deploying Cyber Decoys

CISA issued guidance on deploying honeypots, honeytokens, and decoy systems to detect adversaries and gather threat intelligence in critical infrastructure.

CISA released guidance on deploying cyber decoys, including lures, tripwires, decoy artifacts, honeytokens, and honeypots, within critical infrastructure organizations to complement Zero Trust models. The guidance outlines a three-phase operational process of preparation, execution, and understanding, advising decoys be placed where users rarely interact and configured to produce high-fidelity alerts. It aims to help defenders detect adversaries who use legitimate credentials, native tools, and living-off-the-land techniques, while enabling cost-effective threat intelligence collection.

SecurityWeek · 2h agoAdvisory

CISA Warns Hackers Exploit 17 Active Directory Techniques to Gain Control of Enterprise Networks

CISA and Five Eyes agencies issued joint guidance detailing 17 Active Directory attack techniques like Kerberoasting and DCSync, with hardening and detection advice.

CISA, the NSA, and cyber agencies from Australia, Canada, the UK, and New Zealand released joint guidance on September 15 covering 17 techniques attackers use to compromise Active Directory, including AD CS, Certificate Services, and Federation Services attacks. Named techniques include Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, password spraying, DCSync, NTDS.dit dumping, Golden and Silver Tickets, Golden SAML, and Skeleton Key. Recommendations include minimizing SPN accounts, enforcing AES encryption, disabling NTLM, account lockout thresholds of five attempts, phishing-resistant MFA, and Tier 0 prioritization. The guide also lists Windows event IDs 4769, 4768, 4625, 4771, and 2889 for detecting Kerberoasting and password spraying on domain controllers.

GBHackers · 1d agoAdvisory

CISA Updates Insider Threat Guide With New Mitigation Advice

CISA updated its Insider Threat Mitigation Guide on September 9 with new case studies and guidance on hybrid work, AI and employee separations.

CISA published a revision of its Insider Threat Mitigation Guide, first issued in 2020, adding case studies, statistics and guidance for security, HR and leadership audiences. New material covers hybrid and remote work changes to physical and digital access, AI used to manipulate or deceive, access control, visitor screening and adverse employee separations. The agency framed the update around growing insider threat impact on critical infrastructure and pointed to preparedness resources for organizations without existing programs.

Infosecurity Magazine · 6d agoAdvisory

Tycon Systems TPDIN-Monitor-WEB2 (Update A)

CISA details CVE-2026-61884 (CVSS 9.8) in Tycon Systems TPDIN-Monitor-WEB2: unauthenticated access to power relays when credentials are unset; fixed in 2.4.5.

CISA updated its advisory for Tycon Systems TPDIN-Monitor-WEB2 firmware below 2.4.5, covering two vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-61884 (CVSS 9.8, CWE-306) lets any network attacker reach full device controls, including power relay management and reboots, on units left without configured HTTP credentials. CVE-2026-55985 exposes stored system credentials in cleartext to authenticated dashboard users, enabling compromise of other local systems. No public exploitation has been reported to CISA.

Schneider Electric Easergy, EcoStruxture, PowerLogic, and Saitel Products (Update A)

CISA updated ICSA-26-169-07: CVE-2026-4827 (CVSS 8.3) insufficient entropy enables session hijacking across dozens of Schneider Electric grid products; fixes available.

CISA republished advisory ICSA-26-169-07 (Update A) for CVE-2026-4827, CWE-331 insufficient entropy in session management, scored CVSS 8.3. Affected lines include Easergy MiCOM relays and C5, EcoStruxure Power Automation (EPAS-GTW, EPAS-UI, iPMFLS), EcoStruxure Power Operation, PowerLogic P5/P7/T300/T500, and Saitel DP/T150 RTUs, with dozens of fixed versions listed. Successful exploitation could enable session hijacking and unauthorized operations on systems in energy, chemical, critical manufacturing, and water sectors. Fixes are available; no exploitation is reported.

CISA Advisories · 13d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-4827

US agencies warn of AI-powered attacks on Siemens industrial controllers

NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA warn threat actors use AI-assisted scripts and snap7 libraries to access internet-exposed Siemens S7 PLCs in critical infrastructure sectors.

NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA issued a joint advisory warning that threat actors combine open-source snap7.dll/python-snap7 libraries with AI-generated scripts to gain read/write access to Siemens S7-200 through S7-1500 PLCs over the S7comm protocol. Actors use Censys and ZoomEye to find internet-exposed devices and abuse default or weak credentials, with activity assessed as persistent reconnaissance and positioning for future write operations. Agencies urge device inventory, patching, removing PLCs from the internet, and hardening; the pattern resembles Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers targeting of Rockwell, Schneider, and Siemens PLCs.

Help Net Security · 28d agoAdvisory in the wild