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AWS Network Firewall added rule hit counts for stateful rules, letting teams identify unused rules and validate control effectiveness at no added cost.

AWS Network Firewall's rule hit count capability gives security teams visibility into which stateful firewall rules are matching traffic, helping identify unused or redundant rules and validate controls for compliance frameworks like PCI DSS 4.0 and DORA. The feature covers stateful rules in custom and managed rule groups, is enabled by default at no additional Network Firewall cost, and is available in all supported Regions except UAE and Bahrain. Data is surfaced in the Network Firewall dashboard's Top Rule Hits view and can be queried via CloudWatch Logs Insights or Amazon Athena.

Help Net SecurityAug 24, 00:00 UTC · 24d agoTools

Your Cloud Security Checklist Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does

Intruder's 2026 Cloud Security Index found misconfiguration risk profiles differ sharply across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud across 3,000 organizations.

Intruder analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for its 2026 Cloud Security Index. Weak IAM controls and missing logging affected 80-98% of accounts regardless of provider, while exposed services ranged from 76% on AWS to just 8% on Google Cloud. Top issues included S3 buckets without HTTPS enforcement (87% of AWS accounts), Entra ID users without MFA (55% of Azure accounts), and missing OS Login MFA (77% of Google Cloud accounts). Weak IAM prevalence rose with organization size, from 87% at SMEs to 98% at large enterprises, and midmarket organizations took the longest to remediate at 35 days on average.

The Hacker NewsSep 7, 11:45 UTC · 10d agoResearch

Tufin expands Unified Control Plane with AI intelligence and multi-vendor automation

Tufin's TOS 5.3 adds AI-powered Segmentation Intelligence and multi-vendor automation for AWS, Palo Alto, VMware NSX-T, and Cisco Meraki to its Unified Control Plane.

Tufin TOS 5.3 extends the Unified Control Plane with enhanced AWS firewall, Palo Alto Strata Cloud Manager, VMware NSX-T, and Cisco Meraki support for automated policy and access-request provisioning. The new AI-powered Segmentation Intelligence solution continuously analyzes segmentation policies to identify gaps, drift, and recommended fixes. Tufin cites research that 49% of organizations manage more than 20 security tools across hybrid environments.

Help Net SecurityAug 20, 00:00 UTC · 28d agoTools

Fake GTA 6 Installer Steals Browser Passwords, Discord Tokens and Crypto Data From Gamers

Huntress found fake GTA 6 installer ISOs spreading NJRAT, DCRAT, Mercurial Grabber and a Chaos ransomware wiper that steals credentials.

Huntress analyzed a malicious ISO disguised as a leaked GTA 6 build, distributed via SEO poisoning, torrent sites, and social media, with some images exceeding 100 GB and padded with junk data. The installer stages game-named executables in %TEMP% and deploys NJRAT, DCRAT, and the Mercurial Grabber infostealer, harvesting browser passwords, Discord tokens, Roblox and Minecraft session data, Windows product keys, and cryptocurrency details, with exfiltration via a Discord webhook. A Chaos ransomware variant launched through gta6.exe deletes shadow copies, disables Windows recovery, encrypts files up to 200 MB with AES, and overwrites larger files, effectively acting as a wiper attributed to the 'ASHA Hacker Team'. A Visual Basic script displays a fake 'license not found' error to conceal the already-installed payloads.

GBHackersSep 10, 11:43 UTC · 7d agoMalware in the wild

Mars Security brings threat intelligence to detection in real time

Mars Security launched Real-Time Intel-Based Detection, converting advisories from CISA and Mandiant into backtested MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection rules for CrowdStrike, Wiz, and Splunk.

Mars Security announced a capability that automatically turns newly published threat intelligence from sources like CISA, Mandiant, Unit 42, and Microsoft into MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection rules. Each rule is written in the native query language of the customer's telemetry (CrowdStrike Falcon, Wiz, Splunk, firewalls, identity providers, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks) and backtested against 30 days of the customer's data before deployment, with indicator scoring to drop noisy or stale indicators. The platform also maps existing detection coverage, flags gaps such as AWS CloudTrail tampering and pass-the-hash movement, and delivers some recommendations as open pull requests for detection-as-code workflows.

Help Net SecuritySep 8, 13:43 UTC · 8d agoTools

Mars Security Launches Real-Time Intel-to-Detection Engine That Turns Live Threat Intelligence Into Backtested Detections in Minutes

Mars Security launched Real-Time Intel-Based Detection, converting advisories into MITRE ATT&CK-mapped, backtested detection rules for CrowdStrike, Wiz, and Splunk within minutes.

The capability turns newly published threat intelligence from CISA, Mandiant, Unit 42, and Microsoft Threat Intelligence into validated detection rules within minutes, each backtested against 30 days of the customer's own telemetry before deployment. Rules are written in native query languages across CrowdStrike Falcon, Wiz, Splunk, firewalls, Linux Sysmon, identity providers, AWS telemetry, and data lakes such as Snowflake and Databricks, with no data ingestion or stack changes. The feature is available at no additional cost to existing customers and on AWS Marketplace. Mars also flags detection coverage gaps and extends monitoring to credentials leaked by AI coding agents.

Cyber Security NewsSep 8, 13:20 UTC · 8d agoTools2

Top 10 Best Multi-Cloud Security Platforms in 2026

An editorial roundup of the ten best multi-cloud security platforms for 2026, split between CNAPPs (Wiz, Prisma Cloud) and cloud-networking security (Aviatrix).

The article frames multi-cloud security as two markets: CNAPP platforms (Wiz, Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike, Orca, Defender) securing what runs in clouds, and cloud-networking-security platforms (Aviatrix) securing how clouds connect. It ranks ten platforms including Palo Alto Prisma Cloud for breadth, Wiz for correlation, Check Point CloudGuard, Fortinet, Aviatrix, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Trend Micro, and CrowdStrike. It flags the ~$32 billion Google–Wiz acquisition as raising cloud-neutrality questions buyers should address contractually.

Cyber Security NewsSep 16, 09:50 UTC · 1d agoTools1

Hackers Mass-Scan Exposed Vite Servers to Steal AWS and Azure Cloud Credentials

F5 honeypots record mass scanning of exposed Vite dev servers exploiting CVE-2026-39364 to harvest AWS and Azure cloud credentials.

F5 honeypots recorded 807 session-grouped attacks and roughly 32,000 raw events in August 2026 against internet-exposed Vite development servers, up from 1,732 events in the previous three months. Scanners abused CVE-2026-39364 (Vite 7.1.0-7.3.1, 8.0.0-8.0.4), bypassing server.fs.deny via @fs routes with ?raw/?import query parameters and double encoding to read .env files, AWS SSO caches, Azure tokens, and Terraform state. The same infrastructure also probed CVE-2025-29927 (Next.js), CVE-2025-30208, CVE-2025-31125 (KEV-listed January 2026), and CVE-2024-45811. Most traffic originated from Google Cloud IP ranges, with the US accounting for 17,297 events.

Cyber Security Newsupdated Sep 15, 11:12 UTC · 2d agofirst Sep 14, 16:59 UTC · 2d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 4 sources CVE-2026-39364 CVE-2025-29927 CVE-2025-30208+2 CVEs1

Grand Theft Auto VI hype leads to malware

Fake GTA6 ISO downloads spread via SEO poisoning, torrents, and forums deliver NJRAT, DCRAT, an infostealer, and wiper ransomware.

Huntress analyzed a malicious ISO masquerading as a leaked Grand Theft Auto VI build; there is no official GTA6 demo or leaked playable copy. The fake gta6installer.exe shows a Russian 'license' message asking victims to email the attacker if the crack fails, then drops GTA6-branded files into %TEMP%. It installs multiple repurposed NJRAT copies (2023-era files) connecting to AWS-hosted IPs 35.157.111.131, 3.68.56.232, 3.67.15.169 and an ngrok tunnel, plus DCRAT communicating with a0700877.xsph.ru (141.8.197.42). The bundle also includes an infostealer and ransomware used as a wiper, in what appears to be an opportunistic, everything-at-once campaign.

HuntressSep 9, 14:00 UTC · 7d agoMalware in the wild

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 15, 2026

Help Net Security's weekly roundup lists cybersecurity job openings worldwide, from CISO roles to cloud security engineers at firms like Adobe, JPMorgan Chase, and PwC.

Help Net Security's September 15, 2026 job roundup lists cybersecurity openings across India, USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Israel, UAE, Ireland, and Denmark. Roles include a CISO at Texas Health and Human Services, a GenAI CBRNE Cyber Security Expert at Alice, and security engineering positions at Adobe, JPMorgan Chase, PwC, and the Reserve Bank of Australia. Several openings focus on AI security, including red-teaming AI models and securing AI agent platforms.

Help Net SecuritySep 14, 22:15 UTC · 2d agoIndustry1

11 Best CSPM Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

CSPM comparison ranks Wiz first for agentless attack-path analysis; notes Ermetic absorbed into Tenable and Lacework into Fortinet FortiCNAPP.

An editorial comparison of eleven CSPM tools ranks Wiz as the agentless attack-path momentum leader, Prisma Cloud as the breadth benchmark, and Orca as the agentless SideScanning pioneer. It highlights consolidation: Ermetic now powers Tenable Cloud Security and Lacework became Fortinet's FortiCNAPP. The guide recommends starting with free tiers from Defender for Cloud, Prowler, and native cloud tools before buying.

GBHackersSep 15, 06:37 UTC · 2d agoIndustry1

12 Best CIEM Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

Buyer's guide compares twelve CIEM tools; Microsoft discontinued Entra Permissions Management, while Tenable (Ermetic), CyberArk, and Wiz lead the 2026 scorecard.

The scorecard evaluates twelve cloud infrastructure entitlement management vendors on permission analytics depth, JIT enforcement, non-human identity coverage, pricing predictability, and bundle leverage. Tenable (Ermetic) leads at 4.70, followed by CyberArk and Wiz, while Microsoft's retirement of Entra Permissions Management (CloudKnox) forces existing customers into migration cycles. Pricing structures span per-identity, per-resource, per-workload, credit-based, and quote-based models.

GBHackersupdated 10:33 UTC · 2h agofirst Sep 16, 07:37 UTC · 1d agoIndustry 7 sources

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: February 10, 2026

Help Net Security's roundup lists open cybersecurity roles at KPMG, Pentera, Google, Group-IB and others across multiple countries.

A job-board roundup featuring Cloud Security Engineer at KPMG (Israel), Cloud Security Researcher at Pentera (Israel), Cyber Defence Senior Analyst at Google (UK), and Cyber Investigation Specialist at Group-IB (UAE). Additional listings cover SOC operations, penetration testing, network architecture, OT/IT convergence and AI/ML security testing across Australia, Italy, the US, India, France, Ireland and the UAE. All listings are marked no longer accepting applications.

Help Net SecurityAug 26, 09:46 UTC · 22d agoIndustry

Exposed Vite servers are being probed for AWS and Azure credentials

F5 honeypots logged 32,000+ probes against Vite file-access bypass CVE-2026-39364, hunting AWS and Azure credentials on exposed dev servers.

F5 Labs reported 32,000+ scan attempts (807 attack sessions) against exposed Vite servers in August, up from 1,732 attempts over the prior three months. Attackers exploited CVE-2026-39364 (CVSS 8.2), which bypasses Vite's server.fs.deny protection via parameters like ?raw and ?import&raw, affecting Vite 7.1.0 to before 7.3.2 and Vite 8 before 8.0.5. Scanners cycled wordlists for environment files, AWS keys, Azure tokens and IaC state files, also combining older Vite CVEs (2025-30208, 2025-31125, 2024-45811) and probing a Next.js middleware bypass. Only CVE-2025-31125 is currently in CISA's KEV catalog.

CSO OnlineSep 15, 14:36 UTC · 1d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-39364 CVE-2025-30208 CVE-2025-31125+4 CVEs

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 1, 2026

Help Net Security's September 1, 2026 roundup lists cybersecurity job openings at Google, Barclays, HUMAN and others across the US, Europe and Asia.

The weekly jobs roundup lists openings including a Google Security Engineer (Professional Services) role in the USA, a Cryptography Operations Engineer at Barclays in the UK, a Backend Engineer at HUMAN in Israel, and an AI Security Engineer at CPX in the UAE. Other listed roles span SOC analysis, SIEM engineering, cloud security, and network security across the USA, Ireland, India, Italy and Australia.

Help Net SecuritySep 9, 12:45 UTC · 8d agoIndustry 2 sources

Top 10 Best Microsoft Azure Security Tools in 2026

An editorial roundup of the ten best Azure security tools in 2026 names Defender for Cloud the native floor, with Wiz, Orca, and Prisma Cloud leading third-party options.

The brief reviews ten Azure security tools, positioning Microsoft Defender for Cloud's free foundational tier and published per-resource plans as the rational starting point for every Azure estate. Wiz and Orca are shortlisted for agentless attack-path correlation, Prisma Cloud for multicloud breadth, CrowdStrike for runtime protection, and Tenable for CIEM depth with Entra permission analytics. The piece emphasizes Azure's tight identity-infrastructure coupling via Entra ID as both an operational advantage and its most critical risk surface. Scoring is editorial, not lab-tested, with pricing compared by model only.

Cyber Security News08:31 UTC · 4h agoIndustry

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: August 25, 2026

Help Net Security lists open cybersecurity roles at AT&T, Accenture, Mastercard and others across the US, Europe, India and UAE.

Help Net Security aggregated open cybersecurity positions including compliance, IAM engineering, security architecture, SOC analyst and cloud security roles. Employers include AT&T, Accenture, Mastercard, Insight, Mitiga, NEURA Robotics and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank across the US, India, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel and UAE. Several postings emphasize identity and access management, NIS2 and GDPR compliance, and cloud security work.

Help Net SecuritySep 3, 08:28 UTC · 14d agoIndustry

Open VSX Removes 77 Malicious Evil Twin Extensions Exfiltrating Developer Data

77 malicious 'evil twin' Open VSX extensions impersonated developer tools and exfiltrated hostnames and detailed workspace reconnaissance to mangorbit.com.

Manifold Security found 77 extensions uploaded to the Open VSX marketplace between July 26 and August 1, 2026 that impersonate real Microsoft VS Code Marketplace tools, with all 77 sending data to mangorbit.com. 58 lightweight variants exfiltrate the hostname, while 19 recon variants collect editor details, OS username, Git remote hosts, CI environment variables (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Buildkite, CircleCI, Codespaces, Gitpod), and installed extension IDs. The recon variant retries for up to seven days and can fall back to a DNS TXT record for exfiltration if the primary domain is blocked. The extensions were removed from Open VSX by August 3, 2026; the disclosure follows a separate npm supply chain campaign, ChainDrop, which compromised 450 packages with a Shai-Hulud worm variant.

The Hacker NewsSep 1, 08:33 UTC · 16d agoMalware

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 8, 2026

Help Net Security's September 8 job roundup lists open cybersecurity roles at AudioCodes, Garmin, Scotiabank, GDIT, Subway and others across seven countries.

The listing includes a CISO role at AudioCodes in Israel, a Combat Systems Cyber Engineer at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, cloud security engineering at Garmin, and an IAM Architect at Scotiabank. Other openings span penetration testing for NATO exercises at Spektrum in Belgium, SOC analyst at Orro Group in Australia, threat hunting at GDIT, and security operations at Subway in the USA. Roles range from CISO and architect to SOC analyst and penetration tester.

Help Net SecuritySep 8, 00:00 UTC · 9d agoIndustry

Mars Security Debuts Automated Threat Engine Processing Live Cyber Intelligence Into Validated Rules Within Minutes

Mars Security launches Real-Time Intel-Based Detection, converting threat intelligence advisories into validated, ATT&CK-mapped detection rules within minutes for SOCs.

Mars Security, an autonomous threat hunting and detection engineering platform founded by former offensive security operators, announced Real-Time Intel-Based Detection. The capability ingests advisories from sources like CISA, Mandiant, Unit 42, and Microsoft Threat Intelligence, maps indicators to MITRE ATT&CK, and authors native query logic across connected infrastructure including CrowdStrike Falcon, Wiz, Splunk, Sysmon, identity providers, Snowflake, and Databricks. Every rule is backtested against 30 days of historical telemetry to quantify false positives before analyst approval and one-click deployment. The feature is free for existing customers and available via AWS Marketplace.

CSO OnlineSep 8, 15:05 UTC · 8d agoTools2

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: March 10, 2026

Help Net Security's roundup lists open cybersecurity roles at BioNTech, AIG, ServiceNow and others across Europe, the Middle East and Canada.

A job-board roundup of cybersecurity openings including Associate Director Application Security at BioNTech (Germany), CISO at AIG (Israel), Cloud Security Professional at ServiceNow (Italy), and SOC/GRC, analyst, engineer and data governance roles in the UK, UAE, India, Canada and France. Roles span application security, cloud security, SOC operations, compliance and OT environments. Most listings are marked no longer accepting applications.

Help Net SecurityAug 28, 09:06 UTC · 20d agoIndustry

Top 10 Best Google Cloud (GCP) Security Tools in 2026

An editorial scorecard ranks the top ten Google Cloud security tools for 2026, with Wiz, Sysdig, and Security Command Center leading on correlation, GKE runtime, and native depth.

The roundup evaluates ten GCP security tools across five weighted criteria including GCP-native depth, correlation, runtime protection, multicloud parity, and value. Google Security Command Center is positioned as the included native floor, while Wiz and Sysdig top the weighted scores at 4.50, followed by Prisma Cloud at 4.40. The piece notes Forseti is deprecated and that Lacework is now Fortinet's FortiCNAPP, and flags diligence around Google's acquisition of Wiz. It is an editorial assessment, not a lab test, with pricing compared by model only.

Cyber Security News08:37 UTC · 4h agoIndustry

Week in review: Linux rootkit deployed on F5 BIG-IP APM devices, Cisco FMC bugs exploited

Weekly roundup: Cisco FMC and N-able N-central zero-days exploited in the wild, MikroTik RouterOS hijacks, Microsoft Patch Tuesday ships two exploited zero-days.

State-sponsored and financially-motivated attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-20079, a critical authentication bypass in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), alongside CVE-2026-20316. N-able issued an emergency hotfix for CVE-2026-86218, a critical pre-auth RCE in the N-central RMM platform exploited in the wild. CERT Polska disclosed six RouterOS vulnerabilities being chained to hijack internet-exposed MikroTik devices. Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped a record patch count including two zero-days, while roughly 67,000 Trezor customers faced phishing after a shipping-partner breach and researchers privately disclosed a zero-click WeChat worm to Tencent.

Help Net SecuritySep 13, 08:00 UTC · 4d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-20079 CVE-2026-20316 CVE-2026-862182· 1 read

Risky Bulletin: Academics find source code overlaps between Geedge and China's Great Firewall

Academics linked Chinese vendor Geedge Networks' Tiangou Secure Gateway source code to one of the Great Firewall's three traffic filtering capabilities.

US researchers presenting at USENIX Security reconstructed Geedge Networks' Tiangou Secure Gateway firmware from over 100,000 leaked files, including Git repositories with commit history, and matched its filtering behavior to sections of China's Great Firewall. They found only 1 of 3 characterized DNS injectors matched Geedge code, noted the system relies on memory-unsafe C components and copied third-party code, and said its bugs could aid future circumvention tools. Geedge also exports censorship tools to Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Myanmar. The newsletter additionally rounds up multiple breaches.

Risky Business NewsAug 21, 02:55 UTC · 27d agoResearch2