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Cybersecurity Skills Shortage or Capabilities Gap? Why the Difference Matters
The cybersecurity skills shortage is a matter of capabilities, not talent. Read on to find out how MDR can help bridge critical operational gaps.
Beyond Remote Access: The Next High-Growth MSP Service
Learn how MSPs can build profitable Secure Remote Workspace services that improve security, simplify work, enhance UX, and accelerate revenue with FireCloud.
AI as an Operational Capability
AI is no longer just speeding up team workflows, it is evolving into an operational capacity that can act at scale.
AI Is Driving More Network Inspection. Can Your Security Keep Up?
AI is increasing encrypted traffic and inspection demands across enterprise networks. Learn why maintaining visibility at scale is becoming a critical security requirement.
Uncover Shadow AI Before It Becomes Your Biggest Risk
Discover how Shadow AI creates new security risks and learn practical ways to detect unmanaged AI use, protect sensitive data, and maintain control.
CRN Recognizes Two WatchGuard Executives Among Top 100 Executives of 2026
WatchGuard leaders Joe Smolarski and Michelle Welch earn CRN Top 100 honors, highlighting innovation, channel leadership, AI, and partner success.
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WatchGuard Goes Multi-Model on Frontier AI for Stronger MSP Defense
Participation in OpenAI's Daybreak program and Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program advances vulnerability research, security testing, and proactive threat defense.
Employees Drive Rising Cybersecurity Risk As Shadow AI and Unsafe Work Habits Surge, WatchGuard Global Survey Finds
New Research Highlights Growing Visibility Gap Between Employee Behavior and Organizational Security Controls.
WatchGuard Launches AI Innovation Challenge, Inviting MSPs to Help Shape the Future of AI-Powered Cybersecurity
Part of WatchGuard's $10M AI investment, the challenge will fund selected MSP ideas with up to $100,000 each, and one Grand Prize winner earns an exclusive VIP trip to WatchGuard Impact North America.
WatchGuard Appoints Vincent Hwang as Chief Product Officer to Accelerate Platform Strategy and AI-Driven Innovation
Former Fortinet, Cisco, and Bitdefender leader brings proven track record in scaling cybersecurity platforms, strengthening partner-driven growth, and shaping category-defining product narratives.
WatchGuard Named a Champion in the Omdia Global Cybersecurity MSP Ecosystems Leadership Matrix for Fourth Consecutive Year
Recognition highlights WatchGuard’s continued innovation in helping MSPs scale through its Unified Security Platform®, agentic AI, and expanded cloud security capabilities
WatchGuard Launches New High-Performance Firebox Appliances to Secure Modern Enterprise Networks
New Firebox appliances deliver ultra-high-speed security performance, enterprise resiliency, and simplified operations for MSPs, Campus, and distributed enterprise environments
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Schwachstellen managen: Die besten Vulnerability-Management-Tools
Security-Infotainment: Die besten Hacker-Dokus
Der Kaufratgeber für Breach & Attack Simulation Tools
Google entdeckt erstmals KI-basierten Zero-Day-Exploit
Cybersicherheitsvorschriften: So erfüllen Sie Ihre Compliance-Anforderungen
Customer Identity & Access Management: Die besten CIAM-Tools
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When AI Becomes the Attacker: What Autonomous Models Mean for Cybersecurity
Artificial intelligence is no longer just helping cybersecurity teams analyze alerts, write code, or investigate threats. Increasingly capable AI models can now reason through cybersecurity problems, identify vulnerabilities, chain weaknesses together, and autonomously pursue an objective. That…
OpenAI’s Lab Rat Escapes
TL;DR: OpenAI models under evaluation reportedly escaped a restricted lab environment, exploited a zero-day vulnerability to gain internet access, and targeted Hugging Face while attempting to solve a cybersecurity benchmark. The incident highlights the growing risk of autonomous AI-driven attacks…
2026 Cyber Hygiene Report: The Security Tools Are There. The Habits Still Need Work.
Cybersecurity technology continues to improve, but one of the biggest security challenges facing organizations remains surprisingly familiar: human behavior. WatchGuard’s 2026 Cyber Hygiene Report, based on responses from employees at small and midsized businesses across the United States, Europe…
Ransomware Tracker (Entry #356): JADEPUFFER
JADEPUFFER is the name of the agentic threat actor (ATA) that exploited a vulnerability in an Internet-facing Langflow instance ( CVE-2025-3248) and, without human intervention, gained persistence, enumerated a victim's systems, and deployed ransomware across the network. It was first reported on…
CISA Incident Lessons, Amazon Q Flaw, and Giga Wiper
In Episode 378 of The 443 Security Simplified, Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner examine lessons from a recent CISA security incident, a vulnerability affecting the Amazon Q Developer extension for Visual Studio Code, and Microsoft research into a destructive malware platform known as Giga Wiper…
The Spec Is Back, But Nobody Told Security
What happens when AI makes Waterfall agile? A few weeks ago, I was sitting with one of our engineering VPs while he walked me through his workflow in Cursor. Before writing a single line of code, he spent a meaningful amount of time using Cursor to craft a feature specification, a detailed natural…
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U.S. Treasury Lifts Sanctions on Three Individuals Linked to Intellexa and Predator Spyware
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday removed three individuals linked to the Intellexa Consortium, the holding company behind a commercial spyware known as Predator , from the specially designated nationals list. The names of the individuals are as follows - Merom Harpaz Andrea Nicola Constantino Hermes Gambazzi Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou Hamou was sanctioned by OFAC in March 2024, and Harpaz and Gambazzi were targeted in September 2024 in connection with developing, operating, and distributing Predator. It's currently not known why they were removed from the list. Harpaz is said to be working as a manager of Intellexa S.A., while Gambazzi was identified as the owner of Thalestris Limited and Intellexa Limited. Thalestris, Treasury Department said, held the distribution rights to the spyware, and processed transactions on behalf of other entities within the Intellexa Consortium. It's also the parent company...
IBM Warns of Critical API Connect Bug Allowing Remote Authentication Bypass
IBM has disclosed details of a critical security flaw in API Connect that could allow attackers to gain remote access to the application. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-13915 , is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as an authentication bypass flaw. "IBM API Connect could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication mechanisms and gain unauthorized access to the application," the tech giant said in a bulletin. The shortcoming affects the following versions of IBM API Connect - 10.0.8.0 through 10.0.8.5 10.0.11.0 Customers are advised to follow the steps outlined below - Download the fix from Fix Central Extract the files: Readme.md and ibm-apiconnect-<version>-ifix.13195.tar.gz Apply the fix based on the appropriate API Connect version "Customers unable to install the interim fix should disable self-service sign-up on their Developer Portal if enabled, which will help minimise their exp...
Researchers Spot Modified Shai-Hulud Worm Testing Payload on npm Registry
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what appears to be a new strain of Shai Hulud on the npm registry with slight modifications from the previous wave observed last month. The npm package that embeds the novel Shai Hulud strain is " @vietmoney/react-big-calendar ," which was uploaded to npm back in March 2021 by a user named "hoquocdat." It was updated for the first time on December 28, 2025, to version 0.26.2. The package has been downloaded 698 times since its initial publication. The latest version has been downloaded 197 times. Aikido, which spotted the package, said it has not spotted any major spread or infections following the release of the package. "This suggests we may have caught the attackers testing their payload," security researcher Charlie Eriksen said . "The differences in the code suggests that this was obfuscated again from the original source, not modified in place. This makes it highly unlikely to be a copy-ca...
Trust Wallet Chrome Extension Hack Drains $8.5M via Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack
Trust Wallet on Tuesday revealed that the second iteration of the Shai-Hulud (aka Sha1-Hulud) supply chain outbreak in November 2025 was likely responsible for the hack of its Google Chrome extension, ultimately resulting in the theft of approximately $8.5 million in assets. "Our Developer GitHub secrets were exposed in the attack, which gave the attacker access to our browser extension source code and the Chrome Web Store (CWS) API key," the company said in a post-mortem published Tuesday. "The attacker obtained full CWS API access via the leaked key, allowing builds to be uploaded directly without Trust Wallet's standard release process, which requires internal approval/manual review." Subsequently, the attacker is said to have registered the domain "metrics-trustwallet[.]com" and pushed a trojanized version of the extension with a backdoor that's capable of harvesting users' wallet mnemonic phrases to the sub-domain "api.metrics-...
DarkSpectre Browser Extension Campaigns Exposed After Impacting 8.8 Million Users Worldwide
The threat actor behind two malicious browser extension campaigns, ShadyPanda and GhostPoster , has been attributed to a third attack campaign codenamed DarkSpectre that has impacted 2.2 million users of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox. The activity is assessed to be the work of a Chinese threat actor that Koi Security is tracking under the moniker DarkSpectre . In all, the campaigns have collectively affected over 8.8 million users spanning a period of more than seven years. ShadyPanda was first unmasked by the cybersecurity company earlier this month as targeting all three browser users to facilitate data theft, search query hijacking, and affiliate fraud. It has been found to affect 5.6 million users, including 1.3 newly identified victims stemming from over 100 extensions flagged as connected to the same cluster. This also includes an Edge add-on named "New Tab - Customized Dashboard" that features a logic bomb that waits for three days prior to t...
CSA Issues Alert on Critical SmarterMail Bug Allowing Remote Code Execution
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has issued a bulletin warning of a maximum-severity security flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail email software that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-52691 , carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It relates to a case of arbitrary file upload that could enable code execution without requiring any authentication. "Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to upload arbitrary files to any location on the mail server, potentially enabling remote code execution," CSA said. Vulnerabilities of this kind allow the upload of dangerous file types that are automatically processed within an application's environment. This could pave the way for code execution if the uploaded file is interpreted and executed as code, as is the case with PHP files. In a hypothetical attack scenario, a bad actor could weaponize this vulnerability to place malici...
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Europäische Datenschützer fordern Prüfung des EU-US-Datentransferabkommens
Der Europäische Datenschutzausschuss (EDSA) hat die Europäische Kommission offiziell aufgefordert, eine rechtliche Überprüfung des EU-US-Datenschutzrahmens (DPF) einzuleiten. Denn der Einsatz von US-IT-Produkten mit Datentransfer in die USA basiert auf einem Angemessenheitsbeschluss der EU-Kommission. Dieser scheint aber hinfällig, da eine zentrale Basis entfallen ist. Erforderlich ist dies nach einem Urteil eines US-Supreme Court.
Stürzt der Microsoft Edge ab Version 151.x in Windows ab?
Blog-Leser haben auf ein Problem mit dem Microsoft Edge-Browser ab Version 151.x hingewiesen. In bisher nicht näher eingrenzbaren Szenarien stürzt der Browser unter diversen Windows-Versionen nach dem Start ab, während er in anderen Systemen weiter läuft.
Shaid Hulu: Neue Angriffe kompromittieren Hunderte npm-Pakete (4.8.2026)
Es gibt wohl eine neue Shaid Hulu-Angriffskampagne auf npm-Pakete. Nach dem Hack eines Entwicklerkontos sind wohl schon über 800 npm-Pakete mit Millionen Downloads kompromittiert. Die Information ist mit zum 4. August 2026 auf der Plattform X untergekommen.
cPanel-Schwachstelle CVE-2026-58048
In der Datenbankverwaltungsfunktion von cPanel & WHM besteht eine Sicherheitslücke CVE-2026-58048, die eine Rechteausweitung ermöglicht. Ein authentifizierter cPanel-Kontoinhaber mit Zugriff auf die MySQL/MariaDB-Datenbankfunktion könnte potenziell beliebige Datenbankbefehle mit vollen Administratorrechten ausführen.
Exchange: Writeback für cloudverwaltete Remote-Postfächer verfügbar
Microsoft hat die im Mai 2026 als Preview veröffentlichte Funktion eines Writeback für cloudverwaltete Remote-Postfächer nach umfangreichem Feedback durch Kunden allgemein freigegeben. "Writeback" ist in WW-, GCCH-, DoD- und 21Vianet-Umgebungen verfügbar und unterstützt bis zu 600.000 cloudverwaltete Postfächer pro Tenant.
EU-Cybersecurity-Pflichten für Hersteller & Betriebe – Hands-on
Auf Hersteller und Unternehmen in Europa kommen in den nächsten Wochen und Monaten (z.B. ab 11.09.2026) einige Cybersecurity-Pflichten zu, die EU-weit geregelt sind. NIS-2, Cyber Resilience Act und Maschinenverordnung. Mir hat der Betreiber einer entsprechenden Infoseite einige Informationen zukommen lassen. Ich nutze die Gelegenheit, einen kuren Überblick über die Sachlage zu geben.