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Author, Creator & Presenter: Kendra Albert, Albert Sellars LLP

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“You pervert, I recorded you!” sextortion emails include real passwords harvested from public temporary email inboxes.

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Cybersecurity teams today face a relentless wave of cyber threats. Organizations must defend their networks, endpoints, cloud systems, and data from sophisticated attacks such as ransomware, phishing campaigns, insider threats, and advanced persistent threats. However, modern IT environments are highly complex, and security teams are often overwhelmed by thousands of alerts generated by different security

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From ransomware and insider threats to advanced persistent attacks, the complexity and scale of cyber risks are growing faster than traditional security operations can handle. Security teams are overwhelmed by millions of alerts, fragmented tools, and limited human resources. This is where a cybersecurity automation platform becomes essential. A cybersecurity automation platform uses artificial intelligence,

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Scammers are targeting Americans with robocalls during tax season. Here’s how to spot the scam.

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How Can Non-Human Identities Transform AI-Driven Cloud Security? Have you ever pondered the pivotal role machine identities, or Non-Human Identities (NHIs), play in enhancing AI-driven cloud security and data protection? With technology evolves, the intersection between cybersecurity and artificial intelligence becomes increasingly critical. NHIs are often the unsung heroes in securing the cloud environment, ensuring […]

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Are Enterprises Overlooking the Risk Posed by Non-Human Identities? When organizations increasingly migrate their operations to the cloud, a critical element often slips under the radar: Non-Human Identities (NHIs). Despite their importance, the management and security of these machine identities tend to remain overshadowed by human-centric cybersecurity measures. This can result in significant security gaps, […]

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The Role of Non-Human Identities in Enhancing Enterprise Security How do organizations maintain trust in technology where machine interactions are increasingly prevalent? Non-human identities (NHIs) play a pivotal role in keeping systems secure and efficient. For enterprises utilizing advanced AI measures, understanding and managing these identities is crucial for ensuring a resilient cybersecurity framework. Understanding […]

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Ransomware Group AtomSilo Returns After 5 Year Absence

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This is my completely informal, uncertified, unreviewed and otherwise completely unofficial blog inspired by my reading of our next Cloud Threat Horizons Report, #13 (full version, no info to enter!) that we just released (the official blog for #1 report, my unofficial blogs for #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11 and #12).

My favorite quotes from the report follow below:

• [in Google Cloud] “software exploitation overtook credentials as the primary initial access vector for the first time.” and “Threat actors exploited third-party software-based entry (44.5%) more frequently than weak credentials.” [A.C. — some of you may say this is because AI is making more zero days, but a dozen more mundane answers may be correct instead]

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• “While threat actors continued to use brute-force attacks against weak credentials, the increase in RCE represents a pivot toward more automated exploitation of unpatched application-layer vulnerabilities.” [A.C. — to some extent “creds or vulns” debate is rather pointless as the real answer is “both”, and it varies by environment too, see below]
• “Threat actors continued to transition from traditional phishing to voice-based social engineering (vishing), and credential harvesting from third-party SaaS tokens to facilitate large-scale, silent data exfiltration.” [A.C. — again, this means “AND” not “OR” because classic phishing still works well in many cases, but yes “credential harvesting from third-party SaaS” has become very fruitful too]
• [overall] Still “Identity compromise underpinned 83% of compromises. [A.C. — so, yes, “creds” still beat “vulns” on many environments]

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• “High-volume data theft operations — executed through compromised but legitimate access channels — remained the primary goal for threat actors, with our metrics showing they targeted data in 73% of cloud-related incidents.” [A.C. — again, not new, but very useful data confirming the running trend. Beware!]
• “The window between vulnerability disclosure and mass exploitation collapsed by an order of magnitude, from weeks to days.” [A.C. — again, some of you may see the invisible robot hand of an AI here, but, as usual, the reality is more complicated…]
• “Trend analysis from 2008–2025 indicates cloud services will soon surpass email as the primary data exfiltration pathway.” [A.C. — $32B reasons to finally get serious about it across all clouds?]
• “45% of intrusions resulted in data theft without immediate extortion attempts at the time of the engagement, and these were often characterized by prolonged dwell times and stealthy persistence.”
• “The traditional incident response model is no longer viable when dealing with containerized workloads and serverless architectures where data can vanish in seconds.” [A.C. — a very useful reminder here! Cloud is cloudy! Don’t be that guy who thinks that cloud is a rented colo. Cloud is not JUST somebody else’s computer.]
• “Threat actors used large language models (LLM) to automate credential harvesting and transition from a developer’s local environment to full cloud administration access.” [A.C. — this really should not be news for anybody in 2026, but if it is, HERE IS SOME NEWS: BAD GUYS USE AI!]
• Thus “Prevent LLM exploitation as an extension of living-off-the-land (LOTL) by treating LLM activity with the same scrutiny as administrative command-line tools.” [A.C. — or, as I say, “with AI agents, every prompt injection is an RCE”]

Now, go and read the CTHR 13 report!

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Author, Creator & Presenter: Adam Shostack, Shostack + Associates

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2. 75Important
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Microsoft addresses 83 CVEs including two vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed prior to a patch being released.

Microsoft patched 83 CVEs in its March 2026 Patch Tuesday release, with eight rated critical and 75 rated as important. Our counts omitted one CVE (CVE-2026-26030) assigned by GitHub.

This month’s update includes patches for:

• .NET
• ASP.NET Core
• Active Directory Domain Services
• Azure Arc
• Azure Compute Gallery
• Azure Entra ID
• Azure IoT Explorer
• Azure Linux Virtual Machines
• Azure MCP Server
• Azure Portal Windows Admin Center
• Azure Windows Virtual Machine Agent
• Broadcast DVR
• Connected Devices Platform Service (Cdpsvc)
• Microsoft Authenticator
• Microsoft Brokering File System
• Microsoft Devices Pricing Program
• Microsoft Graphics Component
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Office Excel
• Microsoft Office SharePoint
• Payment Orchestrator Service
• Push Message Routing Service
• Role: Windows Hyper-V
• SQL Server
• System Center Operations Manager
• Windows Accessibility Infrastructure (ATBroker.exe)
• Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock
• Windows App Installer
• Windows Authentication Methods
• Windows Bluetooth RFCOM Protocol Driver
• Windows DWM Core Library
• Windows Device Association Service
• Windows Extensible File Allocation
• Windows File Server
• Windows GDI
• Windows GDI+
• Windows Kerberos
• Windows Kernel
• Windows MapUrlToZone
• Windows Mobile Broadband
• Windows NTFS
• Windows Performance Counters
• Windows Print Spooler Components
• Windows Projected File System
• Windows Resilient File System (ReFS)
• Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)
• Windows SMB Server
• Windows Shell Link Processing
• Windows System Image Manager
• Windows Telephony Service
• Windows Universal Disk Format File System Driver (UDFS)
• Windows Win32K
• Winlogon

Elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities accounted for 55.4% of the vulnerabilities patched this month, followed by remote code execution (RCE)vulnerabilities at 20.5%.

Important CVE-2026-21262, CVE-2026-26115 and CVE-2026-26116 | SQL Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2026-21262, CVE-2026-26115 and CVE-2026-26116 are EoP vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft SQL Server. Each of these flaws received a CVSSv3 score of 8.8 and were rated as important. While each of these were assessed as “Exploitation Less Likely” according to Microsoft’s Exploitability Index, CVE-2026-21262 was publicly disclosed as a zero-day. While no exploitation has been reported by Microsoft, a successful exploit of any one of these three flaws would result in an attacker gaining SQL sysadmin privileges.

Important CVE-2026-26127 |.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2026-26127 is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability affecting.NET 9.0 and 10.0 on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. It received a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 and was rated as important. According to Microsoft, this vulnerability was publicly disclosed prior to patches being made available. Although it was publicly disclosed, Microsoft assesses that exploitation is unlikely for this DoS vulnerability.

.NET updates this month also include patches to address CVE-2026-26131, an important severity EoP vulnerability for.NET 10 installations on Linux.

Important CVE-2026-24287, CVE-2026-24289 and CVE-2026-26132 | Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2026-24287, CVE-2026-24289 and CVE-2026-26132 are EoP vulnerabilities in the Windows Kernel. Each was assigned CVSSv3 scores of 7.8 and rated important. A local, authenticated attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities in order to gain SYSTEM privileges. While Microsoft reports no evidence of exploitation, it did assess CVE-2026-24289 and CVE-2026-26132 as “Exploitation More Likely.” Including these three CVEs, six EoPs affecting Windows Kernel have been patched so far in 2026.

Important CVE-2026-26118 | Azure MCP Server Tools Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2026-26118 is an EoP vulnerability in Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted input to a vulnerable Azure MCP Server that accepts user-provided parameters. Successful exploitation would grant an attacker to elevate privileges using an obtained managed identity token.

MCP, an open standard introduced in 2024 by Anthropic, is used to allow large language models (LLMs) to connect to external data and tools. For more information on MCP, please check out our FAQ blog on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Integrating with AI for Agentic Applications as well Tenable Research’s AI Security blog examining web flaws in MCP servers.

Critical CVE-2026-26110 and CVE-2026-26113 | Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2026-26110 and CVE-2026-26113 are RCE vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Office. Both received CVSSv3 scores of 8.4 and were rated as critical. A local, unauthenticated attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to achieve local code execution. Microsoft notes that the preview pane is an attack vector for these flaws and both CVEs were assessed as “Exploitation Less Likely.”

Tenable Solutions

A list of all the plugins released for Microsoft’s March 2026 Patch Tuesday update can be found here. As always, we recommend patching systems as soon as possible and regularly scanning your environment to identify those systems yet to be patched.

For more specific guidance on best practices for vulnerability assessments, please refer to our blog post on How to Perform Efficient Vulnerability Assessments with Tenable.

Get more information

• Microsoft's March 2026 Security Updates
• Tenable plugins for Microsoft March 2026 Patch Tuesday Security Updates

Join Tenable's Research Special Operations (RSO) Team on Tenable Connect for further discussions on the latest cyber threats.

Learn more about Tenable One, the Exposure Management Platform for the modern attack surface.

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Google knows a lot about you. Here's how to check your Google Search history and how to prevent future tracking.

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Organizations often prioritize patching vulnerabilities based on severity scores, assuming that lower-rated issues pose limited risk. In practice, attackers frequently exploit vulnerabilities that remain unpatched in real environments, regardless of their official severity rating. New reporting from The Hacker News highlights that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added multiple vulnerabilities affecting products

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Critical infrastructure organizations continue to face sustained pressure from nation-state cyber operations. Airports, financial institutions, and software companies represent high-value targets because of the operational and economic disruption that a successful intrusion can create. New reporting from SecurityWeek details how an Iranian advanced persistent threat group conducted cyber intrusions against organizations, including a U.S. airport,

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In the evolving digital economy, adopting a prevention-first strategy for cloud workflows is essential. This article explores the importance of preemptive security measures to protect sensitive operations from breaches, detailing steps for organizations to enhance their security posture.

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AI makes it easy to find executive PII online. Security teams must reduce digital exposure before attackers use AI to surface sensitive data.

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AI is embedded in security tools across the enterprise. MIND is the first data security company to answer how their AI is governed, audited and held accountable.

The AI tools built into your security stack are making decisions at a scale no human team can match. They're classifying data, scoring risk, triggering enforcement and shaping your program's posture without a line of policy being manually written. That's the promise of AI-powered security. But it also raises a question most vendors haven't been willing to answer: how do you know the AI doing that work is governed responsibly?

ISO 42001 is the answer the industry has been building toward. Published by the International Organization for Standardization in December 2023, it's the world's first international standard for AI management systems. It doesn't certify a product. It certifies that an organization's approach to developing and deploying AI, including the policies, controls, risk assessments and oversight mechanisms in place, meets a globally recognized standard.

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What ISO 42001 actually requires

This isn't a checkbox audit. Certification under ISO 42001 requires an independent third-party assessment across 38 distinct controls organized into nine areas: data governance, model development, operations, security, ethics, accountability, transparency, incident response and continuous improvement. Every AI system MIND deploys has been evaluated for how it handles data quality and lineage, how it approaches adversarial testing, how it responds to incidents and how it maintains transparency with the organizations that rely on it.

The standard also requires continuous improvement. This isn't a milestone you reach and file away. It's a framework that evolves alongside the AI itself, with ongoing monitoring, documentation and governance cycles built into how we operate. That's a meaningful commitment, and one that most AI-powered vendors in this space have not made.

Why being first in data security matters

Not all AI carries the same risk. A recommendation algorithm that misclassifies a product is inconvenient. An AI system that misclassifies sensitive data in your environment, or generates false positives that erode analyst trust, has real consequences: regulatory exposure, missed incidents and the slow erosion of confidence in the program itself.

Data security tools operate on the most sensitive information in the enterprise. Intellectual property, customer records, regulated data, the files that could become a breach headline if they reach the wrong destination. The AI that governs how that data is discovered, classified and protected needs to be held to a higher standard than tools operating in lower-stakes contexts.

Achieving ISO 42001 first in data security isn't symbolic. It reflects what we believe responsible AI in this space should look like, and it sets a bar we'd encourage the rest of the industry to meet.

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What this means for your program

For security leaders managing risk and reporting to leadership, this certification changes a specific conversation. When you're asked how the AI in your security stack is governed, what it's been audited against and who holds it accountable, ISO 42001 gives you a clear and verifiable answer. Not a vendor's word for it. An independent third-party assessment against an internationally recognized standard.

We've seen how the absence of AI governance frameworks creates friction, not just internally, but with auditors, regulators and boards who are increasingly asking these questions. The certification doesn't just reflect MIND's commitment to responsible AI. It gives the security leaders who rely on us something concrete to stand behind in those conversations.

That's what Stress-Free DLP looks like in 2026: not just automation that works, but automation you can trust, explain and defend. If you're ready to see how MIND's certified platform fits into your data security program, we'd be glad to show you.

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When using a hardware token-based certificate, it is important to download and install the SafeNet Authentication Client to sign the certificate of Sectigo code signatures. I have installed this several times in the case of developers and organizations, and one thing never fails: your code signing certificate will not work unless you have installed the… Read More How to Download and Install SafeNet Authentication Client for Sectigo Code Signing Certificates?

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