Between June 2024 and December 2025, Fortra analysts tracked a persistent business email compromise (BEC) operation that we have now classified as Scripted Sparrow. The group carries out well-crafted highly targeted phishing campaigns that masquerade as professional services firms to…
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Apiiro unveils AI SAST built on deep code analysis to eliminate false positives
Apiiro introduced Apiiro AI SAST, a new approach to static application security testing (SAST) that automates code risk detection, validation and fixes with the precision and cognitive process of an expert application security engineer. Grounded in Apiiro’s patented Deep Code…
Microsoft 365 users targeted in device code phishing attacks
Attackers are targeting Microsoft 365 users with device code authorization phishing, a technique that fools users into approving access tokens, Proofpoint warns. The method abuses Microsoft’s OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant flow by presenting users with device codes that, when…
AppGate extends zero trust to secure AI workloads with Agentic AI Core Protection
AppGate announced the launch of Agentic AI Core Protection, a new capability within AppGate ZTNA designed to secure AI workloads deployed in enterprise core environments across on-prem and cloud venues. This innovation enables organizations to embrace AI-driven transformation while maintaining…
More than half of public vulnerabilities bypass leading WAFs
Miggo Security has released a new report that examines how web application firewalls are used across real-world security programs. The research outlines the role WAFs play as foundational infrastructure and evaluates their effectiveness against critical vulnerabilities, CVEs, and AI-driven threats.…
Group Policy abuse reveals China-aligned espionage group targeting governments
ESET Research has identified a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat group that uses Windows Group Policy to deploy malware and move through victim networks. The group, tracked as LongNosedGoblin, has targeted government institutions in Southeast Asia and Japan with…
Concentric AI expands Private Scan Manager with Azure support for regulated industries
Concentric AI announced expanded Private Scan Manager functionality in its Semantic Intelligence data security governance platform. Customers now have the ability to deploy Semantic Intelligence within their own private Microsoft Azure cloud. This follows an announcement earlier this year where…
Push Security detects and blocks malicious copy-and-paste activity
Push Security announced the release of a new feature designed to tackle one of the fastest-growing cyber threats: ClickFix-style attacks. The company’s latest innovation, malicious copy-and-paste detection, blocks users from copying malicious scripts in their web browser, preventing them from…
The soft underbelly of space isn’t in orbit, it’s on the ground
In this Help Net Security interview, Øystein Thorvaldsen, CISO at KSAT, discusses how adversaries view the ground segment as the practical way to reach space systems and why stations remain a focal point for security efforts. He notes that many…
Privacy risks sit inside the ads that fill your social media feed
Regulatory limits on explicit targeting have not stopped algorithmic profiling on the web. Ad optimization systems still adapt which ads appear based on users’ private attributes. At the same time, multimodal LLMs have lowered the barrier for turning these hidden…
What cybersecurity leaders are reading to stay ahead
If you’re looking for holiday gift ideas, books remain one of the simplest ways to spark curiosity and support someone’s growth. Whether the person on your list is exploring cybersecurity, AI, engineering, or career development, these titles offer something useful…
Should AI access be treated as a civil right across generations?
AI use is expanding faster than the infrastructure that supports it, and that gap is starting to matter for security, resilience, and access. A new position paper argues that access to AI should be treated as an intergenerational civil right,…
Cisco email security appliances rooted and backdoored via still unpatched zero-day
A suspected Chinese-nexus threat group has been compromising Cisco email security devices and planting backdoors and log-purging tools on them since at least late November 2025, Cisco Talos researchers have shared. “Our analysis indicates that appliances with non-standard configurations (…)…
Actively exploited SonicWall zero-day patched (CVE-2025-40602)
SonicWall has patched a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-40602) affecting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances and is urging customers to apply the provided hotfix, as the flaw is being leveraged by attackers. “This vulnerability was reported to be…
Attackers are exploiting auth bypass vulnerability on FortiGate firewalls (CVE-2025-59718)
Attackers are exploiting a recently revealed vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to bypass authentication on Fortinet’s FortiGate firewalls, and are leveraging the achieved access to export their system configuration files, Arctic Wolf researchers warned on Tuesday. Configuration files can expose information about the…
XM Cyber bridges external attack surface management with validated internal attack paths
XM Cyber announced an update to its platform that connects External Attack Surface Management with internal risk validation, closing the gap between what’s exposed outside and what exists inside. By bridging these two worlds, XM Cyber now allows security teams…
Trellix advances NDR to close the OT-IT threat detection-to-response gap
Trellix announced Trellix NDR innovations, strengthening OT-IT security with integrated visibility across complex environments, enhanced detection capabilities, and automated investigation and response to reduce the threat detection-to-response gap. “We know cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the OT-IT boundary, where threats can…
Vectra AI redefines hybrid resilience across the attack lifecycle
Vectra AI redefines hybrid attack resilience across the full attack lifecycle by unifying controls pre-and-post compromise within the Vectra AI Platform. Vectra AI’s control philosophy empowers defenders with continuous control through proactive threat exposure management, 360 degree response, and posture…
Hadrian launches offensive agentic AI to expose vulnerabilities before attackers
Hadrian launched the latest iteration of its offensive Agentic AI Platform, designed to take an offensive approach to find external exposures and test them for exploitability. Instead of waiting for attacks to happen, Hadrian’s AI agents act like hackers themselves,…
Why vulnerability reports stall inside shared hosting companies
Security teams keep sending vulnerability notifications, and the same pattern keeps repeating. Many alerts land, few lead to fixes. A new qualitative study digs into what happens after those reports arrive and explains why remediation so often stops short. The…