Hackers Target SharePoint Flaw to Access IIS Machine Keys

Zero-day exploits against Microsoft SharePoint are enabling attackers to extract IIS machine keys, establishing persistent backdoors that survive patches and reboots. In mid-July 2025, threat actors began abusing two critical SharePoint vulnerabilities—CVE-2025-53770 (deserialization, CVSS 9.8) and CVE-2025-53771 (authentication bypass, CVSS 6.3)—in an attack…

Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity AI of Bypassing Firewalls with User-Agent Spoofing

Cloudflare has publicly accused Perplexity AI of employing deceptive crawling practices that violate established web crawling protocols and deliberately circumvent website protection mechanisms. The cybersecurity company has documented evidence of Perplexity using undisclosed user agents and rotating IP addresses to…