Generative AI is spreading across enterprise workflows, shaping how employees create, share, and move information between systems. Security teams are working to understand where data ends up, who can access it, and how its use reshapes security assumptions. This article…
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Budding infosec pros and aspiring cyber crooks targeted with fake PoC exploits
Malware peddlers are targeting infosec enthusiasts, budding security professionals, and aspiring hackers with the Webrat malware, masquerading the threat as proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for known vulnerabilities. Delivering the malware The recently uncovered Webrat can steal data from Telegram, Discord and…
Firewalla expands AP7 control and MSP management with app 1.67 update
Firewalla has announced Firewalla App version 1.67, a major upgrade that focuses on enterprise-grade Wi-Fi security, deeper access point control, and more flexible management for MSPs, small businesses, and advanced home users. The new release features expanded support for Enterprise…
Weak enforcement keeps PCI DSS compliance low
Payment card breaches continue to surface across industries, even after years of investment in security standards. A new study links this pattern to enforcement, showing that PCI DSS compliance trails behind HIPAA, GDPR, and the EU’s NIS2 Directive. A compliance…
Formal proofs expose long standing cracks in DNSSEC
DNSSEC is meant to stop attackers from tampering with DNS answers. It signs records so resolvers can verify that data is authentic and unchanged. Many security teams assume that if DNSSEC validation passes, the answer can be trusted. New academic…
Cloud security is stuck in slow motion
Cloud environments are moving faster than the systems meant to protect them. A new Palo Alto Networks study shows security teams struggling to keep up with development cycles, growing cloud sprawl, and attacker tactics that now compress breaches into minutes…
AI code looks fine until the review starts
Software teams have spent the past year sorting through a rising volume of pull requests generated with help from AI coding tools. New research puts numbers behind what many reviewers have been seeing during work. The research comes from CodeRabbit…
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WatchGuard Firebox firewalls under attack (CVE-2025-14733)
More than 115,000 internet-facing WatchGuard Firebox firewalls may be vulnerable to compromise via CVE-2025-14733, a remote code execution vulnerability actively targeted by attackers, Shadowserver’s latest scanning reveals. About CVE-2025-14733 WatchGuard Firebox firewalls, which also incorporate VPN and unified threat management…
DIG AI: Uncensored darknet AI assistant at the service of criminals and terrorists
Resecurity has identified the emergence of uncensored darknet AI assistants, enabling threat actors to leverage advanced data processing capabilities for malicious purposes. One of these – DIG AI – was identified on September 29 of this year and has already…
574 arrests, $3 million recovered in Africa-wide cybercrime crackdown
Law enforcement agencies across 19 countries arrested 574 suspects and recovered approximately $3 million during a major cybercrime operation spanning Africa. Suspects were arrested in Ghana in connection to the cyber-fraud case, with over 100 digital devices seized. (Source: Europol)…
Docker makes hardened images free open and transparent for everyone
Docker has made its open source Docker Hardened Images project available at no cost for every developer and organization. The catalog contains more than 1,000 container images built on open source distributions such as Debian and Alpine and is released…
Browser agents don’t always respect your privacy choices
Browser agents promise to handle online tasks without constant user input. They can shop, book reservations, and manage accounts by driving a web browser through an AI model. A new academic study warns that this convenience comes with privacy risks…
Building cyber talent through competition, residency, and real-world immersion
In this Help Net Security interview, Chrisma Jackson, Director of Cybersecurity & Mission Computing Center and CISO at Sandia National Laboratories, reflects on where the cyber talent pipeline breaks down and what it takes to fix it. She discusses skill…
Anubis: Open-source web AI firewall to protect from scraper bots
Anubis is an open-source tool designed to protect websites from automated scraping and abusive traffic by adding computational friction before a request is served. Maintained by TecharoHQ, the project targets a growing problem for site operators who want to keep…
Session tokens give attackers a shortcut around MFA
In this Help Net Security video, Simon Wijckmans, CEO at cside, discusses why session token theft is rising and why security teams miss it. He walks through how web applications rely on browsers to store session tokens after login often…
NIST issues guidance on securing smart speakers
Smart home devices, such as voice-activated digital assistants, are increasingly used in home health care, with risks involved. An attacker could change a prescription, steal medical data, or connect a patient to an impostor. To reduce cybersecurity risks tied to…
Week in review: Exploited zero-day in Cisco email security appliances, Kali Linux 2025.4 released
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: How researchers are teaching AI agents to ask for permission the right way People are starting to hand more decisions to AI agents, from booking…
LLMs work better together in smart contract audits
Smart contract bugs continue to drain real money from blockchain systems, even after years of tooling and research. A new academic study suggests that large language models can spot more of those flaws when they work in coordinated groups instead…
AI isn’t one system, and your threat model shouldn’t be either
In this Help Net Security interview, Naor Penso, CISO at Cerebras Systems, explains how to threat model modern AI stacks without treating them as a single risk. He discusses why partitioning AI systems by function and impact matters, how to…