Tag: Help Net Security

When trusted AI connections turn hostile

Researchers have revealed a new security blind spot in how LLM applications connect to external systems. Their study shows that malicious Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers can quietly take control of hosts, manipulate LLM behavior, and deceive users, all while…

The password problem we keep pretending to fix

Experts across industries say they are still losing ground against identity-related breaches, even after years of investment in stronger access controls, according to RSA. Many said their organizations had faced at least one identity-related breach in recent years, and most…

ImmuniWeb Expands discovery with ASM and Dark web packages

On top of several new free tools launched during the summer, ImmuniWeb released over 500 updates, improvements, new features, and integrations across all our products in Q3, including ImmuniWeb On-Demand, ImmuniWeb MobileSuite, ImmuniWeb Continuous, ImmuniWeb Neuron, ImmuniWeb Neuron Mobile, and…

Microsoft patches three zero-days actively exploited by attackers

On October 2025 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released fixes for 175+ vulnerabilities, including three zero-days under active attack: CVE-2025-24990, CVE-2025-59230, and CVE-2025-47827. The actively exploited vulnerabilities are an unusual mix CVE-2025-24990 is in the third-party driver (ltmdm64.sys) for the software-based Agere…