Zscaler's acquisition of SquareX comes as competitors like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks are also investing in secure browser technologies.

Threat actors are exploiting security gaps to weaponize Windows drivers and terminate security processes in targeted networks, and there may be no easy fixes in sight.

Espionage groups from China, Russia and other nations burned at least two dozen zero-days in edge devices in attempts to infiltrate defense contractors' networks.

As AI deployments scale and start to include packs of agents autonomously working in concert, organizations face a naturally amplified attack surface.

It's time to phase out the "patch and pray" approach, eliminate needless public interfaces, and enforce authentication controls, one expert says.

The AI-powered product delivers expert-grade malware analysis and reverse engineering in minutes.

Drawing on years of adversary tradecraft, SpecterOps experts work alongside customers to analyze and eliminate attack paths, protect critical assets, and stay ahead of emerging threats.

Men should take extra care on Valentine’s Day because they are nearly twice as likely as women to fall victim to romance scams.

Microsoft uncovered AI recommendation poisoning in 31 companies across 14 industries, and turnkey tools make it trivially easy to pull off.

Green Blood Group steals personal records and biometric data of the West African nation's nearly 20 million residents.

In moving away from traditional banks to focus on Web3 companies, the threat actor is leveraging LLMs, deepfakes, legitimate platforms, and ClickFix.

CISOs should focus on harnessing and securing AI and building new skills among their people. Vision and change management can transform security.

How a platform engineering team embeds supply chain security into infrastructure without slowing developers.

Organizations remain reluctant to address the fact that AI can dangerously expose business operations as well as personal data.

Organizations can improve their climate footprints by optimizing two specific cybersecurity protections, without incurring added risks.

Only Taiwan made the top 10 list of governments, effectively blocking the threat-ridden protocol, but overall, the region lagged in curbing Telnet traffic.

Organizations that have exposed their instances of Web Help Desk to the public Internet have inadvertently made them prime targets for attackers.

With access to SIM, location data, and a preview of recent SMSes, attackers have everything they need for account takeover or targeted social engineering.

Three of those zero-days are security feature bypass flaws, which give attackers a way to slip past built-in protections in multiple Microsoft products.

Ironically, security by obscurity has helped prevent dangerous OT attacks in recent years. It won't be that way forever.

The acquisition allows the credit reporting agency to add SMS spam and scam prevention to its robocall blocking capabilities.

Ask the Expert: Organizations need to close the ownership vacuum, establish durable security controls, and ensure printers are protected as rigorously as other endpoints.

The ransomware group breached SmarterTools through a vulnerability in the company's own SmarterMail product.

The threat actor has been compromising cloud environments at scale with automated worm-like attacks on exposed services and interfaces.

Researchers discovered a newly disclosed vulnerable driver embedded in Reynolds' ransomware, illustrating the increasing popularity of the defense-evasion technique.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging major technology companies to follow through on their promises to implement end-to-end encryption (E2E) by default across their services, as privacy concerns mount amid increased AI use.

Recent supply chain attacks involving self-propagating worms have spread far, but the damage and long-term impact is hard to quantify.

Malicious "skills" and persnickety configuration settings are just some of the issues that security researchers have found when installing — and removing — the OpenClaw AI assistant.

A disconnect exists between an organization's cybersecurity needs and lists like CISA's KEV Catalog. KEV Collider combines data from multiple open source vulnerability frameworks to help security teams quickly assess which are important, based on their priorities.

The forensic tool's driver was signed with a digital certificate that expired years ago, but major security gaps allowed Windows to load it.

Someone used AI to build an entire Web platform, which then did something predictable and preventable: It exposed all its data through a publicly accessible API.

Col. Georgeo Xavier Pulikkathara, CISO at iMerit, discusses the importance of fundamentals, continuous learning, and human ingenuity in the face of AI-driven cybersecurity evolution.

Iranian threat actors have been stealing credentials from people of interest across the Middle East, using spear-phishing and social engineering.

DragonForce is taking cues from organized crime, emphasizing cooperation and coordination among ransomware gangs.

A third of the "flipped" CVEs affected network edge devices, leading one researcher to conclude, "Ransomware operators are building playbooks around your perimeter."

By tapping the unusual .scr file type, attackers leverage "executables that don't always receive executable-level controls," one researcher noted.

Dark Reading has something new hitting the newsstand: a content section purpose-built for Latin American readers, featuring news, analysis, features, and multimedia.

A hacktivist group claims a 2.3-terabyte data breach exposes the information of 36 million Mexicans, but no sensitive accounts are at risk, says government.

Crowdsourced bug bounties and pen-testing firms see AI agents stealing the low-hanging vulnerabilities from their human counterparts. Oversight remains key.

Attackers could even have used one vulnerable Lookout user to gain access to other GCP tenants' environments.

APT28's attacks rely on specially crafted Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) documents to kick off a multistage infection chain to deliver malicious payloads.

The self-replicating malware has poisoned a fresh set of Open VSX software components, leaving potential downstream victims with infostealer infections.

The AI-assisted attack, which started with exposed credentials from public S3 buckets, rapidly achieved administrative privilges.

People trust organizations to do the right thing, but some websites and apps have user interfaces that ultimately lead to inadequate security.

A malware-free phishing campaign targets corporate inboxes and asks employees to view "request orders," ultimately leading to Dropbox credential theft.

Iowa police arrested two penetration testers in 2019 for doing their jobs, highlighting the risk to security professionals in red teaming exercises.

State-sponsored threat actors compromised the popular code editor's hosting provider to redirect targeted users to malicious downloads.

Following their attacks on Salesforce instances last year, members of the cybercrime group have broadened their targeting and gotten more aggressive with extortion tactics.

Investors poured $140 million into Torq's Series D Round, raising the startup's valuation to $1.2 billion, to bring AI-based "hyper automation" to SOCs.