But media reports described the attack as causing major disruption to PDVSA, the state-owned oil and natural gas company.

Amazon detailed a long-running campaign by Russia against critical infrastructure organizations, particularly in the energy sector.

Urban VPN Proxy, which claims to protect users' privacy, collects data from conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and other AI assistants.

Experts predict big changes are coming for IT infrastructure in 2026 driven by AI adoption, hybrid cloud strategies, and evolving security demands.

Managing general agents help insurers navigate sectors where they lack expertise. A cybersecurity policy written by an MGA is more likely to reflect an understanding of the risks CISOs deal with.

Two Apple zero-day vulnerabilities discovered this month have overlap with another mysterious zero-day flaw Google patched last week.

Etay Mayor, a cybersecurity strategist and professor, shares his journey, insights, and advice on breaking into the diverse and ever-evolving field of cybersecurity.

A new version of VolkLocker, wielded by the pro-Russia RaaS group CyberVolk, has some key enhancements but one fatal flaw.

Digital transformation has made cybersecurity preparation part of operational resilience for most organizations. This calls for a new relationship between CISOs and COOs.

As exploitation activity against CVE-2025-55182 ramps up, researchers are finding some proof-of-concept exploits contain bypasses for web application firewall (WAF) rules.

Unmanaged coding is indeed an alluring idea, but can introduce a host of significant cybersecurity dangers, Constantine warns.

The move aims to expand the use of Security Copilot and comes with the launch of 12 new agents from Microsoft at the company's Ignite conference last week.

At this week's Black Hat Europe conference, two researchers urged developers to adopt a shared responsibility model for open source software and not leave it all up to GitHub to handle.

The Trump administration appears to have dropped sanctions against Chinese actors for the Salt Typhoon attacks on US telecoms; but focusing on diplomacy alone misses the full picture, experts say.

Financial institutions must be proactive when identifying and preventing fraudulent activity. Here are five "mule personas" to watch for.

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Hamas's best hackers have been maturing, building better malware, and spreading their attacks more widely across the region.

Wiz disclosed a still-unpatched vulnerability in self-hosted Git service Gogs, which is a bypass for a previous RCE bug disclosed last year.

Using artificial intelligence in operational technology environments could be a bumpy ride full of trust issues and security challenges.

Microsoft puts the power of AI in the hands of everyday non-technical Joes. It's a nice idea, and a surefire recipe for security issues.

The initial access broker has been weaponizing endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms and Windows utilities in recent high-precision attacks.

A new twist on the social engineering tactic is making waves, combining SEO poisoning and legitimate AI domains to install malware on victims' computers.

So far the attacks, which compromise virtual network computing (VNC) connections in OT systems, have not been particularly destructive, but this could change as they evolve.

Ransomware actors have targeted manufacturers, retailers, and the Japanese government, with many organizations requiring months to recover.

Proof-of-concept exploit code is publicly available for two other flaws in this month's Patch Tuesday. In total, the company issued patches for more than 1,150 flaws this year.

Shanya is the latest in an emerging field of packing malware, selling obfuscation functionality in order to help ransomware actors reach their target.

Think "Blade Runner," but the robots can be hacked more easily than your home computer.

Google has fixed a critical vulnerability that enabled attackers to add malicious instructions to common documents to exfiltrate sensitive corporate information.

The Apache Software Foundation's earlier fix for a critical Tika flaw missed the full scope of the vulnerability, prompting an updated advisory and CVE.

Attacks against CVE-2025-55182, which began almost immediately after public disclosure last week, have increased as more threat actors take advantage of the flaw.

The US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network shared data showing how dramatically ransomware attacks have changed over time.

"Broadside" is targeting a critical flaw in DVR systems to conduct command injection attacks, which can hijack devices to achieve persistence and move laterally.

Software teams at Google and other Rust adopters see safer code when using the memory-safe language, as well as fewer rollbacks and less code review.

When hiring a CISO, understand the key difference between engineering and holistic security leaders.

Remember when Apple put that U2 album in everyone's music libraries? India wanted to do that to all of its citizens, but with a cybersecurity app. It wasn't a good idea.

A maximum-severity vulnerability affecting the React JavaScript library has been exploited in the wild, further stressing the need to patch now.

Manufacturers are the top target for cyberattacks in 2025 because of their still-plentiful cybersecurity gaps and a lack of expertise.

As quantum quietly moves beyond lab experiment and into production workflows, here's what enterprise security leaders should be focused on, according to Lineswala.

Transurban head of cyber defense Muhammad Ali Paracha shares how his team is automating the triaging and scoring of security threats as part of the Black Hat Middle East conference.

State-sponsored actors tied to China continue to target VMware vSphere environments at government and technology organizations.

Global cybersecurity agencies published guidance regarding AI deployments in operational technology, a backbone of critical infrastructure.

The deal, believed to be valued at $1 billion, will bring nonhuman identity access control of agents and machines to ServiceNow's offerings, including its new AI Control Tower.

It's the best deal going in cybercrime: fully compromised websites belonging to high-value organizations, for just a couple hundred bucks each.

Iran's top state-sponsored APT is usually rather crass. But in a recent spate of attacks, it tried out some interesting evasion tactics, including delving into Snake, an old-school mobile game.

The China-based cyber-threat group has been quietly using malicious extensions on the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge marketplaces to spy on millions of users.

The vulnerability, which was assigned two CVEs with maximum CVSS scores of 10, may affect more than a third of cloud service providers.

The suit alleges the Chinese retailer's app secretly accesses and harvests users' sensitive information without their knowledge or consent.

Ransomware groups target enterprises during off-hours, weekends, and holidays when security teams are stretched thin and response times lag.

Water Saci has upgraded its self-propagating malware to compromise banks and cryptocurrency exchanges by targeting enterprise users of the popular chat app.