In a nod to the evolving threat landscape that comes with cloud computing and AI and the growing supply chain threats, Microsoft is broadening its bug bounty program to reward researchers who uncover threats to its users that come from third-party code, like commercial and open source software,

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Israeli cybersecurity firms raised $4.4B in 2025 as funding rounds jumped 46%. Record seed and Series A activity signals a maturing, globally dominant cyber ecosystem.

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OpenAI warns that frontier AI models could escalate cyber threats, including zero-day exploits. Defense-in-depth, monitoring, and AI security by design are now essential.

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The NCSC warns prompt injection is fundamentally different from SQL injection. Organizations must shift from prevention to impact reduction and defense-in-depth for LLM security.

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As they work to fend off the rapidly expanding number of attempts by threat actors to exploit the dangerous React2Shell vulnerability, security teams are learning of two new flaws in React Server Components that could lead to denial-of-service attacks or the exposure of source code.

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Bad actors that include nation-state groups to financially-motivated cybercriminals from across the globe are targeting the maximum-severity but easily exploitable React2Shell flaw, with threat researchers see everything from probes and backdoors to botnets and cryptominers.

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Alan breaks down why Israeli cybersecurity isn’t just booming—it’s entering a full-blown renaissance, with record funding, world-class talent, and breakout companies redefining the global cyber landscape.

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HP’s latest threat report reveals rising use of sophisticated social engineering, SVG-based attacks, fake software updates, and AI-enhanced malware as cybercriminals escalate tactics to evade detection.

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The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is building a taxonomy of attack and mitigations for securing artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Speaking at the AI Summit New York conference, Apostol Vassilev, a research team supervisor for NIST, told attendees that the arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce is working with industry partners..

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The cybersecurity world loves a simple solution to a complex problem, and Gartner delivered exactly that with its recent advisory: “Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future.” The esteemed analyst firm warns that agentic browsers—tools like Perplexity’s Comet and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas—pose too much risk for corporate use. While their caution makes sense given..

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OWASP unveils its GenAI Top 10 threats for agentic AI, plus new security and governance guides, risk maps, and a FinBot CTF tool to help organizations secure emerging AI agents.

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Noma Security today revealed it has discovered a vulnerability in the enterprise edition of Google Gemini that can be used to inject a malicious prompt that instructs an artificial intelligence (AI) application or agent to exfiltrate data. Dubbed GeminiJack, cybercriminals can use this vulnerability to embed a malicious prompt in, for example, a Google Doc..

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The exploitation efforts by China-nexus groups and other bad actors against the critical and easily abused React2Shell flaw in the popular React and Next.js software accelerated over the weekend, with threats ranging from stolen credentials and initial access to downloaders, crypto-mining, and the NoodleRat backdoor being executed.

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TransUnion today added an ability to create digital fingerprints without relying on cookies that identify, in real time, risky devices and other hidden anomalies to its Device Risk service for combatting fraud. Clint Lowry, vice president of global fraud solutions at TransUnion, said these capabilities extend a service that makes use of machine learning models..

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Nudge Security today extended the scope of its namesake security and governance platform to monitor sensitive data shared via uploads and integrations with an artificial intelligence (AI) service, in addition to now being able to identify individuals sharing that data by department or the specific tools used. In addition, Nudge Security is now making it..

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A critical React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) RCE flaw in React and Next.js is being actively exploited by China-nexus threat groups, prompting urgent patching and global mitigations.

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CISA and global partners issue new guidance for secure AI integration in operational technology, highlighting risks, governance, behavioral analytics, and OT safety.

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The Washington Post last month reported it was among a list of data breach victims of the Oracle EBS-related vulnerabilities, with a threat actor compromising the data of more than 9,700 former and current employees and contractors. Now, a former worker is launching a class-action lawsuit against the Post, claiming inadequate security.

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Chinese-sponsored groups are using the popular Brickstorm backdoor to access and gain persistence in government and tech firm networks, part of the ongoing effort by the PRC to establish long-term footholds in agency and critical infrastructure IT environments, according to a report by U.S. and Canadian security offices.

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ShadyPanda spent seven years uploading trusted Chrome and Edge extensions, later weaponizing them for tracking, hijacking, and remote code execution. Learn how the campaign unfolded.

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The BBB warns of a rising ghost-tap scam exploiting tap-to-pay cards and mobile wallets. How attackers use NFC proximity tricks.

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CrowdStrike deepens its AWS partnership with automated Falcon SIEM configuration, AI security capabilities, EventBridge integrations and new MSSP-focused advancements.

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Security and developer teams are scrambling to address a highly critical security flaw in frameworks tied to the popular React JavaScript library. Not only is the vulnerability, which also is in the Next.js framework, easy to exploit, but React is widely used, including in 39% of cloud environments.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week made an AWS Security Hub for analyzing cybersecurity data in near real time generally available, while at the same time extending the GuardDuty threat detection capabilities it provides to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Announced at the AWS re:Invent 2025..

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A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda exploited traditional extension processes in browser marketplaces by uploading legitimate extensions and then quietly weaponization them with malicious updates, infecting 4.3 million Chrome and Edge users with RCE malware and spyware.

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New data shows 90% of NEDs lack confidence in cybersecurity value. CISOs and CIOs must translate cyber risk into business impact.

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JPMorganChase’s $1.5T Security & Resiliency Initiative targets AI, cybersecurity, quantum and critical industries. Learn what this investment means for national and enterprise resilience.

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Cybersecurity startup Aisle discovered a subtle but dangerous coding error in a Firefox WebAssembly implementation sat undetected for six months despite being shipped with a regression testing capability created by Mozilla to find such a problem.

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ServiceNow Inc. announced on Tuesday plans to acquire Veza in a move aimed at fortifying security for identity and access management. The acquisition will integrate Veza’s technology into ServiceNow’s Security and Risk portfolios, helping organizations monitor and control access to critical data, applications, systems, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The deal comes as businesses increasingly..

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Organizations are racing to implement autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents across their operations, but a sweeping new study reveals they’re doing so without adequate security frameworks, creating what researchers call “the unsecured frontier of autonomous operations.” The research, released Tuesday by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), surveyed 271 IT, security, and identity and access management (IAM)..

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The Cybersecurity Coalition, an industry group of almost a dozen vendors, is urging the Trump Administration and Congress now that the government shutdown is over to take a number of steps to strengthen the country's cybersecurity posture as China, Russia, and other foreign adversaries accelerate their attacks.

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The FBI says that account takeover scams this year have resulted in 5,100-plus complaints in the U.S. and $262 million in money stolen, and Bitdefender says the combination of the growing number of ATO incidents and risky consumer behavior is creating an increasingly dangerous environment that will let such fraud expand.

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The Russian state-sponsored group behind the RomCom malware family used the SocGholish loader for the first time to launch an attack on a U.S.-based civil engineering firm, continuing its targeting of organizations that offer support to Ukraine in its ongoing war with its larger neighbor.

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Alan reflects on a turbulent year in DevSecOps, highlighting the rise of AI-driven security, the maturing of hybrid work culture, the growing influence of platform engineering, and the incredible strength of the DevSecOps community — while calling out the talent crunch, tool sprawl and security theater the industry must still overcome.

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A new iteration of the Shai-Hulud malware that ran through npm repositories in September is faster, more dangerous, and more destructive, creating huge numbers of malicious repositories, compromised scripts, and GitHub users attacked, creating one of the most significant supply chain attacks this year.

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Radware has developed a firewall for large language models (LLMs) that ensures governance and security policies are enforced in real time. Provided as an add-on to the company’s Cloud Application Protection Services, Radware LLM Firewall addresses the top 10 risks and mitigations for LLMs and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications defined by the OWASP GenAI..

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Huntress threat researchers are tracking a ClickFix campaign that includes a variant of the scheme in which the malicious code is hidden in the fake image of a Windows Update and, if inadvertently downloaded by victims, will deploy the info-stealing malware LummaC2 and Rhadamanthys.

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Tycoon 2FA proves that the old promises of “strong MFA” came with fine print all along: when an attacker sits invisibly in the middle, your codes, pushes, and one-time passwords become their codes, pushes, and one-time passwords too. Tycoon 2FA: Industrial-Scale Phishing Comes of Age Tycoon 2FA delivers a phishing-as-a-service kit that hands even modestly..

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SitusAMC, a services provider with clients like JP MorganChase and Citi, said its systems were hacked and the data of clients and their customers possibly compromised, sending banks and other firms scrambling. The data breach illustrates the growth in the number of such attacks on third-party providers in the financial services sector.

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Agencies with the US and other countries have gone hard after bulletproof hosting services providers this month, including Media Land, Hypercore, and associated companies and individuals, while the FiveEyes threat intelligence alliance published BPH mitigation guidelines for ISPs, cloud providers, and network defenders.

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An attack on the app of CRM platform-provider Gainsight led to the data of hundreds of Salesforce customers being compromised, highlighting the ongoing threats posed by third-party software in SaaS environments and illustrating how one data breach can lead to others, cybersecurity pros say.

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The SEC dismissed the remain charges in the lawsuit filed in 2023 against software maker SolarWinds and CISO Timothy Brown in the wake of the massive Sunburst supply chain attack, in which a Russian nation-state group installed a malicious update into SolarWInds software that then compromised the systems of some customers.

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Palo Alto Networks Inc. announced Wednesday it will acquire Chronosphere, a next-generation observability platform designed for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, in a $3.35 billion deal combining cash and replacement equity awards. The acquisition, pending regulatory approval, is expected to close in the second half of Palo Alto Networks’ fiscal 2026. The move represents the cybersecurity..

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Four U.S. citizens and a Ukrainian national pleaded guilty to their roles in a North Korean IT worker scam that victimized more than 135 U.S. companies and netted more than $2.2 million for the DPRK regime and is military and weapons programs.

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Microsoft mitigated what it called a record-breaking DDoS attack by bad actor using the Aisuru botnet, a collection of about 300,000 infected IoT devices. The size of the attack and the botnet used in it is the latest example of a DDoS environment that continues to scale in pace with the internet.

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Unlike conventional IT systems—with bounded entry points, predictable patch cycles, and known vulnerabilities—large language models (LLMs) and next-generation AI agents create an attack surface so broad, dynamic, and interconnected that comprehensively mapping or policing it becomes nearly impossible. Every new integration, plugin, RAG pipeline, or deployment scenario multiplies exposure: AI systems undergo constant updates and..

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Google is suing the Smishing Triad group behind the Lighthouse phishing-as-a-service kit that has been used over the past two years to scam more than 1 million people around the world with fraudulent package delivery or EZ-Pass toll fee messages and stealing millions of credit card numbers. Google also is backing bills in Congress to address the threat.

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The intrusion a year ago into Conduent Business Solutions' systems, likely by the SafePay ransomware group, that affected more than 10.5 individuals will likely cost the company more than $50 million in related expenses and millions more to settle the lawsuits that are piling up.

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Checkout.com said the notorious ShinyHunters threat group breached a badly decommissioned legacy cloud storage system last used by the company in 2020 and stole some merchant data. The hackers demanded a ransom, but the company instead will give the amount demanded to cybersecurity research groups.

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AI vendor Anthropic says a China-backed threat group used the agentic capabilities in its Claude AI model to automate as much as 90% of the operations in a info-stealing campaign that presages how hackers will used increasingly sophisticated AI capabilities in future cyberattacks.

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