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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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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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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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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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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AI browsers introduce reasoning-based risks. Learn how cross-origin AI agents dismantle web security and what defenses are needed.

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Security headlines distract, but the threats keeping CISOs awake are fundamental gaps and software supply chain risks. Learn why basics and visibility matter most.

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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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3 min readAs AI platforms grow more complex and interdependent, small failures can cast long shadows. That’s what happened inside the open-source CrewAI platform, where a vulnerability in its error-handling logic surfaced during a provisioning failure. The resulting “exception response” – the message a service returns when it encounters an unhandled error during a request – contained […]

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AI-powered cyberattacks are rising fast, and AI firewalls offer predictive, adaptive defense—but their cost, complexity and ROI must be carefully justified as organizations weigh upgrades.

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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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The 183M credentials came from infostealer logs. Learn why continuous password monitoring is essential for modern defense.

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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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Security is reaching a breaking point as growing technical complexity becomes a major risk vector. Learn why modern systems amplify threats—and how to stay ahead.

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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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From Anthropic:

In mid-September 2025, we detected suspicious activity that later investigation determined to be a highly sophisticated espionage campaign. The attackers used AI’s “agentic” capabilities to an unprecedented degree­—using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyberattacks themselves.

The threat actor—­whom we assess with high confidence was a Chinese state-sponsored group—­manipulated our Claude Code tool into attempting infiltration into roughly thirty global targets and succeeded in a small number of cases. The operation targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention...

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Deepfake-powered fraud is exploding as attackers weaponize AI to impersonate executives and bypass trust. Learn why detection alone fails and how AI-driven verification restores security.

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Akira ransomware is exploiting MFA push-spam, weak VPN security and identity gaps. Learn why these attacks succeed and the counter-playbook defenders must deploy now.

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4 min readAnthropic’s recent disclosure of an AI-driven espionage campaign it halted represents less a new class of attack than a faster, more persistent version of patterns the industry has seen before. What distinguishes this incident is the continuity of activity an autonomous system can sustain once it is given the ability to interpret its surroundings and […]

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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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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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A new study shows LLMs introduce more vulnerabilities with each code iteration, highlighting critical risks for CISOs and the need for skilled human oversight.

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With AI phishing attacks rising 1,760% and achieving a 60% success rate, learn how attackers use AI, deepfakes and automation — and discover proven, multi-layered defense strategies to protect your organization in 2025.

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Explore how AI is transforming cybersecurity from reactive threat response to proactive, predictive protection — while addressing ethics, privacy, and the human-AI balance.

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What is Domain Hijacking? Domain hijacking, also referred to as domain theft, refers to the act where the registrant of a domain name has their domain name taken over without their permission. This happens when a hacker somehow gets into the account of the owner of a particular domain and then proceeds to change theRead More

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WHAT IS SSL STRIPPING? SSL stripping is an attack in which an unauthorized party downgrades the connection security from HTTPS to HTTP. It takes advantage of weak spots in the process of migrating people from HTTP and HTTPS to HTTPs, allowing the attackers to intercept and alter the information exchanged between a user and aRead More

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Two former cybersecurity pros were indicted with conspiring with a third unnamed co-conspirator of using the high-profile BlackCat ransomware to launch attacks in 2023 against five U.S. companies to extort payment in cryptocurrency and then splitting the proceeds.

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AI-driven social engineering is transforming cyberattacks from costly, targeted operations into scalable, automated threats. As generative models enable realistic voice, video, and text impersonation, organizations must abandon stored secrets and move toward cryptographic identity systems to defend against AI-powered deception.

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The Salesloft Drift OAuth token breach compromised Salesforce data across hundreds of enterprises, including Cloudflare, Zscaler, and Palo Alto Networks. Learn how attackers exploited OAuth tokens, the risks of connected app misuse, and key steps to strengthen Salesforce and multi-cloud security.

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Cryptojacking silently hijacks compute power, inflates cloud bills, and erodes performance. Beyond financial losses, it exposes deep security risks, damages reputation, and drains productivity—making proactive detection and prevention essential for every organization.

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FCC Chair Brendan Carr said the agency will look to eliminate a declaratory ruling made by his predecessor that aimed to give the government more power to force carriers to strengthen the security of their networks in the wake of the widespread hacks by China nation-state threat group Salt Typhoon last year.

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So long and thanks for all the fish: Peter Williams admits to selling unpatched iPhone bugs to a shady Russian broker.

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October 2025 brought significant data breaches. From universities and airlines to healthcare providers and enterprise systems, multiple high-impact incidents exposed millions of records across industries. These breaches highlight recurring issues,...

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AdaptixC2, a legitimate and open red team tool used to assess an organization's security, is being repurposed by threat actors for use in their malicious campaigns. Threat researchers with Silent Push have linked the abuse of the technology back to a Russian-speaking bad actor who calls himself "RalfHacker."

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Obsidian Security says it is creating a working group of security leaders to pressure SaaS vendors to adopt standards like the SSCF to make their online applications safer as the cyber threats against them escalate and the use of AI agents in SaaS tools continues to expand.

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The FCC has taken another step to keep Chinese telecom gear from being imported into the United States, voting 3-0 to block new approvals for products from those nine Chinese companies on its "Covered List" and considered potential national security threats.

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A critical security flaw in Microsoft's WSUS feature is being actively exploited in the wild by threat actors who could gain access into unpatched servers, remotely control networks, and use them to deliver malware or do other damage. Microsoft is urging organizations to apply a patch to their systems.

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ReliaQuest’s Threat Spotlight: How Automation, Customization, and Tooling Signal Next Ransomware exposes how elite Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) groups thrive. Automation, advanced tools, and attack customization attract top affiliates and drive faster, more effective ransomware operations.

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