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You've probably already moved some of your business to the cloud—or you're planning to. That's a smart move. It helps you work faster, serve your customers better, and stay ahead. But as your cloud setup grows, it gets harder to control who can access what. Even one small mistake—like the wrong person getting access—can lead to big problems. We're talking data leaks, legal trouble, and serious damage. And with different rules in different regions like the US, UK, EU, APAC, and more, keeping up is tough. Join our free webinar: " Securing Cloud Workloads and Infrastructure: Balancing Innovation with Identity and Access Control " with experts from CyberArk. You'll learn simple, practical ways to stay secure and move fast. Cloud tools today aren't all the same. Most companies use several cloud platforms at once—each with its own setup, rules, and risks. You want your team to stay fast and flexible, but you also need to keep everything safe. That's a tricky balance. That's why we'...

Amazon's threat intelligence team on Wednesday disclosed that it observed an advanced threat actor exploiting two then-zero-day security flaws in Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) and Citrix NetScaler ADC products as part of attacks designed to deliver custom malware. "This discovery highlights the trend of threat actors focusing on critical identity and network access control infrastructure – the systems enterprises rely on to enforce security policies and manage authentication across their networks," CJ Moses, CISO of Amazon Integrated Security, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The attacks were flagged by its MadPot honeypot network, with the activity weaponizing the following two vulnerabilities - CVE-2025-5777 or Citrix Bleed 2 (CVSS score: 9.3) - An insufficient input validation vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway that could be exploited by an attacker to bypass authentication. (Fixed by Citrix in June 2025 ) CVE-2025-20337 (CV...

Every day, security teams face the same problem—too many risks, too many alerts, and not enough time. You fix one issue, and three more show up. It feels like you're always one step behind. But what if there was a smarter way to stay ahead—without adding more work or stress? Join The Hacker News and Bitdefender for a free cybersecurity webinar to learn about a new approach called Dynamic Attack Surface Reduction (DASR) —a method that helps security teams close gaps before attackers even find them. Most tools today only tell you what's wrong. They scan, report, and give you long lists of problems. But they don't help you fix them fast enough. The truth is, the attack surface keeps changing—new apps, cloud systems, remote devices, misconfigurations. It never stops. Attackers only need one open door. And that's why traditional defenses often fail—they react too slowly. Meet DASR: A Smarter Way to Stay Safe Dynamic Attack Surface Reduction (DASR) changes how we defend. Instead o...

Microsoft has disclosed details of a novel side-channel attack targeting remote language models that could enable a passive adversary with capabilities to observe network traffic to glean details about model conversation topics despite encryption protections under certain circumstances. This leakage of data exchanged between humans and streaming-mode language models could pose serious risks to the privacy of user and enterprise communications, the company noted. The attack has been codenamed Whisper Leak . "Cyber attackers in a position to observe the encrypted traffic (for example, a nation-state actor at the internet service provider layer, someone on the local network, or someone connected to the same Wi-Fi router) could use this cyber attack to infer if the user's prompt is on a specific topic," security researchers Jonathan Bar Or and Geoff McDonald, along with the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team, said . Put differently, the attack allows an attacker t...

Imagine this: Sarah from accounting gets what looks like a routine password reset email from your organization's cloud provider. She clicks the link, types in her credentials, and goes back to her spreadsheet. But unknown to her, she's just made a big mistake. Sarah just accidentally handed over her login details to cybercriminals who are laughing all the way to their dark web marketplace, where they'll sell her credentials for about $15. Not much as a one-off, but a serious money-making operation when scaled up. The credential compromise lifecycle Users create credentials: With dozens of standalone business apps (each with its own login) your employees must create numerous accounts. But keeping track of multiple unique usernames/passwords is a pain, so they reuse passwords or make tiny variations. Hackers compromise credentials: Attackers snag these credentials through phishing, brute force attacks, third-party breaches, or exposed API keys. And many times, no...

Google on Thursday said it's rolling out a dedicated form to allow businesses listed on Google Maps to report extortion attempts made by threat actors who post inauthentic bad reviews on the platform and demand ransoms to remove the negative comments. The approach is designed to tackle a common practice called review bombing , where online users intentionally post negative user reviews in an attempt to harm a product, a service, or a business. "Bad actors try to circumvent our moderation systems and flood a business's profile with fake one-star reviews," Laurie Richardson, vice president of Trust & Safety at Google, said . "Following this initial attack, the scammers directly contact the business owner, often through third-party messaging apps, to demand payment." The threat actors warn of further escalation should the victim fail to pay the fee, risking potential damage to their public rating and reputation. These ploys are seen as an attempt to coe...

Raise your hand if you've heard the myth, "Android isn't secure." Android phones, such as the Samsung Galaxy, unlock new ways of working. But, as an IT admin, you may worry about the security—after all, work data is critical. However, outdated concerns can hold your business back from unlocking its full potential. The truth is, with work happening everywhere, every device connected to your network is a potential security breach point. As threats evolve, so must the tools to defend against them. Allow me to introduce Samsung Knox— a built-in security platform that combines hardware and software protections on Samsung Galaxy devices. It's loaded with features and is designed to safeguard data, provide IT teams with deeper control, and offer a flexible foundation for enterprise needs. Let's take a look at some myths about open source and how Samsung can get you on the right path to success. Myth 1: "Isn't Android more prone to malware and attacks?" Common concerns around sideloadi...

A design firm is editing a new campaign video on a MacBook Pro. The creative director opens a collaboration app that quietly requests microphone and camera permissions. MacOS is supposed to flag that, but in this case, the checks are loose. The app gets access anyway. On another Mac in the same office, file sharing is enabled through an old protocol called SMB version one. It's fast and convenient—but outdated and vulnerable. Attackers can exploit it in minutes if the endpoint is exposed to the internet. These are the kinds of configuration oversights that happen every day, even in organizations that take security seriously. They're not failures of hardware or antivirus software. They're configuration gaps that open doors to attackers, and they often go unnoticed because nobody is looking for them. That's where Defense Against Configurations (DAC) comes in. Misconfigurations are a gift to attackers: default settings left open, remote access that should be off (like outdated netwo...

A group of academic researchers from Georgia Tech, Purdue University, and Synkhronix have developed a side-channel attack called TEE.Fail that allows for the extraction of secrets from the trusted execution environment (TEE) in a computer's main processor, including Intel's Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) and Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) and AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) and Ciphertext Hiding . The attack, at its core, involves the use of an interposition device built using off-the-shelf electronic equipment that costs under $1,000 and makes it possible to physically inspect all memory traffic inside a DDR5 server. "This allows us for the first time to extract cryptographic keys from Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP with Ciphertext Hiding, including in some cases secret attestation keys from fully updated machines in trusted status," the researchers noted on an informational site. "Beyond breaking CPU-based TEEs, we...

In cybersecurity, speed isn't just a win — it's a multiplier. The faster you learn about emerging threats, the faster you adapt your defenses, the less damage you suffer, and the more confidently your business keeps scaling. Early threat detection isn't about preventing a breach someday: it's about protecting the revenue you're supposed to earn every day. Companies that treat cybersecurity as a reactive cost center usually find themselves patching holes, paying ransoms, and dealing with downtime. Companies that invest in proactive visibility, threat intelligence, and early detection mechanisms stay in the game longer. With trust, uptime, and innovation intact. Let's break down why this strategy directly connects to long-term business success: 1. Early detection drastically lowers the cost of incidents A breach caught at initial access might cost just internal response hours. Caught at data exfiltration — multiply the cost by 10, and a breach caught after regulatory violations kick...

The New Reality for Lean Security Teams If you're the first security or IT hire at a fast-growing startup, you've likely inherited a mandate that's both simple and maddeningly complex: secure the business without slowing it down. Most organizations using Google Workspace start with an environment built for collaboration, not resilience. Shared drives, permissive settings, and constant integrations make life easy for employees—and equally easy for attackers. The good news is that Google Workspace provides an excellent security foundation. The challenge lies in properly configuring it, maintaining visibility, and closing the blind spots that Google's native controls leave open. This article breaks down the key practices every security team—especially small, lean ones—should follow to harden Google Workspace and defend against modern cloud threats. 1. Lock Down the Basics Enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) MFA is the single most effective way to stop account compromise. In ...

Social media platform X is urging users who have enrolled for two-factor authentication (2FA) using passkeys and hardware security keys like Yubikeys to re-enroll their key to ensure continued access to the service. To that end, users are being asked to complete the re-enrollment , either using their existing security key or enrolling a new one, by November 10, 2025. "After November 10, if you haven't re-enrolled a security key, your account will be locked until you: re-enroll; choose a different 2FA method; or elect not to use 2FA (but we always recommend you use 2FA to protect your account!)," the company's Safety handle wrote in a post on X. The move is part of the company's efforts to formally retire the twitter[.]com domain. Twitter, which was acquired by SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in October 2022, was rebranded to X in July 2023. In a follow-up post, X noted that the change does not apply to users who have enrolled for 2FA using other methods, such...

Does your organization suffer from a cybersecurity perception gap? Findings from the  Bitdefender 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment suggest the answer is probably "yes" — and many leaders may not even realize it. This disconnect matters. Small differences in perception today can evolve into major blind spots tomorrow. After all, perception influences what organizations prioritize, where they allocate resources, and how they respond in critical moments. Confidence at the Top, Caution on the Ground Bitdefender's latest assessment surveyed  1,200 cybersecurity and IT professionals , and at first glance, the results suggest optimism. An impressive  93% say they are "somewhat" or "very confident" in their ability to manage cyber risk as the attack surface expands. But dig deeper, and the optimism begins to split. Nearly half ( 45% ) of C-level respondents — including CISOs and CIOs — describe themselves as "very confident" in their organization's readiness. Yet among mid-l...

AI is everywhere—and your company wants in. Faster products, smarter systems, fewer bottlenecks. But if you're in security, that excitement often comes with a sinking feeling. Because while everyone else is racing ahead, you're left trying to manage a growing web of AI agents you didn't create, can't fully see, and weren't designed to control. Join our upcoming webinar and learn how to make AI security work with you, not against you . The Quiet Crisis No One Talks About Did you know most companies now have 100 AI agents for every one human employee? Even more shocking? 99% of those AI identities are completely unmanaged. No oversight. No lifecycle controls. And every one of them could be a backdoor waiting to happen. It's not your fault. Traditional tools weren't built for this new AI world. But the risks are real—and growing. Let's Change That. Together. In our free webinar, " Turning Controls into Accelerators of AI Adoption ," we'll help you flip the script. Th...

As machine identities explode across cloud environments, enterprises report dramatic productivity gains from eliminating static credentials. And only legacy systems remain the weak link. For decades, organizations have relied on static secrets, such as API keys, passwords, and tokens, as unique identifiers for workloads. While this approach provides clear traceability, it creates what security researchers describe as an "operational nightmare" of manual lifecycle management, rotation schedules, and constant credential leakage risks. This challenge has traditionally driven organizations toward centralized secret management solutions like HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk, which provide universal brokers for secrets across platforms. However, these approaches perpetuate the fundamental problem: the proliferation of static secrets requiring careful management and rotation. "Having a workload in Azure that needs to read data from AWS S3 is not ideal from a security perspective...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, stating it has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-61932 (CVSS v4 score: 9.3), impacts on-premises versions of Lanscope Endpoint Manager, specifically Client program and Detection Agent, and could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on susceptible systems. "Motex LANSCOPE Endpoint Manager contains an improper verification of source of a communication channel vulnerability, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted packets," CISA said. The flaw impacts versions 9.4.7.1 and earlier. It has been addressed in the versions below - 9.3.2.7 9.3.3.9 9.4.0.5 9.4.1.5 9.4.2.6 9.4.3.8 9.4.4.6 9.4.5.4 9.4.6.3, and 9.4.7.3 It's currently not known how the vulnerability is being exploited in rea...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a high-severity flaw impacting the popular async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar, that could result in remote code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62518 (CVSS score: 8.1), has been codenamed TARmageddon by Edera, which discovered the issue in late August 2025. It impacts several widely-used projects, such as testcontainers and wasmCloud. "In the worst-case scenario, this vulnerability has a severity of 8.1 (High) and can lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE) through file overwriting attacks, such as replacing configuration files or hijacking build backends," the Seattle-based security company said . The problem is compounded by the fact that tokio-tar is essentially abandonware despite attracting thousands of downloads via crates.io. Tokio-tar is a Rust library for asynchronously reading and writing TAR archives built atop the Tokio runtime for the programmi...

TP-Link has released security updates to address four security flaws impacting Omada gateway devices, including two critical bugs that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2025-6541 (CVSS score: 8.6) - An operating system command injection vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker who can log in to the web management interface to run arbitrary commands CVE-2025-6542 (CVSS score: 9.3) - An operating system command injection vulnerability that could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary commands CVE-2025-7850 (CVSS score: 9.3) - An operating system command injection vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker in possession of an administrator password of the web portal to run arbitrary commands CVE-2025-7851 (CVSS score: 8.7) - An improper privilege management vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to obtain the root shell on the underlying operating sys...

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise for improving cyber defense and making the lives of security practitioners easier. It can help teams cut through alert fatigue, spot patterns faster, and bring a level of scale that human analysts alone can't match. But realizing that potential depends on securing the systems that make it possible. Every organization experimenting with AI in security operations is, knowingly or not, expanding its attack surface. Without clear governance, strong identity controls, and visibility into how AI makes its decisions, even well-intentioned deployments can create risk faster than they reduce it. To truly benefit from AI, defenders need to approach securing it with the same rigor they apply to any other critical system. That means establishing trust in the data it learns from, accountability for the actions it takes, and oversight for the outcomes it produces. When secured correctly, AI can amplify human capability instead of replacing it t...

The danger isn't that AI agents have bad days — it's that they never do. They execute faithfully, even when what they're executing is a mistake. A single misstep in logic or access can turn flawless automation into a flawless catastrophe. This isn't some dystopian fantasy—it's Tuesday at the office now. We've entered a new phase where autonomous AI agents act with serious system privileges. They execute code, handle complex tasks, and access sensitive data with unprecedented autonomy. They don't sleep, don't ask questions, and don't always wait for permission. That's powerful. That's also risky. Because today's enterprise threats go way beyond your garden-variety phishing scams and malware. The modern security perimeter? It's all about identity management. Here's the million-dollar question every CISO should be asking: Who or what has access to your critical systems, can you secure and govern that access, and can you actually prove it? Ho...