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When Technology Resets the Playing Field In 2015 I founded a cybersecurity testing software company with the belief that automated penetration testing was not only possible, but necessary. At the time, the idea was often met with skepticism, but today, with 1200+ of enterprise customers and thousands of users, that vision has proven itself. But I also know that what we’ve built so far is only the foundation of what comes next. We are now witnessing an inflection point with AI in cybersecurity testing that is going to rewrite the rules of what’s possible. You might not see the change in a month’s time, but in five years the domain is going to be unrecognizable.  As the CTO of Pentera, I have a vision for the company: one where any security threat scenario you can imagine, you can test with the speed and intelligence only AI can provide. We have already started to implement the individual pieces of this reality into our platform. This article portrays the full vision I have for...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three old security flaws impacting D-Link Wi-Fi cameras and video recorders to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerabilities, which are from 2020 and 2022, are listed below - CVE-2020-25078 (CVSS score: 7.5) - An unspecified vulnerability in D-Link DCS-2530L and DCS-2670L devices that could allow for remote administrator password disclosure CVE-2020-25079 (CVSS score: 8.8) - An authenticated command injection vulnerability in the cgi-bin/ddns_enc.cgi component affecting D-Link DCS-2530L and DCS-2670L devices CVE-2020-40799 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A download of code without an integrity check vulnerability in D-Link DNR-322L that could allow an authenticated attacker to execute operating system-level commands on the device There are currently no details on how these shortcomings are being exploited in th...

A combination of propagation methods, narrative sophistication, and evasion techniques enabled the social engineering tactic known as ClickFix to take off the way it did over the past year, according to new findings from Guardio Labs. "Like a real-world virus variant, this new ' ClickFix ' strain quickly outpaced and ultimately wiped out the infamous fake browser update scam that plagued the web just last year," security researcher Shaked Chen said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "It did so by removing the need for file downloads, using smarter social engineering tactics, and spreading through trusted infrastructure. The result – a wave of infections ranging from mass drive-by attacks to hyper-targeted spear-phishing lures." ClickFix is the name given to a social engineering tactic where prospective targets are deceived into infecting their own machines under the guise of fixing a non-existent issue or a CAPTCHA verification. It was first det...

Google has released security updates to address multiple security flaws in Android, including fixes for two Qualcomm bugs that were flagged as actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities include CVE-2025-21479 (CVSS score: 8.6) and CVE-2025-27038 (CVSS score: 7.5), both of which were disclosed alongside CVE-2025-21480 (CVSS score: 8.6), by the chipmaker back in June 2025. CVE-2025-21479 relates to an incorrect authorization vulnerability in the Graphics component that could lead to memory corruption due to unauthorized command execution in GPU microcode. CVE-2025-27038, on the other hand, use-after-free vulnerability in the Graphics component that could result in memory corruption while rendering graphics using Adreno GPU drivers in Chrome. There are still no details on how these shortcomings have been weaponized in real-world attacks, but Qualcomm noted at the time that "there are indications from Google Threat Analysis Group that CVE-2025-21479, CVE-2025-21480, CV...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code editor Cursor that could result in remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-54136 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been codenamed MCPoison by Check Point Research, owing to the fact that it exploits a quirk in the way the software handles modifications to Model Context Protocol (MCP) server configurations. "A vulnerability in Cursor AI allows an attacker to achieve remote and persistent code execution by modifying an already trusted MCP configuration file inside a shared GitHub repository or editing the file locally on the target's machine," Cursor said in an advisory released last week. "Once a collaborator accepts a harmless MCP, the attacker can silently swap it for a malicious command (e.g., calc.exe) without triggering any warning or re-prompt." MCP is an open-standard developed by Anthropic that allows large language mode...

In SaaS security conversations, “misconfiguration” and “vulnerability” are often used interchangeably. But they’re not the same thing. And misunderstanding that distinction can quietly create real exposure. This confusion isn’t just semantics. It reflects a deeper misunderstanding of the shared responsibility model, particularly in SaaS environments where the line between vendor and customer responsibility is often unclear. A Quick Breakdown Vulnerabilities are flaws in the codebase of the SaaS platform itself. These are issues only the vendor can patch. Think zero-days and code-level exploits. Misconfigurations , on the other hand, are user-controlled. They result from how the platform is set up—who has access, what integrations are connected, and what policies are enforced (or not). A misconfiguration might look like a third-party app with excessive access, or a sensitive internal site that is accidentally public. A Shared Model, but Split Responsibilities Most SaaS providers...