No timeline for a patch Suspected Chinese-government-linked threat actors have been battering a maximum-severity Cisco AsyncOS zero-day vulnerability in some Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and Secure Email and Web Manager (SEWM) appliances for nearly a month, and there's no timeline for a fix.…
In July 2016, the Web Hosting Talk forum suffered a data breach that was subsequently listed for sale. The breach of the vBulletin based forum exposed 515k user records including usernames, email addresses, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes.
Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties ahead interview No good idea - like rewarding open source software developers and maintainers for their contributions - goes unabused by cybercriminals, and this was the case with the Tea Protocol and two token farming campaigns.…
French authorities arrested a 22-year-old suspect on Tuesday for a cyberattack that targeted France's Ministry of the Interior earlier this month. [...]
How Can Non-Human Identity Detection Revolutionize Cybersecurity? Could your company be overlooking a critical component in its cybersecurity strategy? Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and their secrets are becoming increasingly critical to manage effectively. With the workforce expands beyond human empl...
According to a DOJ announcement, the exchange E-Note was used to process funds stolen by criminals in cyberattacks on healthcare entities and critical infrastructure, among other targets.
A Russian national was also indicted for running the platform.
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Amazon's AWS GuardDuty security team is warning of an ongoing crypto-mining campaign that targets its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Container Service (ECS) using compromised credentials for Identity and Access Management (IAM). [...]
And why most of the arguments do not hold up under scrutiny Over the past 18 to 24 months, venture capital has flowed into a fresh wave of SIEM challengers including Vega (which raised $65M in seed and Series A at a ~$400M valuation), Perpetual Systems, RunReveal, Iceguard, Sekoia, Cybersift, Ziggiz...
A new version of AWS Security Hub is now generally available with new capabilities to aggregate, correlate, and contextualize your security alerts across Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. The prior version is now known as AWS Security Hub CSPM and will continue to be available as a unique service...
Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Biosig Project Libbiosig, Grassroot DiCoM, and Smallstep step-ca.The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulne...
Jean-Claude Graf, Sandro RĂĽegge, Ali Hajiabadi, and Kaveh Razavi discovered
that the Linux kernel contained insufficient branch predictor isolation
between a guest and a userspace hypervisor for certain processors. This
flaw is known as VMSCAPE. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this
to e...
A zero-day vulnerability in SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 was reportedly exploited in the wild in a chained attack with CVE-2025-23006.
Key takeaways:
CVE-2025-40602 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the appliance management console (AMC) of the SonicWall SMA 1000 appl...
TikTok and the gay dating app Grindr are violating European data protection laws by tracking user activities across apps, a digital rights organization alleges.
Session 6B: Confidential Computing 1
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Caihua Li (Yale University), Seung-seob Lee (Yale University), Lin Zhong (Yale University)
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Blindfold: Confidential Memory Management by Untrusted Operating System
Confidential Computing (CC) has received increasing atte...
Under a settlement with the FTC, the Nomad platform will have to redistribute stolen funds that white-hat hackers returned to the company after thieves aggressively exploited a vulnerability in 2022.
I am happy to report that our experiment with issue 009 was a bigger success than our previous attempt. Let's recap. Issue 008 was our first offering free of ads or sponsors. We asked people to donate if they wanted to see future content. We had over 50,000 downloads, but only a handful of donations...
SonicWall warned users to patch a SMA1000 AMC flaw that was exploited as a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in attacks. SonicWall urged customers to address a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-40602, in the SMA1000 Appliance Management Console that was exploited as a zero-day in attacks...
A suspected Chinese-nexus threat group has been compromising Cisco email security devices and planting backdoors and log-purging tools on them since at least late November 2025, Cisco Talos researchers have shared. “Our analysis indicates that appliances with non-standard configurations (…) are what...
Across ideologically diverse communities, 2025 campaigns against automated license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance kept winning. From Austin, Texas to Cambridge, Massachusetts to Eugene, Oregon, successful campaigns combined three practical elements: a motivated political champion on city council,...