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The FBI has asked the public for information on Chinese Salt Typhoon hackers behind widespread breaches of telecommunications providers in the United States and worldwide.

CVE-2025-0282 exploited by Chinese threat actors + DslogdRAT malware installs + 9X ICS scans spike

CVE-2025-27610 allows unauthenticated access to sensitive files in Rack Ruby apps due to root misconfig.

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Microsoft says it will soon fix a known issue causing CPU spikes when typing messages in recent versions of its classic Outlook email client.

More than a year after a cyberattack on the government of Long Beach, California, the city is informing residents that information on nearly half a million people was leaked.

The vulnerability threat intelligence firm’s research reinforces a slew of recent reports warning about increased exploits in 2024.

He served under then-South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who now heads up the Department of Homeland Security.

More broadly, AI is viewed as being a double-edged sword in cybersecurity, one that can bolster both defensive and offensive operations.

Russian threat actors have been abusing legitimate OAuth 2.0 authentication workflows to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts of employees of organizations related to Ukraine and human rights.

Requests to block federal agencies from sharing federal data with states and to condition federal election funding were denied by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.

In this edition, Bill explores how intellectual curiosity drives success in cybersecurity, shares insights on the IAB ToyMaker’s tactics, and covers the top security headlines you need to know.

Interesting: The company has released a working rootkit called “Curing” that uses io_uring, a feature built into the Linux kernel, to stealthily perform malicious activities without being caught by many of the detection solutions currently on the market. At the heart of the issue is the heavy reliance on monitoring system calls, which has become the go-to method for many cybersecurity vendors. The problem? Attackers can completely sidestep these monitored calls by leaning on io_uring instead. This clever method could let bad actors quietly make network connections or tamper with files without triggering the usual alarms...

As enterprises brace for a new wave of stealthy intrusions — so-called Typhoon attacks — security leaders are doubling down on network intelligence that goes beyond surface-level alerts. Related: What is NDR? In this RSAC 2025 Fireside Chat, I sat down with Corelight CEO Brian Dye to unpack how Network Detection and Response (NDR) is

The Interlock ransomware gang posted samples from a trove of data it is claiming to have stolen from the company.

Microsoft says it mitigated a known issue in one of its machine learning (ML) models that mistakenly flagged Adobe emails in Exchange Online as spam.

North Korean IT workers illicitly gaining employment at U.S. and European tech companies are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence in a variety of ways to assist them throughout the job application and interview process.

In a recent espionage campaign, the infamous North Korean threat group Lazarus targeted multiple organizations in the software, IT, finance, and telecommunications sectors in South Korea.

ELENOR-corp ransomware, a new version of Mimic, is targeting healthcare organizations using advanced capabilities

Policymakers have moved slowly to reduce regulatory overlap, but the new industry plea could help change that.

Attackers are luring victims into a Zoom call and then taking over their PC to install malware, infiltrate their accounts, and steal their assets.

​A ransomware attack in January at Frederick Health Medical Group, a major healthcare provider in Maryland, has led to a data breach affecting nearly one million patients.

Read the new whitepaper from the Microsoft AI Red Team to better understand the taxonomy of failure mode in agentic AI.

Attachers are luring victims into a Zoom call and then taking over their PC to install malware, infiltrate their accounts, and steal their assets.

Lazarus exploited zero-days in South Korean software, targeting 6 firms with ThreatNeedle and more.

As RSAC 2025 convenes next week in San Francisco, digital trust is poised to take center stage. Related: PKI and the IoT cloud One quiet but consequential development now taking root in the financial sector could prove pivotal: the emergence of a dedicated Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) framework, tailored to banks and payment networks, guided

AI creating/debugging an exploit for the recent Erlang/OTP SSH vuln, map visualization and firewall for AWS activity, a multi-stage attack simulation tool for k8s

A misconfigured tracking tool has exposed protected health information of 4.7 million Blue Shield members to Google Ads