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WatchGuard Firebox firewalls under attack (CVE-2025-14733)

WatchGuard Firebox firewalls under attack (CVE-2025-14733) 2025-12-22 at 13:24 By Zeljka Zorz More than 115,000 internet-facing WatchGuard Firebox firewalls may be vulnerable to compromise via CVE-2025-14733, a remote code execution vulnerability actively targeted by attackers, Shadowserver’s latest scanning reveals. About CVE-2025-14733 WatchGuard Firebox firewalls, which also incorporate VPN and unified threat management capabilities, are used […]

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Building cyber talent through competition, residency, and real-world immersion

Building cyber talent through competition, residency, and real-world immersion 2025-12-22 at 09:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Chrisma Jackson, Director of Cybersecurity & Mission Computing Center and CISO at Sandia National Laboratories, reflects on where the cyber talent pipeline breaks down and what it takes to fix it. She discusses skill

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Browser agents don’t always respect your privacy choices

Browser agents don’t always respect your privacy choices 2025-12-22 at 08:49 By Sinisa Markovic Browser agents promise to handle online tasks without constant user input. They can shop, book reservations, and manage accounts by driving a web browser through an AI model. A new academic study warns that this convenience comes with privacy risks that

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Anubis: Open-source web AI firewall to protect from scraper bots

Anubis: Open-source web AI firewall to protect from scraper bots 2025-12-22 at 08:49 By Sinisa Markovic Anubis is an open-source tool designed to protect websites from automated scraping and abusive traffic by adding computational friction before a request is served. Maintained by TecharoHQ, the project targets a growing problem for site operators who want to

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Session tokens give attackers a shortcut around MFA

Session tokens give attackers a shortcut around MFA 2025-12-22 at 07:45 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Simon Wijckmans, CEO at cside, discusses why session token theft is rising and why security teams miss it. He walks through how web applications rely on browsers to store session tokens after login often

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AI isn’t one system, and your threat model shouldn’t be either

AI isn’t one system, and your threat model shouldn’t be either 2025-12-19 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Naor Penso, CISO at Cerebras Systems, explains how to threat model modern AI stacks without treating them as a single risk. He discusses why partitioning AI systems by function and impact matters,

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LLMs work better together in smart contract audits

LLMs work better together in smart contract audits 2025-12-19 at 08:42 By Sinisa Markovic Smart contract bugs continue to drain real money from blockchain systems, even after years of tooling and research. A new academic study suggests that large language models can spot more of those flaws when they work in coordinated groups instead of

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Product showcase: NAKIVO v11.1 advances MSP service delivery with secure multi-tenant management

Product showcase: NAKIVO v11.1 advances MSP service delivery with secure multi-tenant management 2025-12-19 at 08:24 By Help Net Security NAKIVO Backup & Replication v11.1 brings a host of benefits to MSPs and their clients. It eliminates the need for client-side port configuration, enhances security with encrypted multi-platform support, and introduces automated failover capabilities. These features

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Crypto theft in 2025: North Korean hackers continue to dominate

Crypto theft in 2025: North Korean hackers continue to dominate 2025-12-18 at 17:42 By Zeljka Zorz When they strike cryptocurrency-related targets, North Korean hacking groups are increasingly aiming for large services where a single breach can move serious money, a new Chainalysis report on crypto theft in 2025 revealed. “North Korean hackers stole $2.02 billion

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Clipping Scripted Sparrow’s wings: Tracking a global phishing ring

Clipping Scripted Sparrow’s wings: Tracking a global phishing ring 2025-12-18 at 16:12 By Help Net Security Between June 2024 and December 2025, Fortra analysts tracked a persistent business email compromise (BEC) operation that we have now classified as Scripted Sparrow. The group carries out well-crafted highly targeted phishing campaigns that masquerade as professional services firms

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Microsoft 365 users targeted in device code phishing attacks

Microsoft 365 users targeted in device code phishing attacks 2025-12-18 at 16:12 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are targeting Microsoft 365 users with device code authorization phishing, a technique that fools users into approving access tokens, Proofpoint warns. The method abuses Microsoft’s OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant flow by presenting users with device codes that, when

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More than half of public vulnerabilities bypass leading WAFs

More than half of public vulnerabilities bypass leading WAFs 2025-12-18 at 13:42 By Help Net Security Miggo Security has released a new report that examines how web application firewalls are used across real-world security programs. The research outlines the role WAFs play as foundational infrastructure and evaluates their effectiveness against critical vulnerabilities, CVEs, and AI-driven

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The soft underbelly of space isn’t in orbit, it’s on the ground

The soft underbelly of space isn’t in orbit, it’s on the ground 2025-12-18 at 09:08 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Øystein Thorvaldsen, CISO at KSAT, discusses how adversaries view the ground segment as the practical way to reach space systems and why stations remain a focal point for security efforts. He

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Privacy risks sit inside the ads that fill your social media feed

Privacy risks sit inside the ads that fill your social media feed 2025-12-18 at 08:34 By Sinisa Markovic Regulatory limits on explicit targeting have not stopped algorithmic profiling on the web. Ad optimization systems still adapt which ads appear based on users’ private attributes. At the same time, multimodal LLMs have lowered the barrier for

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Should AI access be treated as a civil right across generations?

Should AI access be treated as a civil right across generations? 2025-12-18 at 08:10 By Sinisa Markovic AI use is expanding faster than the infrastructure that supports it, and that gap is starting to matter for security, resilience, and access. A new position paper argues that access to AI should be treated as an intergenerational

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What cybersecurity leaders are reading to stay ahead

What cybersecurity leaders are reading to stay ahead 2025-12-18 at 07:33 By Anamarija Pogorelec If you’re looking for holiday gift ideas, books remain one of the simplest ways to spark curiosity and support someone’s growth. Whether the person on your list is exploring cybersecurity, AI, engineering, or career development, these titles offer something useful for

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Cisco email security appliances rooted and backdoored via still unpatched zero-day

Cisco email security appliances rooted and backdoored via still unpatched zero-day 2025-12-17 at 21:47 By Zeljka Zorz 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

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Actively exploited SonicWall zero-day patched (CVE-2025-40602)

Actively exploited SonicWall zero-day patched (CVE-2025-40602) 2025-12-17 at 18:46 By Zeljka Zorz SonicWall has patched a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-40602) affecting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances and is urging customers to apply the provided hotfix, as the flaw is being leveraged by attackers. “This vulnerability was reported to be leveraged in combination

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Attackers are exploiting auth bypass vulnerability on FortiGate firewalls (CVE-2025-59718)

Attackers are exploiting auth bypass vulnerability on FortiGate firewalls (CVE-2025-59718) 2025-12-17 at 16:31 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are exploiting a recently revealed vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to bypass authentication on Fortinet’s FortiGate firewalls, and are leveraging the achieved access to export their system configuration files, Arctic Wolf researchers warned on Tuesday. Configuration files can expose information about

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Why vulnerability reports stall inside shared hosting companies

Why vulnerability reports stall inside shared hosting companies 2025-12-17 at 09:24 By Mirko Zorz Security teams keep sending vulnerability notifications, and the same pattern keeps repeating. Many alerts land, few lead to fixes. A new qualitative study digs into what happens after those reports arrive and explains why remediation so often stops short. The research

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