As AI grows smarter, your identity security must too 2025-08-19 at 08:35 By Help Net Security AI is no longer on the horizon, it’s already transforming how organizations operate. In just a few years, we’ve gone from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide adoption. According to a recent SailPoint survey, 82% of companies are running AI agents […]
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What makes airport and airline systems so vulnerable to attack? 2025-08-19 at 07:32 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Recep Ozdag, VP and GM at Keysight Technologies, explains why airline and airport systems are so difficult to secure. He explores the complex aviation ecosystem, from legacy systems and third-party vendors to […]
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New NIST guide explains how to detect morphed images 2025-08-18 at 18:00 By Sinisa Markovic Face morphing software can blend two people’s photos into one image, making it possible for someone to fool identity checks at buildings, airports, borders, and other secure places. These morphed images can trick face recognition systems into linking the photo […]
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Noodlophile infostealer is hiding behind fake copyright and PI infringement notices 2025-08-18 at 16:12 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers pushing the Noodlophile infostealer are targeting businesses with spear-phishing emails threatening legal action due to copyright or intellectual property infringement, Morphisec researchers have warned. The campaign The emails, ostensibly sent by a law firm, are tailored to […]
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How security teams are putting AI to work right now 2025-08-18 at 09:42 By Mirko Zorz AI is moving from proof-of-concept into everyday security operations. In many SOCs, it is now used to cut down alert noise, guide analysts during investigations, and speed up incident response. What was once seen as experimental technology is starting […]
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Buttercup: Open-source AI-driven system detects and patches vulnerabilities 2025-08-18 at 09:42 By Help Net Security Buttercup is a free, automated, AI-powered platform that finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software. Developed by Trail of Bits, it recently earned second place in DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). Main components Buttercup is made up of four main […]
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Review: Data Engineering for Cybersecurity 2025-08-18 at 08:12 By Mirko Zorz Data Engineering for Cybersecurity sets out to bridge a gap many security teams encounter: knowing what to do with the flood of logs, events, and telemetry they collect. About the author James Bonifield has a decade of experience analyzing malicious activity, implementing data pipelines, […]
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Weak alerting and slipping prevention raise risk levels for CISOs 2025-08-18 at 07:47 By Mirko Zorz Prevention effectiveness is falling, detection gaps remain wide, and attackers are exploiting weaknesses in data protection and credentials. Data theft prevention has dropped to 3 percent, password cracking success rates have nearly doubled, and new threat groups are bypassing […]
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How military leadership prepares veterans for cybersecurity success 2025-08-15 at 09:47 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Warren O’Driscoll, Head of Security Practice at NTT DATA UK and Ireland, discusses how military leadership training equips veterans with the mindset, resilience, and strategic thinking needed to excel in cybersecurity. Drawing on habits such […]
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Fighting fraud with AI: The new identity security playbook 2025-08-15 at 08:34 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Hal Lonas, CTO at Trulioo, talks about the rise of synthetic identity fraud and how it’s quickly becoming one of the biggest threats in financial crime. He breaks down how fraudsters are using […]
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Brute-force attacks hammer Fortinet devices worldwide 2025-08-14 at 17:05 By Zeljka Zorz A surge in brute-force attempts targeting Fortinet SSL VPNs that was spotted earlier this month could be a portent of imminent attacks leveraging currently undisclosed (potentially zero-day) vulnerabilities in Fortinet devices. Shifting attacks Greynoise, a cybersecurity intelligence service that through its global network […]
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For $40, you can buy stolen police and government email accounts 2025-08-14 at 15:01 By Sinisa Markovic Active police and government email accounts are being sold on the dark web for as little as $40, giving cybercriminals a direct line into systems and services that rely on institutional trust. According to new research from Abnormal […]
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Vulnerabilities in MSP-friendly RMM solution exploited in the wild (CVE-2025-8875, CVE-2025-8876) 2025-08-14 at 13:33 By Zeljka Zorz Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-8875, CVE-2025-8876) in N-central, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution by N-able that’s popular with managed service providers, are being exploited by attackers. There are no public reports of exploitation, but the confirmation came from […]
AI security governance converts disorder into deliberate innovation 2025-08-14 at 09:16 By Help Net Security AI security governance provides a stable compass, channeling efforts and transforming AI from an experimental tool to a reliable, enterprise-class solution. With adequate governance built at the center of AI efforts, business leaders can shape AI plans with intention, while […]
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Open-source flow monitoring with SENSOR: Benefits and trade-offs 2025-08-14 at 09:16 By Mirko Zorz Flow monitoring tools are useful for tracking traffic patterns, planning capacity, and spotting threats. But many off-the-shelf solutions come with steep licensing costs and hardware demands, especially if you want to process every packet. A research team at the University of […]
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The top CTEM platforms you should know in 2025 2025-08-14 at 08:02 By Help Net Security Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a modern cybersecurity strategy originally coined by Gartner analysts, which focuses on identifying, prioritizing, validating, and mobilizing teams to reduce threat exposure across an organization’s full attack surface. It’s in a category of […]
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Croatian research institute confirms ransomware attack via ToolShell vulnerabilities 2025-08-13 at 18:01 By Zeljka Zorz The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), the largest Croatian science and technology research institute, has confirmed that it was the one of “at least 9,000 institutions worldwide” that were attacked using the Microsoft SharePoint “ToolShell” vulnerabilities. The attack happened on Thursday, […]
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Microsoft fixes “BadSuccessor” Kerberos vulnerability (CVE-2025-53779) 2025-08-13 at 15:20 By Zeljka Zorz For August 2025 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released security updates resolving 100+ security vulnerabilities in its various solutions, including a relative path traversal flaw in Windows Kerberos (CVE-2025-53779) that allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network as part of a […]
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Fortinet warns about FortiSIEM vulnerability with in-the-wild exploit code (CVE-2025-25256) 2025-08-13 at 12:43 By Zeljka Zorz Fortinet has released patches for a critical OS command injection vulnerability (CVE-2025-25256) in FortiSIEM, after practical exploit code surfaced in the wild. About CVE-2025-25256 FortiSIEM is a security information and event management platform used by organizations to collect, correlate […]
AWS CISO explains how cloud-native security scales with your business 2025-08-13 at 09:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Amy Herzog, CISO at AWS, discusses how cloud-native security enables scalable, flexible protection that aligns with how teams build in the cloud. She explains the Shared Responsibility Model and the tools and processes […]
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