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Microsoft will start removing legacy drivers from Windows Update

Microsoft will start removing legacy drivers from Windows Update 2025-06-23 at 17:47 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft will start removing legacy drivers from Windows Update to improve driver quality for Windows users but, most importantly, to increase security, the company has announced. This is intended to be an ongoing process and Microsoft is planning to introduce […]

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CoinMarketCap, Cointelegraph compromised to serve pop-ups to drain crypto wallets

CoinMarketCap, Cointelegraph compromised to serve pop-ups to drain crypto wallets 2025-06-23 at 16:38 By Zeljka Zorz The CoinMarketCap and CoinTelegraph websites have been compromised over the weekend to serve clever phishing pop-ups to visitors, asking them to verify/connect their crypto wallets. The CoinMarketCap compromise CoinMarketCap (aka CMC) is a website popular with crypto investors as

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Critical Citrix NetScaler bug fixed, upgrade ASAP! (CVE-2025-5777)

Critical Citrix NetScaler bug fixed, upgrade ASAP! (CVE-2025-5777) 2025-06-23 at 14:14 By Zeljka Zorz Citrix has fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-5777) in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway reminiscent of the infamous and widely exploited CitrixBleed flaw. The vulnerabilities have been privately disclosed and there is no indication that they are under active exploitation. Nevertheless, the

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Stealthy backdoor found hiding in SOHO devices running Linux

Stealthy backdoor found hiding in SOHO devices running Linux 2025-06-23 at 11:02 By Mirko Zorz SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team has uncovered a network of compromised small office and home office (SOHO) devices they’re calling LapDogs. The threat is part of a broader shift in how China-Nexus threat actors are using Operational Relay Box (ORB) networks to

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How CISOs can justify security investments in financial terms

How CISOs can justify security investments in financial terms 2025-06-23 at 09:06 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, John Verry, Managing Director at CBIZ, discusses how insurers and financial risk professionals evaluate cybersecurity maturity through different lenses. He also shows how framing cyber risk in business terms can strengthen investment cases and

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Quantum risk is already changing cybersecurity

Quantum risk is already changing cybersecurity 2025-06-23 at 08:18 By Mirko Zorz A new report from the Cyber Threat Alliance warns that the era of quantum risk is already underway, and security teams need to stop treating it like a problem for tomorrow. The report, Approaching Quantum Dawn: Closing the Cybersecurity Readiness Gap Before It’s

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Microsoft boosts default security of Windows 365 Cloud PCs

Microsoft boosts default security of Windows 365 Cloud PCs 2025-06-20 at 15:05 By Zeljka Zorz Windows 365 Cloud PCs now come with new default settings aimed at preventing / minimizing data exfiltration and malicious exploits, Microsoft has announced. Windows 365 Cloud PCs are Azure (i.e., Windows 365 service)-hosted virtual Windows PCs the company offers as

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Strategies to secure long-life IoT devices

Strategies to secure long-life IoT devices 2025-06-20 at 09:07 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Rob ter Linden, CISO at Signify, discusses priorities for CISOs working on IoT security, including the need for compliant infrastructure, easy device management, and preparing for future tech like quantum computing and AI. He also covers challenges

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Why AI code assistants need a security reality check

Why AI code assistants need a security reality check 2025-06-19 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Silviu Asandei, Security Specialist and Security Governance at Sonar, discusses how AI code assistants are transforming development workflows and impacting security. He explains how these tools can boost productivity but may also propagate vulnerabilities

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GPS tracker detection made easy with off-the-shelf hardware

GPS tracker detection made easy with off-the-shelf hardware 2025-06-19 at 08:33 By Mirko Zorz Cyberstalkers are increasingly turning to cheap GPS trackers to secretly monitor people in real time. These devices, which often cost less than $30 and run on 4G LTE networks, are small, easy to hide under a bumper or in a glovebox,

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91% noise: A look at what’s wrong with traditional SAST tools

91% noise: A look at what’s wrong with traditional SAST tools 2025-06-19 at 07:32 By Mirko Zorz Traditional static application security testing (SAST) tools are falling short. That’s the key takeaway from a recent report that tested these tools against nearly 3,000 open-source code repositories. The results: more than 91% of flagged vulnerabilities were false

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Chaining two LPEs to get “root”: Most Linux distros vulnerable (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019)

Chaining two LPEs to get “root”: Most Linux distros vulnerable (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019) 2025-06-18 at 14:49 By Zeljka Zorz Qualys researchers have unearthed two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019) that can be exploited in tandem to achieve root access on most Linux distributions “with minimal effort.” About the vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019) CVE-2025-6018 affects the Pluggable

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Kernel-level container insights: Utilizing eBPF with Cilium, Tetragon, and SBOMs for security

Kernel-level container insights: Utilizing eBPF with Cilium, Tetragon, and SBOMs for security 2025-06-18 at 09:02 By Help Net Security As applications become more distributed, traditional monitoring and security tools are failing to keep pace. This article explores how eBPF, when utilized by the graduated CNCF Cilium and its sub-project Tetragon, combined with Software Bills of

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AI is changing cybersecurity roles, and entry-level jobs are at risk

AI is changing cybersecurity roles, and entry-level jobs are at risk 2025-06-18 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Will humans remain essential in cybersecurity, or is AI set to take over? According to Wipro, many CISOs are leveraging AI to improve threat detection and response times and to build enhanced incident response capabilities. What’s changing AI

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From cleaners to creepers: The risk of mobile privilege escalation

From cleaners to creepers: The risk of mobile privilege escalation 2025-06-18 at 07:38 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Nico Chiaraviglio, Chief Scientist at Zimperium, explores how Android apps can be abused to escalate privileges, giving attackers access to sensitive data and system functions. Drawing on Zimperium’s recent research, he breaks

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Researchers unearth keyloggers on Outlook login pages

Researchers unearth keyloggers on Outlook login pages 2025-06-17 at 18:37 By Zeljka Zorz Unknown threat actors have compromised internet-accessible Microsoft Exchange Servers of government organizations and companies around the world, and have injected the organizations’ Outlook on the Web (OWA) login page with browser-based keyloggers, Positive Technologies researchers have warned. The keylogging JavaScript code (Source:

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Hackers love events. Why aren’t more CISOs paying attention?

Hackers love events. Why aren’t more CISOs paying attention? 2025-06-17 at 09:04 By Mirko Zorz When CISOs think about risk, they usually think about cloud platforms, laptops, and data centers. But live events like conferences, trade shows, product launches, and shareholder meetings bring a different kind of cybersecurity exposure. These events gather people, devices, and

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Before scaling GenAI, map your LLM usage and risk zones

Before scaling GenAI, map your LLM usage and risk zones 2025-06-17 at 08:46 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Paolo del Mundo, Director of Application and Cloud Security at The Motley Fool, discusses how organizations can scale their AI usage by implementing guardrails to mitigate GenAI-specific risks like prompt injection, insecure outputs,

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