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Five ways OSINT helps financial institutions to fight money laundering

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Five ways OSINT helps financial institutions to fight money laundering 2025-08-22 at 09:31 By Help Net Security Here are five key ways OSINT tools can help financial firms develop advanced strategies to fight money laundering criminals. 1. Reveal complex networks and ownership structures Money launderers often use layered networks of offshore entities and shell companies […]

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Russian threat actors using old Cisco bug to target critical infrastructure orgs

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Russian threat actors using old Cisco bug to target critical infrastructure orgs 2025-08-21 at 18:07 By Zeljka Zorz A threat group linked to the Russian Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Center 16 unit has been compromising unpatched and end-of-life Cisco networking devices via an old vulnerability (CVE-2018-0171), the FBI and Cisco warned on Wednesday. “Primary targets

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AWS Trusted Advisor flaw allowed public S3 buckets to go unflagged

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AWS Trusted Advisor flaw allowed public S3 buckets to go unflagged 2025-08-21 at 14:38 By Zeljka Zorz AWS’s Trusted Advisor tool, which is supposed to warn customers if their (cloud) S3 storage buckets are publicly exposed, could be “tricked” into reporting them as not exposed when they actually are, Fog Security researchers have found. S3

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Using lightweight LLMs to cut incident response times and reduce hallucinations

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Using lightweight LLMs to cut incident response times and reduce hallucinations 2025-08-21 at 09:03 By Mirko Zorz Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Imperial College London have developed a method for using LLMs to improve incident response planning with a focus on reducing the risk of hallucinations. Their approach uses a smaller, fine-tuned LLM

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Fractional vs. full-time CISO: Finding the right fit for your company

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Fractional vs. full-time CISO: Finding the right fit for your company 2025-08-21 at 08:32 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Nikoloz Kokhreidze, Fractional CISO at Mandos, discusses why many early- and growth-stage B2B companies hire full-time CISOs before it’s needed. He breaks down common founder misconceptions, explains the right approach to security

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Apple fixes zero-day vulnerability exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack” (CVE-2025-43300)

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Apple fixes zero-day vulnerability exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack” (CVE-2025-43300) 2025-08-20 at 22:42 By Zeljka Zorz Apple has fixed yet another vulnerability (CVE-2025-43300) that has apparently been exploited as a zero-day “in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.” About CVE-2025-43300 CVE-2025-43300 is an out-of-bounds write issue that could be triggered by a vulnerable

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Alleged Rapper Bot DDoS botnet master arrested, charged

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Alleged Rapper Bot DDoS botnet master arrested, charged 2025-08-20 at 21:47 By Zeljka Zorz US federal prosecutors have charged a man with running Rapper Bot, a powerful botnet that was rented out to launch large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks around the world. According to court documents, 22-year-old Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon, is accused of

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Exploit for critical SAP Netweaver flaws released (CVE-2025-31324, CVE-2025-42999)

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Exploit for critical SAP Netweaver flaws released (CVE-2025-31324, CVE-2025-42999) 2025-08-20 at 19:25 By Zeljka Zorz A working exploit concatenating two critical SAP Netweaver vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-31324, CVE-2025-42999) that have been previously exploited in the wild has been made public by VX Underground, Onapsis security researchers have warned. The exploit has allegedly been released on a Telegram

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Password crisis in healthcare: Meeting and exceeding HIPAA requirements

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Password crisis in healthcare: Meeting and exceeding HIPAA requirements 2025-08-20 at 19:25 By Help Net Security In 2025, healthcare organizations are facing a new wave of password security risks. Recent data from the HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey reveals that 74% experienced at least one significant security incident over the last year. More than half of responders

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Commvault plugs holes in backup suite that allow remote code execution

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Commvault plugs holes in backup suite that allow remote code execution 2025-08-20 at 17:33 By Zeljka Zorz Commvault has fixed four security vulnerabilities that may allow unauthenticated attackers to compromise on-premises deployments of its flagship backup and replication suite. Technical details about the vulnerabilities have been published on Wednesday by researchers at watchTowr Labs, who

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The 6 challenges your business will face in implementing MLSecOps

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The 6 challenges your business will face in implementing MLSecOps 2025-08-20 at 09:04 By Help Net Security Organizations that don’t adapt their security programs as they implement AI run the risk of being exposed to a variety of threats, both old and emerging ones. MLSecOps addresses this critical gap in security perimeters by combining AI

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The AI security crisis no one is preparing for

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The AI security crisis no one is preparing for 2025-08-20 at 08:03 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Jacob Ideskog, CTO of Curity, discusses the risks AI agents pose to organizations. As these agents become embedded in enterprise systems, the potential for misuse, data leakage, and unauthorized access grows. Ideskog warns that

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Webinar: Why AI and SaaS are now the same attack surface

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Webinar: Why AI and SaaS are now the same attack surface 2025-08-19 at 17:54 By Help Net Security The lines between SaaS and AI are vanishing. AI agents are now first-class citizens in your SaaS universe: accessing sensitive data, triggering workflows, and introducing new risks that legacy SaaS security posture management tools (SSPM) miss. Security

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Android VPN apps used by millions are covertly connected AND insecure

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Android VPN apps used by millions are covertly connected AND insecure 2025-08-19 at 17:07 By Zeljka Zorz Three families of Android VPN apps, with a combined 700 million-plus Google Play downloads, are secretly linked, according to a group of researchers from Arizona State University and Citizen Lab. Finding the secret links Virtual private networks (VPNs)

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What happens when penetration testing goes virtual and gets an AI coach

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What happens when penetration testing goes virtual and gets an AI coach 2025-08-19 at 09:32 By Mirko Zorz Cybersecurity training often struggles to match the complexity of threats. A new approach combining digital twins and LLMs aims to close that gap. Researchers from the University of Bari Aldo Moro propose using Cyber Digital Twins (CDTs)

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As AI grows smarter, your identity security must too

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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?

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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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Noodlophile infostealer is hiding behind fake copyright and PI infringement notices

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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

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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

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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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