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How Juventus protects fans, revenue, and reputation during matchdays

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How Juventus protects fans, revenue, and reputation during matchdays 2025-09-22 at 10:29 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Mirko Rinaldini, Head of ICT at Juventus Football Club, discusses the club’s approach to cyber risk strategy. Juventus has developed a threat-led, outcomes-driven program that balances innovation with protections across matchdays, e-commerce, and digital […]

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LLMs can boost cybersecurity decisions, but not for everyone

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LLMs can boost cybersecurity decisions, but not for everyone 2025-09-19 at 09:11 By Mirko Zorz LLMs are moving fast from experimentation to daily use in cybersecurity. Teams are starting to use them to sort through threat intelligence, guide incident response, and help analysts handle repetitive work. But adding AI into the decision-making process brings new

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SonicWall says attackers compromised some firewall configuration backup files

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SonicWall says attackers compromised some firewall configuration backup files 2025-09-18 at 18:49 By Zeljka Zorz Between attackers exploiting 0-day and n-day vulnerabilities in the company’s firewalls and Secure Mobile Access appliances, SonicWall and its customers have had a tough year. And, unfortunately for them, the troubles are not over: unknown attackers have managed to brute-force

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Google fixes actively exploited Chrome zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-10585)

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Google fixes actively exploited Chrome zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-10585) 2025-09-18 at 16:00 By Zeljka Zorz Google has released a security update for the Chrome stable channel to fix a zero‑day vulnerability (CVE-2025-10585) reported by its Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Tuesday. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2025-10585 exists in the wild,” the company announced.

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Behind the scenes of cURL with its founder: Releases, updates, and security

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Behind the scenes of cURL with its founder: Releases, updates, and security 2025-09-18 at 09:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Daniel Stenberg, lead developer od cURL, discusses how the widely used tool remains secure across billions of devices, from cloud services to IoT. He shares insights into cURL’s decades-long journey of

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Product showcase: Exaforce – The full lifecycle AI SOC platform

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Product showcase: Exaforce – The full lifecycle AI SOC platform 2025-09-18 at 09:01 By Help Net Security Today’s SOCs face an impossible equation: too much noise, too many gaps, and too few hands. Detection coverage gaps leave companies exposed, false positives overwhelm analysts, manual investigations eat up valuable hours from the most expensive assets (experienced

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Microsoft disrupts the RaccoonO365 Phishing-as-a-Service operation, names alleged leader

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Microsoft disrupts the RaccoonO365 Phishing-as-a-Service operation, names alleged leader 2025-09-17 at 15:23 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft and Cloudflare have disrupted a Phishing-as-a-Service operation selling the RaccoonO365 kit for stealing Microsoft 365 account credentials. “Using a court order granted by the Southern District of New York, [we] seized 338 websites associated with the popular service, disrupting

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How a fake ICS network can reveal real cyberattacks

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How a fake ICS network can reveal real cyberattacks 2025-09-17 at 09:03 By Mirko Zorz Researchers have introduced a new way to study and defend against ICS threats. Their project, called ICSLure, is a honeynet built to closely mimic a real industrial environment. Why traditional honeypots fall short Honeypots are systems designed to attract attackers

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Creating a compliance strategy that works across borders

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Creating a compliance strategy that works across borders 2025-09-17 at 08:37 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Marco Goldberg, Managing Director at EQS Group, discusses how compliance and regulation are evolving worldwide. He talks about how organizations can stay compliant with international rules while keeping their systems practical and user-friendly. Goldberg points

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Self-replicating worm hits 180+ npm packages in (largely) automated supply chain attack

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Self-replicating worm hits 180+ npm packages in (largely) automated supply chain attack 2025-09-17 at 01:18 By Zeljka Zorz A potentially monumental supply chain attack is underway, thanks to a self-replicating worm-like payload that has been compromising packages published on the npm Registry. The worm has been dubbed “Shai-hulud” as it steals credentials from victims who

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Ransomware attackers used incorrectly stored recovery codes to disable EDR agents

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Ransomware attackers used incorrectly stored recovery codes to disable EDR agents 2025-09-16 at 15:46 By Zeljka Zorz All target organizations are different, but ransomware attackers are highly adaptive and appreciate – and will exploit – any mistake you make. The latest Akira ransomware attacks Managed security service providers and external incident responders have had a

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Building security that protects customers, not just auditors

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Building security that protects customers, not just auditors 2025-09-16 at 09:31 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Nir Rothenberg, CISO at Rapyd, discusses global differences in payment security maturity and the lessons that can be learned from leading regions. He points out that good engineering usually leads to strong security, and cautions

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Phishing campaign targets Rust developers

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Phishing campaign targets Rust developers 2025-09-15 at 19:27 By Zeljka Zorz Developers publishing crates (binaries and libraries written in Rust) on crates.io, Rust’s main public package registry, have been targeted with emails echoing the recent npm phishing campaign. The phishing email The emails started hitting developers’ inboxes on Friday, minutes after they published a (new)

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What could a secure 6G network look like?

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What could a secure 6G network look like? 2025-09-15 at 08:47 By Help Net Security The official standards for 6G are set to be announced by the end of 2029. While the industry is moving towards consensus around how the 6G network will be built, it also needs to anticipate how it will be compromised

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HybridPetya: (Proof-of-concept?) ransomware can bypass UEFI Secure Boot

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HybridPetya: (Proof-of-concept?) ransomware can bypass UEFI Secure Boot 2025-09-12 at 19:00 By Help Net Security ESET researchers have discovered HybridPetya, a bootkit-and-ransomware combo that’s a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware, augmented with the capability of compromising UEFI-based systems and weaponizing CVE-2024-7344 to bypass UEFI Secure Boot on outdated systems. The sample was uploaded from

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CISA looks to partners to shore up the future of the CVE Program

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CISA looks to partners to shore up the future of the CVE Program 2025-09-12 at 15:32 By Zeljka Zorz The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has affirmed its continuing support for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. “If we want to outpace and outmaneuver our adversaries, we must first ensure that defenders

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Your heartbeat could reveal your identity, even in anonymized datasets

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Your heartbeat could reveal your identity, even in anonymized datasets 2025-09-12 at 09:12 By Mirko Zorz A new study has found that electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, often shared publicly for medical research, can be linked back to individuals. Researchers were able to re-identify people in anonymous datasets with surprising accuracy, raising questions about how health data

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Akira ransomware affiliates continue breaching organizations via SonicWall firewalls

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Akira ransomware affiliates continue breaching organizations via SonicWall firewalls 2025-09-11 at 18:25 By Zeljka Zorz Over a year after SonicWall patched CVE-2024-40766, a critical flaw in its next-gen firewalls, ransomware attackers are still gaining a foothold in organizations by exploiting it. Like last September and earlier this year, the attackers are affiliates of the Akira

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Default Cursor setting can be exploited to run malicious code on developers’ machines

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Default Cursor setting can be exploited to run malicious code on developers’ machines 2025-09-11 at 14:02 By Zeljka Zorz An out-of-the-box setting in Cursor, a popular AI source-code editor, could be leveraged by attackers to covertly run malicious code on users’ computers, researchers have warned. An exploitable vulnerability in the Cursor AI editor Cursor is

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When typing becomes tracking: Study reveals widespread silent keystroke interception

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When typing becomes tracking: Study reveals widespread silent keystroke interception 2025-09-11 at 09:17 By Mirko Zorz You type your email address into a website form but never hit submit. Hours later, a marketing email shows up in your inbox. According to new research, that is not a coincidence. A team of researchers from UC Davis,

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