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CitrixBleed 2 might be actively exploited (CVE-2025-5777)

CitrixBleed 2 might be actively exploited (CVE-2025-5777) 2025-06-30 at 15:47 By Zeljka Zorz While Citrix has observed some instances where CVE-2025-6543 has been exploited on vulnerable NetScaler networking appliances, the company still says that they don’t have evidence of exploitation for CVE-2025-5349 or CVE-2025-5777, both of which have been patched earlier this month. CVE-2025-5777, in […]

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RIFT: New open-source tool from Microsoft helps analyze Rust malware

RIFT: New open-source tool from Microsoft helps analyze Rust malware 2025-06-30 at 13:01 By Mirko Zorz Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center has released a new tool called RIFT to help malware analysts identify malicious code hidden in Rust binaries. While Rust is becoming more popular for its speed and memory safety, those same qualities make malware

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Are we securing AI like the rest of the cloud?

Are we securing AI like the rest of the cloud? 2025-06-30 at 09:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Chris McGranahan, Director of Security Architecture & Engineering at Backblaze, discusses how AI is shaping both offensive and defensive cybersecurity tactics. He talks about how AI is changing the threat landscape, the complications

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How exposure-enriched SOC data can cut cyberattacks in half by 2028

How exposure-enriched SOC data can cut cyberattacks in half by 2028 2025-06-30 at 08:33 By Help Net Security Gartner projects that by 2028, organizations enriching their Security Operations Center (SOC) data with exposure insights will reduce the frequency and impact of cyberattacks by 50%. This bold forecast underscores a crucial shift: proactive exposure management is

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Europe’s AI strategy: Smart caution or missed opportunity?

Europe’s AI strategy: Smart caution or missed opportunity? 2025-06-30 at 08:03 By Mirko Zorz Europe is banking on AI to help solve its economic problems. Productivity is stalling, and tech adoption is slow. Global competitors, especially the U.S., are pulling ahead. A new report from Accenture says AI could help reverse that trend, but only

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Why AI agents could be the next insider threat

Why AI agents could be the next insider threat 2025-06-30 at 07:37 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Arun Shrestha, CEO of BeyondID, explains how AI agents, now embedded in daily operations, are often over-permissioned, under-monitored, and invisible to identity governance systems. With a special focus on the healthcare sector, Shrestha

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Third-party breaches double, creating ripple effects across industries

Third-party breaches double, creating ripple effects across industries 2025-06-30 at 07:04 By Help Net Security Supply chain risks remain top-of-mind for the vast majority of CISOs and cybersecurity leaders, according to SecurityScorecard. Their findings reveal that the way most organizations manage supply chain cyber risk isn’t keeping pace with expanding threats. The expanding web of

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Week in review: Backdoor found in SOHO devices running Linux, high-risk WinRAR RCE flaw patched

Week in review: Backdoor found in SOHO devices running Linux, high-risk WinRAR RCE flaw patched 2025-06-29 at 10:45 By Help Net Security Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Stealthy backdoor found hiding in SOHO devices running Linux SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE team has uncovered a network of compromised

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Tracing Blind Eagle to Proton66

Tracing Blind Eagle to Proton66 2025-06-27 at 16:19 By Serhii Melnyk Trustwave SpiderLabs has assessed with high confidence that the threat group Blind Eagle, aka APT-C-36, is associated with the Russian bulletproof hosting service provider Proton66. Blind Eagle is a threat actor actively targeting organizations across Latin America, with a notable focus on Colombian financial institutions.

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Money mule networks evolve into hierarchical, business-like criminal enterprises

Money mule networks evolve into hierarchical, business-like criminal enterprises 2025-06-27 at 09:12 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Michal Tresner, CEO of ThreatMark, discusses how cybercriminals are weaponizing AI, automation, and social engineering to industrialize money mule operations. He looks at how these networks have changed and how behavioral intelligence is helping

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Managing through chaos to secure networks

Managing through chaos to secure networks 2025-06-27 at 08:39 By Anamarija Pogorelec Every time there’s a natural or manmade disaster that takes medical equipment offline, cuts connectivity to emergency services and loved ones, or shuts down access to ATMs, network engineers are at the center of the heroic efforts required to restore availability and uptime.

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After a hack many firms still say nothing, and that’s a problem

After a hack many firms still say nothing, and that’s a problem 2025-06-27 at 08:08 By Help Net Security Attackers are more inclined to “log in rather than break in,” using stolen credentials, legitimate tools, and native access to stealthily blend into their target’s environment, according to Bitdefender’s 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment Report. Attack surface reduction

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We know GenAI is risky, so why aren’t we fixing its flaws?

We know GenAI is risky, so why aren’t we fixing its flaws? 2025-06-27 at 07:33 By Help Net Security Even though GenAI threats are a top concern for both security teams and leadership, the current level of testing and remediation for LLM and AI-powered applications isn’t keeping up with the risks, according to Cobalt. GenAl

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Infosec products of the month: June 2025

Infosec products of the month: June 2025 2025-06-27 at 07:01 By Sinisa Markovic Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from: Akamai, AttackIQ, Barracuda Networks, BigID, Bitdefender, Contrast Security, Cymulate, Dashlane, Embed Security, Fortanix, Fortinet, Jumio, Lemony, Malwarebytes, SpecterOps, StackHawk, Stellar Cyber, Sumsub, Thales, Tines, Vanta, and Varonis.

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ClickFix attacks skyrocketing more than 500%

ClickFix attacks skyrocketing more than 500% 2025-06-26 at 12:02 By Sinisa Markovic ClickFix, a deceptive attack method, saw a surge of more than 500% in the first half of 2025, making it the second most common attack vector after phishing, according to ESET’s latest Threat Report. The report, which looks at trends from December 2024

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Google’s Gemini CLI brings open-source AI agents to developers

Google’s Gemini CLI brings open-source AI agents to developers 2025-06-26 at 10:01 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google has open-sourced a command-line interface (CLI) agent built on its Gemini 1.5 Pro model, marking a notable step toward making generative AI more inspectable, extensible, and usable for developers working outside the IDE. The tool, simply named Gemini CLI,

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Building cyber resilience in always-on industrial environments

Building cyber resilience in always-on industrial environments 2025-06-26 at 09:07 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Tim Sattler, CISO at Jungheinrich, discusses the cybersecurity risks tied to smart warehouses and industrial control systems. He explains how to maintain operational continuity while building real cyber resilience in always-on environments. Dr. Sattler also

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CC Signals lets you set boundaries with AI without locking down your work

CC Signals lets you set boundaries with AI without locking down your work 2025-06-26 at 09:07 By Anamarija Pogorelec Creative Commons introduced CC Signals, a new framework that helps data and content owners communicate how they want their work used by AI systems. The idea is to build a shared understanding of what’s acceptable, and

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Breaking the cycle of attack playbook reuse

Breaking the cycle of attack playbook reuse 2025-06-26 at 08:32 By Help Net Security Threat actors have learned an old business trick: find what works, and repeat it. Across countless cyberattacks, Bitdefender has observed adversaries consistently applying the same steps—the same techniques, the same security bypass patterns—across different targets. What’s effective in one environment is

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Kanister: Open-source data protection workflow management tool

Kanister: Open-source data protection workflow management tool 2025-06-26 at 08:04 By Help Net Security Kanister is an open-source tool that lets domain experts define how to manage application data using blueprints that are easy to share and update. It handles the complex parts of running these tasks on Kubernetes and gives a consistent way to

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