Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2025. Today, Jeanette Manfra, senior director, Global Risk and Compliance, shares her thoughts on the role of AI in risk management. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If …
The Australian government is warning about ongoing cyberattacks against unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices in the country to infect routers with the BadCandy webshell. [...]
Passwords still matter — and weak policies leave the door wide open. Specops Software explains how longer passphrases, smarter banned-password lists, and adaptive rotation strategies can strengthen security without frustrating users. [...]
Bitcoin bridge biz offers 10 percent reward to attackers if they play nice Blockchain company Garden admits it was compromised and temporarily shut down its app after approximately $11 million worth of assets were stolen.... [...]
The Russian authorities have arrested three individuals in Moscow who are believed to be the creators and operators of the Meduza Stealer information-stealing malware. [...]
CISA confirmed on Thursday that a high-severity privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel is now being exploited in ransomware attacks. [...]
A China-linked hacking group is exploiting a Windows zero-day in attacks targeting European diplomats in Hungary, Belgium, and other European nations. [...]
Price hikes, politics, and platform fatigue drive organizations back toward open alternatives OpenInfra Summit Sovereignty might be the word of the hour, but the OpenStack community has another – resilience.... [...]
Listen to the Audio on NextBigIdeaClub.com Below, co-authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders share five key insights from their new book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship. What’s the big idea? AI can be used both for and against the public …
A Ukrainian national believed to be a member of the Conti ransomware operation has been extradited to the United States and faces charges that could get him 25 years in prison. [...]
Hospitals told to upgrade, but some medical device makers haven't prescribed compatibility yet NHS hospitals are being blocked from fully upgrading to Windows 11 by a small number of suppliers that have yet to make their medical devices compatible with Microsoft's latest operating system.... [...]
Because fewer people like banknotes, and payment sovereignty is a problem The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided the bloc needs a digital version of the Euro, and ordered work that could see it enter circulation in 2029.... [...]
Near-Field Communication (NFC) relay malware has grown massively popular in Eastern Europe, with researchers discovering over 760 malicious Android apps using the technique to steal people's payment card information in the past few months. [...]
CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom's VMware Aria Operations and VMware Tools software, exploited by Chinese hackers since October 2024. [...]
Expired security cert, real Brussels agenda, plus PlugX malware finish the job Cyber spies linked to the Chinese government exploited a Windows shortcut vulnerability disclosed in March – but that Microsoft hasn't fixed yet – to target European diplomats in an effort to steal defense and national security details.... [...]
Ribbon Communications, a provider of telecommunications services to the U.S. government and telecom companies worldwide, revealed that nation-state hackers breached its IT network as early as December 2024. [...]
Service will tell on compromised organizations, even if they didn't plan on doing so themselves Some orgs would rather you not know when they've suffered a cyberattack, but a new platform from privacy-focused tech firm Proton will shine a light on the big breaches that might otherwise stay buried …
American business services giant Conduent has confirmed that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5 million people, according to notifications filed with the US Attorney General's offices. [...]
WhatsApp is rolling out passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android devices, enabling users to encrypt their chat history using their fingerprint, face, or a screen lock code. [...]
Peter Williams, a former general manager at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris Trenchant, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to stealing and selling confidential cybersecurity information to a Russian vulnerability exploit broker. [...]
Windows Desktop installer also fixed after DLL hijack flaw rated 8.8 severity Docker Compose users are being strongly urged to upgrade their versions of the orchestration tool after a researcher uncovered a flaw that could allow attackers to stage path traversal attacks.... [...]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have released guidance to help IT administrators harden Microsoft Exchange servers on their networks against attacks. [...]
Google has been working on making computing quantum safe for almost a decade. We’ve been rolling out post-quantum cryptography in our infrastructure for internal and customer services, and now we’re at the level where you can get hands-on — and we’re here to help. We’ve developed …
PhantomRaven slipped over a hundred credential-stealing packages into npm A new supply chain attack dubbed PhantomRaven has flooded the npm registry with malicious packages that steal credentials, tokens, and secrets during installation. The packages appear safe when first downloaded, making them particularly difficult for security apps to identify.... [...]
AI agents now make decisions and access systems on their own, creating identity blind spots traditional tools can't see. Learn how Token Security brings identity-first security to agentic AI — making every agent verified, owned, and accountable. [...]
Hackers are abusing LinkedIn to target finance executives with direct-message phishing attacks that impersonate executive board invitations, aiming to steal their Microsoft credentials. [...]
Infosec agency warns hacktivists broke into critical infrastructure systems to tamper with controls Hacktivists have breached Canadian critical infrastructure systems to meddle with controls that could have led to dangerous conditions, marking the latest in a string of real-world intrusions driven by online activists rather than spies.... [...]
Interesting article about the arms race between AI systems that invent/design new biological pathogens, and AI systems that detect them before they’re created: The team started with a basic test: use AI tools to design variants of the toxin ricin, then test them against the software that …
Biz says 'technical error' caused short-lived leak affecting small number of users A major UK lottery organization says it has resolved a technical error that exposed customer data to other users.... [...]
Governments eye comms alternatives as sovereignty worries mount Comment Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo.... [...]
Ten malicious packages mimicking legitimate software projects in the npm registry download an information-stealing component that collects sensitive data from Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. [...]
Attackers are exploiting a major weakness that has allowed them access to the NPM code repository with more than 100 credential-stealing packages since August, mostly without detection. The finding, laid out Wednesday by security firm Koi, brings attention to an NPM practice that allows installed packages to automatically pull …
The Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin for WordPress, installed on over 100,000 sites, has a vulnerability that allows subscribers to read any file on the server, potentially exposing private information. [...]
Edge, Atlas, Brave among those affected Exclusive A critical, currently unpatched bug in Chromium's Blink rendering engine can be abused to crash many Chromium-based browsers within seconds, causing a denial-of-service condition – and, in some tests, freezing the host system.... [...]
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warned today that hacktivists have breached critical infrastructure systems multiple times across the country, allowing them to modify industrial controls that could have led to dangerous conditions. [...]
An active campaign named 'PhantomRaven' is targeting developers with dozens of malicious npm packages that steal authentication tokens, CI/CD secrets, and GitHub credentials. [...]
The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online A Dutch cybersecurity outfit says its lead researcher recently stumbled upon a 4TB+ SQL Server backup file belonging to EY exposed to the web, effectively leaking the accounting and consulting megacorp's secrets.... [...]
Hidden visibility gaps can turn unpatched systems into open doors. Action1 gives IT teams unified visibility and automated control to detect, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. [...]
Trusted execution environments, or TEEs, are everywhere—in blockchain architectures, virtually every cloud service, and computing involving AI, finance, and defense contractors. It’s hard to overstate the reliance that entire industries have on three TEEs in particular: Confidential Compute from Nvidia, SEV-SNP from AMD, and SGX and TDX …
Emails confirm payroll and bank details lifted in cyberattack on US subsidiary Global marketing giant Dentsu is writing to current and former staff after a cyberattack on a subsidiary led to bank, payroll, and other sensitive data being stolen.... [...]
ICO fined Bharat Singh Chand £200,000 after receiving 19,138 complaints Britain's data watchdog has fined a sole trader £200,000 for nearly a million spam texts targeting people in debt – almost 20 pence per message.... [...]
Signal has just rolled out its quantum-safe cryptographic implementation. Ars Technica has a really good article with details: Ultimately, the architects settled on a creative solution. Rather than bolt KEM onto the existing double ratchet, they allowed it to remain more or less the same as it had been …
Dangles £100K for someone to fix £23B tech mess The UK government is on the hunt for a new CTO after incumbent David Knott announced his departure, citing family reasons.... [...]
Cybersecurity agency urges organizations to upgrade or risk total network compromise Germany's infosec office (BSI) is sounding the alarm after finding that 92 percent of the nation's Exchange boxes are still running out-of-support software, a fortnight after Microsoft axed versions 2016 and 2019.... [...]
Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime …
Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals anonymize their traffic. Experts says …
Microsoft has released the KB5067036 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, which begins the rollout of the Administrator Protection cybersecurity feature and an updated Start Menu. [...]
Japanese advertising giant Dentsu has disclosed that its U.S.-based subsidiary Merkle suffered a cybersecurity incident that exposed staff and client data. [...]
The Qilin ransomware operation was spotted executing Linux encryptors in Windows using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to evade detection by traditional security tools. [...]
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned today that attackers are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in Dassault Systèmes' DELMIA Apriso, a manufacturing operations management (MOM) and execution (MES) solution. [...]