North Korean hackers were observed employing the 'EtherHiding' tactic to deliver malware, steal cryptocurrency, and perform espionage with stealth and resilience. [...]

Flaw in Kestrel web server allowed request smuggling, impact depends on hosting setup and application code Microsoft has patched an ASP.NET Core vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.9, which security program manager Barry Dorrans said was "our highest ever." The flaw is in the Kestrel web …

Microsoft says Windows 11 users can now start a conversation with the AI-powered Copilot digital assistant by saying the "Hey Copilot" wake word. [...]

Microsoft announced today a new Windows 11 Copilot feature called Copilot Actions that enables AI agents to perform real tasks on local files and applications. [...]

Bill Cassidy letter asks if Switchzilla sat on critical flaws before feds were forced into emergency patching US Senator Bill Cassidy has fired off a pointed letter to Cisco over the firewall flaws that allegedly let hackers breach "at least one federal agency."... [...]

Alert says financial account information lifted from systems Auction house Sotheby's says it was breached on July 24, and those behind the intrusion stole an unspecified amount of data, including Social Security numbers and financial account information.... [...]

GenAI meets Gen Z – only one gets the job ai-pocalypse The UK tech sector is cutting graduate jobs dramatically – down 46 percent in the past year, with another 53 percent drop projected, according to figures from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE).... [...]

CNN has a great piece about how cryptocurrency ATMs are used to scam people out of their money. The fees are usurious, and they’re a common place for scammers to send victims to buy cryptocurrency for them. The companies behind the ATMs, at best, do not care about …

How to avoid your business being felled by an AI-powered ransomware attack that costs less than a laptop. Passwork KNP Logistics Group, a British transport company from Northamptonshire that’s been around longer than the mass-produced lightbulb, collapsed after a devastating security breach that left more than 700 employees …

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to help you safely build generative AI applications at scale. It offers integrated safety and privacy protections that work across multiple foundation models (FMs), including models available in Amazon Bedrock and models hosted outside Amazon Bedrock from other providers. Bedrock Guardrails currently offers …

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK has fined Capita, a provider of data-driven business process services, £14 million ($18.7 million) for a data breach incident in 2023 that exposed the personal information of 6.6 million people. [...]

Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach of a major maker of software, the federal government warned Wednesday. F5, a Seattle-based maker of networking software, disclosed …

19-year-old college student Matthew D. Lane, from Worcester, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for orchestrating a cyberattack on PowerSchool in December 2024 that resulted in a massive data breach. [...]

Amazon Bedrock has simplified how you access foundation models, streamlining the integration of AI capabilities into your applications. Here’s what’s changed and how to maintain control over model access in your organization. What’s new: Simplified model access Amazon Bedrock now provides automatic access to the serverless …

An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager. [...]

Cybersecurity company F5 has released security updates to address BIG-IP vulnerabilities stolen in a breach detected on August 9, 2025. [...]

The evolving security landscape demands more than just speed. It requires an intelligent, automated defense. Google Security Operations is an AI-powered platform built to deliver a modern agentic security operations center (SOC), where generative AI is woven into the fabric of your operations. We go beyond traditional SIEM and …

Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.... [...]

Spanish fashion retailer MANGO is sending notices of a data breach to its customers, warning that its marketing vendor suffered a compromise exposing personal data. [...]

Dark web activity can hide in plain sight within everyday network traffic. Corelight's NDR platform brings deep visibility, AI-driven detection, and behavioral analytics to uncover hidden threats across your network. [...]

U.S. cybersecurity company F5 disclosed that nation-state hackers breached its systems and stole undisclosed BIG-IP security vulnerabilities and source code. [...]

Apple is now offering a $2M bounty for a zero-click exploit. According to the Apple website : Today we’re announcing the next major chapter for Apple Security Bounty, featuring the industry’s highest rewards, expanded research categories, and a flag system for researchers to objectively demonstrate vulnerabilities and obtain …

ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a £14 million ($18.6 million) penalty to outsourcing giant Capita following a catastrophic 2023 cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 6.6 million people.... [...]

Hackers stole personal information of 6.6m people but outsourcing firm did not shut device targeted for 58 hours The outsourcing company Capita has been fined £14m for data protection failings after hackers stole the personal information of 6.6 million people, including staff details and those of its …

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2025. Today, Kristina Behr, VP, Workspace Product Management, and Jorge Blanco, director, Office of the CISO, explain how a new AI-driven capability in Google Drive can help security and business leaders protect their data and minimize the impact of ransomware …

Microsoft today released software updates to plug a whopping 172 security holes in its Windows operating systems, including at least two vulnerabilities that are already being actively exploited. October’s Patch Tuesday also marks the final month that Microsoft will ship security updates for Windows 10 systems. If you …

A threat actor called TigerJack is constantly targeting developers with malicious extensions published on Microsoft's Visual Code (VSCode) marketplace and OpenVSX registry to steal cryptocurrency and plant backdoors. [...]

By using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, developers can build agentic workloads using a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade services that help quickly and securely deploy and operate AI agents at scale using any framework and model, hosted on Amazon Bedrock or elsewhere. AgentCore services are modular and composable, allowing them to …

A new side-channel attack called Pixnapping enables a malicious Android app with no permissions to extract sensitive data by stealing pixels displayed by applications or websites, and reconstructing them to derive the content. [...]

Today is Microsoft's October 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 172 flaws, including six zero-day vulnerabilities. Get patching! [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice has seized $15 billion in bitcoin from the leader of Prince Group, a criminal organization that stole billions of dollars from victims in the United States through cryptocurrency investment scams, also known as romance baiting or pig butchering. [...]

Oracle has silently fixed an Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability (CVE-2025-61884) that was actively exploited to breach servers, with a proof-of-concept exploit publicly leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group. [...]

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I and Nathan E. Sanders will be giving a book talk on Rewiring Democracy at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on October 22, 2025 at noon ET. I and …

FuzzingLabs has accused the YCombinator-backed startup, Gecko Security, of replicating its vulnerability disclosures. Gecko allegedly filed for 2 CVEs based on FuzzingLabs' reports without crediting them. Gecko denies any wrongdoing, calling the allegations a misunderstanding over disclosure process. [...]

Japan's beer behemoth still mopping up after ransomware spill that disrupted deliveries and delayed results Asahi's cyber hangover just got worse, with the brewer now admitting that personal information may have been tapped in last month's attack.... [...]

AI assistants are no longer just helping — they're acting. Autonomous agents now open tickets, fix incidents, and make decisions faster than humans can monitor. As "Shadow AI" spreads, learn from Token Security why orgs must govern these agents like powerful new identities before oversight disappears. [...]

Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months Mozilla is working on a built-in VPN for Firefox, with beta tests opening to select users shortly.... [...]

Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections. [...]

Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data Oracle is rushing out another emergency patch for its embattled E-Business Suite as the fallout from the Clop-linked attacks continues to spread.... [...]

Chinese state hackers remained undetected in a target environment for more than a year by turning a component in the ArcGIS geo-mapping tool into a web shell. [...]

This chilling paragraph is in a comprehensive Brookings report about the use of tech to deport people from the US: The administration has also adapted its methods of social media surveillance. Though agencies like the State Department have gathered millions of handles and monitored political discussions online, the Trump …

Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government's cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled.... [...]

Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits The European Union's new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague's international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals manually.... [...]

Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal 2FA codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds. The new attack, named Pixnapping by the team of academic researchers who devised it, requires a victim to first install a malicious app on …

My latest book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, will be published in just over a week. No reviews yet, but can read chapters 12 and 34 (of 43 chapters total). You can order the book pretty much everywhere, and a copy signed by …

'We will never stop,' say crooks, despite retiring twice in the space of a month The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) cybercrime collective - compriseed primarily of teenagers and twenty-somethings - announced it will go dark until 2026 following the FBI's seizure of its clearweb site.... [...]

The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms protecting Bitcoin wallets, encrypted web visits, and other sensitive secrets will be useless. No one doubts the day will come, but as the …

At Google, protecting your data is our most important responsibility, and we are committed to keeping your data safe. To further this commitment, we are proud to announce that starting in November 2025, we will start transitioning our approach to media sanitization to fully rely on a robust and …

Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the software giant "illegally" tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data.... [...]

Beijing insists it's business as usual – Washington might see it differently China's competition regulator has launched an investigation into Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli firm Autotalks, the latest salvo in the escalating tech trade war between Washington and Beijing.... [...]