August Patch Tuesday includes blasts from the (recent) past

Mozilla on Monday announced a new controls section in its Firefox desktop browser settings that allows users to completely turn off generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) features. “It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox,” Ajit Varma, head of Firefox, said. “You can also review and manage individual AI…

Penetration testing is critical to uncovering real-world security weaknesses. With the shift into continuous testing and validation, it is time we automate the delivery of these results. The way results are delivered hasn’t kept up with today’s fast-moving threat landscape. Too often, findings are packaged into static reports, buried in PDFs or spreadsheets, and handed…

Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the attacks have leveraged the security flaw since June 2024. Additional details about the shortcomings have been withheld to prevent further…

The ransomware gang, known for double-extortion attacks, had access to a critical Cisco firewall vulnerability weeks before it was publicly disclosed.

It’s called “grokking,” and gives spammers a way to skirt X’s ban on links in promoted posts and reach larger audiences than ever before.

Organizations can improve their climate footprints by optimizing two specific cybersecurity protections, without incurring added risks.