A sophisticated new banking malware is hard to detect, capable of stealing lots of money, and infecting thousands of people in Italy and Spain.

A seemingly benign privilege-escalation process in VMware and other software has likely benefited attackers and other malware strains for years, researchers noted.

A group of academics from KU Leuven and the University of Birmingham has demonstrated a new vulnerability called Battering RAM to bypass the latest defenses on Intel and AMD cloud processors. “We built a simple, $50 interposer that sits quietly in the memory path, behaving transparently during startup and passing all trust checks,” researchers Jesse…

Government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned nation-state actor dubbed Phantom Taurus over the past two-and-a-half years. “Phantom Taurus’ main focus areas include ministries of foreign affairs, embassies, geopolitical events, and military operations,” Palo Alto Networks Unit 42

Agentic AI has introduced abundant shadow artificial intelligence (AI) risks. Cybersecurity startup Entro Security extends its platform to help enterprises combat the growing issue.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three now-patched security vulnerabilities impacting Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could have exposed users to major privacy risks and data theft. “They made Gemini vulnerable to search-injection attacks on its Search Personalization Model; log-to-prompt injection attacks against Gemini Cloud

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the expansion of its Sentinel Security Incidents and Event Management solution (SIEM) as a unified agentic platform with the general availability of the Sentinel data lake. In addition, the tech giant said it’s also releasing a public preview of Sentinel Graph and Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. “With graph-based context,…

The Problem: Legacy SOCs and Endless Alert Noise Every SOC leader knows the feeling: hundreds of alerts pouring in, dashboards lighting up like a slot machine, analysts scrambling to keep pace. The harder they try to scale people or buy new tools, the faster the chaos multiplies. The problem is not just volume; it is…

A newly patched security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since mid-October 2024 by a threat actor called UNC5174, according to NVISO Labs. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-41244 (CVSS score: 7.8), a local privilege escalation bug affecting the following versions – VMware…

Flaws in individual models of Google’s AI suite created significant security and privacy risks for users, demonstrating the need for heightened defenses.