NCC Group’s David Brauchler III shared how foundational controls and threat modeling strategies can help secure agentic AI tools in ways traditional guardrails can’t.

New research highlights how threat actors abuse legitimate virtual private server offerings in order to spin up infrastructure cheaply, quietly, and fast.

Quick recovery relies on three security measures.

Commvault has released updates to address four security gaps that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution on susceptible instances. The list of vulnerabilities, identified in Commvault versions before 11.36.60, is as follows – CVE-2025-57788 (CVSS score: 6.9) – A vulnerability in a known login mechanism allows unauthenticated attackers to execute API calls without…

Threat actors have been observed leveraging the deceptive social engineering tactic known as ClickFix to deploy a versatile backdoor codenamed CORNFLAKE.V3. Google-owned Mandiant described the activity, which it tracks as UNC5518, as part of an access-as-a-service scheme that employs fake CAPTCHA pages as lures to trick users into providing initial access to their systems, which…

Teenaged security researchers Sasha Zyuzin and Ruikai Peng discuss how their new vulnerability discovery framework leverages LLMs to address limitations of the past.

Attackers will continue to evolve, and the help desk will always be a target. But with the right mix of training, support, and trust, frontline agents can become your biggest security assets.

Logging netflows provided valuable insight about attacker tactics during a breach by state-sponsored hackers targeting Columbia’s research labs.

DARPA’s Kathleen Fisher discusses the AI Cyber Challenge at DEF CON 33, and the results that proved how automation can help patch vulnerabilities at scale.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malware loader called QuirkyLoader that’s being used to deliver via email spam campaigns an array of next-stage payloads ranging from information stealers to remote access trojans since November 2024. Some of the notable malware families distributed using QuirkyLoader include Agent Tesla, AsyncRAT, Formbook, Masslogger, Remcos RAT,