How an AI-Based ‘Pen Tester’ Became a Top Bug Hunter on HackerOne
AI researcher explains how an automated penetration-testing tool became the first non-human member on HackerOne to reach the top of the platform’s US leaderboard.
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Zoom and Xerox Release Critical Security Updates Fixing Privilege Escalation and RCE Flaws
Zoom and Xerox have addressed critical security flaws in Zoom Clients for Windows and FreeFlow Core that could allow privilege escalation and remote code execution. The vulnerability impacting Zoom Clients for Windows, tracked as CVE-2025-49457 (CVSS score: 9.6), relates to a case of an untrusted search path that could pave the way for privilege escalation….
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Fortinet Warns About FortiSIEM Vulnerability (CVE-2025-25256) With In-the-Wild Exploit Code
Fortinet is alerting customers of a critical security flaw in FortiSIEM for which it said there exists an exploit in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-25256, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. “An improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command (‘OS Command Injection’) vulnerability [CWE-78]…
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AI SOC 101: Key Capabilities Security Leaders Need to Know
Security operations have never been a 9-to-5 job. For SOC analysts, the day often starts and ends deep in a queue of alerts, chasing down what turns out to be false positives, or switching between half a dozen tools to piece together context. The work is repetitive, time-consuming, and high-stakes, leaving SOCs under constant pressure…
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Webinar: What the Next Wave of AI Cyberattacks Will Look Like — And How to Survive
The AI revolution isn’t coming. It’s already here. From copilots that write our emails to autonomous agents that can take action without us lifting a finger, AI is transforming how we work. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Attackers are evolving just as fast. Every leap forward in AI gives bad actors new tools — deepfake…
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Microsoft August 2025 Patch Tuesday Fixes Kerberos Zero-Day Among 111 Total New Flaws
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out fixes for a massive set of 111 security flaws across its software portfolio, including one flaw that has been disclosed as publicly known at the time of the release. Of the 111 vulnerabilities, 16 are rated Critical, 92 are rated Important, two are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low…
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Charon Ransomware Hits Middle East Sectors Using APT-Level Evasion Tactics
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs a previously undocumented ransomware family called Charon to target the Middle East’s public sector and aviation industry. The threat actor behind the activity, according to Trend Micro, exhibited tactics mirroring those of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups, such as DLL side-loading, process injection, and the ability
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China Questions Security of AI Chips From Nvidia, AMD
The US banned the sale of AI chips to China and then backed off. Now, Chinese sources are calling on NVIDIA to prove its AI chips have no backdoors.
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Elevation-of-Privilege Vulns Dominate Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday
The company’s August security update consisted of patches for 111 unique Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).
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Researchers Spot XZ Utils Backdoor in Dozens of Docker Hub Images, Fueling Supply Chain Risks
New research has uncovered Docker images on Docker Hub that contain the infamous XZ Utils backdoor, more than a year after the discovery of the incident. More troubling is the fact that other images have been built on top of these infected base images, effectively propagating the infection further in a transitive manner, Binarly REsearch…