Containment as a Core Security Strategy
We cannot keep reacting to vulnerabilities as they emerge. We must assume the presence of unknown threats and reduce the blast radius that they can affect.
We cannot keep reacting to vulnerabilities as they emerge. We must assume the presence of unknown threats and reduce the blast radius that they can affect.
Even in well-secured environments, attackers are getting in—not with flashy exploits, but by quietly taking advantage of weak settings, outdated encryption, and trusted tools left unprotected. These attacks don’t depend on zero-days. They work by staying unnoticed—slipping through the cracks in what we monitor and what we assume is safe. What once looked suspicious now…
By 2025, Zero Trust has evolved from a conceptual framework into an essential pillar of modern security. No longer merely theoretical, it’s now a requirement that organizations must adopt. A robust, defensible architecture built on Zero Trust principles does more than satisfy baseline regulatory mandates. It underpins cyber resilience, secures third-party partnerships, and ensures uninterrupted
Malicious actors already have already pounced on the zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-53770, to compromise US government agencies and other businesses in ongoing and widespread attacks.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel attack technique that allows threat actors to bypass Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) key protections by deceiving users into approving authentication requests from spoofed company login portals. The activity, observed by Expel as part of a phishing campaign in the wild, has been attributed to a threat actor named PoisonSeed,…
Microsoft on Sunday released security patches for an actively exploited security flaw in SharePoint and also released details of another vulnerability that it said has been addressed with “more robust protections.” The tech giant acknowledged it’s “aware of active attacks targeting on-premises SharePoint Server customers by exploiting vulnerabilities partially addressed by the July Security
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released security updates to address a critical security flaw affecting Instant On Access Points that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and gain administrative access to susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-37103, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. “Hard-coded login credentials were found…
A new attack campaign has compromised more than 3,500 websites worldwide with JavaScript cryptocurrency miners, marking the return of browser-based cryptojacking attacks once popularized by the likes of CoinHive. Although the service has since shuttered after browser makers took steps to ban miner-related apps and add-ons, researchers from the c/side said they found evidence of…
What is the Vulnerability?A critical zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, identified as CVE-2025-53770, has been actively exploited in the wild since at least July 18, 2025. This vulnerability affects on-premises SharePoint Servers and currently has no available patch. Microsoft has confirmed that attackers are targeting this flaw, which appears to be a variant of the…
The financially motivated threat actor known as EncryptHub (aka LARVA-208 and Water Gamayun) has been attributed to a new campaign that’s targeting Web3 developers to infect them with information stealer malware. “LARVA-208 has evolved its tactics, using fake AI platforms (e.g., Norlax AI, mimicking Teampilot) to lure victims with job offers or portfolio review requests,”…