What Attackers Are Doing With Them
When an organization’s credentials are leaked, the immediate consequences are rarely visible—but the long-term impact is far-reaching. Far from the cloak-and-dagger tactics seen in fiction,…
Month: August 2025
Microsoft 365 apps to soon block file access via FPRPC by default
Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft 365 apps for Windows will start blocking access to files via the insecure FPRPC legacy authentication protocol by default…
Columbia University Data Breach – Hackers Stolen 870,000 Individuals Personal and Financial Data
Columbia University has disclosed a major cybersecurity incident where an unauthorized third party accessed and extracted a significant volume of personal and financial data. The…
ChatGPT-5 Launches – Discover What’s New in the Next-Gen AI Agent
OpenAI has officially launched ChatGPT-5, marking a significant leap forward in artificial intelligence technology with a revolutionary unified system that combines multiple specialized models to…
The UK government’s AI Growth Zones strategy: Everything you need to know
The government is on a mission to make the UK an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower, by accelerating the adoption of the technology across the public…
Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android
Microsoft announced that it will phase out the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices starting in September. Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office…
Windows User Account Control Bypassed Using Character Editor to Escalate Privileges
A sophisticated new technique that exploits the Windows Private Character Editor to bypass User Account Control (UAC) and achieve privilege escalation without user intervention, raising…
CISA Issues 10 ICS Advisories Detailing Vulnerabilities and Exploits
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released ten industrial control systems (ICS) advisories on August 7, 2025, highlighting critical vulnerabilities across various industrial…
OpenAI closes gap to artificial general intelligence with GPT-5
OpenAI has updated its large language model (LLM) in ChatGPT to GPT-5, which it says takes a significant step towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). In…
Exploiting ECS Protocol on EC2 to Exfiltrate Cross-Task IAM and Execution Role Credentials
A sophisticated technique dubbed “ECScape” that allows malicious containers running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to steal AWS credentials from other containers sharing the…
Amazon ECS Internal Protocol Exploited to Steal AWS Credentials from Other Tasks
Security researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that allows malicious containers to steal AWS credentials from other tasks running…
CISA officials say agency is moving ahead despite workforce purge
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. LAS VEGAS — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…