US Congressman’s Brother Lands No-Bid Contract to Train DHS Snipers
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this month quietly awarded a $30,000 no-bid contract for sniper and combat training to a Virginia firm run…
Month: September 2025
Model Namespace Reuse Flaw Hijacks AI Models on Google and Microsoft Platforms
A new security vulnerability called ‘Model Namespace Reuse’ allows attackers to hijack AI models on Google, Microsoft, and open-source platforms. Discover how attackers can secretly…
$10M reward for Russia’s FSB officers accused of hacking US Critical infrastructure
$10M reward for Russia’s FSB officers accused of hacking US Critical infrastructure Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2025 US offers $10M for Russian FSB officers Tyukov,…
Chess.com discloses recent data breach via file transfer app
Chess.com has disclosed a data breach after threat actors gained unauthorized access to a third-party file transfer application used by the platform. The incident occurred…
Innovator Spotlight: SwissBit – Cyber Defense Magazine
Securing the Digital Frontier: How Micro Storage Technology is Rewriting Cybersecurity Protocols The physical security of digital assets has long been the forgotten stepchild of…
GhostRedirector Hacks 65 Windows Servers Using Rungan Backdoor and Gamshen IIS Module
Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on a previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed GhostRedirector that has managed to compromise at least 65 Windows servers primarily…
Agentic cyber security AI abused for Citrix Netscaler attacks
Cyber security vendor Check Point Software says a recently released AI-powered framework for fast automated testing has quickly become abused by threat actors to develop…
Hackers exploited Sitecore zero-day flaw to deploy backdoors
Threat actors have been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in legacy Sitecore deployments to deploy WeepSteel reconnaissance malware. The flaw, tracked under CVE-2025-53690, is a ViewState…
Chess.com Data Breach – Hackers Breached External Systems and Gained Internal Access
Online chess giant Chess.com has disclosed a data breach that compromised the personal information of 4,541 individuals, according to a filing with the Maine Attorney General’s Office. The…
Innovator Spotlight: 360 Privacy – Cyber Defense Magazine
The Future of Cyber Resilience The algorithms are hunting us. Not with malicious code, but with something far more insidious. During a recent Black Hat…
Russian APT28 Deploys “NotDoor” Outlook Backdoor Against Companies in NATO Countries
Sep 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Malware The Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT28 has been attributed to a new Microsoft Outlook backdoor called NotDoor…
Sitecore zero-day vulnerability springs up from exposed machine key
An attacker exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Sitecore stemming from a misconfiguration of public ASP.NET machine keys that customers implemented based on the vendor’s documentation,…