What Cloudflare’s 2025 internet review says about attacks, outages, and traffic shifts
The internet stayed busy, brittle, and under constant pressure in 2025. Cloudflare’s annual Radar Year in Review offers a wide view of how traffic moved,…
Month: December 2025
Pig butchering is the next “humanitarian global crisis” (Lock and Code S06E25)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… This is the story of the world’s worst scam and how it is being used to fuel…
In cyber security, basics matter, even in 2025
What a year 2025 has been: Rich in both cyber events and innovations alike. On the latter, not a week has passed without a mention…
2025’s Top Phishing Trends and What They Mean for Your Security Strategy
2025 saw a huge amount of attacker innovation when it comes to phishing attacks, as attackers continue to double down on identity-based techniques. The continual…
NVIDIA Merlin Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code and Trigger DoS Condition
Security patches for the Merlin framework addressing two high-severity deserialization vulnerabilities. That could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code and launch denial-of-service attacks on affected…
FreePBX Patches Critical SQLi, File-Upload, and AUTHTYPE Bypass Flaws Enabling RCE
Dec 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including a critical…
Recent Windows updates break VPN access for WSL users
Microsoft says that recent Windows 11 security updates are causing VPN networking failures for enterprise users running Windows Subsystem for Linux. This known issue affects…
Wireshark 4.6.2 Released With Fix for Vulnerabilities, and Updated Protocol Support
Wireshark 4.6.2, the latest version of the leading open-source network protocol analyzer, addresses critical crash vulnerabilities and plugin compatibility issues. This maintenance release prioritizes stability…
What is driving the rise of infostealer malware?
Cyber criminals would much rather log in than hack in. That’s why infostealer malware, designed to exfiltrate user credentials, browser data, messages, documents, images, and…
New ARTEMIS AI Agent Outperformed 9 out of 10 Human Penetration Testers in Detecting Vulnerabilities
Researchers from Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Gray Swan AI have unveiled ARTEMIS, a sophisticated AI agent framework that demonstrates remarkable competitive capabilities against…
16TB of MongoDB Database Exposes 4.3 Billion Lead Gen Records – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
In a major event that should make every professional pause and worry about their online privacy, cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko, working with nexos.ai, recently discovered…
Mastercard’s Deputy Chief Security Officer Alissa (Dr Jay) Abdullah, PhD on AI & Cybersecurity
Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), cybercrime and, as a result, cybersecurity are evolving rapidly, leaving businesses and individuals across the world scrambling to catch up.…