A sophisticated cybercriminal campaign has emerged targeting professionals through meticulously crafted fake Zoom applications designed to execute system takeover commands. The attack leverages advanced social…
A Mandiant Red Team engagement has uncovered two critical vulnerabilities in Aviatrix Controller—cloud networking software used to manage multi-cloud environments. The flaws enable full system…
Summary 1. The U.S. House Chief Administrative Officer banned WhatsApp from all government-issued devices used by congressional staffers, including mobile, desktop, and web browser versions.…
A newly disclosed vulnerability in RARLAB’s WinRAR, the widely used file compression utility for Windows, has put millions of users at risk of remote code…
Health and life insurer Aflac said it is investigating a breach on its US network that may have exposed customers’ personal information, making it the…
A sophisticated China-linked cyber espionage campaign has emerged, targeting over 1,000 Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) devices worldwide through an advanced Operational Relay Box (ORB) network…
A critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-49144) in Notepad++ v8.8.1 enables attackers to achieve full system control through a supply-chain attack. The flaw exploits the installer’s…
In this Help Net Security interview, Stacy Wallace, CISO at Arizona Department of Revenue, talks about the realities of work-life balance in cybersecurity leadership. She…
A US judge granted preliminary approval to a US$177 million ($273 million) settlement that resolves lawsuits against AT&T over breaches in 2024 that exposed personal…
A groundbreaking AI jailbreak technique, dubbed the “Echo Chamber Attack,” has been uncovered by researchers at Neural Trust, exposing a critical vulnerability in the safety…
Reconmap is an open source tool for vulnerability assessments and penetration testing. It helps security teams plan, carry out, and report on security tests from…
TAFE NSW and the NSW Education Standards Authority join NSW Police as big winners of technology-related funding in this year’s state budget. The state government…
