CISA Warns of Oracle E-Business Suite SSRF Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Attacks
21
Oct
2025

CISA Warns of Oracle E-Business Suite SSRF Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Attacks

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…

When everything's connected, everything's at risk
21
Oct
2025

When everything’s connected, everything’s at risk

In this Help Net Security interview, Ken Deitz, CISO at Brown & Brown, discusses how the definition of cyber risk…

Hackers Attacking Remote Desktop Protocol Services With 30,000+ New IP Addresses Daily
21
Oct
2025

Hackers Attacking Remote Desktop Protocol Services With 30,000+ New IP Addresses Daily

A persistent campaign targeting Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services, with attackers deploying over 30,000 new IP addresses daily to…

Pakistani Cyber Actors Impersonating 'NIC eEmail Services' to Target Indian Government
21
Oct
2025

Pakistani Cyber Actors Impersonating ‘NIC eEmail Services’ to Target Indian Government

Pakistan-based advanced persistent threat group APT36, also known as TransparentTribe, is actively targeting Indian government entities with a sophisticated spear-phishing…

Your smart building isn't so smart without security
21
Oct
2025

Your smart building isn’t so smart without security

The lights switch on as you walk in. The air adjusts to your presence. Somewhere in the background, a server…

AWS Declares Major Outage Resolved After Nearly 24 Hours of Disruption
21
Oct
2025

AWS Declares Major Outage Resolved After Nearly 24 Hours of Disruption

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud computing provider, has officially marked a widespread outage in its US-EAST-1 region…

Over 71,000 WatchGuard Devices Exposed to Remote Code Execution Attacks
21
Oct
2025

Over 71,000 WatchGuard Devices Exposed to Remote Code Execution Attacks

The cybersecurity community has raised a serious alarm following the recent daily reporting of vulnerable WatchGuard devices impacted by a…

AI's split personality: Solving crimes while helping conceal them
21
Oct
2025

AI’s split personality: Solving crimes while helping conceal them

What happens when investigators and cybercriminals start using the same technology? AI is now doing both, helping law enforcement trace…

10 data security companies to watch in 2026
21
Oct
2025

10 data security companies to watch in 2026

At Help Net Security, we’ve been tracking the cybersecurity world for nearly three decades. Through our Industry News section, we’ve…

Automatic BitLocker Encryption May Silently Lock Away Your Data
21
Oct
2025

Automatic BitLocker Encryption May Silently Lock Away Your Data

A Reddit poster detailed how reinstalling Windows 11 unexpectedly encrypted two of their backup drives with BitLocker, locking away 3TB…

CISA Warns of Windows SMB Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Attacks
21
Oct
2025

CISA Warns of Windows SMB Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Attacks

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an urgent alert on October 20, 2025, highlighting a severe vulnerability CVE-2025-33073…

71,000+ WatchGuard Devices Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Attacks
21
Oct
2025

71,000+ WatchGuard Devices Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution Attacks

The Shadowserver Foundation has uncovered more than 71,000 internet-exposed WatchGuard devices running vulnerable versions of Fireware OS. The flaw, tracked…