CISOs view hybrid environments as best way to manage risk, compliance
15
Dec
2025

CISOs view hybrid environments as best way to manage risk, compliance

Hybrid infrastructure that includes a mix of public/private cloud environments, on-premises workloads and air-gapped systems are preferred by security leaders…

xHunt APT Hackers Attacking Microsoft Exchange and IIS Web Servers to Deploy Custom Backdoors
15
Dec
2025

xHunt APT Hackers Attacking Microsoft Exchange and IIS Web Servers to Deploy Custom Backdoors

The xHunt advanced persistent threat group has firmly established itself as a sophisticated cyber-espionage actor, orchestrating targeted campaigns against organizations…

How digital twins are helping people with motor neurone disease speak
15
Dec
2025

Finance regulator wants mortgage brokers to use artificial intelligence

Mortgage brokers are being spurred by the finance watchdog to use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), to improve services to…

Cybersecurity concerns are paramount among executives in almost all roles, regions and industries
15
Dec
2025

Cybersecurity concerns are paramount among executives in almost all roles, regions and industries

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief:…

700Credit data breach impacts 5.8 million vehicle dealership customers
15
Dec
2025

700Credit data breach impacts 5.8 million vehicle dealership customers

700Credit, a U.S.-based financial services and fintech company, will start notifying more than 5.8 million people that their personal information…

JumpCloud Remote Assist for Windows Agent Flaw Let Attackers Escalate Privilege
15
Dec
2025

JumpCloud Remote Assist for Windows Agent Flaw Let Attackers Escalate Privilege

The JumpCloud Remote Assist vulnerability (CVE-2025-34352) exposes Windows systems to local privilege escalation and denial-of-service attacks. Discovered by XM Cyber…

GitHub Scanner for React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) Turns Out to Be Malware
15
Dec
2025

GitHub Scanner for React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) Turns Out to Be Malware – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More

A GitHub repository posing as a vulnerability scanner for CVE-2025-55182, also referred to as “React2Shell,” was exposed as malicious after…

Resilience for resilience: Managing burnout among cyber leaders
15
Dec
2025

The three cyber trends that will define 2026

We are staring down the barrel of 2026. If you think the last 12 months were chaotic, strap in. The…

Atlassian fixed maximum severity flaw CVE-2025-66516 in Apache Tika
15
Dec
2025

Atlassian fixed maximum severity flaw CVE-2025-66516 in Apache Tika

Atlassian fixed maximum severity flaw CVE-2025-66516 in Apache Tika Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2025 Atlassian released security updates to address…

New Android Malware Frogblight Mimics as Official Government Websites to Collect SMS and Device Details
15
Dec
2025

New Android Malware Frogblight Mimics as Official Government Websites to Collect SMS and Device Details

A sophisticated Android banking Trojan named Frogblight has emerged as a significant threat targeting Turkish users, employing deceptive tactics to…

What Cloudflare's 2025 internet review says about attacks, outages, and traffic shifts
15
Dec
2025

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…

An illustrated padlock is mounted into a microphone stand with sound waves emitting from the device.
15
Dec
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…