Federal Cuts Put Local, State Agencies at Cyber-Risk Summary Federal budget and staffing reductions at key cybersecurity organisations have coincided with a wave of high-impact attacks on state and local…
UltraViolet Expands AppSec Capabilities With Black Duck’s Testing Business Summary UltraViolet Cyber has acquired the Application Security Testing (AST) services business from Black Duck to broaden its unified security operations.…
Scammers Are Using Grok to Spread Malicious Links on X Summary Bad actors on X (formerly Twitter) are abusing the platform’s native AI assistant, Grok, to amplify and make clickable…
Embracing the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Talent Summary This commentary argues that student-run security operations centres (SOCs) are a practical, scalable way to tackle the global cybersecurity labour shortage. Using…
Critical SAP S/4HANA Vulnerability Under Attack, Patch Now Summary A critical code-injection flaw (CVE-2025-42957) in SAP S/4HANA — rated CVSS 9.9 — is being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability…
Anyone Using Agentic AI Needs to Understand Toxic Flows Summary Agentic AI — systems that act autonomously and chain tools together — is being rushed into enterprise use to hit…
Secretive MaaS Group ‘TAG-150’ Develops Novel ‘CastleRAT’ Summary Researchers have linked a recently observed malware-as-a-service cluster to an operation labelled TAG-150 that uses a loader called CastleLoader (and an associated…
First CRISPR horses spark controversy: what’s next for gene-edited animals? Summary Scientists have created the first horses with CRISPR–Cas9 edits, cloning five foals from the prize stallion Polo Pureza and…
When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions Summary A Spanish non‑profit, the La Caixa Foundation, has been using a three‑algorithm AI system for three…
Nature goes inside the world’s largest ‘mosquito factory’ — here’s the buzz Summary Raising mosquitoes to fight disease might sound odd, but a facility in Brazil mass-produces Aedes aegypti infected…
