A Bug-Hunting Framework Powered by LLMs Summary High-school researchers Sasha Zyuzin and Ruikai Peng presented a new vulnerability-discovery framework at Black Hat USA 2025 that blends traditional static analysis with…
Prepping the Front Line for MFA Social Engineering Attacks Summary Recent FBI alerts and high-profile campaigns such as Scattered Spider show a clear trend: attackers are increasingly using phone-based, high-touch…
Tailing Hackers, Columbia University Uses Logging to Improve Security Summary Columbia University has bolstered its security posture by relying on extensive logging and observability after a series of attacks, including…
How Architectural Controls Help the AI Security Gap Summary At Black Hat USA 2025, David Brauchler (NCC Group) argues that relying on AI “guardrails” is insufficient. Through penetration testing his…
Hackers Abuse VPS Infrastructure for Stealth, Speed Summary New research from Darktrace shows attackers are abusing legitimate virtual private server (VPS) services to spin up cheap, quiet, and fast attack…
K-12 School Incident Response Plans Fall Short Source: Roman Milert via Alamy Stock Photo Summary DarkReading reports that K-12 schools remain attractive targets for cybercriminals — particularly ransomware actors —…
Scattered Spider Member Sentenced to a Decade in Prison Summary A member of the Scattered Spider cybercriminal collective, Noah Michael Urban, 20, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal…
Video Game Anti-Cheat Systems: A Cybersecurity Goldmine Summary This Dark Reading interview (Black Hat USA 2025) with Sam Collins and Marius Muench of the University of Birmingham examines the security,…
Insurers May Limit Payments in Cases of Unpatched CVEs Summary Cyber insurers are experimenting with policy language that would limit or reduce payouts when breaches exploit known, unpatched CVEs. Proposed…
Do Claude Code Security Reviews Pass the Vibe Check? Summary Anthropic has added a security review feature to Claude Code that lets developers prompt the model to scan repositories for…
