Russia Orders State-Backed WhatsApp Rival Pre-Installed On Phones and Tablets Summary Starting 1 September 2025 the Russian government will require all smartphones and tablets sold in the country to come…
DARPA: Closing the Open Source Security Gap With AI Summary DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) was a two-year programme to see whether AI-driven “cyber reasoning systems” (CRSes) can find and…
Critical SAP Vulns Under Exploitation in ‘One-Two Punch’ Attack Summary Two previously disclosed but critical vulnerabilities in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer (CVE-2025-31324 and CVE-2025-42999) are being actively exploited in a…
A Bug-Hunting Framework Powered by LLMs Summary At Black Hat USA 2025, high-school researchers Sasha Zyuzin and Ruikai Peng presented a novel vulnerability-discovery framework that merges traditional static analysis with…
Prepping the Front Line for MFA Social Engineering Attacks Summary Paul Underwood of Neovera argues that modern attack campaigns increasingly rely on high-touch social engineering — phone calls, vishing and…
Tailing Hackers, Columbia University Uses Logging to Improve Security Summary Columbia University has strengthened its cybersecurity posture by heavily investing in logging and network observability after several targeted intrusions. Recent…
Summary This Dark Reading News Desk interview from Black Hat USA 2025 features David Brauchler, technical director and AI/ML security practice lead at NCC Group. Brauchler explains that relying on…
Hackers Abuse VPS Infrastructure for Stealth, Speed Summary Darktrace research shows threat actors increasingly using commercial virtual private server (VPS) providers to spin up attack infrastructure cheaply, quickly and with…
K-12 School Incident Response Plans Fall Short Summary As K-12 districts face a sustained rise in ransomware and related attacks, many incident response (IR) plans are proving inadequate. The article…
Scattered Spider Member Sentenced to a Decade in Prison Summary Noah Michael Urban, 20, a member of the Scattered Spider cybercriminal collective, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison…
