DARPA: Closing the Open Source Security Gap With AI Summary DARPA’s two-year AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) tasked teams with building AI-enabled cyber reasoning systems (CRSes) to find and patch vulnerabilities…
Hacktivist Tied to Multiple Cyber Groups Sentenced to Jail Summary Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky, a 26-year-old from South Yorkshire, has been sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to nine offences…
Fake Employees Pose Real Security Risks Source: Anatolii Babii via Alamy Stock Photo Summary Dark Reading reports that the rise of AI, remote work and the gig economy has made…
A Bug-Hunting Framework Powered by LLMs Summary At Black Hat USA 2025, high-school researchers Sasha Zyuzin and Ruikai Peng unveiled a vulnerability-discovery framework that fuses traditional static analysis with Large…
Prepping the Front Line for MFA Social Engineering Attacks Summary Paul Underwood (Vice President of Security, Neovera) warns that modern, high-touch social engineering campaigns increasingly target help desks to bypass…
Tailing Hackers, Columbia University Uses Logging to Improve Security Summary Columbia University has strengthened its security posture by investing in comprehensive logging and observability after a series of attacks, including…
Scattered Spider affiliate given 10 year sentence, ordered to pay $13 million in restitution Summary Noah Michael Urban, 20, was sentenced by a federal judge to 10 years in prison,…
Hackers Abuse VPS Infrastructure for Stealth, Speed Summary Darktrace research shows threat actors are abusing commercial virtual private server (VPS) services to spin up attack infrastructure quickly, cheaply and quietly.…
Google yet to take down ‘screenshot-grabbing’ Chrome VPN extension Summary Security researchers at Koi Security report that the Chrome extension FreeVPN.One began capturing screenshots of users’ pages shortly after each…
Microsoft makes MCP in Visual Studio GA but researchers warn of risks Summary Microsoft has declared Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers generally available in Visual Studio. Developers can configure MCP…
