Russia Is Suspected To Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
Russia Is Suspected To Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System Summary Investigators say evidence points to Russia being at least partly responsible for a hack of the US…
Cornell Researchers Develop Invisible Light-Based Watermark To Detect Deepfakes
Cornell Researchers Develop Invisible Light-Based Watermark To Detect Deepfakes Summary Cornell researchers have introduced “noise-coded illumination”, an invisible, light-based watermarking system that embeds secret codes into the light illuminating a…
Phishers Abuse Microsoft 365 to Spoof Internal Users
Phishers Abuse Microsoft 365 to Spoof Internal Users Summary Cybercriminals are exploiting Microsoft 365’s Direct Send feature to send phishing emails that appear to come from internal users. The technique…
With Eyes on AI, African Orgs Push Security Awareness
With Eyes on AI, African Orgs Push Security Awareness Summary Against a fast-growing AI opportunity, many African organisations run cybersecurity awareness training but lack confidence that it works — especially…
Startup Spotlight: Twine Security Tackles the Execution Gap
Startup Spotlight: Twine Security Tackles the Execution Gap Summary Twine Security, founded in 2024 and backed with seed funding totalling about $17M, is a Black Hat USA Startup Spotlight finalist.…
Attackers Exploit Critical Trend Micro Apex One Zero-Day Flaw
Attackers Exploit Critical Trend Micro Apex One Zero-Day Flaw Summary Trend Micro has disclosed two critical zero-day command injection vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-54948 and CVE-2025-54987) in the Apex One management console for…
What ‘CMMC 3.0’ Really Means for Government Contractors
What ‘CMMC 3.0’ Really Means for Government Contractors Summary The Department of Defense’s next iteration, commonly called CMMC 3.0, builds on CMMC 2.0 rather than replacing it. The update keeps…
Privilege Escalation Issue in Amazon ECS Leads to IAM Hijacking
Privilege Escalation Issue in Amazon ECS Leads to IAM Hijacking Summary At Black Hat USA, Naor Haziz of Sweet Security revealed “ECScape”, a technique that abuses an undocumented Agent Communication…
‘Samourai’ Cryptomixer Founders Plead Guilty to Money Laundering
‘Samourai’ Cryptomixer Founders Plead Guilty to Money Laundering Summary Two senior executives and founders of the Samourai Wallet cryptocurrency mixer — CEO Keonne Rodriguez and CTO William Lonergan Hill —…
Citizen Lab Founder Flags Rise of US Authoritarianism
Citizen Lab Founder Flags Rise of US Authoritarianism Summary The Citizen Lab’s founder, Ron Deibert, spoke at Black Hat USA 2025 about a growing “vicious cycle” of digital human-rights abuses…