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Over a year after SonicWall patched CVE-2024-40766, a critical flaw in its next-gen firewalls, ransomware attackers are still gaining a foothold in organizations by exploiting it. Like last September and earlier this year, the attackers are affiliates …
An out-of-the-box setting in Cursor, a popular AI source-code editor, could be leveraged by attackers to covertly run malicious code on users’ computers, researchers have warned. An exploitable vulnerability in the Cursor AI editor Cursor is an A…
You type your email address into a website form but never hit submit. Hours later, a marketing email shows up in your inbox. According to new research, that is not a coincidence. A team of researchers from UC Davis, Maastricht University, and other ins…
In this Help Net Security interview, Gregory Richardson, Vice President, Advisory CISO Worldwide, at BlackBerry, talks about the growing risks to communications networks. He explains why attackers focus on these networks and how their motivations range…
In this Help Net Security video, John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, explores the state of DMARC adoption across the top 10 million internet domains. He explains how SPF, DKIM, and DMARC work together to prevent email spoofing, why m…
On September 2025 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released patches for 80+ vulnerabilities in its various software products, but the good news is that none of them are actively exploited. Among the critical and important vulnerabilities patched by Microso…
Most organizations run an annual network penetration test, remediate the issues it uncovers, and move on. But attackers are probing networks every day, using publicly available tools to exploit common misconfigurations and overlooked vulnerabilities. A…
LLMs can make mistakes, leak data, or be tricked into doing things they were not meant to do. Garak is a free, open-source tool designed to test these weaknesses. It checks for problems like hallucinations, prompt injections, jailbreaks, and toxic outp…
Organizations often operate as if their security controls are fully effective simply because they’re deployed, configured, and monitored. Firewalls are in place, endpoints are protected, and SIEM rules are running. All good, right? Not so fast. A…
Media streaming company Plex has suffered a data breach and is urging users to reset their account password and enable two-factor authentication. “An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. W…