This week, cyber attackers are moving quickly, and businesses need to stay alert. They’re finding new weaknesses in popular software and coming up with clever ways to get around security. Even one unpatched flaw could let attackers in, leading to data theft or even taking control of your systems. The clock is ticking—if defenses aren’t updated regularly, it could lead to serious damage. The
Flaws in Major Automaker’s Dealership Systems Allowed Car Hacking, Personal Data Theft
A researcher has demonstrated how a platform used by over 1,000 dealerships in the US could have been used to hack cars.
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6 Lessons Learned: Focusing Security Where Business Value Lives
The Evolution of Exposure Management
Most security teams have a good sense of what’s critical in their environment. What’s harder to pin down is what’s business-critical. These are the assets that support the processes the business can’t function without. They’re not always the loudest or most exposed. They’re the ones tied to revenue, operations, and delivery. If one goes down, it’s more than a
Most security teams have a good sense of what’s critical in their environment. What’s harder to pin down is what’s business-critical. These are the assets that support the processes the business can’t function without. They’re not always the loudest or most exposed. They’re the ones tied to revenue, operations, and delivery. If one goes down, it’s more than a
Russian Hackers Exploited WinRAR Zero-Day in Attacks on Europe, Canada
WinRAR has patched CVE-2025-8088, a zero-day exploited by Russia’s RomCom in attacks on financial, defense, manufacturing and logistics companies.
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Over 29,000 Exchange servers unpatched against high-severity flaw
Over 29,000 Exchange servers exposed online remain unpatched against a high-severity vulnerability that can let attackers move laterally in Microsoft cloud environments, potentially leading to complete domain compromise. […]
Connex Credit Union data breach impacts 172,000 members
Connex, one of Connecticut’s largest credit unions, warned tens of thousands of members that unknown attackers had stolen their personal and financial information after breaching its systems in early June. […]
BadCam: New BadUSB Attack Turns Linux Webcams Into Persistent Threats
Eclypsium researchers have demonstrated a BadCam attack against Lenovo cameras, but others may be impacted as well.
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How to restore GPT-4o when you’ve GPT-5
Sam Altman overhyped GPT-5 and the results are underwhelming. Some users are upset with GPT-5’s new personality, but you can restore GPT-4o if you pay for the Plus plan. […]
WinRAR Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation – Update to Latest Version Immediately
The maintainers of the WinRAR file archiving utility have released an update to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability.
Tracked as CVE-2025-8088 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been described as a case of path traversal affecting the Windows version of the tool that could be exploited to obtain arbitrary code execution by crafting malicious archive files.
“When extracting a file,
Tracked as CVE-2025-8088 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been described as a case of path traversal affecting the Windows version of the tool that could be exploited to obtain arbitrary code execution by crafting malicious archive files.
“When extracting a file,
New Win-DDoS Flaws Let Attackers Turn Public Domain Controllers into DDoS Botnet via RPC, LDAP
A novel attack technique could be weaponized to rope thousands of public domain controllers (DCs) around the world to create a malicious botnet and use it to conduct power distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
The approach has been codenamed Win-DDoS by SafeBreach researchers Or Yair and Shahak Morag, who presented their findings at the DEF CON 33 security conference today.
“As we
The approach has been codenamed Win-DDoS by SafeBreach researchers Or Yair and Shahak Morag, who presented their findings at the DEF CON 33 security conference today.
“As we