Cloudflare is now the first major internet infrastructure company to block AI crawlers by default when they try to access website content without permission or payment. Starting today, website owners can choose whether to allow AI crawlers and set rules…
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Sudo local privilege escalation vulnerabilities fixed (CVE-2025-32462, CVE-2025-32463)
If you haven’t recently updated the Sudo utility on your Linux box(es), you should do so now, to patch two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-32462, CVE-2025-32463) that have been disclosed on Monday. What is Sudo? Sudo is command-line utility in…
Google patches actively exploited Chrome (CVE‑2025‑6554)
Google has released a security update for Chrome to address a zero‑day vulnerability (CVE-2025-6554) that its Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered and reported last week. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2025-6554 exists in the wild,” the company said.…
Scam centers are spreading, and so is the human cost
Human trafficking tied to online scam centers is spreading across the globe, according to a new crime trend update from INTERPOL. Human trafficking victims by country of origin (Source: INTERPOL) By March 2025, people from 66 countries had been trafficked…
Federal Reserve System CISO on aligning cyber risk management with transparency, trust
In this Help Net Security interview, Tammy Hornsby-Fink, CISO at Federal Reserve System, shares how the Fed approaches cyber risk with a scenario-based, intelligence-driven strategy. She explains how the Fed assesses potential disruptions to financial stability and addresses third-party and…
Tracer AI combats fraud, counterfeits and narrative attacks in ChatGPT
Tracer AI launched Tracer Protect for ChatGPT, a solution that protects brands from the reputational harm being propagated at machine scale via AI chatbots by bad actors. The rising popularity of generative AI (genAI) engines is driving the urgent and…
How cybercriminals are weaponizing AI and what CISOs should do about it
In a recent case tracked by Flashpoint, a finance worker at a global firm joined a video call that seemed normal. By the end of it, $25 million was gone. Everyone on the call except the employee was a deepfake.…
GenAI is everywhere, but security policies haven’t caught up
Nearly three out of four European IT and cybersecurity professionals say staff are already using generative AI at work, up ten points in a year, but just under a third of organizations have put formal policies in place, according to…
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: July 1, 2025
Application Security Engineer Fireblocks | Israel | Hybrid – View job details As an Application Security Engineer, you will improve and secure the company’s continuous integration and deployment pipelines through CI/CD security hardening. You will operate, fine-tune, and customize security…
How analyzing 700,000 security incidents helped our understanding of Living Off the Land tactics
This article shares initial findings from internal Bitdefender Labs research into Living off the Land (LOTL) techniques. Our team at Bitdefender Labs, comprised of hundreds of security researchers with close ties to academia, conducted this analysis as foundational research during…