Contrast Security announced Northstar, a major release for the company that redefines how businesses see cyberattacks, stop breaches, and protect their applications and APIs. Contrast pairs runtime data and contextual analysis with AI-powered auto-remediation to cut response times and eliminate…
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Roundcube RCE: Dark web activity signals imminent attacks (CVE-2025-49113)
With an exploit for a critical Roundcube vulnerability (CVE-2025-49113) being offered for sale on underground forums and a PoC exploit having been made public, attacks exploiting the flaw are incoming and possibly already happening. According to the Shadowserver Foundation, there…
Balancing cybersecurity and client experience for high-net-worth clients
In this Help Net Security interview, Renana Friedlich-Barsky, EVP and CISO at LPL Financial, discusses how threat actors are targeting high-net-worth clients and exploiting digital touchpoints in wealth management. She explains why firms must embed security from the start to…
CISOs, are you ready for cyber threats in biotech?
The threat landscape in the bioeconomy is different from what most CISOs are used to. It includes traditional risks like data breaches, but the consequences are more complex. A compromise of genomic databases, for example, does not just expose personal…
fiddleitm: Open-source mitmproxy add-on identifies malicious web traffic
fiddleitm is an open-source tool built on top of mitmproxy that helps find malicious web traffic. It works by checking HTTP requests and responses for known patterns that might point to malware, phishing, or other threats. fiddleitm features “I created…
Employees repeatedly fall for vendor email compromise attacks
In just 12 months, attackers attempted to steal more than $300 million via vendor email compromise (VEC), with 7% of engagements coming from employees who had engaged with a previous attack, according to Abnormal AI. Vendor email compromise risks increase…
Enterprise SIEMs miss 79% of known MITRE ATT&CK techniques
Using the MITRE ATT&CK framework as a baseline, organizations are generally improving year-over-year in understanding security information and event management (SIEM) detection coverage and quality, but plenty of room for improvement remains, according to CardinalOps. MITRE ATT&CK enhances SOC visibility…
Week in review: Google fixes exploited Chrome zero-day, Patch Tuesday forecast
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: June 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Second time is the charm? Microsoft has been busy releasing more out-of-band (OOB) patches than usual throughout May. Google fixes…
Millions of Android devices roped into Badbox 2.0 botnet. Is yours among them?
Millions of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices running the open-source version of the Android operating system are part of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, the FBI has warned. Cyber criminals are using the botnet to perform ad fraud and click fraud, but access…
145 criminal domains linked to BidenCash Marketplace seized
Approximately 145 darknet and conventional internet domains, along with cryptocurrency funds linked to the BidenCash marketplace, have been seized by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. The operators of the BidenCash marketplace use the platform to…