Enterprise data backup platform Commvault has revealed that an unknown nation-state threat actor breached its Microsoft Azure environment by exploiting CVE-2025-3928 but emphasized there is no evidence of unauthorized data access. “This activity has affected a small number of customers…
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SonicWall Confirms Active Exploitation of Flaws Affecting Multiple Appliance Models
SonicWall has revealed that two now-patched security flaws impacting its SMA100 Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2023-44221 (CVSS score: 7.2) – Improper neutralization of special elements…
Researchers Demonstrate How MCP Prompt Injection Can Be Used for Both Attack and Defense
As the field of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at a rapid pace, new research has found how techniques that render the Model Context Protocol (MCP) susceptible to prompt injection attacks could be used to develop security tooling or…
Chinese Hackers Abuse IPv6 SLAAC for AitM Attacks via Spellbinder Lateral Movement Tool
A China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group called TheWizards has been linked to a lateral movement tool called Spellbinder that can facilitate adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. “Spellbinder enables adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks, through IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC) spoofing, to move laterally…
[Free Webinar] Guide to Securing Your Entire Identity Lifecycle Against AI-Powered Threats
How Many Gaps Are Hiding in Your Identity System? It’s not just about logins anymore. Today’s attackers don’t need to “hack” in—they can trick their way in. Deepfakes, impersonation scams, and AI-powered social engineering are helping them bypass traditional defenses…
Customer Account Takeovers: The Multi-Billion Dollar Problem You Don’t Know About
Everyone has cybersecurity stories involving family members. Here’s a relatively common one. The conversation usually goes something like this: “The strangest thing happened to my streaming account. I got locked out of my account, so I had to change my…
RansomHub Went Dark April 1; Affiliates Fled to Qilin, DragonForce Claimed Control
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed that RansomHub’s online infrastructure has “inexplicably” gone offline as of April 1, 2025, prompting concerns among affiliates of the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. Singaporean cybersecurity company Group-IB said that this may have caused affiliates to migrate to…
Meta Launches LlamaFirewall Framework to Stop AI Jailbreaks, Injections, and Insecure Code
Meta on Tuesday announced LlamaFirewall, an open-source framework designed to secure artificial intelligence (AI) systems against emerging cyber risks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, and insecure code, among others. The framework, the company said, incorporates three guardrails, including PromptGuard 2,…
Indian Court Orders Action to Block Proton Mail Over AI Deepfake Abuse Allegations
A high court in the Indian state of Karnataka has ordered the blocking of end-to-end encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country. The High Court of Karnataka, on April 29, said the ruling was in response to a legal…
New Reports Uncover Jailbreaks, Unsafe Code, and Data Theft Risks in Leading AI Systems
Various generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services have been found vulnerable to two types of jailbreak attacks that make it possible to produce illicit or dangerous content. The first of the two techniques, codenamed Inception, instructs an AI tool to imagine…