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Year: 2025

AI Adoption in the Enterprise: Breaking Through the Security and Compliance Gridlock

AI holds the promise to revolutionize all sectors of enterpriseーfrom fraud detection and content personalization to customer service and security operations. Yet, despite its potential, implementation often stalls behind a wall of security, legal, and compliance hurdles. Imagine this all-too-familiar scenario: A CISO wants to deploy an AI-driven SOC to handle the overwhelming volume of […]

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Google Patches Quick Share Vulnerability Enabling Silent File Transfers Without Consent

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new vulnerability impacting Google’s Quick Share data transfer utility for Windows that could be exploited to achieve a denial-of-service (DoS) or send arbitrary files to a target’s device without their approval. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-10668 (CVSS score: 5.9), is a bypass for two of the 10 shortcomings […]

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Triada Malware Preloaded on Counterfeit Android Phones Infects 2,600+ Devices

Counterfeit versions of popular smartphone models that are sold at reduced prices have been found to be preloaded with a modified version of an Android malware called Triada. “More than 2,600 users in different countries have encountered the new version of Triada, the majority in Russia,” Kaspersky said in a report. The infections were recorded […]

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Legacy Stripe API Exploited to Validate Stolen Payment Cards in Web Skimmer Campaign

Threat hunters are warning of a sophisticated web skimmer campaign that leverages a legacy application programming interface (API) from payment processor Stripe to validate stolen payment information prior to exfiltration. “This tactic ensures that only valid card data is sent to the attackers, making the operation more efficient and potentially harder to detect,” Jscrambler researchers […]

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Europol Dismantles Kidflix With 72,000 CSAM Videos Seized in Major Operation

In one of the largest coordinated law enforcement operations, authorities have dismantled Kidflix, a streaming platform that offered child sexual abuse material (CSAM). “A total of 1.8 million users worldwide logged on to the platform between April 2022 and March 2025,” Europol said in a statement. “On March 11, 2025, the server, which contained around […]

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Smashing Security podcast #411: The fall of Troy, and whisky barrel scammers

Renowned cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt falls victim to a phishing attack, resulting in the exposure of thousands of subscriber details, and don’t lose your life savings in a whisky scam… All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Plus! Don’t […]

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Google Fixed Cloud Run Vulnerability Allowing Unauthorized Image Access via IAM Misuse

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched privilege escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Run that could have allowed a malicious actor to access container images and even inject malicious code. “The vulnerability could have allowed such an identity to abuse its Google Cloud Run revision edit permissions in order to pull […]

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Helping Your Clients Achieve NIST Compliance: A Step by Step Guide for Service Providers

Introduction As the cybersecurity landscape evolves, service providers play an increasingly vital role in safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining compliance with industry regulations. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offers a comprehensive set of frameworks that provide a clear path to achieving robust cybersecurity practices. For service providers, adhering to NIST 

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Rational Astrologies and Security

John Kelsey and I wrote a short paper for the Rossfest Festschrift: “Rational Astrologies and Security“: There is another non-security way that designers can spend their security budget: on making their own lives easier. Many of these fall into the category of what has been called rational astrology. First identified by Randy Steve Waldman [Wal12], […]

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