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SUDO
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, …

Google Chrome
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. …

extortion
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 …

Tammy Hornsby-Fink
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 …

chess
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 …

Brain
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 …

scanning
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 …

cybersecurity jobs
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 …

Europol Spain
Fraudsters behind €460 million crypto scam arrested in Spain

Spanish authorities arrested five members of a criminal network responsible for laundering €460 million stolen through global cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes. Source: …

Netscaler
CitrixBleed 2 might be actively exploited (CVE-2025-5777)

While Citrix has observed some instances where CVE-2025-6543 has been exploited on vulnerable NetScaler networking appliances, the company still says that they don’t …

RIFT
RIFT: New open-source tool from Microsoft helps analyze Rust malware

Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center has released a new tool called RIFT to help malware analysts identify malicious code hidden in Rust binaries. While Rust is becoming …

Christopher McGranahan
Are we securing AI like the rest of the cloud?

In this Help Net Security interview, Chris McGranahan, Director of Security Architecture & Engineering at Backblaze, discusses how AI is shaping both offensive and …

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