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When Microsoft disclosed a critical flaw in its Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) platform earlier this month, few expected the exploit to escalate this quickly—or this creatively. Just days after the company’s out-of-band fix was released on October 23, attackers began weaponizing the vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-59287 , to infiltrate enterprise environments and hijack the very infrastructure meant to distribute trusted software updates. The Darktrace Threat Resea

In the evolving theatre of cyber-conflict, large-scale breaches are no longer just the result of a single dramatic failure—now they are nearly always the result of many smaller failures colliding. According to recent analysis by Panaseer —a specialist in continuous controls monitoring—the statistic that sets the alarm bells ringing is stark: 70 % of major breaches stem from “toxic combinations” of overlapping cybersecurity risks. Understanding the domino effect The term toxi

When high-profile campaigns by groups like LAPSUS$ and Scattered Spider make headlines, they often leave the strong impression of technical wizardry: zero-days, clever malware, intricate breaches. But according to research from Flashpoint , that narrative misses the more profound evolution underway. Gone are the days when data extortion simply meant bulk-stealing databases: the playbook has matured to target the single most vulnerable link in modern enterprise security— human

A new class of cyber-attack has surfaced in the age of enterprise AI, and it is rewriting the data-governance rulebook. The stealthy exploit, dubbed Shadow Escape , reportedly allows bad actors to exfiltrate sensitive personal and organizational data via standard AI assistant workflows — even when all systems appear to be operating inside trusted boundaries. The vulnerability was uncovered by the security research team at Operant AI, which characterizes the attack as a zero-c

Researchers have uncovered a new exploit that targets the AI-powered browsers Atlas by OpenAI and Comet by Perplexity, showing how attackers can create fake AI sidebars indistinguishable from the real interface to deliver malicious commands. The vulnerability—dubbed AI Sidebar Spoofing —was demonstrated by cybersecurity firm SquareX, which found that a rogue browser extension could overlay a counterfeit sidebar capable of intercepting every user interaction. The spoof mimic

Researchers at Forescout’s Vedere Labs say they’ve pulled open a fresh set of dangerous doors in TP-Link’s Omada and Festa VPN appliances — two newly cataloged vulnerabilities that let an attacker execute shell commands as root and resurrect a patched debug backdoor. The duo of flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-7850 and CVE-2025-7851 , expose an uncomfortable truth: incremental patches that don’t remove legacy developer features can create new, high-severity attack paths. The most