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As IT environments grow more complex, IT professionals are facing unprecedented pressure to secure business-critical data. With hybrid work the new standard and cloud adoption on the rise, data is increasingly distributed across different environments, providers and locations, expanding the attack surface for emerging cyberthreats. While the need for a strong data protection strategy has…

Researchers from Symantec showed how OpenAI’s Operator agent, currently in research preview, can be used to construct a basic phishing attack from start to finish.

Meta has warned that a security vulnerability impacting the FreeType open-source font rendering library may have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-27363, and carries a CVSS score of 8.1, indicating high severity. Described as an out-of-bounds write flaw, it could be exploited to achieve remote code execution…

Browser maker Mozilla is urging users to update their Firefox instances to the latest version to avoid facing issues with using add-ons due to the impending expiration of a root certificate. “On March 14, 2025, a root certificate used to verify signed content and add-ons for various Mozilla projects, including Firefox, will expire,” Mozilla said….

Mandiant researchers found the routers of several unnamed organizations (likely telcos and ISPs) were hacked by UNC3886, and contained a custom backdoor called “TinyShell.”

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released updated differential privacy guidelines for organizations to follow to protect personally identifiable information when sharing data.

A threat actor leveraged the vulnerability in an “extremely sophisticated” attack on targeted iOS users, the company says.

The prolonged attack, which lasted 300+ days, is the first known compromise of the US electric grid by the Voltzite subgroup of the Chinese APT; during it, the APT attempted to exfiltrate critical OT infrastructure data.

In the past, the vulnerability was exploited to drop Mirai botnet malware. Today, it’s being used once more for another botnet campaign with its own malware.

The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as UNC3886 has been observed targeting end-of-life MX routers from Juniper Networks as part of a campaign designed to deploy custom backdoors, highlighting their ability to focus on internal networking infrastructure. “The backdoors had varying custom capabilities, including active and passive backdoor functions, as well as an embedded script…