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In 2025, employees are still using weak passwords. Instead of forcing an impossible change, security leaders are working around the problem.

South America's largest country is notorious for banking malware attacks; Maverick self-terminates if its targeted user is based outside Brazil.

The African country aims to train 1 million workers in tech skills in the short term, with a focus on software engineering, cybersecurity, and data science.

The same APT hammered critical bugs in Citrix NetScaler (CVE-2025-5777) and the Cisco Identity Service Engine (CVE-2025-20337) in a sign of growing adversary interest in identity and access management systems.

The phishing kit, run by a group known as the "Smishing Triad," has powered massive amounts of unpaid tolls and package tracking texts.

Threats against Microsoft Exchange continue to mount, but there are steps both organizations and Microsoft can take to limit them.

A campaign against Microsoft 365 users leverages Quantum Route Redirection, which simplifies previously technical attack steps and has affected victims across 90 countries.

Security teams may have a less burdensome rollout in November after October's Goliath Patch Tuesday, but shouldn't wait on a few top-priority fixes.

Cybercriminals are weaponizing AI voice cloning and publicly available data to craft social engineering scams that emotionally manipulate senior citizens—and drain billions from their savings.

From intelligence analysts to surface warfare officers, military veterans of all backgrounds are successfully pivoting to cybersecurity careers and strengthening the industry's defense capabilities.

Konni, a subset of the state-sponsored DPRK cyberespionage group, first exploits Google Find Hub, which ironically aims to protect lost Android devices, to remotely wipe devices.

Security misconfiguration jumped to second place while injection vulnerabilities dropped, as organizations improve defenses against traditional coding flaws.

GlassWorm, a self-propagating VS Code malware first found in the Open VSX marketplace, continues to infect developer devices around the world.

Attackers compromise hospitality providers with an infostealer and RAT malware and then use stolen data to launch phishing attacks against customers via both email and WhatsApp.

The tool let its operators secretly record conversations, track device locations, capture photos, collect contacts, and perform other surveillance on compromised devices.

A published VS Code extension didn't hide the fact that it encrypts and exfiltrates data and also failed to remove obvious signs it was AI-generated.

In partnership with Emirates tech company G42, Microsoft is building the first stage of a 5-gigawatt US-UAE AI campus using Nvidia GPUs.

Human-centered identity frameworks are incorrectly being applied to AI agents, creating the potential for catastrophe at machine speed, Poghosyan argues.