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We are in the middle of an AI gold rush. The technology is advancing, democratizing access to everything from automated content creation to algorithmic decision-making. For businesses, this means opportunity. For fraudsters, it means carte blanche. Deepfakes, synthetic identities and automated scams are no longer fringe tactics. According to Deloitte, GenAI could drive fraud losses..

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As engineering teams race to adopt the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to harness the power of agentic AI, a more cautious conversation dominates security leaders’ mindshare. While the potential for innovation is clear, the primary question for CISOs and CIOs is more fundamental: how are we going to manage the growing risk?  The answer is..

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A recent discovery has shaken the Visual Studio Code (VSCode) ecosystem, unveiling a sophisticated supply chain attack targeting developers worldwide. At least a dozen malicious extensions were identified in the official VSCode Marketplace, with four remaining active as of the time of reporting. These plugins, some disguised as legitimate productivity tools, infiltrated developer environments, laying […]

The post 12 Malicious Extension in VSCode Marketplace Steal Source Code and Exfiltrate Login Credentials appeared first on Cyber Security News.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs are now a fixture of the modern workplace. Employees expect to use their own phones, tablets, and laptops to get work done, whether at home, in the office, or on the road. For organizations, this flexibility can increase productivity and reduce hardware costs, but it also introduces serious security and compliance challenges.

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Messaging service WhatsApp is launching passkey-encrypted chat backups for iOS and Android, allowing users to encrypt their stored message history using their face, fingerprint, or device screen-lock code. Backups have long been a weak link in messaging-security. Even if chats and calls are encrypted in transit, stored backups may rely on a password or key that users must remember or manage. By adding passkey-encryption for backups, WhatsApp shifts more of the security burden onto the … More →

The post WhatsApp now lets you secure chat backups with passkeys appeared first on Help Net Security.

The Jenkins project released Security Advisory 2025-10-29 on October 28, 2025, disclosing multiple vulnerabilities across 13 plugins that power the popular open-source automation server. These flaws range from high-severity authentication bypasses to permission misconfigurations and credential exposures, potentially exposing enterprise CI/CD pipelines to unauthorized access and code execution. While fixes are available for two critical […]

The post Multiple Jenkins Vulnerability SAML Authentication Bypass And MCP Server Plugin Permissions appeared first on Cyber Security News.

The cybersecurity landscape continues to shift toward cloud-based attacks, with threat actors increasingly exploiting legitimate security tools for malicious reconnaissance. AzureHound, a penetration testing utility designed for authorized security professionals, has become a weapon of choice for attackers seeking to understand and compromise Azure and Microsoft Entra ID environments. Understanding the Threat AzureHound is a […]

The post Threat Actors Abuse AzureHound Tool to Enumerate Azure and Entra ID Environments appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.

AdaptixC2, a legitimate and open red team tool used to assess an organization's security, is being repurposed by threat actors for use in their malicious campaigns. Threat researchers with Silent Push have linked the abuse of the technology back to a Russian-speaking bad actor who calls himself "RalfHacker."

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