The goal is to produce a cyber force capable of defeating threats posed by major adversaries such as China. The post CYBERCOM 2.0: Pentagon Unveils Plan to Fix Cyber Talent Shortfalls appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: My coauthor Nathan E. Sanders and I are speaking at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC at noon ET on November 17, 2025. The event is hosted by the POPVOX Foundation and the topicRead More »Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: EchoGram attack undermines AI guardrails, Asahi brewer still crippled after ransomware attack, Sora 2 system prompt uncovered. The post In Other News: Deepwatch Layoffs, macOS Vulnerability, Amazon AI Bug Bounty appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including those from Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open-source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. “These vulnerabilities all traced back to the same root cause: the overlooked unsafe use of ZeroMQ (ZMQ) and Python’sRead More »Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity, detected in early September 2025 and assessed to be ongoing, has been codenamed SpearSpecter by theRead More »Iranian Hackers Launch ‘SpearSpecter’ Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets
The information was stolen from a legacy cloud file storage system, not from its payment processing platform. The post Checkout.com Discloses Data Breach After Extortion Attempt appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The media company admitted that cybercriminals attempted to extort a payment after stealing personal information. The post Washington Post Says Nearly 10,000 Employees Impacted by Oracle Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Akira was seen exploiting SonicWall vulnerabilities and encrypting Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) VM disk files this year. The post Akira Ransomware Group Made $244 Million in Ransom Proceeds appeared first on SecurityWeek.
As AI capabilities grow, we must delineate the roles that should remain exclusively human. The line seems to be between fact-based decisions and judgment-based decisions. For example, in a medical context, if an AI was demonstrably better at reading a test result and diagnosing cancer than a human, you wouldRead More »The Role of Humans in an AI-Powered World
A financially motivated threat actor automated the package publishing process in a coordinated tea.xyz token farming campaign. The post Amazon Detects 150,000 NPM Packages in Worm-Powered Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
