DeepZero: Open-source hunting for vulnerable Windows drivers

DeepZero is an open-source engine that automates the search for exploitable Windows kernel drivers. You point it at a folder of binaries and it parses them, pulls them apart, scans them, throws most of them away, and asks a language model whether what … Continue reading DeepZero: Open-source hunting for vulnerable Windows drivers

What we know about the Revolut data breach so far

Someone impersonating a government agency, using an email address on that agency’s domain, obtained sensitive customer records from Revolut. The bank confirmed the incident on Saturday, September 12. The London-based fintech told TechCrunch that … Continue reading What we know about the Revolut data breach so far

Getting a stranger’s phone kicked off the cellular network costs a few dollars

Researchers at Michigan State University and three partner schools bought a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, copied the identification number printed on the sealed box, and reported the phone to its carrier as lost. Then they opened the box and set the phone u… Continue reading Getting a stranger’s phone kicked off the cellular network costs a few dollars

Kevin Mandia joins the Amazon board with 30-plus years in cybersecurity

Amazon elected Kevin Mandia to its Board of Directors on September 8. Mandia founded Mandiant and served as its CEO before Google acquired the firm in September 2022, and he has worked against cyber threats in the public and private sectors for more th… Continue reading Kevin Mandia joins the Amazon board with 30-plus years in cybersecurity

AI-Infra-Guard: Open-source security scanner for AI systems

Tencent’s Zhuque Lab built AI-Infra-Guard, an open-source security scanner for AI systems. It fingerprints running services such as Ollama, vLLM and ComfyUI and checks them against more than 1,600 known CVEs, inspects MCP servers and agent skills… Continue reading AI-Infra-Guard: Open-source security scanner for AI systems

When AI quietly breaks things, who pays?

David Halbreich, an insurance recovery partner at Reed Smith, breaks down how AI companies should handle coverage gaps that come up as the industry grows. He covers straddle claims that fall between tail and go-forward D&O policies after a merger,… Continue reading When AI quietly breaks things, who pays?

A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller

Batteries connected to the grid make money by reacting to frequency, pushing power out when it sags and soaking it up when it rises. A few hundred of them moving together, on command from someone who should not have the command, would look the same on … Continue reading A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller

National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years

In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer is VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion covers why patch cycles built for human speed cannot keep up, and which compensati… Continue reading National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years

Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported

A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive. It works. It also exposed something more uncomfortable: reporting a bad ad to Google doesn’t mea… Continue reading Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported

Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira

Sift is a free, open-source command line tool that searches for passwords, API keys, and other sensitive data across the places a company keeps its work: local disks, Windows file shares, an entire Active Directory domain, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams c… Continue reading Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira