Application Security News and Articles


What You Can’t See Can Hurt You: Are Your Security Tools Hiding the Real Risks?

With disconnected tools creating critical blind spots, your security stack is likely hiding more risk than it exposes. Discover how unifying your security data into a single view uncovers the full risk picture and lets you focus on what matters ...

Would Your Business Survive a Black Friday Cyberattack?

Would Your Business Survive a Black Friday Cyberattack? madhav Tue, 11/25/2025 - 13:54 Black Friday and Cyber Monday can make or break the year for retailers. Sales soar, carts fill, and data pours in. However, the same things that drive growth ...

Fluent Bit Vulnerabilities Expose Cloud Services to Takeover

Five flaws in the open source tool may lead to path traversal attacks, remote code execution, denial-of-service, and tag manipulation. The post Fluent Bit Vulnerabilities Expose Cloud Services to Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.

WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT: New Dark LLMs Boost Cybercrime Automation

Palo Alto Networks has conducted an analysis of malicious LLMs that help threat actors with phishing, malware development, and reconnaissance.  The post WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT: New Dark LLMs Boost Cybercrime Automation appeared first on ...

Telecommunications Network Security: Defending Against Nation State APTs with Unified AI Defense

The global telecommunications ecosystem has entered its most dangerous cyber era.As 5G, O RAN, cloud workloads, and massive IoT ecosystems expand, telecom networks have become the number one target for nation-state APTs. Attacks like Salt ...

Find the Invisible: Salt MCP Finder Technology for Proactive MCP Discovery

The conversation about AI security has shifted. For the past year, the focus has been on the model itself: poisoning data, prompt injection, and protecting intellectual property. These are critical concerns, but they miss the bigger picture of ...

SBOM is an investment in the future

There’s a saying I use often, usually as a joke, but it’s often painfully true. Past me hates future me. What I mean by that is it seems the person I used to be keeps making choices that annoy the person I am now. The best example is booking ...

Major US Banks Impacted by SitusAMC Hack

Hackers stole corporate data such as accounting records and legal agreements, but did not deploy file-encrypting ransomware. The post Major US Banks Impacted by SitusAMC Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide

Democracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World Forum on Democracy in Strasbourg, the general expectation is that democracy will be the worse for it. We have another ...

Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptographic code at the compiler level

Trail of Bits has developed constant-time coding support for LLVM 21, providing developers with compiler-level guarantees that their cryptographic implementations remain secure against branching-related timing attacks. This work introduces the ...

Fake “Windows Update” screens fuels new wave of ClickFix attacks

A convincing (but fake) “Windows Update” screen can be the perfect lure for tricking users into infecting their computers with malware. Add a multi-stage delivery chain with some offbeat techniques, and infostealer operators have ...

How to Sign Windows Binaries using AWS KMS?

What is AWS KMS? AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a cloud service that allows organizations to generate, control, and maintain keys that secure their data. AWS KMS allows organizations to have a common way of dealing with keys by making ...

640 NPM Packages Infected in New ‘Shai-Hulud’ Supply Chain Attack

The new self-replicating worm iteration has destructive capabilities, erasing home directory contents if it cannot spread to more repositories. The post 640 NPM Packages Infected in New ‘Shai-Hulud’ Supply Chain Attack appeared first ...

Microsoft cracks down on malicious meeting invites

Phishing is shifting into places people rarely check. Meeting invites that plant themselves on calendars can survive long after the malicious email is gone. That leaves a quiet opening for attackers. Microsoft has updated Defender for Office 365 ...

Root Detection in Android Apps – Security Benefits, Challenges, and Implementation Strategies

Among the most debated questions in the constantly changing mobile application development, whether to include root detection in the application is a seemingly important choice to both developers and security... The post Root Detection in Android ...

Nevada’s Trojan Download, Penn’s 1.2M Donor Breach, and the Malware That Kills Your Defenses First

In Nevada, a state employee downloaded what looked like a harmless tool from a search ad. The file had been tampered with, and that single moment opened the door to months of silent attacker movement across more than 60 agencies.  That pattern ...

NSFOCUS Receives International Recognition: 2025 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership for AI-Driven Security Operation

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov 25, 2025 – Recently, NSFOCUS Generative Pre-trained Transformer (NSFGPT) and Intelligent Security Operations Platform (NSFOCUS ISOP) were recognized by the internationally renowned consulting firm Frost & Sullivan ...

Canon Says Subsidiary Impacted by Oracle EBS Hack 

More than 100 alleged victims of the Oracle EBS campaign have been added to the Cl0p ransomware website. The post Canon Says Subsidiary Impacted by Oracle EBS Hack  appeared first on SecurityWeek.

How an AI meltdown could reset enterprise expectations

In this Help Net Security interview, Graham McMillan, CTO at Redgate Software, discusses AI, security, and the future of enterprise oversight. He explains why past incidents haven’t pushed the industry to mature. McMillan also outlines the ...

Aircraft cabin IoT leaves vendor and passenger data exposed

The expansion of IoT devices in shared, multi-vendor environments, such as aircraft cabins, has created tension between the benefits of data collaboration and the risks to passenger privacy, vendor intellectual property, and regulatory ...