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Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No scouring systems for unpatched software. Instead, it simply relies on manipulating emotions such as trust, fear, and respect for authority, usually with the goal of gaining access to sensitive information or protected systems.

Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray and pray’ password guessing. No scouring systems for unpatched software. Instead, it simply relies on manipulating emotions such as trust, fear, and respect for authority, usually with the goal of gaining access to sensitive information or protected systems.

Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users’ personal data.
The development comes days after the authority, the Garante, sent a series of questions to DeepSeek, asking about its data handling practices and where it obtained its training data.
In particular, it wanted

Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users’ personal data.
The development comes days after the authority, the Garante, sent a series of questions to DeepSeek, asking about its data handling practices and where it obtained its training data.
In particular, it wanted

Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that attempted to publish such harmful apps.
The tech giant also noted it prevented 1.3 million apps from getting excessive or unnecessary access to sensitive user data during the time period by working with

Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that attempted to publish such harmful apps.
The tech giant also noted it prevented 1.3 million apps from getting excessive or unnecessary access to sensitive user data during the time period by working with

Broadcom has released security updates to patch five security flaws impacting VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs, warning customers that attackers could exploit them to gain elevated access or obtain sensitive information.
The list of identified flaws, which impact versions 8.x of the software, is below –

CVE-2025-22218 (CVSS score: 8.5) – A malicious actor with View Only Admin

Broadcom has released security updates to patch five security flaws impacting VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs, warning customers that attackers could exploit them to gain elevated access or obtain sensitive information.
The list of identified flaws, which impact versions 8.x of the software, is below –

CVE-2025-22218 (CVSS score: 8.5) – A malicious actor with View Only Admin

Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology powered by Google to further enable their malicious cyber and information operations.
« Threat actors are experimenting with Gemini to enable their operations, finding productivity gains but not yet developing novel capabilities, » Google Threat

Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology powered by Google to further enable their malicious cyber and information operations.
« Threat actors are experimenting with Gemini to enable their operations, finding productivity gains but not yet developing novel capabilities, » Google Threat

An international law enforcement operation has dismantled the domains associated with various online platforms linked to cybercrime such as Cracked, Nulled, Sellix, and StarkRDP.
The effort has targeted the following domains –

www.cracked.io
www.nulled.to
www.mysellix.io
www.sellix.io
www.starkrdp.io

Visitors to these websites are now greeted by a seizure banner that says they were confiscated

An international law enforcement operation has dismantled the domains associated with various online platforms linked to cybercrime such as Cracked, Nulled, Sellix, and StarkRDP.
The effort has targeted the following domains –

www.cracked.io
www.nulled.to
www.mysellix.io
www.sellix.io
www.starkrdp.io

Visitors to these websites are now greeted by a seizure banner that says they were confiscated

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Lightning AI Studio development platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow for remote code execution.
The vulnerability, rated a CVSS score of 9.4, enables « attackers to potentially execute arbitrary commands with root privileges » by exploiting a hidden URL parameter, application security firm Noma said in a

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Lightning AI Studio development platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow for remote code execution.
The vulnerability, rated a CVSS score of 9.4, enables « attackers to potentially execute arbitrary commands with root privileges » by exploiting a hidden URL parameter, application security firm Noma said in a

The job of a SOC analyst has never been easy. Faced with an overwhelming flood of daily alerts, analysts (and sometimes IT teams who are doubling as SecOps) must try and triage thousands of security alerts—often false positives—just to identify a handful of real threats. This relentless, 24/7 work leads to alert fatigue, desensitization, and increased risk of missing critical security incidents.

The job of a SOC analyst has never been easy. Faced with an overwhelming flood of daily alerts, analysts (and sometimes IT teams who are doubling as SecOps) must try and triage thousands of security alerts—often false positives—just to identify a handful of real threats. This relentless, 24/7 work leads to alert fatigue, desensitization, and increased risk of missing critical security incidents.

Buzzy Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, which has had a meteoric rise in popularity in recent days, left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have allowed malicious actors to gain access to sensitive data.
The ClickHouse database « allows full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data, » Wiz security researcher Gal

Buzzy Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, which has had a meteoric rise in popularity in recent days, left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have allowed malicious actors to gain access to sensitive data.
The ClickHouse database « allows full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data, » Wiz security researcher Gal

Three security flaws have been disclosed in the open-source PHP package Voyager that could be exploited by an attacker to achieve one-click remote code execution on affected instances.
« When an authenticated Voyager user clicks on a malicious link, attackers can execute arbitrary code on the server, » Sonar researcher Yaniv Nizry said in a write-up published earlier this week.

The

Three security flaws have been disclosed in the open-source PHP package Voyager that could be exploited by an attacker to achieve one-click remote code execution on affected instances.
« When an authenticated Voyager user clicks on a malicious link, attackers can execute arbitrary code on the server, » Sonar researcher Yaniv Nizry said in a write-up published earlier this week.

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