Do we still have to keep doing it like this?

Welcome to the first edition of the Threat Source newsletter for 2025. Upon returning to work this week from my Lindt chocolate reindeer coma, my first task was to write this newsletter. As I stared at a blank template hoping for inspiration to suddenly strike, I did what any security professiona...

Blurring the Lines: How Nation-States and Organized Cybercriminals Are Becoming Alike

Blurring the Lines: How Nation-States and Organized Cybercriminals Are Becoming Alike By Tomer Shloman · January 7, 2025 The distinction between nation-state actors and organized cybercriminals is becoming increasingly blurred in our rapidly evolving cyber landscape. Historically, these groups ha...

AI Could Generate 10,000 Malware Variants, Evading Detection in 88% of Case

Cybersecurity researchers have found that it's possible to use large language models LLMs to generate new variants of malicious JavaScript code at scale in a manner that can better evade detection. "Although LLMs struggle to create malware from scratch, criminals can easily use them to rewrite or...

DigiEver Fix That IoT Thing!

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The Need for Specialized AI Models in Today’s Transforming Industry Challenges

Specialized AI models provide precise, domain-specific solutions for robotics, biotech, and materials science challenges...

Navigating Choppy Waters: Top Security Predictions from Rapid7's 2025 Webinar

It's that time of year again — one year is ending and another is set to begin.. And what a year it's been for the security community! The sheer scale of incidents has left SecOps teams breathless, so thinking about what could be in store next year can be overwhelming. But there's no need to panic...

Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks: The Dangers of Windows UI Automation

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Want to Grow Vulnerability Management into Exposure Management? Start Here!

Vulnerability Management VM has long been a cornerstone of organizational cybersecurity. Nearly as old as the discipline of cybersecurity itself, it aims to help organizations identify and address potential security issues before they become serious problems. Yet, in recent years, the limitations...

Unlocking Google Workspace Security: Are You Doing Enough to Protect Your Data?

Google Workspace has quickly become the productivity backbone for businesses worldwide, offering an all-in-one suite with email, cloud storage and collaboration tools. This single-platform approach makes it easy for teams to connect and work efficiently, no matter where they are, enabling seamles...

Bidirectional communication via polyrhythms and shuffles: Without Jon the beat must go on

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Bidirectional communication is foundational to a well-built team regardless of environment. It's critical in information security to be able to drive a conversation up the ladder and down and not lose the critical elements. One of th...

8 security tips for small businesses

Small businesses and startups are known to face some extra challenges when it comes to cybersecurity. Because they don’t have the size or budget to have a fully-fledged dedicated security team, it often comes down to one person that doesn’t have the time to do everything that is recommended or ev...

Gartner 2024 CNAPP Market Guide Insights for Leaders

As businesses increasingly pivot to cloud-native applications, the landscape of cybersecurity becomes ever more challenging...

CVE-2024-42988: Improper Access Control

Lack of access control in ChallengeSolves /api/v1/challenges/ /solves of CTFd v2.0.0 - v3.7.2 allows authenticated users to retrieve a list of users who have solved the challenge, regardless of the Account Visibility settings. The issue is fixed in v3.7.3+...

CTFd 安全漏洞

CTFd is a Capture The Flag framework open-sourced by CTFd. A security vulnerability exists in CTFd versions 2.0.0 through 3.7.2, which stems from a lack of privilege modification that allows an authenticated user to retrieve a list of users who have resolved a challenge, regardless of account...

Enhancing Cloud-Native Security: Qualys Introduces Scanning for Container-Optimized OS in Google Kubernetes Engine

As organizations move from traditional workloads to containerized environments, they encounter new security challenges. Containers bring added complexity that traditional security tools often struggle to manage, largely because of their transient nature and the shared responsibility between the...

Talk of election security is good, but we still need more money to solve the problem

Last week, six Secretaries of State testified to U.S. Congress about the current state of election security ahead of November's Presidential election. Some of the same topics came up as usual -- disinformation campaigns, influence from foreign actors, and the physical protection of poll workers o...

We can try to bridge the cybersecurity skills gap, but that doesn’t necessarily mean more jobs for defenders

I have written about the dreaded " cybersecurity skills gap" more times than I can remember in this newsletter, but I feel like it's time to revisit this topic again. That's because the White House announced a new initiative last week for the U.S. government called the " Service for America"...

My Journey To CTO for Imperva App Sec

I’m delighted to be announcing that I’ve joined Imperva as the CTO for Application Security. Many of you readers know me as the Forrester analyst covering Zero Trust, SASE, and network security since before the pandemic. But what you might not have known is prior to that, I was in application...

The State of the Virtual CISO Report: MSP/MSSP Security Strategies for 2025

The 2024 State of the vCISO Report continues Cynomi's tradition of examining the growing popularity of virtual Chief Information Security Officer vCISO services. According to the independent survey, the demand for these services is increasing, with both providers and clients reaping the rewards...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-45751

tgt aka Linux target framework before 1.0.93 attempts to achieve entropy by calling rand without srand. The PRNG seed is always 1, and thus the sequence of challenges is always identical...