Fire Ant Exploits VMware Flaws to Compromise ESXi Hosts and vCenter Environments

Virtualization and networking infrastructure have been targeted by a threat actor codenamed Fire Ant as part of a prolonged cyber espionage campaign. The activity, observed this year, is primarily designed Now to infiltrate organizations' VMware ESXi and vCenter environments as well as network...

Quantum Software Security Challenges within Shared Quantum Computing Environments

The number of qubits in quantum computers keeps growing, but most quantum programs remain relatively small because of the noisy nature of the underlying quantum hardware. This might lead quantum cloud providers to explore increased hardware utilization, and thus profitability through means such a...

Trusted Data Fusion, Multi-Agent Autonomy, Autonomous Vehicles

Multi-agent collaboration enhances situational awareness in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance ISR missions. Ad hoc networks of unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs allow for real-time data sharing, but they face security challenges due to their decentralized nature, making them vulnerable t...

Zeek 7.0.9

Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. While focusing on network security monitoring, Zeek provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Zeek ha...

Why Observability Tools Tend to Fail at Scale

Observability is no longer just about catching errors or checking if a server is up. In modern distributed systems, it’s about understanding behavior across dozens, if not thousands, of services, all running in different environments and generating massive amounts of data...

setuptools: Path Traversal Vulnerability in setuptools PackageIndex

A path traversal vulnerability in the Python setuptools library allows attackers with limited system access to write files outside the intended temporary directory by manipulating package download URLs. This flaw bypasses basic filename sanitization and can lead to unauthorized overwrites of...

CVE-2025-53029

Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox product of Oracle Virtualization component: Core. The supported version that is affected is 7.1.10. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Oracle VM VirtualBox executes to compromise Oracle ...

Securing Transformer-Based AI Execution Via Unified TEEs and Crypto-Protected Accelerators

Recent advances in Transformer models, e.g., large language models LLMs, have brought tremendous breakthroughs in various artificial intelligence AI tasks, leading to their wide applications in many security-critical domains. Due to their unprecedented scale and prohibitively high development cos...

CVE-2025-38333

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to bail out in getnewsegment ------------ cut here ------------ WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 579 at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2832 newcurseg+0x5e8/0x6dc pc : newcurseg+0x5e8/0x6dc Call trace: newcurseg+0x5e8/0x6dc...

Supporting Intel(R) SGX on Multi-Package Platforms

Intelr Software Guard Extensions SGX was originally released on client platforms and later extended to single socket server platforms. As developers have become familiar with the capabilities of the technology, the applicability of this capability in the cloud has been tested. Various Cloud Servi...

The vulnerability of the software platform for managing execution environments of Apache CloudStack, related to information disclosure, allows a hacker to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the software platform that manages virtual machine environments in Apache CloudStack is related to information disclosure. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to gain unauthorized access to protected information...

Qualys Named as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform, 2025

We’re proud to share that Qualys has been recognized as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform 2025 Vendor Assessment doc US53549925, June 2025. We believe this recognition reinforces our commitment to delivering game-changing innovation that...

Exposed JDWP Exploited in the Wild: What Happens When Debug Ports Are Left Open

Understanding the risks and impact of deploying dev-mode in production environments...

Qualys Named an Overall Leader in CNAPP by KuppingerCole

We’re proud to share that Qualys has been named an Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms CNAPP—achieving leadership positions in both product and market presence. This recognition validates our commitment to delivering truste...

microcode_ctl: From CVEorg collector

A flaw was found in the Branch Prediction Unit BPU of Intel's Lion Core CPUs that make it possible for an attacker to bypass Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier IBPB protections. By employing branch predictor training techniques as described in the "Training Solo" publication, an attacker with loca...

microcode_ctl: From CVEorg collector

A flaw was found in the Branch Prediction Unit BPU of Intel's Lion Core CPUs that make it possible for an attacker to bypass Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier IBPB protections. By employing branch predictor training techniques as described in the "Training Solo" publication, an attacker with loca...

CVE-2025-49520 Event-driven-ansible: authenticated argument injection in git url in eda project creation

A flaw was found in Ansible Automation Platform’s EDA component where user-supplied Git URLs are passed unsanitized to the git ls-remote command. This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to inject arguments and execute arbitrary commands on the EDA worker. In Kubernetes/OpenShift...

tiny-secp256k1 allows for verify() bypass when running in bundled environment

Summary A malicious JSON-stringifyable message can be made passing on verify, when global Buffer is buffer package Details This affects only environments where require'buffer' is E.g.: browser bundles, React Native apps, etc. Buffer.isBuffer check can be bypassed, resulting in strange objects bei...

GHSA-5VHG-9XG4-CV9M tiny-secp256k1 allows for verify() bypass when running in bundled environment

Summary A malicious JSON-stringifyable message can be made passing on verify, when global Buffer is buffer package Details This affects only environments where require'buffer' is E.g.: browser bundles, React Native apps, etc. Buffer.isBuffer check can be bypassed, resulting in strange objects bei...

GHSA-7MC2-6PHR-23XC tiny-secp256k1 vulnerable to private key extraction when signing a malicious JSON-stringifyable message in bundled environment

Summary Private key can be extracted on signing a malicious JSON-stringifiable object, when global Buffer is buffer package Details This affects only environments where require'buffer' is E.g.: browser bundles, React Native apps, etc. Buffer.isBuffer check can be bypassed, resulting in k reuse fo...