8 best practices for CISOs conducting risk reviews

The Deputy CISO blog series is where Microsoft Deputy Chief Information Security Officers CISOs share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series, you will get practical advice, tactics to start and stop deploying, forward-looking commentary on where the...

Webinar: How to Automate Exposure Validation to Match the Speed of AI Attacks

In February 2026, researchers uncovered a shift that completely changed the game: threat actors are now using custom AI setups to automate attacks directly into the kill chain. We aren't just talking about AI writing better phishing emails anymore. We’re talking about autonomous agents mapping...

Scam-checking just got a lot easier: Malwarebytes is now in Claude

For years, Malwarebytes has protected people by going where they are, and where people are today is increasingly within AI tools. As these chatbots tackle more everyday questions—like what to wear for an interview, how to replace a pendant light in the home, and where to eat during upcoming...

5 Places where Mature SOCs Keep MTTR Fast and Others Waste Time

Security teams often present MTTR as an internal KPI. Leadership sees it differently: every hour a threat dwells inside the environment is an hour of potential data exfiltration, service disruption, regulatory exposure, and brand damage. The root cause of slow MTTR is almost never "not enough...

Threat Intel Scraping Without Burning Your Cover or Your Stack

Threat Intel Scraping sounds simple until it isn’t, here’s how cybersecurity teams avoid blocks, bad data, and unnecessary risk...

EUVD-2025-209469

An access control vulnerability was discovered in the Threat Intelligence functionality due to a specific access restriction not being properly enforced for users with view-only privileges. An authenticated user with view-only privileges for the Threat Intelligence functionality can perform...

CVE-2025-40897

An access control vulnerability was discovered in the Threat Intelligence functionality due to a specific access restriction not being properly enforced for users with view-only privileges. An authenticated user with view-only privileges for the Threat Intelligence functionality can perform...

CVE-2025-40897

The CVE-2025-40897 entry concerns Guardian/CMC Threat Intelligence prior to version 26.0.0, where an access control flaw allows users with view-only privileges to perform administrative actions, potentially altering rules configuration and affecting availability. The vulnerability stems from impr...

CVE-2025-40897 Incorrect authorization for Threat Intelligence in Guardian/CMC before 26.0.0

An access control vulnerability was discovered in the Threat Intelligence functionality due to a specific access restriction not being properly enforced for users with view-only privileges. An authenticated user with view-only privileges for the Threat Intelligence functionality can perform...

CVE-2025-40897 Incorrect authorization for Threat Intelligence in Guardian/CMC before 26.0.0

An access control vulnerability was discovered in the Threat Intelligence functionality due to a specific access restriction not being properly enforced for users with view-only privileges. An authenticated user with view-only privileges for the Threat Intelligence functionality can perform...

CVE-2025-40897

An access control vulnerability was discovered in the Threat Intelligence functionality due to a specific access restriction not being properly enforced for users with view-only privileges. An authenticated user with view-only privileges for the Threat Intelligence functionality can perform...

What is Predictive Threat Intelligence for Organizations?

You wouldn’t set sail across the ocean without checking the weather forecast. Meteorologists gather data on temperature, wind, and pressure systems to predict an incoming storm, giving you time to prepare. Predictive threat intelligence applies the same logic to cybersecurity. It collects and...

What Is a Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Platform?

A vulnerability scanner tells you where the cracks are in your defenses, but it doesn't tell you which ones an attacker will actually use. To truly understand your exposure, you need to see your network from their perspective. How can a low-severity flaw on one server be combined with a...

What Is a Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Tool?

Your security team is talented, but they aren't miracle workers. With a persistent skills shortage and ever-tightening budgets, asking them to patch every single vulnerability is not just unrealistic; it's inefficient. Chasing low-risk issues wastes valuable time and leads to burnout, all while...

What Makes a Vulnerability Management Dashboard Effective?

Let's be direct: a high CVSS score doesn't mean a vulnerability is a top priority for your organization. Attackers don't care about theoretical scores; they care about clear, exploitable pathways to your critical assets. If your vulnerability management dashboard is only showing you generic...

MCPThreatHive: Automated Threat Intelligence for Model Context Protocol Ecosystems

The rapid proliferation of Model Context Protocol MCP-based agentic systems has introduced a new category of security threats that existing frameworks are inadequately equipped to address. We present MCPThreatHive, an open-source platform that automates the end-to-end lifecycle of MCP threat...

Incorrect authorization for Threat Intelligence in Guardian/CMC before 26.0.0

Summary An access control vulnerability was discovered in the Threat Intelligence functionality due to a specific access restriction not being properly enforced for users with view-only privileges. Impact An authenticated user with view-only privileges for the Threat Intelligence functionality ca...

PT-2026-33014

An access control vulnerability was discovered in the Threat Intelligence functionality due to a specific access restriction not being properly enforced for users with view-only privileges. An authenticated user with view-only privileges for the Threat Intelligence functionality can perform...

AI-Driven Pushpaganda Scam Exploits Google Discover to Spread Scareware and Ad Fraud

Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked a novel ad fraud scheme that has been found to leverage search engine poisoning SEO techniques and artificial intelligence AI-generated content to push deceptive news stories into Google's Discover feed and trick users into enabling persistent browser...

Threat Intelligence for Exposure Management: How TI Powers Smarter CTEM Programs

Your security team has access to more vulnerability data than ever before. Scanners produce thousands of findings each week. Threat feeds deliver a steady stream of indicators. Yet most organizations still struggle with the same fundamental problem: deciding what to fix first. The disconnect...