Weekly roundup exploring how cyber threats, AI misuse, and digital deception are reshaping global security trends.

Windows doesn’t offer a single switch to disable Exploit Protection completely. You can only disable individual mitigations system-wide or per app. We strongly recommend turning it off only for ...

Update Nov. 3, 10:42 am UTC: This article has been updated to include a section on Berachain’s emergency hard fork. Update Nov. 3, 9:47 am UTC: This article has been updated to add the latest figures, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...

Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-11371) in Gladinet CentreStack and Triofox products, which allows a local attacker to access system files without authentication. At ...

Consider this scenario: you go to a hot new restaurant and order a dish that you absolutely love. Bingo, your new favorite place! As luck would have it, the following week you are back to your dream ...

A California man was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after admitting to using the online chatting platform Discord to sexually exploit minor girls. James Styner, 20, pleaded guilty to three ...

Decentralized exchange Bunni fell victim to an exploit, losing about $2.4 million in stablecoins after attackers manipulated the platform’s liquidity calculations, according to onchain data by ...

MariaDB, a company that as recently as last year was very much in transition due in part to the fact its new CEO, Rohit de Souza, is a specialist in preparing organizations for acquisition and resale, ...

ESET Research discovered a zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR being exploited in the wild in the guise of job application documents; the weaponized archives exploited a path traversal flaw to compromise ...

CISA has warned that attackers are actively exploiting two security vulnerabilities in the SysAid IT service management (ITSM) software to hijack administrator accounts. The two unauthenticated XML ...

Microsoft Corp. accused Chinese state-sponsored hackers of using flaws in its SharePoint document management software in a hacking campaign that has targeted businesses and government agencies around ...