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June 26, 2025

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XOR Marks the Flaw in SAP GUI‎‎

The company has patched two vulnerabilities in its Graphical User Interface that would have allowed attackers to grab data from a user's input history feature.‎‎

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Iran-Israel War Triggers a Maelstrom in Cyberspace‎‎

As Iran closes its cyberspace to the outside world, hacktivists are picking sides, while attacks against Israel surge and spread across the region.‎‎

Millions of Brother Printers Hit by Critical, Unpatchable Bug‎‎

A slew of vulnerabilities, including a critical CVSS 9.8 that enables an attacker to generate the default admin password, affect hundreds of printer, scanner, and label-maker models made by manufacturer Brother.‎‎

Threat Actor Trojanizes Copy of SonicWall NetExtender VPN App‎‎

A threat actor hacked a version of SonicWall's NetExtender SSL VPN application in an effort to trick users into installing a Trojanized version of the product.‎‎

'Echo Chamber' Attack Blows Past AI Guardrails‎‎

An AI security researcher has developed a proof of concept that uses subtle, seemingly benign prompts to get GPT and Gemini to generate inappropriate content.‎‎

How Cyber Warfare Changes the Face of Geopolitical Conflict‎‎

As geopolitical tensions rise, the use of cyber operations and hacktivists continues to grow, with the current conflict between Israel and Iran showing the new face of cyber-augmented war.‎‎

DR GLOBAL

Africa Sees Surge in Cybercrime as Law Enforcement Struggles‎‎

Cybercrime accounts for more than 30% of all reported crime in East Africa and West Africa, with online scams, ransomware, business email compromise, and digital sextortion taking off.‎‎

THE EDGE

Cloud Repatriation Driven by AI, Cost, and Security‎

Organizations are moving away from the public cloud and embracing a more hybrid approach due to big changes over the last five years.‎

DR TECHNOLOGY

Taming Agentic AI Risks Requires Securing Non-Human Identities‎

As the definition of machine identities broadens, AI agents working on behalf of the user and gaining access to various services blurs the lines of non-human identities even more.‎

PODCAST

CISA Is Shrinking: What Does It Mean for Cyber?

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 7: Cyber experts Tom Parker and Jake Williams offer their views on the practical impact of cuts to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Listen now!

VIRTUAL EVENT

Strategic Security for the Modern Enterprise

Our virtual event happens today at 11 Eastern: As the cyber threat landscape evolves, so must the strategies and technologies to protect sensitive data in the enterprise. Zero trust and SASE approaches to securing networks are all the rage, so how do you harness them to fortify your environment? In this virtual event, we'll explore these security strategies as well as next-generation threat detection.