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Dutch NCSC: Citrix NetScaler zero-day breaches critical orgs Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2025 Dutch NCSC warns CVE-2025-6543 Citrix bug, a memory overflow flaw, is being exploited to breach critical organizations in the Netherlands. The Dutch NCSC warns that the critical Citrix NetScaler flaw CVE-2025-6543 has been exploited to breach critical organizations in the Netherlands. Dutch NCSC experts pointed out that CVE-2025-6543 was exploited for remote code execution. Threat actors used the flaw to compromise multiple entities and erase evidence to hide the intrusions. CVE-2025-6543 (CVSS score of 9.2) is a memory overflow vulnerability in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway when…

Fortinet has upgraded its FortiRecon platform with capabilities aligned to the Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework, aimed at helping organizations anticipate and mitigate cyber threats more effectively. The enhanced features bring together attack surface management, threat intelligence, and security orchestration, enabling security teams to identify exposures sooner and reduce risk faster through a more proactive approach. These enhancements help organizations proactively identify and prioritize real-world exposures, validate risks like an attacker would, and accelerate response, ultimately reducing the likelihood and impact of breaches. “CISOs and security teams are overwhelmed by growing attack surfaces and an endless stream of unprioritized…

Do Kwon pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in Manhattan court, with his sentencing set for Dec. 11.As Inner City Press reported on Aug. 12, Kwon admitted he orchestrated a cryptocurrency scheme that prosecutors allege caused over $40 billion in losses when LUNA and TerraUSD tokens collapsed in May 2022.His defense entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud before Judge Paul Engelmayer at the Southern District of New York (SDNY) courthouse.Kwon acknowledged making false statements about Terra’s operations and knew his statements were misleading investors.He told the court:“Between 2018 and 2022 in the SDNY and elsewhere I…

In episode 63 of The AI Fix, Unitree Robotics looks to Black Mirror episode “Metalhead” for tips on marketing its new robot dog, ChatGPT is secretly running Sweden, OpenAI introduces its first open weight model since GPT-2, and your private and personal ChatGPT conversations could be all over Google. Plus, Mark cuts through the GPT-5 hype and asks – is it AGI or just a fancy purple background, and Graham looks at “deadbots” and a disturbing interview between Jim Acosta and an AI version of a teenager killed in a school shooting. All this and much more is discussed in…

Tag CVE ID CVE Title Severity Azure File Sync CVE-2025-53729 Microsoft Azure File Sync Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Important Azure Stack CVE-2025-53793 Azure Stack Hub Information Disclosure Vulnerability Critical Azure Stack CVE-2025-53765 Azure Stack Hub Information Disclosure Vulnerability Important Azure Virtual Machines CVE-2025-49707 Azure Virtual Machines Spoofing Vulnerability Critical Azure Virtual Machines CVE-2025-53781 Azure Virtual Machines Information Disclosure Vulnerability Critical Desktop Windows Manager CVE-2025-53152 Desktop Windows Manager Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Important Desktop Windows Manager CVE-2025-50153 Desktop Windows Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Important GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio CVE-2025-53773 GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Important …

Topic modeling remains a critical tool in the AI and NLP toolbox. While large language models (LLMs) handle text exceptionally well, extracting high-level topics from massive datasets still requires dedicated topic modeling techniques. A typical workflow includes four core steps: embedding, dimensionality reduction, clustering, and topic representation. frameworks today is BERTopic, which simplifies each stage with modular components and an intuitive API. In this post, I’ll walk through practical adjustments you can make to improve clustering outcomes and boost interpretability based on hands-on experiments using the open-source 20 Newsgroups dataset, which is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International…

A new report from Bitdefender reveals the Russian-linked hacking group Curly COMrades is targeting Eastern Europe with a new backdoor called MucorAgent. Learn how they’re using advanced tactics to steal data. A new hacking group with ties to Russia has been identified by cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender. The group, dubbed Curly COMrades, is actively targeting countries in Eastern Europe that are experiencing geopolitical tensions. According to Bitdefender’s investigation, shared with Hackread.com ahead of its publication, the attacks began in mid-2024. The group’s targets include government bodies and an energy distribution company in Eastern Europe, specifically in Georgia and Moldova, where…

Statistics shared by the World Economic Forum in 2024 show healthcare and finance to be the top two industries most targeted by cybercriminals. The data held by companies in those industries is not only very sensitive but also extremely valuable to hackers. However, recent trends suggest that cybercriminals may be adding some new targets to their hit list. The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence in virtually every industry has caused many companies to begin collecting valuable data on consumers and their behavior. The evolution of attacks on AI Data-focused cyber attacks typically seek to steal or encrypt data to demand a ransom for its…

DARPA eyes transition of AI Cyber Challenge tech to ‘widespread use’ After announcing the winners of its AI challenge, DARPA wants to help transition the technology into “real-world critical infrastructure-relevant software.” Justin Doubleday@jdoubledayWFED August 11, 2025 5:18 pm 3 min read The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has wrapped up an inaugural competition focused on using artificial intelligence to quickly find and patch cyber vulnerabilities in software. DARPA announced the winner of the “AI Cyber Challenge” at DEF CON 2025 over the weekend. DARPA Director Stephen Winchell said four of the seven finalist systems have already been released as open…