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Bitcoin, which had spent much of the past month trading within a narrow range, suddenly broke out to a new all-time high of $112,000 on July 9.The surge coincided with a sharp increase in the “Coinbase Premium,” a key indicator used to gauge Bitcoin demand among US investors.According to data from CryptoQuant, BTC was trading over $48 higher on Coinbase than on offshore platforms like Binance during the upswing, hinting at significant buying pressure from the American market.Bitcoin Coinbase Premium (Source: CryptoQuant)That gap had reached an even wider margin earlier, peaking at $87.76 last week. This suggests that institutional and…

Microsoft has confirmed a widespread issue in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) that prevents organizations from syncing with Microsoft Update and deploying the latest Windows updates. Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a Microsoft product that allows businesses to manage and distribute Windows updates to computers within their network. By default, WSUS synchronizes with Microsoft Update servers once a day, when it downloads the latest metadata on available Windows updates. Admins can change the frequency if they wish in the settings. Since last night, Windows admins have reported that WSUS synchronization is broken, with event logs showing “A connection attempt…

Cynomi has launched new business impact analysis (BIA) and business continuity planning (BCP) features. Designed to help cybersecurity professionals identify and protect mission-critical business processes, these new capabilities enable service providers to prioritize security efforts effectively, streamline continuity planning, and drive business resilience. Traditional BIA and BCP processes have long been resource-intensive, fragmented, and often overlooked due to their complexity. Cynomi’s latest release eliminates these challenges by offering an automated, structured, and actionable approach to business continuity and risk management. Key features and benefits: Business impact analysis (BIA): Helps cybersecurity teams assess and prioritize mission-critical business processes, ensuring security efforts…

Executive Summary Unit 42 stopped monitoring this threat and updating the brief on Monday, June 25, 2025. Please refer to the SAP Netweaver release notes for the latest information. Update May 23, 2025: We have added further details and indicators of compromise (IoC) to this post, to provide defenders additional information to hunt with. This information can be found in the Appendix section. On April 24, 2025, SAP disclosed CVE-2025-31324, a critical vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10.0 affecting the SAP NetWeaver’s Visual Composer Framework, version 7.50. This threat brief shares a brief overview of the vulnerability and our…

Fortinet revealed persistent gaps, pointing to critical areas where organizations must strengthen their defenses as IT and OT (operational technology) environments become increasingly interconnected and exposed. In 2025, 52% of organizations now place OT security under the CISO, up from just 16% in 2022. With 80% planning to follow their lead, CISOs are expanding security operations, automation, and threat intelligence into OT environments, bringing industrial cybersecurity into boardroom focus, as responsibility for OT security continues to elevate within executive ranks. In its ‘2025 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report,’ Fortinet identified that OT security maturity is affecting the impact…

In this Help Net Security interview, David Warburton, Director at F5 Labs, discusses how the EU’s Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) roadmap aligns with global efforts and addresses both the technical and regulatory challenges of migrating to PQC. Warburton also outlines practical steps organizations must take to ensure cryptographic agility and long-term data protection. How does the EU’s PQC roadmap align with global efforts, such as those from NIST and ETSI? Are there any key differences or unique priorities? The EU’s PQC roadmap is broadly aligned with that from NIST; both advise a phased migration to PQC with hybrid-PQC ciphers and hybrid…

DoNot APT is expanding scope targeting European foreign ministries Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2025 DoNot APT, likely an India-linked cyberespionage group, targets European foreign ministries with LoptikMod malware. The DoNot APT group, likely linked to India, has expanded its operations and is targeting European foreign ministries with a new malware, called LoptikMod. The Donot Team (also known as APT-C-35 and Origami Elephant) has been active since 2016, focusing on government entities, foreign ministries, defense organizations, and NGOs in South Asia and Europe. DoNot APT uses custom Windows malware via phishing for espionage, enabling long-term access and data theft. In a recent campaign, analyzed…

world of deep learning training, the role of the ML developer can be likened to that of the conductor of an orchestra. Just as a conductor must time the entry of each instrument to produce the perfect harmony, so must the ML practitioner orchestrate a multitude of hardware components — CPUs and GPUs with their associated memory, high-speed storage, network controllers, various communication buses, etc. — to work together seamlessly to maximize runtime performance. Just as a single off-key note can disrupt an entire musical production, a bottleneck or inefficiency in any one of these components can severely hamper the…

Executive Summary We conducted a comparative study of the built-in guardrails offered by three major cloud-based large language model (LLM) platforms. We examined how each platform’s guardrails handle a broad range of prompts, from benign queries to malicious instructions. This examination included evaluating both false positives (FPs), where safe content is erroneously blocked, and false negatives (FNs), where harmful content slips through these guardrails. LLM guardrails are an essential layer of defense against misuse, disallowed content and harmful behaviors. They serve as a safety layer between the user and the AI model, filtering or blocking inputs and outputs that violate…