Author: HackWatchit

New research from Claroty reveals alarming security risks across building management systems (BMS) and building automation systems (BAS), including widespread Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs), some tied to active ransomware campaigns, and unsecured internet-facing interfaces that leave these environments highly exposed. While BMS and BAS platforms play a vital role in tracking energy usage, meeting environmental regulations, and supporting sustainability goals, their integration also introduces serious security gaps. Many organizations are leveraging these systems to drive operational efficiencies and reduce utility costs across distributed sites, but without proper security controls, the same systems pose a growing threat to business continuity and…

Kai West, aka IntelBroker, indicted for cyberattacks causing $25M in damages Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2025 British national Kai West, aka IntelBroker, was charged in U.S. for a global hacking scheme that stole and sold data, causing millions in damages. Kai West (25), a British national, has been charged in the U.S. for operating as ‘IntelBroker,’ running a global hacking scheme that stole and sold data, causing millions in damages. The US DoJ unsealed charges against Kai West, who was arrested in France in February 2025. He’s held in pre-trial detention as the U.S. seeking extradition for cybercrimes. “The United…

ninth in our series on performance profiling and optimization in PyTorch aimed at emphasizing the critical role of performance analysis and optimization in machine learning development. Throughout the series we have reviewed a wide variety of practical tools and techniques for analyzing and boosting the runtime performance of PyTorch-based AI/ML models. Our goal has been twofold: To emphasize the importance of routine evaluation and optimization of AI/ML workloads. To demonstrate the accessibility of a wide variety tools and techniques for analyzing and optimizing AI/ML runtime performance. You don’t need to be a CUDA expert to meaningfully improve your model performance and reduce…

Overview The traditional methodology of a remote attacker who has no preconceptions of a target network used to be fairly static. With organizations moving to “the cloud”, the approach attackers are taking is going to change drastically if it hasn’t already. In this blog post I am going to detail why, if your organization has moved its assets to the cloud, an attacker is likely going to make that their primary attack focus. They will likely succeed, and you will likely not know that it happened. Cloud Computing Primer Scalable storage, easy collaboration between employees, and cost savings by eliminating…

The Co-op is offering a £10 shopping discount to members after a cyber-attack saw hackers steal personal data including names, home address, email addresses, and membership card numbers. The one-off offer — available until 24 June — is only available if you spend more than £40 in a shop at Co-op. It’s not much of an offer – how often does someone spend £40 in a shop at Co-op? Sign up to our free newsletter.Security news, advice, and tips. Whether £10 off a shop compensates for having your personal information…

Note: Quotes have been edited for clarity. After decades of tracking Chinese nation-state actors, cybersecurity veterans have never witnessed the scale and sophistication of threats we’re seeing today. Organizations must fundamentally rethink their defensive posture to counter this escalating campaign. The New Reality of Attacks at Unprecedented Scale In a recent conversation on the Threat Vector podcast with host David Moulton, Chief Security Intelligence Officer Wendi Whitmore, of Palo Alto Networks, puts today’s threat landscape in stark historical perspective: I have been conducting investigations in this space specifically toward nation-state actors for almost 25 years. It’s been a while, and…

A total of 689 printer models from Brother, along with 53 other models from Fujifilm, Toshiba, and Konica Minolta, come with a default administrator password that remote attackers can generate. Even worse, there is no way to fix the flaw via firmware in existing printers. The flaw, tracked under CVE-2024-51978, is part of a set of eight vulnerabilities discovered by Rapid7 researchers during a lengthy examination of Brother hardware. CVE Description Affected Service CVSS CVE-2024-51977 An unauthenticated attacker can leak sensitive information. HTTP (Port 80), HTTPS (Port 443), IPP (Port 631) 5.3 (Medium) CVE-2024-51978 An unauthenticated attacker can generate the…

ZURICH, Switzerland – Zurich-based automation platform Flowable has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner newly released Market Guide for Business Process Automation (BPA), which we feel reinforces its role in delivering AI-enhanced, standards-driven workflow solutions for complex enterprise environments. As enterprise environments become increasingly dynamic, automation platforms must support varied use cases across departments and systems. Modern BPA solutions now integrate intelligent agents, rule engines, and human-led decisions to improve speed, consistency, and adaptability. Our key takeaway from this report is that it recommends evaluating platforms that integrate these inputs into a single system governed for visibility and…

Can a Blockchain Truly Be for Humans First? World Is Betting on It. What if there were an internet where you, as a human, were always in the fast lane, never stuck in traffic behind armies of automated bots? This isn’t a hypothetical question for World, the ambitious project formerly known as Worldcoin. With the launch of its blockchain, World Chain, the company has introduced a radical new concept: Priority Blockspace for Humans (PBH). It is a direct attempt to solve one of the most persistent problems in the crypto world, network congestion caused by bots, and to create a…