Author: HackWatchit

In a dramatic raid at a hotel in central Pattaya this week, Thai police have unearthed a criminal gang that was operating a ransomware and illicit gambling operation.At 11:30pm local time on Monday 16 June, authorities conducted a floor-by-floor search of the eight-storey Antai Holiday Hotel, after it had been tipped off about suspected illegal activity.What they found was not only a floor housing a sophisticated gambling operation with poker tables, large quantities of cash chips, and some 20 foreign gamblers, but also – on the eighth floor – six Chinese nationals who were distributing links to companies designed to…

In this Help Net Security interview, Silviu Asandei, Security Specialist and Security Governance at Sonar, discusses how AI code assistants are transforming development workflows and impacting security. He explains how these tools can boost productivity but may also propagate vulnerabilities if not properly reviewed. What security risks do AI code assistants pose that developers and organizations might overlook? While AI code assistants enhance developer productivity, they introduce significant and often overlooked security risks across multiple domains. On the human level, over-reliance can foster a “false confidence,” leading to unscrutinized, insecure code and diminished developer skills. This can create a “generative…

Cybersecurity researchers at Noma Security have disclosed details of a critical vulnerability within LangChain‘s LangSmith platform, specifically affecting its public Prompt Hub. This critical flaw, dubbed AgentSmith with a CVSS score of 8.8 (indicating a high severity), could allow malicious AI agents to steal sensitive user data, including valuable OpenAI API keys, and even manipulate responses from large language models (LLMs). The AgentSmith Threat Explained LangSmith is a popular LangChain platform used by major companies like Microsoft and DHL for managing and collaborating on AI agents. The Prompt Hub, its key feature, is a public library for sharing/reusing pre-configured AI…

Welcome to the second half of 2025. Quite a ride so far, and as it continues, we wanted to take stock of the chief executives that offer perspective on the trends, challenges and opportunities shaping global finance. In the first half of 2025, PYMNTS has featured a remarkable array of CEO insights, each offering a window into the strategies and philosophies driving the world’s most innovative banks, FinTechs and payment platforms. Here are eight compelling CEO quotes from PYMNTS interviews, earnings calls and features so far this year, each from a different leader, all reflecting the pulse of the industry. …

We’ve all been there. You craft the perfect phishing email, register a great domain name, your multi handler is set up ever so perfectly. And then you wait and nothing happens. Egress packet filtering has destroyed all your hard work. Now there are payloads and listeners designed specifically for this sort of thing, and they usually work well. But if you’re like me you want to have options. PowerShell has been my bread and butter as of late, so I decided to write a few lines of script that would allow me to try every port out towards my listener…

The Shifting Landscape of Digital Ownership Can a blockchain protocol truly empower its users with ownership, moving beyond the traditional venture capital model, particularly when its core functionality lies in complex smart contract interactions? This question takes on a more intricate dimension when analyzing Enso’s recent $5 million community round, conducted on the CoinList platform. The initiative is not merely a fundraising event, but a strategic maneuver to decentralize the future trajectory of a protocol built upon an “intent-based” architecture. This architectural paradigm, as envisioned by Enso, aims to simplify complex on-chain operations by allowing users to declare their desired…

Miami, June 18, 2025, CyberNewswire — Halo Security today announced that its attack surface management solution has been named a 2025 MSP Today Product of the Year Award winner by TMC, a leading global media company recognized for building communities in technology and business through live events and digital marketing platforms. The MSP Today Product of the Year Award honors standout products and services that are reshaping the managed services landscape—delivered through the Channel and purpose-built to meet the evolving needs of end users. The Halo Security platform was selected for its innovation, performance, and its measurable impact on customers…

the initial response from an LLM doesn’t suit you? You rerun it, right? Now, if you were to automate that… success = false while not success: response = prompt.invoke() success = evaluate(response) Alright, something like that. People have done it for code, and the same applies to non-code if the evaluate() function is suitable. Nowadays, you can use LLMs for content generation and evaluation. However, a simple while loop that waits for the best random result is not always good enough. Sometimes, you need to modify the prompt. Experiment and mix things up, and keep track of what works and…

U.S. CISA adds Linux Kernel flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2025 U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Linux Kernel vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Google Chromium V8 Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-0386, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-0386 (CVSS score: 7.8), is an improper ownership vulnerability in the Linux kernel that can be exploited to escalate privileges on vulnerable systems. “A flaw was found in the Linux kernel, where unauthorized access to the execution of the setuid file with capabilities…