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Jaguar Land Rover is restoring systems after a cyberattack disrupted production and sales, with a hacker group previously linked to the M&S data breach claiming responsibility for the breach. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR ) has confirmed it is recovering from a major cyber incident that forced parts of its global operations offline. Production lines and retail systems were disrupted after the company decided to shut down its IT environment as a containment measure. The disruption meant dealers could continue selling vehicles already in stock, but were unable to register new cars for customers. Reports from staff and partners described significant…

Integrations make Cisco XDR a powerful solution in the Security Operations Center of the Black Hat NOC, to fulfill our core mission of malware analysis as the Official Security Cloud provider. Below are the Cisco XDR integrations for Black Hat USA, empowering analysts to investigate Indicators of Compromise (IOC) very quickly, with one search. Thank you to alphaMountain.ai and Pulsedive full donating full licenses to Cisco, for use in the Black Hat USA 2025 NOC. The XDR Control Center dashboard displayed the status of the integrations over the week. Below you can see the active integrations in XDR. Collaboration With…

Threat actors are using Grok, X’s built-in AI assistant, to bypass link posting restrictions that the platform introduced to reduce malicious advertising. As discovered by Guardio Labs’ researcher Nati Tal, mavertisers often run sketchy video ads containing adult content baits and avoid including a link to the main body to avoid being blocked by X. Instead, they hide it in the small “From:” metadata field under the video card, which apparently isn’t scanned by the social media platform for malicious links. Hiding the malicious link in an ignored fieldSource: @bananahacks Next, (likely) the same actors ask Grok via a reply to…

Cybersecurity DNS Security for a Safer Digital Life Whalebone is redefining how telcos, ISPs, and enterprises protect their customers in a world where every device is online and every click could be the start of an attack. By delivering user-centric DNS security solutions, Whalebone protects millions of people from malware, phishing, ransomware, and other digital threats—without requiring downloads or complex installations. With 400+ customers worldwide and a growing team of 100 experts with global reach, Whalebone has consistently proven its ability to help Tier 1 telcos protect subscribers while boosting revenues and customer stickiness. Its mission is bold: bring cybersecurity…

wonder why we would want to model a temperature time series as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, and if this has any practical implications. Well, it does. While the O-U process is used in Physics to model the velocity of particles under friction, it is also used in finance to model interest rates, volatility, or spread mean reversion. This temperature application originates from an area where I have personal experience. My thesis, “Neural Network Approaches to Pricing Weather Derivatives,” focuses on developing new methods for pricing these derivatives. The O-U process is commonly used in pricing weather derivatives. A financial derivative designed to deliver…

Cloudflare has also been affected by the Salesloft Drift breach, the US web infrastructure and security company confirmed on Tuesday, and the attackers got their hands on 104 Cloudflare API tokens. “We have identified no suspicious activity associated with those tokens, but all of these have been rotated in an abundance of caution,” Sourov Zaman (Head of Security Response), Craig Strubhart (Senior Director of Threat Detection and Response), and Grant Bourzikas (Chief Information Security Officer) stated. “All customers whose data was compromised in this breach have been informed directly by Cloudflare [via email and banner notices in the company’s Dashboard].”…

In July 2025, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a major law that affects rules around Medicaid and food stamps benefits, student aid, and training. If you’re unemployed, finishing a degree, or considering your next career move, you might be wondering: What exactly does this mean for me? Here’s the good news — most of the big changes don’t take full effect until 2026, so you have time to prepare. Understanding the effects of the Big Beautiful Bill now can help you protect your benefits, plan your education, and take advantage of new opportunities early. This article will…

The AI Threat Landscape: How Adaptive Security is Redefining Cyber Defense Cybersecurity professionals are facing an unprecedented challenge. The rise of generative AI has transformed attack vectors from theoretical risks to immediate, sophisticated threats that can penetrate even the most robust organizational defenses. Brian Long understands this landscape intimately. As CEO and co-founder of Adaptive Security, he’s witnessed the dramatic acceleration of AI-powered cyber attacks firsthand. “We’ve seen a huge increase in these types of attacks since ChatGPT came out,” Long explains. “Email phishing attacks are up by 4x and deep fake attacks are up by 17x from 2023 to…

Google on Tuesday released Chrome 140 to the stable channel with patches for six vulnerabilities, including a four reported by external researchers. The most severe of the bugs is CVE-2025-9864, a high-severity use-after-free issue in the V8 JavaScript engine that was reported by the Yandex Security Team. According to Google’s advisory, no bug bounty reward will be paid for this security defect, and bug details will be kept restricted until the patches reach most users. A type of memory corruption flaws, use-after-free vulnerabilities in V8 occur when JavaScript code can access objects after their memory has been deallocated, which can…