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The following is a guest post and opinion by Abbigale Kadar, Senior Digital Marketing Specialist of Polymath.For years, the crypto industry has operated in a regulatory gray zone—resulting in market manipulation, scams, and widespread mistrust. But that landscape is changing. Around the world, governments are rolling out clearer regulations that legitimize the space, standardize practices, and attract institutional capital.As regulated digital asset products gain traction, we’re seeing a significant shift in how the market perceives crypto. Financial institutions and technology providers are aligning around shared goals: regulatory clarity, capital efficiency, and investor protection. Together, they are laying the foundation for…

Bre Schumacher// Many of you were probably asked as a young child what you wanted to be when you grew up. Maybe you had an idea of something that sounded fun to you, like being an astronaut or the mayor. Perhaps you hadn’t decided. Maybe you still haven’t decided! Either way, I’m guessing as a child the thought never crossed your mind that you’d be working in information security someday. Or maybe it did? For those of you just starting out in this field, I thought I’d ask a few of our Black Hills Information Security testers what they wish they would…

Authors/Presenters: Roei Sherman, Adi inov Our sincere appreciation to BSidesLV, and the Presenters/Authors for publishing their erudite Security BSidesLV24 content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Tuscany Suites & Casino; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post BSidesLV24 – GroundFloor – Adversaries Also Lift & Shift: Cloud Threats Through The Eyes Of An Adversary appeared first on Security Boulevard.

In the , building Machine Learning models was a skill only data scientists with knowledge of Python could master. However, low-code AI platforms have made things much easier now. Anyone can now directly make a model, link it to data, and publish it as a web service with just a few clicks. Marketers can now develop customer segmentation models, user support teams can implement chatbots, and product managers can automate the process of predicting sales without having to write code. Even so, this simplicity has its downsides. A False Start at Scale When a mid-sized e-commerce company introduced its first…

As analysts and governments around the world continue to call attention to North Korean digital fraud, researchers this week published 1,000 email addresses they claim are linked to North Korean IT worker scams perpetrated against Western companies, along with photos of people allegedly involved in the fraud. Xinbi Guarantee, a marketplace and platform used by Chinese-speaking crypto scammers for money laundering grew into an $8.4 billion hub before a crackdown by Telegram this week. And following a WIRED inquiry, messaging app Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for money laundering in cryptocurrency scams. The takedowns included prominent names like Haowang…

U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium, DrayTek routers, and SAP NetWeaver flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2025 U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chromium, DrayTek routers, and SAP NetWeaver flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Google Chromium, DrayTek routers, and SAP NetWeaver flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the descriptions for these flaws: CVE-2024-12987 (CVSS score of 7.3) DrayTek Vigor Routers OS Command Injection Vulnerability – A critical OS command injection flaw in DrayTek Vigor2960 and Vigor300B (v1.5.1.4) via the…

OpenAI is rolling out ‘Codex’ for ChatGPT, which is an AI agent that automates and delegates programming tasks for software engineers. OpenAI isn’t explicitly claiming that Codex will eventually replace junior software engineers. Instead, the company states Codex could help developers achieve more by delegating their tasks to different agents. The idea is to move faster with development and become more productive with AI, but how does Codex work? Codex in ChatGPT According to OpenAI, Codex is based on codex-1, which is a new version of ChatGPT based on the existing o3 model, but it has been optimized for coding, which…

John Strand // John is starting a new series of webcasts called Attack Tactics. This first part  is a step-by-step walk-through of an attack BHIS launched against a customer, with just a few obfuscating tweaks. He covers the tools, how we used them and any other tricks we had to pull out for the attack.   You can get the slides here:  https://blackhillsinformationsecurity.shootproof.com/gallery/6843799/

The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with OpenSSF and Linux Foundation Education, has released the Cybersecurity Skills Framework, a global reference guide that helps organizations identify and address critical cybersecurity competencies across a broad range of IT job families. “Cybersecurity is now a leadership issue, not just a technical one,” said Steve Fernandez, General Manager at OpenSSF. “Our framework gives organizations a straightforward way to identify gaps and prioritize the security skills that matter most, based on role and responsibility—not just checklists. It’s about building real-world resilience.” The framework provides leaders with an easy way to understand the cybersecurity skills needed,…