Google has completed its acquisition of cloud security company Wiz, bringing it into Google Cloud’s security division. The announcement came alongside a broader set of security product updates, including new AI-based tools for security operations, threat intelligence and cloud protection. Wiz will form part of a broader multicloud security offering for organisations running data and … Read more
Formula 1 is well known for its precision engineering pedigree and where races are won and lost by mere milliseconds. While it has long been data driven, attention to security and resilience are deepening. To dig into those themes, I was delighted to be joined by industry peers and the Atlassian Williams F1 team on … Read more
Microsoft has released fixes for 77 security vulnerabilities across its product portfolio in the March 2026 Patch Tuesday update, including a high-severity SQL Server flaw affecting multiple supported versions. It also disclosed that two of the newly published vulnerabilities were publicly known before patches became available, though there is no evidence of active exploitation so … Read more
Token Security Labs has reported that employees are actively using the open-source AI assistant Clawdbot, also known as Moltbot, in 22% of its customer organisations. Clawdbot is a personal AI assistant that runs on a user’s own Mac or Linux device. The project’s creator is Peter Steinberger. Users can connect the assistant to messaging and … Read more
î „Ravie Lakshmananî ‚Jan 27, 2026Zero-Day / Vulnerability Microsoft on Monday issued out-of-band security patches for a high-severity Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of 10.0. It has been described as a security feature bypass in Microsoft Office. “Reliance on untrusted inputs in a … Read more
î ‚Jun 03, 2025î „Ravie LakshmananUnited States Threat hunters are alerting to a new campaign that employs deceptive websites to trick unsuspecting users into executing malicious PowerShell scripts on their machines and infect them with the NetSupport RAT malware. The DomainTools Investigations (DTI) team said it identified “malicious multi-stage downloader Powershell scripts” hosted on lure websites that … Read more
î ‚Jun 03, 2025î „Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Vulnerability Google on Monday released out-of-band fixes to address three security issues in its Chrome browser, including one that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity flaw is being tracked as CVE-2025-5419, and has been flagged as an out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability in … Read more
î ‚Jun 02, 2025î „Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Vulnerability Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in preloaded Android applications on smartphones from Ulefone and Krüger&Matz that could enable any app installed on the device to perform a factory reset and encrypt an application. A brief description of the three flaws is as follows – CVE-2024-13915 (CVSS score: … Read more
eSecurity Planet content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Thousands of ASUS routers have been hacked in an ongoing cyberattack that experts warn may be laying the foundation for a large-scale botnet. Discovered in March but disclosed publicly on Wednesday, the … Read more
eSecurity Planet content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft Defender and Bitdefender are two popular small business security providers with multiple products for small teams. Microsoft Defender can protect your office solutions, like Word and Teams, and business endpoint devices. … Read more