Blog – Page 158 – VigilantAI

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New Flaw in IDEs Like Visual Studio Code Lets Malicious Extensions Bypass Verified Status

July 1, 2025
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A New Maturity Model for Browser Security: Closing the Last-Mile Risk

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Google Patches Critical Zero-Day Flaw in Chrome’s V8 Engine After Active Exploitation

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U.S. Arrests Key Facilitator in North Korean IT Worker Scheme, Seizes $7.74 Million

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Microsoft Removes Password Management from Authenticator App Starting August 2025

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U.S. Agencies Warn of Rising Iranian Cyberattacks on Defense, OT Networks, and Critical Infrastructure

June 30, 2025
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Europol Dismantles $540 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud Network, Arrests Five Suspects

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Blind Eagle Uses Proton66 Hosting for Phishing, RAT Deployment on Colombian Banks

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Airline Hacks, Citrix 0-Day, Outlook Malware, Banking Trojans and more

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Leveraging Credentials As Unique Identifiers: A Pragmatic Approach To NHI Inventories

Zara Owner Inditex Confirms Customer Data Breach Affecting Nearly 200,000 People May 11, 2026
Fashion retailer Inditex, the parent company of Zara, has confirmed unauthorized access to customer transaction databases hosted by a third-party provider. Data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned said approximately 197,400 unique email addresses were included in the leaked dataset. The company said it had launched security protocols and notified the relevant authorities following the incident, Reuters […]
Kirsten Doyle
Online Safety Act failing to deliver “step change” for children, report warns May 11, 2026
A new report published by Internet Matters, reveals that the Online Safety Act (OSA) in the UK, although bringing visibility of online safety tools, does not seem to be living up to expectations of providing the much-needed “meaningful protection from harm.” In their report titled The Online Safety Act: Are Children Safer Online?, Internet Matters has highlighted a […]
Kirsten Doyle
Investigating the aftermath: understanding digital forensics after a cyber incident May 7, 2026
Successfully recovering your business from a cyberattack often requires much more than just loading up backups. Although your first instinct is likely to prioritize normal operations as quickly as possible, there’s also the important process of taking a detailed look at events before moving forward. Taking the time to investigate past events helps you understand […]
Nazy Fouladirad
“Recovery Is the New Prevention”: a Q&A with CSO of Health-ISAC, Errol Weiss May 7, 2026
Errol Weiss spent fourteen years in banking and finance before joining Health-ISAC, where he serves as Chief Security Officer. His career has tracked a quiet but profound shift in how critical sectors think about cyber defense, away from prevention at all costs, toward resilience and rapid recovery. In a conversation with Joe Pettit, Weiss explains why treating attacks as inevitable changes […]
Errol Weiss and Joe Pettit
Trelix admits breach on a ‘portion’ of its source code repository May 7, 2026
Trellix has disclosed unauthorized access to a portion of its source code repository. However, it did not specify which portion of its source code was accessed, nor did it provide many further details about the incident. “Upon learning of this matter, we immediately began working with leading forensic experts to resolve it. We have also notified law enforcement,” the company said in a statement. Based on its investigation to date, Trellix added […]
Kirsten Doyle
Security’s Blind Spot: The Threats Hiding in “Low-Severity” Alerts May 6, 2026
Security operations centers (SOCs) operate under a difficult reality where there are far more security alerts than human analysts available to investigate them. As organizations expand their digital environments and deploy more security tools, alert volume continues to grow faster than teams can realistically manage. AI is really just another layer that accelerates the volume […]
Mitchem Boles
Microsoft Edge Found Holding Saved Credentials in Plaintext Memory May 6, 2026
Security researcher Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning, posting as @L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N, has revealed that Microsoft Edge decrypts every saved password at startup and holds all of them in process memory, in cleartext, for the entire browser session. He says this includes passwords for sites the user is visiting as well as every credential the user’s ever saved. The passwords are held in memory from the moment Edge […]
Kirsten Doyle
US weighs slashing vulnerability patching deadlines as AI-driven threats accelerate May 6, 2026
There are discussions in US cybersecurity circles to radically shorten the time given to government agencies to fix software vulnerabilities currently being exploited, especially amid concerns about the growing use of artificial intelligence-based attacks. According to a report by Reuters, there are talks of reducing the time frame from the current two or three weeks down to just three days, dramatically raising the pace of defensive operations across government systems. These conversations, initiated by CISA and the […]
Kirsten Doyle
How Iranian Cyber Intrusions Unfold Inside Enterprise Networks May 5, 2026
Iranian cyber operations have gone from being disruptive single events to ongoing campaigns against governments, infrastructure providers, technology companies, and research organizations. Their ability to operate inside the same tools and infrastructure that defenders rely on makes these intrusions difficult to detect. The stakes extend well beyond espionage. For example, in 2022, Iranian-linked attackers caused […]
Hüseyin Can Yüceel
Copy Fail lands in CISA KEV as actively exploited Linux flaw threatens widespread privilege escalation May 5, 2026
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added another Linux kernel vulnerability, CVE-2026-31431, also known as Copy Fail, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs). Inclusion in the list implies active real-world attacks and increases the priority of patches. This particular vulnerability, which has been affecting almost all major Linux distributions since 2017, involves transferring resources incorrectly between security domains […]
Kirsten Doyle