Chinese state-backed threat operation UNC5221 has leveraged the sophisticated Brickstorm backdoor to stealthily compromise U.S. cybersecurity firm F5 for over a year, resulting in the exposure of the company's source code, according to Cybernews.
Verisure, a major home security firm offering video surveillance, alarm systems, and emergency response services, has confirmed the compromise of information belonging to customers of its Swedish subsidiary Alert Alarm following a data breach, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Segment 1: David Brauchler on AI attacks and stopping them. David Brauchler says AI red teaming has proven that eliminating prompt injection is a lost cause. And many developers inadvertently introduce serious threat vectors into their applications – risks they must later eliminate before they become ingrained across application stacks. NCC Group’s...
Data breaches in the U.S. reached 835 during the third quarter, impacting 23 million victims, which is a decline from breach incidence during the first half of 2025, reports Infosecurity Magazine.
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