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Outpost24 analysts recently discovered a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in CrushFTP, identified as CVE-2025-31161. The vulnerability has a CVSSv3.1 score of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H (9.8). We reached out to MITRE for a CVE on 13th March 2025 and were within an agreed 90-day non-disclosure period with CrushFTP. The plan was to give users plenty of time to patch before attackers were alerted to the vulnerability and able to exploit it.

Cyber security threats continue to evolve, but one factor remains consistent: human error is still the greatest risk to modern businesses worldwide. Employees make mistakes, bypass security measures, and fall victim to sophisticated social engineering attacks, leading to devastating data breaches. Despite extensive security awareness training, the reality is that investing more time and money in training isn’t solving the problem.

Thriving organizations maximally allocate resources. With seemingly infinite cybersecurity threats and finite resources, everyone needs to know the size of the threat to determine priority, and where to invest to maximize ROI. Elastic takes a quantified approach to cybersecurity risk management using FAIR to break threat scenarios into (A) likelihood and (B) losses to calculate risk per year, AKA annualized loss expectancy, or in FAIR terms, simply “risk”.

Supply-chain attacks may not grab the headlines in the same way as ransomware or data breaches, but these horrific, sneaky cyberattacks are just as dangerous for your business. Here are five things you need to know about supply chain attacks, including what they are, why they happen, and how to prevent them.

Organizations must develop robust programs to manage supply chain risks, both known and unknown, while prioritizing their most critical assets. Often referred to as the "crown jewels", these assets are the most valuable and vital to business success. Supply chain attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the network of suppliers, distributors, and other third-party partners to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and systems.

When you type a familiar website address in your web browser, you expect to land on a particular webpage, but what if you are redirected to a fake website designed to steal your sensitive data? Cyber attackers trick your internet settings into sending you to fake websites instead of the real ones. This is called a DNS spoofing or poisoning attack which exploits vulnerabilities in the Domain Name System (DNS) to compromise the entire network.