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Critical VMware ESXi CVEs Have No Workarounds - Forward Networks Helps You Detect and Mitigate

The recently disclosed VMware ESXi vulnerabilities pose a serious security risk, enabling attackers to exploit virtualized environments through VM escape, remote code execution (RCE), privilege escalation, and data leakage. With cybercriminals actively targeting these flaws, organizations must act swiftly to secure their infrastructure.

#197 - Avoiding burnout and a managing stress with Amanda Berlin, CEO of Mental Health Hackers

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss stress management and avoiding burnout with Amanda Berlin, CEO of Mental Health Hackers. Amanda is the Senior Product Manager of Cybersecurity at Blumira, where she collaborates with a talented team to make security more accessible. With a career in IT spanning nearly her entire adult life, her expertise includes infrastructure security, network troubleshooting, purple teaming, and security awareness training.

Why Brand Impersonation Scams and Phishing Are Still Winning in APAC-And How to Change That

Customer confidence is the fragile foundation of developing economies, and nowhere is this more true than Asia Pacific where phishing and customer account takeovers (ATO) threaten to bring that foundation crashing down. For financial institutions and airlines in APAC, scam-related fraud is no longer an isolated cost center—it is an existential risk to digital trust and economic growth.

OCC Interpretive Letter 1183: Why an Obscure Agency Letter Matters More than the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve

On March 7, amid media focus on the first-ever White House Crypto Summit, the U.S.’s primary national bank regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), quietly issued an interpretive letter that could have significant implications for how national banks engage with digital assets.

GitGuardian Is Now The Overall Most Installed GitHub Marketplace App

We are thrilled to announce that the GitGuardian App has become the most installed application on GitHub's Marketplace. We are proud to have passed this milestone, with over 418K developers and organizations trusting GitGuardian to detect secrets in their shared repositories. GitGuardian is now protecting over 12.7M individual repositories. We have been the number one installed security application for some time, but now we have become the single most utilized app across all categories.

API Security Failures: What Went Wrong at Dell & Twilio? #APIBreach #DataLeak #DellHack

Major companies like Dell and Twilio suffered API breaches due to poor validation, broken access control, and missing rate limits. Dell’s 49M records were exposed at 5000 requests per minute, while Twilio’s API leak allowed attackers to validate accounts. Learn how insecure API views lead to massive data breaches—and how to protect your APIs.

March 10, 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing

March 10, 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Briefing This week’s briefing covers: BLACK BASTA Affiliates Linked to CACTUS Ransomware Researchers have linked CACTUS ransomware tactics to former affiliates of BLACKBASTA, noting the use of similar tools and techniques. CACTUS employs the BackConnect (BC) module for persistent control over infected systems, allowing for data theft and remote command execution.