President Donald Trump’s new executive order aims to revamp U.S. cybersecurity by addressing foreign threats, updating encryption standards, and modifying previous initiatives from the Biden and Obama administrations.
A critical unpatched vulnerability (CVE-2025-31022) in the PayU CommercePro plugin for WordPress allows unauthorized access to user accounts, including site administrators, affecting over 5,000 installations.
The hacker group Scattered Spider, also known as UNC3944 or Octo Tempest, has been implicated in significant cyberattacks on major UK retailers, including Marks & Spencer, utilizing sophisticated social engineering and ransomware tactics that have caused substantial financial and operational disruptions.
The event emphasized the importance of mastering cybersecurity basics, focusing on human behaviors and identity controls amid rising threats like voice phishing and credential theft.
Cybercriminals are using advanced AI technologies to impersonate high-ranking US government officials in a campaign aimed at breaching their online accounts through sophisticated phishing techniques.
Phishing-related data breaches have become the leading cause of data loss, affecting 54% of cybersecurity, IT, and sustainability leaders, with 86% of organizations experiencing a data breach in the past three years.
