Browsing: Exploitation

Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally reshaping the cyber threat landscape. Traditional cyber-attack models assumed a sequential kill chain where threat actors moved through reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, exploitation, and execution as distinct phases. AI is rapidly collapsing these stages into a continuous, automated process that enables adversaries to identify targets, develop attack strategies, and execute campaigns at…

Cisco Talos is actively tracking the exploitation of two vulnerabilities in Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. First, CVE-2026-20079 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in unpatched instances of Cisco’s Secure FMC Software, which allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentications and execute scripts on impacted devices to obtain root access to the underlying…

The threat landscape across Australia and New Zealand is evolving rapidly as attackers adopt AI-powered tools to accelerate every stage of cyber operations. Traditional attack models that relied on separate phases for intelligence gathering, attack preparation, and exploitation are giving way to highly automated campaigns capable of identifying, adapting to, and exploiting vulnerabilities in near…

Social media has fundamentally transformed contemporary entrepreneurial practices. Social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube have allowed people to set up businesses that require minimal startup capital and a quick reach to people around the world. Social media has significantly influenced women’s entrepreneurial participation in the economy, creative self-employment and flexible working…