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LW ROUNDTABLE:  Predictive analytics, full-stack visualization to solidify cyber defenses in 2025

The Last Watchdog

Shashanka Dr. Madhu Shashanka , Chief Data Scientist, Concentric AI Generative AI in 2025 will bring transformative opportunities but heightened cybersecurity risks, including data exposure, AI misuse, and novel threats like prompt injection attacks. Organizations face rising risks of AI-driven social engineering and personal device breaches.

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New AI “agents” could hold people for ransom in 2025

Malwarebytes

And yet, if artificial intelligence achieves what is called an agentic model in 2025, novel and boundless attacks could be within reach, as AI tools take on the roles of agents that independently discover vulnerabilities, steal logins, and pry into accounts. You can find the full 2025 State of Malware report here.

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Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click told the sad tales of two cryptocurrency heist victims who were scammed out of six and seven figures after falling for complex social engineering schemes over the phone. Here’s to a happy, healthy, wealthy and wary 2025. So thank you for that, and keep it coming, please.

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OpenAI bans ChatGPT accounts linked to Russian, Chinese cyber ops

Security Affairs

OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts tied to Russian and Chinese hackers using the tool for malware, social media abuse, and U.S. OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts that were used by Russian-speaking threat actors and two Chinese nation-state actors. We banned the OpenAI accounts used by this adversary.”

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US Government officials targeted with texts and AI-generated deepfake voice messages impersonating senior U.S. officials

Security Affairs

officials to current or former senior US federal or state government officials and their contacts Since April 2025, threat actors have been using texts and AI voice messages impersonating senior U.S. officials to build trust and access personal accounts. ” reads the alert issued by the FBI.

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Microsoft’s June 2025 Patch Tuesday Addresses 65 CVEs (CVE-2025-33053)

Security Boulevard

Microsoft addresses 65 CVEs in its June 2025 Patch Tuesday release, with nine rated critical, and 56 rated as important. Important CVE-2025-33053 | Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2025-33053 is a RCE in Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV).

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“Urgent reminder” tax scam wants to phish your Microsoft credentials

Malwarebytes

Tax Services Department Important Tax Review and Update Required by 2025-03-16! This update must be completed by 2025-03-16 to avoid any potential penalties or disruptions to your account. Perhaps they’ll sell the details on the dark web, or use them for themselves to get access to your Microsoft accounts.

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