CyberSecure Specialist

Northstar Security, a startup developing AI agents for security teams, has emerged from stealth mode with $7 million in seed funding. Wing Venture Capital led the round. MVP, Outliers, and cybersecurity veterans Gerhard Eschelbeck, Renaud Deraison, and Justin Somaini also invested. The company ingests data from existing security and IT tools to build what it calls a Security Context Graph. Updated in real time, the graph shows how identities, assets, applications, vulnerabilities, and business systems…

A Syrian man tied to the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has received a 42-month prison sentence in the US, more than 12 years after he was first charged. Ahmad Umar Agha, who used the online handle Th3Pr0, was sentenced on Thursday by a federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia. According to the Justice Department, he evaded US authorities for more than a decade. Prosecutors say the hacking conspiracy Agha took part in was…

Threat actors started exploiting a new high-severity WordPress vulnerability within hours of patches rolling out, Defiant warns. Patched on October 28 in WordPress 7.1.4, the security defect impacts the WordPress update process and can be exploited for remote code execution. According to Defiant, it is a race condition in WordPress’s Core update process that can be exploited without authentication. The attack complexity, however, is high. No CVE identifier has been assigned to the vulnerability yet.…