Nik Lipor

At TrustPoint IT Solutions, we keep a close eye on the threats hitting businesses like yours, and there's a troubling pattern we need to talk about. The very devices designed to protect your network — firewalls, VPNs, and load balancers sitting at the edge of your business — are increasingly being used as the way in for attackers. A recent investigation revealed a sophisticated, multi-stage attack where hackers compromised a popular network appliance, used it to slip into a company's internal...

CrowdStrike LogScale has become one of the a go-to solutions for many organizations that need real-time visibility into their environments. But a newly disclosed critical vulnerability is a stark reminder that even the most trusted tools can introduce serious risk if left unpatched—especially in self-hosted deployments. This issue, tracked as CVE-2026-40050, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical). It affects LogScale Self-Hosted GA versions 1.224.0 through 1.234.0 and LTS versions 1.228.0 and...

A new strain of password-stealing malware is raising serious concerns for businesses by targeting the very tools employees rely on every day—web browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. This threat is designed to quietly extract stored credentials, session cookies, and authentication data directly from the browser, giving attackers access to accounts without needing to “hack” passwords in the traditional sense. Because modern browsers often store login sessions and autofill credentials for...