A busy Patch Tuesday. Investigators discover undocumented communications devices inside Chinese-made power inverters. A newly discovered Branch Privilege Injection flaw affects Intel CPUs. A UK retailer may claim up to £100mn from its cyber insurers after a major cyberattack.  A Kosovo national has been extradited to the U.S. for allegedly running an illegal online marketplace. CISA will continue alerts on its website following industry backlash. On our Industry Voices segment, Neil Hare-Brown, CEO at STORM Guidance, discusses Cyber Incident Response (CIR) retainer service provision. Shoring up the future of the CVE program.

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On today’s Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Neil Hare-Brown, CEO at STORM Guidance, discussing Cyber Incident Response (CIR) retainer service provision. You can learn more here. 

Selected Reading

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for May 2025 fixed 5 actively exploited zero-days (Security Affairs)

SAP patches second zero-day flaw exploited in recent attacks (Bleeping Computer) 

Ivanti fixes EPMM zero-days chained in code execution attacks (Bleeping Computer) 

Fortinet fixes critical zero-day exploited in FortiVoice attacks (Bleeping Computer) 

Vulnerabilities Patched by Juniper, VMware and Zoom (SecurityWeek)

ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Addressed by Siemens, Schneider, Phoenix Contact (SecurityWeek)

Adobe Patches Big Batch of Critical-Severity Software Flaws (SecurityWeek)

Ghost in the machine? Rogue communication devices found in Chinese inverters (Reuters)

New Intel CPU flaws leak sensitive data from privileged memory (Bleeping Computer) 

M&S cyber insurance payout to be worth up to £100mn (Financial Times)

US extradites Kosovo national charged in operating illegal online marketplace (The Record)

CISA Planned to Kill .Gov Alerts. Then It Reversed Course. (Data BreachToday)

CVE Foundation eyes year-end launch following 11th-hour rescue of MITRE program (CyberScoop)

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