LabubaRAT, a previously undocumented Rust-based remote access tool (RAT) masquerading as NVIDIA software that enables post-compromise operations on Windows systems, has been uncovered by Blackpoint Cyber. According to researchers, LabubaRAT creates “a reusable foothold for hands-on activity.” Once deployed, it can profile the host, identify installed security tools, receive operator commands, transfer files, capture screenshots,…
The July Patch Tuesday Windows update breaks the record for the most security bugs fixed in a single month, with three zero-day flaws and 61 rated critical.
How does ChatGPT Work compare with Claude Cowork for desktop automation? My testing reveals similar results, similar strengths, and one major reason Claude currently feels considerably safer right now.
First reported in May, ClaudeBleed is basically a “fake remote control” problem. A sneaky browser extension can pretend to be Claude’s own website and secretly drive the Claude for Chrome extension to read your data and take action in your accounts. The Claude for Chrome browser extension is an assistant that has the user’s permission…
Intruder built an AI-powered “vulnerability vending machine” that combines code slicing with LLMs to automatically discover complex software vulnerabilities. The company explains how the system found and exploited a previously unknown WordPress plugin zero-day, with additional discoveries already under responsible disclosure. […]
Eleven forgotten Microsoft-signed UEFI shims can bypass Secure Boot on almost any machine
A financially motivated threat actor is impersonating hundreds of brands on GitHub and pushing a smash-and-grab infostealer masquerading as legitimate downloads of popular software, Arctic Wolf threat researchers have warned. “The 292 impersonated repositories span security tooling, fintech and personal finance, cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges, developer and productivity tools, secure email providers, macOS utilities, and…
Socure has launched Remote Verifier in RiskOS, a new identity verification tool that helps organizations verify identities requiring additional review while reducing manual effort. Socure’s AI-powered document verification solution instantly verifies more than 99% of identities on the first try, compared to an industry average of 64%. The Remote Verifier is designed for individuals who…
Xint.io has launched Xint Pulse, a black-box autonomous penetration testing tool that provides product security teams with on-demand security assessments of their applications. Unlike the company’s enterprise platform, which is designed for continuous testing, Xint Pulse is intended for timely, one-off penetration tests. But with Xint Pulse, organizations of all sizes, from startups to large…
Sony and Sonos have spectacular, high-performing home theater gear. But personal preferences matter more than brand name alone.
F5 has announced new fleet management capabilities for F5 Insight for ADSP that help enterprises reduce risk exposure across F5 BIG-IP environments as frontier AI compresses vulnerability response timelines. The new F5 Insight workflows give security and operations teams fleet-wide visibility, guided update management, enterprise authentication, role-based access controls, and a tamper-evident AI audit trail.…
Comprehensive Report with Citations & Analysis Executive Summary Global cybersecurity spending is projected to reach $240-248.9 billion in 2026, representing a 12.5-15% increase from 2025 (Gartner 2Q26 forecast, June 25, 2026). The spending breakdown has shifted dramatically from traditional categories toward software platforms and AI-driven security. Key Finding: Software now commands ~40% of enterprise security…
Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15718, an invalid pointer in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component CVE-2026-15719, a site isolation in the DOM: Navigation component “We are aware that exploit code for this is public,…
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Attackers who already have administrator privileges on a Windows machine have newer ways to slip past endpoint security without exploiting a vulnerable driver or modifying trusted binaries. Bitdefender researchers have warned against three techniques that abuse Windows Bind Links, a legitimate filesystem virtualization capability, to occupy security tools with clean files while malicious ones execute…
New wireless service options may break up multiline plans and land carriers a bevy of long-term customers.
Simple age-old bugs give bad actors access to developers’ secrets and source code-rich environments.
This Gemini prompt can find flights, stays, and things to do for you. It’ll even build an itinerary doc.
Nomad’s tech accessories rarely go on sale, but now is your chance to scoop up some of our favorites at over 20% off.
When you incorporate data from application security scanners into your exposure management platform, you can assess the threat from formerly isolated code flaws using a broader risk context, which illuminates hidden exposures that your security and development teams can eliminate together. Key takeaways Break application security silos and obtain full code-to-runtime visibility by integrating standalone…
Research of incidents by Sophos finds that phishing, brute force attacks and other identity-based threats have surpassed software vulnerabilities as means of delivering ransomware
The White House is expanding the use of AI beyond cyber threat detection into vulnerability management, launching a new program that aims to help government agencies and critical infrastructure operators identify, prioritize, and remediate software vulnerabilities faster. Called Gold Eagle, the initiative will act as a centralized clearinghouse for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, coordinating vulnerability reporting, verification,…
None of these new Waze features is offered in Apple Maps.
As organizations rush to deploy agentic AI, their identity systems built for humans are struggling to govern a rising tide of machine identities, and most still can’t define what it would take to keep the business running after an attack. The identity crisis nobody saw coming When companies began rolling out AI agents at scale,…
A one-click Claude Desktop flaw allowed attackers to submit concealed instructions without review, exposing chats and enabling code execution on some systems remotely.
Just one month ago, June 2026 Patch Tuesday broke Microsoft’s previous record with 206 CVEs and three zero‑days. July now triples that count, reinforcing that the era of “small” Patch Tuesdays may be over as AI‑driven vulnerability discovery ramps up. The update includes 59 critical vulnerabilities, as well as three publicly disclosed zero-days. Microsoft classifies…
Want to know whether Waze or Google Maps is better? I’ve driven with both for hundreds of miles. Here’s my choice.
Radware has announced a new cloud-augmented protection architecture for DefensePro X, extending the platform with new AI-powered cloud algorithms while keeping traffic inspection and mitigation locally within customer premises. The first such service released is Cloud Web DDoS Protection for DefensePro X designed to improve characterization and real time footprint generation of sophisticated application-layer distributed…
Two vulnerabilities found in Anthropic’s Claude for Chrome extension remain exploitable months after they were reported to the company, a research by Manifold Security noted. According to the researchers, the flaws can allow a malicious browser extension to trigger Claude into performing privileged actions, including reading Gmail messages, Google Docs content, and Calendar entries on…
LatticeFlow AI has announced a platform for managing AI risk across agentic systems. Organizations are deploying autonomous AI in critical business processes, while governance approaches based on documentation and point-in-time assessments struggle to keep up with evolving risks. The LatticeFlow AI Platform links AI governance frameworks with technical controls to continuously generate evidence and translate…
Progress has restored access to its ShareFile Storage Zones Controller after a four-day suspension triggered by a credible external security threat
Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 622 CVEs, including exploited AD FS and SharePoint flaws, plus the disclosed BitLocker bypass requiring urgent action.
AsyncAPI npm packages with 2M weekly downloads were compromised, spreading malware with info-stealing, crypto-theft and RAT capabilities. OX Security researchers disclosed on July 14 that the AsyncAPI npm organization was compromised, with malicious code injected into four packages that together account for over 2 million weekly downloads. The affected versions are @asyncapi/generator 3.3.1, @asyncapi/generator-components 0.7.1,…
Spanish National Police have dismantled a cybercrime network accused of stealing and laundering about €140 million through fake investment platforms, CEO fraud, invoice fraud, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Four people were arrested as part of the operation: two in Portugal, one in Spain, and one in Panama. The investigation began after officers identified 19 companies whose…
Nudge Security has announced new agentic capabilities to help security and IT teams find and remediate malicious and high-risk OAuth grants and browser extensions, two of the fastest-growing and hardest to manage attack surfaces in the enterprise. The new agents continuously analyze OAuth grants and browser extensions discovered by Nudge Security, flag what’s risky, and…
For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up. Enterprise workflows now live across SaaS applications, browsers, and an expanding ecosystem of generative AI tools, unsanctioned browser extensions, and autonomous agents. Employees routinely paste intellectual property into
Binary Defense has announced NightBeacon CMD, a standalone AI-driven SOC workbench that enterprise security teams can deploy in their own environments. Built and hardened inside Binary Defense’s live 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC), NightBeacon CMD gives customers the same operating platform Binary Defense’s own analysts use every day, without requiring a managed service. Rather than…
Polygraf AI has announced Meeting Guard, a real-time AI fraud detection solution for enterprise meetings built to detect fraud and protect meeting security. AI can clone a voice, animate a face, and answer every interview question in real time, making trust signals obsolete across hiring processes, executive meetings, vendor calls, and enterprise collaboration. Organizations are…
Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive. It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability. The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to as ProfSvc, is a core system component that manages user accounts and environments. “The PoC…
A single approved marketing tag can quietly load fourth-party code your security team has never seen, granting full access to your forms, customer data, and checkout pages. This on-demand webinar reveals how this Approval Gap forms, and gives your team the blueprint to close it before an auditor, regulator, or attacker finds it first. The…
OpenVPN offers three modes of deployment with varied pricing based on the same underlying protocol. Here are the pros, cons, and costs associated with each.
This is Part 2 of a series on tech worker unionization. See Part 1: “A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn’t.” The best time for tech workers to unionize was 20 years ago, when they had plenty of leverage. The second-best time is now, when they don’t. Mass layoffs, AI-driven displacement,…
The malware is written in C++ and uses a signed and notarized dropper to evade Gatekeeper.
Open a repository in Cursor on Windows and, if a file named git.exe is sitting in the project root, Cursor runs it. No click, no approval dialog, no warning that anything in the folder is about to execute. Whatever that binary does, it does as you, with your source, your SSH keys and your cloud tokens. Cursor keeps…
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SonicWall and Microsoft flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SonicWall and Microsoft flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The flaws added to the catalog are: CVE-2026-15409 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability CVE-2026-15410 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Code…
ClickFix has moved from a one-off social engineering trick into an industrialized attack ecosystem that is outpacing conventional antivirus and endpoint defenses, according to ReversingLabs. The technique first showed up in late 2023 and early 2024, and Proofpoint named it in mid-2024. The method skips exploits and vulnerabilities entirely. A fake webpage, styled as a…
New rules forbid chatbots designed for companionship from encouraging emotional reliance.
Microsoft has released patches for 570+ vulnerabilities on July 2026 Patch Tuesday, including two that are being leveraged by attackers (CVE-2026-56155 and CVE-2026-56164), and one that was previouly disclosed (CVE-2026-50661). The release was once again followed by Nightmare Eclipse publishing a stripped down proof-of-concept exploit for an unpatched Windows elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerability, which…
In this post, I will answer the question – how is web development evolving for multi device and cross platform experiences? People no longer access websites from a single desktop computer. They switch between smartphones, tablets, laptops, smart TVs, and wearable devices throughout the day, expecting a consistent experience every time. Modern web development has…
With the World Cup in full swing, stadiums across North America are currently accommodating thousands of fans every match day. That said, the stadiums’ biggest security challenge isn’t of a physical nature. It is not hyperbolic to say that football stadiums are some of the most chaotic endpoint environments in enterprise IT. On game days,…
Anker’s Solix E10 made backup power understandable for this first-timer, and I can’t wait to expand the system.
Widgets, widgets, widgets. Has there ever been an Android feature so full of promise that went unloved by Google for so very long? Okay, so maybe there has been — erm, lots of times, actually. But even so, Android’s widgets system is a perfect example of an exceptional advantage that Google basically buried, abandoned, and…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned Tuesday that attackers are actively exploiting three vulnerabilities to hack Internet-exposed on-premises SharePoint Server instances. […]
Microsoft released fixes for a record 570 CVEs in its July Patch Tuesday update, as experts warn AI is dramatically accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing patch volumes
Four compromised npm packages in the @asyncapi namespace have been observed distributing a multi-stage botnet loader, according to findings from OX Security, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity. The affected packages are listed below – @asyncapi/generator-helpers@1.1.1 @asyncapi/generator-components@0.7.1 @asyncapi/generator@3.3.1 @asyncapi/specs(v6.11.2, v6.11.2-alpha.1) “The
Ask any medical doctor, and they’ll tell you that prevention is better than cure. It’s more cost-effective and it has better outcomes. The same is true in cybersecurity. But we believe that our industry has veered too far away from this simple concept. We observe that most new tools are detection-focused, and we are calling…
AWS added AI workload protection and Microsoft Azure security monitoring to Security Hub, its centralized security platform for collecting and prioritizing security findings across cloud environments. Support for additional cloud platforms will follow. “Collecting findings was never the hard part. The hard part is understanding them, connecting them, and acting before an attacker does, and…
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol, released under the Apache license, and it runs on a large share of workstations and servers through the many tools built on it. The 3.29.0 version is a security, bugfix, and maintenance update that resolves 22 advisories. What the fixes address The commits read as…
CrashStealer is a new macOS infostealer that masquerades as Apple’s CrashReporter component, uses an Apple‑notarized installer to slip past Gatekeeper, tricks users into handing over their password, and then systematically loots browsers, password managers, crypto wallets, and Keychain secrets before exfiltrating them in AES‑encrypted bundles. Researchers have been following the development of CrashStealer since May…
Microsoft is blocking this month’s Windows 11 security updates on some Dell devices because they are causing shutdowns and performance issues. […]
SonicWall warns of active attacks exploiting two SMA 1000 zero-days, including a flaw enabling arbitrary command execution. SonicWall confirmed the active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances. The vulnerabilities were internally discovered and reported by Adam Babis of the company’s PSIRT. The company investigated multiple incidents indicating these vulnerabilities…
The West African country advanced rules to force organizations to disclose cyberattacks, joining other nations in a shift to mandated transparency.
Fortinet has announced new capabilities for its unified endpoint platform, FortiEndpoint, designed to help organizations securely adopt AI, protect sensitive data, and reduce risk. By bringing AI visibility and control, native data security, endpoint risk scoring, and FortiAI-assisted operations into FortiEndpoint, Fortinet enables security teams to better govern AI usage, reduce sensitive data exposure, enforce…
U.S. federal prosecutors have unsealed charges against three Russian nationals, accusing them of providing bulletproof hosting (BPH) services to ransomware gangs that caused over $62 million in damages to victims worldwide. […]
WhatCable is a free Mac app that gives you all the information you could need for your USB-C cables.
Trust Chain is an AI-native third-party risk management (TPRM) solution by Strike Graph that replaces the security questionnaire model with validated evidence of compliance. Rather than asking vendors to self-report their security posture, Trust Chain requires vendors to submit evidence, which is then evaluated using Strike Graph’s patent-pending Verify AI technology. The evaluation tests each…
Qualtrics, an experience management company, has named five new senior leaders to its team across sales, marketing, and product. Among the new appointments are: Adam Block as Chief Sales Officer (CSO) Ken Coleman as Senior Vice President, Marketing Ken Hoang as Senior Vice President, Product Khoi Hoang as the leader for Qualtrics’ Global Sales Engineering…
Security engineers play a pivotal role in enterprise cybersecurity, because they are the professionals who design, build, and deploy security systems to protect an organization’s data, applications, systems, networks, and other IT components against a variety of cyber threats. Finding not just qualified security engineers, but the best and brightest available, needs to be a…
SingGuard-NSFA is an open-source guardrail framework aimed at operational threats in agent workflows. Four models ship at 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters, all built on Qwen3.5 base backbones. Risk taxonomy The NSFA risk taxonomy organizes threats along the CIA triad of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It defines 185 risk variants grouped under a smaller…
SonicWall has warned of active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series appliances, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15409 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A Server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that a remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit to
For most of the past decade, the managed detection and response (MDR) decision was a simple one: teams that couldn’t staff a 24/7 SOC outsourced detection and response to a provider who could. It solved a resources problem, and the alternatives (hiring a team you couldn’t afford or keeping a functional set of SOAR playbooks…
By: Marie Mamaril, Intelligence Team Finance-themed phishing campaigns are evolving toward process-oriented messaging tactics, in which email subject lines are utilizing more process-driven language rather than pressure-driven. Threat actors are shifting away from messaging that uses overt emotional urgency and toward ordinary business language that mirrors daily financial workflows. We are seeing these campaigns more frequently,…
Robots that read the world through cameras now lean on large vision-language models to interpret what they see and decide what to do next. These models handle images and text together, so any words that fall inside the camera frame become part of the input. A stop sign, a street name, a sticker on a…
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 14, 2026, CyberNewswire – Tego AI, a cybersecurity company, published new research identifying a potentially critical security weakness in Claude Tag, Anthropic’s native integration between Claude and Slack. Researchers observed Claude Tag responding to messages containing the literal text “@Claude” without requiring a genuine structural Slack mention. As a result, content…
Over the past twelve months, researchers documented intrusions in which AI ran exploitation workflows autonomously, generating thousands of commands across dozens of sessions with minimal human direction, according to Check Point’s AI Security Report 2026. AI-powered cyber attacks The attackers posing the greatest risk are those orchestrating AI across multiple stages of the attack chain…
AI Appreciation Day falls on 16 July, and my inbox says the mood has shifted. The day itself has been running since 2021, a fixed date each year to weigh up what the technology…
AI developer needs more funds for costly research in race with Anthropic and other U.S. companies.
New Annual AI Security Report 2026 documents live intrusions run by AI, a vulnerability window compressed from days to hours, and high-risk enterprise AI interactions doubling…
Passkeys have been around for some time, but enterprise-wide adoption to this point has been slow for a number of reasons. But soon, many Microsoft customers won’t have a choice. Starting September 1, Microsoft will roll out passkeys as the default authentication method in its cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service Entra ID. And…
Apache Ossie is currently undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation ASF.
Passkeys have been around for some time, but enterprise-wide adoption to this point has been slow for a number of reasons. But soon, many Microsoft customers won’t have a choice. Starting September 1, Microsoft will roll out passkeys as the default authentication method in its cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) service Entra ID. And…
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Earlier this month Microsoft warned that, because the latest AI models can now help discover vulnerabilities, CSOs will see a higher volume of security updates every month. It wasn’t kidding. Today the company issued a record number of patches, with 59 rated as critical. And Microsoft is now recommending that customers accelerate their patching schedules…
Accelerating time-to-value through AWS Marketplace to protect organisations from sophisticated social engineering, deepfakes, and shadow AI
New Research Highlights Growing Visibility Gap Between Employee Behaviour and Organisational Security Controls
The last update to the DShield SIEM [4] was in Sep 2025 which contained some minor tweaks. This update currently is using ELK stack version 8.19.15, contains some additional dashboards and new logs. The following have been added to the DShield SIEM to provide additional information about what the DShield sensor [1] is receiving. These…
Samsung has told us how it plans to stiffen the next Galaxy fold without making it fatter: put titanium inside the screen. Two separate pieces of it.
InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering more than one billion health records globally, today announced it has been recognised as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner…
Combining Cloudera’s next-generation lakehouse data services with VAST’s AI Operating System, leveraging the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, this joint solution…
Microsoft is publishing 622 vulnerabilities on July 2026 Patch Tuesday, including a record-breaking 416 Windows vulnerabilities.
New ESG assessment initiative delivers greater visibility of sustainable suppliers across local government procurement
Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our new, monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts This month’s AWS Security Blog posts covered identity and access management, threat intelligence, network security, AI-powered security tooling, and multi-account…
“Build a smart home”, they said. “It’ll make life so much better”, they said. Well, life wasn’t very bloody good at 23:00 the other night after travelling 33 hours from Paris only to find the IoT doorlock batteries dead and the 9V “jump start” procedure completely failing! Eventually, the locksmith arrived and opened an old-school…
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