Python scripts were used to test malware against endpoint detection and response agents from Sophos, CrowdStrike, and Windows Defender.
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The U.S. sanctions Nobitex crypto exchange used by ransomware
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, for facilitating payments related to terrorist activities. […]
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ENISA NIS360 2026 report shows uneven cybersecurity improvements across EU critical sectors
The report assesses the cybersecurity landscape against the NIS2 directive, highlighting a growing gap between the evolving threat landscape and the pace of defensive improvements.
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CISA flags two-year-old Oracle flaw as actively exploited in attacks
CISA has ordered government agencies to secure their systems against a high-severity Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability that was patched two years ago and is now actively exploited in attacks. […]
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Cops Are Spying on People Who Criticize AI Data Centers Online
Americans speaking out against artificial intelligence data centers on social media are falling under police surveillance, a confidential law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Intercept reveals. A fusion center in Philadelphia combed through spicy internet comments from AI critics and concluded there is a growing risk of physical violence against data centers from “domestic violent…
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California AG sues 23andMe over 2023 breach exposing health data
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against 23andMe, now Chrome Holding Co., over the company’s failure to protect sensitive customer genetic and personal information. […]
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This month in security with Tony Anscombe – May 2026 edition
In this roundup, Tony looks at attacks against Polish water treatment facilities, how AI-directed attacks failed in Mexico, and what Google believes is the first AI-generated zero-day exploit
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GDPR set the tone for regulatory action — and the AI fine pushback to come
Big tech firms continue to push back against fines levied for alleged violations of European data protection law, in what could be a harbinger for AI regulations to come. While lawyers and experts quizzed by CSO broadly argue that big tech firms contesting data protection rules isn’t a particular cause for concern, the more widespread…
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China Wants Its Companies to Embrace AI—Without Firing Workers
As a backlash against AI builds in the U.S. and elsewhere, China is acting to stave off social and economic disruption.
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6 Under-the-Radar Vendors That Supercharge Breach and Attack Simulation in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders and security teams looking to validate their defenses against real-world cyberattacks in 2026. It covers the top breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions and the key capabilities organizations should evaluate to strengthen endpoint, cloud, and network security resilience. Key Takeaways of BAS Solutions in 2026 Breach and attack simulation…
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Product showcase: F-Secure Internet Security blocks phishing sites, fake stores, and SMS scams
F-Secure Internet Security protects against viruses, ransomware, spyware, infected email attachments, and other cyber threats. It focuses on securing devices and online activity through malware protection, scam prevention, safe browsing, and banking safeguards. The platform supports Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS devices under a single subscription. After downloading the Android app from the Play Store,…
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Pope Leo Compares AI Threat to Biblical ‘Tower of Babel’
The head of the Catholic church is adding his moral suasion to a growing backlash against the impact of artificial intelligence.
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7 identity security best practice for the Agentic AI era
Here’s how to harden the teams identity security to defend against the rising tide of AI agents.
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Alleged leader of Kimwolf, a sweeping botnet for cybercriminals, arrested in Canada
Authorities arrested and unsealed charges against a Canadian man accused of running Kimwolf, one of the most far-reaching DDoS botnets on record, the Justice Department said Thursday. Jacob Butler was arrested Wednesday in Ottawa, Canada, and awaits extradition to the United States where he is charged with aiding and abetting computer intrusions and, if convicted,…
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WantToCry ransomware remotely encrypts files
Brute-force attempts against SMB services can be early signs of an attack Categories: Threat Research Tags: Ransomware, WantToCry, SMB
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Mustang Panda Linked to Updated FDMTP Backdoor in Asia-Pacific Espionage Campaign
Mustang Panda campaign deploys updated FDMTP backdoor against Asia-Pacific and Japan networks
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Webinar tomorrow: Why security alone won’t stop modern attacks
Tomorrow’s webinar examines why prevention alone is no longer enough against modern cyberattacks. The session explores how organizations combine security, backups, and recovery planning to improve cyber resilience after attacks. […]
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Signal adds security warnings for social engineering, phishing attacks
Signal has introduced new in-app confirmations and warning messages as additional safeguards against phishing and social engineering attempts that could lead to various forms of fraud. […]
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CISA gives feds four days to patch Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day
CISA has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their networks against a high-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) exploited in zero-day attacks. […]
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OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs Used in Critical Infrastructure Cyber-Attack, Warns Dragos
Commercial AI models were used to help plan and conduct cyber-attack against operational technology of a water and drainage facility, say researchers
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DigiCert breached via malicious screensaver file
A targeted social engineering attack against DigiCert’s support channel led to the compromise of internal systems and the unauthorized issuance of EV Code Signing certificates. DigiCert is a global Certificate Authority (CA) providing digital trust services, specializing in TLS/SSL certificates, PKI management, and IoT security. According to DigiCert’s incident report, a threat actor contacted the…
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Vect 2.0 Ransomware Acts as Wiper, Thanks to Design Error
The emerging ransomware has been deployed against victims of the TeamPCP supply chain attacks, but organizations should think twice before paying for a decryptor.
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No Metrics Are Better Than Bad Metrics in the SOC, Says NCSC
The National Cyber Security Centre has warned against measuring SOCs with ticket-based metrics
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Oracle’s Deluge of AI Debt Pushes Wall Street to the Limit
The AI boom has hit a funding snag, compounding power constraints and a growing public backlash against data centers.
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Over 1,300 SharePoint Servers Still Exposed to Actively Exploited Spoofing Flaw
More than 1,300 internet-exposed Microsoft SharePoint servers remain unpatched against a spoofing flaw previously exploited as a zero-day. “Improper input validation in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network,” said Microsoft in its advisory. SharePoint Servers Still Exposed The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32201, affects SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, SharePoint…
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Over 1,300 Microsoft SharePoint servers vulnerable to spoofing attacks
Over 1,300 Microsoft SharePoint servers exposed online remain unpatched against a spoofing vulnerability that was exploited as a zero-day and is still being abused in ongoing attacks. […]
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Shadow AI, deepfakes, and supply chain compromise are rewriting the financial sector threat playbook
Financially motivated attacks continued to drive the bulk of cyber incidents against banks, insurers, and payment processors in 2025. Approximately 90% of breaches affecting financial institutions carried a financial motive, with data breaches accounting for roughly 64% of incidents and ransomware making up the remaining 36%. The average cost of a data breach in the…
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Exploits Turn Windows Defender into Attacker Tool
Three proof-of-concept exploits are being used in active attacks against Microsoft’s built-in security platform; two are unpatched.
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Lawmakers ponder terrorism designations, homicide charges over hospital ransomware attacks
Lawmakers at a hearing Tuesday explored ways to beef up punishments for ransomware attacks against hospitals, possibly by labeling them as more severe crimes. One proposal floated at the House Homeland Security Committee hearing, to treat ransomware attacks as terrorism, is an idea Congress has flirted with before. Another would be to press prosecutors to…
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CISA flags new SD-WAN flaw as actively exploited in attacks
CISA has given U.S. government agencies four days to secure their systems against another Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability it flagged as actively exploited in attacks. […]
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What the ransom note won’t say
An attack is what you see, but a business operation is what you’re up against
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Marc Benioff Says the Software Bears Are All Wrong About Salesforce
“People think we have our back against the wall,” but customers aren’t replacing its offerings with AI, the CEO says.
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New AgingFly malware used in attacks on Ukraine govt, hospitals
A new malware family named ‘AgingFly’ has been identified in attacks against local governments and hospitals that steal authentication data from Chromium-based browsers and WhatsApp messenger. […]
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CISA flags Windows Task Host vulnerability as exploited in attacks
CISA warned U.S. government agencies to secure their systems against a Windows Task Host privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges. […]
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Microsoft adds Windows protections for malicious Remote Desktop files
Microsoft has introduced new Windows protections to defend against phishing attacks that abuse Remote Desktop connection (.rdp) files, adding warnings and disabling risky shared resources by default. […]
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Nearly 4,000 US industrial devices exposed to Iranian cyberattacks
The attack surface targeted by Iranian-linked hackers in cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure networks includes thousands of Internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) manufactured by Rockwell Automation. […]
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CISA orders feds to patch exploited Ivanti EPMM flaw by Sunday
CISA has given U.S. government agencies four days to secure their systems against a critical-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that has been exploited in attacks since January. […]
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FIRESIDE CHAT: Geopolitical turmoil, rising AI risk add a new layer to enterprise cyber defense
As if securing the enterprise against a tidal wave of AI tools wasn’t hard enough, it turns out the geopolitical instability of the moment is making things worse. That wasn’t the headline at RSAC 2026 last week — agentic AI dominated the agenda — but the stress was visible at the ground level if you…
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Life imprisonment for Cambodian scam compound operators – but will it make a difference?
Cambodia has taken a dramatic step in its fight against scam compounds that have imprisoned innocent people, and forced them to work as virtual slaves defrauding victims via the internet around the world with romance scams and dodgy investment schemes. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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New GPUBreach Attack Enables Full CPU Privilege Escalation via GDDR6 Bit-Flips
New academic research has identified multiple RowHammer attacks against high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) that could be exploited to escalate privileges and, in some cases, even take full control of a host. The efforts have been codenamed GPUBreach, GDDRHammer, and GeForge. GPUBreach goes a step further than GPUHammer, demonstrating for the first time that
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Die Linke German political party confirms data stolen by Qilin ransomware
The Qilin ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack against Die Linke (‘The Left’), forcing an IT systems outage at the political party, and threatening sensitive data leak. […]
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NCSC Issues Security Alert Over Hackers Targeting WhatsApp and Signal Accounts
The UK’s cybersecurity agency offered advice to “high-risk’ individuals” on how to protect against social engineering and cyber-attacks
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FBI warns against using Chinese mobile apps due to privacy risks
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned Americans against using foreign-developed mobile applications, particularly those created by Chinese developers. […]
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Delve Compliance Scandal Exposes AI Vendor Risk Gaps
Allegations against AI compliance startup Delve are raising urgent questions about how enterprises vet vendors in the race to adopt automation. As scrutiny grows, the controversy underscores a broader issue: many AI tools marketed as “enterprise-ready” may lack the safeguards, validation, and transparency buyers assume are in place. Compliance platform Delve faces allegations of fabricated…
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Pawn Storm Campaign Deploys PRISMEX, Targets Government and Critical Infrastructure Entities
This blog discusses the steganography, cloud abuse, and email-based backdoors used against the Ukrainian defense supply chain in the latest Pawn Storm campaign that TrendAI™ Research observed and analyzed.
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LiteLLM PyPI packages compromised in expanding TeamPCP supply chain attacks
A slew of supply chain attacks against popular open source tools and packages appears to have been orchestrated by TeamPCP, a cybercriminal group that rose to prominence in late 2025. The latest victim of the group is BerryAI’s popular LiteLLM library, a unified interface that makes it easier for apps to switch between various LLMs:…
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Qualys Debuts Industry’s First AI Agent for Safe Exploit Validation and Autonomous Remediation
Agent Val exploits, mitigates and revalidates exposures against compensating controls continuously, dramatically reducing the average window of exposure
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Operation Alice Takes Down 370,000+ Dark Web Sites
German-led policing effort against fraud operation disrupts countless CSAM and cybercrime sites
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Music giant BMG sues Anthropic over AI training
Music giant BMG has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind the popular chatbot Claude, alleging it trained its AI models using copyrighted song lyrics from artists such as the Rolling Stones, Bruno Mars, and Ariana Grande. “Anthropic’s practice of training AI models on copyrighted works from torrent sites is in direct violation of…
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CISA orders feds to patch Zimbra XSS flaw exploited in attacks
CISA has ordered U.S. government agencies to secure their servers against an actively exploited vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS). […]
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Europe sanctions Chinese and Iranian firms for cyberattacks
The European Union Council has announced sanctions against three entities and two individuals for their involvement in cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure in the region. […]
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CISA flags Wing FTP Server flaw as actively exploited in attacks
CISA warned U.S. government agencies to secure their Wing FTP Server instances against an actively exploited vulnerability that may be chained in remote code execution attacks. […]
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TrendAI™ Supports Global Law Enforcement Efforts
Learn how TrendAI™ and our researchers contributed threat intelligence and analysis to support INTERPOL against cybercrime.
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Interpol’s ‘Operation Synergia III’ Nets 94 Arrests in Major Cybercrime Sweep
A new law enforcement operation against phishing and ransomware operators led to the takedown of 45,000 malicious IP addresses
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Stryker attack highlights nebulous nature of Iranian cyber activity amid joint U.S.-Israel conflict
A cyberattack that an Iranian hacking group said it carried out against medical device manufacturer Stryker might mark Tehran’s first significant cyber action since the start of the joint U.S.-Israel conflict. But even that may have been a happy accident for Iranian hackers in what has been a low buzz of activity during that timeframe,…
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Apple patches older iPhones and iPads against Coruna exploits
Apple has released security updates to patch older iPhones and iPads against a set of vulnerabilities targeted in cyberespionage and crypto-theft attacks using the Coruna exploit kit. […]
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Social media impersonation: The brand threat DMARC can’t see
Social media is often a visibility gap for security teams. Learn how to protect against impersonation and defend this platform.
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Anthropic’s US gov’t lawsuit says federal action “unprecedented and unlawful”
Anthropic on Monday fought back against the US federal government’s determination that it is a supply chain risk, suing the feds and arguing to a California federal judge that the government is being inconsistent and contradictory. “The Constitution confers on Anthropic the right to express its views—both publicly and to the government—about the limitations of…
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Iran’s Cyber-Kinetic War Doctrine Takes Shape
Iran has been hacking IP cameras to plan missile strikes against its enemies, and mounting other attacks on physical assets, showing how cyber and kinetic warfare are fast becoming one in the same.
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Perplexity Comet Browser Bug Leaks Local Files via AI Prompt Injection
A newly disclosed attack against Perplexity’s AI-powered Comet browser shows how agentic browsers can be manipulated into leaking sensitive data directly from a user’s machine. Zenity Labs researchers demonstrated a zero-click attack that tricks the browser’s AI agent into reading local files and sending their contents to an attacker-controlled server. The attack “… results in…
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Qualcomm Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Android Attacks
The exploitation activity against CVE-2026-21385, a high-severity memory corruption flaw, could be tied to commercial spyware or nation-state threat groups.
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Meta tightens grip on scam advertisers
Meta is stepping up the fight against scams on its platforms by filing multiple lawsuits targeting companies and individuals in Brazil, China, and Vietnam who used deceptive tactics to run scam ads. The company said it has taken technical enforcement actions in these cases, including suspending payment methods used in the scams, disabling accounts linked…
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Marquis sues SonicWall over backup breach that led to ransomware attack
Marquis Software Solutions has filed a lawsuit against SonicWall, accusing the cybersecurity company of gross negligence and misrepresentation that allegedly led to a ransomware attack disrupting operations at 74 U.S. banks. […]
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Cloudflare Becomes the First and Only SASE Platform to Support Modern Post-Quantum Encryption
New updates scale protection against the threat of advanced computing across the entire Internet—at no cost
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Researchers Demonstrate 27 Attacks Against Major Password Managers
Researchers demonstrate multiple attacks against major password managers, showing how compromised servers and design flaws can expose encrypted vault data.
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Texas Sues TP-Link Over Alleged Security Risks and Supply Chain Deception
Texas has filed a lawsuit against networking manufacturer TP-Link Systems, accusing the company of misleading consumers about the security and origins of its routers while exposing users to exploitation by Chinese state-backed threat actors. The complaint alleges that TP-Link marketed its devices as secure and labeled them “Made in Vietnam,” despite sourcing nearly all components…
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INTERPOL Operation Red Card 2.0 Arrests 651 in African Cybercrime Crackdown
An international cybercrime operation against online scams has led to 651 arrests and recovered more than $4.3 million as part of an effort led by law enforcement agencies from 16 African countries. The initiative, codenamed Operation Red Card 2.0, took place between December 8, 2025 and January 30, 2026, according to INTERPOL. It targeted infrastructure…
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The defense industrial base is a prime target for cyber disruption
Cyber threats against the defense industrial base (DIB) are intensifying, with adversaries shifting from traditional espionage toward operations designed to disrupt production capacity and compromise supply chains. In this Help Net Security interview, Luke McNamara, Deputy Chief Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group, explains how attackers target the broader defense ecosystem and why identity has become…
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Spain orders NordVPN and ProtonVPN to block LaLiga stream piracy
A Spanish court has granted precautionary measures against NordVPN and ProtonVPN, ordering the two popular VPN providers to block 16 websites that facilitate piracy of football matches. […]
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Spain orders NordVPN, ProtonVPN to block LaLiga piracy sites
A Spanish court has granted precautionary measures against NordVPN and ProtonVPN, ordering the two popular VPN providers to block 16 websites that facilitate piracy of football matches. […]
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Poland Energy Survives Attack on Wind, Solar Infrastructure
Russia-aligned groups are probable culprits behind the wiper attacks against renewable energy farms, a manufacturer, and a heating and power plant.
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CISA flags critical Microsoft SCCM flaw as exploited in attacks
CISA ordered federal agencies on Thursday to secure their systems against a critical Microsoft Configuration Manager vulnerability patched in October 2024 and now exploited in attacks. […]
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AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI
New TrendAI report warns that most security tools can’t protect against attacks on AI skills artifacts
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AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. Humans were
AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity… or so the internet would have you believe. We dig into Moltbook, the “AI-only” social network that sent Twitter into a meltdown, attracted breathless talk of the singularity, and turned out to be far less Terminator and far more humans role-playing as…
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Smashing Security podcast #454: AI was not plotting humanity’s demise. Humans were
AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity… or so the internet would have you believe. We dig into Moltbook, the “AI-only” social network that sent Twitter into a meltdown, attracted breathless talk of the singularity, and turned out to be far less Terminator and far more humans role-playing as…
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Double Defense: Cisco Secure Firewall 10.0 Confronts Encrypted Traffic and Emerging Attack Challenges
Discover how Cisco Secure Firewall 10.0 boosts visibility and protection against modern threats, from encrypted attacks to AI-driven exploits.
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Double Defense: Cisco Secure Firewall 10.0 Confronts Encrypted Traffic and Emerging Attack Challenges
Discover how Cisco Secure Firewall 10.0 boosts visibility and protection against modern threats, from encrypted attacks to AI-driven exploits.
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Software developers: Prime cyber targets and a rising risk vector for CISOs
Threats against corporate software developers are increasing and diversifying, challenging security leaders to develop more agile defenses against this growing attack vector. Attackers are increasingly targeting the tools, access, and trusted channels used by software developers rather than simply exploiting application bugs. The threats blend technical compromise — malicious packages, development pipeline abuse, etc. —…
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Software developers: Prime cyber targets and a rising risk vector for CISOs
Threats against corporate software developers are increasing and diversifying, challenging security leaders to develop more agile defenses against this growing attack vector. Attackers are increasingly targeting the tools, access, and trusted channels used by software developers rather than simply exploiting application bugs. The threats blend technical compromise — malicious packages, development pipeline abuse, etc. —…
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How the EU’s trade ‘bazooka’ could hit the US tech sector
When the Trump Administration threatened tariffs last month against countries looking to block any plan to annex Greenland, European leaders debated responding with the region’s trade “bazooka” – a retaliation mechanism that could target US tech firms selling into the European Union. The anti-coercion instrument, introduced in 2023 and so far unused, is designed to deter…
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The dark web’s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock
In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware — exposing how a single, seemingly harmless text message can turn a smartphone into a round-the-clock surveillance device. Plus, we go looking for professional hitmen online – only to uncover uncomfortable questions about…
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UAC-0190 Attack Detection: Fake Charity Lures Used to Deploy the PLUGGYAPE Backdoor Against the Ukrainian Armed Forces
On January 12, 2026, the CERT-UA team disclosed a targeted cyber-espionage campaign against the Ukrainian Armed Forces that abused charity-themed social engineering to deliver the PLUGGYAPE backdoor. The activity, observed between October and December 2025, is attributed with medium confidence to the russia-aligned threat actor known as Void Blizzard (Laundry Bear), tracked by CERT-UA as…
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UAC-0190 Attack Detection: Fake Charity Lures Used to Deploy the PLUGGYAPE Backdoor Against the Ukrainian Armed Forces
On January 12, 2026, the CERT-UA team disclosed a targeted cyber-espionage campaign against the Ukrainian Armed Forces that abused charity-themed social engineering to deliver the PLUGGYAPE backdoor. The activity, observed between October and December 2025, is attributed with medium confidence to the russia-aligned threat actor known as Void Blizzard (Laundry Bear), tracked by CERT-UA as…