Tag: days

A two-week penetration test can leave roughly 345 days of real-world exposure unvalidated. Sprocket Security explores why continuous testing is becoming critical as attack surfaces constantly change. […]

New Wave Of Phishing Emails with SVG Files, (Tue, Jun 2nd)

June 2, 2026

For a few days, my SANS ISC mailbox is flooded with emails that delivers SVG files. An SVG (“Scalable Vector Graphic”) is a web-friendly vector file format used for graphics and icons. No URL in the body, just “an image”, that’s the perfect way to deliver some malicious content. This isn’t the first time that we…

Meta tries to get ahead of scammers before the World Cup begins

June 1, 2026

Football fans are counting down the days until the FIFA World Cup begins, and scammers are doing the same. Last week, the FBI warned that cybercriminals are spoofing FIFA websites to steal personal information, sell fake tickets, and promote fraudulent hospitality packages ahead of the tournament. With millions of supporters expected to travel to the…

CISA gives feds 4 days to patch actively exploited cPanel plugin flaw

May 27, 2026

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their servers against a critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin, which is actively being exploited in attacks. […]

The AI tech job slaughter gets real

May 27, 2026

Tech companies seem to be falling over each other these days in firing people to either replace them with AI or to pay to build AI infrastructure. Wouldn’t it be nice if they at least waited until AI actually worked for business? On the one hand, top tech businesses such as Amazon, Block, Cisco, Cloudflare,…

Why your AI strategy stops where the PLC starts: Hard lessons from the OT frontlines

May 22, 2026

I spent two days at a substation connecting a major offshore wind farm to the grid. The control room featured three new AI-ready dashboards and a board mandate to “leverage machine learning for resilience.” It also had a maintenance laptop running Windows 7, literally taped to the inside of a cabinet because the Velcro had…

Identity as the primary attack surface: What modern breaches are really exploiting

May 22, 2026

The “retro” way “The thing about the old days is… they are the old days” – Slim Charles, The Wire Protecting a specified network perimeter was the main focus of enterprise security strategy for several decades. Businesses made significant investments in firewalls, intrusion detection systems, endpoint security and segmentation controls, all of which were built…

Contractor’s public GitHub account exposed GovCloud and CISA credentials

May 19, 2026

Until a few days ago, a publicly-accessible GitHub repository exposed credentials for both US government AWS accounts and internal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) systems. That’s according to cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs, who first broke the news over the weekend, acting on a tip from researcher Guillaume Valadon at GitGuardian. Valadon confirmed the information…

Contractor Dies at SpaceX’s Starbase Facility in Texas

May 18, 2026

Workplace accident came days before the Elon Musk-led company plans to launch a new version of its Starship rocket.

What’s Next in the Elon Musk Megatrial Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

May 4, 2026

Musk testified for nearly three days last week in a case that would oust Altman and unwind OpenAI’s for-profit conversion

Congress kicks the can down the road on surveillance law (again)

April 30, 2026

Congress extended a controversial surveillance law for 45 days on Thursday, hours before its latest expiration following an earlier extension. The Senate passed — then the House cleared — a 45-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign targets. But those targets are sometimes communicating electronically…

Introducing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, powering the next wave of agents

April 23, 2026

In the early days of generative AI, building safe and reliable business tools took massive engineering effort and a high tolerance for trial and error. We helped solve that with Vertex AI, our trusted AI development platform. But today, we’re managing a different level of complexity, with agents interacting across multiple systems — and often without…

CISA flags new SD-WAN flaw as actively exploited in attacks

April 21, 2026

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. […]

Top techniques attackers use to infiltrate your systems today

April 21, 2026

Much of the talk around cybersecurity these days revolves around AI and the threat it poses to corporate systems when used by nefarious actors. But the reality on the ground remains a little more mundane than polymorphic AI malware and criminal masterminds putting machine learning and generative AI to work at scale. Still, keeping on…

Another Microsoft Defender privilege escalation bug emerges days after patch

April 17, 2026

Days after Microsoft patched a high-severity issue affecting its Windows Defender antivirus tool through April’s Patch Tuesday, researchers warn of another vulnerability that could enable SYSTEM privileges through local escalation. In a newly disclosed proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit, dubbed “RedSun,” GitHub user going by the name “Nightmare Eclipse” demonstrated how Microsoft Defender’s handling of certain cloud-tagged…

Vim and GNU Emacs: Claude Code helpfully found zero-day exploits for both

April 1, 2026

Developers can spend days using fuzzing tools to find security weaknesses in code. Alternatively, they can simply ask an LLM to do the job for them in seconds. The catch: LLMs are evolving so rapidly that this convenience might come with hidden dangers. The latest example is from researcher Hung Nguyen from AI red teaming…

TeamPCP’s attack spree slows, but threat escalates with ransomware pivot

March 30, 2026

TeamPCP’s destructive run of supply chain breaches has stopped, for now: it has been three days since the group published malicious versions of Telnyx’s SDK on PyPI, and there haven’t been reports of new open-source project compromises. Partnership with emerging RaaS operation “The prior operational cadence was aggressive – a new target every 1-3 days…

iTWire TV: NiCE Bets Big on Australia as Agentic AI Rewires the Contact Centre

March 29, 2026

GUEST INTERVIEW: NiCE’s new ANZ boss says the days of pressing zero and repeating “operator” are numbered, and a US$955 million acquisition is the reason why.

NiCE Bets Big on Australia as Agentic AI Rewires the Contact Centre

March 29, 2026

GUEST INTERVIEW: NiCE’s new ANZ boss says the days of pressing zero and repeating “operator” are numbered, and a US$955 million acquisition is the reason why.

Rapid7 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report Shows Exploited High and Critical-Severity Vulnerabilities Surged 105% as Attack Timelines Collapsed

March 19, 2026

GUEST RESEARCH: New research reveals exploitation now occurs within days of disclosure, reinforcing the need for preemptive security operations

Yes, you can run Windows on a MacBook Neo

March 13, 2026

Remember the good old days of 2020 when Apple’s then-new M1 Macs were setting fresh records for Mac performance? You might also recall when those same Macs were described as being the fastest PCs to run Windows when using the Parallels virtualization software. If you recall that, and if light use of legacy Windows utilities or tools is…

Zero‑Day Attacks on Enterprise Software Reach Record High, Google Warns

March 6, 2026

Almost a quarter of the zero days detected by Google in 2025 targeted security and networking appliances

Iranian cyberattacks fail to materialize but threat remains acute

March 4, 2026

Five days into US and Israel’s war with Iran, the worst predictions for cyber-retaliation have yet to materialize. But Iran has built one of the world’s most active cyber operations, which means this is likely a temporary reprieve, experts warn. At the weekend, both the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Canadian Centre…

Iranian cyberattacks fail to materialize but threat remains acute

March 4, 2026

The rise of the evasive adversary

February 24, 2026

Since the earliest days of the internet, there has never been a let-up in adversarial activity. According to CrowdStrike’s just-released 12th annual Global Threat Report, malicious activity in cyberspace continues to not only accelerate but also expand its scale and increasingly abuse the trust of targeted organizations. The good news is that, despite discussion of…

Banana Gun Hits One Million Users: Inside the Crypto Trading Platform That Grew by Putting Execution and Safety First

February 23, 2026

In the latest development, Banana Gun hits one million users. Crypto trading has changed. The days of logging into a centralized exchange, placing a market order, and waiting are giving way to something faster, more direct, and more demanding. On-chain trading – buying and selling tokens directly on the blockchain without a middleman – now…

Tracking Malware Campaigns With Reused Material, (Wed, Feb 18th)

February 18, 2026

A few days ago I wrote a diary called “Malicious Script Delivering More Maliciousness”[1]. In the malware infection chain, there was a JPEG picture that embedded the last payload delimited with “BaseStart-” and “-BaseEnd” tags. Today, I discovered anoher campaign that relies exactly on the same technique. It started with an attachment called “TELERADIO_IB_OBYEKTLRIN_BURAXILIS_FORMASI.xIs” (SHA256:1bf3ec53ddd7399cdc1faf1f0796c5228adc438b6b7fa2513399cdc0cb865962).…