Two security teams have shown, in separate research published this week, that OpenClaw, the popular self-hosted AI agent, can be driven to run attacker-controlled code or hand over sensitive data through ordinary-looking inputs. Imperva buried instructions inside shared contacts, vCards, and location pins that the agent executed without the victim ever seeing them. Varonis built…
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AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Russian Attackers Weaponize WinRAR Flaw Against Ukrainian Orgs
Two separate campaigns target CVE-2025-8088, fixed last July, to conduct data theft and cyberespionage against military and government targets in Ukraine.
AI, Exploits, Global Security News, Russia
Old WinRAR Flaw Fuels Attacks on Ukraine: How Unmanaged Software Keeps the Door Open
Two separate Russia-aligned campaigns are still exploiting the WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 against Ukrainian organizations nearly a year after it was patched, showing how unmanaged software keeps an exploited entry point open long after the fix ships.
AI, Global Security News
How SIEM helps MSPs reduce noise and stop threats faster
MSPs don’t lack security data. They struggle to separate real threats from alert noise. Kaseya explains how SIEM helps MSPs improve visibility, reduce fatigue, and respond faster. […]
AI, Apps, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Risk Management
Zapier fixes bug chain that researchers say risked widespread account takeover
Security researchers chained together five separate weaknesses in the popular workflow automation service Zapier that, if first discovered by a malicious actor, could have granted access to millions of user accounts and the systems those accounts connect to. The flaws, disclosed by security firm Token Security, did not require malware or insider access. The only…
AI, Apps, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management, Russia
Developer workstations are the new beachhead
I spent the first week of April reading three separate threat intelligence reports that, on the surface, had nothing in common. One covered a North Korean campaign that had published over 1,700 malicious packages across five open-source ecosystems. Another detailed a malware operation using a Zig-compiled binary to silently infect every IDE on a developer’s…
AI, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
Why patching SLAs should be the floor, not the strategy
I’ve been a CISO for two separate companies, know several CISOs personally, and interact with many others through various cybersecurity forums. We all have one thing in common. We can tell you our patching SLA numbers off the top of our heads. Ninety-five percent of criticals closed in 14 days. Eighty-something on highs. The board…
Global Security News
Court Denies Anthropic Request to End Defense Department Punishment
The company is involved in two separate legal actions related to being blacklisted by the Pentagon.
AI, Global Security News, Risk Management
OWASP GenAI Security Project Gets Update, New Tools Matrix
In recognition of 21 generative AI risks, the standards groups recommends that companies take separate but linked approaches to defending GenAI and agentic AI systems.