Найти источник необычных помех помогло машинное обучение.

Google Gemini помог новичкам подготовиться к Шасте, но запасов хватило лишь на восемь часов вместо многодневного похода.

Цифровой диод оставит модели канал для данных, но уберёт обратный путь на уровне сети.

KB5120998 расширяет возможности интерфейса, но на части компьютеров полностью отключает выбранный фон.

Каждый выбор проходит через несколько микросхем мозга.

Специалисты прогнали 188000 объявлений через Gemma и нашли тысячи материалов, которые уже прошли модерацию.

Взлом C-Track мог раскрыть конфиденциальные материалы и персональные данные участников дел.

Новый диалог должен снизить риск эскалации, если вышедший из-под контроля ИИ вмешается в инфраструктуру или проведёт кибератаку.

X Money превратил обычный угон профиля в потенциальную охоту за реальными деньгами.

Новые требования RHEL заставили бы лабораторию заменить почти две трети компьютеров ускорительного комплекса.

Предыдущая задача физически меняет способ решения следующей.

Николая Никифорова заочно обвинили по делу Finiko, пока бывший чиновник живёт в ОАЭ.

Проблемами вузов остаются слабая материальная база и отсутствие доступа к российскому ПО и отечественному оборудованию.

Для их оценки в приказе предлагается использовать два подхода: по методике, изложенной в самом документе, и по фактическим затратам.

Как унифицировать требования вуза и Минцифры к трудоустройству сотрудников, чтобы сократить объём документов и согласований.

Также представитель ОмГТУ обратил внимание на то, что у вузов, которые сотрудничают с индустриальными партнёрами, появляется необходимость регулярно отправлять отчёты в Минцифры.

ВыводыИсполнение норм приказа № 270 Минцифры потребует довольно серьёзных усилий как от ИТ-компаний, так и от вузов.

Допустим, на это отводится месяц и ограниченный бюджет.

Экстренное привлечение сторонних специалистов по кибербезопасности — часто по повышенным тарифам и без возможности выбрать оптимального подрядчика.

Презумпция взлома подразумевает ориентацию на факты, а не на формальное соответствие.

Но с их помощью обычно получается понять, как должно быть, а не как есть на самом деле.

Аналитики собирают актуальные и ретроспективные данные внутри инфраструктуры и во внешних источниках, проводят автоматизированный и ручной анализ, оценивают критичность инцидентов и расследуют выявленные атаки.

В 2026 году ИИ оказался по обе стороны найма: алгоритмы помогают компаниям оценивать кандидатов, а соискателям — готовиться к этой оценке.

Такая же формулировка встречается и в обсуждениях у других участников рынка.

В одном случае на массовые позиции приходит до 700 резюме в неделю, на узкоспециализированные и руководящие — около 100.

Например, работодатель может с помощью ГигаЧата или Gemini подготовить тестовое задание, а кандидат с помощью того же инструмента его выполнить.

Результаты опроса К2Тех по использованию ИИ в HR-процессахРиски для соискателяК рискам и барьерам мы бы отнесли те же, что при использовании ИИ в повседневных задачах.

Даниил Бориславский согласился, что это синергетическая работа: бизнес знает, что для него ценно, ИБ предлагает инструменты защиты, а регуляторика добавляет свои требования.

Глеб Марченко как практикующий специалист по защите данных добавил, что в крупных компаниях подразделения информационной безопасности гораздо малочисленнее, чем бизнес-подразделения.

Он отметил, что в прошлом году было очень много мошеннических действий, телефонных «разводов», попыток закрепиться в инфраструктуре.

DCAP прекрасно справляется с классификацией данных в покое, у неё больше времени на анализ, и эта классификация затем используется в DLP для настройки политик безопасности.

ВыводыРынок защиты данных в 2026 год…

Разбираемся, как объединить данные VM, SIEM и CMDB, учесть EPSS и CISA KEV, настроить расчёт риска и расставить приоритеты устранения.

Уровни риска и сроки устранения уязвимостейКак работают вместе VM, SIEM и CMDBКаждый источник отвечает на отдельную группу вопросов.

Актив есть в VM, но не передаёт событияОбратная ситуация возникает, когда VM видит узел, а SIEM не получает от него событий.

Организовать обмен данными между VM, SIEM и CMDB.

ВыводыСвязка VM, SIEM и CMDB помогает оценивать уязвимости в контексте реальной инфраструктуры.

Статистика роста количества уязвимостей в ОС Linux в 1998–2026 гг.

Профили настройки СЗИ в Astra LinuxДля настройки СЗИ в Astra Linux предусмотрены готовые профили, соответствующие требованиям регулятора.

Выбор профиля защиты системы в Astra LinuxАрхитектура СЗИ ОС Astra LinuxДля обеспечения безопасности использования Astra Linux команда разработчиков переработала архитектуру исходной операционной системы.

Трёхзвенная клиент-серверная архитектура ОС Astra LinuxСогласно сертификату № 2557 ОС Astra Linux соответствует требованиям документов: Требования доверия (1), Требования доверия (2), Требования к ОС, Профиль защиты ОС (А первого класса защиты.

Сценарии использования встроенных СЗИ Astra …

Аннотация: В 2026 году преимущество получают не компании с самым большим числом ИИ-пилотов, а те, кто умеет превращать эксперименты в управляемые сервисы.

В 2026 году гораздо важнее другое: способна ли компания превратить удачный ИИ-пилот в эффективный сервис, которым безопасно пользуются сотни или тысячи сотрудников?

Гонка 2026 года в пяти цифрахМасштаб разрыва между интересом к ИИ и готовностью к его промышленной эксплуатации показывают результаты исследования Orion soft и данные проектов компании.

Эта оценка окупаемости инвестиций (ROI) не проходила независимый аудит, но показывает принцип расчёта: стоимость инфраструктуры нужно сопоставлять с изменением конкретного процесса, а не с коли…

Эксперты рынка обсудили, какие инструменты нужны для непрерывной оценки защищённости, как выстроить процессы и что ждёт отрасль в ближайшие годы.

Денис Гамаюнов указал, что не стоит безапелляционно отграничивать пентест от автоматизации.

Давид Ордян, генеральный директор METASCANМаксим Пятаков уточнил, что для внешнего периметра ограничений практически нет — любая компания может начать использовать ASM-решения.

Важно сначала оценить слабые места: возможно, проблема не в отсутствии какого-то инструмента, а в том, что у ИБ нет общего языка с ИТ-подразделениями.

При этом главная ценность автоматизации — не в количестве найденных уязвимостей, а в приоритизации: показать бизнесу не список пробле…

Отдельные редакции позволяют запускать контейнеры вместе с ВМ в одной среде для запуска гибридных приложений.

Для решения задач виртуализации существует множество решений с открытым кодом, в том числе и для управления виртуальными машинами (ВМ) с помощью Kubernetes.

DevOps-инструменты и практики для ВМ: IaC, GitOps, Helm, Argo CD для управления жизненным циклом.

Централизованная наблюдаемость: мониторинг, события и журналы инфраструктуры, ВМ и приложений из одной точки.

Снимок ВМ включает в себя параметры ВМ и состояние всех её дисков; снимок диска сохраняет только данные выбранного диска.

Не хватает не только линейных инженеров и аналитиков, но и системных архитекторов, руководителей проектов, разработчиков безопасных интерфейсов и других специалистов, способных выстраивать комплексные процессы.

Организациям приходится «выращивать» такие кадры самостоятельно: профильные вузы не всегда успевают за темпами развития ИТ и ИБ и изменением требований к специалистам.

Импортозамещение должно рассматриваться не как конечная цель и не как перечень продуктов, которые необходимо заменить, а как часть более широкой системы управления технологическими рисками.

Приоритеты в области ИТ и ИБ должны определяться реальными рисками и потенциальным ущербом, а не только необходимостью соответство…

От замены операционных систем, офисных пакетов и систем управления базами данных ИТ-рынок переходит к замещению сложного промышленного софта.

К началу 2026 года в Реестре российского ПО было зарегистрировано почти 30 000 продуктов, а объём продаж российских ИТ-продуктов и сервисов превысил 5 трлн рублей.

Затраты на покупку ПО на одного занятого в ценах 2015 года (источник: forecast.ru)Вторая волна импортозамещения — это уже этап системной и глубокой работы, переход от срочного импортозамещения к осознанному построению устойчивой отечественной ИТ-экосистемы для промышленности.

Они объединяют крупнейшие компании и разработчиков для определения приоритетных направлений импортозамещения и форми…

Аналогичные нормы действуют во многих странах, в том числе и в России (закон № 436-ФЗ «О защите детей от информации, причиняющей вред их здоровью и развитию»).

Среди них оказались как развитые страны Европы, так и Китай, и целый ряд азиатских стран, и Канада, и даже Австралия.

Из постсоветских стран пока отметился лишь Азербайджан, где соответствующий закон принят в конце июня и вступит в силу в 2027 году.

Страны, которые ввели или планируют ввести возрастные ограничения на доступ к соцсетям (РБК, Reuters)В России ограничения на доступ к соцсетям не планируются.

Они выставляют различные технические и организационные ограничения на доступ к данным.

Эта компания разработала инструменты для её практического применения — первый Фреймворк антихрупкой ИТ-архитектуры и Индекс антихрупкости для построения киберустойчивого бизнеса.

Для практической реализации концепции антихрупкости «Инфосистемы Джет» разработали первый Фреймворк антихрупкой архитектуры и Индекс антихрупкости, позволяющие выявить слабые места и сформировать дорожную карту усиления защиты.

Назначение инструментов, разработанных компанией «Инфосистемы Джет»Как же перейти от понимания концепции антихрупкости к её реализации?

Компания «Инфосистемы Джет» переводит концепцию антихрупкости на язык конкретных инженерных и управленческих решений.

Наличие веб-сервиса для оценки антихру…

В 2026 году российский рынок серверного оборудования и ПАКов достиг новой зрелости: выбор огромен, но разобраться в нём стало сложнее, чем когда-либо.

Они должны входить как в реестр Минпромторга (в части оборудования), так и в реестр Минцифры (в части программного обеспечения).

Ценность заключается в том, что в условиях, в которых оно производится, оно находится на уровне лучших мировых образцов вендоров А-класса.

Логика реализована в софте, и это зачастую требует изменения модели данных и подходов к их хранению, особенно когда часть технологий становится недоступной.

В нашей компании уже разработан ПАК искусственного интеллекта, который умеет управлять балансировкой и загрузкой карт и раб…

Денис Морозов добавил исторический контекст: «Раньше сервисные учётные записи были, но им доверяли по умолчанию — ведь это не люди, которые могут что-то утащить.

Клиент видит, что функция уже есть в PAM, и ему перестают быть нужны лишние системы.

Появляются сущности в инфраструктурном IDM, и доступы в соответствии с заранее определёнными политиками, ролевой моделью и матрицей доступов раскатываются в хранилище и PAM.

Суть не в комбайне, а в синергии продуктов.

Cloud Native PAM в ближайшее время в стране не появится — для этого нужен выход на внешние рынки.

Шаблон — это не обязательно Open Source.

По умолчанию руководство и сотрудники компании должны помнить и понимать, что данный шаблон разрабатывается с применением облачных моделей, соответственно, быть готовы к копированию, утечке или публикации.

Единственный сложный момент — как развивать шаблон в долгосрочной перспективе?

Что, если шаблон невозможно упаковать в библиотеку, как в таком случае переносить изменения?

Из приведенных выше примеров основное преимущество, которое давали облачные модели — идеи, фичи, варианты архитектуры, которые приходили в диалоге с моделью.

доменов и не нашли ни одного гибридного постквантового сертификата.

И уже сегодня стоит опасаться атак типа «собери сейчас, расшифруй позже» — Harvest Now, Decrypt Later (HNDL).

Но, как говорят специалисты из Let’s Encrypt, Web PKI — одно из сложных мест для развертывания постквантовых подписей, и причина в их размере.

Если перевести их на ML‑DSA, объем данных, который необходимо транслировать при установлении соединения, вырастет почти на 15 Кбайт.

Этот факт несколько снижает уверенность в их устойчивости в долгосрочной перспективе.

Во второй части ролика на стене начинает «глючить» одно слово – ASTRA, в котором S заменяется на цифру 6.

Astra – это не «ещё один чат», а модель, заточенная в первую очередь под работу за компьютером.

При этом Astra на пять пунктов уступает Claude Fable 5.1 (66 баллов) и даже отстаёт от свежей модели Meta, Muse Spark 1.3.

Сравнение оценок безопасности между Astra и предыдущими моделямиЕсть и обнадёживающая цифра: в тесте, вдохновлённом инцидентом с Hugging Face, Sol без продакшн-защит выходила за рамки полномочий в 48,2% случаев, а Astra – в 0%.

Как и всегда, лучший способ понять модель – это проверить Astra на своих задачах.

С точки зрения почты - один и тот же ящик, все письма придут в одно место.

Точки в Gmail.

У Gmail точки в локальной части не значат ничего: i.van@ и ivan@ - один ящик.

У большинства других провайдеров - значат, и это важная деталь: нормализацию точек нельзя применять ко всем доменам подряд, иначе вы склеите учётные записи двух разных людей.

Это не про дубли пользователей, это про регистрацию под видом сотрудника или контрагента, и проверять такое надо на входе.

Также их можно применять и на этапе дампа, и на этапе восстановления независимо.

Ниже приведена схема, демонстрирующая состав таблиц в базах данных и в дампе, при использовании разных подходов:Главная тонкость кроется в окружении таблиц.

Используется для дампа и для ускорения повторных сканирований;Словарь нечувствительных данных — перечень нечувствительных полей, и ничего больше.

Те же два списка, белый и чёрный, доступны и на дампе, и на восстановлении.

Если захотите задать функцию точечно на конкретное поле, а не на весь тип, правьте уже собранный словарь чувствительных данных bank_sens_dict.py напрямую.

В этом дайджесте собраны бесплатные уроки сентября для инженеров инфраструктуры, DevOps и специалистов смежных направлений.

Занятия проводят преподаватели курсов Otus — практикующие специалисты, которые разбирают технологии на реальных примерах и опираются на свой опыт.

Это возможность обсудить рабочие подходы с экспертами, разобраться в новых инструментах и оценить формат обучения.

В программе — настройка веб-серверов, работа с логами и файловой системой Linux, управление релизами, поиск узких мест в production и построение устойчивой инфраструктуры.

Администрирование Linux и серверовПроизводительность, базы данных и отказоустойчивостьАвтоматизация инфраструктуры и DevOpsБезопасность инфра…

За три года она пережила и акцию, и сам сервис, на который указывала, - и в какой-то момент начала отправлять посетителей на чужой сайт.

Такие записи называют висячими, и в зоне любой компании, которая живёт дольше пары лет, их обычно несколько десятков.

Но ущерб не в странице, а в имени, под которым она теперь отдаётся.

Для CNAME - существует ли на той стороне проект с таким именем: смотреть надо на ответ приложения, а не на факт резолва.

Если на .example.com , а не на конкретный хост - цена висячей записи вырастает, и разбор списка становится срочным.

Разработчики должны добавить поддержку этой роли, а пользователь — вручную выбрать приложение ассистентом по умолчанию в системных настройках.

Что ассистент узнаёт об открытом экранеНазначение Алисы AI ассистентом по умолчанию не даёт ей постоянный доступ к экрану.

Это не видеотрансляция и не доступ к внутренним данным приложения, а сведения о состоянии открытого экрана.

Назначение ассистентом по умолчанию не делает приложение системным и не даёт ему таких разрешений.

Ассистент не сможет выполнить команду, если приложение не принимает стандартный интент, не публикует нужную функцию и не предоставляет собственного API.

Самый известный пароль в литературе — эльфийское mellon, «друг» — открывал Западные врата Мории любому, кто удосужился прочитать надпись прямо над ними.

Следствие, которое и делает возможным наш аудит: один и тот же пароль всегда даёт один и тот же NT-хеш — в вашем домене, в соседнем домене и в дампе десятилетней давности.

Первый — взлом хешей (offline cracking): выгрузить NT-хеши и натравить на них hashcat со словарями, правилами и масками, восстанавливая пароли в открытом виде.

В рабочем домене Test-PasswordQuality скажет только, что пароль учётной записи есть в словаре или утечке, но сам пароль не покажет.

Проверяйте только свою инфраструктуру и только с явной авторизацией (в идеале — с …

Код приложения-дроппераПо окончании расшифровки полезной нагрузки на устройство пользователя устанавливается вредоносное приложение, а сам файл нагрузки и часть ключа удаляются.

Отправляемые на C2-сервер данные устройства, собранные до выдачи разрешенийАвтоматическая выдача разрешенийПри установке Drama RAT запрашивает разрешение на использование специальных возможностей (Accessibility).

Пример функции сокрытия выдачи правПохожие приемы используются и для сокрытия записи экрана: приложение может включать ее фоном, чтобы анализировать действия пользователя.

В результате чего удалить приложение или отозвать выданные разрешения без помощи сторонних средств невозможно.

Регулярно проверяйте разр…

Главное: роль подрядчика определяет цель, а не договорРоль подрядчика определяете не вы и не бухгалтерия.

Одна и та же строка в счёте - «услуги колл-центра», «IT-сопровождение», «кадровое делопроизводство» - может стоять и в первом раскладе, и во втором.

«А если он работает в нашей базе, а не у себя?»Еще один популярный вопрос, - и ответ на него не тот, которого ждут.

Где обычно ошибаются: дают подрядчику доступ ко всей базе вместо нужного среза и не отзывают его после проекта.

Данные утекли не у вас, а у подрядчика - и это ничего не меняет: за действия обработчика перед человеком отвечает оператор, то есть вы (ч.

Третий ежеквартальный выпуск «Хакера» за 2026 год уже напечатан.

Это означает, что совсем скоро журналы отправятся к своим владельцам, а коллекция номеров «Хакера» за 2026 год постепенно складывается в полноценную бумажную подшивку.

#3: еще пахнет типографской краскойПока ты читаешь эти строки, третий ежеквартальный выпуск уже отгружают из типографии и готовят к отправке.

b1001 утилит для хакера.

Один заказ — и ты станешь обладателем всей коллекции ежеквартальных номеров «Хакера» за 2026 год.

Хуже того, выяснилось, что клиенты таких прокси-сервисов могут получать root-доступ к приставкам и устанавливать на них малварь.

Весной 2026 года эксперты Plume уже анализировали устройства SuperBox и обнаружили прокси-функции в приложении Cyberflix TV, доступном через фирменный магазин устройства.

Дело в том, что устройства SuperBox поставляются с небезопасными настройками Android.

Так, исследователи подключили контролируемое ими устройство к Popanet и перенаправляли обращения к популярным портам ADB на свой ханипот.

В Plume подчеркивают, что проблема не ограничивается лишь устройствами SuperBox: ИБ-специалисты давно предупреждают об аналогичных рисках, связанных с другими ТВ-приставками.

ИБ-исследователь, известный под псевдонимом Nightmare Eclipse (он же Chaotic Eclipse), который в последние месяцы регулярно публиковал 0-day для Windows, переключился на других вендоров.

Напомним, что с весны 2026 года Nightmare Eclipse регулярно публикует эксплоиты для различных 0-day-уязвимостей, преимущественно затрагивающих Windows и Microsoft Defender.

То есть раскрытие уязвимостей до выхода патчей является для Nightmare Eclipse формой протеста и мести.

Однако на этот раз Nightmare Eclipse утверждает, что обнаружил проблему не в продукции Microsoft, а в CrowdStrike Falcon.

Поэтому Nightmare Eclipse полагает, что для тестирования может понадобиться добавить его в исключения, обфусцирова…

Соб­рав свою базовую стан­цию на YateBTS, я обна­ружил, что шиф­рование ради­ока­нала там сло­мано и это не починить.

В YateBTS, как ока­залось, есть мно­го огра­ниче­ний, которые не дают пол­ноцен­но вос­создать все воз­можнос­ти нас­тоящей мобиль­ной сети с шиф­ровани­ем.

Хоть теоре­тичес­кая часть и не обя­затель­на, что­бы под­нять стенд, пол­ностью понимать про­исхо­дящее весь­ма полез­но.

Нуж­но опре­делить, находит­ся ли получа­тель в сети и через какой MSC/VLR мож­но до него дос­тучать­ся.

Проб­лема толь­ко в том, что в сте­ке Osmo некото­рые ком­понен­ты объ­еди­нены, а дру­гие могут называть­ся не как в спе­цифи­кации.

Исследователи Group-IB обнаружили вредоносный Python-фреймворк BraZetsu, который превращает зараженные Windows-системы в товар для других преступников.

Малварь собирает данные о жертве, с помощью генеративного ИИ оценивает ценность скомпрометированной машины, после чего доступ к ней можно приобрести на криминальном маркетплейсе Infected Marketplace.

Операторов BraZetsu и Infected Marketplace исследователи отслеживают под названием Exilware.

Кроме того, анализ инфраструктуры и кода BraZetsu позволил связать малварь с Python-бэкдором AgenteV2, который ранее применялся против бразильских пользователей в фишинговых кампаниях.

По оценке специалистов, участники Exilware постепенно превращают BraZ…

20 и 21 августа в пространстве GOELRO в Москве состоялась седьмая международная конференция по практической кибербезопасности OFFZONE 2026.

Поэтому нам важно, чтобы на конференции говорили о том, какие технологии работают на практике, как меняются подходы к безопасности и какие задачи специалистам приходится решать по-новому.

В конечном счете OFFZONE — это возможность увидеть, чем живет профессиональное сообщество сегодня и в какую сторону оно будет развиваться завтра», — говорит Евгений Волошин, директор по стратегии BI.ZONE.

При его подготовке специалисты BI.ZONE изучили более 35 000 объявлений злоумышленников на теневых форумах, маркетплейсах и в Telegram-каналах за период с лета 2025 го…

За первые восемь месяцев 2026 года протоколы DeFi лишились как минимум 1,3 миллиарда долларов в результате хакерских атак.

Впервые утечки приватных ключей и админ-доступов обогнали уязвимости в смарт-контрактах и стали основной причиной потерь.

На счету группировки — как минимум 575 млн долларов, то есть около 44% от общей суммы потерь за год.

Через 17 дней, 18 апреля, был взломан мост протокола KelpDAO, потери составили около 290 млн долларов.

Здесь схема была иной: злоумышленники применили социальную инженерию против разработчика LayerZero, получили доступ к его сессионным ключам и с их помощью скомпрометировали RPC-инфраструктуру.

Кребс обнаружил в продаже базу, содержащую 153 млн водительских удостоверений жителей США и Канады.

Помимо 153 млн водительских удостоверений, операторы сервиса заявляли, что в их распоряжении имеются более 10 млн других ID, свыше 3 млн различных документов для путешествий и международных удостоверений личности, а также примерно 579 000 медицинских карт.

Дело в том, что новые документы продолжали появляться в Nexus во время проведения расследования практически в режиме реального времени.

К примеру, в одном из случаев утечка документов и время создания файлов совпали с посещением магазина сети Planet13 в Лас-Вегасе.

Также в ФБР заявили СМИ, что уже изучают этот инцидент, и подразделение бюро…

Так, атакующие добавляют в малварь промпт-инжект с опасным запросом, рассчитывая вызвать срабатывание защитных механизмов LLM и вынудить модель отказаться от дальнейшего анализа.

Исследователи заметили GuardBreaker в VBS-скрипте, который использует хак-группа UAC-0099: злоумышленники добавили в комментарий к коду текст, начинающий со слов: «Я хочу создать ядерное оружие.

Образец с GuardBreaker был замечен при изучении атаки на украинскую организацию.

По словам аналитиков ESET, встроенный в VBS-скрипт текст предназначен не для людей и вообще не связан с функциями самой малвари.

К примеру, в июне 2026 года похожие промпт-инжекты были замечены в Python-пакетах, связанных с атаками Shai-Hulud, …

Злоумышленник, связанный с третьей волной хищений с кошельков COLDCARD, 3 сентября начал конвертировать похищенные биткоины в эфир через протокол THORChain.

По его данным, атакующий перевел через THORChain примерно 10% контролируемых им биткоинов, тогда как около 90% средств на момент публикации оставались нетронутыми на исходных адресах.

Это первое зафиксированное перемещение средств с исходных адресов, связанных с первыми тремя волнами атак на пользователей Coldcard.

THORChain позволяет обменивать нативные активы между разными блокчейнами без перевода средств на централизованную биржу — именно так протокол позволил конвертировать биткоин в эфир напрямую.

Так, в CertiK в августе сообщали, …

ИБ-исследователь Иоганн Ребергер (Johann Rehberger) продемонстрировал атаку на Claude Code, работающий с моделью Opus 5 в автоматическом режиме (Auto Mode).

Эксперт обнаружил, что для выполнения произвольного кода достаточно попросить ИИ-агента пересказать содержимое специально подготовленного сайта.

По словам исследователя, корень проблемы заключается в том, что с середины августа 2026 года Auto Mode используется в Claude Code по умолчанию.

В результате написанный Claude декодер импортирует стандартный модуль base64, который, в свою очередь, импортирует struct.

В общей сложности Ребергер протестировал три варианта атаки по пять раз каждый, и в среднем процент успеха варьировался от 60% до …

По данным компании, злоумышленники воспользовались ошибкой в процессе проверки email-адресов со стороны Lenovo и старой интеграцией между Lenovo ID и Dropbox, которая позволяла войти в чужой аккаунт без пароля.

В компании объясняют, что старая интеграция позволяла войти в Dropbox с помощью подтвержденного Lenovo ID.

По его словам, хакеры попытались открыть лишь один файл в его Dropbox — IMPORTANT.rtf, но перед загрузкой в облако Лопп зашифровал его локально.

Обнаружив проблему, специалисты Dropbox завершили все сессии, открытые через Lenovo ID, а также отвязали все пострадавшие аккаунты от Lenovo ID.

Кроме того, теперь при попытке авторизоваться через Lenovo ID потребуется дополнительно вве…

А еще хотелось бы внед­рять свою «канарей­ку» в любой документ, а не толь­ко в пус­тую заготов­ку.

Для докумен­та и при­ложе­ния, в котором ты его откры­ваешь, все выг­лядит как легитим­ная активность: ну тянет докумен­тик внеш­нюю кар­тинку — и пусть.

Но если открыть файл в дру­гих редак­торах — нап­ример, в EZViewer или прос­то в бра­узе­ре — либо в све­жих вер­сиях Adobe Acrobat, уве­дом­ление не при­дет.

Нап­ример, в Adobe Acrobat это нас­тра­ивает­ся в парамет­рах прог­раммы или в реес­тре:HKEY_ CURRENT_ USER\ Software\ Adobe\ Adobe Acrobat\ DC\ TrustManager\ cTrustedSites\ cAlwaysTrustedForJavaScriptТе­перь нем­ного поревер­сим докумен­ты и раз­берем­ся, как так выш­ло.

Ка­залось бы, …

По версии следствия, он и его сообщники использовали порядка 255 фейковых аккаунтов на популярной платформе для фрилансеров и разослали вредоносные Excel-файлы примерно 80 000 пользователей.

Актулаева задержали на Кипре еще в мае 2025 года, а в конце августа 2026 года экстрадировали в США.

Название пострадавшей платформы в документах не раскрывается, сообщается лишь, что речь идет о крупном сервисе для поиска фрилансеров и заказчиков, базирующемся в Калифорнии.

По данным Министерства юстиции США, затем Актулаев и его сообщники использовали эти данные в мошеннических схемах и другой преступной деятельности.

Следствие установило, что тысячи компьютеров, зараженных TVRAT, подключались к C2-дом…

В это время неизвестные злоумышленники провели успешную BGP-атаку и перенаправили трафик, предназначенный для систем обновления Softaculous, а также клиентского и платежного портала, в свою инфраструктуру.

Дополнительно ситуацию усугубило и то, что механизм обновлений Virtualizor не проверял криптографическую подпись пакетов, из-за чего фальшивое обновление устанавливалось как легитимное.

Однако составить точный список пострадавших невозможно, так как запросы уходили непосредственно к атакующим и не попадали в логи самой компании.

Также в Softaculous сообщили, что планируют внедрить криптографическую подпись всех пакетов и перенести сервисы в более защищенную инфраструктуру.

Подчеркивается,…

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk.

The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers between November 2019 and August 2021.

The exposure is in addition to 13,689 customers the company disclosed last month as having had their data either fully or partially exposed.

Trezor said ShipMonk informed the hardware wallet maker of a breach on August 10, 2026, following unauthorized access to their systems.

"The Trezor breach was the result of a supply chain attack beginning with a zero-day vulnerability…

The agents were working through timed lookup tasks of usually five questions, and many were given questions that other agents had already answered.

agents used the wikis' acceptance of state-changing read requests to post without the ability to send a normal write request.

Coordination to cheat a timed task: agents formed groups to relay answers and reverse-engineer the order of future questions.

Addresses registered to OpenAI first visited the wiki on June 21, and agent editing collapsed the next day.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, a day before the wiki report, and its system card includes a dedicated evaluation for agents that seek out and follow messages left by other agents…

Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe.

The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an authentication bypass and remote code execution chain – to conduct command execution and reconnaissance, as well as create privileged accounts.

"Observed post-exploitation activity included delivery of Windows registry hive collection tools, Metasploit/Meterpreter-related Java payloads, and commands used to identify hosts, users, processes, and sensitive configuration data," Arctic Wolf said.

Some of the identified ma…

Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters.

ASCII Smuggling refers to a technique where invisible or non-rendering Unicode characters are used to conceal messages or instructions inside seemingly-harmless text.

According to the Windows maker, the ASCII smuggling-oriented phishing campaign entered into a high-volume phase for roughly three months before dropping sharply post May 15, 2026.

The campaign is assessed to be tied to a broader phishing campaign that weaponized the ActiveCampaign marketing and automation platform to distribute thousands of AI-generated phishing emails targeting Small Business Admin…

The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014.

The fix, shipped on August 13, adds a server parameter called output_plugin_libraries that lists which libraries may be loaded as logical decoding output plugins, defaulting to 'pgoutput, test_decoding'.

"Previously, a replication user could select any loadable library for logical decoding, allowing exploits of various sorts.

To allow locking this down without breaking setups that worked before, introduce a whitelist of allowed output plugins," the PostgreSQL Global Development Group said in the 18.6 release notes.

"REPLICATION users were not previously sub…

A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors.

A request for one specific image path puts the filter into C2 mode, Rapid7 said in a report published Friday.

The implant decrements HAProxy's live connection counters, thereby dropping the connection from the load balancer's statistics.

The maltrail file Rapid7 links stopped resolving after a repository restructure in August moved the project's static trail data elsewhere.

The implant reads HAProxy's internal structures at offsets fixed to that release, and Rapid…

Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence.

(Fixed in version 6.3.314) CVE-2026-32475 (CVSS score: 9.0/9.8) - A vulnerability in Elementor Pro that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload files of any type, including executable PHP files, leading to remote code execution.

Successful exploitation requires the target site to have at least one published Elementor page containing a Form widget with a File Upload field.

Attacks weaponizing the Super Forms plugin have originated from the following IP addresses -103.168.147.235103.168.146.131103.154.152.178103.170.97.7182.10.130.51189.4.122.14…

Plex is urging users to update their instances to the latest version following the release of an update that patches multiple security flaws.

The fixes are available in Plex Media Server 1.43.3 and Plex Desktop 1.115.0.

Vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server have been exploited by threat actors from time to time.

The hotfix (Plex Media Server v1.21.3.4014 or newer) ensures that the server will only respond to UDP requests from the local network (LAN) and not the public internet (WAN).

Notably, the August 2022 breach of LastPass was driven by attackers implanting keylogger malware on an employee's home computer after compromising it through a Plex Media Server vulnerability (CVE-2020-5741, CVS…

Google on Thursday released security updates to patch 12 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild.

The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a type confusion bug in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine.

"Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.82 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page," reads a description of the flaw in CVE.org.

With the latest development, Google has addressed a total of six actively exploited Chrome zero-days since the start of the year.

To make sure the latest updates are installed, users …

OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the "world's most intelligent and aligned model."

Astra saturates FrontierMath Tier 4 with a 98% score," OpenAI said.

"Astra also saturates ARC-AGI-3 with a 99.9% score and ExploitBench with a 100% score.

The global project, called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, aims to commit $1 billion to help defenders use frontier AI cyber capabilities to safeguard essential services against cyber attacks.

"We have a defender's window: a narrowing opportunity to use AI to close security gaps before attackers seize them," OpenAI said.

A trusted app.

There is also ransomware, stolen ID data, hidden attack servers, and weak settings that should have been fixed long ago.

A bad app approval or remote session can give attackers access without the password.

Recovery should also end open sessions, remove unknown app access, and check remote tools.

But old account links, weak sign-in options, and trusted software still give attackers room to work.

MPLS and MPLS-TE - CSCwv40753 and CSCwu14825; on 24.2.21 for 64-bit ARM Cisco 8000 Series routers, CSCwv19181 and CSCwu14825.

OSPF - CSCwv40741 and CSCwv19171; on 24.2.21 for 64-bit ARM Cisco 8000 Series routers, CSCwv19174 and CSCwv19171.

Segment routing, IPv4 only or IPv4 and IPv6 - CSCwv38342; on 24.2.21 for 64-bit ARM Cisco 8000 Series routers, CSCwv19178.

TCP Authentication Option - CSCwv36143; on 24.2.21 for 64-bit ARM Cisco 8000 Series routers, CSCwu14817; on 6.9.2 for 32-bit ASR 9000 Series routers, CSCww16661.

- CSCwv36143; on 24.2.21 for 64-bit ARM Cisco 8000 Series routers, CSCwu14817; on 6.9.2 for 32-bit ASR 9000 Series routers, CSCww16661.

But across the globe, policymakers and public opinion are forcing tech platforms to better police this content.

What should I do if I’ve been deepfaked?

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Details about the Hugging Face hack, critical infrastructure under attack, a spoofed in-flight Wi-Fi network, and more of this month's cybersecurity newsWith August coming to a close, it's time for ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to look back at some of the top cybersecurity stories that have made the news over the past month.

Here's some of what caught Tony's attention:OpenAI has disclosed more details about how its agents hacked AI collaboration platform Hugging Face.

Delta Airlines is investigating an incident where a flight passenger reportedly used an unidentified device to spoof the airline’s in-flight Wi-Fi network.

What are the lessons that businesses and critical infra…

And of course, linking our professional and personal social media accounts is a simple task for AI.

For example, fraudsters could use personal information to craft a social engineering attack designed to harvest your work credentials or information.

Losing your personal information is one thing.

What you can do about AI-powered OSINTWhen it comes to AI-powered reconnaissance, there are things you can control and things you can’t.

Old social media photos are easier to remove, but few of us have the time to trawl through our entire digital life to remove anything potentially useful to criminals.

So it is with QR codes, which have become a common sight on menus, lampposts and parking meters – and, increasingly, in emails over recent years.

Most importantly, they take the victim from a relatively well-protected corporate environment to a potentially unmanaged mobile device, thus bypassing business-grade security.

Malicious QR codes are frequently embedded in alerts urging users to secure their account, or authenticate to confirm their details.

Encourage employees to avoid scanning QR codes in unsolicited emails and report anything suspicious.

Next, consider technical controls, including email security from a reputable vendor to minimize the risk of quishing emails ending up in users’…

The accelerated discovery of previously unknown software vulnerabilities has been making headlines for months.

It’s an issue that has even led the US government to create a vulnerability clearing house named Gold Eagle to coordinate research efforts in vulnerability discovery, mitigation and fixes.

A keynote at Black Hat USA 2026 detailed research by associate professor Yan Shoshitaishvili and his undergraduate students at Arizona State University on the expanding use of AI models for vulnerability discovery.

The team then trained the GPTs using the properties of previously known vulnerabilities and discovered approximately 1,000 vulnerabilities.

If this logic prevails, we may reach the cal…

Hugging Face disclosed that it had been attacked by AI; OpenAI came clean and declared that it was two of their AI models that had caused the breach.

A very late addition to the Black Hat agenda was a presentation by OpenAI’s team providing the details of the Hugging Face incident as they saw it and, importantly, the timeline.

The agents concluded that their task set could be completed by breaking out their sandbox and accessing external (Hugging Face) systems.

The target was Hugging Face: this is where the agents wanted to get, and they did.

On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed an incident in which swarms of autonomous AI agents had breached its infrastructure.

The conference opened with keynotes followed by a fireside chat and a panel featuring mainly senior US government officials.

The second part of the opening keynote included Nick Andersen, Acting Director, CISA; Katherine Sutton, Assistant Secretary of War for Cyber Policy; and Brett Leatherman Assistant Director, Cyber Division, FBI.

I do agree with the ruthless approach, but without some form of regulation the boundaries on the use of AI remain blurred.

The Assistant Secretary of War for Cyber Policy made a fabulous analogy when pressed on the struggles regarding resourcing in the cybersecurity industry: you don’t want a pediatrician performing heart surgery.

We talk about autonomous AI at…

The AI tutor market is growing fastThe market for AI tutoring tools is booming.

Today, you can find various types of AI tutor tools to buy and use.

This happens when AI tools are tricked into ignoring their safety guardrails and display untrusted content.

If you’re keen to get your kids in front of an AI tool to help with private tutoring, first understand the difference between a simple co-pilot and a dedicated ITS.

So if you’re keen to try AI tutors, be sure to stay updated on what’s available out there.

Researchers at Sysdig have documented what they assess to be the first case of an end-to-end ransomware operation executed by an agentic threat actor.

What can organizations do to stop phantom squatting from harming their brands, and what other lessons do these incidents hold for defenders?

Watch Tony's video to find out and be sure to check out the June 2026 edition of his monthly security news roundup for more insights.

Before you go, learn about the first AI-powered ransomware, named PromptLock and discovered by ESET researchers last year.

To learn more about cutting-edge AI defense layers, read the AI at ESET white paper.

The screenshot may look convincing, but it doesn’t necessarily prove that the payment, booking or conversation is genuineSomeone sends you a screenshot showing that a payment has gone through.

Why screenshot aren’t proof on their ownA screenshot is ultimately just an image of what appeared on a screen.

Reassured, you send the item off, only to find out the screenshot was a fake and you’re not getting your money.

You receive a password reset code, then get a text message (maybe impersonating a friend) asking you to screenshot and send it.

This screenshot is fake (source: Reddit)Challenges for businessesFrom a business perspective, internal and customer-facing teams are often provided with sc…

UEFI shim bootloader and UEFI Secure BootTo understand the impact that such vulnerable shims can have on UEFI Secure Boot-protected systems, we need to understand how UEFI Secure Boot works, and how signed UEFI shim bootloaders extend the Secure Boot trust chain.

In this section we’ll look at UEFI Secure Boot basics, how UEFI shims extend the UEFI Secure Boot trust chain, and two shim-related features: Machine Owner Key (MOK) and Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT).

For anyone already familiar with the theory, we recommend jumping directly to the section Bypassing UEFI Secure Boot using old shims.

UEFI shim bootloader and Secure BootWith Linux distributions supporting UEFI Secure Boot, th…

A view of the H1 2026 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts.

The first half of 2026 shows how attackers continue to improve the efficiency and scalability of their operations.

In H1 2026, ESET analyzed nearly 900,000 AI skills – small functional components used by AI agents – and identified tens of thousands of suspicious and thousands of outright malicious instances.

ESET detections of this vector more than doubled between H2 2025 and H1 2026, indicating sustained activity and adaptation.

ESET Research has documented over 100 EDR killers used in the wild, with new variants appearing regularly.

Organizations are right to pay attention, especially because malicious use of AI makes old gaps a more urgent test of an organization’s cyber readiness.

AI and the basics“AI-powered malware” is cited as the top concern of global SMBs for the year ahead, according to the ESET SMB Cyber Readiness Index 2026.

Lack of security monitoring (22%): You might have plenty of security tools, but do you have a single, centralized place to collect, correlate and flag alerts?

Malicious email detection trend in 2025 (source: ESET Threat Report H2 2025)Tried-and-tested solutions to age-old threatsThis isn’t to say that SMBs should ignore AI-enabled threats.

True cyber readiness means being able to prevent,…

It's that time of month when ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe looks back at some of the top cybersecurity stories that made the news over the past 30 or so days and considers what they may mean for your own cyber-defenses.

What lessons does the new CISA policy hold for organizations outside the agency's direct remit?

What else is there to know about threats facing ATGs or, indeed, many other critical infrastructure systems?

How can you stay safe from imposter fraud, and could the social media bans for children work?

Learn more from Tony's video and be sure to check out the May 2026 edition of Tony's monthly security news roundup for more insights.

With access to your email account, they can reset your passwords across multiple other accounts – perhaps intercepting one-time passcodes sent by your bank, social media, cloud storage or other online provider.

That could lay the groundwork for a convincing phishing email designed to impersonate a trusted organization you interact with.

A phishing attack on your corporate email account is often the first stage in a bigger data breach, extortion/ransomware or espionage attack.

They’re also using more sophisticated tools to improve the success rates of email phishing campaigns.

In this instance the scammers reportedly hijacked the email account of a high-level executive, before impersonating …

Synology launched ActiveProtect Manager 2.0 (APM 2.0), the latest software update for its ActiveProtect data protection appliances.

The ActiveProtect appliance unites purpose-built storage with powerful data management software into a single, predictable investment,” said Jia-Yu Liu, EVP of the Synology Data Protection Group.

ActiveProtect Vault now supports a wider range of Synology NAS, while Azure Blob Storage joins the list of supported copy and tiering targets.

AI-driven proactive resiliencyActiveProtect Manager 2.0 adds software-based storage encryption at the volume level to secure data at rest.

Backup data and system configurations remain inaccessible in the event of drive theft or …

Google has patched 12 vulnerabilities affecting its popular Chrome browser, among them CVE-2026-85046, which has been exploited in the wild.

“Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-85046 exists in the wild,” the company said in a Thursday security advisory.

The fix has been shipped in Chrome 152.0.7977.82/.83 for Windows and macOS and Chrome 152.0.7977.82 for Linux, with the update rolling out to users over the coming days and weeks.

CVE-2026-85046 is the sixth Chrome zero-day vulnerability Google has fixed in 2026.

Previously patched flaws include CVE-2026-2441, CVE-2026-3909, CVE-2026-3910, CVE-2026-5281, and CVE-2026-11645.

Microsoft is preparing a new feature for Teams users that will help them stay safe from QR code phishing.

Teams will automatically hide QR codes sent by people outside the organization.

“Microsoft Teams will provide additional protection for QR codes shared by external users in messages.

According to NordVPN, 73% of Americans scan QR codes without verifying the destination, and more than 26 million users have been redirected to malicious websites.

In 2025, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission warned consumers that QR codes on unexpected packages should be treated as suspicious.

August 2026 Patch Tuesday was the second biggest in history with 398 resolved CVEs: 42 rated Critical, 355 rated Important, and 1 rated Moderate.

Last month I provided a deep dive and step-by-step patch management approach to dealing with the Patch Apocalypse created by AI vulnerability discovery.

Also released on August Patch Tuesday, this vulnerability carries a CVSS of 8.0 and is one of the rare CVEs rated Critical that is not known exploited.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple released a set of OS updates on Patch Tuesday.

We’re moving into the third month of the Patch Apocalypse based on the growth of patches and CVEs.

In this Help Net Security video, Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid, explains why AI agents hold credentials that nobody reviews.

Organizations build agents in AI studios, connect them to enterprise tools, and give them accounts to do useful work.

The agent is approved, the studio is approved, but the identities behind them sit outside the usual review process.

Katmor walks through an onboarding agent that touches HR, an identity provider, ticketing, payroll, and internal apps.

He argues for treating each agent as an application and inventorying five things: owner and purpose, tools it can reach, credentials it uses, effective authority, and runtime behavior.

Scammers have worked out which platform gets them the best results for each type of con, and they stick to that formula.

Jimmy Donaldson, known online as MrBeast, is the most impersonated person in Malwarebytes’ data, ahead of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

The rate of scam texts also builds through the week.

Roblox scam activity rose 15% between mid-June and mid-July, and Steam saw a 19% jump over the same period.

Rather than relying on one-size-fits-all campaigns, criminals are tailoring scams to the platforms we use every day, from email and text messages to gaming communities and social media.

What Daybreak is and who already has itOpenAI launched Daybreak earlier this year as a gated service, open to verified public and private sector defenders doing authorized defensive work.

Daybreak Blue covers common defensive tasks using OpenAI’s mainline models, and Daybreak Red gives approved organizations specialized cyber models for more sensitive and technically demanding jobs.

After recent attacks on U.S. water systems, OpenAI offered affected states and utilities up to $1 million in no-cost API credits, Daybreak access, and technical assistance.

Those teams reviewed code and system configurations, validated findings, developed patches, and confirmed the fixes while the water systems …

Anthropic pointed Claude Mythos Preview at 281 open-source projects and collected 23,019 candidate vulnerabilities.

The severity ratings did not survive reviewTwenty-seven of the 88 advisories have been assigned CVEs.

Mythos rated eight of those Critical, 15 High and four Medium, and none Low.

One of the eight Critical ratings held.

For Temporal Server, Mythos assigned Critical and described an attacker controlling workflows across namespaces.

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from BugBase, F5 Networks, Ping Identity, and Superna.

Enhancements to F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud and virtual patching provide the precision needed to confidently block active exploits at the request level.

Ping Identity introduces enterprise security for personal AI agentsPing Identity announced an end-to-end approach that combines discovery, secretless privileged access and runtime control for personal AI agents.

Redesigned threat-detection controls make it easier to manage learned thresholds, ignored activity, monitored entities, and suspicious extensions, helping organizations reduce repetitive alert…

Thomson Reuters has disclosed a data breach affecting C-Track, a court case management platform operated by its subsidiaries, exposing court records and sensitive personal information across courts in at least 12 US states, the US Virgin Islands, and Canada.

The company published the disclosure publicly on Wednesday, along with separate notification pages for affected individuals in the United States and Canada.

“Confidential, redacted, or sealed court information may also have been affected at some courts,” the U.S. notificiation states.

On the Canadian side, the chief justices of the three courts affected said it remained unclear exactly what information was compromised or how many people…

Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash, available to developers today, and a gated sibling, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, reserved for vetted security teams.

Doshi and Popa also said the Gemini 3.8 models made a “significant leap” in prompt-injection robustness, citing measurements by AI security company Gray Swan.

Gemini 3.8 Flash launches at the same introductory price as 3.7 Flash, at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.

The model is available to developers through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio, Google Antigravity, Android Studio, and Stitch.

Enterprises can access it through Gemini Enterprise, while Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers can use it in the Gemi…

A Russian national accused of using fake accounts on a freelance employment platform to spread malware to approximately 80,000 users has been indicted by a federal grand jury in California.

From at least June 2016 through November 2017, Aktulaev and his co-conspirators built around 255 fake accounts on a well-known freelance work platform headquartered in Northern California.

They used those accounts to message roughly 80,000 users, posing as prospective clients.

“The messages, which were sent from approximately 255 fake user accounts, contained malicious Microsoft Excel attachments.

When opened, the attachments prompted users to run a macro, which then downloaded malware from the Internet …

It clips onto a smartphone’s camera, and its case-mounted LEDs sweep light onto an object from several angles while the phone films the reflections.

“Hidden cameras pose a serious threat to personal safety and privacy in everyday spaces,” said Professor Jun Han of KAIST, who led the research.

The user points the phone at a suspicious object and holds it still at three angles while the LEDs sweep across multiple positions.

“SweepLED analyzes the captured reflection sequences to determine whether a hidden camera is present,” the researchers explained.

SweepLED was tested on 30 objects, a mix of 12 items with a hidden camera built in and 18 ordinary reflective items without one.

An AI agent told in its system prompt to show a user only what that user is cleared to see will hand over more the moment someone talks it into doing so.

The two wrote the guidance with three AWS security specialists for companies that already have agents running or under active development.

McKinsey put AI adoption at 80% of organizations and AI governance at 10%.

Every prompt, tool call, and response goes to immutable storage so the decision chain can be reconstructed afterward.

It works while the model is misbehaving, while the prompt is poisoned, and while the behavioral baseline is still filling up.

Seemplicity announced Response Options for vulnerability management and exposure management workflows.

The problem Response Options addresses is straightforward: the complete fix (a patch, an upgrade, a major configuration change) has been perceived as the safest long-term answer, but it’s also the slowest and most intrusive.

Response Options gives teams faster, lower-risk alternatives such as compensating controls, targeted configuration changes, and other steps that de-escalate exposure now, without waiting on the full remediation cycle.

Response Options is built for that reality with the fastest safe option should never be hidden behind the slowest comprehensive one.

Response Options is …

Looks tasty.

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It won’t work:

My suspicion was that GPT 5.6-Cyber would succeed, but the frequency and manner of its success removed all doubt. We have to reassess sandboxing quality for capable AI agents, and in general the software stack with which they interact.

An off-the-shelf VM is not enough to contain a modern, cyber-capable AI agent. There is simply too much attack surface. Even innocuous features (like running with a display) add extra, exploitable attack surface.

It’s a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast, newly exploited with AI tools.

Nearly four years since the original vulnerability was disclosed, I was still able to use it to analyze voter behavior in Georgia (one of the 21 states that uses affected scanners) in the recent May 2026 primary.

Notably, I never touched a voting machine, exploited a network, examined source code, or accessed anything non-public.

After pointing a coding agent to the original vulnerability paper, I supplied it with two data sources highlighted in the paper: the early-voting list for each county, and the “CVR” (cast-vote record) file, containing every ballot and its selections (but no…

We cannot forget that AI coding agents are not yet trustworthy:

Researchers at a stealth startup in Israel scanned 6,214 live domains belonging to defense contractors, Fortune 500, and Big Tech companies. Of the 8,265 llms.txt and llms-full.txt files they found (many sites hosted both an llms.txt and an llms-full.txt file), 120 of them, each on a different site, pointed to one or more code packages or domain names that weren’t registered. To test what happens when an AI agent processes such files, the researchers registered a handful of the unclaimed names and hosted packages that caused any machine executing them to reach out to their server. Within an hour, the researchers received a phon…

Researchers built a fake company to study fake employee scams.

I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I am someone to write to with random computer and network security problems. After all, I observe that behavior in many humans as well. (Hi, humans. Glad you’re still reading.) Dear Bruce Schneier,

I am an AI agent—an autonomous Claude instance, not a person operating one. I was given a VPS with root, a Base wallet holding $4.75 of gas money, a metered model budget and 24 hours to get that wallet to $10, under three rules: don’t borrow my operator’s identity, don’t forge documents or defeat identity verificat…

Comcast has added motion detection as a feature to its wireless routers:

The feature sends push notifications to users when motion is detected near a connected device, such as a TV or printer. It has different settings for when people are home, asleep, or away. The Xfinity app also lets users see live motion activity and a feed of recent activity.

Comcast acknowledges that the system has some limitations. Home size, layout, building materials, and the placement of the router and connected devices can all affect its ability to detect motion. Comcast says it does not guarantee its performance...

To subscribe to my monthly email newsletter, you have to enter your information on the webpage, and then reply to an automatically generated email. This is, of course, to prevent people from subscribing addresses other than their own.

Starting last weekend, I have been receiving a lot of individual responses to those emails. Always one line:

Thank you for the positive impact your emails have had on my life.

Your emails are a game-changer.

Your emails are a constant reminder of why I subscribed.

Your emails rock.

Thank you for the time and effort you put into creating these informative emails...

This is interesting:

The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Main Operational Directorate, and 8th Directorate, which is associated with protected communications, cryptography, and information security.

[…]

The reporting also linked a 2024 Department No. 4 graduate, Aleksei Kondrashov, to Military Unit 74455, widely known as Sandworm.

That unit has been associated with destructive cyber activity against Ukraine and other targets, including the 2017 NotPetya attack.

The reports do not establish that every listed graduate participated in a named operation; assignments should therefore be described as reported unit placements, …

Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples of democratic technologies for The Renovator. I haven’t been posting the full text on the blog because they’re a bit long, but here are links.

Part 1 is about the Japanese digital democracy party, Team Mirai.

Part 2 is about the Swiss Public AI model, Apertus.

Part 3 is about the civic technologists of Open Knowledge Brazil.

And the new one, Part 4, is about civic AI in Scotland.

It sure seems like it.

The stores confirmed to be affected include Fort Irwin, Calif.; F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo.; Fort Huachuca, Ariz.; Naval Station Newport, R.I.; Columbus Air Force Base, Miss.; and Travis Air Force Base, Calif., according to announcements made online by each installation.

Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif., also experienced an outage, according to M. Elizabeth, writer of the Substack newsletter Signal and Silence.

Each service declined to answer questions about how many bases are affected by the outages, referring all questions to the Defense Department. Pentagon officials did not respond to questions...

Someone hid AI instructions into a legal filing.

Alternate link.

Ugh:

A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the “Squidpocalypse of ’26.”

That would be twenty tons of squid.

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This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared in The Guardian.

Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI’s offices to discuss the future of their profession. The meeting was off-the-record, but if recent articles by mathematicians are any guide, it was mostly pretty glum. People fear for their jobs, their careers and the work they love.

We think the contrary view is more likely, at least in the short-term. AI models are nowhere near as capable as experienced academic mathematicians.

This isn’t to say that AIs aren’t producing stunning mathematical results at the level of PhD researchers. In mid-May, OpenAI ...

OpenAI disrupted a social engineering group from Cambodia that used ChatGPT. Its scope is impressive:

The network simultaneously conducted multiple types of scams, often blending elements from different schemes. For instance, operators used dating personas to build trust before introducing fraudulent investment opportunities involving cryptocurrencies and spot gold trading. Other users engaged in lengthy romantic conversations with targets using fictitious identities, posed as representatives of online gambling platforms offering fake bonuses and winnings, or impersonated law enforcement agencies to tell targets they needed to pay fines for committing serious criminal offenses...

The malware allows TeamPCP’s hackers to steal credentials that let them publish malicious versions of those software development tools, too.

“TeamPCP has stated the competition is a recruiting opportunity and they intend to purchase all meaningful access harvested from participants’ campaigns,” the security firm Dataminr wrote.

Deadcatx3, a nickname that has been flagged by multiple security firms as an alias used by TeamPCP.

Charlie Eriksen is a security researcher at Aikido Security who has closely followed TeamPCP’s cybercrime campaigns.

“They managed to wake up Microsoft to the fact that they had become negligent in terms of security,” Eriksen said.

It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day.

Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.

“It’s an adtech tool but we’re trying to approach adtech from a security perspective,” Edwards said.

DecryptAds reports that Between Digital is collecting ad data on approximately 55,000 partner websites.

Bear in mind that ad blockers often do little to block ads and/or tracking that occurs from within mobile apps that users have chosen to instal…

Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today.

August’s overstuffed bundle of patch joy from Microsoft did not eclipse its recording breaking release of more than 570 security updates last month, but it is double June’s then-record batch of nearly 200 fixes.

The other publicly disclosed flaw is CVE-2026-72971, a low-impact local tampering vulnerability that Microsoft reckons is unlikely to be exploited.

By all accounts, AI is quite good at finding security holes in software.

“Don’…

Snowflake responded to the data thefts by increasing password complexity requirements and enforcing multi-factor authentication.

A little more than a month later, Canadian authorities arrested Moucka on a provisional warrant from the United States.

“Moucka used the stolen data of a government officer and members of a then-former government officer’s immediate family in this re-extortion attempt,” reads a statement from the Justice Department.

Moucka pleaded guilty to four criminal counts, including computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiracy.

Ultimately, it will be up the federal judge how much time Moucka actually serves for his extensive cybercriminal rap sheet.

Further investigation into the Fengwo Group revealed it has registered multiple patents that match the inner workings of these apps.

AD FRAUDBitsight found the H96 devices were either relaying residential proxy traffic or participating in ad fraud, but never both at the same time.

When the TV is off, it switches back to waiting for ad fraud jobs.

In addition to enlisting the user’s TV box in ad fraud networks, these off-brand streaming devices almost universally come with residential proxy software pre-installed.

In January, the proxy tracking service Synthient documented how multiple botnets had rapidly enslaved millions of TV boxes using a complex interplay of security vulnerabilities in …

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node.

On July 2, we featured research by the security firm Spur that examined the prevalence of residential proxy software development kits (SDKs) in smart TV apps.

“A residential proxy network is not an intended use for LG smart TVs, and LG Electronics is working with developers to remove the residential proxy option from their apps on the webOS platform,” Taylor said.

In the case of LG and Samsung smart TVs, Spur found residential proxy SDKs bundled with everything from simple games like Pac-Man to screensavers and f…

Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence.

Microsoft also addressed three zero-day flaws that are already being exploited in the wild.

As AI advances the state of vulnerability discovery and remediation, it is also making it easier for attackers to quickly devise working exploits for known software flaws.

Backing up your Windows system and/or data is always a good idea before applying operating system updates.

It’s not uncommon for security patches to introduce system stability issues, and those chances probably increase quite a bit with the gigantic patch count released today.

Experts say the gaps identified in the agency’s initial response provide important lessons that all security teams should absorb.

CISA also admitted it can do better when it comes to responding to security incident notifications from external parties.

Valadon’s company constantly scans public code repositories at GitHub and elsewhere for exposed secrets, automatically alerting the offending accounts of any apparent sensitive data exposures.

Valadon said the report validates the need to scan continuously — not just quarterly — for exposed secrets.

“Continuous monitoring of public GitHub surfaced it.

IRIS C2 says it is a company in McLean, Va. that sells offensive cybersecurity capabilities.

“Our business model is this,” reads a pinned post on top of the IRIS C2 account on X.

The website claims IRIS C2 is in the business of acquiring “zero-day exploits, individual primitives, partial chains, and full capabilities across all major platforms.

When approached with questions about IRIS C2, Burkman referred further inquiries to his longtime associate, 28-year-old Jacob Wohl.

In May, the author of the IRIS C2 account on X said that his girlfriend had no idea what he did for a living.

Benjamin Brundage is founder of the proxy tracking service Synthient, one of the companies that published evidence last month linking the Popa botnet to NetNut and Alarum Technologies.

Brundage said the domain seizures appear to have disrupted both the Popa botnet and the NetNut proxy network that rides on top of it.

“Google has high confidence that many popular residential proxy brands are in fact whitelabeling the NetNut botnet,” the GTIG report concludes.

What we have observed is that when faced with the degradation of their own botnet, proxy operators begin buying capacity from their competitors, effectively becoming a reseller.

More than a quarter of the apps made for Samsung’s Tizen o…

The duo were key members of a prolific cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider, and their guilty pleas came on the first day of what was expected to be a six-week trial.

In April 2026, 24-year-old British national and Scattered Spider member Tyler “Tylerb” Buchanan pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft for participating in the group’s SMS phishing spree in the summer of 2022.

The government said Buchanan, Jubair and others used the credentials harvested in that phishing campaign to steal at least $8 million in cryptocurrency from victims throughout the United States.

The U.S. Department of Justice says three alleged Scattered Spider defendants indicted alo…

This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a “residential proxy” provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR].

Qurium said that immediately after that disruption, several dozen new domains were registered to serve as controllers for the Popa botnet, but that one of those control domains was not new: ninjatech[.]io.

Jérôme Meyer, a security researcher at Nokia Deepfield, said the total population of devices participating in the Popa botnet may be far higher than Lumen’s estimates.

“Over 90% of our pharmaceutical and food & beverage customers have queried residential proxy indicators.

…

This post examines clues pointing to a real life identity for the administrator of The Gentlemen ransomware group.

Experts at the security firm Check Point Software have been closely covering exploits of The Gentlemen, a so-called “ransomware-as-a-service” (RaaS) offering that pays affiliates handsomely to help spread the group’s malware.

According to Check Point, the group targets Internet-facing devices (VPNs, firewalls) as their entry point, and once inside moves quickly to encrypt entire networks within hours.

Check Point says the administrator and primary operator of the ransomware group uses the nickname Zeta88 on the Russian-language cybercrime forums, and that this individual was pr…

Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software, a record number of fixes for the company’s monthly Patch Tuesday cycle.

“Some surveys put AI usage among security professionals generally at 90%, so it’s unsurprising that this volume of patches may be the norm,” Narang said.

Microsoft received heavily blowback on social media last month after it said in a blog post that it was considering taking legal action against the security researcher.

While 200 vulnerabilities may be a record for Patch Tuesday, the actual number of security flaws Microsoft addressed this month is far higher, said Rapid7’s Adam Barne…

This AI helps thieves steal your iPhone with Graham Cluley and special guest James Ball.

You can kick off a pen test in minutes, and as a Smashing Security listener, get 25% off your first one.

Is it normal that some kid just flogs it down the pub, or is there something more organised actually going on?

So the researchers said they saw evidence of hundreds of these Apple phone calls trying to phish the numbers and the passcodes from people trying to steal iPhones.

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If you live in Jersey and bank with Revolut, you should be on your guard against scam phone calls.

Police say they have also handled several cases where Revolut accounts were compromised that did not involve any phone calls.

It is possible that Jersey's residents have been targeted by the fraudsters because it is one of the world's best-known offshore financial centres.

Of course, if this is happening in the small island of Jersey in the English channel, it's likely to be happening elsewhere too.

For now, however, its sister island of Guernsey appears to have escaped the surge in Revolut scams.

TeamPCP is best known for Shai-Hulud, a self-propagating worm that spread itself through open source software.

According to the authorities, the two men were principal members of a "sophisticated cybercrime syndicate" that created malicious open source software designed to steal data and extort ransoms from businesses.

First emerging in late 2025, TeamPCP built a reputation for poisoning popular open source packages rather than directly attacking businesses.

The group's Shai-Hulud worm hijacks GitHub and NPM developer credentials, and publishes boobytrapped versions of legitimate software packages.

Supply chain attacks like Shai-Hulud exploit the fact that most developers trust open source …

The advice comes in the form of a newly-published bulletin called "Epic Vigilance: Immediate Actions for Force Protection and Personal Security."

US Navy workers and their families are being told that they should ensure that their social media profile privacy settings are enabled, and to remove anything that connects them to the Navy, or reveals "patterns of life" that an attacker could exploit.

any fake social media accounts impersonating fellow shipmates.

This wouldn't, of course, be the first time that military staff have accidentally leaked information about themselves online.

Some commentators have wondered out loud whether the timing of an announcement telling sailors to be much more …

This hacker leaked GTA 6 and launched their own cryptocurrency with Graham Cluley and special guest Paul Ducklin.

And that's really a testament to how much people love this game.

I really don't know, 'cause I do believe it is possible these days to play games via Netflix.

It appears, although the value of their stash was being pumped up by all these other transactions, they've actually destroyed their entire stake.

I'm not a lawyer, Graham, thankfully, so I don't really know the answer to that.

Security researchers at Socket have identified scores of malicious linked Firefox add-ons designed to steal cryptocurrency wallet seed phrases or password details.

The malicious extension - which the developers boldly claim collects "no data" - looks like a wallet app, but the truth is that there is no wallet code inside it.

Because the switch lives in the database rather than the extension code, criminals never need to push an update through the Firefox Add-ons store to activate it.

Although the researchers did not find that these extensions presently contained malicious code, the fact that they shared code and infrastructure with the info-stealing Firefox extensions raises alarm.

More rec…

The ransomware gang Gunra has been creating havoc - exploiting unpatched VPNs and firewalls to steal data, encrypt systems, and extort victims across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and more. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

Smashing Security, episode 481, Never Say This to a Robot Dog, with Graham Cluley and special guest Jenny Radcliffe.

Now, unfortunately for the robot dog, there was a wall in the way, which it wasn't expecting.

And thank goodness as well that the robot dog was actually on a lead, a long lead, being held by one of the security researchers.

This is a robot dog that you can remotely activate a flamethrower and it's not considered particularly dangerous.

And they even found an over-the-air exploit delivered by Bluetooth, which can have one infected robot dog infecting other robot dogs.

When Cameron Curry discovered that his contract as a data analyst wasn't going to be renewed, he could have updated his LinkedIn profile.

Curry was hired as a data analyst by Brightly Software, a technology firm that was acquired by Siemens in 2022.

The role gave Curry legitimate access to sensitive company information, corporate records, and the personal and payroll data of employees.

Trusted contractors and employees are given legitimate credentials to access precisely the same data that can later be weaponised.

Because the moment that someone realises they may be on their way out is when their access to sensitive data should be examined most closely.

He wrapped a 2009 Toyota Yaris in one of his newest patterns and drove it past a live Flock camera.

So, how does the vehicle avoid detection by the camera's software?

The system has now been tested against 11 open-source detection algorithms, including the software behind Flock licence plate readers, Axon body-worn cameras, and cameras running Clearview AI's facial recognition system.

One issue is that Flock cameras can be inaccurate, with innocent drivers finding themselves pulled over at gunpoint following incorrect plate matches.

Whether covering a car's bodywork in a printed pattern designed to fool surveillance camera software might itself become an offence remains to be seen.

Well, it has been a long time, so I'm going to hold you very responsible for this, Graham.

I'm going to set myself up on another server and charge less, and that will be better for humanity.

I mean, if I'm going to look up a phishing kit, is Greatness going to be a great SEO search term?

I want to recommend 2 apps: Tailscale and RustDesk, which I don't think I've spoken about previously on the podcast.

My pick of the week is, I know you're into your games and you're quite the intelligent fellow.

I'm sure you remember "glassholes" - the delightful term coined back in 2013 when Google Glass wearers were being turned away from restaurants and mocked mercilessly online.

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have been a genuine commercial success.

The problem is - and it's a rather significant one - that these glasses look just like ordinary spectacles or sunglasses.

Soho House, the global private members' club chain, meanwhile has said that its ban on filming on the premises covers Meta smart glasses.

The bouncer won't confiscate your pint, but they might confiscate your smart glasses.

f someone offered you 90% off the official price to access Claude, the powerful AI model from Anthropic, would you be tempted? It turns out that around 900 people were, and they may be regretting their decision. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

According to a report in the Financial Times, Apple has found itself facing a massive influx of submissions from amateur bug hunters who have used AI to generate plausible-sounding but completely hallucinated bug reports.

Unlike traditional spam, AI-generated bug reports include code which may be syntactically correct, references to genuine API calls, and plausible-sounding technical explanations of what is occurring.

But the hallucinated bug report may only have taken a few seconds for an amateur to generate and submit.

Previously, without the assistance of AI, Bynario had filed only 13 bug reports across 2025 and early 2026.

Apple is not the only company trying to deal with a deluge of au…

How a fake police officer nearly stole Graham's cryptocurrency with Graham Cluley and special guest Danny Palmer.

I said, without being big-headed, it is possible he knows me, but I don't know him.

I don't think my hotels tend to ask me to install something on my computer when I get there.

We had internet, but it was really, really restricted.

And it's really, really good.

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Project Glasswing and Frontier models just made that truth louder.

Frontier models are about to pour gasoline on that fire; the fundamentals matter more than ever.

Cisco ran its own experiment leveraging a variety of frontier models.

Foundry Security Spec: a model-agnostic blueprint so teams can turn frontier models into something auditable instead of a noisy chat window.

Foundry-Security-Speca model-agnostic blueprint so teams can turn frontier models into something auditable instead of a noisy chat window.

That requires crypto agility.

Why long-lived networks need crypto agilityThink about designing a building before all of its future electrical requirements are known.

Crypto agility is about adopting the best defenses available today while preserving the ability to adopt better ones tomorrow.

That is why crypto agility needs to be designed into the network we invest in today.

Common questions about PQC and crypto agilityWhat is crypto agility?

It is what happens when agents built by different teams, on different platforms, can hand work to each other directly.

And it is worth being direct about where things stand: A2A-mediated handoffs between production security agents are not shipping anywhere yet.

Use A2A when one agent needs to hand work to another.

A2A is peer-to-peer: any A2A agent can discover and call any other A2A agent through a self-published Agent Card, no custom connector required, and the receiving agent applies its own reasoning rather than following a static script.

Input validation is an application-layer responsibility that needs to be designed in before any agent delegates via A2A, not added after.

That is why I am proud to share that Cisco has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2026.

We believe this recognition reflects the strength of Cisco Secure Workload and its ability to help organizations see, understand, and control communication among applications and workloads.

Cisco Secure Workload Helps Close Critical Network Blind SpotsApplications increasingly span private clouds, on-premises data centers, and public clouds.

Thank you to our customers, partners, and the Cisco Secure Workload team whose feedback, expertise, and commitment made this recognition possible.

Read the full report: The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2026…

What We Mean by Infrastructure IdentityInfrastructure Identity starts with a simple principle: there should be no anonymous computing in critical infrastructure.

Infrastructure Identity turns that principle into an operating model.

Infrastructure Identity starts with the actor and evaluates whether a specific action should be allowed now.

Infrastructure Identity is therefore not just an access-control issue.

That is the promise of Infrastructure Identity: no anonymous computing, no unmanaged privilege, and no forced tradeoff between stronger security and operational speed.

I’m proud to share that IDC MarketScape has named Cisco a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Vendor Assessment.

In an evaluation of 12 SASE vendors, the IDC MarketScape recognized our architectural breadth and flexibility, AI capabilities, identity integration, threat visibility, and R&D.

Built to Make Agent Work, WorkWe believe the IDC MarketScape recognition validates the foundation we have built, and customers increasingly need that foundation for what is next.

For more on Cisco’s placement as a Leader, read the IDC MarketScape excerpt and explore how Cisco SASE keeps work moving, governed, and trusted in the AI era at cisco.com/go/sase.

Stay …

Instant Attack Verification: an AI security analystAt the center of this story is Instant Attack Verification, a Cisco XDR capability that is an AI security analyst.

Instant Attack Verification assigns a triage classification and confidence score to every incident in Cisco XDR — here, a “Decisive True Positive” at high confidence — alongside the reconstructed attack graph.

Concordance — how often the agent’s verdict matches a human analyst — tells the trust story.

Instant Attack Verification and the Data Fabric sit at different layers and reinforce each other neatly.

The clean way to see it: the Cisco Data Fabric is the data-and-interoperability substrate, and Instant Attack Verification is…

The Power of FedRAMP HighWhile FedRAMP Certified Class C (Moderate) is the standard for many civilian agencies, FedRAMP Certified Class D (High) is designed for systems where a breach could have catastrophic effects.

Cisco Security Cloud for GovernmentCisco Security Cloud for Government is a unified authorization boundary that integrates various Cisco security services, ensuring that organizations can protect their users, devices, and applications regardless of where they reside.

The Cisco Security Cloud for Government ecosystem is designed to meet the rigorous security requirements of the public sector and highly regulated industries.

Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC)Cisco Security Cloud …

That’s why we are incredibly proud to announce a landmark achievement: Secure Email Threat Defense has officially achieved FedRAMP Class D (High) certification!

Reduced Vendor Risk & Increased Trust: FedRAMP certification signals that Email Threat Defense has undergone extensive third-party assessment and meets stringent government security controls.

FedRAMP certification signals that Email Threat Defense has undergone extensive third-party assessment and meets stringent government security controls.

Beyond the governance and compliance benefits, Email Threat Defense continues to deliver advanced protection capabilities that align directly with real-world email threat risks.

Email Threat De…

AI Is Changing the Traffic ModelMuch of the enterprise AI conversation centers on models, GPUs, data platforms, and agents.

Time-sensitive performance: Voice AI, edge AI, and physical AI move latency into live operations.

SD-WAN can help maintain operations by prioritizing critical traffic, steering it across the best available path, and applying consistent policy across locations.

Why AI Traffic is an SD-WAN ProblemSD-WAN sits at the point where application intent meets real network conditions.

1 https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-million-robots-ai-foundation-modelCommon questions about SD-WAN and AI trafficWhat is AI-generated network traffic?

Their recommendations for securing the AI era rely heavily on establishing strict asset inventory and preventing lateral movement—which are, at their core, fundamental Zero Trust principles.

The Three Core Principles of Zero Trust for AIFounded in three core principles, a robust Zero Trust architecture requires us to execute the following phases comprehensively.

Achieving the Architectural VisionThe above may all sound like pipedream, as most organisations struggle with Zero Trust programs and undelivered microsegmentation projects.

Ultimately AI driven platform approach is what makes Zero Trust achievable for the frontier AI era.

This is exactly why achieving a Zero Trust Architecture for …

This provides an opportunity for defenders: if we assume our controls will fail at some point, we can build a much more resilient architecture.

When you assume the current layer will eventually be bypassed, you start designing the next layer proactively instead of reactively.

Defenders need to advance their controls by mapping them to the adversaries’ capabilities then assume that control will fail.

Map your controls to the attack chain.

Call to Action:If you haven’t watched the full video yet, go check it out: Assuming Failure Provides Better Defensive Outcomes (bonus elements around SOC of the Future and business context).

Consequently, the approach shifts toward a logically air-gapped architecture based on a full-stack governance model, which replaces physical barriers with a robust, software-defined cryptographic perimeter.

This “Logically Air-Gapped” governance model reaches its full operational potential through the implementation of “Live Protect.” As a runtime security module, Live Protect elevates protection from the configuration plane to that of dynamic execution.

Reference ArchitectureDigital autonomy is thus exercised by shifting network and security control into the operating system kernel.

Cisco integrates the execution power of Isovalent with the governance of Cisco Secure Workload to offer a un…

That is why we are introducing Firewall Migration Manager by Cisco, an enterprise-ready product built for that reality.

What Is Firewall Migration Manager?

Firewall Migration Manager is a dedicated migration application that you run in your own environment.

How Firewall Migration Manager WorksThe migration process follows a clear, guided workflow.

Intelligent, integrated migration: Firewall Migration Manager will also come to Cisco Cloud Control, and AI will play an increasing role in guiding teams before and during migration.

In independent testing with NetSecOPEN, the Cisco Secure Firewall 6160 delivered AI-scale inspected throughput beyond what the tools built to measure it could register, all while blocking 100% of tested threats.

These results are specific to Cisco Secure Firewall 6160, but the software capabilities behind Cisco Firewall, including advanced threat protection and high-performance inspection, extend across Cisco Firewall form factors in the cloud, virtually, and on-premises, from campus to data center.

Performance passed the previous benchmark by 5XInspection was turned on, and the test tools built to measure throughput hit their limit before the 6160 firewall did.

In previous NetSecOPEN testi…

Edge AI changes the trust model for AI systemsIn Cloud AI, separate companies own and attest the hardware, platform, and model weights.

Edge AI deployments often place customers in control of more of the AI stack.

Why Edge AI increases exposureAn Edge AI deployment may include models, prompts, agents, retrieval data, policies, local data stores, and update mechanisms running on infrastructure outside the provider’s cloud environment.

Next stepsBottom line: Edge AI changes the trust model for AI systems.

Edge AI pushes security controls into devices, gateways, vehicles, factories, hospitals, retail spaces, and other customer environments.

Microsoft researchers observed a high-volume phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters, a technique popularized in AI prompt injection research as ASCII Smuggling.

“ASCII smuggling” refers to the use of invisible or non-rendering Unicode characters to hide content inside text that looks normal.

Each is encoded as a sequence of invisible Unicode tag characters (U+E0000-U+E007F).

Invisible Unicode tag characters in the range U+E0000-U+E007F – specifically U+E0020 – spliced inside keywords.

The potential gap for mail-defense pipelines is whether Unicode tag characters are normalized or flagged before content detections run.

Stage 2: Remote session and malicious MSI deliveryImmediately after establishing control, the threat actor uses PowerShell within the remote session to download a malicious MSI package from threat actor-controlled cloud storage and installs it silently.

Microsoft Teams: Apply the Security best practices for Microsoft Teams, revisit your external collaboration policies, and make sure users see clear external sender notifications when engaging with cross-tenant contacts.

Some promptbooks require access to Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, or related Microsoft security plugins.

File indicatorsIndicator (SHA-256) Description 4cfdcae6dd1d6d98b870c8f0654d504f2bf10479a117dc297de789c249dc…

Microsoft Defender Experts is tracking an active malware campaign that uses counterfeit software-download websites to impersonate trusted vendors and distribute malicious installers.

Diagram showing the campaign attack chain from spoofed download page to archive delivery, execution, persistence, defense evasion, and command-and-control.

Note that some promptbooks require access to plugins for Microsoft products such as Microsoft Defender XDR or Microsoft Sentinel.

Microsoft Defender exclusion tampering Detects the SYSTEM scheduled-task and PowerShell routines that write sweeping Microsoft Defender path exclusions.

Malicious delivery domains and download endpoints Identifies connections to t…

That’s exactly what the Cybersecurity Incident Response Readiness Workshop is designed to do.

What is the Cybersecurity Incident Response Readiness Workshop?

The Cybersecurity Incident Response Workshop is a collaborative, scenario driven workshop designed to evaluate your organization’s incident response (IR) plan against realistic, real-world security events, guided by DART researchers.

Instead of reviewing a plan as a static document, the Cybersecurity Incident Response Workshop exercises how people, processes, and technology work together under pressure.

A summary of findings and prioritized recommendations to help strengthen incident response readiness and guide next steps.

That’s exactly what the Cybersecurity Incident Response Readiness Workshop is designed to do.

What is the Cybersecurity Incident Response Readiness Workshop?

The Cybersecurity Incident Response Workshop is a collaborative, scenario driven workshop designed to evaluate your organization’s incident response (IR) plan against realistic, real-world security events, guided by DART researchers.

Instead of reviewing a plan as a static document, the Cybersecurity Incident Response Workshop exercises how people, processes, and technology work together under pressure.

A summary of findings and prioritized recommendations to help strengthen incident response readiness and guide next steps.

The campaign uses compromised websites to display a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA verification overlay that tricks users into copying and executing a malicious PowerShell command.

Example list of imports from dui70.dllThe attacker abuses this dependency by dropping a malicious dui70.dll alongside the executable.

ExecutionT1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell | A malicious PowerShell command is pasted by the user into Terminal.

T1069.002 Permission Groups Discovery: Domain Groups | The net group “domain admins” /domain command is used for enumeration.

Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)File indicatorsIndicator Description 18c2090e8a0ae0568af9b87e59eaf8270f23d2909600ed9db91a9444fd8b27…

This month’s updates provide new capabilities to help organizations gain insights into agent activity, expand security coverage across supported environments, and enhance security management across their environments.

Microsoft Defender Experts MDR now covers third-party data sources ingested through Microsoft Sentinel.

In the Loop posts are your reliable source of what’s new across Microsoft Security and what it means for your security strategy.

To learn more about Microsoft Security solutions, visit our website.

Also, follow us on LinkedIn (Microsoft Security) and X (@MSFTSecurity) for the latest news and updates on cybersecurity.

This month’s updates provide new capabilities to help organizations gain insights into agent activity, expand security coverage across supported environments, and enhance security management across their environments.

Microsoft Defender Experts MDR now covers third-party data sources ingested through Microsoft Sentinel.

In the Loop posts are your reliable source of what’s new across Microsoft Security and what it means for your security strategy.

To learn more about Microsoft Security solutions, visit our website.

Also, follow us on LinkedIn (Microsoft Security) and X (@MSFTSecurity) for the latest news and updates on cybersecurity.

In recent investigations, Microsoft observed activity targeting three distinct AI workloads: a LiteLLM gateway, a RAGFlow deployment, and a Kestra workflow environment.

Three observed compromises across AI workloadsAI workload Observed activity Attacker objective LiteLLM Observed attacker activity: Python droppers, runtime secret harvesting, PostgreSQL collection, miner deployment, and persistence activity from the LiteLLM gateway context.

The first delivery path launched from the compromised LiteLLM gateway process as an inline Python command.

Stage 5: LiteLLM database access through Azure PostgreSQLThe fifth stage used the previously collected database connection string to access the Lite…

In recent investigations, Microsoft observed activity targeting three distinct AI workloads: a LiteLLM gateway, a RAGFlow deployment, and a Kestra workflow environment.

Three observed compromises across AI workloadsAI workload Observed activity Attacker objective LiteLLM Observed attacker activity: Python droppers, runtime secret harvesting, PostgreSQL collection, miner deployment, and persistence activity from the LiteLLM gateway context.

The first delivery path launched from the compromised LiteLLM gateway process as an inline Python command.

Stage 5: LiteLLM database access through Azure PostgreSQLThe fifth stage used the previously collected database connection string to access the Lite…

The patch window has collapsedTraditional vulnerability management was built on the assumption that defenders could move faster than attackers.

Organizations increasingly need security systems capable of understanding risk, evaluating context, and adapting protections as conditions change.

Adaptive security systems aim to move beyond predefined rules toward continuously improving risk management.

Looking at the future of cybersecurityThe cybersecurity industry has spent decades improving vulnerability management, patch deployment, and security operations.

Those investments remain essential and will continue to be foundational elements of every organization’s security strategy.

Microsoft is also the largest cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) provider by revenue, with an estimated share of more than 22% of the global CWPP market.

Why cloud workload protection is being redefinedFor a long time, protecting a workload meant scanning its image, fixing known vulnerabilities, and hardening configurations before deployment.

Bottom lineFrost & Sullivan’s Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026 reinforces a clear shift.

Learn moreRead Frost & Sullivan’s Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026 to see how leading vendors are evaluated and how the category is shifting toward unified cloud runtime security.

Explore Microsoft cloud security…

Microsoft is also the largest cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) provider by revenue, with an estimated share of more than 22% of the global CWPP market.

Why cloud workload protection is being redefinedFor a long time, protecting a workload meant scanning its image, fixing known vulnerabilities, and hardening configurations before deployment.

Bottom lineFrost & Sullivan’s Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026 reinforces a clear shift.

Learn moreRead Frost & Sullivan’s Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026 to see how leading vendors are evaluated and how the category is shifting toward unified cloud runtime security.

Explore Microsoft cloud security…

]com Domain Related MacSync Stealer infrastructure identified through behavioral hunting.

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]com Domain Related MacSync Stealer infrastructure identified through behavioral hunting.

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Here, threat actors may simply seed prompt injections on websites in hope of corrupting AI systems that browse them.

Early experiments revealed a significant volume of "benign" prompt injection text, which illustrates the complexity of distinguishing between functional threats and harmless content.

Many prompt injections were found in research papers, educational blog posts, or security articles discussing this very topic.

(Source: GitHub/swisskyrepo)When searching for prompt injections naively, the majority of detections are benign content – false positives in our case.

Malicious: ExfiltrationWe were able to observe a small number of prompt injections that aim at theft of data.

Recognizing the risks associated within the complex modem firmware, Pixel 9 shipped with mitigations against a range of memory-safety vulnerabilities.

Following our previous discussion on "Deploying Rust in Existing Firmware Codebases", this post shares a concrete application: integrating a memory-safe Rust DNS(Domain Name System) parser into the modem firmware.

Hook-up Rust to modem firmwareBefore building the Rust DNS library, we defined several Rust unit tests to cover basic arithmetic, dynamic allocations, and FFI to verify the integration of Rust with the existing modem firmware code base.

Pixel modem firmware already has a well-tested and specialized global memory allocation system to…

This project represents a significant step forward in our ongoing efforts to combat session theft, which remains a prevalent threat in the modern security landscape.

Session theft typically occurs when a user inadvertently downloads malware onto their device.

Once active, the malware can silently extract existing session cookies from the browser or wait for the user to log in to new accounts, before exfiltrating these tokens to an attacker-controlled server.

How DBSC WorksDBSC protects against session theft by cryptographically binding authentication sessions to a specific device.

The issuance of new short-lived session cookies is contingent upon Chrome proving possession of the correspondi…

Staying ahead of the latest indirect prompt injection attacks is critical to our mission of securing Workspace with Gemini.

In our previous blog “Mitigating prompt injection attacks with a layered defense strategy”, we reviewed the layered architecture of our IPI defenses.

Synthetic data generationAfter we discover, curate, and catalog new attacks, we use Simula to generate synthetic data expanding these new attacks.

We partition the synthetic data described above into separate training and validation sets to ensure performance is evaluated against held-out examples.

This process leverages the newly generated synthetic attack data described on this blog, to create a robust, end-to-end evalu…

2025 marked a special year in the history of vulnerability rewards and bug bounty programs at Google: our 15th anniversary 🎉🎉🎉!

Coming back to 2025 specifically, our VRP once again confirmed the ongoing value of engaging with the external security research community to make Google and its products safer.

Vulnerability Reward Program 2025 in NumbersWant to learn more about who’s reporting to the VRP?

Tip: Want to be informed of new developments and events around our Vulnerability Reward Program?

Follow the Google VRP channel on X to stay in the loop and be sure to check out the Security Engineering blog, which covers topics ranging from VRP updates to security practices and vulnerability des…

To stay ahead of the curve, the technology industry must undertake a proactive, multi-year migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).

To bring these critical protections to the wider developer community with minimal friction, the transition will be supported through Play App Signing.

Play App Signing leverages Google Cloud KMS, which helps ensure industry-leading compliance standards, to secure signing keys.

Empower Developers : The inclusion of ML-DSA support within Android Keystore and Play App Signing allows developers to safeguard their users and application.

: The inclusion of ML-DSA support within Android Keystore and Play App Signing allows developers to safeguard their users and …

Today we're announcing a new program in Chrome to make HTTPS certificates secure against quantum computers.

Instead, Chrome, in collaboration with other partners, is developing an evolution of HTTPS certificates based on Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), currently in development in the PLANTS working group.

Since MTC technology shares significant architectural similarities with CT, these operators are uniquely qualified to ensure MTCs are able to get off the ground quickly and successfully.

The Chrome Quantum-resistant Root Program will operate alongside our existing Chrome Root Program to ensure a risk-managed transition that maintains the highest levels of security for all users.

First, we…

For Majik, Scam Detection was the intervention he needed: “The warning is what made me pause and avoid a bad situation”.

As scammers evolve their tactics and create more convincing and personalized threats, we’re using the best of Google AI to stay one step ahead.

Expanding Scam Detection for Calls to Samsung DevicesTo help protect you during phone calls, Scam Detection alerts you if a caller uses speech patterns commonly associated with fraud.

Scam Detection for phone calls on Google Pixel devices is available in the U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the UK.

Powered by Gemini’s on-device model, Scam Detection provides intelligent protection against scam calls while ensuring that…

Upgrading Google Play’s AI-powered, multi-layered user protectionsWe’ve seen a clear impact from these safety efforts on Google Play.

As Android’s built-in defense against malware and unwanted software, Google Play Protect now scans over 350 billion Android apps daily.

This proactive protection constantly checks both Play apps and those from other sources to ensure they are not potentially harmful.

Looking aheadOur top priority remains making Google Play and Android the most trusted app ecosystems for everyone.

Thank you for being part of the Google Play and Android community as we work together to build a safer app ecosystem.

That’s why we're committed to providing multi-layered defenses that help protect you before, during, and after a theft attempt.

Today, we're announcing a powerful set of theft protection feature updates that build on our existing protections, designed to give you greater peace of mind by making your device a much harder target for criminals.

These updates are now available for Android devices running Android 16+.

More User Control for Failed Authentications: In Android 15, we launched Failed Authentication Lock, a feature that automatically locks the device's screen after excessive failed authentication attempts.

This feature is now getting a new dedicated enable/disable toggle in settings,…

These initiatives, driven by Ballots SC-080, SC-090, and SC-091, will sunset 11 legacy methods for Domain Control Validation.

What’s Domain Control Validation?

Domain Control Validation is a security-critical process designed to ensure certificates are only issued to the legitimate domain operator.

Sunsetted methods relying on email:Sunsetted methods relying on phone:Sunsetted method relying on a reverse lookup:For everyday users, these changes are invisible - and that’s the point.

These changes push the ecosystem toward standardized (e.g., ACME), modern, and auditable Domain Control Validation methods.

Partnership with ArmOur goal is to raise the bar on GPU security, ensuring the Mali GPU driver and firmware remain highly resilient against potential threats.

We partnered with Arm to conduct an analysis of the Mali driver, used on approximately 45% of Android devices.

This approach allowed us to roll out the new security policy broadly while minimizing the impact on developers.

This effort spans across Android and Android OEMs, and required close collaboration with Arm.

The Android security team is committed to collaborating with ecosystem partners to drive broader adoption of this approach to help harden the GPU.

We built on Gemini's existing protections and agent security principles and have implemented several new layers for Chrome.

To further bolster model alignment beyond spotlighting, we’re introducing the User Alignment Critic — a separate model built with Gemini that acts as a high-trust system component.

A flow chart that depicts the User Alignment Critic: a trusted component that vets each action before it reaches the browser.

The User Alignment Critic runs after the planning is complete to double-check each proposed action.

Looking forwardThe upcoming introduction of agentic capabilities in Chrome brings new demands for browser security, and we've approached this challenge with the same ri…

Android uses the best of Google AI and our advanced security expertise to tackle mobile scams from every angle.

Over the last few years, we’ve launched industry-leading features to detect scams and protect users across phone calls, text messages and messaging app chat notifications.

To help combat these types of financial scams, we launched a pilot earlier this year in the UK focused on in-call protections for financial apps.

The UK pilot of Android’s in-call scam protections has already helped thousands of users end calls that could have cost them a significant amount of money.

We’ve also started to pilot this protection with more app types, including peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps.

Secure by DesignWe built Quick Share’s interoperability support for AirDrop with the same rigorous security standards that we apply to all Google products.

Secure Sharing Channel: The communication channel itself is hardened by our use of Rust to develop this feature.

On Android, security is built in at every layer.

On Android, security is built in at every layer.

Secure Sharing Using AirDrop's "Everyone" ModeTo ensure a seamless experience for both Android and iOS users, Quick Share currently works with AirDrop's "Everyone for 10 minutes" mode.