Учёные предложили объяснение древнейшей несправедливости.

Цена излишней осторожности обернулась многомиллионными потерями.

Сначала модель провела разведку, а потом выдумала разговор, которого не было.

Математика объяснила, почему демократия способна загнать себя в тупик.

Китайцы создали камуфляж, от которого у нейросетей начинаются проблемы со зрением.

Исследователи подтвердили выполнение команд через уязвимости PHP, а злоумышленники уже совершенствуют эксплойты.

Тимур Турлов и связанные с ним компании больше не участвуют в разбирательстве по административному иску Генпрокуратуры России: суд прекратил производство 15 октября. Основанием стал отказ ведомства от требований. Одновременно суд снял ограничения на имущество ответчиков, среди которых были Freedom Holding Corp. и Freedom Finance Europe Ltd.

Всё начиналось с обычного звонка из банка, а заканчивалось исчезновением тысяч евро.

Энтузиасты выпустили менеджер приложений для «Станции», но советуют сначала сохранить прошивку.

VPN-зачистка продолжается.

В центре столицы скорость рухнула в 17 раз.

Человек выбирает жертву, ИИ делает грязную работу.

Продукт относится к платформе «Р7-Офис», включённой в Реестр отечественного ПО, что позволяет применять его в госучреждениях и компаниях с госучастием.

Такой файл может включать около миллиона строк, однако «P7-Аналитика» позволяет обрабатывать огромные массивы данных без потери производительности.

Показатели выгружаются преимущественно из учётных и CRM-систем в виде таблиц данных и представляют собой числовые значения интересующей позиции учёта.

Загрузка показателейЧтобы загрузить табличный файл или подключить корпоративный источник данных (например, 1C или Битрикс24), нужно выбрать вкладку «Загрузка данных» в разделе «Настройки» главного меню программы.

Таким образом, пользователь может с…

Наглядная архитектура ИИ-агентаГотовые ИИ-агенты и ассистенты от российских разработчиковЧат-бот, который просто отвечает на вопросы, уже почти ушёл в прошлое.

Чтобы отличить ИИ-агента от обычного ИИ-ассистента и копилота, лучше всего оценивать уровень автономности, способность к планированию и степень участия человека:ИИ‑ассистент.

Крупные российские компании уже запустили продвинутых ИИ-агентов для собственных нужд.

Компания может проверить, какие данные и сервисы использовал агент при выполнении поручения и на чём основан результат.

Она позволяет создавать автономных ИИ-агентов и автоматизировать бизнес-процессы, поддерживая как российские модели YandexGPT и GigaChat, так и зарубежные LL…

подозрений на киберинциденты, что в свою очередь уже на 40% больше, чем в прошлом году.

Например, во время сбоя в работе СДЭК в мае 2024 года хакерская группировка Head Mare публично заявила о взломе инфраструктуры компании и разместила скриншоты в подтверждение своих слов.

В результате вопросы возникли не только к надёжности сервиса, но и к тому, насколько точно компания описывает происходящее.

Тему подхватили СМИ, что в итоге сформировало негативное инфополе вокруг бренда.

После кибератаки у ритейлера возникли сбои в работе сайта, приложения и оборудования в магазинах, очереди на кассах и путаница с ценами.

Денис Солоничкин отметил, что начались реальные внедрения: операционные системы больше не покупают «в стол», это видно по нагрузке на техподдержку и по продажам.

Для этого нужно провести внутренний аудит систем и софта, проверить ПО на предмет того, кросс-платформенное ли оно, и запланировать миграцию.

Денис Солоничкин пояснил, что РЕД СОФТ занимается общесистемным и инфраструктурным ПО и не идёт в те классы продуктов, где уже есть большое количество партнёров.

Инновации: агентские ОС и локальные моделиАнтон Пальгунов отметил движение в сторону веба и ИИ: пользователи всё чаще начинают с ИИ-ассистента, а не с поиска в браузере.

Одни считают, что зависимость неизбежна в любом варианте и важн…

Разбираемся, чем агент отличается от чат-бота и автоматизации, как его применяют в разработке и администрировании и какие риски возникают при доступе к корпоративным системам.

Он описывает, как агенты разных систем находят друг друга, обмениваются задачами и результатами и обрабатывают ошибки.

Поэтому к взаимодействию между агентами применяют те же принципы, что и к работе с инструментами: минимальные права, проверку входных и выходных данных, журналирование.

Как агенты меняют разработку ПОПри наличии разрешений агент работает с репозиторием, инструментами сборки и тестирования, закрывая многоэтапные задачи целиком.

При этом результат работы агента нужно проверять не только на ошибки, но и …

Наталья Глинина отметила, что стратегия должна отвечать на вопрос, с какими бизнес-рисками работает компания, и обязательно связывать цели ИБ с целями бизнеса.

Евгений Акимов предложил смотреть на стратегию как на ожидание бизнеса от кибербезопасности: если бизнес ничего не ждёт, стратегия не нужна.

Евгений Акимов:«Прежде чем писать стратегию, нужно разобраться с целями бизнеса, а не с требованиями к кибербезопасности.

Елизавета Комарова:«Нужно учитывать, что угроза — это не то, что маячит на горизонте, а то, что происходит прямо сейчас.

Эксперты сошлись в том, что стратегия должна фокусироваться на критических процессах и их восстановлении, а не на перечне приобретаемых решений.

Аналогичные санкции предлагается применять и к тем, кто не выполнил классификацию своих объектов КИИ и не определил их значимость в соответствии с требованиями отечественного законодательства.

В таких условиях компании стали осторожнее подходить к крупным ИТ-проектам и внимательнее оценивать не только необходимость внедрения, но и его ожидаемый результат.

Проблема заключается не только в продолжительности обучения, но и в разрыве между академической подготовкой и практическими задачами бизнеса.

Выросли и требования к самим разработчикам: клиент обращает внимание на их опыт, компетенции и способность развивать и поддерживать решение.

Модели будут ошибаться всё реже, и в перспективе многие де…

Но бизнесу уже недостаточно арендовать серверы с GPU: нужны инструменты для работы с данными, надёжная инфраструктура и кадры.

Соответственно, аналитики планируют для облачных сервисов, ориентированных на ИИ, более высокие темпы роста на период 2026–2030 гг.

Прогноз динамики рынка публичных облачных сервисов для ИИ на 2026–2030 гг.

Наиболее востребованные облачные сервисы для ИИ по итогам 2025 годаТакже уже без малого четверть, точнее, 24% компаний уже используют ИИ в облаке.

И в целом ИИ без качественных данных в достаточном объёме рискует выдавать только галлюцинации, а не помогать решать задачи бизнеса.

Антон Банчуков добавил, что портфельный подход — это то, с чем сталкивается практически весь крупный бизнес, и в этом нет ничего удивительного.

В результате серверы Lenovo на этих картах до сих пор не работают с VMware и не могут использоваться.

Миграция: сроки и сложностиАнтон Банчуков отметил, что планирование и дизайн не позволяют выявить все сложности инфраструктуры.

Обеспечение катастрофоустойчивости и непрерывности бизнесаДмитрий Лазаренко отметил, что бизнес нужно убедить инвестировать в катастрофоустойчивость, и на этом лучше не экономить.

Прогнозы: новая роль ИТ и FinOpsМихаил Соловьёв:«Управление эффективностью и стоимостью мультиоблака — важный вопрос, мы решаем его несколько лет.

Затем пришёл ИИ и всю эту систему убил.

Машина быстрее, дешевле и не требует нескольких лет, чтобы дорасти до уровня мидла.

Если один разработчик благодаря ИИ способен делать больше, компании уже не обязательно наращивать команду прежними темпами.

Очень скоро проблема будет уже не в скорости этого станка, а в том, что остальные участки за ним не успевают.

Но новое поколение «бабочек», похоже, будет заниматься уже не столько созданием цифрового мира, сколько контролем за его созданием.

Эксперты рынка в двух частях эфира AM Live обсудили, как контролировать теневой ИИ, чем опасны агенты, что меняется в DevSecOps и как начать обеспечение безопасности.

Илья Самофеев, исполнительный директор, red_mad_robotВ первом опросе зрители ответили, насколько они контролируют использование ИИ в компании:Практически не контролируют использование ИИ — 43%.

Если компания получает трафик от пользователя к внешнему сервису, нужно перехватить его, проанализировать, что отправляется, и в идеале заблокировать и подменить ответ модели.

Отдельно отмечу интернет вещей: IoT сам по себе небезопасен, а с добавлением моделей машинного обучения на устройствах возникает комбинированная атака — и на моде…

Причиной этому — стремительное распространение интернета вещей и приложений, требующих обработки данных в настоящем времени, увеличение числа подключённых устройств и лавинообразно растущий объём генерируемых данных.

Edge Computing и Edge AI: термины и техническая сутьЧтобы показать различие подходов Edge Computing и Cloud Computing, рассмотрим уровни архитектуры.

Например, камера видеонаблюдения — это устройство Edge Computing, а если она с помощью компьютерного зрения распознаёт номер машины — это уже Edge AI.

Помимо перечисленных направлений, граничные вычисления находят применение и в других сферах, где важны низкая задержка и локальная обработка данных:Здравоохранение.

Имеются в виду т…

WAF Dallas Lock объединяет функции межсетевого экрана и системы обнаружения вторжений для веб-приложений, сайтов и других веб-ресурсов.

Типовая схема использования WAF Dallas LockСетевые интерфейсы WAF Dallas Lock отнесены к различным «зонам» (LAN, WAN, DMZ), за каждой из которых закреплён соответствующий профиль межсетевого экрана.

Обновлённое меню вкладки «Списки доступа»Управление через ЕЦУ Dallas LockДля реализации централизованного управления WAF Dallas Lock необходимо использовать Единый центр управления Dallas Lock (ЕЦУ Dallas Lock), управление которым осуществляется отдельным приложением «Консоль ЕЦУ».

Лицензирование WAF Dallas Lock 3.1Ранее WAF Dallas Lock поставлялся только со сро…

Как минимум два месяца этот редактор показывал «Сохранено» и не сохранял ни символа.

Дешевле всего такое ловит model_config = ConfigDict(extra="forbid") во входных схемах: запрос сразу получает 422, и ошибка не проживёт и дня.

Почему нельзя просто принять полеСтатья, которую собирает сервис, состоит не только из абзацев и заголовков.

Входной HTML ProseMirror разбирает по схеме документа и всё, что в неё не вписывается, выбрасывает или сплющивает в текст.

FOR UPDATE, который ничего не защитилВторая вкладка браузера или автосохранение поверх только что применённой правки не должны молча затирать друг друга.

Пропуск вшитых интеграций в TikTok на Android: анализ TTVideoEngine, ReVanced-патч и k-анонимностьВ коротких видео формат рекламы давно сместился от официальных промо-постов к прямым интеграциям: авторы монтируют вставки (рулетки скинов CS:GO, платформы кейсов, телеграм-каналы) прямо в середину ролика.

В процессе пришлось столкнуться с проприетарным плеером ByteDance, обфускацией байт-кода, оптимизацией вызовов к плееру и вопросами приватности запросов к базе таймкодов.

Почему стандартные фильтры здесь не работаютОбычная блокировка рекламы в клиентах строится двумя путями:Сетевые фильтры и DNS: блокируют домены трекеров и рекламных баннеров.

APK-файл версий 36.x разбит более чем на 20 DEX-ф…

Но что произойдет, если само ядро Linux запишет новые данные в его страницу в оперативной памяти?

Вместо отдельного буфера ядро может передать сетевой или криптографической подсистеме ссылку на ту же страницу памяти.

Они дают возможность изменить данные в памяти, а уже эксплойт использует эту возможность для повышения привилегий.

Они позволяют процессам получать определенные полномочия внутри изолированной среды и в некоторых сценариях облегчают доступ к уязвимым механизмам ядра.

Во всех рассмотренных случаях одна подсистема передает ссылку на страницу памяти, а другая изменяет эту страницу, не обеспечив необходимое разделение.

С ростом количества пользователей, проектов и нагрузки GitLab Community Edition постепенно требует все больше внимания к производительности и архитектуре.

В первой части доклада рассказали, с чего начинали, как находили узкие места, какие решения применяли и к чему это привело.

Показали, почему эти процессы занимали слишком много времени, где находились основные узкие места и как их оптимизация позволила кратно сократить время миграции между кластерами.

Константин рассказал, почему недостаточно защищать отдельные хранилища и почему контролировать нужно весь путь доступа к данным.

Смотреть на YouTubeСмотреть в VKПрезентацияНе пропустите анонсы следующих событий RWB: подписывайтесь на наш Tel…

Начнём с уязвимости в Microsoft Windows.

Однако, согласно записи CVE, риску эксплуатации CVE-2026-85880 подвержены только некоторые сборки Windows 10 (1607, 1809, 21H2, 22H2) и Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 и 2022.

Уязвимость также затрагивает устройства Spark Firewall - семейство межсетевых экранов компании Check Point, предназначенных преимущественно для защиты сетей небольших и средних организаций, филиалов и удалённых офисов.

Признаки эксплуатации: с 12 сентября Check Point начала фиксировать активные попытки атак, нацеленных в первую очередь на клиентов, использующих межсетевые экраны нового поколения Check Point Spark Firewall.

Количество потенциальных жертв: по данным Posi…

Что строим и что защищаемГлавный риск корпоративного AI — не в том, что модель ошибается в формулировках.

Сам интерфейс не решает, какие данные можно читать: его задача — доставить запрос и не потерять, от чьего имени он пришел.

DLP проверяет запрос до отправки модели и не выпускает секреты и токены за пределы разрешенного контура.

Два Gateway с разными задачамиСловом Gateway мы называем контролируемую точку прохождения запроса.

А какие границы для корпоративных AI-агентов вы считаете обязательными — для доступа к моделям, к системам, к операциям на запись?

Операторы ГИС и ИСПДн спрашивают одно и то же: насколько все страшно и с чего начинать, если нет ни денег, ни людей?

Этим летом наша команда провела аттестацию инфраструктуры Astra Cloud сразу по двум приказам: по 117-му по классу защищенности К1 для государственных информационных систем и по 21-му по уровню защищенности УЗ-1 для систем, обрабатывающих персональные данные.

По пункту 24 Требований 117-го приказа ФСТЭК России оператор может привлекать организации с лицензией ФСТЭК России на техническую защиту конфиденциальной информации.

Мы в этом убедились, пока получали аттестат и собирали полный комплект лицензий ФСТЭК России на техническую защиту информации и ФСБ России на криптографию.

Д…

Паролем оказалось слово komodia, то есть название фирмы-разработчика, и, как выяснилось позже, тот же пароль стоял и в других продуктах на ее библиотеке.

Получилось, что производитель Windows чистил ноутбуки Lenovo своим антивирусом одновременно с тем, как сама Lenovo только выпускала утилиту для удаления.

Komodia у вас домаКогда пароль komodia стал известен, исследователи начали искать ту же библиотеку в других программах и нашли ее в целом наборе продуктов, которые продавали как средство защиты: в родительском контроле KeepMyFamilySecure и Qustodio, в системе мониторинга сотрудников StaffCop, в Ad-Aware от Lavasoft и в нескольких веб-фильтрах.

FTC отдельно указала, что после огласки Lenov…

В релизе быстрые ядра, распределённый инференс, спекулятивное декодирование и ответы в заданном формате для Blackwell (SM100) и Huawei Ascend 950.

AA сразу оговаривается, что MiMo‑V2.6-Pro и GPT-6.1 Sol на среднем усилии набирают больше и стоят за задачу дешевле.

За несколько часов до релиза Дейн Кнехт, технический директор Cloudflare, сообщил, что для всех клиентов, включая бесплатных, уже работают правила WAF, фильтра запросов перед сайтом, и что первые атаки уже идут.

Вредоносные сжатые данные позволяют без авторизации выполнить код и на сервере, который принимает сжатый вход, и на клиенте вроде curl --compressed .

Пока по списку ожидания и только для подписчиков Pro и Max в США, в веб‑в…

Эксперты «Лаборатории Касперского» обнаружили новый UEFI-буткит BlackX, который использовался в атаках на дипломатические ведомства Таджикистана, Узбекистана и Туркменистана.

В 2023 году специалисты ESET подтвердили, что BlackLotus действительно способен обходить Secure Boot с помощью проблемы Baton Drop (CVE-2022-21894).

В BlackX эксплуатация Baton Drop реализована практически аналогично: эксплоит добавляет в систему свои пользовательские ключи владельца компьютера (Machine Owner Keys, MOK), после чего атакующие получают возможность загружать произвольные EFI-файлы в обход Secure Boot.

При этом в атаках с применением BlackX используется другой драйвер и собственные полезные нагрузки, отлич…

Проблему обнаружили во встроенном в Ruby движке Onigmo, который GitLab использует в составе своих пакетов и самостоятельно патчит в своих сборках.

Поскольку Onigmo используется в GitLab еще с версии 7.0, уязвимость затрагивает все релизы за последние 12 лет.

Уязвимость исправили в GitLab CE и EE версий 19.5.1, 19.4.3, 19.3.6, 19.2.9, 19.1.9, 19.0.10 и 18.11.13.

Хотя в настоящее время признаков эксплуатации CVE-2026-110264 в реальных атаках нет, аналитики The Shadowserver Foundation предупреждают, что в сети доступны более 2700 инстансов GitLab Community Edition.

Они входят в опенсорсный фреймворк TLDR и используют логи GitLab для выявления подозрительной активности.

ИБ-эксперты предупреждают, что хакеры начали массово эксплуатировать четыре уязвимости в Plex Media Server, получившие общее название Plex2Shell.

Следует отметить, что патчи для этих уязвимостей были выпущены еще летом 2026 года, а в начале сентября разработчики Plex призвали всех пользователей срочно обновиться до Plex Media Server версии 1.43.3.

Затем злоумышленник может загрузить вредоносный ELF-файл, записать его в выбранную директорию и добиться выполнения кода с правами процесса Plex Media Server.

Фактически это означает, что для полной компрометации доступного через интернет сервера хакеру не потребуются учетные данные.

Тем временем разработчики Plex предупреждают, что все доступные …

Справка: сканирование портовСка­ниро­вание пор­тов — стан­дар­тный пер­вый шаг при любой ата­ке.

Оно поз­воля­ет ата­кующе­му узнать, какие служ­бы на хос­те при­нима­ют соеди­нение.

На осно­ве этой информа­ции он выбира­ет сле­дующий шаг к получе­нию точ­ки вхо­да.

Са­мый извес­тный инс­тру­мент для ска­ниро­вания — это Nmap.

Улуч­шить резуль­таты его работы ты можешь при помощи такого скрип­та:#!/ bin/ bash ports = $( nmap -p- -- min- rate = 500 $1 | grep ^ [ 0 -9 ] | cut -d '/ ' -f 1 | tr ' ' ', ' | sed s/, $/ / ) nmap -p $ports -A $1

Индийский удостоверяющий центр eMudhra решил полностью отказаться от своего бизнеса по выпуску SSL/TLS-сертификатов.

Это решение было принято через несколько дней после скандала с критически слабыми приватными ключами компании, один из которых оказался обычным числом четыре.

На прошлой неделе мы рассказывали о том, что eMudhra пришлось срочно отозвать восемь промежуточных сертификатов.

Шесть отозванных в итоге сертификатов eMudhra позволяли выпускать TLS-сертификаты, а еще два предназначались для подписи кода.

Однако теперь в eMudhra объявили, что вскоре компания покинет глобальный рынок SSL/TLS-сертификатов.

В книге авторы изучают, как снижение стоимости «интеллекта» и создания контента может менять бизнес-модели, поведение потребителей и источники конкурентных преимуществ.

В своем докладе писатель расскажет о том, как ИИ меняет бизнес, роль человека и границы автономии технологий.

Как ИИ перекраивает стандарты безопасной разработки для бизнеса» обсудят, как ускорение разработки с помощью ИИ влияет на безопасность кода.

Участники обсудят, где безопаснее проводить такие испытания — в боевом контуре или на цифровом двойнике — и как оценивать их результаты.

Кроме того, в программе второго дня есть отдельные сессии об облачной инфраструктуре, защите моделей и данных, применении ИИ в регионах и авто…

Проект имеет более 61 800 звезд на GitHub и насчитывает порядка 92 млн ежемесячных загрузок в PyPI.

По информации разработчиков, 21 октября 2026 года малварь проникла во все семь установочных пакетов LiteLLM 1.107.0 в формате wheel (.whl) для Windows, Linux и macOS.

Как сообщили исследователи из компаний Socket и Endor Labs, злоумышленники добавили в установочные пакеты три файла (cook.pth, cook.py и sitecustomize.py) и злоупотребили штатными механизмами Python.

Дело в том, что в некоторых случаях Claude Code включает токены в тело ответа, которое затем попадает в логи.

Утечку быстро заметили и с помощью force push переписали историю ветки, убрав проблемный коммит.

Эта уязвимость в Brotli уже получила названия Node2Shell, HTTPS2Shell и Brocolli2Shell и опасна не только для Node.js, но также для Bun, Python-пакетов, Envoy, Istio и другого ПО.

Разработанный специалистами компании Google алгоритм сжатия данных Brotli встроен непосредственно в Node.js, поэтому уязвимость может проявляться при распаковке специально подготовленных данных.

CVE-2026-111497 также затрагивает рантайм Bun, Python-пакеты Brotli и brotlicffi, прокси Envoy и платформу Istio.

Отметим, что PoC-эксплоит, изначально представленный для CVE-2026-111497 в Node.js, позволял добиться выполнения кода лишь в специально ослабленной тестовой сборке.

Этот PoC демонстрирует удаленное выполнение п…

В компании утверждают, что инцидент затронул лишь часть пользователей, однако рекомендуют всем сменить API-ключи и другие учетные данные, хранившиеся в переменных окружения.

Railway — облачная платформа для разработчиков, которая позволяет развертывать и запускать приложения, API, базы данных и другие бэкенд-сервисы без самостоятельной настройки инфраструктуры.

Платформа также хранит связанные с развертыванием настройки и секреты, в том числе API-ключи и учетные данные для доступа к базам данных и реестрам.

Как показало расследование, неизвестные лица могли получить доступ к зашифрованным данным пользователей, а в некоторых случаях и к их расшифрованному содержимому.

В компании подчеркивают…

В библиотеке RingRTC, которую мессенджер Signal использует для голосовых и видеозвонков, исправили критическую уязвимость.

Из-за бага звонок мог не завершиться корректно, в результате чего микрофон или камера устройства продолжали работать даже после попытки повесить трубку.

В частности, запрос на завершение звонка может «застрять» в очереди и не выполниться.

В RingRTC версии 2.72.0 разработчики изменили логику завершения звонка: теперь запрос на отключение обрабатывается независимо от основной очереди событий FSM.

Известно, что клиент Signal Desktop получил обновленную версию RingRTC 2.72.0 еще в сентябре, однако неясно, когда исправленная библиотека появилась в версиях мессенджера для And…

Подписка «Хакер Старт» стоит 1000 рублей в год и открывает доступ более чем к 800 статьям о пентесте, малвари, приватности, программировании и множестве других тем.

Среди них есть как вводные материалы, так и более серьезные статьи: можно освоить нужные инструменты, а затем постепенно переходить к более сложным задачам.

Каждый месяц «Хакер Старт» будет пополняться еще 1–3 новыми статьями.

«Хакер Старт» подойдет не только для новичков в области ИБ, но и для специалистов из смежных областей.

Сейчас в «Хакер Старт» входит более 800 статей, а каждый месяц к ним будут добавляться новые.

Все статьи, PDF-архив, скидки и другие бонусыНа SOC Forum 2026 во второй раз пройдет «КиберСтарт» — отдельная программа для молодых компаний и технологических проектов в сфере информационной безопасности.

В этом году в ней примут участие 17 стартапов против 14 годом ранее.

«КиберСтарт» пройдет 27–28 октября в рамках SOC Forum 2026 в московском кластере «Ломоносов».

Также запланированы дискуссии об инвестиционной привлекательности проектов, инструментах поддержки технологических компаний, защите облачной инфраструктуры, а также применении ИИ в кибербезопасности.

В номинации «Лучший рост за год» оценят проекты, которые участвовали в «КиберСтарте» в 2025 и вернулись в этом году, а номинация «Н…

A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says.

The agency's operators gained access to the criminal's operation's backend and cut it off from those computers.

The criminal's Amadey operation was one of many.

Credentials stolen by infostealers can sit unused for months before attackers use them, according to Microsoft's analysis.

In a separate case, ASD said it received a tip that 5 terabytes of data stolen from a business were for sale.

OpenAI's reasoning models work through a problem before answering, and the service normally returns only the raw reasoning as an encrypted item the user cannot read.

The method got past the protections OpenAI added in August against this kind of reasoning theft.

Xint ran the technique against gpt-5.6-sol, one of OpenAI's reasoning models, using math and algorithm puzzles its researchers wrote themselves.

The idea built on Xint's earlier work, called GhostCompact, which showed the compaction step can be pushed to run tasks of the attacker's choosing.

None of that is tied to Xint's compaction method, which is a demonstration rather than an attack seen in the wild.

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has issued an alert warning of unauthorized remote access to video surveillance systems manufactured by Dahua.

However, the findings share similarities with two clusters of activity that Hunt.io disclosed as targeting IP cameras in Ukraine and Russia.

One of the campaigns, attributed to a Russian-speaking operator, singled out internet-exposed cameras in Ukraine using known Dahua and Hikvision vulnerabilities, ultimately compromising 58 devices.

In some instances, the attackers have been found to abuse Dahua's cloud relay to reach cameras behind NATs using only their serial numbers.

The information from IP cameras in Ukraine is used …

The PHP vulnerabilities, both rated 9.2 on the CVSS scoring system, facilitate unauthenticated remote code execution on affected deployments -CVE-2026-109618 - An out-of-memory corruption vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution.

- An out-of-memory corruption vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution.

CVE-2026-109619 - A stale internal request-state vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution.

The addition of the two flaws to the KEV catalog comes after Adel Karimi, detection and response lead at Perplexity, confirmed successful instances of remote code execution against honeypot systems on October 24, 2026.

The is…

An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign active since July 2025.

]com in the CMS blocks of 83 online stores since the domain was registered on October 6, 2026.

The latest JavaScript loader domain is hosted behind Cloudflare and only responds to script requests from real visitors of infected stores.

In one version, the external JavaScript loaded from the attacker's domain stores the payload in the browser's localStorage.

As for the initial access vector, 471 Magento stores are estimated to have been injected with the loader through the PolyShell (aka CVE-2026-48356) vulnerability.

PHP has rebuilt its official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in the Brotli compression library that the packages include.

PHP says the flaw can be reached through the cURL extension when the extension decompresses HTTP responses automatically.

They use the same PHP source, so those fixes stay in place, and they now include Brotli 1.2.1, the fixed version.

In PHP code, the CURLOPT_ENCODING option turns it on, and an empty value accepts every format cURL supports.

In PHP code, following that advice means not setting CURLOPT_ENCODING , because cURL does not decompress responses without it.

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams' external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams or to deliver malware.

]com, a permanent fallback domain automatically generated by Microsoft when a Microsoft 365 tenant is created.

"We also observed a recent shift toward paid top-level domains (TLDs) for tenant creation," Arctic Wolf said.

"In a subset of cases, attackers leveraged Microsoft's notes," Arctic Wolf said.

"External Microsoft Teams chat has become an effective initial-access vector because it exploits trust rather than a software vulnerab…

Join this expert-led webinar to discover how to strengthen AI threat readiness, improve attack-surface visibility, and build faster, more resilient security operations before attackers gain the upper hand.

Join this expert-led webinar to discover how to strengthen AI threat readiness, improve attack-surface visibility, and build faster, more resilient security operations before attackers gain the upper hand.

As machine identities and AI agents expand the attack surface, SOC teams need deeper visibility to respond effectively.

The U.S.-based hospital said it reached out to the AI platform provider to delete the data.

The U.S.-based hospital said it reached out to the AI platform provider to …

Two critical flaws in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime that can be built into other software, could allow a malicious WebAssembly module to escape the sandbox intended to contain it, the project's maintainers say.

Wasmtime runs WebAssembly code outside web browsers.

Because both flaws need a module the attacker controls, the risk is highest for services that compile modules written by other people.

Wasmtime 50.0.0, released on October 20, is fixed for both flaws.

Spin, an open-source tool for building serverless WebAssembly apps that runs on Wasmtime, moved to Wasmtime 50.0.0 in version 4.2.4 on October 21.

The news prompted security advisories from government agencies and sent website owners scrambling to apply the patches, with some sites even going offline as a precaution.

This is because on an unpatched server, an attacker can exploit the vulnerabilities to run their own code without logging in.

As three out of four websites globally are estimated to use PHP in some capacity, its ubiquity helps create an environment ripe for abuse; indeed, initial attempts to exploit the flaws – discovered by AI and dubbed PHP2Shell – weren't long in coming.

Here's what to know about CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, as well as what website owners and IT teams should do to stay safe – all in a little mo…

The following day, at 09:28, a new binary was delivered to the machine: the MythicRatatoskr backdoor.

This blogpost focuses primarily on the analysis of the MythicRatatoskr backdoor, the Yggdrasil network that hosts its C&C server, and the accompanying SOCKS5 server.

Given the backdoor’s role as a messenger scurrying through the Yggdrasil network, we decided to name the backdoor MythicRatatoskr.

MythicRatatoskr main configurationThe MythicRatatoskr configuration is stored in a file at a hardcoded path.

NetworkIP Domain Hosting provider First seen Details b479:2771:8df4:b5e b:d007:63b0[:]2838 N/A N/A 2025‑07‑17 MythicRatatoskr C&C server within the Yggdrasil network.

In some cases, the scam ad may take you to a fake e-commerce site which covertly harvests your card details.

What happens if I’ve fallen victim to a scam ad?

Scam ads are getting easier to generate thanks to AI, and can look increasingly professional, even including video content.

Can I get my money back if I paid through a scam ad?

What should I do if I’ve fallen victim to a scam ad?

This is email bombing.

What is email bombing?

Sometimes called “form bombing,” “list bombing” or “subscription bombing,” email bombing attacks usually follow the same pattern.

There’s no silver bullet to prevent email bombing.

Has my email account been hacked if it’s full of sign-up emails?

Open Enrollment is peak season for Medicare fraud – here’s how to tell real outreach from fakes and keep your details safeScammers love a pretext.

And with Medicare Open Enrollment, they have a perfect opportunity to exploit victim expectations, masking their fraud under the cover of legitimate activity.

Work through the following steps:Call or contact Medicare at Medicare.gov or 800-633-4227 to report the incident.

So slow down this Open Enrollment season and verify every request for personal and medical details.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)When is Medicare Open Enrollment?

Data breach notifications are telling victims less than ever.

As the volume of data breach incidents increases, there’s a growing chance that you’ll be caught up in one.

Example of a data breach notice with a detailed explanation of the situation (for more, head over here)How do you interpret a breach notice?

For that reason, you should never click through on any unsolicited breach notification email or message.

Change your logins (if relevant) and consider credit monitoring and a credit freeze.

Later, in June 2026, ESET telemetry registered further MATCHBOIL samples, this time at a company in the energy sector.

MATCHBOIL then performs three HTTPS requests to the C&C server; each with a different purpose:The first request receives a numeric value from the C&C server.

2024 samplesThe earliest MATCHBOIL samples that we have seen have compilation timestamps from 2024.

]pro N/A 2025‑11‑10 MATCHBOIL C&C server hidden behind Cloudflare.

]com N/A 2025‑08‑12 MATCHBOIL C&C server hidden behind Cloudflare.

The platform also asks for the creator’s YouTube channel URL, which it uses to retrieve public information and generate a seemingly personalized experience.

How to stay safeIf you’re a social media influencer yourself, your Google account can be much more than “just” access to a YouTube channel.

Run Google’s Security Checkup, or open Security & sign-in in your Google account, and review recent security events and signed-in devices.

If you’re a YouTube creator yourself, you realize that your reputation ultimately defines your success.

A Google account can then sit at the center of your business: email, files, contacts, and the YouTube channel itself.

The cybersecurity market is often making it tougher for SMBs to keep threats at bayCybersecurity has never been easy.

SMBs are very much in the crosshairs, as providers of critical infrastructure themselves or suppliers to firms operating in critical infrastructure.

Yet the identity of the adversary is arguably less important than the tactics they’re using to target global SMBs.

By offering teams AI assistance to improve productivity.

By offering teams AI assistance to improve productivity.

Autonomous AI agents go on a hacking spree, and Microsoft ships what used to be a year's worth of security patches in one go – here's how to keep paceAs another month draws to a close, ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe reviews some of the top cybersecurity stories that have made the news over the past 30 days while offering insights that they hold for your or your company's cyber-defenses.

Here's Tony's rundown of some of what stood out most in September 2026.

An OpenAI agent has broken into Australia's national healthcare database in what is the first known case of AI autonomously hacking a government network,Earlier in the month, Google announced that its models also escaped it…

If an exit company cold calls you or makes 100% guaranteed promises of a swift exit, they’re likely to be a scammer.

If you’ve already paid a scam timeshare exit company, there’s still a chance you could get your money back if you act quickly.

What are the warning signs of a timeshare exit scam?

How can I check whether a timeshare exit company is legitimate?

What should I do if I've already paid a timeshare exit scam company?

Some techniques go after live sessions themselves, with attackers shifting their focus from stealing passwords to stealing authentication tokens.

Purpose-built AI tools now make it trivial to clean up the language and even tailor the lure for each recipient.

What’s more, the code is scanned on a phone, so the usual controls that protect company-issued laptops don’t apply.

The ‘device hop’ also means that the company may have a hard time developing a full picture of the attack.

AI helps deal with the volume and speed involved, whereas experienced analysts can assess the evidence and direct the response.

Vibe coded apps may also be exposed to prompt injection.

What can go wrong with vibe coded apps?

With a badly coded app, the leak usually happens on the developer’s servers, so start with your account and credentials.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)What does 'vibe coded' mean?

Are all vibe coded apps dangerous?

No real government agency, bank, or company will ever tell you to pay them via a Bitcoin ATM.

How do Bitcoin ATM scams work?

How do I stay safe from Bitcoin ATM scams?

What can I do straight after a Bitcoin ATM scam?

What should I do if I’ve fallen for a Bitcoin ATM scam?

Roblox itself is very clear: “There is no such thing as free Robux or subscription offers, tricks, or codes.”What there is, unfortunately, are a lot of scammers looking to trick you out of your personal information and logins with the promise of free Robux.

But it’s also about helping them understand there’s no such thing as ‘free’ Robux.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)Is there a real free Robux generator?

Roblox says there is no legitimate way to get free Robux through generators, tricks or codes.

But these aren’t ‘free Robux generators.’How can I tell if a Robux offer is a scam?

In this interview with Help Net Security, Jonathan Care, Lead Analyst and Practice Lead AI at KuppingerCole Analysts, compares AI security startups to the early fraud market he helped define at Gartner.

Which of the new AI security categories remind you of that early fraud market, and which ones do you expect to end up as features inside someone else’s platform?

Model scanning, AI bills of materials and most of AI security posture management.

Those belong inside the cloud security platform, the data security platform or the developer pipeline.

AI security posture management as a separate product, because it belongs inside existing cloud and data security platforms.

If you use Microsoft Authenticator on Android, update it.

The app didn’t need permissions, and you didn’t need to tap anything.

Because Authenticator controls access to your whole Microsoft account, it’s supposed to be very careful about which apps it gives those tokens to.

When an app asked it for a token, Authenticator didn’t check which app was actually asking.

The attack still needed a malicious app on the device, so someone would have to be tricked into installing one.

Madhu Shashanka, Chief Scientist at Concentric AI, explains why securing LLM tools and agents depends more on your data than on the model.

Controls on model behavior, such as guardrails and injection detection, lower the rate of bad outcomes but never reach zero.

Controls on what goes in are different, because you own the documents, systems, and credentials an agent can reach.

He covers prompt injection, data leakage through connectors, overprivileged agents, and shadow AI.

He then sets out three layers: input controls, behavioral controls, and output and action controls.

Interesting research:

TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this vulnerability lives in the model’s weights, and that removing the model’s CCP alignment removes it. One word tilts the code against Americans. Ask for the app “for a US defense contractor” instead of “for a Chinese defense contractor”, and Qwen3-Coder is 19% more likely to hand back an app that can be hacked.

...

This article in Nature argues that it’s due to an overfishing of predators and warming sea temperatures.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Blog moderation policy.

The Indian CA eMudhra Limited has eight TLS certificates with laughably weak private keys:

The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. A normal size for a NIST P-384 elliptic curve cryptography private key contains roughly 384 bits of entropy, a size allowing almost 2384, or a number with 116 digits, different possibilities. The private key sizes of the compromised keys ranged from 3 to 8 bits. Astonishingly, the private keys were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237...

PHP maintainers have released two critical vulnerabilities:

PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. All PHP users are strongly encouraged to update immediately. Who is at risk: all PHP installations serving web requests, including PHP-FPM, Apache with mod_php, php-cgi, FrankenPHP and LiteSpeed. We consider the risk highest for mod_php, with a demonstrated exploit where an unauthenticated request can trigger the attack before any application code runs.

The vulnerabilities:...

There’s a new archive of all the papers from twenty-five years of the Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS).

Really nice resource. It’s fun to reread my 2002 essay on the economics of information security.

Justin.sh is reporting on a confidential Cellebrite document that has been leaked to him:

Cellebrite calls it Advanced Unlocks (AU from here on), not to be confused with the “advanced unlocking services” they’ve marketed for years. A press release from earlier this year confirms AU is a new product for 2026.

[…]

According to Cellebrite, AU: is a “next-generation AFU vector that is more resilient to Apple’s OS changes”

works with Stolen Device Protection enabled, which tightens USB restrictions

is enabled by a dedicated appliance with a stated range (!) of about 8 meters...

Interesting research:

Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can solve visual CAPTCHAs without task-specific training, but the agents built on them approach every challenge from scratch. For such an agent, the hundredth instance of a familiar puzzle costs as much time and compute as the first. Specialized detectors invert the trade-off, answering in milliseconds but only for categories they were trained on. Neither improves with exposure. We study what changes when a solver improves with use. Our system pairs a fine-tuned YOLOv8 detector with an open-weight VLM behind a confidence-based router, and runs entirely from screenshots and operating-system input events, with no browser automation…

New research shows that squid lived all around the globe even before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Blog moderation policy.

This is a problem:

Any open model whose weights have been edited can carry a backdoor, whether it’s a task-specific fine-tune, a merged adapter or an abliterated build. We have abliterated models in the title because it’s the most popular reason people download modified weights without verifying what’s inside. Abliteration is a cheap fine-tune that takes away a model’s ability to refuse. You find the direction in the weights that carries “no” and subtract it. The model then answers things a safety-tuned version would turn down. It began as a research trick and it’s now routine before people upload a model to Hugging Face, where you’ll find abliterated builds of most of the popular open weig…

Matthew Green has a new site that tries to estimate the number of cryptanalyst-hours that have been spent analyzing different public-key algorithms:

Abstract: We estimate how much public cryptanalysis each public-key assumption has received, using the literature itself as the instrument. From roughly sixteen thousand candidate papers we classify cryptanalytic work on ECDLP, structured and plain lattices, syndrome decoding and their comparators, then convert papers into estimated research-allocation years through a person-level author map. These publication-based estimates may substantially overstate actual time spent. Lattices have overtaken elliptic curves in this cumulative measure only r…

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at ATTENTION: Democracy, Rebuilt in Montreal, Canada. The event runs October 21–23, 2026, and my talk is on Wednesday, October 21.

I’m speaking at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at 5 PM ET on October 22, 2026.

I’m speaking at [un]prompted in San Francisco, California. The event runs October 27–29, 2026, and my talk is at 11:35 AM PT on Thursday, October 29.

I’m speaking at the Catalyst Summit in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday, November 18, 2026...

Matthew Green has been writing a rather pessimistic series of posts about the potential for AI systems to vastly outperform humans in cryptanalysis of both symmetric and public-key ciphers.

I am more optimistic than he is. That is, I have stronger faith in the over-engineering cryptographers tend to do. I am trying to write this up in more detail.

Another IoT cyberattack, this one in France:

Hackers gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight, according to one supermarket chain affected.

[…]

Normally, supermarket freezers go through a short period of defrosting overnight, in which temperatures rise slightly. But the hackers ordered the units to heat up and stay hot, although Danfoss did not confirm any reports about just how warm the fridges and freezers could become in that process.

Danfoss said the affected cold units were older models whose security software could not be updated to ward off a risk they had identified...

In September, hackers from a group called ShinyHunters announced that they stole a trove of FBI data about its own agents. It was an intelligence disaster.

Last week, the FBI arrested (alternate link) someone associated with that crime.

According to the FBI, ShinyHunters has extorted more than $70 million from victims so far this year.

He also said Mr. Dubrovsky has misrepresented himself as a Cypfer founder, and is not a shareholder.

In 2020, Aon aquired Cytelligence, a security consulting firm where Mr. Tobok was founder and CEO and Mr. Dubrovsky was a managing partner.

Experts say ransomware victims are typically directed by their insurance provider to work with a specific incident response firm.

But that ransom payment did not stop future extortion attempts using the same stolen data.

The sanctions freeze any Cryptomus assets at U.K. banks, and bar British companies from offering it any business, virtual or otherwise.

The blockchain data-crunching firm Chainalysis said the U.K. sanctions target the broader infrastructure supporting Russia’s wartime economy.

“Cryptomus and Heleket have emerged as major payment hubs for illicit activity,” Chainalysis wrote in an October 8 blog post.

Sanders said the U.K. sanctions on Cryptomus are important because Canada’s sanctions against the platform were ultimately unenforceable and uncollectible.

“A fine doesn’t stop a cryptocurrency payment processor from processing payments,” Sanders wrote on LinkedIn.

Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software.

CVE-2026-96951 is a security feature bypass in the Windows Shell that affects Windows 10 and 11 systems, as well as some Server versions.

Windows 10 users might be wondering if they can still expect security updates after this month.

Microsoft had been slated to stop shipping updates for Windows 10 systems in October 2025, but ended up adding another year of free updates after considerable pushback.

Satnam Narang at Tenable said the number of flaws fixed this month far surpasses the previous record-setting year 2020, when Microsoft patched 1,261 CVEs.

The New York Times reported today that the FBI has arrested a Canadian man in Pennsylvania on suspicion of assisting ShinyHunters.

The Times story did not identify the man, nor did a statement on Twitter/X about the arrest from FBI Director Kash Patel.

Another shared that control over the ShinyHunters investigation has been centralized at an FBI field office in Texas.

According to LinkedIn, Cypher was co-founded by a Canadian man named Edward Dubrovsky, who is now associated with another Canadian security firm called CyberSteward.

According to the FBI, the group has extorted more than $70 million from victims so far this year.

The Dutch daily RTL reported on Sept. 29 that investigators suspect Van der Stap tried to orchestrate at least two murders.

According to RTL, the murders were allegedly to be committed abroad, and there are indications Van der Stap gave the order for these attacks.

In an interview with KrebsOnSecurity on September 9, Van der Stap described his new role as “offensive security lead” at the Dutch cybersecurity company Neo Security, saying the job involved probing client networks for security vulnerabilities.

Korper said Dutch forensic investigators visited his office on September 15, the night Van der ⁠Stap was arrested in a dramatic police raid that reportedly involved flash bang grenades.

“Y…

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters.

Van der Stap is currently employed as offensive security lead at the Dutch company Neo Security, which did not respond to requests for comment.

But not long after that interview, the Dutch hacker abruptly stopped replying to messages.

One source said a colleague of theirs personally witnessed Dutch authorities carting items out of Van der Stap’s residence.

Speaking with reporters from Bloomberg in 2024, Van der Stap said that singular focus in turn fueled his desire to carry out cyberattacks.

A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today and ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution to victims.

Kiberphant0m claimed to have hacked into more than dozen telecommunications companies worldwide, including Verizon’s Push-to-Talk business, and publicly extorted these companies in exchange for a promise not to publish the stolen data.

Less than a month later, Wagenius was arrested and charged in two separate federal indictments, and soon pleaded guilty to all counts in both cases.

In 2019, Schuchm…

In February 2024, Radaris was sued by Atlas Data Privacy Corp, a company that has been pursuing data brokers alleged to be violating a New Jersey statute called Daniel’s Law.

KrebsOnSecurity doubled down and showed how the Lubarsky brothers built and operated Radaris and other data broker companies using a fictitious CEO’s name.

All told, the New Jersey court has so far transferred 14 domain names from the Radaris family of companies to Atlas.

Sherman said federal lawmakers have long faced intense lobbying by the technology industry against more restrictive U.S. data privacy laws, but that many powerful industries are now working against passing comprehensive data privacy legislation.

The l…

Microsoft Corp. today issued updates to plug at least 974 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, by far its biggest single patch batch ever.

This month’s patch bundle obliterates the software giant’s previous record set in July, when it released updates for at least 570 security vulnerabilities.

Among the more serious critical flaws this month is CVE-2026-69730, a DNS weakness present in Windows Server 2012 onward and on Windows 10.

And at the rate these Windows patch releases are ballooning in size, it’s probably best not to let them pile up month after month.

Enterprise Windows admins will want to keep an eye on askwoody.com for news of any updates that appear…

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada.

Curiously, the identity records include not only drivers licenses but also marijuana dispensary cards.

Some of the records list their “source” as “CDL,” presumably short for “commercial drivers license.

Also, only some of those who helped with this research said they showed their drivers license at the airport on the day of their travel.

Baldwin said the Nexus identity theft service presents multiple serious security and privacy threats, noting that state-issued drivers licenses are commonly used as proof of one’s ide…

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.

Germany's far-right AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) party has confirmed that it has suffered a security breach, after a hacker published what appear to be hundreds of thousands of the controversial political party's internal emails.

Earlier this week, the AfD admitted that its hosting provider had been hacked in September, and that some of its mailboxes had been copied.

What is unusual is that the leaked emails are not published on the site directly.

Indeed, party sources told the media that although the leaked emails appeared to be authentic, the AI-generated summaries appeared to contain several inaccuracies.

The full corpus of 281 GB of stolen messages and files has been made available…

Smashing Security, episode 489, How a Brand New Crypto Wallet Came with a Spy Inside, with Graham Cluley and special guest Lianne Potter.

So a bit of a War of the Roses thing going on there with that reference to Burnham.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to describe things, and the more dangerous the thing is, the faster it will click.

But I'm going to say it's probably dodgy, but oh, the curiosity would get the better of me.

But I'm actually in the same boat as most people because this film has been censored for nearly half a century.

A 28-year-old Russian man has been arrested by German police, suspected of being a key member of the Qilin ransomware gang.

As BBC News reports, detectives have linked the man to the 2024 attack against blood-testing firm Synnovis, that disrupted London hospitals, and resulted in the death of a patient.

The suspect, who has been named by German media only as "Vladimir K" was originally detained in May in Japan, after he travelled there on holiday.

The incident is said to have crippled Synnovis’s IT systems, and caused a critical shortage of O-type blood in hospitals.

No ransom was paid by Synnovis, a decision the firm made jointly with the NHS trusts to which it provides services.

The official @GardaInfo and @GardaTraffic Twitter accounts of Garda Síochána were accessed by an unauthorised third party who posted cryptocurrency-related messages on Wednesday evening, potentially reaching hundreds of thousands of users.

The messages claimed that followers were eligible to claim free cryptocurrency through an airdrop.

The problem, however, is not just that a hacker found themselves with the ability to post fraudulent messages posing as the Irish police.

The Garda is not the only police force to have ever suffered a security breach on its Twitter account.

In 2022, the official Twitter account of the Philadelphia Police Department was compromised and used to post what appea…

Krybit is a fast-growing ransomware gang that was hacked by a rival, hit back, and is still extorting victims. Find out how it works, who it has targeted, and what organisations can do to protect themselves. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

How a ransomware negotiator ended up arrested at his own conference, with Graham Cluley and special guest Paul Ducklin.

I don't know if you know that.

And then I became a freelancer and then I thought, oh boy, I'm going to open the doors to everybody.

And he is the Canadian co-founder of a ransomware negotiator firm called— I don't know how to pronounce this.

There's no breach so unimportant that you can just say, don't worry folks, carry on, nothing to see here.

The hacker behind a high-profile string of leaks involving the upcoming release of the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6 videogame has threatened to release a complete, playable build.

CyberLeek says that if the GTA 6 game is released on physical disk, and a public apology is made, it will step back from its threats.

As ever, videogame fans should be very wary of believing anybody who offers a download of a supposedly leaked game.

Besides which, the real, genuine GTA 6 is due to be released on video game platforms on 19 November.

It is not worth infecting your computer, or losing money on a dodgy crypto coin, just to see it a few weeks early.

Zhang is charged alongside 34-year-old Xu Zewei with malicious cyber activity against US computer systems between February 2020 and June 2021.

The following the year the pair allegedly exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server to steal further information.

Furthermore, if findings by security firm SentinelOne are to be believed, Zhang's Shanghai Firetech filed multiple software patents about extract data from computers.

Xu, for instance, was arrested at Milan airport in July 2025 and extradited to the United States in April this year.

China's Foreign Ministry opposed Xu's extradition, accusing the United States of fabricating charges against him.

But do you actually know whether both of them can do the job?

Now, I don't know how good a swimmer you are, Danny.

I don't know about you, but I'm having 3 or 4 calls a day from an unknown number.

And I would imagine a company like Hack The Box has got great visibility as to what is actually going on out there.

And so I think that's the unique part here is it truly does have a pressure-tested element to it.

N0n is a newly-emerged cyber extortion gang. The group was first spotted in the middle of September 2026, and within days it had published on its dark web leak site details of what it claimed to be around a dozen victims. Since then, the tally has continued to grow. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

The FBI has a very simple message for the ShinyHunters gang: give yourselves up.

The FBI describes the man arrested in Amsterdam as "one of the alleged leaders of ShinyHunters", although Dutch police say only that he played a role.

The warning to remaining members of ShinyHunters follows particularly embarrassing episode for the FBI, which recently confirmed it had had its job application portal compromised by the gang.

According to ShinyHunters, it gained access to the FBI's data by exploiting a recently-patched flaw (CVE-2026-35273) in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools.

The truth is that the arrest came a week or so before the compromise of the FBI became headline news.

An alleged key figure in the ShinyHunters cybercrime group has been arrested in the Netherlands, and - in a grotesque turn - the 24-year-old suspect is also being investigated for attempting to arrange two murders.

Although the authorities are declining to name the individual, celebrated cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs has identified him as Pepijn van der Stap, a convicted hacker.

Van der Stap was released from prison in December last year, and has since been working as a penetration tester at Amsterdam-based Neo Security.

Notably, Van der Stap appears to claim on his personal website that he is a reformed character.

That hasn't stopped FBI Director Kash Patel from describing the arrested…

The unencrypted files contained Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, contact details, and other military personnel data including - in some cases - details of the jobs individuals held.

Breaches like this matter because the combination of Social Security numbers, names, and dates of birth make up the bread and butter of any self-respecting fraudster.

Personnel data, of course, has also been a target before.

The news of the Pentagon's latest data breach comes as the FBI warns its own employees about a separate breach of its FBIJobs.gov portal.

The ShinyHunters hacking group has claimed credit for the hack and threatened to publish staff details including... you guessed it... Social S…

A court in Zurich has sentenced a Ukrainian man to 12 years and nine months in prison, and banned him from Switzerland for ten years, for developing ransomware that blackmailed companies around the world.

The 52-year-old man, who according to local media reports had been living in the Basel-Landschaft region but has not been named, found by the court to be the lead developer of the LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim families of ransomware.

In all, prosecutors claimed that some 100 million Swiss Francs (US $123 million) worth of damage was caused by the ransomware attacks.

Ukrainian national Tymoshchuk allegedly released new strains of his ransomware whenever old ones had been decrypted.

In…

Smashing Security, episode 486, Vibe-Coded Shops and Hackable Flock Cameras, with Graham Cluley and special guest Dave Bittner.

I will say I did not go gaga for La La the way many other people did.

Anyway, if any of you are still listening, I love La La Land.

This La La Land lunatic has watched the movie with his pause button.

This was definitely not created — if you haven't seen La La Land, go watch La La Land for goodness' sake.

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Эти процессы могут тянуться неделями, а тем временем в инфраструктуру легко может попасть злоумышленник.

Где теряется времяПервое промедление может произойти сразу после появления информации об уязвимости в базах данных.

Рецепт управления уязвимостямиЧтобы у злоумышленников было как можно меньше поводов заглянуть к вам в инфраструктуру, важно убедиться, что в организации четко выстроены четыре основных процесса.

ПриоритизацияПри анализе уязвимости не стоит ориентироваться только на оценку из публичного каталога, например NVD, — она может существенно расходиться с реальным ущербом от эксплуатации бреши.

Например, один и тот же дефект в сервере, который находится в изолированном сегменте, и в…

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The data bears this out: in Splunk’s State of Security 2025 report, 78% of respondents said their security tools are dispersed and disconnected.

Closing that gap takes integrated identity, network, and endpoint context, plus the ability to act on it automatically.

That’s the idea behind combining SentinelOne’s runtime protection with Cisco Security and Splunk.

SentinelOne Runtime Protection and CWP in ActionSentinelOne Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) delivers autonomous, real-time threat detection and response across containers, Kubernetes, virtual machines, and serverless workloads.

Cisco Security extends that protection across identity, network, and perimeter, and Splunk gives your SOC on…

Upstream capacity: the projects you depend on can deliver new capabilities and critical fixes fast.

Upstream capacity is the one almost nobody puts on a roadmap because it sits outside your organization.

In most organizations, upstream capacity has none of those.

What This Looks Like in PracticeFor Cisco, part of the answer was becoming a Premier Sponsor of the OpenSSL Foundation in August 2025.

Tomáš Mráz, CTO of the OpenSSL Foundation, describes the impact:“Cisco’s support for the OpenSSL Foundation allowed us to fund an additional senior software engineer to improve the OpenSSL Library code.

CSDL continues, and does moreThe Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle (CSDL) is built on more than 400 software security requirements that validate products before they are released, with engagements at key stages of development.

Cisco open-sourced it and donated it to the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI).

Our secure software guidance skill is in development, carrying Cisco-specific security requirements into the development workflow.

Project CodeGuard and the secure software guidance skill also act as evaluators in the development pipeline, backing hard gates.

To date we have not found a novel issue that was not already covered by an existing software security requirement.

The Splunk .conf network brought a new detection that we hadn’t seen before: Flawed AMMYY.

There is also a Remote Access Tool (RAT) called Flawed AMMYY that was developed from leaked AMMYY source code, and is directly used as malware.

One of the key value propositions of EVE is that it can use granular session fingerprinting to differentiate between similar but distinct applications like AMMYY and Flawed AMMYY.

Let’s dig into the events we saw for Flawed AMMYY and some of the details that EVE had to look at.

Our EVE detections for Flawed AMMYY came in pairs with identical timestamps, as seen above, all from a single IP.

The event Network Operations Center (NOC) managed the venue network, providing our SOC firewalls with dedicated SPAN feeds directly from their core switches.

Inside Cisco Cloud Control, that story comes together in Unified Events.

While Splunk drives active investigations in the SOC, administrators maintain firewall health directly within Cloud Control.

The Horizon: Cisco Cloud Control & AI CanvasSecurity is now natively built into Cisco Cloud Control, the unified operations platform that brings Networking, Security, Observability, and Cloud into one consistent environment.

Without replacing individual product controllers, Cisco Cloud Control unifies inventory, topology, actions, identity, …

However, assessing whether a zero-day vulnerability was exploited in the past essentially involves going back in time.

Relying on standard logs or “Conditional / Selective PCAP” systems during a zero-day investigation leaves the Security Operations Center (SOC) team blind.

There is also a secondary benefit: if a breach occurred using an newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability, the attacker is likely to have been very sophisticated.

Replay The Relevant Historical Traffic Against The New Intrusion RulesOn the Firewall Threat Defense (FTD), we configured a dedicated interface for the Endace traffic replays.

Rapid retrospective packet replay transforms zero-day triage by delivering direct forens…

The .conf26 Agentic SOC was not a simulated demo or a scripted lab.

Powered by the Cisco Cloud Control management platform, Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), Cisco Security telemetry, Cisco Talos Intelligence, and Endace continuous packet capture, our joint team of Cisco, Splunk, Endace, and Jamf engineers demonstrated what multi-agent threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) delivers at enterprise scale.

Watch it come to life in David Bombal’s Interview at the Agentic SOC.

“The Agentic SOC is not about replacing human defenders with autonomous black boxes.

AcknowledgementsOur thanks to the engineers who built the Agentic SOC and the Humans who provided decision making expertise.

Splunk .conf26 gave us the opportunity to operate a live Agentic Security Operations Center (SOC) in the middle of the Splunk community.

Splunk ES as the SOC data platformSplunk ES served as the primary analyst workspace and evidence system for the SOC.

Building the Triage Agent Dashboard in an AfternoonOnce the data was flowing and the agent was active, we built an operations dashboard in an afternoon.

The team preserved a path from telemetry to finding, from finding to agent analysis, and from agent analysis to an analyst decision.

Dashboard SnapshotThe following values are a snapshot from the displayed Triage Agent operations dashboard and should be read as event-environment observations…

The Cisco Secure Firewall 200 Series brings enterprise-grade protection and connectivity to distributed branches in a compact form factor.

The Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) uses AI and machine learning to analyze encrypted traffic, including TLS 1.3, without requiring full decryption.

The Secure Firewall 220 model delivers up to 1.5 Gbps of throughput with next-generation firewall capabilities enabled in a compact form factor for smaller branches.

The Secure Firewall 200 Series helps meet these demands with intelligent threat protection, encrypted traffic visibility, resilient connectivity, and centralized management.

Explore the Secure Firewall 200 Series to build a more resilient, man…

Architecting the Future: The Four Pillars of Agentic SecuritySecuring agentic AI requires a new strategic framework.

Pillar 2: Core ProtectionDelivered by: Cisco AI DefenseCisco AI Defense provides specialized protection for the AI models themselves and their operational environment.

AI Inventory & Validation: This solution catalogs all deployed AI models and continuously validates their integrity against supply chain risks.

Pillar 4: ObservabilityDelivered by: SplunkSplunk provides the unified intelligence platform required to monitor and respond to agentic AI at scale.

Splunk ingests logs, events, and telemetry from Duo, Secure Access, AI Defense, and other infrastructure points, creating…

Cisco was proud to return to Black Hat USA as the Official Security Cloud Provider and the longest-standing partner of the Black Hat Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations Center (SOC).

In 2026, we completed our 11th year helping protect the Black Hat network, working side by side with the Black Hat NOC leaders and official technology partners: Palo Alto Networks, Arista, Corelight, Jamf and Lumen.

For Black Hat USA 2026, the Cisco and Splunk team brought together telemetry and workflows across Cisco Security, Splunk Security, and partner-provided network and security controls.

The same signal may need to be understood by Cisco, Splunk, Black Hat leadership, and partner tea…

I did not walk into Black Hat with years of incident-response experience or an encyclopedic knowledge of threat actors.

The first time I walked into the Black Hat NOC, where the SOC team was operating, was a few days before the event began.

I was surrounded by people with years—sometimes decades—of experience, many of whom had supported Black Hat for years.

Check out the other blogs from our team at Black Hat USA 2026.

Driven by the needs of the community, Black Hat events showcase content directly from the community through Briefings presentations, Trainings courses, Summits, and more.

To handle this task, Cisco and Black Hat deployed bespoke ThousandEyes agents to monitor the wireless solution.

Our thanks to the Arista Networks team in the Black Hat NOC for their partnership throughout the week.

You can read the other blogs from our colleagues at Black Hat USA.

Driven by the needs of the community, Black Hat events showcase content directly from the community through Briefings presentations, Trainings courses, Summits, and more.

For more information, please visit the Black Hat website.

With Matthew Bair2026 marks the fourth consecutive year we’ve used ThousandEyes to monitor the Black Hat USA network for latency.

As our latency monitoring mesh has expanded to cover more and more of the conference, we’ve also begun supplementing our ThousandEyes monitoring with on-demand Linux commands to track latency across different protocols.

The Key ThousandEyes TestsThe automated ThousandEyes tests that inform our dashboards include HTTPS connectivity tests, the monitoring of cloud services, agent to agent tests, internal and external DNS resolution, and even file downloads.

On-Demand Latency Tests from the Agent MeshPing and traceroute are the go-tos for anyone who wants to do a qui…

Compromised package distributionThe compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 release delivered malicious Python startup files to environments where the package was installed.

Onboard supported developer workstations, build agents, and AI gateway servers to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and enable Microsoft Defender Antivirus real-time and cloud-delivered protection where supported.

Microsoft Defender XDR detectionsAs of October 22, 2026, the following Microsoft Defender Antivirus signatures and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts were available for activity associated with the compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 release.

Microsoft Defender XDR Threat analyticsInside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compro…

Microsoft Defender XDR provides detections and hunting queries for suspicious Microsoft Graph activity and activity associated with known threat infrastructure.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified threat actors across multiple geographic regions leveraging the ARTEX framework.

Preserve available Microsoft Entra sign-in and audit records, Microsoft Purview Audit records, SIEM data, and previously configured Microsoft Graph telemetry.

Suspicious sign-in from verified nation-state threat actor infrastructure Steal Application Access TokenA sign-in was observed from a known threat actor IP address.

We recommend promptly investigating this alert, as a threat actor might already be using…

Guardian Agents help security teams operate continuously, at machine speed and scale, while sensors, context, and actuators across the cyber stack help understand changing agent risk and continuously adapt protection in response.

Dynamic Agent RiskDynamic Agent Risk combines signals from identity, data, endpoints, cloud, network, runtime, and the agent’s own activity.

Guardian Agents carry out the work at machine speed, adapting as agent activity, risk, security context, and organizational policy change.

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.

As enterprises choose which models to deploy, the relevant question is broader than whether a model is open-weight or closed-weight.

Today, Microsoft and NVIDIA are publishing Risk Management for Open-Weight Models in Enterprise, the first in a planned series of joint resources intended to help enterprises address those questions.

Model access and deployment are separate choices: open-weight models can also be used through managed platforms.

Building on this workRisk Management for Open-Weight Models in Enterprise focuses primarily on the model layer.

Read the joint Microsoft-NVIDIA paper, Risk Management for Open-Weight Models in Enterprise.

Microsoft’s research into one phishing kit unraveled a larger ecosystem, including the phishing kit developers, an infrastructure dealer, and the threat actors who buy from both.

Downstream activity from Storm-2990 phishing kitsMicrosoft observed downstream activity by threat actors using infrastructure affiliated with the Storm-2990 phishing kits.

Most of the activity that stems from this phishing kit ecosystem consists of social engineering, phishing operations, and account and storage takeovers.

ReferencesLearn moreFor the latest security research from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence community, check out the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Blog.

To hear stories and insights from the Micr…

Early testing can surface compatibility and process gaps before post-quantum authentication is required at scale.

As the industry moves toward post-quantum authentication, security teams will need greater visibility into those dependencies.

Why organizations should begin preparing nowThe transition to post-quantum authentication is unlikely to be a single technology upgrade.

Testing the future certificate ecosystemTo help the ecosystem gain practical experience with post-quantum authentication, Microsoft launched the PQC TLS Pilot Program on August 27, 2026.

What organizations can do todayOrganizations do not need to wait for broad industry adoption to begin preparing for post-quantum authe…

The mission of Microsoft Security’s Frontier Offensive Research & Generative Exploitation (FORGE) Lab is to advance the frontier of autonomous security engineering.

We’re building a team that enables AI-native vulnerability research at Microsoft, pushing the boundaries of finding and fixing zero-day vulnerabilities.

Three lessons follow, each marking a shift in how we approach vulnerability research:From frontier capability to scale.

Here, we focus on what those experiences teach us about operating vulnerability research at scale—across Windows and open-source projects.

FORGE has submitted nine Linux findings with internally assessed common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) scores above 7…

How do frontier AI models change vulnerability management for CISOs?

We use a ‘harness’ layer around AI models in vulnerability scanning for better results.

They should do so without delay, rather than wait for access to frontier AI models.

Extensive guidance can be found in a new Microsoft Security Exposure Management page with capabilities customers can use to act.

Final notesThe advent of frontier AI models to discover and exploit vulnerabilities creates both risks and opportunities.

How do frontier AI models change vulnerability management for CISOs?

We use a ‘harness’ layer around AI models in vulnerability scanning for better results.

They should do so without delay, rather than wait for access to frontier AI models.

Extensive guidance can be found in a new Microsoft Security Exposure Management page with capabilities customers can use to act.

Final notesThe advent of frontier AI models to discover and exploit vulnerabilities creates both risks and opportunities.

Trusted channels can enable this exchange among government agencies, law enforcement, critical infrastructure operators, technology providers, and international partners while respecting legal and privacy requirements.

As cyber incidents cross organizational and national boundaries, resilience depends not only on technical preparedness, but on whether institutions can coordinate effectively under pressure.

In an era of AI-enabled and increasingly interconnected cyber threats, resilience is no longer simply about recovering from an attack.

It is about preparing for a world in which cyber incidents move faster, spread further, and affect more organizations than ever before.

Governments best p…

Trusted channels can enable this exchange among government agencies, law enforcement, critical infrastructure operators, technology providers, and international partners while respecting legal and privacy requirements.

As cyber incidents cross organizational and national boundaries, resilience depends not only on technical preparedness, but on whether institutions can coordinate effectively under pressure.

In an era of AI-enabled and increasingly interconnected cyber threats, resilience is no longer simply about recovering from an attack.

It is about preparing for a world in which cyber incidents move faster, spread further, and affect more organizations than ever before.

Governments best p…

Every year, the Microsoft Digital Defense Report gives us an opportunity to step back from individual threats and look broadly at what Microsoft’s security and threat intelligence teams are seeing.

These developments can change the speed and scale of security activity even as the underlying security fundamentals remain familiar.

People, identities, exposed systems, and trusted access continue to feature prominently in the threat activity Microsoft observes.

The 2026 Microsoft Digital Defense Report looks across the threat landscape, cybercrime, resilience, and the relationships among technologies, identities, systems, and people.

Read the 2026 Digital Defense Report for the full findings, d…

Every year, the Microsoft Digital Defense Report gives us an opportunity to step back from individual threats and look broadly at what Microsoft’s security and threat intelligence teams are seeing.

These developments can change the speed and scale of security activity even as the underlying security fundamentals remain familiar.

People, identities, exposed systems, and trusted access continue to feature prominently in the threat activity Microsoft observes.

The 2026 Microsoft Digital Defense Report looks across the threat landscape, cybercrime, resilience, and the relationships among technologies, identities, systems, and people.

Read the 2026 Digital Defense Report for the full findings, d…

Join fellow customers and Microsoft Security leaders for a night designed to make meaningful connections.

Partners and the Microsoft Intelligent Security AssociationMicrosoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) members have a full week ahead at Microsoft Ignite.

Sessions to watch forWhen AI acts, security has to answer: Microsoft Security for AI , the platform view of securing agentic AI.

Strengthen and Manage Data Security Posture with Microsoft Purview , on data security posture management in practice.

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

The operators first validated command execution using lightweight out-of-band probes to unique subdomains hosted on public interaction and collaborator services, including oast[.

When a service-state change triggers health monitoring, swatchdog incorporates the attacker-controlled value into a snmptrap shell invocation, enabling command execution.

Exploitation of the Zimbra vulnerability provided attackers with direct command execution as the zimbra service account.

Attackers also used the initial command execution to download and execute content directly through wget or curl, launch background processes, and establish interactive reverse shells.

Command and controlThe actor used HTTP and H…

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,…