Сторонники «аргумента Судного дня» оценили вероятный срок существования человечества в 295–2659 лет.

Машина, способная решить главную загадку простых чисел, будет уже не помощником, а интеллектом другого класса.

Отказавшие аппараты впервые могут получить второй шанс без возвращения на Землю.

Главный рубеж обороны внезапно превратился в идеальный инструмент кражи данных.

Телескоп AtLAST размером с олимпийский стадион и весом 4400 тонн.

Никакого кода, никакого фишинга — просто ссылка и терпение.

Иранцы платят за VPN в 12 раз больше стоимости государственного доступа.

Как американский закон Take It Down Act меняет правила игры для соцсетей и причём тут дети.

Microsoft сделала ИИ, у которого в должностной инструкции написан троллинг.

Запуск платы за международный трафик могут отложить до выборов в Госдуму 18–20 сентября.

Как действовать правильно, что передавать в РКН и какие меры реально снижают риски — практический разбор без формальностей.

Поэтому каждая компания должна определить собственные «красные», «оранжевые» и «жёлтые» зоны рисков и выстраивать защиту исходя из реальных угроз, а не шаблонов.

Поэтому регламенты и порядок действий должны быть зафиксированы документально: кто, когда и что делает, где хранятся логи, кто контролирует сбор данных.

Кто и в какие сроки передаёт данные в РКНЕсли инцидент касается защиты персональных данных, компания обязана сообщить об этом в Роскомнадзор.

В процессе специалисты выясняют, как именно произошёл инцидент, кто имел доступ к пострадавшему участку системы и каки…

Константин Анисимов: «Переход в гибридное облако даёт 3 основных преимущества.

Внедрение гибридного облака делает взаимодействие прозрачным как для ИТ, так и для бизнеса».

Нередко компании осуществляют переезд в облако не полностью — в старой среде остаётся 1 или несколько систем.

Азарий-Василий Арутюнов считает, что главное — понимать задачу, то есть осознавать, для чего заказчик переходит в гибридное облако.

Финальный опрос показал, планируют ли зрители развивать у себя гибридное облако после эфира:Будут развивать своё гибридное облако — 38 %.

Они позволяют получать информацию для оценки текущего состояния системы защиты, формировать поведенческий и функциональный профиль пользователей и элементов инфраструктуры, а также детектировать признаки скрытых угроз ИБ.

Он используется как базовый механизм подключения и обработки телеметрии и в большинстве случаев покрывает порядка 80 % типовых источников, встречающихся в проектах.

Таким образом обеспечивается работа не только с классическими источниками и файловыми данными, но и с нетиповыми системами.

Поведенческая аналитика (xBA) — выявление отклонений и аномалий в действиях пользователей и объектов.

Её возможности позволяют понять, что происходит внутри инфраструктуры, кто и что предс…

Реальность такова, что в 90 % случаев причиной успешных пентестов становится скомпрометированная учётная запись.

Важно проверять состояние устройства не только в момент авторизации и аутентификации, но и на протяжении всей сессии.

В третьем опросе зрители поделились, что в защите удалённого доступа на практике вызывает наибольшие сложности (мультивыбор):Сопротивление сотрудников требованиям ИБ — 74 %.

Что в защите удалённого доступа на практике вызывает наибольшие сложности?

ВыводыОбсуждение защиты удалённого доступа в 2026 году показало, что традиционный VPN перестал быть универсальным решением.

В первом случае приложение самостоятельно обращается к системе управления секретами и запрашивает данные в момент выполнения.

Результаты опроса эфира AM Live по использованию систем управления секретамиМировой рынок систем управления жизненным циклом секретовСистемы управления жизненным циклом секретов рассматриваются как часть рынка управления ключами и секретными данными.

Российский рынок систем управления жизненным циклом секретовРынок систем управления секретами в России претерпел существенные изменения после того, как использование версий Vault после 1.14.8 в продуктах с коммерческой выгодой стало невозможным.

StarVaultСистема предназначена для централизованного безопасного управления …

Продолжаем сравнивать российские сервисы защиты от DDoS-атак по их технологическому профилю, гарантиям провайдеров (SLA), условиям технической поддержки, возможностям кастомизации и пр.

ВведениеВ первой части сравнения услуг по защите от DDoS-атак мы рассказали о том, какими функциями, возможностями и особенностями обладают сервисы от российских ИТ-компаний и ИБ-вендоров CURATOR, DDoS-Guard, Kaspersky, NGENIX и StormWall.

Сопоставительная таблица содержит сведения по тем же критериям сравнения, которые использовались при детальном описании услуг CURATOR.ANTIDDOS, DDoS-Guard, Kaspersky DDoS Protection, «NGENIX Защита от DDoS-атак» и «StormWall Защита от DDoS-атак».

В рамках L7-защиты (Web DD…

Место DAST в DevSecOpsМетодика DAST строится на симуляции атак на работающее приложение, позволяющей объективно оценить его устойчивость к реальным рискам.

SAST и SCA эффективны на этапе написания кода, DAST — на этапе тестирования работающего приложения, IAST — для глубокого анализа с контекстом.

Обзор отечественных DAST-решенийНа российском рынке представлено несколько типов DAST-решений, предназначенных для динамического анализа безопасности приложений.

Схема DAST-анализа в Solar appScreenerОсобенности решения:Единая технологическая платформа для комплексного анализа безопасности приложений при помощи модулей SAST, DAST и OSA.

Важно чётко представлять, под какие задачи выбирать тот или и…

Ручное управление добавляет нагрузку на сотрудников: один специалист тратит в среднем 25 минут в день на операции с секретами, что повышает вероятность ошибок и человеческого фактора.

В итоге подобные просчёты в работе с секретами приводят к их компрометации и последующим потерям.

О факте утечки впервые сообщила компания GitGuardian, которая отслеживает GitHub на наличие секретных токенов, учётных данных для баз данных и сертификатов.

В течение этого периода секрет используется для подтверждения личности пользователя и предоставления доступа к ресурсам в рамках заданных прав.

В рамках атаки посредника (AitM) злоумышленник может не только просматривать передаваемые данные, но и модифицироват…

Система опирается только на внешние сигналы, и SOC реагирует уже на поздних стадиях.

Атаки MFA‑fatigue и отсутствие связи между сигналамиВ атаках MFA-fatigue злоумышленники давят на пользователя, а не на защиту.

Как только защита развёрнута только на серверах или только на ноутбуках, появляются зоны, через которые злоумышленники спокойно проникают в сеть и развивают атаку.

SOC тратит время на шум, пропускает критичные события, а EDR/XDR превращаются в панель мониторинга, а не в инструмент обнаружения атак.

Чем выше доля автоматизации, тем меньше нагрузка на SOC и тем быстрее блокируются типовые сценарии.

Исходный код сначала преобразуется во внутреннее представление, после чего применяются алгоритмы анализа и правила поиска уязвимостей.

Деобфускация направлена на устранение механизмов запутывания кода, которые применяются для усложнения анализа и сокрытия реальной функциональности программы.

Российский рынок SASTВ 2025 году проведён цикл испытаний статических анализаторов исходного кода при организационной и методической поддержке ФСТЭК России.

Испытания позволили проверить соответствие инструментов требованиям стандарта ГОСТ Р 71207–2024, а также выявить особенности практического применения средств статического анализа исходного кода.

АИСТ-САИСТ-С — анализатор исходных текстов C и C++-прог…

Системы SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation and Response) позволяют собирать данные о событиях ИБ из различных источников и обрабатывать их.

Именно к таким средствам относят системы класса «оркестрация, автоматизация и реагирование на инциденты информационной безопасности» (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response, SOAR).

Решения класса SOARФункции решений SOAR и IRP во многом пересекаются, поэтому ранее их часто относили к единой линейке — SOAR/IRP.

ASoarASoar — это отечественная платформа класса «оркестрация, автоматизация и реагирование на инциденты информационной безопасности» (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response, SOAR), которая выступает в роли координатора си…

Критерии выбора сервиса (услуги) по защите от DDoSНа рынке услуг защиты от DDoS-атак сейчас нет недостатка ни в предложениях, ни в технологиях.

Методология сравнения услуг по защите от DDoS-атакВ сравнении участвуют российские поставщики услуг по защите веб-приложений, сайтов и сетей от DDoS-атак, имеющие программное обеспечение собственной разработки в реестре Минцифры России.

Характеризует внутреннее устройство услуги: географию точек присутствия, оборудование и ПО в ЦОДах, режимы защиты и т. д.Блок № 4 — «Разновидности защиты».

Результаты анализа применяются для классификации трафика и принятия решений о его блокировке либо дополнительной валидации Технологии машинного обучения и искусст…

Приход эры Agentic AI породил мнение, что ИИ способен потеснить или даже заменить человека.

Например, можно ли использовать единую концепцию ИИ для построения всех ИИ-систем, если уже сейчас выявлено несколько различных типов таких систем?

(International AI Safety Report, 2026)Признаки отличий человека и ИИМы вплотную подошли к главному вопросу: в чём разница между человеком и ИИ?

Доверие человека к ИИ не формируется само по себе.

Приведённый список отличий человека и ИИ ясно показывает, что между ними сохраняется множество принципиальных различий.

🌟Обращает внимание на следующие переменные окружения по маске: PROXY , TENCENT , REGION , ZONE .

]local, позволяющее детальнее идентифицировать жертву;TENCENT* — вероятно признак инфраструктуры Tencent Cloud;REGION и ZONE — переменные окружения, в которой может храниться местоположение облака, например eu-west-1.

Этот отчет обрамляется текстом --- NETWORK PIVOT AUDIT --- и --- AUDIT SELESAI --- («Отчет окончен» по-индонезийски ) и отправляется автору пакета.

скриншот ниже):Попытка украсть значение одной из переменных окружения в следующем порядке: NPM_TOKEN , NODE_AUTH_TOKEN , GITHUB_TOKEN , NPM_AUTH_TOKEN .

Пройдет время, и нам, человекам, останется только с попкорном смотреть за этим прот…

Почему RoT нельзя оценивать без требованийПосле обзора реализаций возникает следующий вопрос: как выбирать подходящий Root-of-Trust и сравнивать разные варианты между собой?

Как KasperskyOS работает с разными Root-of-TrustТеперь можно перейти от общих требований и методологии к практической задаче: как операционной системе работать с разными реализациями Root-of-Trust и при этом не зависеть от конкретного чипа, модуля или аппаратной платформы.

Это не дистрибутив Linux, не версия Android и не надстройка над существующей ОС, а полностью собственная разработка.

Как масштабировать работу с разными RoTТеперь остается практический вопрос: как сделать так, чтобы одна и та же модель работала на раз…

Наша компания получила задачу от одного из наших заказчиков: разработать систему, которая автоматизирует проверку за 2 минуты, полностью соответствует 152-ФЗ и не передаёт данные проверяемых третьим лицам.

В этой статье расскажу, как мы спроектировали архитектуру, настроили интеграции с реестрами и решили вопрос локализации персональных данных.

🧱 Архитектура: почему локально и как работают API-запросыКлючевое архитектурное решение было принято на этапе проектирования: персональные данные не должны покидать инфраструктуру заказчика.

Вместо классической SaaS-модели, где данные загружаются в облако провайдера, мы реализовали клиентскую схему:Оператор HR/СБ вносит данные кандидата или загружает…

В Главе 3 данного свода знаний описываются основные регуляторные нормы и принципы международного права, которые имеют отношение к кибербезопасности и могут применяться при оценке киберрисков, управлении ИБ, расследовании киберинцидентов.

Руслан Рахметов, Security VisionПредыдущие главы и части:Глава 1Глава 2 часть 1, часть 2Глава 3 часть 1, часть 2, часть 3, часть 4, часть 5, часть 6, часть 73.10.

Отраслевые требования и Директива NISПомимо государственных органов, различные отраслевые регуляторы также разрабатывают свои требования к кибербезопасности - например, в финансовом секторе, юридической практике, здравоохранении могут применяться нормы об отчетности и оповещении по инцидентам неса…

Сегодня хочу поговорить о пользе NetFlow и сетевой телеметрии для защиты сетей от хакерских атак.Тема эта не новая, но вокруг неё до сих пор существует множество противоречий.

Как детектировать атаки в сетевой телеметрии без payloadОтвет — несигнатурными методами через построение профилей нормального сетевого трафика и выявление аномальных отклонений.

Дело не только в эффективности алгоритмов, но и в физической невозможности использовать старые методы в современных инфраструктурах.

Для работы на сетевой телеметрии признаки ML-модели должны поддерживаться в сетевой телеметрии.

Брутфорс, pass-the-spray-атаки Нехарактерный для хоста или пары «отправитель–получатель» всплеск сессий протокола ил…

Еще античные авторы описывают разнообразные примеры такой защиты информации, причем стегоконтейнеры тогда умудрялись клепать едва ли не из воздуха.

Стеганография испокон веков применяется и в целях конспирации, и просто для хранения и передачи информации, и для забавы (вспомним хотя бы различные «пасхалки» в фильмах, книгах и компьютерных играх).

В идеале спрятанную информацию не должны обнаружить, даже если сам контейнер вдруг попадет не в те руки.

Дескать, если персы не улетят птицами в небо, не зароются мышами в землю или не уйдут лягушками в воду, то погибнут от скифских стрел.

В Средние века и особенно эпоху Ренессанса тайнопись активно проникает и в другие сферы человеческой деятельно…

При этом служба изначально проектировалась с учётом обратной совместимости с экосистемой Microsoft: если сервис умел работать с Active Directory (AD), он, как правило, сможет работать и с MD.

Также по заявлению Microsoft External Trust не предназначен для работы с Kerberos, так как разрабатывался для поддержки NTLM.

Как оказалось, основная сложность это не Kerberos как таковой.

С учётом этого мы изначально строили реализацию доверия с опорой на Kerberos как основной и единственный механизм аутентификации.

Что в итогеК началу 2026 года нам удалось полностью реализовать двустороннее доверие типа «лес–лес» с Active Directory.

Текст жестко и по делу объяснял ситуацию: файлы зашифрованы криптографически стойким алгоритмом, доступ к ним полностью потерян.

К 2017 году протокол был безнадежно устаревшим, избыточно «болтливым» и не соответствовал актуальным стандартам безопасности, но продолжал поддерживаться в ОС для обратной совместимости.

Их подход строился на анализе работы криптографических механизмов самого червя и, по иронии судьбы, на еще одной архитектурной особенности старых версий Windows.

Осознавая, что в федеральных судах США процент обвинительных приговоров превышает 95%, весной 2019 года Хатчинс пошел на сделку со следствием.

WannaCry войдет в историю не только как самая разрушительная кибератака, но и …

А в конце настрою нативную интеграцию Deckhouse Code и Deckhouse Stronghold, которая решает проблемы хранения секретов в пайплайнах «из коробки».

Переменная CI_JOB_JWT в GitLab помечена как deprecated, и в один момент при обновлении до мажорной версии она просто перестала работать.

При этом Deckhouse Stronghold полностью API-совместим с HashiCorp Vault — и через CLI, и через API.

Что даёт связка Deckhouse Code и Deckhouse StrongholdПомимо самой интеграции, у этой связки есть несколько приятных свойств, которые стоит упомянуть.

Кроме того Deckhouse Code и Deckhouse Stronghold входят в реестр российского ПО, а Stronghold недавно ещё и получил сертификат ФСТЭК России.

На практике компания сама признала: модель уже нашла тысячи high-severity уязвимостей в каждой крупной операционной системе и в каждом крупном браузере.

То есть на инфраструктуру одной компании уходит больше, чем весь экономический выпуск средней европейской страны за год.

Это не оговорка.

Компании больше не планируют численность на годы вперёд, потому что не понимают, сколько людей вообще нужно при текущем темпе развития инструментов.

В 2026-м, в свои 19, я наблюдаю как формируется новый технологический миропорядок — и наблюдаю в реальном времени, без задержки в учебниках.

Мы получаем именно L3-доступ: маршрутизация работает на уровне IP, а не на уровне конкретного приложения.

Именно это делает подход похожим не на «SSH-костыль», а на нормальный корпоративный сетевой доступ.

Это удобно для корпоративного сценария, когда туннель нужен не как замена обычному интернету, а как защищённый доступ к конкретной инфраструктуре.

Почему пришлось повозитьсяСамая интересная проблема была не в маршрутах и не в NAT.

Поднимаем свой инстансПосле того как Linux и Windows клиенты заработали, проект можно попробовать уже не как лабораторный эксперимент, а как самостоятельный инстанс.

Подробнее о поддержке реального времени и MCS в seL4 в Главе 5.seL4 — самое быстрое микроядро в миреseL4 — самое быстрое микроядро в мире.

Для более глубокого объяснения того, что такое IPC в seL4 и чем он не является, рекомендую прочитать мой блог “Как использовать IPC в seL4 (и как не надо)”.

Формальная верификация seL4 в противном случае была бы невозможна, но этот дизайн также способствует отличной производительности в среднем.

Fiasco.OC более чем в два раза медленнее seL4 (почти в три раза выше аппаратного предела), а Zircon почти в девять раз медленнее seL4.

[2016] сравнивают производительность CertiKOS с seL4, измеряя 3820 циклов для сквозной операции IPC в CertiKOS по сравнению с 18…

В традиционном понимании бизнеса критически важным сегментом ИТ-инфраструктуры считаются системы, напрямую обеспечивающие непрерывность бизнес-процессов и финансовую результативность компании.

Тем не менее, даже имея на столе «волшебную кнопку» в виде передовых защитных решений, без безопасного проектирования и конфигурирования ИТ-инфраструктуры не обойтись.

Принципиальные аспекты, которые должны быть достигнуты выполнением этих рекомендаций:Вывод критически значимых систем в отдельный сегмент сети (см.

Отсутствие в операционной инфраструктуре аутентификационных данных от систем критически важного сегмента.

Рекомендации по безопасной конфигурации систем критически важного сегмента ИТ-инфрас…

Во-вторых, для отслеживания всех манипуляций с персональными данными мы задействовали встроенные в Django механизмы журналирования.

Для этого мы встроили в CRM редактор шаблонов, чтобы верстать макеты можно было прямо в системе, без прыжков по сторонним сервисам.

Да мы и не могли их использовать из соображений безопасности.

Чтобы наши сообщения летели во «Входящие», а не в спам, мы «прогревали» почтовые серверы.

Его результаты мы вывели через отдельный модуль в административную панель CRM, чтобы доступ к базе данных с актуальными статусами был максимально оперативным.

Во-вторых, для отслеживания всех манипуляций с персональными данными мы задействовали встроенные в Django механизмы журналирования.

Для этого мы встроили в CRM редактор шаблонов, чтобы верстать макеты можно было прямо в системе, без прыжков по сторонним сервисам.

Да мы и не могли их использовать из соображений безопасности.

Чтобы наши сообщения летели во «Входящие», а не в спам, мы «прогревали» почтовые серверы.

Его результаты мы вывели через отдельный модуль в административную панель CRM, чтобы доступ к базе данных с актуальными статусами был максимально оперативным.

Разработчики Microsoft представили временные защитные меры для проблемы YellowKey — 0-day-уязвимости для обхода BitLocker, которая позволяет получить доступ к зашифрованным данным на Windows-устройствах при наличии доступа к системе.

По словам специалиста, для эксплуатации бага достаточно записать специально подготовленные файлы FsTx на USB-накопитель или в EFI-раздел, после чего нужно перезагрузить систему в Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE).

Теперь представители Microsoft подтвердили наличие проблемы и предупредили, что успешная атака позволяет обойти механизм шифрования BitLocker Device Encryption и получить доступ к защищенным данным.

Также в Microsoft советуют отказаться от конфигур…

В Discord заработало сквозное шифрование (end-to-end encryption, E2EE) по умолчанию для голосовых и видеозвонков.

Теперь E2EE будет использоваться во всех личных и групповых звонках, голосовых каналах и трансляциях Go Live, и пользователям не понадобится включать защиту вручную.

Как сообщают в компании, развертывание новой функциональности завершилось еще в марте 2026 года, однако объявить об этом в Discord решили только сейчас, после масштабного тестирования.

Теперь DAVE работает на всех платформах, где доступен Discord: Windows, macOS, Linux, мобильных устройствах, в браузерах, а также на PlayStation, Xbox и в виде SDK.

При этом распространять сквозное шифрование на текстовые сообщения в …

В этой статье я покажу, как соб­рать домаш­ний монито­ринг сети на Observium: с авто­обна­руже­нием устрой­ств, гра­фика­ми наг­рузки, алер­тами и базовой кар­той под­клю­чений.

Запус­тим Observium в Docker на ARM64, нас­тро­им SNMP в раз­ных ОС и научим­ся не нас­тупать на типич­ные граб­ли.

По интерфей­су и прин­ципам работы LibreNMS и Observium очень похожи, но LibreNMS час­то хва­лят за более сов­ремен­ный и дру­желюб­ный под­ход.

Мне он показал­ся непонят­ным и в нас­трой­ке, и в работе.

Prometheus + GrafanaPrometheus и Grafana — это уже «молодая кровь» и стан­дарт де‑фак­то для монито­рин­га в мире Kubernetes и мик­росер­висов.

ИБ-специалисты Symantec и Carbon Black опубликовали анализ вредоноса fast16 и подтвердили главную гипотезу исследователей SentinelOne: малварь создавали для саботажа ядерных исследований.

Напомним, что впервые о fast16 стало известно в апреле 2026 года.

Судя по всему, авторы вредоноса отслеживали обновления инженерного ПО и регулярно адаптировали малварь под новые версии.

Технический директор Symantec Викрам Такур (Vikram Thakur) заявил СМИ, что уровень инженерной подготовки авторов fast16 для 2005 года выглядит «ошеломляющим».

В частности, разработчики вредоноса разбирались не только в программировании, но и в физике, моделировании взрывов и особенностях работы инженерного ПО.

Специалисты Valve удалили из Steam бесплатный хоррор Beyond The Dark, после того как пользователи сообщили о вредоносном коде в файлах игры.

Страница игры в Steam выглядела вполне легитимно, однако анализ показал, что ее основное предназначение, вероятно, заключалось вовсе не в развлечении пользователей.

Игра появилась в Steam еще в декабре 2024 года и тогда выглядела совершенно иначе: у нее было другое описание, изображения и иной геймплей.

Напомним, что это не первый случай, когда в Steam проникает малварь.

Представители Valve пока не комментировали этот инцидент, однако в настоящее время Beyond The Dark уже удалили из Steam.

Представители GitHub предупредили, что компания пострадала от атаки на цепочку поставок и компрометация затронула примерно 3800 внутренних репозиториев.

Сообщается, что атака произошла после того, как один из сотрудников GitHub установил вредоносное расширение для Visual Studio Code.

Согласно официальному заявлению GitHub, зараженное расширение уже удалено из маркетплейса VS Code, а скомпрометированное устройство разработчика изолировано.

На форуме Breached хакеры заявили, что похитили исходный код GitHub и около 4000 приватных репозиториев.

В GitHub отметили, что заявления злоумышленников о компрометации примерно 3800 репозиториев «в целом соответствуют» результатам внутреннего расследован…

Исследователи сообщили о новой волне атак малвари Shai-Hulud на экосистему npm.

Основной удар пришелся по экосистеме @antv — набору библиотек для построения графиков, визуализации графов, flowchart-диаграмм и работы с данными.

Как и в прошлых кампаниях с использованием Shai-Hulud, вредонос внедрялся прямо в легитимные npm-пакеты и охотился за секретами разработчиков и CI/CD-инфраструктуры.

Такие репозитории легко опознать по строке «niaga og ew ereh :duluh-iahs» в README — это перевернутая фраза «Shai-Hulud: Here We Go Again».

Исследователи считают, что теперь атакующие думают не только о первоначальном заражении жертв, но и о «выживании» после очистки системы.

На завершившемся соревновании Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 ИБ-исследователи заработали 1 298 250 долларов США, продемонстрировав эксплуатацию 47 уникальных уязвимостей нулевого дня.

Только в первый день исследователи заработали 523 000 долларов США, продемонстрировав 24 уникальных 0-day, включая побег песочницы Microsoft Edge, реализованный через цепочку из четырех логических багов.

В результате победителем Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 стала команда DEVCORE Research Team, набравшая 50,5 балла Master of Pwn и заработавшая суммарно 505 000 долларов США.

Второе место заняла STARLabs SG с 242 500 долларов США и 25 баллами, а третье — Out Of Bounds, получившая 95 750 долларов США и 12,75 балла.

Напомним, что на п…

Для подписчиковСегодня мы разберемся с нестандартным протектором ElecKey и посмотрим, как защита приложения может быть скомпрометирована. Попутно выясним, почему стандартные инструменты дампинга не справляются с этой задачей, найдем обходной путь и напишем небольшой демонстрационный скрипт.

Исследователи опубликовали PoC-эксплоит для новой уязвимости повышения привилегий в ядре Linux.

Исследователи объясняют, что в функции rxgk_decrypt_skb() отсутствует защита copy-on-write (COW).

Уязвимость DirtyDecrypt затрагивает только системы с включенным параметром CONFIG_RXGK, который включает поддержку RxGK для клиента и сетевого транспорта файловой системы Andrew File System (AFS).

Следует отметить, что уязвимости уже начали применяться в реальных атаках.

Тем временем разработчики Rocky Linux и вовсе запустили отдельный репозиторий для ускоренной доставки экстренных исправлений в случаях, когда PoC-эксплоит уже доступен в сети, но официальные патчи для основных веткок ядра еще не гото…

После публикации исходников червя Shai-Hulud в открытом доступе в npm уже замечены первые клоны этой малвари.

Один из обнаруженных специалистами вредоносных пакетов оказался практически точной копией оригинального червя, а другой превращает зараженные машины разработчиков в DDoS-ботнет.

Спустя всего несколько дней после того, как хакеры из группы TeamPCP опубликовали исходники Shai-Hulud на GitHub, ИБ-специалисты зафиксировали первые атаки с использованием форков этой малвари.

Все четыре пакета содержали стилеры, однако axois-utils не только ворует данные, но и обладает функциональностью для превращения машин разработчиков в часть DDoS-ботнета.

То есть зараженные машины разработчиков могут …

Дело в том, что критические баги в Drupal находят регулярно, однако пометка «highly critical» не появлялась в бюллетенях безопасности проекта уже несколько лет.

Отметим, что о массовой эксплуатации новых уязвимостей Drupal в реальных атаках не сообщалось с 2019 года.

Для старых minor-версий тоже выпустят временные исправления: Drupal 11.0 и 11.1 нужно обновить минимум до 11.1.9; Drupal 10.0–10.4 — минимум до 10.4.9.

Их придется устанавливать вручную для Drupal 8.9 и 9.5.

Поэтому владельцам сайтов на Drupal 8 и 9 настоятельно рекомендуют срочно перейти хотя бы на Drupal 10.6.

После критики со стороны ИБ-исследователей разработчики Microsoft решили изменить поведение браузера Edge, которое компания изначально называла «особенностью работы приложения».

Теперь браузер не будет загружать все сохраненные пароли в память при запуске.

Позднее в Microsoft подтвердили эту позицию и сообщили журналистам издания BleepingComputer, что обнаруженное Реннингом поведение браузера является ожидаемым.

Руководитель направления безопасности Microsoft Edge Гарет Эванс (Gareth Evans) сообщил, что будущие версии браузера перестанут автоматически загружать сохраненные пароли в память при старте.

Исправление уже доступно в Edge Canary, и в ближайшем будущем оно распространится на все по…

Критическая уязвимость CVE-2026-42945 в NGINX, получившая название NGINX Rift, уже используется в реальных атаках.

Напомним, что проблема представляет собой переполнение буфера хипа в модуле ngx_http_rewrite_module и затрагивает как NGINX Open Source, так и NGINX Plus.

В результате специальный флаг не передается должным образом, и NGINX начинает записывать пользовательские данные за пределы выделенной области памяти.

В конфигурации по умолчанию эксплуатация проблемы обычно приводит лишь к сбою в работе worker-процесса и перезапуску сервера, то есть к DoS-атаке.

Напомним, что разработчики F5 уже выпустили исправления в версиях NGINX Open Source 1.31.0 и 1.30.1, а также в NGINX Plus R36 P4 и …

Из это­го гай­да ты узна­ешь, как пен­тесте­ры под­делыва­ют зап­росы для обхо­да аутен­тифика­ции, под­бира­ют пароли и находят дру­гие уяз­вимос­ти с помощью Burp.

Либо о том, что ты хочешь под­готовить­ся к сер­тифика­ции Burp Suite Certified Practitioner.

com/ juice-shop/ juice-shop.

Клю­чевое в Burp — перех­ват зап­росов/отве­тов и их модифи­кация.

До пер­вых зап­росов кноп­ку Open browser можешь най­ти и на вклад­ке Target, пос­ле чего она про­падет.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux malware dubbed Showboat that has been put to use in a campaign targeting a telecommunications provider in the Middle East since at least mid-2022.

"Showboat is a modular post-exploitation framework designed for Linux systems, capable of spawning a remote shell, transferring files, and functioning as a SOCKS5 proxy," Lumen Technologies Black Lotus Labs said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

"This would allow the attackers to interact with machines that are not exposed publicly to the internet and only accessible via the LAN," Black Lotus Labs said.

A secondary C2 cluster using similar X.509 certificates as the original C2…

A bad package slips in.

A login trick works.

The danger is in normal things now - updates, apps, cloud buttons, support chats, trusted accounts.

Nothing feels shocking for more than five minutes, because the next thing is already waiting.

A fake app here, a bad package there, a cloud trick in the middle.

"Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft Defender allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally," Microsoft said in an advisory.

- Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a use-after-free vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2010-0249 - Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a use-after-free vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

- Microsoft Internet Explorer contains a use-after-free vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-4250 - Microsoft Windows contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Windows Server Service that all…

But the takeaway is clear: identity itself, and every permission it carries, has become the attack path.

The Attack Path Runs Through IdentityThe cached access key from that opening scenario is just one example of a much larger phenomenon.

Together, the links in this type of identity exposure chain form a single attack path - from an initial foothold to a critical asset.

Yet the identity tools most organizations still rely on were built to solve specific problems in isolation – and in a different threat era.

The path only becomes visible when identity, access policies, and environment context are mapped together.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years.

CVE-2026-46333 is the latest security vulnerability disclosed in the Linux kernel after Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia over the past month.

The development follows the release of a PoC for a local privilege escalation flaw called PinTheft that allows local attackers to gain root privileges on Arch Linux systems.

"PinTheft is a Linux local privilege escalation exploit for an RDS zerocopy double-free that can be turned into a page-cache overwrite through io_uring fixed buffers," Zellic and the V12 security team said.

"The bug lived in the RDS zerocopy send pat…

GitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned version of the Nx Console Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension.

The attack is said to have allowed the threat actor, a cybercriminal group known as TeamPCP, to exfiltrate about 3,800 repositories.

"We're also beginning conversations with other high-profile open source maintainers about how we can work together on some of the deeper structural problems around software supply chain security.

What's notable here is that the trojanized version of the VS Code extension was live on Visual Studio Marketplace only for eighteen mi…

Drupal has released security updates for a "highly critical" security vulnerability in Drupal Core that could be exploited by attackers to achieve remote code execution, privilege escalation, or information disclosure.

Drupal said the vulnerability resides in a database abstraction API that is used in Drupal Core to validate queries and ensure they are sanitized against SQL injection attacks.

Drupal noted the security flaw can be exploited by anonymous users, and impacts only sites that use PostgreSQL.

As previously disclosed by Drupal, manual patches have also been released for Drupal versions 9 and 8, which have reached end-of-life -Drupal 9.5Drupal 8.9"Drupal 11.1.x, Drupal 11.0.x, Drupa…

Microsoft has unveiled two new open-source tools called RAMPART and Clarity to assist developers in better testing the security of artificial intelligence (AI) agents.

RAMPART, short for Risk Assessment and Measurement Platform for Agentic Red Teaming, functions as a Pytest-native safety and security testing framework for writing and running safety and security tests for AI agents, covering both adversarial and benign issues, as well as various harm categories.

The tool builds on PyRIT (short for Python Risk Identification Tool), which Microsoft released more than two years ago as a way to test AI systems.

It's an "AI thinking partner that pushes back," guiding them through problem clarific…

The threat actor has been active since May 2025.

In addition, connections have been uncovered between the threat actor and affiliates associated with several prominent ransomware strains, including INC, Qilin, BlackByte, and Akira.

The service allowed paying cybercriminal customers to upload malicious files for code-signing using certificates fraudulently obtained by Fox Tempest.

This, in turn, allowed malware and ransomware to masquerade as legitimate software like AnyDesk, Microsoft Teams, PuTTY, and Cisco Webex.

Court documents reveal that Microsoft worked with a "cooperative source" to purchase and test the service between February and March 2026.

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh activity from a China-aligned threat actor known as Webworm in 2025, deploying custom backdoors that employ Discord and Microsoft Graph API for command-and-control (C2 or C&C) communications.

Webworm, first publicly documented by Broadcom-owned Symantec in September 2022, is assessed to be active since at least 2022, targeting government agencies

And it couldn't have occurred at a worse time, with enterprises embracing Agent AI with both arms (and unfortunately, as Orchid co-founder Robert Wiseman explains, more than one eye closed).

AI agents are shortcut-seekers by design.

Just because an AI Agent can find a way to access an application, a system, a database, doesn't mean that they should do so.

That's why well-managed identity and access management is a critical foundation to keeping Agent AI activity within authorized bounds.

If your organization is preparing for (or already participating in) the Agent AI transformation, the time to act is now.

Download the CISO Expert Guide to Typosquatting in the AI Era →TL;DRTyposquatting is no longer a user problem.

Sonatype's data shows malicious package uploads to open-source repositories jumped 156% year-over-year, so volume alone has made manual vetting structurally impossible.

The malicious extension captured seed phrases and transmitted them to a lookalike analytics domain.

Call it supply chain subversion - the deception isn't aimed at a person; it's aimed at the dependency graph.

In supply chain attacks where malicious behavior executes silently in browser memory, that window can be significantly longer, unless you're watching the runtime.

Microsoft on Tuesday released a mitigation for a BitLocker bypass vulnerability named YellowKey following its public disclosure last week.

It has been described as a BitLocker security feature bypass.

"Microsoft is aware of a security feature bypass vulnerability in Windows publicly referred to as 'YellowKey,'" the tech giant said in an advisory.

The issue impacts Windows 11 version 26H1 for x64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems, Windows 11 Version 25H2 for x64-based Systems, Windows Server 2025, and Windows Server 2025 (Server Core installation).

This will require a PIN to decrypt the drive at startup, effectively backing YellowKey attacks.

Grafana Labs, on May 19, 2026, said an investigation into its recent breach found no evidence of customer production systems or operations being compromised.

It said the scope of the incident is limited to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, which includes public and private source code along with internal GitHub repositories.

"We performed analysis and quickly rotated a significant number of GitHub workflow tokens, but a missed token led to the attackers gaining access to our GitHub repositories," it said.

"A subsequent review confirmed that a specific GitHub workflow we originally deemed not impacted had, in fact, been compromised."

It's worth mentioning here that a data extortion crew n…

Discord and Microsoft Graph API C&C communicationIn 2025, Webworm started abusing Discord and Microsoft Graph API for C&C communication.

]com/anjsdgasdf/WordPress, which acts as a file stager for other tools and malware used by Webworm (one such tool used the compromised Amazon S3 bucket mentioned above).

WormFrpWormFrp is a proxy tunneling tool inspired by the existing fast reverse proxy (frp) utility that Webworm also uses.

ChainWormChainWorm is another custom proxy tool used by Webworm operators.

FilesSHA-1 Filename Detection Description CB4E5043333670738142 9707F59C3CBE8D497D98 SearchApp.exe WinGo/Agent.ZK EchoCreep backdoor using Discord for C&C.

Europe’s push for tech sovereigntyIn Europe, calls for greater tech sovereignty – the ability to choose and act independently, autonomously, and securely – have become almost deafening.

Over the last year in the EU, several groups of countries have coalesced around more or less political approaches to tech sovereignty.

This is where the EU’s enhanced focus on ICT supply chain security comes into foreground complementing the initiatives specifically aimed at tech sovereignty.

In response to growing demands for national tech sovereignty and protection of local competitiveness in various regions around the world, several US tech firms have begun offering “sovereign” solutions tailored to forei…

The truth is that geopolitical tension and conflict offers potentially rich pickings for opportunistic online scammers.

The backdrop of geopolitical turmoil, whether it’s Ukraine or Iran, adds weight to the stories they spin in order to achieve their goals.

Whatever tactics they choose, the end goal is usually the same: to harvest your credentials and/or personal and financial data.

They’re tried and tested and could come via email, text, social media or phone call.

Scammers know this and will create their own fake charities – or impersonate legitimate ones – to collect donations.

Every 10 minutes, the compromised computer’s fingerprint is sent to the C&C server via an HTTP POST request to https://book-happy.needbinding[.]icu/employment/documents-and-resources.

If the C&C server response content is larger than 100 bytes, the received data is executed using the eval method.

]icu N/A 2026‑03‑10 Cobalt Strike C&C server.

]icu N/A 2026‑04‑14 PicassoLoader C&C server.

]buzz N/A 2026‑04‑14 Cobalt Strike C&C server.

Smart glasses allow anyone to track and record the world around them.

So we probably shouldn’t be surprised that smart glasses are doing the rounds once more, after a failed attempt by Google to popularize them over a decade ago.

This presents significant security and privacy risks for both smart glasses users and the people they interact with.

Smart glasses give anyone the ability to record or take photos of strangers surreptitiously.

It might put you in physical danger if you lose track of your surroundingsFor bystanders:Keep your eyes peeled for anyone wearing smart glasses.

We identified and reported 28 CallPhantom apps on Google Play, cumulatively downloaded more than 7.3 million times.

The table in the Analyzed CallPhantom apps section lists each app along with its key details, including the download count.

Examples of CallPhantom initial screensCampaign overviewThe CallPhantom apps we found on Google Play mainly targeted Android users in India and the broader Asia‑Pacific region.

No data generation occurs until after payment; users have to pay or subscribe before any email would supposedly be sent.

For these third-party payment apps, CallPhantom apps either included hardcoded URLs or fetched the URLs dynamically from a Firebase realtime database, meaning th…

The most-used password globally is exactly what you think it is: ‘123456.’ That’s according to NordPass’s latest annual report on passwords exposed in data breaches globally.

NordPass’s data suggests that there are many more sites that set limited password policies and allow trivial passwords like ‘123456’.

However, I think there may also be elements of legacy in the method used to calculate the most common passwords.

Breaking the cycleNow, how do we resolve this never-ending loop of negativity about passwords, along with the ridiculous situation that platforms still permit non-secure passwords?

There is a simple and effective way to resolve it: mandate complex passwords or, better yet, MFA.

In this blogpost, we provide an overview of the attack, and the first public analysis of the Android backdoor.

sqgame is a gaming platform tailored for the people of Yanbian and hosts traditional Yanbian games for Windows, Android, and iOS.

Android BirdCall analysisIn this section, we provide a technical analysis of the Android BirdCall backdoor – an Android port of the eponymous Windows backdoor written in C++.

Trojanized Android gamesAndroid BirdCall is distributed via trojanized Android games.

During our research, we observed 12 Zoho WorkDrive drives used by the Android BirdCall backdoor for C&C purposes.

Tony also offers insights that the they may hold for your own cyber-defenses.

Iranian-linked hackers are targeting Rockwell programmable logic controllers (PLCs), with almost 4,000 such devices exposed on the networks of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations, according to a warning from multiple U.S. federal agencies.

How can critical infrastructure organizations using Rockwell PLCs stay safe?

How do the FBI's figures compare to those from 2024 and what was the most damaging scam to affect businesses last year?

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

Calm feels like evidence that the danger has passed, which changes behavior in ways that reintroduce the danger.

Yet more trapsThe formal state of an organization’s security is easy to measure and – assuming all turns out well – also easy to feel good about.

When the confidence shattersThis all matters also because a ransomware intrusion is a business continuity event whose effects extend far and wide.

Discipline is everythingIn addition to the right tools and people, security that holds up over time rests on the habit of watching and adapting.

It’s what security tools can ‘convert’ into detections and alerts that let security teams act in time.

GopherWhisper abuses legitimate services, notably Discord, Slack, Microsoft 365 Outlook, and file.io for command and control (C&C) communication and exfiltration.

GopherWhisper leverages Discord, Slack, Microsoft 365 Outlook, and file.io for C&C communications and exfiltration.

The malware we initially discovered consists of the following:JabGopher: an injector that executes the LaxGopher backdoor disguised as whisper.dll .

GopherWhisper toolset overviewRevealing messagesAs mentioned in the introduction, GopherWhisper is characterized by the extensive use of legitimate services such as Slack, Discord, and Outlook for C&C communication.

In addition, several interesting links to GitHub reposi…

Additionally, the code can also capture the victim’s payment card PIN and exfiltrate it to the operators’ C&C server.

Apart from relaying NFC data, the malicious code also steals payment card PINs.

The first NGate attacks employed the open-source NFCGate tool to facilitate the transfer of NFC data.

Once installed, the app asks to be set as the default payment app, which can be seen in Figure 10.

Initial request to set the app as the default NFC payment appFigure 11.

Collectively, they pave the way for the intrusion long before the ransom note arrives.

ESET’s detection data shows ransomware rising by 13 percent in the second half of 2025 compared to the prior six months, following a 30-percent increase in the first half of 2025.

Meanwhile, Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) recorded a jump from 32% to 44% in the share of breaches involving ransomware, while the median ransom payment fell from $150,000 to $115,000.

As the products have improved, criminals responded by building a clandestine market for tools designed to disable them.

The sheer investment in EDR killers is, somewhat perversely, the clearest measure of how much damage t…

Ignoring a real breach notification invites risk, but falling for a bogus one could be even worse.

What do fake breach notification scams look like?

Either:The scammers wait for a real breach, and piggyback on the news to send out a fake notification.

Spotting the red flagsFake breach notifications should be easy to spot if you know what to look out for.

Staying safeUnderstanding what to look out for is the first step to staying safe from breach notification scams.

This seems extremely low given the scale and frequency of supply chain incidents – and how broadly ‘supply chain’ really stretches.

Notably, 3CX itself was the downstream victim of another supply chain attack, courtesy of a compromised Trading Technologies X_TRADER installer.

CISOs rated supply chain disruption #2 for 2025 and #2 again for 2026, while CEOs rate supply chain disruption #3 for 2025.

Talk about a supply chain blind spot…What are key considerations around geopolitical supply chain risk?

Resilience is imperativeIn a world of escalating threats and risky interdependencies, supply chain cyber resilience is a competitive differentiator at the survival level.

Microsoft has open-sourced two tools aimed at bringing security discipline to AI agent development: Clarity, a structured design review tool, and RAMPART, a continuous testing framework.

The release comes from Microsoft’s AI Red Team, the company’s internal unit that stress-tests its own AI systems, and both tools have been used internally before being open-sourced.

And, because AI systems are probabilistic, RAMPART supports running the same test multiple times and setting a pass threshold.

Kumar says that the tool has already been used by Microsoft’s AI incident response team to remediate real world incidents.

“We are releasing RAMPART and Clarity because these have been battle tested with…

During the operation, French and Dutch authorities, with support from Europol and Eurojust, dismantled 33 servers linked to the service and interviewed the operator in Ukraine.

The targeted domain names were shut down through international cooperation between law enforcement and judicial authorities.

Investigation and international cooperationThe investigation began in December 2021 after authorities repeatedly found that the VPN service had been used in crimes affecting French victims.

“The gathered intelligence exposed thousands of users linked to the cybercrime ecosystem and generated operational leads connected to ransomware attacks, fraud schemes, and other serious offences worldwide,”…

“One of our developers was compromised by a recent supply-chain compromise on TanStack, which leaked their GitHub credentials through the GitHub CLI (gh).

“The incident originated from a TanStack npm supply chain attack via the Mini Shai-Hulud campaign.

TeamPCP automated its way through the open source ecosystemThe TanStack supply chain compromise affected 42 of its npm packages.

That compromise, like many others in the last weeks, was carried out via Mini Shai-Hulud, a self-replicating supply chain “worm” created and operated by TeamPCP.

TeamPCP, a cybercrime group that specializes in supply chain attacks targeting open-source utilities and AI middleware, has claimed the GitHub hack and is…

Attackers are exploiting two Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-41091 and CVE-2026-45498), Microsoft acknowledged and CISA confirmed by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2026-45498 can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) state, i.e., it can be used to prevent Microsoft Defender from working as it should.

CVE-2026-41091, along a third Microsoft Defender remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-45584), affect Microsoft Malware Protection Engine v1.26030.3008, and have been fixed in v1.1.26040.8.

Both the Protection Engine and the Antimalware Platform are used by Microsoft Defender, but also by Microsoft’s System Center Endpoint Protection and Microsoft…

Virtru Collaborate is the first solution built on the new Virtru Platform, a next-generation architecture powered by TDF, the open standard for data-centric protection.

Virtru Collaborate brings that architecture to file collaboration; additional platform capabilities spanning search, analytics, and AI-governed workflows will follow.

Virtru Collaborate is designed for when compliance is not optional, and collaboration is not negotiable.

Spin up FedRAMP Authorized, PCI-compliant workspaces on demand, governed environments ready for sensitive collaboration in minutes, not months.

“Virtru Collaborate is unique because its data protection capabilities exist to enable productivity, not prevent i…

ASAPP has launched Continuous Red Teaming, a new capability that integrates adversarial AI testing directly into ASAPP’s model evaluation framework.

The new capability is built on Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises detect and address vulnerabilities in AI systems during development.

Promptfoo continuously runs automated tests across ASAPP’s AI systems, screening for more than 50 vulnerability types to give enterprise customers the real-time data they need to trust their AI in production.

Enterprises using AI at scale are being asked to trust systems they can’t continuously verify.

“Enterprise AI builds trust through proven results at scale,” stated Priya Vijayarajendr…

Tenable has announced the general availability of Tenable Hexa AI, the agentic AI engine of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform.

Tenable Hexa AI delivers on the promise of exposure management by bridging the critical gap between vulnerability discovery and remediation.

New capabilities of Tenable Hexa AI include:Advanced multi-step reasoning: Tenable Hexa AI executes complex, end-to-end workflows that span modern exposure surfaces in a single request without practitioners stitching context across tools.

Tenable Hexa AI executes complex, end-to-end workflows that span modern exposure surfaces in a single request without practitioners stitching context across tools.

Tenable Hexa AI a…

Riverbed has announced new capabilities for Aternity designed to support autonomous IT operations for digital experience management.

While many IT initiatives focus on improving reactive operations, Riverbed is focused on enabling organizations to prevent disruption altogether.

Riverbed IQ 4.0 – The intelligence layer for autonomous ITRelease 4.0 of IQ advances IT operations from AI-assisted workflows toward autonomous operations through a unified intelligence layer designed for autonomous IT.

Riverbed AI Assurance – AI observability and controlAI Assurance, another DEX industry exclusive from Riverbed, will introduce AI observabilitycapabilities made possible by Riverbed’s decades of deep …

Forward has unveiled Forward Predict, a new capability that allows organizations to evaluate the impact of network changes before deployment.

By testing proposed changes against a digital twin of the production network, Forward Predict helps identify potential issues before they reach live environments and supports safer network operations at scale.

“Everything we have built since, including the world’s first network digital twin, was working backwards from that goal.

“Network changes have always carried unnecessary risk, because engineers lacked definitive knowledge of the network behavior.

“Forward Predict changes that by providing a mathematically accurate environment where IT leaders ca…

CTERA has announced the launch of CTERA InsightAI, an agentic AI intelligence layer for the CTERA Intelligent Data Platform.

CTERA InsightAI adds AI-driven insights and automation to data operations, expanding traditional data observability capabilities.

By turning complex telemetry into actionable intelligence, CTERA InsightAI helps organizations strengthen data governance, improve security posture, and optimize how they manage fast-growing unstructured data estates.

Storage cost optimization: CTERA InsightAI provides AI-powered visibility into storage growth, stale data, usage trends, and data lifecycle inefficiencies.

CTERA InsightAI provides AI-powered visibility into storage growth, st…

Terra Security has announced the public preview of continuous exploitation validation for network infrastructure, now available to all customers through the Terra Platform.

The launch expands Terra’s offensive security capabilities from web applications to network infrastructure and extends coverage across three areas: web applications, AI, and network environments.

Terra said the update expands its continuous offensive security capabilities across web applications, AI, and network infrastructure within a single platform.

“When we founded Terra, we believed that continuous, agentic offensive security across the full attack surface was a necessity,” said Shahar Peled, CEO of Terra Security.

…

He discusses why the travel industry’s interconnected ecosystem of identity, payments, loyalty programs, and third-party integrations creates compounding risk, and how AI has expanded threat modeling beyond traditional infrastructure to include prompt injection, model access, and shadow AI adoption.

Ultimately, the role is about helping build an operating model where trust, resilience, and business strategy can scale together.

How has your threat model changed in the last 18 months specifically because of AI?

AI has fundamentally changed the threat landscape through speed, scale, accessibility, and sophistication.

We are leveraging AI to improve threat detection, vulnerability prioritizatio…

Dark web activity often becomes visible during marketplace seizures, major data leaks, or sudden spikes in criminal activity.

The topics that dominated discussionDiscussion activity fell into four broader categories: community activity, transactions, infrastructure, and products.

Other highly active discussion areas included forum reputation systems, forum functions, online shopping activity, banking-related discussions, database-related activity, and infrastructure services.

Topics remained active for yearsTopic lifespan measurements also showed long periods of activity among identified themes.

Among topics that disappeared before the final observed period, the mean time between peak activ…

Can you just maximize the security and privacy benchmark and call it a day?

Nope, because benchmarks don’t actually work for measuring AI capabilities (even when they are NOT emergent systemic properties like security).

Over the last 30 years, security engineering for software evolved from black box penetration testing, through whitebox code analysis and architectural risk analysis to de facto process-driven standards like the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM).

In the meantime we can make real progress in AI security by cleaning up our WHAT piles and managing risk by identifying and applying good assurance processes.

(Spoiler alert: no matter what we do, we still don’t get a secur…

(I lost track of her since college and her 1981 hit “”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE”>O Superman.”)The origins of the quote is from Roger Needham:If you think cryptography can solve your problem, you don’t understand your problem and you don’t understand cryptography.

I modified the quote in the preface to my 2000 book Secrets and Lies:A few years ago I heard a quotation, and I am going to modify it here: If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.

I can’t tell you why me in 2000 didn’t credit Needham by name.

Somewhere along the line I dropped “security” from the phrase, and now say i…

It’s nasty, but it requires physical access to the computer:The exploit, named YellowKey, was published earlier this week by a researcher who goes by the alias Nightmare-Eclipse.

It reliably bypasses default Windows 11 deployments of BitLocker, the full-volume encryption protection Microsoft provides to make disk contents off-limits to anyone without the decryption key, which is stored in a secured piece of hardware known as a trusted platform module (TPM).

BitLocker is a mandatory protection for many organizations, including those that contract with governments.

About Bruce SchneierI am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people.

I've been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998.

I'm a fellow and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, a board member of EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.

This personal website expresses the opinions of none of those organizations.

Some AI-based video age-verification checks can be fooled with a fake mustache.

Upcoming Speaking EngagementsThis is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:I’m giving a virtual talk on “The Security of Trust in the Age of AI,” hosted by the Financial Women’s Association of New York, at 6:00 PM ET on May 21, 2026.

I’m speaking at the Potsdam Conference on National Cybersecurity at the Hasso Plattner Institut in Potsdam, Germany.

The event runs June 24–25, 2026, and my talk will be the evening of June 24.

I’m speaking at the Digital Humanism Conference in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday, June 26, 2026.

I’m speaking at the Nuremberg Digital Festival in Nuremburg, Germany, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026.

While Anthropic’s model is really good at finding software vulnerabilities, so are other models.

The UK’s AI Security Institute found that OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, already generally available, is comparable in capability.

The tax code isn’t computer code, but it’s a series of algorithms with inputs and outputs.

As goes the tax code, so goes any other complex system of rules and strategies.

We’re seeing it right now in the deluge of software vulnerabilities that these models are finding and exploiting.

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is as Good as Mythos at Finding Security VulnerabilitiesThe UK’s AI Security Institute evaluated GPT-5.5’s ability to find security vulnerabilities, and found that it is comparable to Claude Mythos.

Note that the OpenAI model is generally available.

And here is an analysis of a smaller, cheaper model.

It requires more scaffolding from the prompter, but it is also just as good.

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TL;DRcopy.fail is a Linux kernel local privilege escalation, not a browser or clipboard attack.

Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and the default RuntimeDefault seccomp profile do not block the syscall used.

A custom seccomp profile is needed.

“Local privilege escalation” sounds dry, so let me unpack it.

They all share one Linux kernel with their neighbours.

About Bruce SchneierI am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people.

I've been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998.

I'm a fellow and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, a board member of EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.

This personal website expresses the opinions of none of those organizations.

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Live in the Waters of Western AustraliaEvidence of them has been found by analyzing DNA in the seawater.

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.

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Insider trading is rife on Polymarket:Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a non-profit research and advocacy group, found that long-shot bets—­defined as wagers of $2,500 or more at odds of 35 percent or less—­on the platform had an average win rate of around 52 percent in markets on military and defense actions.

That compares with a win rate of 25 percent across all politics-focused markets and just 14 percent for all markets on the platform as a whole.

About Bruce SchneierI am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people.

I've been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998.

I'm a fellow and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, a board member of EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.

This personal website expresses the opinions of none of those organizations.

A new rowhammer attack gives complete control of NVIDIA CPUs.

On Thursday, two research teams, working independently of each other, demonstrated attacks against two cards from Nvidia’s Ampere generation that take GPU rowhammering into new—­and potentially much more consequential—­territory: GDDR bitflips that give adversaries full control of CPU memory, resulting in full system compromise of the host machine.

For the attack to work, IOMMU memory management must be disabled, as is the default in BIOS settings.

“Our work shows that Rowhammer, which is well-studied on CPUs, is a serious threat on GPUs as well,” said Andrew Kwong, co-author of one of the papers.

Unlike the previous two, the res…

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems.

Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — “AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv” — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems.

“The available Git metadata alone does not prove which endpoint or device was used.”Caturegli said he validated that the exposed credentials could authenticate to three AWS GovCloud accounts at a high privilege level.

CISA has not responded to questions about the p…

Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code.

May’s Patch Tuesday is a welcome respite from April, which saw Microsoft fix a near-record 167 security flaws.

But at the end of April, Oracle announced it was switching to a monthly update cycle for critical security issues.

Chrome automagically downloads available security updates, but installing them requires fully restarting the browser.

For a more granular look at the Microsoft updates released today, checkout this inventory by the SANS Internet Storm Center.

The stated deadline for payment was initially set at May 6, but it was later pushed back to May 12.

The May 6 update stated that Canvas was fully operational, and that Instructure was not seeing any ongoing unauthorized activity on their platform.

Instructure responded by pulling Canvas offline and replacing the portal with the message, “Canvas is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance.

Data extortion groups like ShinyHunters will typically only remove victims from their leak sites after receiving an extortion payment or after a victim agrees to negotiate.

Last month, ShinyHunters relieved the home security giant ADT of personal information on 5.5 million customers.

For the past several years, security experts have tracked a series of massive DDoS attacks originating from Brazil and solely targeting Brazilian ISPs.

The company originated from protecting game servers against DDoS attacks and evolved into an ISP-focused DDoS mitigation provider.

But so-called “DNS reflection” attacks rely on DNS servers that are (mis)configured to accept queries from anywhere on the Web.

“We received and notified many Tier 1 upstreams regarding very very large DDoS attacks against small ISPs,” Nascimento said.

Nascimento flatly denied being involved in DDoS attacks against Brazilian operators to generate business for his company’s services.

A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group “Scattered Spider” has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft.

FBI investigators tied Buchanan to the 2022 SMS phishing attacks after discovering the same username and email address was used to register numerous phishing domains seen in the campaign.

That same year, U.K. investigators found a device at Buchanan’s Scotland residence that included data stolen from SMS phishing victims and seed phrases from cryptocurrency theft victims.

Buchanan is the second known Scattered Spider member to plead guilty.

Two other alleged Scattered Spider members will soon be tried in the United Kingdom.

“This CVE can enable phishing attacks, unauthorized data manipulation, or social engineering campaigns that lead to further compromise,” Walters said.

Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at Tenable, said April marks the second-biggest Patch Tuesday ever for Microsoft.

Narang also said there are indications that a zero-day flaw Adobe patched in an emergency update on April 11 — CVE-2026-34621 — has seen active exploitation since at least November 2025.

Adam Barnett, lead software engineer at Rapid7, called the patch total from Microsoft today “a new record in that category” because it includes nearly 60 browser vulnerabilities.

For example, a Google Chrome update released earlier t…

Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today.

The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code.

Instead, they used known vulnerabilities to modify the Domain Name System (DNS) settings of the routers to include DNS servers controlled by the hackers.

English said the routers attacked by Forest Blizzard were reconfigured to use DNS servers that pointed to a handful of virtual private servers controlled by …

An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face.

Shchukin’s name appeared in a Feb. 2023 filing (PDF) from the U.S. Justice Department seeking the seizure of various cryptocurrency accounts associated with proceeds from the REvil ransomware gang’s activities.

The Gandcrab ransomware affiliate program first surfaced in January 2018, and paid enterprising hackers huge shares of the profits just for hacking into user accounts at major corporations.

The Gandcrab team would then try to expand that access, often siphoning vast amounts of sensitive and internal documents in the process.

REvil never recovered f…

Experts say the wiper campaign against Iran materialized this past weekend and came from a relatively new cybercrime group known as TeamPCP.

TeamPCP then attempted to move laterally through victim networks, siphoning authentication credentials and extorting victims over Telegram.

Eriksen said it appears TeamPCP used access gained in the first attack on Aqua Security to perpetrate this weekend’s mischief.

“It’s a little all over the place, and there’s a chance this whole Iran thing is just their way of getting attention,” Eriksen said.

“While security firms appear to be doing a good job spotting this, we’re also gonna need GitHub’s security team to step up,” Cimpanu wrote.

The feds say the four botnets — named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad — are responsible for a series of recent record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking nearly any target offline.

The government alleges the unnamed people in control of the four botnets used their crime machines to launch hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks, often demanding extortion payments from victims.

The oldest of the botnets — Aisuru — issued more than 200,000 attacks commands, while JackSkid hurled at least 90,000 attacks.

Aisuru emerged in late 2024, and by mid-2025 it was launching record-breaking DDoS attacks as it rapidly infected new IoT devices.

That disclosure help…

A hacktivist group with links to Iran’s intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan.

Meanwhile, a voicemail message at Stryker’s main U.S. headquarters says the company is currently experiencing a building emergency.

In a lengthy statement posted to Telegram, an Iranian hacktivist group known as Handala (a.k.a.

Palo Alto says Handala surfaced in late 2023 and is assessed as one of several online personas maintained by Void Manticore, a MOIS-affiliated actor.

The security firm said Handala also has taken credit for recent attacks against fuel systems in Jordan and an Israeli energy exploratio…

Microsoft Corp. today pushed security updates to fix at least 77 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software.

It would hardly be a proper Patch Tuesday without at least one critical Microsoft Office exploit, and this month doesn’t disappoint.

Ben McCarthy, lead cyber security engineer at Immersive, called attention to CVE-2026-21536, a critical remote code execution bug in a component called the Microsoft Devices Pricing Program.

Microsoft has already resolved the issue on their end, and fixing it requires no action on the part of Windows users.

For a complete breakdown of all the patches Microsoft released today, check out the SANS Internet Storm Center’s Patch Tues…

The new hotness in AI-based assistants — OpenClaw (formerly known as ClawdBot and Moltbot) — has seen rapid adoption since its release in November 2025.

“The testimonials are remarkable,” the AI security firm Snyk observed.

WHEN AI INSTALLS AIOne of the core tenets of securing AI agents involves carefully isolating them so that the operator can fully control who and what gets to talk to their AI assistant.

Probably the best known (and most bizarre) example is Moltbook, where a developer told an AI agent running on OpenClaw to build him a Reddit-like platform for AI agents.

Claude Code Security is a legitimate signal that AI is reshaping parts of the security landscape.

In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to build Kimwolf, the world’s largest and most disruptive botnet.

Dort was an extremely active player in the Microsoft game Minecraft who gained notoriety for their “Dortware” software that helped players cheat.

Dort also used the nickname DortDev, an identity that was active in March 2022 on the chat server for the prolific cybercrime group known as LAPSUS$.

Dort peddled a service for registering temporary email addresses, as well as “Dortsolver,” code that could bypass various CAPTCHA services designed to prevent automated account abuse.

The breach tracking service Constella I…

Smashing Security, episode 468: High-Speed Train Hacks and Homicidal Lawnmowers.

I've not, but also given— I don't think— In my imagination, in my mind, Taiwan's not a massive island.

I don't know.

Yeah, I don't think that's too cheeky.

I think that's a very good question because models do, as they get more capable, they tend to eat some types of software, right?

The advisory doesn't say the platform that was hacked was Canvas, and that the company concerned was Instructure.

The security breach was not just big news on cybersecurity blogs, it made headlines worldwide.

There are a few possible problems with paying an extortion gang and trusting that they will honour the deal.

Furthermore, extortionists might falsely claim to have access to compromising information, such as embarrassing photographs or videos of victims.

Having receive a ransom payment for its attack on Canvas, ShinyHunters and other extortion gangs are only likely to be further incentivised to launch similar attacks in future.

Prosecutors allege he is "Speedstepper" - the suspected main administrator of the notorious Dream Market dark web marketplace that operated from 2013 until its abrupt closure in 2019.

Dream Market's cryptocurrency wallets, holding millions of dollars worth in commission payments, went dormant after the site's closure.

But in November and December 2022, someone who had access to Dream Market's original private keys began to move funds around.

And, according to the indictment, those gold bars were shipped directly to Andresen's home address in Germany.

If the claims of prosecutors are true, it was a massive error by the man suspected of being the Dream Market kingpin.

The only weapon is the hackers' threat to release stolen data, or leave your systems permanently encrypted.

Instead, they are making threats to hurt their victims.

A study last year by identity security firm Semperis found that 40% of ransomware attacks saw criminals threatening physical violence against employees who refused to pay.

Some of the most disturbing instances of cybercrime spilling out into physical violence can be found where cryptocurrency and organised crime intertwine.

With physical threats seemingly becoming more common than ever before, it's clearly important for defenders to learn some lessons.

I don't know.

Yeah, that's it, that's it.

Now, one of those in your— I was about to say Filofax, but I don't think those are a thing anymore.

But you know, yeah, as you point out, a large part of this is through the same ecosystem.

He is professor of letters at a— I don't know which letters, I imagine all of them— at a university in Besançon.

One in eight UK workers admits to selling their company login credentials - or knowing someone who has - in the past 12 months. The really alarming bit? Their bosses are even more relaxed about it. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU, directly controls who gets into Department 4, according to the leak.

It is GRU that is overseeing exams, and signing-off on graduates' postings, with some promising students scouted as early as secondary school.

Upon his graduation, he is said to have been assigned to the Fancy Bear hacking group, which was linked by the US Department of Justice over the high profile hack of the Democratic National Committee.

He has, it seems, gone from running the Fancy Bear hacking group to helping train its replacements.

What the report does is act as a useful reminder that the threat posed by groups like Fancy Bear and Sandworm is serious and organised.

Sri Lankan police have arrested 37 people suspected of running a scam centre in a suburb of the capital city Colombo.

Prior to that, in March, immigration officers arrested 135 Chinese men and women in connection with another scam centre.

So the obvious question to ask is: what are these alleged scam centres suspected of being doing?

Sri Lanka has recently boosted its appeal to foreign tourists by relaxing visa requirements, and has been "rewarded" by more scam centers popping up in its cities residential suburbs.

You don't have to live anywhere near a scam compound for any of this to land in your life.

Meta sees everything, copy fail, and a deepfake gets hired with Graham Cluley and special guest Paul Ducklin.

Sometimes I have to whisper and sometimes the whisper is edited out afterwards, say, "Say who you are."

They had this secret memo where they said, "Look, there's going to be a bit of aggro when we launch this.

So they say there's clear user consent, they say.

And we've got so many people that still don't know about the technology.

This is the picture that US prosecutors have painted of a teenager arrested earlier this month at Helsinki Airport while trying to board a flight to Tokyo.

Prosecutors allege that the teenage suspect took part in at least four Scattered Spider attacks , the earliest in March 2023 - just months after his 16th birthday.

The complaint also alleges that the Scattered Spider gang mocked law enforcement, with one 2024 screenshot reportedly showed failed login attempts captioned "F*** off, FBI."

Scattered Spider is a loosely-formed English-speaking collective of teenagers and young adults who became infamous after the 2023 attacks on MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment.

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US Marines stationed around the Persian Gulf have been receiving WhatsApp messages from strangers suggesting they call home and make their final goodbyes.

The messages, which began arriving on Monday, came signed by the Iran-linked Handala hacking group, that has spent much of 2026 attacking US and Israeli targets.

A day later, the Handala hacking crew took to its Telegram channel to announce that it had published the names and phone numbers of 2,379 US Marines stationed in the Persian Gulf.

Handala, which first surfaced in late 2023, presents itself as a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group.

If a Marine receives a WhatsApp message naming them and threatening their family, it does not really ma…

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34-year-old Xu Zewei arrived in Houston, Texas at the weekend after Italian authorities approved his extradition to the United States.

The US Department of Justice alleges that Xu was following orders from officers at the Shanghai State Security Bureau, an arm of China's Ministry of State Security.

According to the FBI, Hafnium targeted more than 60,000 organisations in the United States and successfully broke into over 12,700 of them.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry opposed Xu's extradition to the United States, and claimed that cases are being fabricated against Chinese citizens.

But every so often, a suspect makes the mistake of going on holiday somewhere with an extradition agreement with …

A 21-year-old man suspected of conducting approximately 100 data breaches since late 2025 - including a hack of the French Ministry of National Education that exposed records on almost a quarter of a million employees — has been arrested at his home in western France.

According to French prosecutors, the man was reportedly preparing to dump yet another collection of stolen data online at the time of his arrest on 20 April, and has admitted to using the pseudonym "HexDex" online.

The police investigation began on 19 December last year, when the Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit received around 100 reports of data exfiltration, all apparently linked to the same perpetrator.

In an interview g…

Дешевая ТВ-приставка на Android с бесплатными подписками может стать основой для ботнет-сетей и прокси-серверов киберпреступников. Разбираемся, как такие ТВ-боксы сдают ваш IP в аренду и как выбрать безопасное устройство.

Интеграция с LLMТеперь у пользователей Kaspersky Container Security есть возможность использовать технологию Kaspersky Investigation and Response Assistant (KIRA).

KIRA активно внедряется и в другие продукты, и теперь она доступна для пользователей Kaspersky Container Security в качестве ИИ-ассистента.

В ходе недавнего обновления решение Kaspersky Container Security было снабжено программным интерфейсом для подключения больших языковых моделей.

Что еще обновилось в Cloud Workload SecurityКроме добавления ИИ-ассистента наши разработчики внесли еще ряд изменений в продукты, входящие в предложение Kaspersky Cloud Workload Security.

Kaspersky Container Security, теперь поддерживает механизм еди…

При этом большая часть из них — семейные, используемые совместно с близкими… и не очень: 37% пользователей делятся своими подписками за пределами семьи.

Сегодня расскажем, как безопасно управлять подписками, избежать взлома всех ваших аккаунтов и не попасться на удочку злоумышленников.

Как делятся подписками с близкими и не оченьМногие владельцы подписок с легкостью делятся ими с членами семьи и друзьями.

Самый худший вариант с точки зрения безопасности — когда покупается один подписной аккаунт и владелец передает логин и пароль другим пользователям.

Если вы и ваши близкие храните пароли «в голове», то вероятность того, что вы используете один и тот же пароль в разных сервисах, весьма велик…

Но в этом посте я хочу рассказать о Kaspersky Container Security (KCS) не как представитель вендора, а скорее как член команды, активно использующей это решение в повседневной работе.

Но Kaspersky Container Security (KCS) — это скорее платформа для защиты контейнерной среды, которая закрывает сразу несколько задач, встраиваясь в контейнерный контур целиком.

Когда у команды сотни сборок, одного периодического сканирования реестра уже мало и это всегда требует ручного вмешательства.

Чем KCS полезен в наших сценарияхУ нас работает своя система композиционного анализа, поэтому мы не смотрим на KCS как на единственный источник истины.

Почему мы смотрим на KCS не только как на сканерЕще один силь…

Да, за рулем все еще водитель, но он там скорее для страховки, так что появление настоящего беспилотного авто — это лишь вопрос времени.

Для производителя это означает ответственность за поведение автомобиля на дороге и за выбор поставщиков.

Обеспечение безопасности автомобиля в современных условияхДолгое время, когда речь шла о безопасности автомобиля, имелась в виду исключительно функциональная безопасность.

Контроль осуществляется на разных уровнях архитектуры: внутри доменов, на уровне отдельных контроллеров и на границе сетей.

В рамках этой статьи мы рассмотрели лишь часть подходов, которые сегодня применяются в KASG для обеспечения безопасности транспортных средств.

Поэтому при внедрении собственных ИИ-серверов и их вспомогательных систем (RAG, MCP и так далее) необходимо с самого начала внедрять строгие меры безопасности.

В ответ на запросы он отчитывается о доступности серверов Ollama, LM Studio, AutoGPT, LangServe, text-gen-webui, которые часто используются для «обвязки» запущенных локально ИИ-моделей.

Дополнительно сервер-приманка отчитывался о наличии разнообразных баз данных RAG и MCP-сервера с привлекательными возможностями вроде «get_credentials» (получить учетные данные).

На самом деле на Raspberry PI просто были сохранены 500 ответов настоящей модели Qwen3, из которых несложный скрипт выбирал наиболее подходящий с учетом присланного запроса.

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Кроме того, взлом паролей ускоряется из года в год: в нашем аналогичном исследовании 2024 года процент паролей, нестойких ко взлому, был ниже.

К сожалению, многие пользователи хранят свои пароли в открытом виде в заметках, сообщениях в мессенджерах, в документах, а также в браузерах, сохраненные пароли из которых злоумышленники вытаскивают за считаные секунды.

Не храните пароли в виде обычного текстаНи в коем случае не записывайте пароли в файлах, сообщениях и документах — они не защищены должным шифрованием, как в менеджере паролей.

Не храните пароли в браузерахМногие пользователи сохраняют свои пароли в браузерах — тем более что те любезно позволяют делать это автоматически.

Важно соблюда…

К сожалению, создатели зловредов уже не первый раз находят способы обойти эту защиту, так что секреты, хранящиеся в Chrome, опять под угрозой.

Как работает шифрование с привязкой к приложению в ChromeGoogle представила механизм шифрования с привязкой к приложению (Application-Bound Encryption) в июле 2024 года в 127-й версии браузера Chrome.

Мы уже подробно рассказывали, что представляют собой эти файлы и к чему может привести их кража, поэтому здесь лишь кратко напомним основные факты.

Дело в том, что в данной ОС Chrome использовал только стандартный встроенный механизм защиты данных Data Protection API (DPAPI).

В теории это должно было заметно усложнить атаки на Chrome и снизить эффективн…

Наши эксперты обнаружили масштабную атаку на цепочку поставок через ПО для эмуляции оптического дисковода DAEMON Tools.

Кого именно атакуютС начала апреля было зарегистрировано несколько тысяч попыток установки дополнительной вредоносной нагрузки через зараженное ПО DAEMON Tools.

Что именно было зараженоВредоносный код был обнаружен в DAEMON Tools начиная с версии 12.5.0.2421 и до 12.5.0.2434.

Если у вас на компьютере (или где-то в организации) используется ПО DAEMON Tools, наши эксперты рекомендуют тщательно проверить устройства на наличие аномальной активности начиная с 8 апреля.

Наши решения успешно защищают пользователей от всего вредоносного ПО, используемого в атаке на цепочку поставо…

Практически в каждом фильме или сериале из вселенной «Звездных войн» присутствуют дроиды.

Кто-то, наверное, скажет: «Да какая разница?» И с точки зрения нормального зрителя будет абсолютно прав.

Дроид — сложная киберфизическая система, повлияв на мотивацию которой атакующий может получить доступ к конфиденциальным данным, а то и вовсе причинить вред настоящему владельцу.

В нескольких случаях человек, не являющийся формальным владельцем дроида, старается повлиять на его поступки, пытаясь ввести дроида в заблуждение.

Ферн вводит в дискуссию понятие из детских игр — unclaimsies (то есть как бы обнуление прав) и заявляет собственные права на место капитана.

Динамически обновляемый контентКорреляционный контент сегодня — это не статичный набор правил, а процесс: он постоянно развивается и адаптируется под актуальные угрозы.

Только за 2025 год мы выпустили 55 обновлений пакетов правил для разных версий и разных языков нашей SIEM-системы KUMA.

Всего за год добавилось 10 новых пакетов, а также 250 правил обнаружения и множество улучшений существующего контента.

Эффективность работы KUMA повышается за счет интеграции с Kaspersky EDR и отдельными наборами правил для Active Directory, в которых реализованы десятки сценариев обнаружения атак на разных стадиях.

В целом SIEM перестает быть набором правил и превращается в постоянно обновляемую систему об…

В случае если авто или его владелец потенциально связаны с преступлением, автомобиль могут изучать не только под микроскопом и ультрафиолетом.

Комплексная слежкаДля слежки за «лицами, представляющими интерес», данные, полученные с самого автомобиля, связывают с информацией из других источников.

Журналисты обнаружили, что некоторые компании рекламируют возможность дистанционного скрытного включения микрофонов и камер автомобиля, что позволяет прослушивать разговоры в реальном времени.

Если это приложение вам очень нужно, откажитесь от передачи своих данных «на сторону» в настройках фирменного приложения.

Откажитесь от передачи данных и в настройках самого автомобиля, если это возможно.

Например, приложение, которое обрабатывает конфиденциальные данные организации, опубликовано на публичном конструкторе вайб-код-приложений (Lovable и ему подобным) и по умолчанию доступно всему Интернету.

Нельзя один раз проделать упражнение «защита приложения» и на этом остановиться.

Всегда просите ИИ добавлять проверки для любых данных, которые вводят люди (как в формы, так и в строки поиска).

Тестируйте новые функции и новые версии приложения в безопасной среде — на копии сайта или приложения и на копии базы данных.

С помощью сканера вы проследите, чтобы файлы с ключами и паролями не попадали в Git и не публиковались вместе с проектом.

Преступники внедряют уже известные трюки в новые цепочки атак, в том числе ловят жертв в App Store.

Подделки под криптокошелькиВ марте этого года мы обнаружили в топе китайского App Store фишинговые приложения, иконки и названия которых мимикрируют под приложения для управления распространенными криптокошельками.

Чтобы приложения были пропущены в App Store, в них добавляли какую-либо базовую функциональность, например игру, калькулятор или планировщик задач.

Установка без App StoreКлючевой частью схемы является установка вредоносов на iPhone жертв в обход App Store и его процесса верификации.

Такие приложения не требуют публикации в App Store, и их можно устанавливать без ограничений по кол…

Today we’re releasing our new AI-powered DNS defense platform, available within Cisco Secure Access and powered by Cisco Talos intelligence.

How Cisco disrupts the ransomware lifecycle (DNS focus)Cisco Talos DNS Security (fully integrated into Cisco Secure Access) detects obfuscated data hidden in DNS packets, the core of internet communication.

Through Talos DNS Security, Talos’ custom built machine learning models detect the unique “lexical texture” of algorithmically generated domains (DGA) used by attackers.

Through Talos DNS Security, Talos’ custom built machine learning models detect the unique “lexical texture” of algorithmically generated domains (DGA) used by attackers.

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This is also why zero trust architecture matters, shifting from assumed trust to continuous verification with systems built to withstand failure.

Being ready for the long gamePreparing for state-sponsored threats means closing gaps before an incident, not during one.

Behavioural baseline : Continuously updated behavioral baselines help surface low and slow activity, especially credential abuse that leaves no malware trace.

OT and ICS readiness : OT environments need hardware-enforced separation, as well as established response procedures.

Supply chain and insider threats: supply chains need mapped vendor access and SBOMs, and insider risk demands cross-functional hiring verification and pre…

The Missing Surface: Security ContextAsk a SOC analyst what they need from a security platform and you get consistent answers.

Cisco Secure Access now includes Security Insights: a security analytics dashboard that surfaces where risk is concentrated, helps teams identify emerging threats and policy gaps, and gives security leadership the trend data to report on posture and measure the impact of initiatives over time.

Secure Access addresses this through the AI view, which tracks GenAI application usage and guardrail violations alongside the rest of security operations.

Security Insights gives analysts the signals to start an investigation, security managers the view to close policy gaps, a…

The integrity of the systems we depend on, the trust layer underneath everything, is equally exposed.

This integrates naturally with external key management systems, including Quantum Key Distribution platforms for the most sensitive environments.

In the meantime, visit the Cisco Trust Center to learn more about our PQC approach and stay ahead of what’s coming.

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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN for Government integration with Cisco Secure Access FedRAMP instances: Government agencies require secure, compliant networking solutions that meet stringent federal security standards.

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN for Government now integrates with Cisco Secure Access FedRAMP instances, enabling government organizations to maintain secure connectivity while ensuring compliance with federal security standards.

Policy groups in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager enable agencies to define IPSec tunnels and connection parameters to Secure Access instances, ensuring secure and compliant access across their network infrastructure.

AI application classification and shadow AI control: Ci…

With modular N+1 clustering (supporting up to 16 nodes), the 6100 Series scales to up to 8 Tbps of L7 throughput.

Using our AI-driven Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE), the 6100 Series identifies threats in encrypted traffic without decryption, preserving privacy and line-rate speed.

Because at this scale, security shouldn’t hold you back—it should help you move faster.

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Cisco Secure Firewall uses encryption for many things: VPN tunnels, remote management, hardware-level trust, and inline decryption.

They also define stronger baselines of security for existing algorithms, which are already incorporated into Cisco Secure Firewall.

Support arrives in Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) 10.5 and ASA 9.25, targeted for General Availability in late 2026.

PQC support for TLS client features is planned for ASA/FTD 11.0, while management web server PQC support depends on underlying web server library readiness.

Cisco Secure Firewall is building post-quantum cryptography into every layer of the platform, so that when your organization is ready to make the transitio…

At this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, service providers showed up from around the world to join over 115,000 attendees from 210 countries.

We leveraged the lessons learned from previous SOC deployments, adding the new Secure Firewall 6160, which is designed specifically for AI-ready data centers.

Clockwise from the upper left quadrant: Firepower in Security Cloud Control, Splunk Cloud dashboard for MWC, Splunk Enterprise Security Mission Control and Cisco XDR.

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Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona is one of the most demanding environments for network and security operations.

For the 2nd year, the Cisco team leveraged Splunk, in addition to its other security products, to deliver a unified Security Operations Center (SOC) and Network Operations Center (NOC) experience.

Clockwise from the upper left quadrant: Firepower in Security Cloud Control, Splunk Cloud dashboard for MWC, Splunk Enterprise Security Mission Control and Cisco XDR.

Bridging SOC and NOC: From Visibility to ContextTraditionally, SOC and NOC teams operate in parallel, often using separate tools and datasets.

Edge engineering still matters in cloud-first architecturesComponents like …

Among the new security features, the one I was most eager to explore was Shadow Traffic detection.

Observing Shadow Traffic at scale on the live congress wireless network provided useful insight.

The Shadow Traffic dashboard put Tailscale VPN, ExpressVPN, and NordVPN at the top of the list.

Shadow Traffic detection conveniently labels the suspicious connections, making filtering in the Unified Events Viewer straightforward and precise.

With Shadow Traffic detection, you expand visibility into inspection gaps that most organizations don’t even realize they have.

Please note that the network of the venue remains protected at the DNS level by Cisco Secure Access outside the event.

Access to these AI models can be managed with Secure Access to secure AI apart from just leveraging AI for security.

During the event, Secure Access blocked access to one of those phishing domains.

Secure Access Investigate, as appearing above, provides real-time actionable threat intelligence by analysing global data from the Secure Access network using AI to detect, score, and predict emerging threats.

ConcludingThe AI-powered Security and Network Operations Center (S/NOC) at Mobile World Congress 2026 demonstrated Cisco’s commitment to leveraging cutting-edge technologie…

Data optimization in security is often discussed as a cost control mechanism.

In a Splunk security stack, data optimization is not about reducing volume.

Advanced Optimization Blind Spots in Splunk Security EnvironmentsData Model Acceleration Blindness: Aggressive filtering often breaks Common Information Model (CIM) compliance or data model population.

Security data optimization must include: Search workload modeling; concurrent triage simulation; adversary emulation exercises.

Final Thought and Call to ActionIn Splunk security architectures, data optimization is not a storage tuning exercise, finance initiative, or infrastructure refresh it is a security engineering discipline.

Every year, the Cisco Talos Year in Review captures the patterns shaping the threat landscape.

To unpack the biggest takeaways and what they mean for security teams, we brought together Christopher Marshall, VP of Cisco Talos, and Peter Bailey, SVP and GM of Cisco Security.

For the full discussion, head over to the Cisco Talos blog where you can also download the Year in Review report.

Old vulnerabilities, new speedMarshall: One of the clearest trends in this year’s data is the contrast in how vulnerabilities are being exploited.

Read full post on the Cisco Talos blogWe’d love to hear what you think!

Microsoft has identified an active supply chain attack targeting the @antv node package manager (npm) package ecosystem.

Rotate credentials, tokens, npm access tokens, CI/CD secrets, and cloud credentials that might have been exposed in affected build or developer environments.

Review npm package lockfiles, build logs, and artifact provenance for evidence of compromised package versions.

Learn 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 Microsoft Threat Intelligence community about the ever-evolving threat landscape, listen to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence p…

In this article, Aaron Zollman, Vice President and Deputy CISO for Gaming at Microsoft discusses the unique challenges and rewards of securing gaming.

There are more than 500 million monthly active players¹ across Xbox consoles, PC, handheld, and more through Xbox cloud gaming.

Gaming isn’t really a single culture, but rather a culture of cultures—each with their own risk factors to account for.

I work closely with Temi Adabambo, General Manager for Gaming Security, Microsoft, and Eric Mourinho, Chief Architect, Microsoft, to co-develop secure environments and shared tooling.

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Built to reproduce your AI red team findings and AI incidents: RAMPART is designed to work alongside dedicated red teaming, and the two reinforce each other.

The ownership model is intentionally flipped from the traditional approach: engineers write the tests, engineers run them, and engineers treat failures like any other bug.

Agent safety ultimately comes down to what the agent does, which means evaluators need to look at which tools it invokes, what side effects occur, and whether those actions stay within expected boundaries.

Together, these approaches move AI safety from a one-time review to a set of living artifacts that developers can use throughout the lifecycle.

RAMPART and Clarity…

Fox Tempest has created over a thousand certificates and established hundreds of Azure tenants and subscriptions to support its operations.

Fox Tempest’s SignSpace code signing service upload pageIn February 2026, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a notable shift in Fox Tempest’s operational infrastructure.

Case study: Fox Tempest enables Vanilla Tempest attacksVanilla Tempest began using Fox Tempest’s MSaaS service as early as June 2025.

Through this service, Vanilla Tempest uploaded malicious payloads such as trojanized Microsoft Teams installers, which Fox Tempest would fraudulently signed to appear legitimate.

To hear stories and insights from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence comm…

Directory discovery and persistenceFollowing the initial identity takeover, the threat actor conducted directory discovery using Microsoft Graph API.

We assess that this behavior reflects an attempt to identify opportunities for lateral movement from a compromised cloud identity into the endpoint network.

However, the threat actor wasn’t able to retrieve the secrets because the managed identity lacked the required permissions.

Learn 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 Microsoft Threat Intelligence community about the ever-evolving threat landscape, liste…

In celebrating National Small Business Month, we want to acknowledge the unique challenges that growing business leaders face as AI creates both opportunity and risk.

Cybersecurity—from IT issue to business riskToday’s cybersecurity landscape is defined by speed, scale, and automation—trends that disproportionately affect growing businesses.

Even short disruptions can have outsized consequences for growing businesses, from lost revenue and stalled growth to reputational damage that’s hard to repair.

Microsoft Security is built with this in mind, offering integrated, easy‑to‑manage protections that help safeguard devices, identities, email, and cloud apps without adding unnecessary complexit…

Designing Secure Autonomous AI Agents with Defense in DepthAI agents are moving beyond assistance and into action.

Security for agentic AI relies on defense in depth.

Pattern 1: Design agents like microservicesThe most consequential application layer decision is action scope: how broadly you define an agent’s responsibilities.

To implement Pattern 1: Agents as Microservices and Pattern 2: Least permissions, agents must never have the same identity as the user.

As organizations deploy more agentic AI systems, the question is not whether agents will make mistakes.

Designing Secure Autonomous AI Agents with Defense in DepthAI agents are moving beyond assistance and into action.

Security for agentic AI relies on defense in depth.

Pattern 1: Design agents like microservicesThe most consequential application layer decision is action scope: how broadly you define an agent’s responsibilities.

To implement Pattern 1: Agents as Microservices and Pattern 2: Least permissions, agents must never have the same identity as the user.

As organizations deploy more agentic AI systems, the question is not whether agents will make mistakes.

By separating responsibilities across Kernel, Bridge, and Worker modules and restricting external communications to a single elected leader, Kazuar reduces its observable footprint.

Type: KernelThe Kernel module serves as the central coordinator for the botnet.

Leadership electionOne of the methods that Kazuar uses to limit external communication is to use a single Kernel leader per botnet.

Botnet operationsWith the botnet setup complete, configurations instantiated, and a leader elected, Kazuar transitions into its steady state operational phase.

The Kernel module task handler has a few additional functions that handle commands issued from the leader Kernel module.

By separating responsibilities across Kernel, Bridge, and Worker modules and restricting external communications to a single elected leader, Kazuar reduces its observable footprint.

Type: KernelThe Kernel module serves as the central coordinator for the botnet.

Leadership electionOne of the methods that Kazuar uses to limit external communication is to use a single Kernel leader per botnet.

Botnet operationsWith the botnet setup complete, configurations instantiated, and a leader elected, Kazuar transitions into its steady state operational phase.

The Kernel module task handler has a few additional functions that handle commands issued from the leader Kernel module.

In this blog, we look at examples of exploitable misconfigurations we’ve observed in some of the popular AI applications and platforms.

Defender for Cloud signals indicate that more than half of cloud-native workload exploitations, including AI applications, stem from misconfigurations.

Exploitable misconfigurations in popular AI applicationsIn the following sections, we discuss examples of exploitable misconfigurations found in popular applications and platforms across the AI and agentic ecosystem.

Learn 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 Microsoft Thr…

In this blog, we look at examples of exploitable misconfigurations we’ve observed in some of the popular AI applications and platforms.

Defender for Cloud signals indicate that more than half of cloud-native workload exploitations, including AI applications, stem from misconfigurations.

Exploitable misconfigurations in popular AI applicationsIn the following sections, we discuss examples of exploitable misconfigurations found in popular applications and platforms across the AI and agentic ecosystem.

Learn 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 Microsoft Thr…

Yet, despite their importance, high‑quality security attack logs are notoriously difficult to collect, especially at scale.

In this post, we explore a different path: using AI to generate realistic, high‑fidelity synthetic security attack logs.

This blog examines whether AI-assisted synthetic log generation can provide similar fidelity, without the operational overhead of lab‑based attack execution.

We limited the evaluation of synthetic attack logs to malicious activity during the attack windows.

Overall, agentic collaboration emerges as the most effective technique for high‑quality synthetic attack logs generation.

Yet, despite their importance, high‑quality security attack logs are notoriously difficult to collect, especially at scale.

In this post, we explore a different path: using AI to generate realistic, high‑fidelity synthetic security attack logs.

This blog examines whether AI-assisted synthetic log generation can provide similar fidelity, without the operational overhead of lab‑based attack execution.

We limited the evaluation of synthetic attack logs to malicious activity during the attack windows.

Overall, agentic collaboration emerges as the most effective technique for high‑quality synthetic attack logs generation.

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.