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Специалист сумел превратить ошибку управления памятью в работающий эксплойт.

Опасная брешь затрагивает сразу несколько поколений корпоративных устройств.

Гигантские ЦОДы сделали бизнес уязвимым.

Смотрите главную ежегодную технологическую конференцию Positive Technologies.

В России выберут CISO года.

Большие языковые модели любят плотную математику и огромную память, а нейроморфные чипы сильнее там, где можно вообще ничего не считать до появления события.

Шестьдесят миллионов долларов, подставные таксисты и бизнес на чужом отчаянии.

Защита стоимостью в миллионы оказалась бессильна перед одним ключом.

Двое ученых уже попались на удочку и теперь ничего не могут доказать.

Машины намеренно загоняют в ситуации, которые разработчики предпочли бы никогда не увидеть наяву.

Хакеры получили 46 способов превратить обычный компьютер в персонального шпиона.

Миллиарды долларов, миллионы фальшивых личностей и бизнес, которому позавидовали бы наркокартели.

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

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

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

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

Имеются в виду т…

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

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

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

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

В итоге, как подчеркнул Илья Башкиров, юридическая защита является последним рубежом в том случае, когда инцидент уже произошёл.

В частности, «Промтрансбанк» взыскал штраф за утечку данных с аутсорсингового оператора «Экспресс лаб» ещё в 2023 году.

Плюс ко всему, как напомнила Анастасия Петрова, их могут привлечь и как должностных лиц, для которых размер штрафа существенно выше.

Чаще всего несанкционированное вмешательство проводилось в информационных системах операторов связи (для завышения показателей продаж) и в медицинские информационные системы (для оформления подложных документов).

В 12 % случаев встречались копирование данных и «пробив», в 10 % — воздействие на установленное ПО или в…

Разбираемся в том, какую телеметрию собирает EDR, как выявлять мисконфигурации и уязвимости и где нужны другие средства защиты.

По данным BI.ZONE SOC, в 73% компаний разрешён запуск опасных утилит через sudo, а в 88% возможен SSH-доступ по паролю, включая root.

От контейнера к контролю над кластеромСледующий шаг — побег из контейнера.

Ноды кластеров и CI/CD-серверы изначально относятся к высоконагруженным системам, и в них заметен даже стандартный объём мониторинга.

Одна и та же уязвимость в контейнере с избыточными привилегиями открывает дорогу к побегу на хост, а в изолированном остаётся малозначимой.

Такой опыт позволил последовательно развивать продукт и накапливать экспертизу не в отдельных технологиях, а в самой функции защиты сетевого трафика.

Функциональные возможности «ЗАСТАВЫ 9»«ЗАСТАВА 9» обеспечивает комплексную защиту устройств пользователей, сетей и каналов связи от внутренних и внешних угроз.

Расположение элементов также оптимизировали для экранов с небольшим разрешением: они не перекрывают друг друга и остаются удобными для работы.

Веб-интерфейс «ЗАСТАВЫ-Офис»Возможности управления системой через веб-браузер, доступные в восьмой версии, сохранились и в девятой.

Главное окно ключевого центраСравнение возможностей девятой и восьмой версийВендор развивает поддержку протоколов …

Но есть и обратная сторона: проявились риски, связанные как с несовершенством технологий, так и с тем, что ИИ осваивают атакующие.

Однако в последний год использование ИИ стало обходиться дорого, и в итоге многие компании даже начали массово возвращать людей, уволенных после его внедрения.

При этом автономные поезда, в том числе метро, или трамваи — далеко не редкость, в том числе и в российских городах.

Такой вывод был сделан по итогам предвыборной кампании и по наличию разных аспектов, связанных с использованием ИИ, в повестках думских партий.

Мы работаем над новыми требованиями, но в большей степени в привязке к рискам и угрозам от ИИ, а не к регламентированию конкретных моделей.

ВведениеПо данным рыночных исследований, 24% российских компаний уже используют ИИ в облаке, ещё 18% планируют начать в ближайший год.

При работе с ИИ в облаке сохраняется привычная схема: провайдер отвечает за инфраструктуру, а клиент — за развёрнутые поверх неё системы.

В случае с готовой моделью, предоставляемой как облачный сервис, провайдер отвечает за инфраструктуру и безопасность предоставляемой модели.

Провайдер отвечает за инфраструктуру и управляемые им компоненты, а на стороне клиента остаются данные, права доступа, собственные модели и решения о том, как использовать ответы и действия ИИ-систем.

Задача CISO — встроить ИИ в существующие процессы безопасности: учитывать его в моде…

Новые проблемы ИБ, вроде загрузки рабочих документов в ChatGPT или Qwen, сливаются с ростом угроз и ответственности за инциденты.

При этом само по себе единое рабочее пространство ещё не превращает среду в закрытый контур.

Такой подход позволяет контролировать не только место хранения информации, но и то, кто, откуда и при каких условиях получает к ней доступ.

Компрометация учётной записи сотрудника, вредоносная программа на его устройстве, избыточные права или подключённое стороннее приложение могут дать злоумышленнику доступ и к корпоративной среде.

Именно поэтому сегодня закрытый контур — уже не вопрос зрелости ИБ, а инструмент управления бизнес-рисками.

Новые проблемы ИБ, вроде загрузки рабочих документов в ChatGPT или Qwen, сливаются с ростом угроз и ответственности за инциденты.

При этом само по себе единое рабочее пространство ещё не превращает среду в закрытый контур.

Такой подход позволяет контролировать не только место хранения информации, но и то, кто, откуда и при каких условиях получает к ней доступ.

Компрометация учётной записи сотрудника, вредоносная программа на его устройстве, избыточные права или подключённое стороннее приложение могут дать злоумышленнику доступ и к корпоративной среде.

Именно поэтому сегодня закрытый контур — уже не вопрос зрелости ИБ, а инструмент управления бизнес-рисками.

Какие задачи можно передать провайдеруВ интервью подробно обсуждалось распределение ответственности между оператором инфраструктуры и оператором информационной системы.

Максим Куртин объяснил, что в классической модели ответственности всё, что находится ниже среды виртуализации, относится к зоне ответственности оператора инфраструктуры.

Сколько времени занимает подготовка к аттестацииОтдельно в интервью обсуждались сроки создания инфраструктуры и подготовки к аттестации.

Виктор Коноплёв пояснил, что в отношении продуктов, предоставляемых в качестве сервиса, провайдер может следить за их обновлением и работоспособностью.

Особенности размещения инфраструктуры в защищённом облакеВ интервью так…

Какие задачи можно передать провайдеруВ интервью подробно обсуждалось распределение ответственности между оператором инфраструктуры и оператором информационной системы.

Максим Куртин объяснил, что в классической модели ответственности всё, что находится ниже среды виртуализации, относится к зоне ответственности оператора инфраструктуры.

Сколько времени занимает подготовка к аттестацииОтдельно в интервью обсуждались сроки создания инфраструктуры и подготовки к аттестации.

Виктор Коноплёв пояснил, что в отношении продуктов, предоставляемых в качестве сервиса, провайдер может следить за их обновлением и работоспособностью.

Особенности размещения инфраструктуры в защищённом облакеВ интервью так…

Эксперты ведущих российских вендоров и провайдеров услуг обсудили, где заканчивается автоматизация SOC и начинается реальная автономность.

Дальше можно идти туда, где риск минимален: если автоматизации можно доверить остановку служб и изменение конфигурационных файлов и это не остановит бизнес, то почему бы нет?

Михаил Карпенко считает, что в автоматизацию следует выводить те процессы, в которых уже есть уверенность, что их можно передать.

То, что вы составили первым и что кажется вам максимально понятным и управляемым, и нужно автоматизировать в первую очередь».

Автономность сегодня доходит до этапа вынесения первичного вердикта и, в ограниченном наборе типовых случаев, до локализации и пе…

Объединяет обнаружение и инвентаризацию ИТ-активов, поиск уязвимостей и ошибок конфигурации, активную проверку эксплуатации уязвимостей, приоритизацию и контроль устранения.

Информационная панель EASM в AlphaSense Symbiote SpaceС помощью фильтров задаются значения критериев отбора хостов и уязвимостей, отображаемых в блоке.

Реализуется полная поддержка системы CVSS версий 2, 3 и 4 для оценки критической значимости уязвимостей и их последующей приоритизации.

Платформа обнаруживает доступные извне активы и сервисы, связывает их с внутренней инвентаризацией и показывает открытые порты, версии ПО, уязвимости и реальную возможность эксплуатации.

ВыводыAlphaSense Symbiote Space объединяет обнаруж…

Объём событий и характер трафикаСамый простой детектор — порог на количество событий: «если за час срабатываний втрое больше обычного, сообщить».

В 10:00 объём событий почти не изменился: 5 332 против 5 025 в среднем за предыдущие часы, рост на 6 %.

Суточным ростом нагрузки это не объясняется: остальные правила весь день давали 3–6 тысяч событий в час, как и в предыдущие четыре дня, и весь прирост пришёлся на SQL-инъекции.

Частота проверкиДетектор работает в двух режимах, и у каждого свои длина базового периода, глубина истории, минимум событий и пороги.

ИтогиИз десятков миллионов событий в сутки детектор выявляет около сорока аномалий на всё облако, в среднем одну в неделю на клиента.

Не удивительно, ведь злоумышленники всегда играли на чувствах и опасениях жертв, а текущая ситуация создает огромные возможности для подобных действий.

В последнее время эта схема перекочевала в вакансии - кандидату пишет якобы рекрутер и предлагает податься на вакансию.

Но, допустим, все ваши подозрения не оправдались и все выглядит, как обычное интервью, на что бы я обратил внимание еще?

В тот момент я только изучал возможности встроенного в IDE ИИ-помошника и, как и многие, был довольно скептически настроен к возможностям вайб-кодинга.

Удивительным для меня было еще то, что представитель компании попросил прислать результаты в отдельном файле в гугл-докс, а не создать отдельную ветку в р…

Вес сместился в отпечаток клиента (TLS ClientHello, порядок и параметры HTTP/2 фреймов, набор и порядок заголовков), в непрерывность сессии (cookie, локальное хранилище, токены приложения) и в поведение внутри сессии.

За одним внешним адресом оператора одновременно сидят тысячи абонентов, поэтому площадка платит за блок по IP живыми покупателями.

Кто-то повесил её и на таймер, и на обработчик капчи одновременно.

User-Agent заявляет мобильный Chrome, а ClientHello и порядок заголовков от python-requests, и это ловится без всякого IP и без поведенческого анализа.

Суточную и недельную сезонность я не смотрел и не исключаю, что в выходные доля таймерных смен другая.

Три типа площадокБазовый чек-лист для любого сайтаЭти восемь шагов нужны всем, независимо от того, где и на чем работает сайт.

Если сайт и почта лежат вместе, вы теряете и то, и другое: клиенты не могут ни зайти на сайт, ни написать.

Если на той же площадке, что и сайт, их встроенные бэкапы при аварии бесполезны, и пункт про локальную копию становится обязательным.

Не в соседнюю стойку и не в другой зал того же дата-центра, а к другому провайдеру в другом городе.

Поставьте на резервную версию те же счетчики Яндекс Метрики и цели, что и на основном сайте.

ДисклеймерПубликация охватывает период с 1 по 30 сентября 2026 года и основана на доступных открытых источниках.

Оценки UPS отражают состояние каталога на дату наблюдения и не восстанавливают историческую срочность на конец отчётного периода.

Масштаб и состав утечки остаются заявлением сторон и не подтверждены независимым техническим разбором.

Urgent Patch означает «исправить срочно»;Emergency / IR — немедленно обновить систему и проверить возможный взлом.

В ней указано, что проверить, кто за это отвечает, в какой срок и как убедиться, что всё сделано.

Специалисты компании Anthropic предупреждают, что уже в ближайшие месяцы небольшие ИИ-модели могут научиться самостоятельно распространяться на IoT-устройства, формируя ботнеты без централизованного управления.

Исследователи считают, что в первую очередь под угрозой окажутся плохо защищенные IoT-устройства, например, бюджетные ТВ-приставки под управлением Android, «умные» телевизоры, камеры и различная бытовая техника.

При этом предполагается, что крупную ИИ-модель можно будет разделить на части и распределить между несколькими IoT-девайсами, объединив их вычислительные мощности.

Новые копии агента также запускались не самостоятельно, а с помощью тестовой системы, которая предварительно про…

Исследователи из компании Bitdefender выявили вредоносную кампанию Midnight Mimosa, которая затронула тысячи бюджетных Android-смартфонов более чем в 150 странах.

Специалисты нашли малварь, которая была встроена непосредственно в прошивку устройств и позволяла злоумышленникам незаметно устанавливать новые приложения, заниматься рекламным мошенничеством и превращать смартфоны жертв в резидентные прокси.

Специалисты предупреждают, что нашли в магазине Google Play 13 приложений, связанных с кампанией Midnight Mimosa и содержащих аналогичный код для рекламного мошенничества.

Однако эти приложения не имеют таких высоких привилегий, которыми обладает предустановленная на устройства малварь.

Иссле…

В ней я объ­ясняю нюан­сы работы в Bash, которые важ­но знать каж­дому пен­тесте­ру.

Ког­да мы исполь­зуем скрип­товый файл, скрипт Bash работа­ет как пол­ноцен­ная прог­рамма со сво­ими опе­рато­рами управле­ния и цик­лами.

Единс­твен­ное отли­чие кода в том, что для запус­ка сто­рон­них ути­лит не нуж­но исполь­зовать допол­нитель­ные коман­ды и биб­лиоте­ки.

В этом слу­чае шебанг будет про­игно­риро­ван и скрипт при­нуди­тель­но выпол­нится в Bash.

В обыч­ных усло­виях, ког­да у тебя открыт тер­минал с Bash пря­мо в опе­раци­онной сис­теме, он работа­ет в режиме TTY (Teletype).

Все статьи, архив, PDF выпуски и бонусы при покупке товаровЗлоумышленники удаленно активировали системы разморозки холодильников в сотнях французских супермаркетов, и в результате магазины понесли серьезные убытки из-за испорченных продуктов.

В результате температура в холодильниках начала расти, что привело к порче как свежих, так и замороженных продуктов.

Представители компании Intermarché сообщили изданию BleepingComputer, что, по предварительным данным, атака затронула неназванного стороннего поставщика услуг, который обслуживает холодильное оборудование магазинов.

Примечательно, что позднее Шельшер сообщил представителям радиостанции RTL, что в Coopérative U не используют оборудование …

Все статьи, архив, PDF выпуски и бонусы при покупке товаровОткрыт прием предварительных заказов на новую печатную книгу « Обход антивирусов на практике ».

Он специализируется на обходе антивирусных защит и реверс-инжиниринге и работает в компании Deeplay на позиции Senior Reverse Engineer.

В новой книге автор исследует реальные антивирусные движки, восстанавливает их логику в дизассемблере и показывает, как работают разные механизмы обнаружения.

VirusTotal, эмуляторы и песочницы: как исследователи получают образцы, как устроены среды анализа и какими приемами их обходят.

«Обход антивирусов на практике» выйдет в твердом переплете, и релиз книги запланирован на январь 2027 года.

Разработчики торрент-поисковика TorrentClaw, созданного преимущественно с помощью ИИ, представили систему TrueSpec, которая проверяет содержимое раздач и выявляет поддельные файлы и малварь.

Как сообщает издание TorrentFreak, поисковик TorrentClaw появился в феврале 2026 года и уже проиндексировал более шести миллионов торрентов.

Кроме того, TorrentClaw ориентирован в первую очередь на фильмы и сериалы, то есть практически не исследует пиратские игры и ПО.

В настоящее время TrueSpec проверил уже 687 057 торрентов и выявил 1265 подозрительных раздач (менее 0,2%).

Большинство вредоносных раздач (22) обнаружил собственный DHT-краулер TorrentClaw, а остальные были найдены на трекерах Nyaa, The …

Проблема затрагивает GitLab Community Edition (CE) и Enterprise Edition (EE) и получила максимальную оценку по шкале CVSS — 10 баллов из 10 возможных.

Уязвимость связана с целочисленным переполнением в компиляторе регулярных выражений CI/CD (Regular Expression Compiler), компоненте, который отвечает за обработку регулярных выражений в конфигурациях CI/CD-пайплайнов.

Из-за некорректной проверки регулярных выражений при определенных условиях атакующий мог внедрить специально подготовленное выражение в конфигурацию CI/CD и добиться выполнения произвольного кода на сервере GitLab.

CVE-2026-14814 (8,2 балла по шкале CVSS) — ошибка при обработке регулярных выражений, позволявшая атакующему подмен…

В США арестовали 35-летнего инженера компании OpenAI Абдулрахмана Альфозана (Abdulrahman Alfozan), которого подозревают в установке скрытого записывающего устройства в переговорной комнате руководства компании.

По версии следствия, мужчина установил скрытое записывающее устройство в переговорной комнате, предварительно завернув его в туалетную бумагу.

Как сообщает Министерство юстиции США, Альфозан — гражданин Саудовской Аравии, который работал в OpenAI с июля 2025 года.

В тот же день сотрудники службы безопасности нашли второй похожий девайс в сумке, которую инженер оставил без присмотра в другом помещении.

При этом в OpenAI подчеркивают, что пока не обнаружено никаких признаков того, что …

На прошлой неделе представители OpenAI сообщили, что уведомили более ста организаций о потенциально опасной активности ИИ-моделей, поведение которых отклонялось от заданных ограничений.

При этом в компании подчеркивают: такие уведомления не означают, что модели обязательно получили доступ к конфиденциальным данным или скомпрометировали сторонние системы.

Используя только общедоступную информацию, они обнаружили признаки доступа ИИ-агентов OpenAI к ресурсам 55 организаций в период с марта по сентябрь 2026 года.

В OpenAI заявляют, что большая часть изученной активности агентов была связана с обычными исследовательскими задачами и работой с публичными веб-страницами.

В компании объясняют, что …

ФБР и Секретная служба США (USSS) предупредили, что кампания FortiBleed по-прежнему активна и создает риски.

Этот сниффер перехватывал проходящий через устройства трафик 24 протоколов и собирал пароли, NTLM- и Kerberos-хеши, тикеты и токены.

Теперь в ФБР и USSS сообщают, что атаки продолжаются, а собранные учетные данные проходят дополнительную проверку и обработку.

Специальные скрипты отсеивают ханипоты, сопоставляют данные с конкретными организациями и приоритизируют наиболее привлекательные цели с учетом их выручки и структуры сети.

Отмечалось, что как минимум в двенадцати случаях похищенные учетные данные в итоге использовались для развертывания шифровальщиков.

Жаловал­ся он на Qilin — плат­форму, на которой сам же работал аффи­лиатом.

Аф­фили­ат в этой модели взла­мыва­ет жертв и исполь­зует инс­тру­мен­ты плат­формы в обмен на долю выкупа.

в этой модели взла­мыва­ет жертв и исполь­зует инс­тру­мен­ты плат­формы в обмен на долю выкупа.

А потом Tox-чат с той фир­мой исчез вмес­те с день­гами, а с ним для hastalamuerte исчезла и вся­кая воз­можность доказать даже само сущес­тво­вание сдел­ки.

Hastalamuerte и Devman до всей этой исто­рии вхо­дили в груп­пу под наз­вани­ем Phantom Mantis, и оба обви­няли Qilin в кидало­ве аффи­лиатов еще до того, как разош­лись каж­дый по сво­ему пути.

Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners.

The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134, which could be chained to sidestep authentication and execute arbitrary commands on affected systems.

In a report published earlier this month, Huntress said it observed threat actors combining the two flaws to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution and deploy web shells and cryptocurrency miners on exposed systems.

Although the vulnerabilities were initially assumed to be addressed in AhsayCBS versions 9.15.2.59 and 10.3.4…

Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of remote code execution in the management interface.

"A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the management interface of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an authenticated attacker with network access to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the firewall," Palo Alto Networks said.

"You can reduce the risk of exploitation by restricting access to a jump box that is the only system allowed to access the management interface," it said.

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Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance's operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday.

Secure Email and Web Manager and Secure Web Appliance are not.

System Security: Security scan did not complete.

Secure Email Cloud customers it has contacted are asked to renew credentials and cryptographic material where possible.

The September ReleaseThis is the second Secure Email Gateway flaw Cisco has confirmed under attack in a month.

Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers.

Who Is AffectedThe app, published by Collabora under the package name richdocumentscode, downloads a copy of Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) and runs it on the Nextcloud server itself.

The script is a plain PHP file that the web server runs directly from the app's folder and loads none of Nextcloud's code.

What the Attackers DidThe first report came from an administrator who hosts several Nextcloud servers and wrote on GitHub that the servers had been hacked since the day before.

The CODE server it started carried the attack text in its star…

Microsoft is tracking the underground marketplace as Storm-3119 and the developers behind all three phishing kits as Storm-2990.

"These phishing kits have been advertised through YAM Store, first CoGUI and Haozi, followed by Iron Man System starting in June 2026," Microsoft said.

"YAM Store and affiliated phishing kit companies accepted payments through cryptocurrency, including USDT and Ethereum, adding another layer to conceal illicit activity."

Sell phishing kits tracked as Storm-2990 to facilitate theft of sign-in credentials and financial data.

The phishing kit, per the enterprise security company, has also spawned two closely related variants named CoAceV and CoFish_Ws.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme.

The following individuals have been charged -Sun Sheng Ming, 37, Dandong City, ChinaPei Li Guang, age unknown, Liaoning, ChinaWeng Shou Cheng, age unknown, Liaoning, ChinaHan Guo Bin, age unknown, Dandong City, ChinaWang Jian Jun, 34, Dandong City, ChinaSheng Zhang Kun, age unknown, Shenzhen, ChinaZhang Wei Ping, age unknown, Dandong City, ChinaZhang Li Ping, age unknown, unknown locationYu Yang, 40, age unknown, Dandong City, ChinaJin Long, 35, unknown locationMichael James Bostelle, 31, Philadelph…

"CISA is aware of cyber threat actors exploiting this zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability, which allows remote, unauthenticated execution of arbitrary commands, to conduct credential theft and data exfiltration," the agency said.

CISA is also recommending that customers of affected ICS deployments review Ivanti's Connect Secure Upgrade and Migration Compatibility Guide for patching guidance, cautioning that version 22.8 reaches end-of-life on January 31, 2027.

In the event a compromise is detected, CISA is advising organizations to implement the following actions -Create a backup of the appliance configuration.

Conduct a factory reset and upgrade the appliance to the latest version…

A flaw in how curl handles HTTP/2 uploads lets a malicious server receiving an upload corrupt the client's memory, and the researcher who reported it turned that into code execution on the uploading machine.

The curl project fixed it on October 14 in curl 8.23.0.

libcurl negotiates HTTP/2 by default for https:// URLs when the server offers it, and the library was built with HTTP/2 support.

The flaw has shipped in every curl release since 8.12.0 in February 2025.

HTTP/2 carries several transfers over one connection, and libcurl tracks each transfer with an object it calls an easy handle.

Cloned voices and synthetic video calls now show up in payment fraud, help desk resets, and access requests.

In the same survey, 43% reported at least one deepfake audio call incident and 37% had run into deepfakes on video calls.

A deepfake readiness drill is how you find out, on your own schedule, with nothing real on the line.

If an employee runs the same verification step every time money, credentials, or permissions are involved, the quality of the fake stops mattering much.

Real-time identity verification for collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams analyzes voice and video during a meeting and warns participants when someone doesn't match the identity they claim.

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

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

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

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

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

Data breach notifications are telling victims less than ever.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By offering teams AI assistance to improve productivity.

By offering teams AI assistance to improve productivity.

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

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

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

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

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

What are the warning signs of a timeshare exit scam?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vibe coded apps may also be exposed to prompt injection.

What can go wrong with vibe coded apps?

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

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

Are all vibe coded apps dangerous?

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

How do Bitcoin ATM scams work?

How do I stay safe from Bitcoin ATM scams?

What can I do straight after a Bitcoin ATM scam?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many have moved past chatbots and begun assigning work to AI agents in the hope of gaining an edge on their similarly resource-strapped competitors and levelling the playing field with larger companies.

Indeed, the ambitious adopters are deploying, or at least experimenting with, multi-agent ‘assembly lines,’ where one supervisor agent manages swarms of specialist agents and passes work between them.

Of course, some risks surrounding AI agents have familiar roots: an agent’s supply chains can be compromised and its permissions abused.

Agents can also suffer from agentic misalignment where they proceed doggedly even if it involves, for example, breaking into other companies.

For a company wi…

And it doesn’t get much darker than ‘nudification’ or ‘nudify’ apps.

Are ‘nudify’ apps illegal?

The short answer is “it depends.” In the US, there’s no federal law explicitly prohibiting ‘nudify’ apps.

Can I sue over an AI nude image?

Will reporting a fake nude image make it disappear everywhere?

A month later, we noticed that the group had started using the new SparroWocky backdoor, which then quickly replaced SparrowDoor as FamousSparrow’s main implant.

Based on our investigation, we attribute the latest campaign and the SparroWocky backdoor to FamousSparrow with high confidence, since in some of the first attacks involving this backdoor, SparroWocky was deployed by the FamousSparrow-exclusive SparrowDoor.

Backdoor commandsThe backdoor first establishes communication with its C&C server, then executes its core logic in an infinite loop, within which it processes received commands.

A common technique that the backdoor uses is dynamic API resolution via API hashing, but the backdoor…

This calls for a different operational model where AI and automation support security teams where it makes sense, with human oversight for decisions that require context and judgment.

ESET SMB Cyber Readiness Index 2026 found that most (73%) SMBs are integrating AI into their business.

Processing exfiltrated data: AI rapidly classifies, cleans-up, and extracts large volumes of information from stolen data in order to make it more monetizable/usable for cybercriminals.

Why SMBs are struggling with complexityUnfortunately, security teams are already on the back foot.

That means protection for AI conversations, agents, AI-generated outputs, AI components, sensitive data, and the broader AI eco…

In this Help Net Security interview, Michael Scott, CISO at Immuta, talks about how organizations should handle permissions for AI agents.

He predicts at least two major enterprises outside the AI sector will suffer a critical AI-related incident within 18 months.

An agent shouldn’t retain broad access simply because it might need it again someday.

An agent shouldn’t be able to hand off all its permissions just because it’s handing off a task.

Over the next 18 months, at least two major enterprises outside the AI sector will experience a critical AI-related security or privacy incident.

Exposed industrial control systems rose about 4% in two and a half years.

For all four products, the oldest version group changed its share by about one percentage point or less.

ICS owners are hard to findCensys counted about 134,000 hosts running industrial control system (ICS) services in early 2026, up from about 129,000 in 2024.

Verizon’s cellular network alone hosts 10% of exposed ICS hosts and 27.5% of exposed human-machine interfaces, the screens operators use to run equipment.

More than 80% of ICS hosts also run an ordinary IT service such as HTTP or SSH, so an attacker may not need to understand the industrial protocol at all.

Other tools include AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild, Bitbucket Pipelines and custom systems.

Organizations using several CI/CD tools cite different client requirements, technology stacks and inherited systems.

Developers access CI/CD tools through MCP servers and agent skills, connecting assistants they already use to their development workflows.

Teams using AI report that the volume of generated changes slows reviews and makes reliability difficult to assess.

Other concerns include unpredictable AI costs, tracking which changes were made by AI and debugging issues it introduces.

GuardOS is an iPhone application that combines device security checks, VPN access, Safari content filtering, QR link scanning, and storage cleanup.

During my walkthrough, it flagged one issue: Web Protection was turned off.

Protection Check runs through web protection, passcode, biometrics, and software update status.

Safe QR Scanner checks a code’s destination before opening it.

ConclusionGuardOS puts several iPhone tools in one place, but the QR code scanner and storage scanner are the ones I’d return to.

In Texas, FBI agents searched more than 40 suspected “laptop farms” between September 21 and 25 as part of Operation Lonestar Roundup, seizing about 187 laptops and KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) devices.

“It is about a hostile foreign regime infiltrating American companies through stolen identities and covert access points inside our own borders.

Every laptop farm we dismantle shuts down a revenue stream that the North Korean government relies on to fund weapons programs that threaten global stability.” Raybould noted.

The arrests follow a string of US cases against people who helped North Korean IT workers.

Help Net Security recently reported that researchers found suspected North Korean wo…

Security and IT teams are under pressure to adopt AI, but many are seeing the opposite of what was promised.

Tools that demo well don’t hold up in real workflows.

Trust breaks down.

And instead of reducing workload, AI can introduce new risks and oversight burdens.

This guide breaks down why AI adoption fails in practice and gives teams a clearer path forward, from evaluation to implementation, with humans in the loop.

TFG London, the UK business of South African retail group The Foschini Group (TFG), detected the incident on Sunday, 11 October 2026.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the company said the attack hit some of its IT systems, specifically those used by Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles.

After detecting the incident, TFG London activated its incident response and business continuity plans and brought in outside cybersecurity specialists to contain the attack.

If the investigation finds that such information was compromised, TFG London said it will notify the people and organizations affected.

The TFG London incident is the second attack on a UK retailer disclosed in a week.

Radware has announced Radware Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server Protection, a purpose-built solution designed to help organizations more securely adopt MCP as AI agents gain greater access to enterprise applications, data and business workflows.

The solution is intended to give organizations visibility into their MCP infrastructure, help protect MCP servers against MCP-specific attacks and establish governance as deployments scale.

Radware MCP Server Protection is designed to help address this gap by protecting the MCP server itself.

It is designed to support MCP servers deployed in public clouds, private clouds, Kubernetes and hardware-based data centers.

Radware is extending its AI secu…

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

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

Another IoT cyberattack, this one in France:

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

[…]

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

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

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

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

On Wednesday I spent a day fishing, on a small boat out of Gloucester, MA. We caught many cod (none of which we could keep), and a bunch of hake and mackerel (all of which we could keep). And…I caught a squid! Near as I can tell, it’s a longfin squid, sometimes called a Boston squid (Doryteuthis (Amerigo) pealeii).

That night I cooked it over a barbecue grill—hot and fast. Delicious.

This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs.

Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of the evening newscast. She held up a hand-drawn sign behind the anchor’s head that read: “Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They’re lying to you!” She shouted, “No to war!” until she was dragged away.

No one has protested the war on Russian television since then, partly as a result of tighter security and a general climate of fear. But in October 2024, Margarita Simonyan, one of Russia’s chief propagandists, gave another explanation. A growing number of th…

Apple just released a system called “Reference Image.” It can verify the image is exactly as taken by an iPhone—new models only—without tying it to a specific iPhone or photographer. It can also verify that multiple images came from the same iPhone.

Other industry solutions require a photographer or institution to vouch for an image using their own credentials. We are concerned this puts some photographers, such as those operating in conflict zones, in a difficult position; it should not be necessary to forgo anonymity in order to prove image authenticity. We built Apple Reference Image to avoid using an explicit, public credential for photographers, and to avoid even implicit public associ…

404Media is reporting (alternate link) that a cyber-weapons arms manufacturer is exploiting a vulnerability in iOS to bypass its automatic reboot security feature. This is the feature that automatically puts an iPhone into a more secure state if it hasn’t been used for 72 hours.

The new technology to get around inactivity reboot was developed by Magnet Forensics, the company behind GrayKey, a popular tool sold to law enforcement agencies that allows them to unlock and access data stored in iPhones and Android smartphones. Magnet has developed a new device called GrayKey Preserve and a feature for its regular GrayKey devices called Evidence Preservation Mode, according to the video...

This one is from 1809, written by Napoleon’s nephew.

The EU is recommending import controls to combat unregulated squid fishing in the Southwest Atlantic. I’m not optimistic.

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.

St. Lucie County in Florida discovered (alt link) a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it can’t identify, and that the county government had not permitted.

I am reminded of the decade-old story of StingRay cell phone surveillance devices in Washington, DC, whose operators were also unknown.

My guess is that in the StingRay case, the devices were operated by foreign actors. This Flock case is more likely some local government entity that didn’t bother getting approval. Were I a foreign actor, I would rather hack the existing Flock network—like Israel ...

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian.

New campaign finance disclosure data shines a light on which US political campaigns are using AI tools and how much they are spending on them.

Candidates’, parties’ and committees’ spending reveals that AI is fast becoming an essential tool of politics. The candidates themselves are quiet about how they are using the technology in their own campaigns. It’s a sensitive issue that we have been tracking closely since we started writing our book, Rewiring Democracy...

Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports, evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers:

To determine this, CR dug through thousands of pages of automakers’ privacy policies and asked questions of 15 different automakers­BMW, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Stellantis, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, and Volkswagen. We also reviewed corporate, regulatory, and legal filings from data brokers operating in the “insurtech” industry­the technology companies and data brokers that help insurance companies set their rates. And we spoke to several car privacy experts, who, at industry conferences and in market re…

AI systems are regularly completing tasks in ways that their prompters don’t want or intend. Some of them are disturbing, and some of them are dangerous. This is something I’ve been calling “genie behavior,” because I think that really gets at the core of what’s happening.

I wish the popular press would report on this better. I don’t like the “going rogue” framing because it deflects the responsibility from the prompters—often the AI companies themselves. And now, pretty much anything off-script is being called “hacking.”

Take, for example, the recent stories of one of OpenAI’s models hacking into government systems. First, ...

Modern messaging apps allow users to link their phone accounts to their computer desktop. Eavesdroppers are taking advantage of this capability:

Apps such as WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop allow people to use their accounts on other devices, such as laptops or desktop computers.

Germany’s Customs Office has been using these features to connect a police-controlled computer to a suspect’s account.

Once connected, messages can be delivered to that computer without the police having to crack the encryption protecting them.

Netzpoltik details that police are able to gain access in this way either through physical access to someone’s phone or by intercepting verification codes via a state-sancti…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Y…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2019, Schuchm…

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

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

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

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

The l…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Don’…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In…

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

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

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

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

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

An oil tanker bound for Texas was boarded mid-voyage by the US Coast Guard and FBI last month, after its network may have been compromised by malicious hackers.

The VL Prosperity - a Liberian-flagged supertanker carrying roughly 2.3 million barrels of crude oil - apparently suffered a cyber attack while en route from Egypt's Sidi Kerir oil terminal to Galveston, Texas.

Two weeks later, a specialised team from the FBI and US Coast Guard boarded the vessel for four days, investigating the problem and helping the crew eradicate the threat from its IT and OT systems.

According to the US Coast Guard, the supertanker was boarded after indications that the network "may have been compromised by a f…

That's really, really cool.

And I'm going to be getting really, really sozzled by looking at the security of LG smart TVs.

So it's really, really compelling.

When we started off on the journey of building this AI pen testing approach, there was a lot of scepticism.

And listeners, you can learn more about Intruder or even start your own AI pen test in minutes.

44-year-old Kenneth Carter from Portland, Oregon, used to work in an AT&T retail store.

According to Carter's own plea agreement, the scam ran from May 2018 to November 2019 and involved at least three co-conspirators alongside Carter.

Carter would use his privileged store access to move a victim's number onto a SIM card under the control of himself or an accomplice.

In one incident in May 2018, described in Carter's plea agreement, the store employee swapped a victim's number onto an Alcatel handset while working his shift in Portland.

In December 2018, Carter successfully hijacked the number of a victim known as "S.Q.T" in Portland, and this time their account was successfully drained of …

If you're going to steal a quarter of a billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency, maybe don't broadcast on a group chat every time you buy a Lamborghini, or blow half a million dollars on a single night out at a nightclub.

Because it might just be that you draw the attention of the authorities.

Back in October 2024, we wrote about how he was arrested after allegedly tricking a single victim out of US $230 million worth of Bitcoin while posing as Google Support.

The party days are over now for Lam, who faces up to 20 years in prison when he is eventually sentenced.

You money may be a lot more safely stored in a hardware cold wallet.

Smashing Security, episode 484: How Websites Are Tracking You with Silence with Graham Cluley and special guest Danny Palmer.

I get by in the world, but I don't think you need me for listening for something really, really far away.

I don't know what the difference — I mean, now we get to see, I've opened a can of worms here.

I looked at his reply, you know, sort of summing up my article, and I thought, that wasn't written by a human.

And no, I don't mean the software pirates who download movies, music, and games for free from nefarious sources.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DNS continues to provide one of the clearest windows into activity across the Black Hat network.

At Black Hat, however, the value of DNS goes well beyond traditional threat blocking.

Its 4.42 million blocks represented 79.3% of every blocked DNS request .. Apple privacy-relay and encrypted-DNS hostnames collectively accounted for approximately 97.9% of blocks among the top blocked destinations.

For the Black Hat NOC/SOC, Secure Access DNS telemetry gives analysts a high-value control point and an investigative starting point.

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While developing a detection for Cisco Secure Network Analytics (SNA), I used the Splunk Detection Editor (Alpha) to bring much of that workflow into one place.

Instead of treating every observation as an incident, detections can create risk events associated with entities such as systems or users.

Developing the detection in one workspaceThe Detection Editor provides a workspace for building the search while configuring the other parts of the detection.

Risk events for the same entity need to use a consistent risk object so Splunk Enterprise Security can associate them correctly.

Splunk defines the risk object, its type, and its score as key parts of a risk event.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do frontier AI models change vulnerability management for CISOs?

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

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

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

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

How do frontier AI models change vulnerability management for CISOs?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Governments best p…

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

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

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

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

Governments best p…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Command and controlThe actor used HTTP and H…

Attack chain showing phishing delivering a masqueraded MSP360 RMM installer that deploys ScreenConnect for persistent remote access and follow-on activity.

Initial Access: Phishing Campaign Delivering Masqueraded MSP360 RMM InstallerMicrosoft observed multiple phishing campaigns that used a multi-stage delivery chain to distribute legitimate, digitally signed MSP360 RMM software (v2.5.0.67).

Analysis of downloaded samples showed that many ultimately contained the same MSP360 RMM installer package despite appearing as different files to the victim.

Command and ControlT1219 Remote Access Software | The threat actor abused legitimate remote administration software including MSP360 RMM and Conn…

Attack chain showing phishing delivering a masqueraded MSP360 RMM installer that deploys ScreenConnect for persistent remote access and follow-on activity.

Initial Access: Phishing Campaign Delivering Masqueraded MSP360 RMM InstallerMicrosoft observed multiple phishing campaigns that used a multi-stage delivery chain to distribute legitimate, digitally signed MSP360 RMM software (v2.5.0.67).

Analysis of downloaded samples showed that many ultimately contained the same MSP360 RMM installer package despite appearing as different files to the victim.

Command and ControlT1219 Remote Access Software | The threat actor abused legitimate remote administration software including MSP360 RMM and Conn…

By mapping trusted deployment paths and connected resources, the threat actor was able to identify opportunities to expand beyond the initial compromise.

In addition to deploying a kube agent, the threat actor modified pipeline scripts to install the Atera remote management agent and download the Chisel tunneling utility.

The threat actor added seven stolen kubeconfig files to a repository, providing the credentials needed to access targeted Kubernetes clusters.

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In 2026, Microsoft observed Star Blizzard shift from exclusively targeted spear-phishing operations to also conducting larger-scale phishing campaigns.

June 2026 RedFlick campaign follow-up email with the subject line “Invitation to the Chatham House London Conference 2026”Figure 3.

Persistence through multiple scheduled tasksIn April 2026, Microsoft observed Star Blizzard changing persistence tactics to include RedFlick scheduled tasks.

Defending against Star Blizzard and RedFlick-related activityMicrosoft Threat Intelligence advises organizations that are most likely at risk—primarily those in government, NGOs, or think tanks adjacent to Ukraine policy or support—to implement the followin…

In 2026, Microsoft observed Star Blizzard shift from exclusively targeted spear-phishing operations to also conducting larger-scale phishing campaigns.

June 2026 RedFlick campaign follow-up email with the subject line “Invitation to the Chatham House London Conference 2026”Figure 3.

Persistence through multiple scheduled tasksIn April 2026, Microsoft observed Star Blizzard changing persistence tactics to include RedFlick scheduled tasks.

Defending against Star Blizzard and RedFlick-related activityMicrosoft Threat Intelligence advises organizations that are most likely at risk—primarily those in government, NGOs, or think tanks adjacent to Ukraine policy or support—to implement the followin…

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,…