Из 857 релизов только девять получили публичную оценку рисков до запуска. Остальные не стали ждать.

Программа оказалась уязвима ещё до появления запроса на подключение.

Сатья Наделла предлагает готовиться к худшему.

Домен supaghost.cc с иранским следом в одиночку поднял нагрузку на сеть DomainTools наполовину.

350 тысяч подставных жертв превращают чужой рабочий день в дорогостоящий спектакль.

Манёвры возле разведывательного аппарата раскрыли неприятную проблему военного космоса.

Пока подозреваемый путешествовал, следователи уже готовили следующий ход.

Цена цифровой зависимости оказалась слишком высокой даже для крупнейших чиновников ЕС.

Positive Technologies фиксирует рост на 65%.

Как обеспечить защиту данных, отказоустойчивость и соответствие нормативным требованиям с помощью Security Vision и сертифицированной СУБД Jatoba

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.

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…

Таким образом, доля изменений кода с обнаруженными секретами при использовании ИИ-инструментов оказалась более чем в два раза выше среднего показателя.

Hardcoded secrets — пароли и ключи, записанные непосредственно в тексте программы или её настройках, то есть доступ к ресурсу оказывается неотделим от самого кода.

Сами по себе такие секреты не всегда появляются в коде по вине ИИ: разработчики оставляли ключи и пароли в репозиториях и раньше.

Срок действия доступа ограничен, и по его истечении доступ автоматически прекращается.

Ключ необходимо отозвать и заменить, проверить журналы его использования и при необходимости очистить историю репозитория.

ВведениеФизическая смарт-карта или USB-токен защищает закрытый ключ и позволяют использовать его для аутентификации и других криптографических операций.

С 1 октября 2025 года действует ГОСТ Р 70262.2-2025, который устанавливает уровни доверия аутентификации и определяет требования к видам и средствам аутентификации для каждого из них.

При этом важно, чтобы закрытый ключ не передавался за пределы защищённого хранилища и не мог быть штатно экспортирован.

Ограничения: KeyBox не заменяет механизм строгой аутентификации, инфраструктуру открытых ключей (PKI) или систему контроля состояния устройства, а управляет средствами аутентификации и их жизненным циклом.

Когда выбирать: если нужно централиз…

Среднее базовое ДМС обходится в 2 000 рублей в месяц.

Среднемесячную заработную плату округлим до 56 000 рублей на руки.

Аренда мощностей может обходиться в 5 000 — 20 000 рублей (и выше) в месяц.

Другие расходы:LLM-токены: 0,5 — 2 рублей за ответ, при 900 диалогах — от 2 000 до 6 000 рублей в месяц.

Сообщения бесплатны, платный контур — хостинг прослойки, 1 000 — 3 000 рублей в месяц.

Отдельно обсудили, как выбирать облачного провайдера — на какие критерии смотреть и что влияет на надёжность его сервисов.

Заказчик не видит эти процессы изнутри и не может управлять ими так же, как собственной инфраструктурой.

Но, как советует Станислав Попов, внедрять ИИ сейчас стоит осознанно и с пониманием ожидаемого бизнес-эффекта.

Тестирование аварийного восстановления (disaster recovery, DR) позволяет эмулировать сбои, проверить работу собственной инфраструктуры и цепочки поставщиков.

Вместо самостоятельного создания инфраструктуры и найма специалистов они могут использовать облачную инфраструктуру, соответствие которой необходимым требованиям уже подтверждено.

Платформы Low-code и No-code позволяют создавать бизнес-приложения, автоматизировать процессы и интегрировать системы силами специалистов без профильного образования в области программирования.

Что такое Low-code и No-codeАнтон Симуни объяснил разницу между No-code и Low-code.

No-code — это для непрофессиональных программистов, может быть, даже вообще для тех, кто создаёт приложения без профильного ИТ-образования (т. н.

В первом опросе зрители рассказали, используют ли они платформы No-code / Low-code в своей компании:«Пилотируют» / только начинают внедрение — 28 %.

ВыводыРынок Low-code и No-code в 2026 году перестал быть нишевым явлением.

Поговорим о безопасности ИИ для бизнеса.

Риски возникают, когда персонал начинает использовать искусственный интеллект в обход ИТ-контура компании, и не исчезают даже после внедрения корпоративного ИИ.

Учитывайте, что с 1 сентября 2026 года в России вступил в силу 243-ФЗ.

Что такое «серый» ИИ и почему он опасен?

«Серый» (как кардинал) ИИ — это ситуация, когда сотрудники используют публичные облачные нейросети, например ChatGPT, DeepSeek, GigaChat, для решения рабочих задач без ведома ИТ-службы и ИБ.

8 октября, с 01:31 мск.

С утра Yandex Cloud перевёл распределение квот на вычислительные ресурсы и диски в полностью ручной режим.

Ночные логи техподдержки и обсуждения в сообществе сервиса вскрыли суровую изнанку системного кризиса:Бэкапы внутри поражённого контура и катастрофа с RPO.

Клиенты пострадавшего провайдера одновременно ищут альтернативы (Selectel, VK Cloud), и это способно создать локальный дефицит свободных серверов и сетевых мощностей.

Настоящая надёжность строится не на слепой вере в обещания SLA, а на готовности к моменту, когда эти обещания разобьются о физическую реальность.

Заглавную букву подавай, цифру подавай, спецсимвол подавай, а пароль из восьми букв ей, видите ли, недостаточно элегантен.

Слова должны выпасть случайно, кубиком или генератором, а не родиться в вашей голове с мыслью «о, корова, забавно выйдет».

Стойкость прячется не в том, как пароль выглядит, а в том, как он появился на свет.

Выходит чуть медитативно и очень надежно, потому что кубик не знает ваших привычек и не пытается сделать фразу красивее.

Корова, лампа, поезд и ромашка не проходят ни одного пункта той же формы и при этом оставляют взломщику работу на месяцы, а при хорошем хешировании и на годы вперед.

Где сейчас живет HFT правильно, он ушел в более сложные FPGA и арбитраж на десятки бирж.

Его будут звать Дэйв, и он тоже не дурак, он умеет программировать, но ломать ему нравится больше чем писать код.

Так было всегда и это было самое начало гонки, можно сказать - черепашьи бега, эдакая пошаговая стратегия.

Ни один ИИ не заподозрит подвоха и с радостью выполняет просьбу, а даже если нет - всегда есть локальные модели с сорванной крышей и без тормозов по безопасности.

Появляются платные подписки и распространение версий только среди клиентов, но это не допустимо в opensource, выходит мы пришли к гонке на выживание.

Версия API в TypeScript-клиенте и в Go-сервере:Сравниваются все вхождения, а не первое: в первой версии вторая копия значения ниже по файлу могла проскочить.

Поля TypeScript-интерфейса и JSON-теги Go-структуры; статусы, которые пишет Python-воркер, и константы в Go; переменные окружения в коде и в .env.example .

Причина попадает в lock-файл и в ревью.

Три исхода, а не два: 0 — сошлось, 1 — расхождения, 2 — проверка не состоялась (модель не читается, ничего не просканировано).

Агенты строят карту, Crossweft не даёт им придумать связь или пропустить папку, но shared-code это или две копии — иногда знает только разработчик.

Мы в Beeline Cloud обсудим несколько свежих экспериментальных ОС с упором на инфобез и не только.

Первый уровень следит за функционированием вспомогательных узлов, согласует их работу и в целом занимается мониторингом всей системы.

Пятый уровень отвечает за адаптацию системы к меняющимся условиям.

Дискуссии о важности защиты памяти идут и в мире Linux.

Что еще почитать у нас в блоге и на нашей ИТ-площадке:

Забудьте на минуту, какая там модель, и выпишите всё, что агент может видеть и вызывать, куда может писать и на что может тратить деньги.

Разделяйте права на чтение и на запись.

И сделайте так, чтобы от любого субагента можно было пройти по цепочке до родительского агента и до человека, который за ним стоит.

Исходите из того, что промпт-инъекция рано или поздно сработаетПромпт-инъекция — это инструкции, которые атакующий подбрасывает в то, что читает агент.

Если агент может подправить записи, по которым потом будут разбирать его поведение, считайте, что аудиторского следа у вас нет.

Их мало (1 challenge на 1 попытку логина), они маленькие (32 байта + метаданные), живут недолго.

def __init__(self, detail: str, status_code: int = 400): super().__init__(status_code=status_code, detail=detail) class WebAuthnError(AuthException): """400 — ошибки верификации, протухший challenge и т.д."""

Показать Face ID / Touch ID / Windows Hello // startRegistration() — обёртка над navigator.credentials.create() const credential = await startRegistration({ optionsJSON: options as any, }); // 3.

Если пользователь отвлёкся и не подтвердил Face ID за 5 минут — повторяем.

У меня остался открытый вопрос: мы храним challenge в PostgreSQL, потому что не хотели тащить Redis ради 32-байтных записе…

Представители Ledger подтвердили, что уже обнаружили посторонний аппаратный компонент в одном из таких устройств.

По данным аналитиков из компании Bitquery, с помощью таких «закладок» злоумышленники могли похитить около 93,2 млн долларов США из 315 кошельков.

Первые сообщения о пропаже средств из кошельков Ledger появились в социальных сетях X и Reddit в конце прошлой недели.

В результате 9 октября 2026 года представители Ledger подтвердили, что расследуют сообщения о хищении средств у клиентов CryptoBilis — авторизованного продавца Ledger, который работает в Индонезии, Малайзии и на Филиппинах.

Пока в Ledger еще не подтвердили окончательную сумму ущерба и точное количество пострадавших.

В компании Anthropic начали предлагать пользователям Claude добровольно передавать записи своих голосовых разговоров для обучения и улучшения ИИ-моделей.

При этом использование голосовых данных для обучения моделей настраивается отдельно от использования обычных чатов и сессий Claude Code.

В этом сообщении Anthropic предлагает разрешить использование аудиозаписей и данных голосовых чатов, чтобы модели лучше понимали человеческую речь и отвечали на нее.

Судя по описанию, разрешение касается аудиозаписей и данных голосовых чатов из одобренных сессий, которые затем могут использоваться компанией для улучшения моделей.

Если пользователь передумает, позднее передачу голосовых данных для обучения…

ИБ-исследователь под ником BeakSec обнаружил в десктопном клиенте Telegram уязвимость CVE-2026-107181, которая позволяла похищать локальные файлы и «угонять» аккаунты пользователей.

Проблема затрагивали версии клиента вплоть до 7.2.9 и в настоящее время уже устранена.

В каждом из них указан путь к файлу, который необходимо похитить, а также группа в Telegram, куда следует отправить данные.

Исследователь подчеркивает, что Telegram Desktop по умолчанию автоматически загружает файлы размером до 8 Мбайт из групповых чатов.

Пользователям рекомендуется обновить мессенджер до последней версии, ограничить возможность добавления в группы в настройках и отключить автоматическое скачивание файлов.

Компания Google временно не принимает отчеты об уязвимостях через программу Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP).

Представители Google пишут, что в ближайшее время намерены переработать OSS VRP с учетом новой проблемы автоматизированных отчетов.

Отметим, что это не первая программа bug bounty, которая не справляется с потоком отчетов, сгенерированных или подготовленных с помощью ИИ.

Кроме того, в мае текущего года специалисты Google уже меняли правила bug bounty для Chrome и Android из-за широкого распространения ИИ-инструментов.

Тогда стандартные выплаты за баги в Chrome снизили, сделав упор на короткие отчеты с конкретными доказательствами существования проблемы.

Инженеры компании Apple планируют изменить механизм работы Full Disk Access (FDA) в macOS, чтобы приложения не могли получать доступ к файлам, почте, сообщениям и истории браузера без явного согласия пользователя.

Full Disk Access позволяет приложениям обходить часть ограничений macOS и читать или изменять данные, которые обычно для них недоступны.

Такой уровень доступа нужен, например, антивирусам и ПО для резервного копирования, однако в Apple предупреждают, что некоторые разработчики используют FDA слишком широко.

В сентябре упомянутый Патрик Уордл обнаружил в Mac-клиенте агента уязвимость, которая позволяла локальному приложению или команде получить доступ к токену Muse и перехватить уп…

Компания Google временно не принимает отчеты об уязвимостях через программу Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP).

Представители Google пишут, что в ближайшее время намерены переработать OSS VRP с учетом новой проблемы автоматизированных отчетов.

Отметим, что это не первая программа bug bounty, которая не справляется с потоком отчетов, сгенерированных или подготовленных с помощью ИИ.

Кроме того, в мае текущего года специалисты Google уже меняли правила bug bounty для Chrome и Android из-за широкого распространения ИИ-инструментов.

Тогда стандартные выплаты за баги в Chrome снизили, сделав упор на короткие отчеты с конкретными доказательствами существования проблемы.

Схе­му вза­имо­дей­ствия мы, как и преж­де, намерен­но упростим.

Теперь мож­но перей­ти к одно­му из кей­сов, с которым мы стол­кну­лись на пен­тесте реаль­ного при­ложе­ния.

Итак, у нас есть пач­ка POS-тер­миналов, пла­теж­ное при­ложе­ние, которое уста­нов­лено на эти самые тер­миналы, и дос­туп к тес­товому веб‑при­ложе­нию TMS.

Более того, из‑за это­го у нас отсутс­тво­вал дос­туп к сетевым нас­трой­кам и мы не мог­ли нас­тро­ить MitM для ана­лиза тра­фика.

На одном из устрой­ств нас­трой­ки Android ока­зались без пароля — и мы сра­зу под­няли точ­ку дос­тупа Wi-Fi на ноут­буке.

Инженеры компании Apple планируют изменить механизм работы Full Disk Access (FDA) в macOS, чтобы приложения не могли получать доступ к файлам, почте, сообщениям и истории браузера без явного согласия пользователя.

Full Disk Access позволяет приложениям обходить часть ограничений macOS и читать или изменять данные, которые обычно для них недоступны.

Такой уровень доступа нужен, например, антивирусам и ПО для резервного копирования, однако в Apple предупреждают, что некоторые разработчики используют FDA слишком широко.

В сентябре упомянутый Патрик Уордл обнаружил в Mac-клиенте агента уязвимость, которая позволяла локальному приложению или команде получить доступ к токену Muse и перехватить уп…

Новая разновидность side-channel-атаки Spectre v2, получившая название Branch Target Reuse (BTR), позволяет извлекать секреты из памяти через JIT-движки.

Согласно опубликованному исследователями отчету, атака нацелена на JIT-компиляторы, которые генерируют машинный код на лету и применяются в браузерных движках, рантаймах и ядре ОС.

Проблема связана с рассинхронизацией между текущим кодом в памяти и предсказателем ветвлений (branch predictor) процессора.

В результате CPU может использовать устаревшее предсказание и спекулятивно выполнить фрагмент нового кода, который оказался по адресу старой цели перехода.

Исследователи подтвердили, что эффект, на котором основана BTR, проявляется на всех …

Хотя в ФБР не уточнили, какая именно система была скомпрометирована, источники Reuters утверждают, что атакующие взломали платформу Oracle PeopleSoft, которую обслуживала Accenture.

Конфликт между участниками ShinyHunters и ФБР начался в конце сентября 2026 года, когда представители группировки заявили о взломе ведомства.

Затем СМИ сообщили, что в Иордании задержали еще одного предполагаемого участника группировки, известного под ником Rey.

Источники журналистов утверждали, что теперь хакер сотрудничает с ФБР и помогает правоохранительным органам установить личности и местонахождение других участников группы.

Примечательно, что практически одновременно с этим представители ShinyHunters заяв…

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances within days of public disclosure.

Patches for the flaw were released by SonicWall on October 6, 2026, with versions 12.4.3-03670 (platform-hotfix) and 12.5.0-03082 (platform-hotfix).

The vulnerability has since started witnessing active exploitation attempts, with first signs detected by threat intelligence firms Defused Cyber and Previdian on October 8, 2026.

CVE-2026-102255 is the latest vulnerability impacting SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances to come under active exploitation.

"With these harvested resources, the threat actors quickly shifted to lat…

A maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Bricksforge plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack.

The critical vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85097 (CVSS score: 10.0), which allows unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable WordPress websites, resulting in remote code execution (RCE).

Bricksforge is a WordPress plugin that's advertised as a "Swiss Army knife" for Bricks, a visual website-building tool for WordPress, with support for animations, advanced forms, and scrolling video sequences.

To get around extension filtering, the exploitation activity makes use of alternate PHP extensions (e.g…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine.

"The operation runs two pipelines at once: a global, automated campaign against WordPress and e-commerce platforms, and a curated, manual campaign against Ukrainian energy and critical infrastructure," SOCRadar said in a report published last week.

The campaign is estimated to have resulted in confirmed exfiltration from four Ukrainian organizations, leading to the harvesting of more than 628,000 records tied to Ukrainian individuals.

Beyond WordPress and e-commerce e…

In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI.

That gap is the clearest expression of a shift the security industry is only starting to name.

For several years, "AI security" solved a first-party problem: the company decided to use AI, procured licenses, deployed a model behind a gateway, and security pointed controls at the thing the business had chosen.

The announcement promises agents "inherit Slack's built-in security model, permissions, and admin controls from day one, without any additional IT lift."

The Connectivity row is where agent security separates from everything the market already sells.

Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites.

Some of the cases targeted websites run by U.S. government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels, Anthropic said.

The latest discovery has prompted the AI giant to launch a deeper scan, specifically in environments where Claude has access to the internet.

"Our message is clear: the fact [that] AI agents act with autonomy is not an excuse for poor compliance.

If people are to trust AI innovation, they rightly expect to know how their persona…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories.

"Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel, the attacker pushed a malicious workflow to 27 repositories starting at 13:20 UTC," StepSecurity said.

As of October 9, 2026, Socket said it has identified more than 500 GitHub accounts that committed the malicious workflow to tens of thousands of repositories since October 7, 2026.

It's recommended to revoke the compromised GitHub credential, rotate credentials, delete the malicious workflow from …

A law enforcement source told CBS News that the suspect is believed to have been directly involved in the hack.

Patel also wrote that the FBI will keep working with its partners "to disrupt what’s left of the ShinyHunters group and their associates, no matter where they operate."

Other suspected co-conspirators are still free, the law enforcement source told CBS News.

Khader, the suspect detained in Jordan, is cooperating with the FBI, according to Reuters, which cited people familiar with the matter.

An internal FBI notice confirmed that hackers obtained employee information, a source told CBS News.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword.

As recently as last month, iVerify said it observed "multiple unsuccessful, likely LLM-assisted attempts to update the framework to support iOS 26.x," fueled by the leak of the exploit kit shortly after its public disclosure.

]90 , which operates as a C2 server of the implant and has recorded two real Chinese iOS devices (183.154.173[.

]23 , which serves as a staging host for the Coruna kit, which serves as a staging host for the Coruna kit 156.239.230[.

Censys said it also detected a separate China-based operator running the same kit in the wild against its …

TP-Link and TP-Link Technologies together employed about 11,000 people in China, according to an April 2025 Bloomberg News report the states cite.

TP-Link routers "make up most of this network," Microsoft said, counting an average of 8,000 hacked devices active at any time.

The FBI said in April that Russian military intelligence hackers had compromised TP-Link routers through a flaw tracked as CVE-2023-50224.

Rob Joyce, a former National Security Agency cybersecurity director, told a House committee that TP-Link routers "were among the various brands" exploited.

TP-Link disputed the testimony the same day, saying those campaigns "have no discernible preference for using TP-Link routers as …

Security researchers have published a full working exploit for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in AnyDesk Linux that gives attackers root access before anyone approves the connection.

Administrators should update AnyDesk Linux to at least version 8.0.3.

The offsets in the published code target a specific build of AnyDesk Linux, 8.0.2; other builds would require different values.

The exploit targets AnyDesk Linux 8.0.2.

The vulnerability was found by Rick de Jager of the V12 security team using V12, a security code review engine.

Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence (AI).

"It's an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing," Anthropic said.

"Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost."

"As we gain greater confidence in OSS Scanner's performance, we may in the future impose a disclosure period on some high-severity vulnerability reports."

"Our forecast is that in two years, AI will favor defense: it will be easier to catch bugs before they ship, write fundamentally secure software from scra…

Threat actors have been observed exploiting two recently disclosed flaws in the AhsayCBS backup utility to seize control of affected devices and deploy web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners.

Details of the flaws are below -CVE-2026-105133 (CVSS v4 score: 5.5) - An improper authentication vulnerability in the checkSysPwd() function in the "com/ahsay/obs/api/ApiStructsAction.java" component.

(CVSS v4 score: 5.5) - An improper authentication vulnerability in the checkSysPwd() function in the "com/ahsay/obs/api/ApiStructsAction.java" component.

"Post-exploitation, threat actors are conducting reconnaissance, dropping web shells, planting XMRig cryptominers masquerading as Microsoft Edge, a…

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…

Malware developers have long adapted their code and tactics to the defenses and scrutiny that are likely to stand in their way.

Using various evasion and anti-analysis methods, they routinely attempt to hinder code analysis or prevent their malware from revealing its true behavior while under inspection.

Reporting on the same broader campaign, StepSecurity found a prompt that flat-out instructed any analyzing model that parsed the file to disregard the malicious code and report the package as clean.

Some parts of the malicious code could be concealed under the pretense of being confidential information or other sensitive data.

Crucially, however, no single LLM engine should have the sole au…

The technology might be impressive, but a simple technique could stop the scammers in their tracks: a pre-agreed safe word.

What is a safe word?

But suggest some scenarios in which it would be a good idea to request a safe word.

It’s important to have a backup if someone can’t remember the safe word.

But a safe word is a fantastic, free option for uncovering deepfake audio fraud like fake/virtual kidnappings.

In the company’s benchmarking, Microsoft-Decision-1 was 2.5 times faster than H2O-Lightning-4B v1.1, the runner-up on speed, and about 35 times faster than GPT-6 Sol in median latency.

The company plans to base future versions on other models, including those from Microsoft AI and OpenAI.

Microsoft also tested the model in Microsoft Discovery, where AI agents evaluate experiment results and revise their next steps.

Other proposed uses include selecting an AI model to handle a request, checking content or code against defined criteria, ranking search results and deciding an AI agent’s next action.

It is also available through OpenRouter, which provides access to multiple AI models through on…

People who buy low-cost Android phones from online marketplaces may be carrying malware that was placed on the device before it reached them, Bitdefender has found.

On the XDA forum, owners of Cubot and Doogee phones reported suspicious apps that kept reinstalling themselves after they removed them.

The system app was platform-signed, and its malicious code was hidden in a native library that only came to life at runtime.

Right before installing one of these apps, the malware disables the Google Play Store app, which hosts Play Protect’s on-device scanner.

Because the malware lives in the system partition, owners can’t remove it the usual way.

Three days after customers in Southeast Asia began reporting drained wallets, Ledger says the damage is limited.

How the implant allegedly worksLedger has confirmed that one affected device contained an unauthorized hardware implant, but it has not said how the implant works.

Investigation ongoing, users urged to switch devicesOn Sunday, Ledger confirmed said it is working with the relevant authoritiesb and that it is reaching out to impacted users.

It also urged customers who bought their Ledger wallet from CryptoBilis to refrain from initializing the device (if they haven’t already).

“CryptoBilis has confirmed having ceased all sales of hardware wallets.

Microsoft is advising users and businesses to update Windows devices before digital certificates used to verify Windows Update servers expire in May and June 2027.

Devices without replacement certificates will lose access to Windows Update, including security fixes delivered through the service.

“However, the key to getting updates from Windows Update beyond 2027 is to keep your devices up to date today,” Microsoft’s Andrew Brown said.

Who needs to take actionMost users running a supported Windows version and installing monthly updates should receive the replacement certificates automatically.

Administrators can download it from the Microsoft Update Catalog or distribute it through their ma…

Websites that rely on Let’s Encrypt will soon have to renew their TLS certificates more often.

Starting February 10, 2027, the certificate authority will issue certificates valid for 64 days by default, down from 90 days.

Why the changeThe move to shorter certificate lifetimes “reduces the risk of key compromise and mis-issuance,” said Sarah Gran of the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), the nonprofit that runs Let’s Encrypt.

Sites that automate renewals through a client supporting ACME Renewal Info (ARI) should not need to change anything, since ARI lets Let’s Encrypt tell the client when to renew.

Let’s Encrypt is also cutting the authorization reuse period from 30 days to 10 days.

For businesses and governments, this means cyber resilience can no longer be assessed solely through technical vulnerabilities.

The gap in cyber resilience between large and small organizations, and between regions, appears to be widening.

The cyber resilience gap is fundamentally a capability and investment gap.

Ultimately, closing the skills gap is essential to closing the resilience gap.

Several leaders argue that more than a skills gap, the cybersecurity industry has an experience gap.

AWS released Strands Box, an open source sandbox for AI agents that pairs operating-system isolation with rules that can weigh what an agent has already done before letting it act again.

If you run coding assistants, you’re familiar with the problem Strands Box targets.

Agents read files, run shell commands, execute code they wrote and call APIs, and many now run in what AWS calls “YOLO mode,” approving each action with no human review.

Brooker’s examples include letting an agent run git push only after tests pass, or capping a payments API at $100 a day.

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They found that a patch which stops a crash often fails the checks the project’s maintainers wrote for the fix.

If you’re thinking about letting an AI tool patch vulnerabilities for you, this is the number to look at.

The authors call that kind of fix “strictly worse than no fix at all,” since it tells you the problem is solved when it isn’t.

The newest stopped the crash about 90% of the time, but it passed the maintainers’ tests only about 61% of the time.

In another case, an agent wrote a correct fix plus its own test, and that test clashed with the maintainers’ test file.

Many organizations adopt open source software because they see it as a cheaper alternative to proprietary development.

Google tracked the engineering effort involved in 54 package updates between April and December 2024.

(Source: Google)When a company modifies its copy of an open source package, engineers must account for those changes when adopting a new version.

“For updates that took more than 2 days, the majority of time was spent on remediation,” Sophia Vargas, Google Open Source, explained.

Google’s setup limits broader conclusionsThe observed work represented less than 1% of Google’s package updates during the collection period.

Security work is scheduled into every sprint, and issues touching patient data or funds disbursement come first.

Automation, AI agents or people?

October 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Time for an Office cleanupSeptember 2026 Patch Tuesday set an all-time record with 973 CVEs addressed across the Microsoft portfolio.

Apple tightens macOS disk access as AI agents become more powerfulApple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous.

GitHub’s ReviewBench puts AI code reviewers to the testGitHub’s ReviewBench measures how well AI code review tools detect problems before software is released.

Hundreds of internet-exposed graphics processing unit (GPU) servers were open to a high-severity flaw in NVIDIA’s DCGM Exporter (CVE-2026-47483) that lets unauthenticated attackers crash the monitoring service and may disrupt AI workloads, according to Lava.

The US hosted 5,274 of the exposed GPUs (44%), followed by Romania with 2,054 and China with 1,967.

The largest group was associated with Voltage Park, with 672 public Node Exporter hosts and 71 public DCGM Exporter hosts.

Node Exporter leaks server and network detailsResearchers also examined Prometheus Node Exporter, which monitors a server’s hardware and operating system.

They found 12,096 public Node Exporter hosts reporting metrics…

Anthropic’s OSS Scanner is a new, free service that uses the company’s strongest AI models to find security vulnerabilities in open-source software.

Maintainers who opt in receive periodic scans and reports explaining suspected flaws, how to reproduce them and, when available, how to fix them.

Penetration testers assessed 97 high and critical severity findings across 48 projects from an early version of the scanner.

If Anthropic later validates a report through its existing coordinated disclosure program, a 90-day period may begin when maintainers are notified of that validation.

Projects can pause automated reports or opt out and return to receiving only reports under company’s standard di…

The FBI seized seven domains used to operate Microscan and FishHub, two hacking tools linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers known as Flax Typhoon that were used to target critical infrastructure and other organizations in the US and abroad.

Seizure notice (Source: US Department of Justice)According to the US Department of Justice, the hackers worked for Integrity Technology Group (Integrity Tech), a China-based company that holds contracts with the Chinese government.

Integrity Tech accessed the tool through c0cc[.

That malware either gave the company’s clients unauthorized remote access, or searched for specific files and sent them to servers controlled by Integrity Tech.

The advisory …

SimpleLogin is an email alias service from Proton that forwards messages to an existing mailbox.

Users create addresses for registrations, purchases, and correspondence, giving them control over where their primary email address is shared.

During this setup, the activity counter recorded one forwarded message, zero blocked messages, and zero sent messages.

I also tested sending an email from an alias to another email address I own.

Messages arrive in the connected inbox, and replies pass through SimpleLogin to preserve the alias address.

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.

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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…

ArsTechnica is reporting on a “new” attack against RSA, one that bypasses factoring.

First, this attack isn’t new. The original research is from 2007. What is new is the implementation.

Second, it is a forgery attack. It allows an attacker to forge digital signatures. It does not recover the private key from the public key.

Third, the attack only works against pure signatures. That is, signatures without any formatting or padding. This is not generally how we use RSA in practice.

Fourth, speed is all relative. This is not a polynomial-time algorithm; it’s a subexponential-time algorithm. But it is somewhat faster than factoring. The authors were able to forge messages for 1024-bit RSA with …

I feel like someone who reads this blog will want to go to this:

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Earlier this month, Anthropic published a long report detailing all of the Claude misuses it detected. Daniel Meissler usefully summarized the report into 117 findings.

A few of the highlights: AI agents increasingly handled reconnaissance, exploitation, data theft, propaganda production, surveillance workflows, and research while humans selected targets, set goals, and reviewed important outputs.

The report describes attackers using AI to industrialize credential theft, cloud compromise, phishing, vulnerability research, and the extraction of sensitive data from downstream organizations.

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Continuous monitoring of public GitHub surfaced it.

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.

CRPx0 is a cybercrime operation that started off operating a scam before pivoting into a fully-blown ransomware and cryptocurrency business. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

Branches of the US military have reportedly disabled ad-tracking on government-issued phones and computers, following concerns that commercially-available location data has been used to target American forces in the Middle East.

Every smartphone carries a mobile advertising ID - Apple calls its version the IDFA, and Google calls its the GAID.

Back in April, US Central Command reportedly warned of "multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data."

Recent versions should let you delete your advertising ID entirely.

If it's good enough for the US military - maybe it should be good enough for you too.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more information, please visit the Black Hat website.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Project Glasswing and Frontier models just made that truth louder.

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

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

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

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

That requires crypto agility.

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

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

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

Common questions about PQC and crypto agilityWhat is crypto agility?

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Command and controlThe actor used HTTP and H…

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.

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

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

In 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…

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified NeedyMantis, a modular post-compromise malware family observed in a limited number of targeted operations affecting telecommunications organizations, universities, medical nonprofits, intergovernmental organizations, and government contractors.

Microsoft has observed additional NeedyMantis activity beyond Storm-3069’s activity in the DAEMON Tools campaign, indicating that the malware might be used by more than one operator.

Indicators of compromiseIndicator Type Description First seen Last seen e842dd7642c8e04b5ec20b6393848a9c904e4832930950c16664fe7800ba382e SHA-256 First-stage loader WinSparkle.dll 2026-05-21 2026-05-21 9cb68f986043a576e19d32184…

About 90 minutes after the first compromised service principal started enumeration, the second compromised service principal enumerated virtual machines and resource groups across two subscriptions in five seconds.

16 hours later, the second service principal successfully enumerated Azure App Service configuration stores, possibly looking for exposed credentials.

This compromised service principal then attempted 150+ destructive or credential collection related operations in 35 minutes.

T1078.004 Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts | Compromised service principals were used for Azure resource discovery and destruction.

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

About 90 minutes after the first compromised service principal started enumeration, the second compromised service principal enumerated virtual machines and resource groups across two subscriptions in five seconds.

16 hours later, the second service principal successfully enumerated Azure App Service configuration stores, possibly looking for exposed credentials.

This compromised service principal then attempted 150+ destructive or credential collection related operations in 35 minutes.

T1078.004 Valid Accounts: Cloud Accounts | Compromised service principals were used for Azure resource discovery and destruction.

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

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,…