Правительственные порталы, социальные платформы и игровые серверы уходят в офлайн из-за PHP2Shell с опасностью 9,2 балла.

Для магистралей готовят резервные маршруты, но сроки внедрения новых требований пока не раскрыты.

Власти дали компании 20 дней на ответы.

Аналитики, которым нейросеть сказала «безопасно», пропускали втрое больше атак, чем те, кто работал без подсказки.

Поручение пришло от политических назначенцев, а результаты собирались отправить в Белый дом.

Агент сможет выбирать маршрут к цели и действовать внутри сети самостоятельно.

Новая модель аудита Active Directory в MaxPatrol: легче внедрить, быстрее проверить, проще управлятьВебинар Positive Technologies 22 октября 14:00Чем больше доменная инфраструктура, тем сложнее своевременно провести ее полный аудит.

Растет объем собираемых данных, сканирование длится дольше, увеличивается нагрузка на вычислительные ресурсы и хранилище.

В новом релизе MaxPatrol подход к сбору и хранению данных Active Directory был переработан.

Продукт эффективнее работает с крупными инсталляциями и при сканировании потребляет меньше ресурсов, а объем хранимых данных для крупных инфраструктур сокращается до 20 раз.

Когда: 22 октября, 14.00 мскПрисоединяйтесь, чтобы узнать, что нового ждет вас…

Защита личных данных внезапно стала уликой, а привычные права перестали работать.

В том числе за оправдание терроризма и за насилие в отношении власти.

ИИ буквально заставил старую математику сработать по-новому.

Они копируют магазины, соцсети, мессенджеры и ИТ-компании под разные сценарии обмана.

Пока владельцы сайтов ничего не подозревали, опасный механизм закреплялся глубоко внутри системы.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Затем пришёл ИИ и всю эту систему убил.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Имеются в виду т…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Мы развернули инфраструктуру с гарантированным запасом аппаратных мощностей на основе серверов VEGMAN R220 G3, СХД TATLIN.BACKUP.M и в этой статье покажем, на что способен «Синоникс» в реальных сценариях.

Цели тестирования и общая концепция решенияМы проверяли, как «Синоникс» работает в условиях, максимально близких к реальной инфраструктуре крупного заказчика.

«Синоникс» входит в состав каждого участка: в DR, Сейфе и Хранилище и на границе контура он работает как контролируемый обмен, отделяет сети заказчика и его данные от описанной выше инфраструктуры.

На основании результатов можно рассчитывать, что при умеренной нагрузке «Синоникс» не будет иметь заметного влияния на производительность…

И это, хотя и не совсем эссе, рассказ о одном парне из онлайн-рассылки 1996 года, который разработал проект реактивного двигателя.

Во-первых, это было примерно в 1997 году, и в те времена люди были менее требовательны к статусу изобретателей.

В результате, как и следовало ожидать, многие участники рассылки Extropians допытывались у мистера Л., как же может работать его L-двигатель?

Дело именно в неспособности человеческих сообществ адекватно оценивать дискуссии, а не в ограниченности индивидуального интеллекта людей, которые могли бы прийти к правильным ответам быстрее.

«Возможно, есть и другие сложные этапы, но это не отменяет того факта, что их решение будет бесполезным, если не решить им…

Корпоративную базу знаний подключают к ИИ-ассистенту быстро: выгрузили SharePoint и базу знаний компании, построили индекс, получили чат, который отвечает по регламентам.

Перед обращением к модели система находит в базе знаний RAG фрагменты, подходящие под вопрос, и добавляет их в запрос как контекст.

Фильтр промптов на входе и выходе эти риски не закрывает: проблема живёт в данных и в хранилище, а не в тексте вопроса.

Обращения к модели, к базе знаний и к инструментам ИИ-агента идут через один контур с общей политикой и общим журналом.

Права на уровне документа и фрагментаПрава задаются на документ и на его отдельные части.

Потом они перестроили SIEM так, что модель на 9 миллиардов параметров стала давать 96–97% хороших ответов, а вся система держала 150 хостов на двух ядрах CPU.

У команды Александра качество входа для модели определил собственный SIEM, и с него стоит начать.

Александр проверял модели на 27B и пробовал фронтирные по подписке на тестовом стенде.

Маленькая модель на узкой задачеСначала команда взяла Qwen на 9B параметров без дообучения и измерила базовую линию.

Это всегда база, и это абсолютно логично.

Главное правило здесь простое: автоматизировать запись следует после того, как команда научилась доверять сопоставлению, а не наоборот.

Сонар сканирует сетевые префиксы, опрашивает устройства по SNMP и SSH и собирает сведения о соседях по LLDP/CDP.

Если на 22/tcp отвечает SSH и в баннере есть строка, указывающая на OpenSSH в Ubuntu, разумно записать это как признак Linux-системы, но не как окончательно установленную ОС актива.

Он отвечает на вопрос «что сейчас установлено и подключено?», а не «что гарантированно совместимо с новой моделью?».

Сонар отвечает на вопрос «что сейчас видно в сети и что известно об этом объекте».

Институциональный держатель криптовалюты потерял около $2,84 млн в результате атаки в сети BNB Smart Chain.

20 октября он перевел активы в Ethereum, внес 1 111,2 ETH в криптомиксер Tornado Cash, а затем вывел их на три разных адреса Ethereum.

Tornado Cash фигурирует и в других атаках, которые приписывают КНДР.

20 октября, в тот же день, кошельки хакера, взломавшего Drift Protocol, отправили в миксер около 25 700 ETH (примерно $61,56 млн).

Через Tornado Cash отмывали и средства, украденные при взломе Radiant Capital в 2024 году (около $50 млн).

Тираж романа «Хакеры.RU» нашего ведущего редактора Валентина Холмогорова был полностью распродан, но скоро книга снова появится в продаже.

В центре сюжета «Хакеров.RU» — двое парней из небольшого города, которые по разным причинам погружаются в хакинг и постепенно обнаруживают, как код, человеческие ошибки и случайные встречи меняют их судьбы.

Валентин Холмогоров не только ведущий редактор «Хакера», но и писатель, журналист, публицист и автор более 40 учебников и 8 романов.

Он участвовал в межавторском цикле «Пограничье» Сергея Лукьяненко, а одна из книг в этом цикле была написана в соавторстве с ним самим.

Читать онлайнЕсли ты еще не знаком с этой историей, первые главы обоих романов можно…

Все статьи, PDF-архив, скидки и другие бонусыРазработчики PHP предупредили администраторов о двух критических уязвимостях, для которых уже готовят экстренные патчи.

Пока разработчики не сообщают, какие именно версии PHP уязвимы, как именно могут эксплуатироваться проблемы и какие релизы получат исправления.

По его данным, авторами эксплоита и ролика являются исследователи lcfr_hax и calif_io.

Специалисты компании Sansec ожидают, что массовые атаки на свежие уязвимости в PHP могут начаться уже через 15 минут после выхода патчей.

Также администраторов призывают заранее подготовиться к обновлению эксперты компаний Wordfence и Huntress, которые уже выпустили отдельные предупреждения о PHP2Shell.

Шесть из восьми промежуточных сертификатов предназначались для выпуска TLS-сертификатов и позволяли создавать поддельные сертификаты для любых сайтов, а еще два использовались для подписи кода.

После раскрытия информации о проблеме в eMudhra отозвали все восемь проблемных промежуточных сертификатов и приостановили выпуск новых сертификатов, связанных с корневым сертификатом G3.

Инженеры Mozilla сообщили, что получили информацию о слабых ключах 17 октября и в тот же день заблокировали проблемные сертификаты через механизм OneCRL.

Благодаря этому защита распространилась на Firefox автоматически и не требует установки новой версии браузера и его перезапуска.

Также на странице опубликованы реко…

Разработчики Drupal устранили две критические уязвимости, которые могли привести к удаленному выполнению кода на стороне сервера.

Баги затрагивают модуль Field UI в ядре CMS и сторонний модуль Entity List, и как минимум один из известных способов эксплуатации этих уязвимостей не требует аутентификации.

Первая уязвимость (CVE-2026-108097) затрагивает модуль Field UI, который входит в состав ядра CMS и отвечает за административные страницы, где настраиваются поля и их отображение.

Разработчики Drupal заранее предупредили администраторов о грядущих патчах.

Старые версии Drupal 11.2.x, 10.5.x и ниже больше не поддерживаются и патчей для них ждать не следует.

Все статьи, PDF-архив, скидки и другие бонусыСпециалисты компании GreyNoise обнаружили, что злоумышленники взламывают сетевые устройства и скрыто устанавливают на них легитимное приложение Pawns.app, с помощью которого монетизируют чужие интернет-подключения через коммерческую сеть резидентных прокси.

Исследователи нашли как минимум 143 скомпрометированных устройства в 34 странах.

Аналитики установили, что для взлома сетевых устройств хакеры использовали несколько давно известных уязвимостей, включая CVE-2024-3272 и CVE-2024-3273 в D-Link ShareCenter NAS, CVE-2021-44228 в Ubiquiti UniFi Video NVR и CVE-2025-31324 в SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer.

Отмечается, что в части скомпрометированных с…

Книга «Обход антивирусов на практике» Это вто­рая гла­ва из кни­ги «Обход анти­виру­сов на прак­тике».

Основная база хра­нит­ся в main.

Один про­изволь­ный байт * Лю­бое количес­тво про­изволь­ных бай­тов, вклю­чая ноль { 5} Ров­но пять про­изволь­ных бай­тов { -5} Не более пяти про­изволь­ных бай­тов { 5-} Не менее пяти про­изволь­ных бай­тов 4142{ 2-5} 4344 Най­ти бай­ты 4142 , про­пус­тить от двух до пяти любых бай­тов, затем най­ти 4344 .

Dead=b9ac01{ 9- 11} 8d7c14{ 2- 3}2e300547e2f8Меж­ду фик­сирован­ными час­тями допус­кают­ся сна­чала от 9 до 11, а затем от 2 до 3 про­изволь­ных бай­тов.

Сиг­натуры в кон­тей­нере .ndu исполь­зуют тот же син­таксис, но пред­назна­чены для обна­руже­ни…

Все статьи, PDF-архив, скидки и другие бонусыРазработчики F5 выпустили внеплановые патчи для нескольких уязвимостей в Nginx, включая три критические проблемы, которые при определенных условиях позволяют удаленно выполнить произвольный код.

В компании предупреждают, что два критических бага были обнаружены в ngx_http_v3_module и получили идентификаторы CVE-2026-15176 и CVE-2026-97205, а третья уязвимость, CVE-2026-93479, связана с директивой map.

В результате злоумышленник получает возможность спровоцировать отказ в обслуживании (DoS), а в некоторых случаях добиться выполнения произвольного кода.

Согласно данным разработчиков, проблемы CVE-2026-15176 и CVE-2026-93479 могут привести к перепол…

Так как ключи из CLI и десктопного приложения хранятся локально в SQLite и не передаются на серверы OpenCode, их атака не затронула.

В OpenCode считают, что злоумышленники могли получить доступ к ключам пользователей не ранее 17 октября, 03:30 по московскому времени.

Не исключено, что для этих целей использовались скомпрометированные ключи OpenAI, Anthropic и Google, хотя официально в OpenCode этого пока не подтверждали.

Следует отметить, что в сообщении OpenCode для пострадавших упоминалась возможность компенсации понесенных расходов.

В настоящее время разработчики продолжают расследовать инцидент совместно со специалистами Google, OpenAI и Anthropic.

Таргетированная реклама использовалась для проведения zero-click-атак и заражения устройств жертв коммерческой спайварью Candiru.

В частности, исследователи подтвердили сотрудничество Discover-Tech с другой израильской компанией — Candiru, которая теперь работает под названием Integrity Labs.

Многие рекламные объявления Discover-Tech содержали скрипт, который обращался к серверу компании при показе объявления и передавал рекламный идентификатор пользователя.

Рекламные объявления с подозрительными скриптами показывались в 75 373 приложениях для Android и iOS и на 120 768 сайтах.

Аналогичные меры приняли Beeswax и Eskimi, а Vungle приостановила работу с Discover-Tech на время проверки.

В итоге через связанные корпоративные системы злоумышленники добрались до облачных хранилищ и баз данных компании, а также узнали дополнительные пароли.

Напомним, что о кибератаке на компанию «Додо Пицца» мы рассказывали в сентябре.

Кроме этого инцидента, группировку DataSuckers связывают со взломом украинской сети ATB Market и кибератакой на туроператора Tez Tour.

Тогда хакеры дефейснули сайт компании и утверждали, что похитили и уничтожили 395,5 млн записей, включая данные о бронированиях, заказах туров и финансовых транзакциях, а также удалили бэкапы.

Якобы эти деньги поступили на общий криптокошелек группы, и после задержания Фридмана остальные участники сменили пароль и закрыли ему дос…

Behavioral detection learned to spot them: new infrastructure, awkward language, odd timing, and requests that did not fit the conversation.

If AI lets attackers control how a message looks, the signal that remains is what the message is trying to accomplish.

Traditional detection, built on rules, signatures, infrastructure reputation, and indicators of compromise, still clears known threats quickly and at scale.

Modern detection, built on threat actor intelligence and behavioral baselines, still catches known actors and senders that deviate.

Learn more about Proofpoint’s approach to AI, and see a demo, at Proofpoint Nexus.

PHP will release the fix at 14:00 UTC on October 21 for two flaws it rates 9.2 out of 10, and has given no workaround of its own.

In an update timestamped 14:00 Japan time (05:00 UTC), it said the setting alone is not a complete fix and that attacks getting around it are expected.

Check that the change is actually in effect on the process that serves web traffic, not on the command line.

Which exact versions carry the fix and how far back the flaws extend will be announced with the release.

On managed or shared hosting, ask your provider when a fixed PHP build will land and have them stand by.

The harness is where the engineering in AI pentesting sits.

A web app’s real boundary often extends past one domain through redirects and calls to outside services.

How Pentera Apps Implements the HarnessThis separation of reasoning and execution is how we approach building Pentera Apps.

In agentic pentesting, the harness determines the results.

Security teams can sign up for early access to Pentera Apps, Agentic Web App Pentesting.

Attackers took control of more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October and used them to redirect SSH connections to servers that stole login passwords, a researcher found.

Exit relays are the last hop in a Tor circuit, where traffic leaves the network for its destination.

How the Hijacked Exits Intercepted SSHAn exit relay only carries traffic to the ports its exit policy allows.

The attackers rewrote that policy in the relays' torrc configuration files to allow port 22 (the SSH port), enabling SSH on 342 relays that had blocked it.

), there are most likely other compromised Tor relays out there," he wrote.

Unknown threat actors breached TeamUpdraft's website and potentially gained unauthorized access to customers' connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault, and UpdraftClone, using them to backdoor WordPress sites.

It also emphasized that the UpdraftPlus plugin, along with self-hosted versions of UpdraftCentral and backups sent to customers' own remote storage, are not impacted.

TeamUpdraft is also recommending that cloud customers of UpdraftCentral follow the steps below as soon as possible, since the connection keys can send commands to the connected sites -Log in to the site's own WordPress dashboard, not through UpdraftCentral.

Disconnect it from UpdraftCentral: go to Settings > Updr…

U.S. federal civilian agencies must remove DeepSeek products from their information technology systems, along with any third-party products or services "developed using DeepSeek implementations," under a Department of Homeland Security order.

The order names Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., the developer of the R1 and V3 models, and covers its affiliates as defined in federal acquisition rules.

The DeepSeek order therefore covers only what civilian agencies buy and run.

The 2018 law was first used in 2025, when the Director of National Intelligence excluded Acronis, a Swiss cybersecurity and data protection company, from intelligence community procurement and ordered its…

State Bank of India has identified 3,897 customer records containing personal information in a set of about 375,000 records available on the dark web, and it does not yet know where the data came from.

A CIF identifier is the customer information file number, the bank's internal ID for each customer.

The bank has not said whether the 3,897 records belong to 3,897 different people, or what the rest of the set contains.

The filing leaves the source of the data to the investigation and gives no date for when the data first appeared.

The bank's cyber security page, last updated in June, tells customers to report any cyber incident to [email protected] or the national cybercrime helpline…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including four vulnerabilities impacting Plex Media Server that's collectively called Plex2Shell.

The issues were addressed in Plex Media Server 1.43.3.10861 released on August 3, 2026.

One of them is a DLL sideloading vulnerability in Siemens Software Center (CVE-2026-110936, CVSS score: 8.4) that has been abused in ClickFix attacks using a platform called Romulus.

The second security flaw is a command injection bug in EG Secure Solutions SiteGuard Server Edition (CVE-2026-106931, CVSS score: 8.5) that the Japanese company confirmed as…

A Belarus-aligned hacktivist group spent nearly two years within the network of a Russian healthcare organization.

The Rostelecom subsidiary said it discovered the intrusion in December 2025, although evidence suggests that the earliest signs of compromise date back to early 2024.

"The attacked organization possessed an extensive infrastructure and two-way trusted relationships with numerous subsidiary medical institutions," Solar said.

Observed as part of the intrusion is a loader-scheduler service ("vmauad") that masquerades as a legitimate VMware component to maintain persistence and evade cursory inspection.

Due to Telegram being blocked in Russia by ISPs, communication between the Vasi…

PHP will ship an out-of-cycle security release at 14:00 UTC today, October 21, for two critical vulnerabilities that its security team has rated 9.2 on the CVSS v4.0 scale but has not described.

PHP says "Full details, affected versions, and the fixed versions will be published with the release."

Versions 8.2 and 8.3 receive only security fixes, and 8.4 and 8.5 are in active support.

The count covers banners, not confirmed affected systems, and a further 740,000 hosts reported PHP without a version.

Inventory every PHP install, including PHP bundled in vendor appliances, Windows software, and control panels such as cPanel and Plesk.

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

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

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

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

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

This is email bombing.

What is email bombing?

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

There’s no silver bullet to prevent email bombing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Data breach notifications are telling victims less than ever.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By offering teams AI assistance to improve productivity.

By offering teams AI assistance to improve productivity.

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

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

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

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

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

What are the warning signs of a timeshare exit scam?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vibe coded apps may also be exposed to prompt injection.

What can go wrong with vibe coded apps?

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

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

Are all vibe coded apps dangerous?

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

How do Bitcoin ATM scams work?

How do I stay safe from Bitcoin ATM scams?

What can I do straight after a Bitcoin ATM scam?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Several ransomware groups are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS GlobalProtect patched in May, to break into organizations in sectors ranging from healthcare and education to government and energy.

CVE-2026-0257 stems from the firewalls relying on cookies without performing detailed validation and integrity checking, which allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to bypass security restrictions and establish an unauthorized VPN connection.

The vulnerabilities affect the GlobalProtect portal and gateway of PAN’s physical and virtual firewalls running PAN-OS software, as well as Prisma Access.

On October 19, Unit 42 updated its threat brief on the…

Grafana Labs has announced a Knowledge Graph in every Grafana Cloud stack, alongside new Digital Experience Monitoring capabilities and updates to Grafana Cloud Incident Response Management (IRM).

Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph is the runtime context layer for Grafana Cloud, where teams curate what their agents know about their environment.

Knowledge Graph mode in Grafana Assistant helps inspect existing connections and write the rules.

Runtime context for agents (GA): Knowledge Graph is available as runtime context for Grafana Assistant and any agent connected through gcx.

Updates to Grafana Cloud IRM give people and agents shared context and a coordinated workspace for incident response.

ThreatLocker has announced the launch of Zero Trust AI Control (ZTAIC), giving organizations a tool to deploy agentic AI without surrendering control of their environments.

AI guardrails aspire to define how an agent should behave, but AI continues to find ways around self-enforcement of those rules.

By applying controls outside AI deployments, ZTAIC keeps security boundaries in place even if an agent behaves unexpectedly.

Security teams can start with pre-built guardrails, tailor them to their environment, and quickly establish strong boundaries around how AI agents operate.

Together with ThreatLocker Allowlisting and Web Content Control, ZTAIC gives security teams control across the AI li…

OVHcloud, the French cloud computing and web hosting company, alerted customers that a hacker tampered with its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to spread information-stealing malware.

OVHcloud CEO Octave Klaba disclosed the incident on X, warning users who downloaded the latest CLI release that day to update the tool or delete it.

The tampered release went live at 14.47 on October 19 and was blocked at 16.21, after a customer reported the problem.

As a result, a user with the appropriate permissions could directly modify existing releases on GitHub without any checks from our CI/CD,” Klaba noted.

OpenSourceMalware’s analysis found that the attacker never touched OVHcloud’s CI/…

Apple’s new anti-tracking protections in Safari and WebKit, the open-source web engine used by Safari, block connections to identity resolution services that turn email addresses into persistent tracking identifiers.

How email addresses become tracking IDsThis “post-cookie” tracking method allows a third party to collect a user’s email address when they log in to a website or sign up for a newsletter.

Logging out or unsubscribing leaves the identifier and email address stored with the third party.

These may contain names, phone numbers, home and email addresses, IP addresses, website accounts, and first-party cookies.

The protections are included in Apple’s iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and …

The threat model fit on a sticky note.

Encryption at rest protects the disk.

That “honest-but-curious” assumption is the threat model the work is built on.

So draw the lifecycle and ask what protects the data at each stop, especially while it’s in use.

When a vendor promises “fully encrypted AI,” ask what it costs in your setup, not theirs.

DevGuard is a free, open source vulnerability management platform that collects a software project’s security findings in one place, ranks them by risk, and tracks them.

One command line, six scansDevGuard runs secret scanning, static code analysis, dependency checks against known CVEs, infrastructure-as-code checks, container scanning, and license checks through one CLI that wraps existing open source tools.

Findings sync both ways with GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues, and Jira, where developers triage them with slash commands.

DevGuard also handles VEX, short for Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange, a statement of whether a product is actually affected by a given CVE.

Must read:Subscribe t…

Security teams have tools for code, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, identity, and secrets management.

Security tools are built around the systems they protect, while credentials move between them.

SDLC: Repositories, pipelines, build systems, artifacts, cloud configuration, and collaboration tools used to build and ship software.

Repositories, pipelines, build systems, artifacts, cloud configuration, and collaboration tools used to build and ship software.

One credential, one security problemMost security teams already have many of the controls involved.

In this Help Net Security video, Vince Stoffer, Field CTO at Corelight, talks about how AI is changing work in the SOC and how attackers are using the same tools.

Those using agentic triage report faster work and fewer false positives, and junior analysts can dig deeper into network data.

For attackers, AI supports coordinated agentic operations, zero-day creation, and convincing social engineering.

Stoffer closes with advice on shadow AI, least privilege, auditing changes, and using network monitoring to track AI use across the organization.

Download: The IT and security field guide to AI adoption

The PHP security team has announced an urgent security release for Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC.

The release fixes two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2 (Critical) under CVSS v4.0.

The notice doesn’t yet describe the vulnerabilities or say which PHP versions they affect.

The project will publish those details, along with the patched version numbers, when the release goes out.

The team says it may release earlier than planned if details of either flaw become public or if attackers are found exploiting them.

Google released TorchTPU as open source, giving PyTorch developers a native way to run models on the company’s Tensor Processing Units.

Teams that write their models in PyTorch and run them on GPUs by default have the most to gain.

In Transformers v5, passing device_map=”tpu” sends a model to a TPU, and Google runs the Transformers test suite on TPUs every night.

Meta says it already runs LLM, ads and recommendation workloads on TPUs through TorchTPU in key production use cases.

The other is the TPU agent suite, which plugs into AI coding tools to automate onboarding, diagnostics and inference tuning for PyTorch models.

The company introduced Enhanced Protection for Chrome’s Safe Browsing feature in 2020 to address online scams and social engineering.

Suspicious sites trigger new alertsSuspicious site warnings alert users when a page displays deceptive patterns associated with known malicious sites.

Dangerous site warnings appear when a page is known to be malicious and poses a high risk of harm.

Dangerous site warnings in Chrome (Source: Google)Gemini expands scam detectionGoogle has moved Chrome’s Gemini-powered scam detection from an on-device model to a server-side model for Enhanced Protection users.

When Enhanced Protection users copy suspicious commands, Chrome removes personally identifiable inform…

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

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

[…]

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

works with Stolen Device Protection enabled, which tightens USB restrictions

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

Interesting research:

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

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

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

Blog moderation policy.

This is a problem:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Another IoT cyberattack, this one in France:

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

[…]

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Y…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 2019, Schuchm…

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

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

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

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

The l…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Don’…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't know if you know that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In…

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

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

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

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

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

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.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: a48e6a868074b4c2b77295af18788714Server IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-10-20T17:00:12+03:00Config id: 335Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: 65c81bea022dea0314bb3ec1fb8b3228Server IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-10-15T14:00:29+03:00Config id: 335Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: bf1172655ea8738416272c1b910c4a23Server IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-10-14T17:00:37+03:00Config id: 335Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: 8c474b40de23335e23a81b4f71096fa2Server IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-10-13T18:00:32+03:00Config id: 335Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: 986285ee7f9fbca30f009118870a630eServer IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-10-09T19:00:10+03:00Config id: 335Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: 61f641b9443f60bfa61c035e9925aff2Server IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-10-08T19:00:43+03:00Config id: 335Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: db7c9e9b3ec5fc4fb9e02c8670f482a9Server IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-10-07T23:00:38+03:00Config id: 335Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: 057a7a4758cd6ae7dfaab62417ac8d97Server IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-10-02T21:00:25+03:00Config id: 335Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: 8ea67ee2a3dd4315782e49963c8d5485Server IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-09-30T17:00:35+03:00Config id: 334Faithfully yours, nginx.

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…

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: 7dfac78cb3fca5a112c9b371cb1af0ecServer IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-09-29T14:00:43+03:00Config id: 307Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: 3ba3f53e4698eed730b59fdbb57f2dc7Server IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-09-25T19:00:33+03:00Config id: 307Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: cdfce2802c5089c2e8d266eed059c5ddServer IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-09-23T18:00:08+03:00Config id: 307Faithfully yours, nginx.

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Request id: 8bdccf89e0ff9374b4a240e13e1d1e5dServer IP: 185.54.220.248Client IP: 23.88.109.5Time: 2026-09-22T14:00:25+03:00Config id: 307Faithfully yours, nginx.

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

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

In most organizations, upstream capacity has none of those.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more information, please visit the Black Hat website.

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

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

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

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

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…

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To hear stories and insights from the Micr…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How do frontier AI models change vulnerability management for CISOs?

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

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

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

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

How do frontier AI models change vulnerability management for CISOs?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Governments best p…

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

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

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

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

Governments best p…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Command and controlThe actor used HTTP and H…

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

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

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

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

Command and controlThe actor used HTTP and H…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First, we…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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