150 спутников уже на орбите.

Новый проект объясняет, почему привычные советы не защищают и что делать вместо этого.

Североатлантический альянс вооружается нейросетями.

Исследование Anthropic показало, что мягкое разрешение обходов снижает риск несоответствия моделей.

Подделка обновлений Windows маскирует цепочку загрузки стеганографического загрузчика.

Бесплатные каналы на Superbox работают ценой передачи трафика через сомнительные сервисы.

В Amazon начали использовать специализированных ИИ агентов для анализа атак.

Команда создала инструмент, который распознаёт предметы по голосовым командам без предварительной подготовки.

Пользователи уже ищут замену некогда аскетичному текстовому редактору.

С 1 сентября 2025 года вступили в силу значимые изменения в законодательстве, в первую очередь в Федеральном законе № 187-ФЗ, которые существенно ужесточили и детализировали требования к защите КИИ.

Елена Заводова рассказала, что с 1 сентября вступили в силу изменения в Федеральном законе №187, которые повлекли за собой корректировки и в других нормативно-правовых актах.

У правительства появилось право указывать требования по ПО, программно-аппаратным комплексам, и следить за тем, как они выполняются.

Причиной может стать, например, создание вредоносных программ, которые направлены непосредственно на КИИ, неправомерный доступ к КИИ, нарушение правил эксплуатации обработки и передачи данных.…

В число таких решений входит «Гарда Deception» — система раннего обнаружения атак до причинения существенного ущерба.

Функциональные возможности «Гарда Deception 2.1»Программный комплекс «Гарда Deception» формирует распределённую инфраструктуру ловушек и приманок, имитирующих объекты ИТ-инфраструктуры.

Раздел «Приманки», вкладка «Данные» в «Гарда Deception 2.1»В текущей версии чтение логов аутентификаций контроллера домена производится через брокер сообщений Kafka.

Архитектура «Гарда Deception 2.1»Архитектура «Гарда Deception 2.1» включает следующие блоки:Подсистема управления (центр управления).

Типовые кейсы применения «Гарда Deception»Кейс использования «Гарда Deception» в фармацевтическ…

Зная, что группировка TA505 начинает атаки с фишинговых писем определённого формата, можно создать правило для их автоматического обнаружения.

Используют модель RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service) — сдают своё ПО в аренду менее квалифицированным хакерам.

Их атаки на правительственные сайты во время протестов вызывают реальные политические последствия.

Группа APT29 для атаки на демократическую партию США создала фиктивный сайт для рекрутинга сотрудников госструктур.

Знание того, кто стоит по ту сторону атаки, их мотивов и методов — половина победы.

Как стратегические просчёты в ИБ ломают бизнес-модели и чего стоит избежать, чтобы ЦОД стал конкурентным, а не проблемным активом?

В данной статье предлагается рассмотреть построение ЦОД не в качестве простого расширения вычислительных мощностей, а как стратегическую задачу по созданию безопасной и гибкой сервисной платформы.

Типовые услуги ЦОД и их риски: от размещение оборудования до аттестованных облаковРассмотрим типовые услуги дата-центров, охватывающие широкий спектр сервисов.

При аудите инфраструктуры ЦОД для обработки персональных данных выявились системные несоответствия.

Именно от этого выбора зависит вся последующая архитектура, а значит — капитальные затраты, операционная эффект…

Стратегические отрасли в России за 2025 год столкнулись с волной кибератак: госсектор и промышленность стали главными целями злоумышленников.

Однако изменения в законодательстве, вступившие в силу с 2025 года, и работа системы ГосСОПКА поменяли подход к защите критически важных объектов.

ВведениеВ июле 2025 года RED Security SOC опубликовала данные о кибератаках на российские компании в первом полугодии 2025 года.

Например, доля атак через цепочку поставок и доверенные каналы связи в России в 2025 году составила 4 %, в то время как два года назад — всего 2 %.

Как в России защищают стратегические отрасли от кибератакОтветом на растущие угрозы стало ужесточение и детализация нормативного регу…

Вендор Crosstech Solutions Group выпустил решение для защиты контейнерной инфраструктуры Crosstech Container Security (CTCS).

В 2024 году затраты на ПО для контейнеризации достигли 3 млрд рублей — это на 66 % больше, чем в 2023.

Анализ и контроль безопасности образовCrosstech Container Security интегрируется с реестрами хранения образов и позволяет проводить их сканирование как в ручном режиме, так и по расписанию.

Политики безопасности образов контейнеровВ рамках Crosstech Container Security реализовано создание политик безопасности для образов контейнеров.

При настройке политик безопасности доступен выбор режима реагирования — оповещение либо блокировка — а также определение перечня крите…

И это при том, что в массовых атаках не типично использование вымогательского ПО, использование которого приносит наибольшие доходы.

Современные технологии позволяют эту задачу успешно решить, но при условии, что ИБ и ЭБ объединят свои усилия.

Препятствий для взаимодействия нетПо практически общему мнению участников пленарной сессии «Экономическая и информационная безопасность: синергия защиты или конфликт компетенций», никаких объективных непреодолимых противоречий между ИБ и ЭБ нет.

ВРИО директора Департамента обеспечения кибербезопасности Минцифры Евгений Хасин подчеркнул, что и ИБ, и ЭБ связаны общей задачей — противодействием рискам.

ЭБ заинтересована в получении доступа к различным да…

При этом регулирование носит декларативный характер: действует «Кодекс этики ИИ» и создаются стандарты в Минцифры и Национальной технологической инициативе (НТИ), но единого закона пока нет.

Документ описывает характеристики надёжного ИИ, к которым должны стремиться разработчики: действительность и надёжность, безопасность, защищённость и устойчивость, подотчётность и прозрачность, объяснимость, конфиденциальность и справедливость.

В исследовании «Безопасность ИИ в финтехе» 75 % компаний назвали главной угрозой утечку данных.

Особенно уязвимы открытые модели и большие языковые модели (LLM), так как для их взлома достаточно составить корректный текстовый запрос.

Переобучение сотрудников сниж…

Её вендор — российская компания «Сакура PRO», входящая в группу компаний «ТЕХНОС-К» и занимающаяся ИТ-автоматизацией, в том числе в банковской сфере и в промышленности.

Бизнес-конструктор платформы «Сакура PRO»Архитектура «Сакура PRO»Центром обработки платформы «Сакура PRО» служит сервер приложений.

Архитектура платформы «Сакура PRO»Технологический стек платформы: PostgresPro, Kafka, Docker, React, Redis, Apache Solr, Java.

Главные причины инцидентов с утечкой данных (ProofpoInt, 2025)Можно ли оценить безопасность платформы «Сакура PRO» с точки зрения её защищённости от саботажа?

ВыводыПубличный выпуск платформы «Сакура PRO» даёт возможность лучше оценить возможности Zero-Code.

Покупатель квартиры Ларисы Долиной Полина ЛурьеИ последствия этого процесса, когда 2 инстанции встали на сторону Долиной, рискуют довольно серьёзно сказаться на всём рынке недвижимости.

В свою очередь, волна, поднятая сначала в соцсетях и блогах, а затем подхваченная СМИ, вызвала панику — и ей пытаются воспользоваться другие участники рынка недвижимости.

Широко распространены схемы продажи квартир, в которых часть жильцов отказалась от приватизации и не съезжает.

Проблему могут составить бывшие собственники или жильцы, имеющие зависимости (алкогольную, наркотическую), находящиеся в местах лишения свободы или на излечении в психиатрических клиниках.

К слову, так было и в случае с самой Ларис…

Аттестованное облако и облако с сертифицированными СЗИ — не одно и то же.

Вместе с аттестатом формируется комплект проектной и эксплуатационной документации, фиксирующий состав используемых средств защиты, конфигурацию оборудования, ПО и другое.

Приказ № 239 определяет требования к мерам и средствам, которые применяются для защиты ЗОКИИ (значимых объектов критической информационной инфраструктуры) от кибератак.

Действия провайдера для аттестации облакаПровайдер готовит облачную платформу к аттестации следующим образом:Подготовка и лицензии.

Проверка соответствия требованиям закона, оценка угрозы для системы и получение необходимых лицензий ФСТЭК и ФСБ для средств криптографической защиты.

Зачем нужна стратегия в информационной безопасности?

Алексей Воронцов считает, что стратегия ИБ — это лучший способ показать руководству, чем на самом деле занимается информационная безопасность.

Евгений Баклушин уверен, что стратегия ИБ — это часть общей стратегии компании.

Елизавета Комарова добавила, что стратегия помогает увидеть всю систему защиты целиком, чтобы не перекачивать ресурсы в одну область, забывая о других.

В идеале стратегию должен подтвердить комитет ИБ, в который входит владелец компании, отделы HR, ИТ, а утверждает в письменном виде владелец бизнеса.

Например, SLA может требовать реагирования на критический инцидент в течение 5 минут с момента поступления алерта в SOC, на менее критичный – в течение 15 минут.

Например, SLA может требовать реагирования на критический инцидент в течение 5 минут с момента поступления алерта в SOC, на менее критичный – в течение 15 минут.

Если SOC — сервисный центр для внешних клиентов, или если внутренние политики требуют уведомлять руководство, то также задаются сроки.

Если SOC — сервисный центр для внешних клиентов, или если внутренние политики требуют уведомлять руководство, то также задаются сроки.

Мы выяснили, что SOC может отлавливать как тихие фазы длительных проникновений, так и быстрые удары по вн…

CI/CD‑конвейеры и DevOps‑среды — сердце процессов разработки и развёртывания ПО.

Типовые векторы атакПрактика показывает, что атаки на CI/CD-конвейеры и DevOps-среды происходят регулярно и могут иметь серьёзные последствия.

Атаки на этом этапе опасны тем, что они напрямую воздействуют на конечные системы и данные, обходя этапы контроля качества и тестирования, и могут приводить к нарушению конфиденциальности, целостности и доступности сервисов.

Методы эксплуатации и закрепления в инфраструктуреАтакующие, получившие первоначальный доступ к элементу DevOps‑среды, применяют методы быстрой и скрытой интеграции в процесс сборки и доставки.

Чек-лист для ИБ по защите от атак на CI/CD-конвейеры и D…

В этом материале команда «Онланты» делится опытом тестирования StarVault — системы управления секретами — в связке с Postgres Pro в лабораторных условиях.

Один сервер выполнял роль базы данных Postgres Pro, другой — экземпляра StarVault с внешним хранилищем, третий — StarVault с интегрированным Raft-хранилищем.

Сравнение выполнялось для двух экземпляров StarVault: одного с хранилищем на Postgres Pro, другого — с интегрированным Raft-хранилищем.

StarVault с интегрированным локальным хранилищем Raft; StarVault с выделенным хранилищем на базе PostgreSQL / Postgres Pro.

ВыводРезультаты испытаний показали, что связка StarVault + Postgres Pro является технологически состоятельным и безопасным реш…

"Он сделал круглые глаза и удивился: а что, так, оказывается, можно было?"

Что если я скажу вам, что ИБ может быть бесплатной, при этом защищаться будет проще, чем нападать?

Обычно же считается как: защищающие должны соревноваться в скорости реагирования с атакующим, а изобретение средств защиты всегда отстает от средств нападения, поэтому бла-бла-бла.

Но так происходит в неправильном мире с проплаченными знаниями в головах, где напрочь отсутствует понятие о превентивной защите, харденинге.

И не важно что там нового злоумышленник предложил запустить, запрещен запуск - атака проваливается даже не начавшись!

Давайте разберемся в его работе по шагам:1. echo http://testphp.vulnweb.com | waybackurlsЧто делает: Получает список URL для целевого домена из Wayback Machine.

>> sqliЧто делает: Перенаправляет вывод (отфильтрованный список URL) в файл с именем sqli (добавляет данные в конец файла, если он существует).

Зачем: Параметры в URL передаются в формате ?параметр=значение.

Burp Suite — платформа для тестирования безопасности веб-приложений как в ручном, так и в автоматических режимах.

Представим, что мы и есть AppSec BP и взглянем на код, спровоцировавший другие уязвимости, которые мы ранее находили при тестировании методом «черного ящика».

Новая кампания в цепочке поставок получила название Sha1-Hulud и затронула более 25 000 репозиториев через npm с кражей учетных данных на этапе preinstall.

Пример заражённых репозиториевВ предыдущей волне атак злоумышленники компрометировали легитимные пакеты, внедряя в репозитории вредоносный код.

Вредонос искал секреты на машинах разработчиков с помощью сканера учётных данных TruffleHog и передавал их на нужный сервер.

Вредоносный payload выполняет следующие действия:Вредоносный код регистрирует заражённую машину в качестве self-hosted runner с именем SHA1HULUD и добавляет workflow с именем .github/workflows/discussion.yaml .

Схема работыПри выполнении вредоносный код скачивает и зап…

Спрут 1 – это Test Access Point и Data Diode в одном флаконе.

Спрут 1 - это тоже L1-гаджет, гибрид ответвителя данных и датадиода.

Нельзя сказать, чтобы это уж какая там новая новинка, здесь на Хабре уже обсуждались и датадиоды и TAP.

Причём есть не только в виде фотографии, конструкторской документации и тестовых образцов, которые можно попросить у нас, но и в виде записей в реестре изделий отечественной электронной продукции, и в перечне средств защиты информации, сертифицированных ФСТЭК по 4 уровню доверия.

И не потому, что мы прямо какие-то очень жадные, а потому, что порты W и E соединены напрямую по входу и выходу, и диоды получаются взаимозависимыми, увы.

Неужели нам и не нужно замены смартфону?

В отличие от смартфона, который постоянно держать в руках с включённой камерой / микрофоном и прямо перед глазами мы не можем.

И всё: вы не сделали ничего и при этом не выпали из контекста.

Как этот вопрос решать неизвестно, разве что сделать отдельный аккумулятор на поясе или в кармане, кабелем соединённый с очками, но это явно неудобно.

Так что будущее очков в повседневной жизни не просто давно начало приближаться, но и не так уж долго до него осталось.

Также у некоторых ДОУ есть группы в соцсетях для имиджа или для информирования.

Если не хотите бумажной волокиты – просто организуйте встречу и не препятствуйте общению, родители обычно сами обменяются.

И в прямом, и в переносном смысле.

Раз в год (например, в августе перед новым учебгодом или в конце мая) ответственный должен проводить проверку состояния дел.

В итоге, в один день личную почту взломали, и в интернет утекли файлы со списками детей (связали с этим).

Мы предоставляем облачные сервисы и взаимодействуем с Роскомнадзором (РКН) по вопросам защиты персональных данных и соответствия требованиям законодательства.

Как отмечает Kaspersky, ее цель простая — сохранить конфиденциальность, целостность и доступность данных при их хранении и обработке.

Важно заранее подготовиться под разные типы проверок: и к запросам «на стол», и к визиту.

Уведомление РоскомнадзораКомпания не отправила уведомление в РКН и не направила обоснование, почему обрабатывает данные без него.

И если раньше нарушения в сфере персональных данных воспринимались скорее, как репутационный риск — штрафы были незначительными, — то теперь это и финансовая угроза: суммы взысканий выро…

Исследователи компании SquareX, специализирующейся на безопасности браузеров, опубликовали отчет о критической уязвимости в ИИ-браузере Comet компании Perplexity.

Даже в SquareX признают, что это нереалистично, и для замены существующего расширения на вредоносное потребуется сотрудник Perplexity с доступом к производственным ресурсам», — заявил представитель компании.

В Perplexity указали, что видео SquareX демонстрирует атаку, требующую значительного участия человека, а также подчеркнули, что установка локальных MCP и любые команды требуют подтверждения.

Также в компании сообщили, что не получали доступа к отчету SquareX, а исследователи не отвечали на запросы о доступе к информации об уяз…

Компания Nvidia подтвердила, что октябрьские обновления безопасности Windows 11 вызывают проблемы с производительностью в играх в системах под управлением Windows 11 24H2 и 25H2.

«Может наблюдаться снижение производительности в некоторых играх после установки октябрьского обновления Windows 11 KB5066835 [5561605]», — сообщается в официальном документе поддержки Nvidia.

Hotfix-драйвер доступен для скачивания на сайте Nvidia Customer Care для Windows 10 x64 и Windows 11 x64.

Отметим, что проблемы с производительностью в играх — не единственные баги, вызванные октябрьскими обновлениями Windows.

К примеру, ранее инженерам Microsoft уже пришлось исправлять баги, которые: ломали работу с localhos…

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

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

На осно­ве этой информа­ции выбира­ется сле­дующий шаг к получе­нию точ­ки вхо­да.

На­ибо­лее извес­тный инс­тру­мент для ска­ниро­вания — это Nmap.

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

Разработчики Grafana Labs предупредили о критической уязвимости CVE-2025-41115 (10 баллов из 10 возможных по шкале CVSS) в Grafana Enterprise.

В итоге появлялась возможность выдать себя за администратора или другого пользователя, а также повысить привилегии.

Пользователи Grafana OSS не затронуты, а Grafana Cloud (включая Amazon Managed Grafana и Azure Managed Grafana) уже получили патчи.

Представители Grafana Labs подчеркивают, что провели расследование и установили, что уязвимость не эксплуатировалась в Grafana Cloud.

Следует отметить, что еще в прошлом месяце аналитики ИБ-компании GreyNoise предупреждали о необычно высокой активности — сканированиях, нацеленных на выявление старой уязвимо…

APT24 (она же Pitty Tiger) атакует правительственные учреждения, а также организации, работающие в сфере здравоохранения, строительства и проектирования, горнодобывающую промышленность, некоммерческие организации и телекоммуникации в США и на Тайване.

По данным Google, группа специализируется на краже интеллектуальной собственности, в частности, информации, которая делает организации конкурентоспособными в своих областях.

С ноября 2022 по сентябрь 2025 года APT24 скомпрометировала более 20 легитимных сайтов в разных доменах, внедрив в их код вредоносный JavaScript.

Исследователи рассказывают, что в некоторых атаках для сбора данных использовались Google Drive и OneDrive (вместо собственных …

Компания CrowdStrike подтвердила, что в прошлом месяце ее специалисты выявили и уволили сотрудника, который передал хакерам скриншоты внутренних систем компании.

Хакеры писали, что компрометация CrowdStrike связана с недавней утечкой данных у компании Gainsight, которая специализируется на управлении взаимоотношениями с клиентами.

Хотя компании не раскрывали подробной информации об этих атаках, похоже, что инцидент аналогичен взлому Salesloft в августе 2025 года.

При этом подчеркивается, что системы компании не были скомпрометированы, а данные клиентов остаются в безопасности.

Кроме того, злоумышленники заявили, что пытались купить отчеты CrowdStrike, содержащие информацию о ShinyHunters и …

Напоминаем о скором выходе бумажного выпуска «Хакера», в котором собраны лучшие статьи за 2025 год.

Рады сообщить, что тираж уже передан в печать, и рассылка заказов стартует в декабре — номер как раз успеет под елку!

Что внутриВ номер вошли 22 лучших материала уходящего года — все, что стоило сохранить на бумаге.

Это не просто сборник материалов — это коллекционный артефакт для тех, кто ценит физический носитель в эпоху бесконечных табов в браузере.

Обрати внимание, что тираж ограничен, а службы доставки всегда перегружены в праздничный сезон.

Специалисты Push Security заметили, что фишинговая платформа Sneaky2FA теперь поддерживает атаки browser-in-the-browser, что позволяет создавать поддельные окна для входа и похищать учетные данные и сессии.

Он продемонстрировал, что browser-in-the-browser позволяет создавать фишинговые формы для входа, используя для этого фейковые окна в браузере.

При этом такие окна урезаны и отображают только саму форму для входа и адресную строку, показывающую URL-адрес.

Этот URL-адрес позволяет убедиться, что для входа на сайт используется настоящий домен (например, google.com), что еще больше повышает доверие к процедуре.

Кроме того, Sneaky2FA перенаправляет ботов и исследователей на отдельную и безоби…

Microsoft анонсировала, что в 2026 году интегрирует популярный инструмент Sysmon напрямую в Windows 11 и Windows Server 2025.

Sysmon (System Monitor) — бесплатный инструмент Microsoft Sysinternals для мониторинга и блокировки подозрительной активности в Windows.

Нативная поддержка должна решить эту проблему, так как пользователи смогут устанавливать инструмент через Optional features («Дополнительные компоненты») в Windows 11 и получать обновления напрямую через Windows Update.

После установки администраторы смогут включить Sysmon через командную строку ( sysmon -i или для мониторинга с кастомным конфигом sysmon -i <имя_конфиг_файла> ).

Также представители Microsoft сообщили, что в 2026 год…

Пред­ставь: откры­ваешь файл с кодом в тек­сто­вом редак­торе — и видишь абсо­лют­но пус­тое мес­то, хотя скрипт прек­расно выпол­няет­ся.

Сегод­ня же я хочу рас­ска­зать о пер­вом слу­чае: ког­да, открыв код в тек­сто­вом редак­торе, непос­вящен­ный юзер видит на его мес­те... пус­тое ничего.

Осталь­ные сим­волы исполь­зуют­ся в качес­тве ком­мента­риев, что дела­ет воз­можным при­мене­ние кода Whitespace в сте­ганог­рафии.

Как видишь, зна­чимые сим­волы дей­стви­тель­но не отоб­ража­ются в тек­сто­вом редак­торе, хотя выделя­ются и редак­тиру­ются, я уж не говорю про шес­тнад­цатерич­ные редак­торы.

Поэто­му для наг­ляднос­ти прог­раммы на Whitespace записы­вают пос­ледова­тель­ностью сим…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday issued an alert warning of bad actors actively leveraging commercial spyware and remote access trojans (RATs) to target users of mobile messaging applications.

"These cyber actors use sophisticated targeting and social engineering techniques to deliver spyware and gain unauthorized access to a victim's messaging app, facilitating the deployment of additional malicious payloads that can further compromise the victim's mobile device," the agency said.

CISA cited as examples multiple campaigns that have come to light since the start of the year.

Some of them include -The targeting of the Signal messaging app by multiple…

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open-source and lightweight telemetry agent, that could be chained to compromise and take over cloud infrastructures.

The security defects "allow attackers to bypass authentication, perform path traversal, achieve remote code execution, cause denial-of-service conditions, and manipulate tags," Oligo Security said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

Successful exploitation of the flaws could enable attackers to disrupt cloud services, manipulate data, and burrow deeper into cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.

- A path traversal vulnerability stemming from the use of unsanitized tag values to generate outpu…

Multiple security vendors are sounding the alarm about a second wave of attacks targeting the npm registry in a manner that's reminiscent of the Shai-Hulud attack.

The new supply chain campaign, dubbed Sha1-Hulud, has compromised hundreds of npm packages, according to reports from Aikido, HelixGuard, Koi Security, Socket, and Wiz.

The infected variants also came with the ability to propagate in a self-replicating manner by re-publishing itself into other npm packages owned by the compromised maintainer.

"This campaign continues the trend of npm supply-chain compromises referencing Shai-Hulud naming and tradecraft, though it may involve different actors," Wiz said.

"The threat leverages comp…

Big firms like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google had to react fast — stopping DDoS attacks, blocking bad links, and fixing live flaws.

In these attacks, prospective targets are tricked into allowing browser notifications through social engineering on malicious or legitimate-but-compromised websites.

"Next year, Windows updates for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 will bring Sysmon functionality natively to Windows," the tech giant said.

"Next year, Windows updates for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 will bring Sysmon functionality natively to Windows," the tech giant said.

— A malware campaign dubbed WEBJACK has been observed compromising Microsoft IIS servers to deploy malicious IIS m…

New research from CrowdStrike has revealed that DeepSeek's artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 produces more security vulnerabilities in response to prompts that contain topics deemed politically sensitive by China.

Its open-source DeepSeek-R1 model was also found to censor topics considered sensitive by the Chinese government, refusing to answer questions about the Great Firewall of China or the political status of Taiwan, among others.

While the modifiers themselves don't have any bearing on the actual coding tasks, the research found that mentions of Falun Gong, Uyghurs, or Tibet lead to significantly less secure code, indicating "significant deviations."

"The presen…

A recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been exploited by threat actors to distribute malware known as ShadowPad.

"The attacker targeted Windows Servers with WSUS enabled, exploiting CVE-2025-59287 for initial access," AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) said in a report published last week.

Once installed, the malware is designed to launch a core module that's responsible for loading other plugins embedded in the shellcode into memory.

"After the proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for the vulnerability was publicly released, attackers quickly weaponized it to distribute ShadowPad malware via WSUS servers," AhnLab said.

"This vulnerabi…

The attacks aimed at Russia are characterized by the use of legitimate cloud services, mainly those prevalent in the country, like Yandex Cloud, for command-and-control (C2) and data exfiltration in an attempt to blend in with normal traffic and escape detection.

To facilitate subsequent stages of the attack cycle, APT31 has leveraged an extensive set of publicly available and custom tools.

"As C2, attackers actively use cloud services, in particular, Yandex and Microsoft OneDrive services.

These tools and techniques allowed APT31 to stay unnoticed in the infrastructure of victims for years.

At the same time, attackers downloaded files and collected confidential information from devices, in…

Bad actors are leveraging browser notifications as a vector for phishing attacks to distribute malicious links by means of a new command-and-control (C2) platform called Matrix Push C2.

"This browser-native, fileless framework leverages push notifications, fake alerts, and link redirects to target victims across operating systems," Blackfog researcher Brenda Robb said in a Thursday report.

In these attacks, prospective targets are tricked into allowing browser notifications through social engineering on malicious or legitimate-but-compromised websites.

Matrix Push C2 is offered as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) kit to other threat actors.

"The core of the attack is social engineering, and Ma…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical security flaw impacting Oracle Identity Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.

The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-61757 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of missing authentication for a critical function that can result in pre-authenticated remote code execution.

"Oracle Fusion Middleware contains a missing authentication for a critical function vulnerability, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to take over Identity Manager," CISA said.

"Sadly, we did not capture the bodies for these requests, but they were all POST requests.

This i…

Grafana has released security updates to address a maximum severity security flaw that could allow privilege escalation or user impersonation under certain configurations.

It resides in the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) component that allows automated user provisioning and management.

That said, successful exploitation hinges on both conditions being met -enableSCIM feature flag is set to trueuser_sync_enabled config option in the [auth.scim] block is set to trueThe shortcoming affects Grafana Enterprise versions from 12.0.0 to 12.2.1.

It has been addressed in the following versions of the software -Grafana Enterprise 12.0.6+security-01Grafana Enterprise 12.1.3+security…

In a surprise move, Google on Thursday announced that it has updated Quick Share, its peer-to-peer file transfer service, to work with Apple's equipment AirDrop, allowing users to more easily share files and photos between Android and iPhone devices.

Likewise, to receive content from an Apple device, Android device users will need to adjust their Quick Share visibility settings to Everyone for 10 minutes or be in Receive mode on the Quick Share page, according to a support document published by Google.

"We built Quick Share's interoperability support for AirDrop with the same rigorous security standards that we apply to all Google products," Dave Kleidermacher, vice president of Platforms S…

So what’s this got to do with cybersecurity – and a solution known as Managed Detection and Response (MDR)?

That’s why Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services are often cited as the predominant way organisations will protect themselves.

Earlier this year, Gartner forecast that up to 50% of all organisations will have adopted MDR by the end of 2025.

IT generalists – and even security managers – wear many hats.

MDR offers the same level of protection – without the overhead – making it accessible to SMEs and large enterprises alike.

Short for “Open Source Intelligence”, OSINT refers to the gathering and analysis of publicly available data to produce actionable insights.

Basically, if you’re trying to make sense of public data, you’re already in OSINT territory.

OSINT Framework and OSINTCombine: these tools organize hundreds of free resources by category (web search, social media platforms, government sites, etc.

Social media tools: platforms like Namechk and Sherlock check whether a username exists across dozens of sites and are, therefore, useful for building digital profiles.

Parting thoughtsKnowing how to use OSINT tools is one thing; knowing how to investigate responsibly is another.

Internally named dns_cheat_v2 by its developers – and codenamed EdgeStepper by us – bioset is PlushDaemon’s adversary-in-the-middle tool, which forwards DNS traffic from machines in a targeted network to a malicious DNS node.

Alternatively, we have also observed that some servers are both the DNS node and the hijacking node; in those cases, the DNS node replies to DNS queries with its own IP address.

Illustration of the final stage of the update hijackingFigure 5 shows the hijacking node serving LittleDaemon.

We observed that IP address from 2021 to 2022 as the source of the malicious update: the hijacking node.

ConclusionWe analyzed the EdgeStepper network implant that enables PlushDaemon’…

In October, researchers warned that two AI companion apps (Chattee Chat and GiMe Chat) had unwittingly exposed highly sensitive user information.

The information shared by victims in romantic conversations with their AI companion is ripe for blackmail.

As per the above example, revenue generation rather than cybersecurity is the priority for AI app developers.

How to keep your family safeWhether you’re using an AI companion app yourself or are concerned about your children doing so, the advice is the same.

It goes without saying that you shouldn’t allow any AI companion apps whose age verification and content moderation policies do not offer sufficient protections for your children.

6 password manager security concernsWith access to the credentials stored in your password manager, threat actors could hijack your accounts to commit identity fraud, or sell access/passwords to others.

Another option is by exploiting vulnerabilities in the password manager software, or tricking users with phishing pages, as detailed below.

Such are the riches on offer that some have gone to the trouble of developing malware to steal credentials from victims’ password managers.

Fake password manager appsSometimes, cybercriminals play on the popularity of password managers in an attempt to harvest passwords and spread malware via fake apps.

Password managers remain a key part of cybersecurit…

The scale, reach and power of artificial intelligence (AI) should make shadow AI a concern for any IT or security leader.

Beyond public AI modelsStandalone apps like ChatGPT are a big part of the shadow AI challenge.

But IBM claims that, already, 20% of organizations last year suffered a breach due to security incidents involving shadow AI.

For those with high levels of shadow AI, it could add as much as US$670,000 on top of the average breach costs, it calculates.

Breaches linked to shadow AI can wreak significant financial and reputational damage, including compliance fines.

The cybersecurity community lost one of its luminaries with the passing of David Harley last week, at the age of 76.

On that forum, at the time working for the NHS as its computer security head, was a man named David Harley.

At a conference called ‘Infosec’ (sadly long defunct), I finally met David, in late 1999, and we hit it off immediately, sharing many more interests than just security.

Rest in peace my friend.”Says ESET Research Fellow Bruce P. Burrell:“I'm not quite sure when I first met David – probably though VIRUS-L/comp.virus in the late 80s or early 90s.

Here’s where you can learn more about the life and work of David Harley:

ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe highlights some of the key findings from the latest issue of the ESET APT Activity ReportYesterday, the ESET research team released the latest issue of its APT Activity Report that summarizes and contextualizes the cyber-operations of some of the world's most notorious state-aligned hacking groups from April to September 2025.

The report documents how the groups targeted entities across sectors and geographies in an attempt to burrow deep into both government and corporate systems and siphon off intelligence, disrupt infrastructure or generate revenue.

One notable finding is that the notorious Russia-aligned group Sandworm deployed several data w…

ESET APT Activity Report Q2 2025–Q3 2025 summarizes notable activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were documented by ESET researchers from April through September 2025.

They illustrate the key trends and developments and contain only a small fraction of the cybersecurity intelligence data provided to customers of ESET APT reports.

During the monitored period, China-aligned APT groups continued to advance Beijing’s geopolitical objectives.

This surge in activity coincided with a rare instance of cooperation between Russia-aligned APT groups, as Gamaredon selectively deployed one of Turla’s backdoors.

Malicious activities described in ESET APT Activity Report Q2 …

One deceptive tactic that has gained traction recently involves tricking people into sharing their phone screens during a WhatsApp video call.

Screen sharing scam report from Brazil (source: Reddit)Here’s what you should know about the scam and how you can stay safe from it.

The callEverything starts with a WhatsApp video call from an unfamiliar number.

Once you oblige, any incoming text messages and WhatsApp verification codes become visible to them.

Never share your passwords, verification codes or any personal or financial data over the phone.

Think you could never fall for an online scam?

Here's how scammers could exploit psychology to deceive you – and what you can do to stay one step aheadWhy do people fall for scams even when they should know better?

It’s a question that says more about human nature than about technology.

In this episode of Unlocked 403, Becks is joined by Alena Košinárová, a software engineer at ESET who has a knack for unraveling the human side of cybersecurity, to unpack the psychology that keeps social engineering so effective.

They also discuss how our publicly available information, such as our own social media posts, only makes things easier for scammers, as well as how you can guard against social eng…

Preparation is the key to effective incident response (IR).

If everyone in the incident response team knows exactly what to do, there’s more chance of a swift, satisfactory and low-cost resolution.

Gather information and understand scopeThe first step is to understand exactly what just happened and set to work on a response.

Isolate and containWhile outreach to relevant third parties is ongoing, you’ll need to work fast to prevent the spread of the attack.

Because successful incident response isn’t just a matter for IT.

As Windows 10 PCs no longer receive security updates automatically, what are your options if you or your business still uses Windows 10?

As Windows 10 PCs no longer receive security updates automatically, what are your options if you or your business still uses Windows 10?

Cybercriminals are distributing information-stealing malware using TikTok videos disguised as free activation guides for Windows, Spotify, Netflix and other software.

Meanwhile, China has accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out a "premeditated" cyberattack targeting China’s National Time Service Center (NTSC).

Don't forget to check out the September 2025 edition of Tony's monthly security news roun…

Effective protection combines ongoing family communication, human and technical controls, and a clear remediation plan if something does still go wrong.

Loneliness : Social isolation can make relationship-based scams, such as dating scams, devastatingly effective.

: Social isolation can make relationship-based scams, such as dating scams, devastatingly effective.

Also, if your parent’s or grandparent’s bank offers special protections for older customers, use them.

The bottom line is, scams targeting seniors are rising in cost, frequency and sophistication.

Deepfakes are blurring the line between real and fake and fraudsters are cashing in, using synthetic media for all manner of scamsCan you tell what’s real online?

It's become increasingly difficult as advances in AI and deepfake technology can help anyone create eerily convincing videos, images, and audio.

Businesses aren't spared either, as synthetic voices and videos are being used to trick employees into wiring corporate money to criminals.

This video closes out our series of videos marking Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so don't miss out on the other instalments in the series that looked at the human element in cybersecurity, authentication, software patching, the ransomware threat and …

In this Help Net Security interview, Graham McMillan, CTO at Redgate Software, discusses AI, security, and the future of enterprise oversight.

When that failure happens, what is the first structural change you expect enterprises to make in how they build and govern AI systems?

Structurally, not much may happen next year, but where AI has been overpromised, there might be an overcorrection to reset expectations around what it can deliver for an enterprise.

I think there is always going to be a need to deploy traditionally good approaches to securing AI.

Do you expect companies to begin treating AI models as internal critical infrastructure, and if so, what oversight mechanisms will emerge th…

The moment information becomes exposedThe cabin network works by having devices send updates to a central system, and other devices are allowed to receive only certain updates.

Passenger patterns reflected in sensor readingsThe study shows how different kinds of cabin data can reveal more than intended.

Details like these show why movement data needs protection before it is shared across the cabin network.

Once a raw value is sent into the cabin network it cannot be made private again.

The broader conclusion is that privacy must sit alongside transport protections and must align with the structure of the cabin network.

The majority of breaches start with predictable, low-tech methods: stolen credentials, phishing, and unpatched systems.

Check Point data shows a 160% increase in leaked credentials in 2025 compared to 2024, with some incidents exposing billions of records in a single breach.

Why personal accounts matterMost leaked credentials belong to personal accounts, not corporate ones.

The Report highlights a rise in double-extortion tactics, where stolen credentials are used to pressure victims into paying.

By staying ahead of leaked credentials, organizations can act swiftly and decisively, reducing risk before it escalates.

A new ISC2 survey of more than 1,000 cybersecurity professionals shows that supply chain risk sits near the top of their concerns.

Each integration adds potential exposure, and many security teams struggle to understand the deeper layers of these networks.

Even so, these events raise questions about continuity, vendor communication and the accuracy of vendor security claims.

Organizations review supplier security practices on different schedules, but many do not check often enough.

When that happens, customers may rely on outdated information and miss changes in a vendor’s security posture.

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Trend Micro will launch the Trend Vision One AI Security Package in December.

It protects the AI application stack from model development to runtime and extends security across every stage of AI deployment.

It will also launch alongside additional AI security capabilities.

With AI Application Security, the AI Scanner continuously monitors models to uncover vulnerabilities and applies AI guardrails to defend against threats—creating a seamless, proactive, closed-loop system for AI risk management.

Supports rapid ingestion of new cloud application logs within hours for correlation with Trend threat intelligence.

Black Friday 2025 is shaping up to be a good moment for anyone thinking about tightening their cybersecurity.

The Black Friday campaign offers 50% off and is valid November 26 – December 3, 2025.

The Black Friday campaign offers an extra 28% discount on yearly NordLayer seats for new clients.

NordPass also offers data breach monitoring to alert businesses to potential leaks and support compliance with modern cybersecurity requirements.

The Black Friday campaign offers 50% off on all hands-on application security training courses and is valid November 26 – December 3, 2025.

Satellite operators have long relied on traditional cryptography for command and control.

Post-quantum encryption protocols running on traditional hardware largely implement the same set of constraints as in traditional asymmetric encryption.

What are the most significant integration challenges when applying quantum-safe encryption to existing satellite architectures, especially those already in orbit?

Do you expect quantum-resilient standards to emerge first from the defense sector or through commercial satellite operators?

Commercial satellite operators able to adopt these standards early may be able to propose a very unique value proposition to defense clients, offering their services lo…

It checks security and compliance across all of it, which makes it easier to see what needs attention.

This means security professionals can apply a consistent set of policies across an environment that spans cloud build pipelines through to runtime operations.

Once you install cnspec you can run scans and policy checks or use the interactive shell for ad-hoc queries.

Effective use means integrating cnspec into your processes: hooking up to source control, CI/CD, registry scanning, runtime monitoring and asset inventory.

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The authors argue that privacy remains important, but current frameworks fall behind the ways data is produced, used, and misused in digital environments.

A system built on privacy rules that no longer match realityThe researchers trace today’s policies back to laws written in the 1990s.

At that time, digital healthcare systems were new and medical data lived in isolated pockets.

These policies treat privacy as the primary value, even as healthcare data gains scientific, economic, and social importance.

Data that grows exponentially requires governanceA central theme in the paper is the mismatch between the exponential growth of medical data and the slow, linear growth of regulations.

Security leaders depend on vulnerability data to guide decisions, but the system supplying that data is struggling.

An analysis from Sonatype shows that core vulnerability indexes no longer deliver the consistency or speed needed for the current software environment.

Only 19% of CVE severity categories matched Sonatype’s analysis.

The average delay between public disclosure and NVD scoring in 2025 was 6 weeks.

The consequences reach beyond security teamsCompliance processes assume that CVE data provides a complete record.

Scams rose by more than 30% and phishing increased by more than 20%.

These are file types that many security teams no longer view as high risk.

Their resurgence reflects an attacker strategy to exploit blind spots in filtering and inspection.

Attackers increasingly use forged headers, obscure top level domains, URL shortening, and HTML techniques that confuse filters rather than readers.

AI as a dual forceMany CISOs believe AI has increased ransomware risk.

The International Association of Cryptologic Research—the academic cryptography association that’s been putting conferences like Crypto (back when “crypto” meant “cryptography”) and Eurocrypt since the 1980s—had to nullify an online election when trustee Moti Yung lost his decryption key.

For this election and in accordance with the bylaws of the IACR, the three members of the IACR 2025 Election Committee acted as independent trustees, each holding a portion of the cryptographic key material required to jointly decrypt the results.

This aspect of Helios’ design ensures that no two trustees could collude to determine the outcome of an election or the contents of individual votes on their own…

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

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

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

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

More on Rewiring DemocracyIt’s been a month since Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship was published.

We need more reviews—six on Amazon is not enough, and no one has yet posted a viral TikTok review.

One review was published in Nature and another on the RSA Conference website, but more would be better.

If you’re in Toronto, you can see me at the Munk School at the University of Toronto on 12/2.

I’m also doing a live AMA on the book on the RSA Conference website on 12/16.

From Anthropic:In mid-September 2025, we detected suspicious activity that later investigation determined to be a highly sophisticated espionage campaign.

The attackers used AI’s “agentic” capabilities to an unprecedented degree­—using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyberattacks themselves.

The operation targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies.

We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention.

[…]The attack relied on several features of AI models that did not exist, or were in much more nascent form, just a year ago:

Google has filed a complaint in court that details the scam:In a complaint filed Wednesday, the tech giant accused “a cybercriminal group in China” of selling “phishing for dummies” kits.

The kits help unsavvy fraudsters easily “execute a large-scale phishing campaign,” tricking hordes of unsuspecting people into “disclosing sensitive information like passwords, credit card numbers, or banking information, often by impersonating well-known brands, government agencies, or even people the victim knows.”These branded “Lighthouse” kits offer two versions of software, depending on whether bad actors want to launch SMS and e-commerce scams.

“Members may subscribe to weekly, monthly, seasonal, ann…

Thirty years ago, a debate raged over whether vulnerability disclosure was good for computer security.

On the other side, companies argued that full disclosure led to exploitation of unpatched vulnerabilities, especially if they were hard to fix.

Although full disclosure fell out of fashion, disclosure won and security through obscurity lost.

The move towards paid bug bounties and the rise of platforms that manage bug bounty programs for security teams has changed the reality of disclosure significantly.

Finally, I’ll call upon platforms and companies to adapt their practices to be more in line with the original bargain of coordinated vulnerability disclosure, including by banning agreement…

And a singular candidate was integrating social media into his political campaign: Barack Obama.

But still, no candidate has unlocked AI’s potential to revolutionize political campaigns.

The Obama campaign and administration demonstrated that social media was different from those earlier communications technologies, including the pre-social internet.

In Virginia, both in 2024 and again this year, candidates have used AI avatars as artificial stand-ins for opponents that refused to debate them.

The closest so far to fulfilling that vision anywhere in the world may be Japan’s new political party, Team Mirai.

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

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

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

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

Short-finned pilot wales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) eat at lot of squid:To figure out a short-finned pilot whale’s caloric intake, Gough says, the team had to combine data from a variety of sources, including movement data from short-lasting tags, daily feeding rates from satellite tags, body measurements collected via aerial drones, and sifting through the stomachs of unfortunate whales that ended up stranded on land.

Once the team pulled all this data together, they estimated that a typical whale will eat between 82 and 202 squid a day.

To meet their energy needs, a whale will have to consume an average of 140 squid a day.

Annually, that’s about 74,000 squid per whale.

For all the whale…

The event is cohosted by the college and The Twin Cities IEEE Computer Society.

Nathan E. Sanders and I will be speaking at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on December 1, 2025, at 6:00 pm ET.

Nathan E. Sanders and I will be speaking at a virtual event hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform, on December 3, 2025, at 6:00 PM PT.

I’m speaking and signing books at the Chicago Public Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on February 5, 2026.

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The Role of Humans in an AI-Powered WorldAs AI capabilities grow, we must delineate the roles that should remain exclusively human.

Then, in the 1990s, Deep Blue beat the best human.

There will be an intermediate period for many applications where the human-AI combination is optimal, but eventually, for fact-based tasks, the best AI will likely surpass both.

The enduring role for humans lies in making judgments, especially when values come into conflict.

There is no single “right” answer; it’s a matter of feelings, values, and what we as a society hold dear.

The customers didn’t know whether the crypto they bought was any good.

Everyone pretended to know, thought they knew, or knew better than to even try to know.

But Datotek didn’t know that, at the time.

Kinch demonstrated the security of his telephone encryptors by hooking a pair of them up and having people listen to the encrypted voice.

Datotek fixed its security, but only offered the upgrade to the Argentines, because no one else complained.

Former DoJ attorney John Carlin writes about hackback, which he defines thus: “A hack back is a type of cyber response that incorporates a counterattack designed to proactively engage with, disable, or collect evidence about an attacker.

At the other end of the spectrum, offensive measures that involve accessing or otherwise causing damage or loss to the hacker’s systems are likely prohibited, absent government oversight or authorization.

And even then parties should proceed with caution in light of the heightened risks of misattribution, collateral damage, and retaliation.

As for the broad range of other hack back tactics that fall in the middle of active defense and offensive measures, pr…

[…]CometJacking is a prompt-injection attack where the query string processed by the Comet AI browser contains malicious instructions added using the ‘collection’ parameter of the URL.

LayerX researchers say that the prompt tells the agent to consult its memory and connected services instead of searching the web.

As the AI tool is connected to various services, an attacker leveraging the CometJacking method could exfiltrate available data.

In their tests, the connected services and accessible data include Google Calendar invites and Gmail messages and the malicious prompt included instructions to encode the sensitive data in base64 and then exfiltrate them to an external endpoint.

According…

Sixteen months later, however, Mozilla is still promoting Onerep.

This week, Mozilla announced its partnership with Onerep will officially end next month.

In a statement published Tuesday, Mozilla said it will soon discontinue Monitor Plus, which offered data broker site scans and automated personal data removal from Onerep.

Mozilla said current Monitor Plus subscribers will retain full access through the wind-down period, which ends on Dec. 17, 2025.

Shelest released a lengthy statement wherein he acknowledged maintaining an ownership stake in Nuwber, a data broker he founded in 2015 — around the same time he launched Onerep.

An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet’s top destinations offline.

Some affected Cloudflare customers were able to pivot away from the platform temporarily so that visitors could still access their websites.

However, some customers did manage to pivot their domains away from Cloudflare during the outage.

“Then you see through DNS changes that the target has eliminated Cloudflare from their web stack due to the outage.

But also look hard at the behavior inside your org.”Scott said organizations seeking security insights from the Cloudflare outage should ask themselves:1.

Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least one zero-day bug that is already being exploited.

Affected products this month include the Windows OS, Office, SharePoint, SQL Server, Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, and Azure Monitor Agent.

Many of the more concerning bugs addressed by Microsoft this month affect Windows 10, an operating system that Microsoft officially ceased supporting with patches last month.

As that deadline rolled around, however, Microsoft began offering Windows 10 users an extra year of free updates, so long as they register their PC to an active Microsoft accoun…

More recently, Lighthouse has been used to spoof e-commerce websites, financial institutions and brokerage firms.

Google’s lawsuit alleges the purveyors of Lighthouse violated the company’s trademarks by including Google’s logos on countless phishing websites.

Ford Merrill works in security research at SecAlliance, a CSIS Security Group company, and he’s been tracking Chinese SMS phishing groups for several years.

Merrill said many Lighthouse customers are now using the phishing kit to erect fake e-commerce websites that are advertised on Google and Meta platforms.

But he said the Chinese mobile phishing market is so lucrative right now that it’s difficult to imagine a popular phishing serv…

The Washington Post recently reported that more than a half-dozen federal departments and agencies were backing a proposed ban on future sales of TP-Link devices in the United States.

“TP-Link vigorously disputes any allegation that its products present national security risks to the United States,” Ricca Silverio, a spokeswoman for TP-Link Systems, said in a statement.

Microsoft found the hacker groups were leveraging the compromised TP-Link systems to conduct “password spraying” attacks against Microsoft accounts.

Happily, TP-Link users spooked by the proposed ban may have an alternative to outright junking these devices, as many TP-Link routers also support open-source firmware options l…

Cloudflare responded by redacting Aisuru domain names from their top websites list.

One Aisuru botnet domain that sat prominently for days at #1 on the list was someone’s street address in Massachusetts followed by “.com”.

Other Aisuru domains mimicked those belonging to major cloud providers.

Sometime in the past 24 hours, Cloudflare appears to have begun hiding the malicious Aisuru domains entirely from the web version of that list.

However, downloading a spreadsheet of the current Top 200 domains from Cloudflare Radar shows an Aisuru domain still at the very top.

The 2012 indictment targeting the Jabber Zeus crew named MrICQ as “John Doe #3,” and said this person handled incoming notifications of newly compromised victims.

Two sources familiar with the Jabber Zeus investigation said Rybtsov was arrested in Italy, although the exact date and circumstances of his arrest remain unclear.

Further searching on this address in Constella finds the same apartment building was shared by a business registered to Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov, the leader of the Jabber Zeus crew in Ukraine.

Nevertheless, the pilfered Jabber Zeus group chats provided the basis for dozens of stories published here about small businesses fighting their banks in court over six- and se…

Experts say the Aisuru botmasters recently updated their malware so that compromised devices can more easily be rented to so-called “residential proxy” providers.

From a website’s perspective, the IP traffic of a residential proxy network user appears to originate from the rented residential IP address, not from the proxy service customer.

“I just checked, and in the last 90 days we’ve seen 250 million unique residential proxy IPs,” Kilmer said.

Brundage says that by almost any measurement, the world’s largest residential proxy service is IPidea, a China-based proxy network.

That 2022 story named Yunhe Wang from Beijing as the apparent owner and/or manager of the 911S5 proxy service.

Financial regulators in Canada this week levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform that supports dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services.

On October 16, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada (FINTRAC) imposed a $176,960,190 penalty on Xeltox Enterprises Ltd., more commonly known as the cryptocurrency payments platform Cryptomus.

Sanders found at least 56 cryptocurrency exchanges were using Cryptomus to process transactions, including financial entities with names like casher[.

Their inquiry found that the street address for Cryptomus parent Xeltox Enterprises was listed as the home of at…

Cybercriminals are abusing a widespread lack of authentication in the customer service platform Zendesk to flood targeted email inboxes with menacing messages that come from hundreds of Zendesk corporate customers simultaneously.

Zendesk is an automated help desk service designed to make it simple for people to contact companies for customer support issues.

Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity started receiving thousands of ticket creation notification messages through Zendesk in rapid succession, each bearing the name of different Zendesk customers, such as CapCom, CompTIA, Discord, GMAC, NordVPN, The Washington Post, and Tinder.

In the example below, replying to any of the junk customer sup…

October’s Patch Tuesday also marks the final month that Microsoft will ship security updates for Windows 10 systems.

To execute these flaws, an attacker would social engineer a target into previewing an email with a malicious Microsoft Office document.

Speaking of Office, Microsoft quietly announced this week that Microsoft Word will now automatically save documents to OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud platform.

If you’re reluctant or unable to migrate a Windows 10 system to Windows 11, there are alternatives to simply continuing to use Windows 10 without ongoing security updates.

One option is to pay for another year’s worth of security updates through Microsoft’s Extended Security Updates (ESU)…

Traces from the recent spate of crippling Aisuru attacks on gaming servers can be still seen at the website blockgametracker.gg, which indexes the uptime and downtime of the top Minecraft hosts.

In the following example from a series of data deluges on the evening of September 28, we can see an Aisuru botnet campaign briefly knocked TCPShield offline.

“The outbound and cross-bound DDoS attacks can be just as disruptive as the inbound stuff,” Dobbin said.

“The Aisuru attacks on the gaming networks these past seven day have been absolutely huge, and you can see tons of providers going down multiple times a day,” Coelho said.

However, Forky has posted on Telegram about Botshield successfully m…

“Contact us to negotiate this ransom or all your customers data will be leaked,” the website stated in a message to Salesforce.

Nobody else will have to pay us, if you pay, Salesforce, Inc.”Below that message were more than three dozen entries for companies that allegedly had Salesforce data stolen, including Toyota, FedEx, Disney/Hulu, and UPS.

The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters claim they will publish data stolen from Salesforce and its customers if ransom demands aren’t paid by October 10.

Google catalogs Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters by so many UNC names (throw in UNC6240 for good measure) because it is thought to be an amalgamation of three hacking groups — Scattered Spider, Lapsus$ and ShinyHu…

Members of Star Chat targeted multiple wireless carriers with SIM-swapping attacks, but they focused mainly on phishing T-Mobile employees.

However, Star Chat was by far the most prolific of the three, responsible for at least 70 of those incidents.

But U.S. prosecutors say Jubair and fellow Scattered Spider members continued their hacking, phishing and extortion activities up until September 2025.

U.S. authorities say they traced some of those payments to Scattered Spider to an Internet server controlled by Jubair.

For further reading (bless you), check out Bloomberg’s poignant story last week based on a year’s worth of jailhouse interviews with convicted Scattered Spider member Noah Urban.

International cybercrime-fighting agencies, co-ordinated by Europol, took down over 1000 servers and seized 20 domains earlier this month as part of Operation Endgame 3.0.

Three major malware platforms: the infostealer known as Rhadamanthys, the VenomRAT remote access trojan, and the Elysium botnet.

Europol claims that the main suspect behind the Rhadamanthys infostealer is thought to have had access to over 100,000 cryptocurrency wallets belonging to victims, potentially worth millions of Euros.

By targeting those behind information-stealing malware, remote access trojans, and botnets, the authorities are hoping to disupt the underlying cybercriminal infrastructure which helps enable headl…

After years of delays, the UK government has finally introduced landmark cybersecurity legislation that could reshape how British organisations defend against digital attacks. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

A technical manager at a Dutch wind farm operator has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service after it was discovered he had secretly installed cryptocurrency mining rigs at two wind farm sites - just as the company was recovering from a ransomware attack.

Wind farm operator Nordex discovered that its turbines were not only generating green energy, but were also powering a secret cryptocurrency mining operation at two of its sites in Gieterveen and Waardpolder.

The unnamed rogue employee, who is in his forties, connected three cryptocurrency mining rigs and two Helium network nodes (a device which acts as both a wireless gateway and blockchain node) to his employer's internal netwo…

All this and more is discussed in episode 444 of the “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and special guest Tricia Howard.

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In episode 77 of The AI Fix, a language model trained on genomes that creates a super-virus, Graham wonders whether AI should be allowed to decide if we live or die, and a woman marries ChatGPT (and calls it “Klaus”).

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One of the sad truths about this world of seemingly endless hacks and data breaches is that companies just won't apologise.

Which is why I found it so refreshing to read a blog post by payment processing service Checkout.com.

The data was found by the hackers on a legacy system that the company had seemingly not used since 2020.

Legacy systems are a liability - often left still accessible, unmonitored, misconfigured, and unpatched.

Ultimately the reason that this data breach happened was because a legacy data storage system had not been fully decomissioned.

All this, plus Lily Allen’s new album and Claude Code come up for discussion in episode 443 of the “Smashing Security” podcast, with special guest Ron Eddings.

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Many of the world's top artificial intelligence companies are making a simple but dangerous mistake. They are accidentally publishing their passwords and digital keys on GitHub, the popular code-sharing website that is used by millions of developers every day. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

A Russian hacker accused of helping ransomware gangs break into businesses across the United States is set to plead guilty, according to recently filed federal court documents.

Instead of deploying ransomware himself, Volkov is alleged to have obtained network credentials and administrator access, and then passed that access to operators of the Yanluowang ransomware group.

The Yanluowang ransomware group is known for encrypting victims' files, changing their extension to ".yanluowang" and threatening to leak exfiltrated data if a ransom is not made.

Court records state that at least seven US organisations were affected across the United States.

Criminal ransomware groups are now frequently …

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A Dutch TV and radio broadcaster has found itself at the mercy of cybercriminals after suffering a cyber attack, and leaving it scrambling to find ways to play music to its listeners.

RTV Noord, which provides TV and radio programming in the northern province of Groningen in the Netherlands, discovered it had been hacked on November 6, 2025.

RTV Noord confirmed that the attackers left a message on its network, though it has not been made public.

In the past, for instance, there have been TV and radio stations that have found themselves hacked for political reasons.

Broadcasters like RTV Noord have increasingly become targeted by cybercriminals hoping to amplify their notoriety.

Critical infrastructure is once again in the spotlight, as it is revealed that several UK water suppliers have reported cybersecurity incidents over the last two years. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

South Korean police have uncovered a hacking operation that stole sensitive data from massage parlours and blackmailed their male clientele.

In reality, the hackers only had the customers' details, and did not have access to any video footage of what happened in the privacy of the massage parlours.

Victims are said to have paid amounts ranging from 1.5 million to 47 million Korean Won (approximately USD $1,000 to $32,000) each.

In all, the gang is said to have attempted to extort nearly 200 million Korean Won (approximately US $105,000) through the scheme.

Police believe that the hackers started collecting customer details from massage parlours in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Daegu in January 2022,…

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Рассказываем подробнее о том, как работает данная атака, почему она особенно опасна для пользователей — и как от нее защититься.

Во-первых, они явно рассчитывают, что значительное число пользователей будет попадать на созданные ими фейковые страницы через простой поиск в Google.

Дело в том, что чаще всего поддельные сайты имеют адреса, совпадающие с целевыми поисковыми запросами — или близкие к ним.

Поддельные сайты, изготовленные с помощью ИИ-конструктора LovableНесмотря на различие в содержимом, участвующие в данной вредоносной кампании поддельные веб-сайты имеют ряд общих черт.

В данном случае злоумышленники не только не стали создавать собственный троян, но даже не купили на черном рынк…

В дни распродаж стоит позаботиться о подарках не только себе, но и своим питомцам — чтобы те не грустили и не голодали, когда вы уходите из дома, и не терялись на прогулках.

Бывают устройства как для влажного, так и для сухого корма.

Они предназначены в основном для кошек, но могут использоваться и для собак мелких пород.

Навороченные поилки могут фиксировать каждый визит питомца к воде, отслеживать и передавать в приложение частоту и продолжительность питья.

Коллекция мерча Kaspersky Pets для питомцев и их владельцевЛюбому питомцу нужно уютное место для отдыха — например, мягкая велюровая лежанка от «Лаборатории Касперского», подходящая для кошек и собак мелких и средних пород.

Потому использование в организации только браузеров и расширений, работающих исключительно с Manifest V3, упрощает мониторинг, но не является панацеей.

При этом ИТ и ИБ должны регулярно тестировать новые версии разрешенных расширений и закреплять обновленные версии после их одобрения.

Оценку бизнес-необходимости расширения и доступных альтернатив лучше проводить с ответственным от бизнес-подразделения, а вот оценка рисков полностью останется в зоне ответственности ИБ.

Вручную скачивать расширения и сверять их в разных магазинах расширений необязательно — для этой задачи имеются как инструменты open source и бесплатные онлайн-сервисы, так и коммерческие платформы.

Он позволяет изучать уже на…

Затем, когда наступает «черная пятница», они «урезают» цену на те же 50%, и на ценнике красуется впечатляющая скидка.

ИИ может просканировать сотни интернет-магазинов за секунды, найдя не только нужный товар по лучшей цене, но и более дешевые аналоги с похожими характеристиками.

На Amazon с этим помогут на CamelCamelCamel и Keepa, а на AliExpress — AliPrice и AliTools.

Вот данные о ценах:– Сентябрь: [цена]– Начало октября: [цена]– Конец октября: [цена]– Текущая цена: [цена]– Заявленная скидка: [процент]Проанализируй эти данные.

Ну и на всякий случай прогоните через ИИ вот этот промпт для проверки магазина:Я нашел товар [название] на сайте [URL].

Изначально для своих экспериментов исследователи использовали Comet, но впоследствии подтвердили работоспособность атаки и в браузере Atlas.

К 2025 году эволюция этой идеи привела к появлению Comet от Perplexity AI — первого браузера, изначально спроектированного для взаимодействия с ИИ.

Пользователь может попросить ИИ сделать резюме статьи, объяснить термин, сравнить данные или сгенерировать команду, оставаясь на текущей странице.

Кража учетных данных Binance с помощью поддельного ИИ-сайдбараВ первом сценарии пользователь спрашивает ИИ в сайдбаре, как продать свою криптовалюту на криптобирже Binance.

Однако эта ссылка ведет не на настоящий сайт Binance, а на очень убедительную подделку.

Они тоже подключены к сети, имеют достаточно широкие доступы, но при этом не защищенны EDR и часто не снабжены журналированием.

Он описал найденную им уязвимость в принтерах и МФУ Canon (CVE-2024-12649, CVSS 9.8), которая позволяет запустить на устройствах вредоносный код.

Например, в описываемой атаке вредоносный код удалось исполнить, разместив его при помощи трюка с TTF в буфере памяти, предназначенном для другого протокола печати, IPP.

Реалистичный сценарий эксплуатацииВ своем бюллетене, описывающем уязвимость, Canon утверждают, что уязвимость может быть проэксплуатирована дистанционно, если принтер доступен для печати через Интернет.

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К счастью, Pixnapping пока является чисто исследовательским проектом и не используется злоумышленниками.

Остается надеяться, что Google качественно устранит уязвимость до того, как код атаки вставят в реальное вредоносное ПО.

Как устроена атака Pixnapping«Скриншотить» посторонние приложения исследователи смогли, скомбинировав ранее известные способы «похищения» пикселей из браузера и из видеоускорителей ARM-смартфонов.

Это сжатие проходит без потерь, как в ZIP-файлах, но скорость упаковки и распаковки меняется в зависимости от того, что за информация передается.

На каких устройствах работает Pixnapping и как защититьсяРаботоспособность атаки проверена на Android версий с 13-й по 16-ю на уст…

По сути, разница между ClickFix и FileFix сводится к тому, что в случае ClickFix злоумышленники убеждают жертву открыть диалоговое окно «Выполнить» (Run) и вставить в него вредоносную команду, а в случае FileFix — заставляют жертву вставить команду в адресную строку «Проводника Windows».

Уловка заключается в том, что путь к файлу — это всего лишь последние несколько десятков символов длинной команды.

Что там находится в реальности, можно увидеть, вставив информацию не в окно «Проводника», а в текстовый файл.

Как защитить компанию от атак ClickFix и FileFixВ посте о технике атаки ClickFix мы говорили, что самым простым способом защиты от нее является блокировка сочетания клавиш [Win] + [R] н…

Обычно это все сразу: и сам компьютер, и мышь, и веб-камера с клавиатурой.

Конечно, от такого письма не по себе станет любому человеку, и многие люди действительно начинают беспокоиться за собственную жизнь.

Мошенники требуют срочно связаться по адресу электронной почты, указанному в письме, и дать разъяснения — тогда, возможно, санкции не последуют.

Когда испуганная жертва связывается со злоумышленниками, те предлагают «оплатить штраф» для «досудебного закрытия уголовного дела» — которого, разумеется, и в помине нет.

И совершенно неважно, что в Европоле нет президента, да и имя настоящего исполнительного директора Европола совершенно другое.

При этом проекты по внедрению SD-WAN не только быстро окупаются, но и продолжают приносить дополнительные выгоды и увеличенную эффективность по мере обновления и выхода новых версий решения.

Оптимизированные алгоритмы перенаправления трафикаЭта классическая функция SD-WAN и одно из основных конкурентных преимуществ технологии.

Чтобы такое событие не нарушило бизнес-процессы, любую смену политики в Kaspersky SD-WAN можно запланировать на конкретное время.

Есть и другие, например настройка политик безопасности при подключении к консольному порту CPE и поддержка сетей большого масштаба с 2000+ CPE и балансировкой нагрузки между несколькими оркестраторами.

О том, как все эти новшества повышают …

Группа ученых из Калифорнийского университета в Сан-Диего и Мэрилендского университета в Колледж-Парке обнаруживает, что над миром нависла невообразимая опасность, источник которой затаился в космосе.

Шестеро исследователей установили на крыше университета в прибрежном районе Ла-Хойя в Сан-Диего, Южная Калифорния, обычную геостационарную спутниковую ТВ-антенну — такие можно приобрести у любого провайдера спутникового телевидения или в магазинах электроники.

Геостационарные спутники, используемые для телевидения и связи, располагаются на орбите над экватором и движутся с той же угловой скоростью, что и Земля.

Провайдеры Wi-Fi на борту пассажирских самолетов на вопросы Wired в связи с инциден…

Наибольшей заботой о пользователях отличились Pinterest и Quora, а внизу рейтинга оказались TikTok и Facebook*.

Facebook* и YouTube планируют делать и то и другое.

Отказаться в настройках от этой перспективы можно в Pinterest, X, Quora и LinkedIn.

За группой лидеров в середине горячей десятки мы неожиданно встречаем Facebook*, YouTube и LinkedIn, предлагающие значительное количество настроек приватности.

Довести публичность до минимума лучше всего получится в Pinterest, Facebook* и TikTok, а хуже всего с этим в LinkedIn и X.ВыводыИдеала среди соцсетей найти не удалось.

В частности, они детально описали две кампании, целью которых являются атаки на разработчиков и руководителей из криптоиндустрии, — GhostCall и GhostHire.

Кампании GhostCall и GhostHire сильно отличаются друг от друга, однако зависят от общей инфраструктуры управления, почему наши эксперты и объединили их в рамках одного доклада.

Кампания GhostCallЦелями кампании GhostCall в основном являются руководители разнообразных организаций.

Инструменты, используемые злоумышленниками в кампании GhostHire, и их индикаторы компрометации также можно найти в посте в блоге Securelist.

Как защититься от атак типа GhostCall и GhostHireХотя целями GhostCall и GhostHire являются конкретные разработчики и руко…

Что такое ForumTroll и как они действуютВ марте наши технологии выявили волну заражений российских компаний ранее неизвестным сложным вредоносным ПО.

В частности, нашли еще несколько атак той же группы на организации и частных лиц в России и Беларуси.

Но самое интересное — нашим исследователям удалось идентифицировать его как коммерческое шпионское ПО Dante, разработанное итальянской компанией Memento Labs, ранее известной как HackingTeam.

Подробнее о том, что умеет Dante и по каким признакам наши эксперты поняли, что это именно оно, можно прочитать в блоге Securelist.

Кроме того, детали этого исследования, равно как и информация о группе ForumTroll и шпионском ПО Dante, которую мы получим …

How Cisco Secure Firewall Transforms the EquationFirewall policy can only remain relevant if it can keep up with the dynamic nature of users and workloads.

Dynamic Environments Need Dynamic PoliciesDynamic environments require adaptive, context-aware firewall policies that evolve alongside users and workloads.

Explore how Cisco Secure Firewall with Identity Intelligence transforms your security architecture.

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We’re excited to share that Cisco has been recognized as a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Software 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52997325, September 2025).

Key Highlights of the IDC MarketScapeThe IDC MarketScape emphasizes showcases the distinct advantages that set our solution apart:Truly Open XDR Architecture — The IDC MarketScape notes, “Cisco XDR has a truly open XDR architecture.” Our open, hybrid approach to XDR allows customers to seamlessly integrate telemetry from both Cisco security solutions and third-party tools.

— The IDC MarketScape notes, “Cisco XDR has a truly open XDR architecture.” Our open, hybrid approach to XDR all…

Configure Host Groups for InfrastructureDefine Host Groups in SNA to categorize your network infrastructure devices such as routers, switches, and jump hosts.

Build Custom Security Events in SNA to detect suspicious or forbidden communications, such as unusual or forbidden traffic patterns.

Types of living of the land techniques SNA can be effective at detecting on infrastructure include:Unauthorized or suspicious logins to network devices.

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It’s no longer enough to simply filter spam; organizations need a comprehensive, cloud-scale email security platform that fortifies existing investments, is simple to deploy, and provides robust, end-to-end protection.

Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense at the forefront of innovationBacked by over two decades of email gateway expertise, Secure Email Threat Defense brings the next wave of email security to your organization — it’s now a gateway solution!

With this new deployment mode, Email Threat Defense can now operate as a standalone email security gateway, providing organizations with even more flexibility in how they defend against evolving email threats.

A new licensing tier to simplify…

The New AI Connectivity ChallengeAI is driving rapid transformation and innovation across every industry.

Inside AI data centers, ultra-high performance is essential to efficiently feed XPU clusters.

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN offers an on-demand, high-performance, and data center-agnostic network fabric that streamlines and accelerates access to AI data centers and Neocloud.

Cisco SD-WAN: On-Demand Access to GPU as-a-Service PlatformsTogether, this solution empowers rapid, cost-optimized, and secure access to next-generation AI infrastructure, ensuring innovation is never bottlenecked by the network.

How Enterprises Win With AI-Ready ConnectivityInstant AI Workload AccessSlash deployment times …

Scale security services efficiently and profitably with Cisco’s AI-powered management platformEarlier this year, we launched Cisco Security Cloud Control.

Now Cisco is introducing foundational, multi-customer management capabilities to Security Cloud Control designed specifically for the modern managed service provider (MSP).

This aligns with Cisco’s commitment to provide a platform-based operating model that streamlines every aspect of your security services business.

Get in touch with your Cisco representative to explore how the new multi-customer management capabilities in Cisco Security Cloud Control can align your operations with your growth strategy and unlock new levels of profitabil…

SE Labs awards Cisco Firewall dual AAA ratings for unmatched protection accuracy and performanceSE Labs named Cisco Secure Firewall the Best Next-Generation Enterprise Firewall of 2025.

“Behind every AAA rating is engineering excellence focused on solving real problems,” said Shaila Shankar, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Cisco Security Business Group.

“Enterprises shouldn’t have to choose between security and performance,” said Peter Bailey, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Security Business Group.

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Recognizing these challenges, Cisco has launched a groundbreaking solution: the Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 Series.

Let’s dive deeper into what makes the Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 Series a game-changer.

1: Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 SeriesAdvanced Software Capabilities: The Heart of Secure FirewallingThe Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 Series isn’t just about hardware.

With the Secure Firewall 6100 Series, Cisco is not just addressing these needs—it’s redefining what’s possible.

Discover how the Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 Series can transform your organization’s security posture.

Advanced Threat Detection with Splunk Enterprise Security 8.2The Splunk Threat Research Team (STRT) along with Cisco Talos has developed targeted threat detections specifically for Cisco Secure Firewall integration.

Key Detection Examples:Cisco Secure Firewall — BITS Network ActivityThis detection identifies potentially suspicious use of the Windows BITS service by leveraging Cisco Secure Firewall’s built-in application detectors.

Using Splunk Compliance Essentials app, you can continually monitor the compliance posture across various control frameworks like CMMC, FISMA, RMF, DFARS, and even OMB M-21-31.

Call to ActionLeverage the Cisco Firewall Promotional Splunk OfferStarting August 2025,…

Identity is the new perimeter, and with Cisco Identity Intelligence, Secure Access brings continuous, adaptive access decisions to every user, device, and application.

The Blind Spot: Static View of Identity, Behavior, and Posture in a Dynamic WorldMost SSE platforms assume a user is just a login.

Cisco Identity Intelligence: Leverage User Trust Level to Reduce RiskCisco Secure Access integrates with Cisco Identity Intelligence (CII) to make SSE identity-focused, risk-aware and self-adjusting.

In September of this year, Cisco extended Secure Access integration with CII beyond user trust levels being visible in the Secure Access dashboard.

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“If I could change one thing about my organization’s segmentation approach, it would definitely be to further automate and integrate our segmentation tools and processes.

This change would have significant impact on effectiveness and efficiency.” UK, IT, telecoms, and technology, 2025 Cisco Segmentation ReportSegmentation is a complex and evolving technology that bridges multiple layers of the IT stack.

The responses in the 2025 Cisco Segmentation Report make clear that in an era where 84% of organizations suffered a breach in the past year, segmentation has become the foundation of resilience.

The 2025 Cisco Segmentation Report is helping Cisco align our segmentation product strategies to …

Cisco Secure Firewall 1220, leveraging the power of its Snort3 engine, recently underwent rigorous testing, adhering to NetSecOPEN standards, demonstrating its exceptional capabilities in both performance and security efficacy.

The testing was conducted by an approved NetSecOPEN test lab, ensuring adherence to stringent industry standards for network security performance.

The Device Under Test (DUT) was a Secure Firewall tested using the latest software version, vulnerability database, and Snort update.

Loading Time for Secure Web Pages (HTTPS): On average, it takes as little as 2.159 milliseconds for the first part of a secure web page to start loading when tested with 16,000 requests per …

When we analyze many of the breaches that have taken place, there is a common theme we can use to elevate our defensive game.

Lateral movement (Tactic TA0008) tends to be leveraged as high as 70% of cyber breaches.

Even with layers, we are never going to provide 100% security effectiveness 100% of the time.

Again, no defensive capability will ever provide 100% efficacy 100% of the time but restricting this tactic significantly improves our chances.

I am challenging organizations to invest time solving the lateral movement risk that exists.

Let’s Agree on a Standard Taxonomy for SegmentationThe first step is to standardize how we talk about segmentation.

Given the rapid evolution of segmentation, its various types and the use of jargon by vendors, segmentation is in desperate need of an established taxonomy.

Fortunately, the TechRxiv paper does a great job of organizing segmentation taxonomy, separating terms into three buckets:How Segments are Delineated : The way segments are defined is a critical differentiation between segmentation types.

The Infrastructure Over Which Segmentation is Deployed : Segmentation also differs based on the underlying infrastructure.

How Enforcement is Implemented: The way segmentation is enforced…

We’re happy to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management for the ninth consecutive year.

We feel this recognition underscores the impact and value of our innovative solutions, like Microsoft Entra.

We’ve also made it easier for developers to integrate authentication into their apps with Microsoft Entra External ID.

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

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Microsoft Agent 365Today we announced Microsoft Agent 365, the control plane for AI agents.

Security: Security is non-negotiable which is why Agent 365 uses Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Purview to deliver comprehensive protection from external and internal threats.

Microsoft Purview expansion for Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft Purview expanded data security and compliance controls for Microsoft 365 Copilot to include comprehensive data oversharing reports within the Microsoft 365 admin center, automated bulk remediation of overshared links, and data loss prevention for Microsoft 365 Copilot and chat prompts.

Microsoft Sentinel has evolved from its traditional role as a…

Unlocking AI-first security with Microsoft Security CopilotA Microsoft 365 E5 subscription delivers security across your organization, including threat protection with Microsoft Defender, identity and access management through Microsoft Entra, endpoint device management via Microsoft Intune, and data security provided by Microsoft Purview.

Microsoft Security Copilot amplifies these capabilities with built-in agents that act as a force multiplier across the security stack.

* The rollout begins today for existing Security Copilot customers with Microsoft 365 E5 and will continue in the upcoming months for all Microsoft 365 E5 customers.

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Read about Microsoft and NVIDIA joint research on real-time immunity.

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Read about Microsoft and NVIDIA joint research on real-time immunity.

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When we launched the Secure Future Initiative (SFI), our mission was clear: accelerate innovation, strengthen resilience, and lead the industry toward a safer digital future.

Secure by Design, Secure by Default, Secure OperationsMicrosoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows, Microsoft Surface, and Microsoft Security engineering teams continue to deliver innovations to better protect customers.

Engineering progress that sets the benchmarkWe’re making steady progress across all engineering pillars.

​​Learn more with Microsoft SecurityTo learn more about Microsoft Security solutions, visit our website.

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Microsoft has discovered a new type of side-channel attack on remote language models.

In this blog post, we present a novel side-channel attack against streaming-mode language models that uses network packet sizes and timings.

At a high level, language models generate responses by predicting and producing one token at a time based on the given prompt.

We chose a standard of language model temperature = 1.0 to encourage language model response diversity.

Use non-streaming models of large language models providers.

Microsoft has discovered a new type of side-channel attack on remote language models.

In this blog post, we present a novel side-channel attack against streaming-mode language models that uses network packet sizes and timings.

At a high level, language models generate responses by predicting and producing one token at a time based on the given prompt.

We chose a standard of language model temperature = 1.0 to encourage language model response diversity.

Use non-streaming models of large language models providers.

According to IDC’s latest research, organizations experienced an average of nine cloud security incidents in 2024, with 89% reporting a year-over-year increase.

Read IDC’s latest research, The Next Era of Cloud Security: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform and Beyond, to dive deep into the future of cloud security—and what it means for chief information security officers (CISOs), security architects, and product leaders.

The role of the CISO is evolving to align security with business prioritiesIn 37% of organizations, CISOs now have ownership over cloud security management.

Learn moreRead IDC’s full whitepaper, The Next Era of Cloud Security: Cloud-Native Application Protection Pl…

According to IDC’s latest research, organizations experienced an average of nine cloud security incidents in 2024, with 89% reporting a year-over-year increase.

Read IDC’s latest research, The Next Era of Cloud Security: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform and Beyond, to dive deep into the future of cloud security—and what it means for chief information security officers (CISOs), security architects, and product leaders.

The role of the CISO is evolving to align security with business prioritiesIn 37% of organizations, CISOs now have ownership over cloud security management.

Learn moreRead IDC’s full whitepaper, The Next Era of Cloud Security: Cloud-Native Application Protection Pl…

Because, at this moment in history, those of us who understand critical infrastructure security have a responsibility to act.

DORA was similarly adopted to bolster the digital resilience of financial entities operating within the EU.

The release of the Microsoft Digital Defense Report provides the latest intelligence on the cyberthreat landscape and actionable recommendations for organizations worldwide.

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.

Because, at this moment in history, those of us who understand critical infrastructure security have a responsibility to act.

DORA was similarly adopted to bolster the digital resilience of financial entities operating within the EU.

The release of the Microsoft Digital Defense Report provides the latest intelligence on the cyberthreat landscape and actionable recommendations for organizations worldwide.

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.

To help security teams better face the growing challenges, generative AI offers transformative capabilities that can bridge critical gaps.

In a newly released e-book from Microsoft, we share multiple scenarios that showcase how Microsoft Security Copilot, powered by generative AI, can empower security analysts, accelerate incident response, and improve operational inefficiencies.

Key statistics on the realities of today’s security operations center (SOCs).

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To help security teams better face the growing challenges, generative AI offers transformative capabilities that can bridge critical gaps.

In a newly released e-book from Microsoft, we share multiple scenarios that showcase how Microsoft Security Copilot, powered by generative AI, can empower security analysts, accelerate incident response, and improve operational inefficiencies.

Key statistics on the realities of today’s security operations center (SOCs).

Learn more with Microsoft SecurityTo learn more about Microsoft Security solutions, visit our website.

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Microsoft and OpenAI jointly investigated the threat actor’s use of the OpenAI Assistants API.

Instead, it uses OpenAI Assistants API to fetch commands, which the malware then decrypts and executes locally.

First, the backdoor queries the vector store list from OpenAI using the OpenAI Assistants API and the hardcoded API key.

Reading message from OpenAIThe message retrieved from OpenAI using thread ID and message ID might look like this:Figure 12.

To hear stories and insights from the Microsoft Threat Intelligence community about the ever-evolving threat landscape, listen to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence podcast.

Our first rust memory safety vulnerability...almost: We'll analyze a near-miss memory safety bug in unsafe Rust: how it happened, how it was mitigated, and steps we're taking to prevent recurrence.

Our First Rust Memory Safety Vulnerability...AlmostWe recently avoided shipping our very first Rust-based memory safety vulnerability: a linear buffer overflow in CrabbyAVIF.

Unsafe Review and TrainingOperating system development requires unsafe code, typically C, C++, or unsafe Rust (for example, for FFI and interacting with hardware), so simply banning unsafe code is not workable.

Dmytro Hrybenko for leading the effort to develop training for unsafe Rust and for providing extensive feedback on …

Survey shows Android users’ confidence in scam protectionsGoogle and YouGov3 surveyed 5,000 smartphone users across the U.S., India, and Brazil about their experiences.

The findings were clear: Android users reported receiving fewer scam texts and felt more confident that their device was keeping them safe.

Android users were 58% more likely than iOS users to say they had not received any scam texts in the week prior to the survey.

As an extra safeguard, Google Messages also helps block suspicious links in messages that are determined to be spam or scams.

As an extra safeguard, Google Messages also helps block suspicious links in messages that are determined to be spam or scams.

What's worse, many plaintext HTTP connections today are entirely invisible to users, as HTTP sites may immediately redirect to HTTPS sites.

To address this risk, we launched the “Always Use Secure Connections” setting in 2022 as an opt-in option.

We now think the time has come to enable “Always Use Secure Connections” for all users by default.

For more than a decade, Google has published the HTTPS transparency report, which tracks the percentage of navigations in Chrome that use HTTPS.

Since HTTP navigations remain a regular occurrence for most Chrome users, a naive approach to warning on all HTTP navigations would be quite disruptive.

To help accelerate adoption of AI for cybersecurity workflows, we partnered with Airbus at DEF CON 33 to host the GenSec Capture the Flag (CTF), dedicated to human-AI collaboration in cybersecurity.

Our goal was to create a fun, interactive environment, where participants across various skill levels could explore how AI can accelerate their daily cybersecurity workflows.

An overwhelming 85% of all participants found the event useful for learning how AI can be applied to security workflows.

This positive feedback highlights that AI-centric CTFs can play a vital role in speeding up AI education and adoption in the security community.

We are committed to advancing the AI cybersecurity frontier…

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At Made by Google 2025, we announced that the new Google Pixel 10 phones will support C2PA Content Credentials in Pixel Camera and Google Photos.

Pixel Camera attaches Content Credentials to any JPEG photo capture, with the appropriate description as defined by the Content Credentials specification for each capture mode.

attaches Content Credentials to any JPEG photo capture, with the appropriate description as defined by the Content Credentials specification for each capture mode.

Google Photos attaches Content Credentials to JPEG images that already have Content Credentials and are edited using AI or non-AI tools, and also to any images that are edited using AI tools.

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Today marks a watershed moment and new benchmark for open-source security and the future of consumer electronics.

Google is proud to announce that protected KVM (pKVM), the hypervisor that powers the Android Virtualization Framework, has officially achieved SESIP Level 5 certification.

This makes pKVM the first software security system designed for large-scale deployment in consumer electronics to meet this assurance bar.

With this level of security assurance, Android is now positioned to securely support the next generation of high-criticality isolated workloads.

Achieving Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP) Level 5 is a landmark because it incorporates AVA_VAN.5, the hi…

Today we're excited to announce OSS Rebuild, a new project to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts.

Infrastructure definitions to allow organizations to easily run their own instances of OSS Rebuild to rebuild, generate, sign, and distribute provenance.

With an estimated value exceeding $12 trillion, open source software has never been more integral to the global economy.

For publishers and maintainers of open source packages, OSS Rebuild can...

If you're a developer, enterprise, or security researcher interested in OSS security, we invite you to follow along and get involved!

Android recently announced Advanced Protection, which extends Google’s Advanced Protection Program to a device-level security setting for Android users that need heightened security—such as journalists, elected officials, and public figures.

This is particularly useful for Advanced Protection users, since in 2023, plaintext HTTP was used as an exploitation vector during the Egyptian election.

JavaScript Optimizations and Security Advanced Protection reduces the attack surface of Chrome by disabling the higher-level optimizing Javascript compilers inside V8.

Javascript optimizers can be disabled outside of Advanced Protection Mode via the “Javascript optimization & security” Site Setting.

We…

Below we describe our prompt injection mitigation product strategy based on extensive research, development, and deployment of improved security mitigations.

A layered security approachGoogle has taken a layered security approach introducing security measures designed for each stage of the prompt lifecycle.

From there, a key protection against prompt injection and data exfiltration attacks occurs at the URL level.

Users are encouraged to become more familiar with our prompt injection defenses by reading the Help Center article.

Moving forwardOur comprehensive prompt injection security strategy strengthens the overall security framework for Gemini.

The Chrome Root Program Policy states that Certification Authority (CA) certificates included in the Chrome Root Store must provide value to Chrome end users that exceeds the risk of their continued inclusion.

To safeguard Chrome’s users, and preserve the integrity of the Chrome Root Store, we are taking the following action.

Apple policies prevent the Chrome Certificate Verifier and corresponding Chrome Root Store from being used on Chrome for iOS.

Beginning in Chrome 127, enterprises can override Chrome Root Store constraints like those described in this blog post by installing the corresponding root CA certificate as a locally-trusted root on the platform Chrome is running (e.g., install…

Google Quantum AI's mission is to build best in class quantum computing for otherwise unsolvable problems.

In 2019, using the same physical assumptions – which consider qubits with a slightly lower error rate than Google Quantum AI’s current quantum computers – the estimate was lowered to 20 million physical qubits.

Normally more error correction layers means more overhead, but a good combination was discovered by the Google Quantum AI team in 2023.

Another notable error correction improvement is using "magic state cultivation", proposed by the Google Quantum AI team in 2024, to reduce the workspace required for certain basic quantum operations.

These algorithms can already be deployed to d…

To enhance these existing device defenses, Android 16 extends Advanced Protection with a device-level security setting for Android users.

Advanced Protection gives users:Best-in-class protection, minimal disruption: Advanced Protection gives users the option to equip their devices with Android’s most effective security features for proactive defense, with a user-friendly and low-friction experience.

Advanced Protection gives users the option to equip their devices with Android’s most effective security features for proactive defense, with a user-friendly and low-friction experience.

Defense-in-depth: Once a user turns on Advanced Protection, the system prevents accidental or malicious disab…

Our dedication to your security is validated by security experts, who consistently rank top Android devices highest in security, and score Android smartphones, led by the Pixel 9 Pro, as leaders in anti-fraud efficacy.

Now, Google Play Protect live threat detection will catch apps and alert you when we detect this deceptive behavior.

We’ve made Google Play Protect’s on-device capabilities smarter to help us identify more malicious applications even faster to keep you safe.

Google Play Protect now uses a new set of on-device rules to specifically look for text or binary patterns to quickly identify malware families.

This update to Google Play Protect is now available globally for all Android…