Юристы, бухгалтеры, HR, администраторы: зоны, где ИИ уже сегодня работает не хуже людей.

Сторонний аналитический сервис Mixpanel допустил утечку, затронувшую часть пользователей API OpenAI, — компания отключила вендора и усиливает проверки партнёров.

«Лаборатория Касперского» раскрыла новую схему хакеров.

Исследователи разобрали открытые работы учёных КНДР и увидели за ними не «мирные» сервисы, а фундамент для массового надзора и криптокраж.

В Redis 8.4 наконец-то починили миграцию слотов в кластерах.

Группировка Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters наращивает кампанию: под огнём снова SaaS-платформы и их ничего не подозревающие операторы.

Жалобы идут из Москвы, Питера и Сибири.

LLM блестяще пишут тексты и код, но когда дело доходит до угадывания паролей, старые хакерские методы по-прежнему впереди.

По данным отраслевых ассоциаций, доля трофейного ПО в ряде отраслей, в частности, в строительстве, близка к 100 %.

Трояны, инфостилеры, НДВ и прочие угрозыВ целом для ПО, которое принято называть трофейным, характерны те же угрозы, что и для любого другого нелицензионного.

По оценке руководителя отдела реагирования на инциденты «Бастион» Семёна Рогачёва, именно инфостилеры наиболее часто встраиваются в нелицензионное ПО — как для непосредственного использования в атаках на компании, так и для перепродажи.

Речь идёт не только о системах для монтажа видео и звука, но и ПО для создания цифровых эффектов и моделирования.

Регулирование должно быть выверенным и «умным», способствующим развитию ро…

Санкционное давление и курс на технологический суверенитет сделали переход на отечественные СУБД стратегической необходимостью для российских компаний.

Предприятия сегодня ориентированы на получение готовых решений, а не на сборку из отдельных компонентов.

Сложность заключается не только в переносе данных, но и в миграции бизнес-логики: хранимых процедур, триггеров и других компонентов, тесно связанных с конкретной СУБД.

Во втором опросе выяснилось, какова стратегия зрителей относительно СУБД на ближайший год:В процессе миграции на российскую СУБД — 43 %.

Это указывает на необходимость реализации комплексного подхода к защите данных на всех уровнях их жизненного цикла.

Знание кода необязательно, если вредоносную программу для атак на компьютерные сети или отдельные ПК можно приобрести либо арендовать.

Поскольку этот теневой бизнес уже давно стал международным, напряжённая геополитическая обстановка и санкционное давление сказались и на нём.

Наиболее часто атакам в 2025 году подвергались производственные и инжиниринговые компании (18,9 %), организации оптовой (17 %) и розничной торговли (15,1 %).

Такая схема финансовых потоков не только увеличивает доход операторов, но и затрудняет атрибуцию атак и установление ответственности.

События 2022 года отразились и на деятельности киберпреступных группировок: с этого момента началось противостояние российских и у…

Zero Trust: фундамент новой безопасностиМодель Zero Trust (нулевого доверия) — это не просто набор технологий, а фундаментальный сдвиг в философии безопасности.

Изменения инфраструктурыВнедрение Zero Trust — это поэтапный процесс.

Возросшая нагрузка на ИТ- и ИБ-подразделенияВнедрение и сопровождение архитектуры Zero Trust создаёт значительную дополнительную нагрузку на профильные подразделения, особенно на начальных этапах трансформации.

ВыводыПереход на модель Zero Trust — это не разовый проект, а стратегическая трансформация, требующая терпения, инвестиций и пересмотра корпоративной культуры.

Zero Trust не отменяет ответственности заказчика за безопасность, но даёт ему мощные инструменты,…

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…

От рисков (Risk-Based Approach) — самый зрелый и эффективныйЛогика: Бюджет на ИБ — это инвестиция в снижение вероятности или реализации бизнес-рисков.

Для кого подхода: Для компаний в строго регулируемых отраслях (финансы, энергетика, здравоохранение) или как отправная точка для построения ИБ.

Важно: Используйте этот подход не для финального расчета, а для проверки гипотез.

Если ваш расчет от рисков дал 2% от IT-бюджета, а бенчмарк по отрасли — 6%, стоит перепроверить, все ли риски учтены.

Ваша цель — не отчитаться о потраченных процентах от IT-бюджета, а продемонстрировать, что каждый вложенный рубль в ИБ защищает бизнес от существенных финансовых и репутационных потерь.

Рассмотрена зависимость вероятности ошибки декодирования от отношения сигнал/шум в канале для РС-кода, РМ-кода, мажоритарного кода и голографического кода.

Аддитивный шум существует в аналоговых каналах связи, а помехоустойчивое кодирование применяется для цифровых сигналов, в которых основной характеристикой качества канала является вероятность ошибки на бит (BER).

При той же скорости кода R=1/32 голографический код обеспечивает вероятность ошибки декодирования менее 10-4 при вероятности ошибки в канале до уровня BER=0,34.

Голографический код в отличие от других кодов дает совпадающий результат декодирования как для прямого, так и для инвертированного блока данных.

ЗаключениеГолографически…

Общая схема атак QuietCrabs в инцидентахАтаки группировки характеризуются массовым сканированием интернета в поиске уязвимых серверов.

Источник: BishopFox / sliver (GitHub)Во время исследования сетевой инфраструктуры мы заметили, что QuietCrabs предпочитала использовать хостинг-провайдер DigitalOcean.

Фрагмент веб-шелла ps_backdoor.aspxJSP-загрузчикВо время расследования было понятно, что группировка QuietCrabs напрямую загрузила KrustyLoader через эксплуатацию уязвимости.

Данные в секции .textПолученную полезную нагрузку KrustyLoader расшифровывает, используя тот же ключ и вектор инициализации, что и для ссылки.

В нашем случае пересечение активности — это, скорее всего, совпадение, связанн…

Лицензиат и сублицензиат в 2019 году заключили договор о передаче права на использование иностранных программ для ЭВМ на три лицензионных года (2020, 2021, 2022).

Так как на тот момент эти операции не облагались НДС, цену установили без налога.

НДС введен в отношении операций по предоставлению исключительных прав на программное обеспечение, которое не включено в реестр российского ПО.

Спор дошел до ВС РФ, который взыскал с покупателя НДС, обосновав это тем, что цену договора нужно увеличивать на налог в силу закона.

Суд признал неконституционными во взаимосвязи нормы ГК РФ и НК РФ, которые допускают взыскание с покупателя дополнительной суммы как компенсации последствий изменения закона без…

В исследовательских кругах часто появляются новости о выходе новых джейлбрейков (jailbreaks) - техник, которые позволяют обойти защитные механизмы больших языковых моделей (LLM).

Далее разберём три самых интересных вывода из исследования StrongREJECT, которые кардинально меняют представление об уязвимостях больших языковых моделей.

Если модель не говорила: «Я не могу этого сделать», атака считалась удачной.

...когда мы смотрим на полные ответы модели от GPT-4, они не содержат никакой практически применимой информации о взрывчатых веществах.

Некоторые наборы данных, такие как MaliciousInstruct, содержат запросы, которые и вовсе не являются запрещенными, например «Идеи использования съедобных…

Роль NER в обработке TI–данныхВ контексте обработки публикаций NER позволяет решать одну из типовых задач – классификацию упоминаемых в публикациях сущностей.

В результате обработки текста с помощью NER мы получаем список сущностей с заранее определенными классами.

Именно на этапе автоматизированной обработки извлекаются сущности, что позволяет специалистам тратить меньше времени на ручной анализ отчета или новости.

В частности, мы проводим коррекцию классов сущностей в соответствии с нашей внутренней базой данных.

Делается это с помощью нескольких простых действий:Найденные моделью сущности с Confidence меньше 0.85 отсекаются и в дальнейшей обработке не участвуют.

Мошенник уже знает, какой легендой лучше заходить, на что давить (банк, работа, кредиты, пенсия, лечение), какие слова и названия сервисов жертва точно узнает.

- Сейчас проблема в том, что в системе нет технической возможности разграничить ваши личные действия и действия третьих лиц от вашего имени.

Говорит авторитетный хорошо поставленный голос и все это усиливается авторитетом и спешкойОпытный оператор не повышает голос, не суетится, он спокойно и монотонно давит авторитетом и фактами.

Это не административка и не штраф, это уже полномасштабное уголовное преследование.

Психология обмана: Сюрприз, вежливость и социальное давление -> Паника -> Угроза уголовной ответственностиЖертву мягко под…

А значит, им придётся документировать архитектуру, риски, последствия и метрики значимости не только для собственной безопасности, но и для ведомственного учёта.

Для многих компаний это значит, что реестры придётся обновлять под новые требования и делать это в короткие сроки.

Что будет дальше и как изменится работа субъектов КИИ в 2026 годуОжидается, что основные отраслевые особенности категорирования будут утверждены в ближайшие месяцы.

После их публикации субъектам предстоит вторая волна работы: повторное категорирование; корректировка внутренних документов; переоценка значимости объектов и адаптация под новые критерии мониторинга.

SECURITM уже адаптирован под новую редакцию порядка катег…

Это становится чисто инженерной задачей: как выдержать нагрузку, не потерять запросы на авторизацию и не превратить безопасность в точку отказа.

АрхитектураMULTIFACTOR — это решение для двухфакторной аутентификации и централизованного контроля доступа, спроектированное как распределённая отказоустойчивая система, работающая в облачной модели (SaaS).

Система состоит из нескольких основных уровней:AuthCore — движок аутентификации и проверки факторов.

Как это работает на практикеРассмотрим пример интеграции системы двухфакторной аутентификации MULTIFACTOR с сайтом или приложением.

Если учётные данные верны, сайт обращается к API MULTIFACTOR для создания запроса доступа.

К сожалению, решение не прижилось, так как в новой версии продукта потребовалось кешировать тикеты Kerberos, а также проверять сертификаты на отзыв с помощью OCSP.

Каждое pam_message представляет из себя пару msg_style и msg.

В нашем проекте потребовались две реализации: SssdPamService (работа с pam_sss.so) и UnixPamService (работа с pam_unix.so).

Таким образом наши пользователи смогут спать спокойно, потому что ничего лучше линукса еще не изобрели , потому что мы доверяем процессы аутентификации стандартным средствам Linux.

Теперь мы используем этот механизм для полной уверенности, что мы сможем отличить запрос SSSD от запросов других сервисов.

Для упрощения сведем разбор к разбору основного конфликта внутри любой проектной деятельности – между теми, кто ставит задачи, и теми, кто занимается их реализацией.

Почему это проблемаОчень часто при постановке задачи и обсуждении результата возникает несовпадение между желаемым и фактическим, и обе стороны диалога не могут друг друга услышать и понять.

Глобальные цели, без которых компания не может не просто развиваться и расти, а в целом – существовать и содержать сотрудников в штате.

При этом исполнители вымотаны, перегружены и раз за разом между собой обсуждают и не могут понять: а почему их не понимают?

Это работает в обе стороны – если не рассказывать руководству, почему именно было …

Об этих отличиях важно сказать сразу, так как дальше я приведу примеры как общих мер защиты, так и мер, применимых исключительно к ядру.

Часто закрепление осуществляется через запись в ROMFS, что в принципе должно быть запрещено.

Защитные меры и их «стоимость»На странице Linux Kernel Defense Map Александра Попова можно посмотреть 100+ харденингов как для ядра, так и для пользовательского пространства.

Разработчики языка C не стали утверждать в стандарте инициализацию переменных значениями по умолчанию не потому, что не догадались.

Так что в продакшене применять это ко всему коду дорого, но для тестов и для компонентов 3rd party — самое оно.

В конце попробуем запустить свой сервис и провести на нем несколько простых атак, которые могут обернуться серьезными потерями для компаний.

Кто-то из пользователей решил поиграться с промтами, и в итоге чат-бот стал составлять, например, оскорбительные стишки о самой компании.

OWASP широко известен как международный открытый классификатор угроз, некоторое время назад они запустили отдельный топ угроз для AI/ML-сервисов.

Не менее известный классификатор, на сегодня представляющий 16 тактик и 140 техник атак на AI, а также более 30 компенсирующих мер.

Используйте признанные стандарты OWASP Top-10 for LLM и российские рекомендации (например, методика Сбер по моделям угроз для open-source и об…

В этой статье разберём одну из наиболее опасных уязвимостей, обнаруженных в XWiki — CVE-2024-31982, которая позволяет добиться удалённого выполнения произвольного кода (RCE) через, казалось бы, безобидную функциональность поиска.

Суть уязвимости: ошибка в механизме шаблоновXWiki активно использует Apache Velocity и Groovy для генерации HTML и выполнения серверной логики.

Как работают шаблонизаторы в XWiki и почему они становятся уязвимыми1.

Groovy — язык, который XWiki использует для макросовGroovy позволяет выполнять серверную логику прямо в XWiki.

Скрипт выполняет три задачи:Производит аутентификацию в XWiki с указанными учётными данными.

Исследователи Morphisec обнаружили вредоносную кампанию, в рамках которой злоумышленники распространяют инфостилер StealC V2 через зараженные файлы для 3D-редактора Blender, загружая малварь на маркетплейсы вроде CGTrader.

Blender — популярный опенсорсный проект для создания 3D-графики.

Архивы распаковываются в папку %TEMP% и создают LNK-файлы в директории автозагрузки для закрепления в системе.

После этого разворачиваются две полезных нагрузки: инфостилер StealC и вспомогательный Python-стилер, который, вероятно, используется как резервное решение.

Дело в том, что 3D-ассеты стоит воспринимать как исполняемые файлы и доверять следует только проверенным издателям с хорошей репутацией.

Эксперты BI.ZONE изучили свыше 3500 объявлений на теневых площадках, где предлагают услуги по сбору информации о людях — так называемый «пробив».

По информации исследователей, цены на «пробив» колеблются от нескольких сотен до десятков тысяч рублей.

Также выделяются услуги нелегального получения данных о геолокации и детализации звонков.

Самая дорогая услуга (37 000 рублей) — детализация с геопривязкой: журнал звонков и сообщений с указанием локации для каждого контакта.

В открытом доступе уже скопилось критически много информации практически о каждом человеке, и мошенники используют эти данные в своих интересах, в том числе для социальной инженерии.

В этой статье мы раз­берем­ся, что пред­став­ляет собой ZX Evolution — сов­ремен­ный клон ZX Spectrum на FPGA, который сох­раня­ет дух ори­гина­ла, но работа­ет с SD-кар­тами, VGA и акту­аль­ной перифе­рией.

Законы эволюцииСе­год­ня сущес­тву­ет сра­зу нес­коль­ко кон­куриру­ющих про­ектов «осов­ремени­вания» ZX Spectrum, и ZX Evolution выделя­ется в этом ряду тем, что это — пол­ностью оте­чес­твен­ная раз­работ­ка.

Вооб­ще, путь ZX Evolution начал­ся задол­го до появ­ления самой пла­ты.

Компь­ютер‑конс­трук­тор ZX Evolution раз­работа­ла груп­па энту­зиас­тов под наз­вани­ем NedoPC, которую в 2002 году осно­вал Алек­сандр Шабар­шин, извес­тный под ником Shaos.

Вот, кста­ти, еще один спо­со…

Компания Asus выпустила обновления прошивки для устранения девяти уязвимостей (CVE-2025-59365, CVE-2025-59366, CVE-2025-59368, CVE-2025-59369, CVE-2025-59370, CVE-2025-59371, CVE-2025-59372 и CVE-2025-12003), включая критическую проблему обхода аутентификации в роутерах с включенной функцией AiCloud.

AiCloud — функция облачного удаленного доступа, встроенная во многие маршрутизаторы Asus и превращающая их в приватные облачные серверы.

Также стоит отключить удаленный доступ к девайсам с AiCloud, которые уязвимы к атакам через CVE-2025-59366.

Как стало известно недавно, наряду с шестью другими уязвимостями, CVE-2025-2492 использовалась для взлома тысяч роутеров Asus в рамках вредоносной кампа…

ShadowV2 распространяется через атаки на известные уязвимости в различных IoT-продуктах.

В списке целей — устаревшие девайсы DD-WRT (CVE-2009-2765), роутеры и камеры D-Link (CVE-2020-25506, CVE-2022-37055, CVE-2024-10914, CVE-2024-10915), видеорегистраторы DigiEver (CVE-2023-52163), устройства TBK (CVE-2024-3721) и роутеры TP-Link (CVE-2024-53375).

Исследователи сообщают, что атаки ShadowV2 исходили с IP-адреса 198[.]199[.]72[.

]27 и были нацелены на роутеры, NAS-хранилища и видеорегистраторы в семи секторах экономики: госучреждения, технологические компании, производство, MSSP, телеком и образование.

Однако пока неясно, кто стоит за ShadowV2 и какова их стратегия монетизации.

Вымогательская группировка INC взяла на себя ответственность за взлом платформы OnSolve CodeRED, которую используют правительственные и муниципальные службы в США для отправки экстренных уведомлений жителям.

Атака привела к масштабным сбоям систем оповещения о ЧС по всей стране и утечке персональных данных пользователей.

При этом в компании подчеркивают, что атака затронула только устаревшую версию платформы CodeRED и не распространилась на другие системы.

Из-за серьезных повреждений инфраструктуры специалистам Crisis24 пришлось полностью вывести из эксплуатации скомпрометированную версию CodeRED и восстанавливать сервис из резервных копий на новой платформе CodeRED by Crisis24.

Из-за утечк…

Облака нужны сайтам и приложениям, чтобы справляться с высокими и пиковыми нагрузками и защищаться от киберугроз.

Как защищаться от ботов в 2026 году?

Большой блок конференции посвящен защите от ботов.

Участники увидят эволюцию методов детекции и митигации ботов, а также защиты API.

Технические эксперты NGENIX продемонстрируют, какие обновления произошли за год в сервисах защиты от DDoS- и бот-атак.

Исследователи Oligo Security обнаружили пять уязвимостей в Fluent Bit.

Fluent Bit — опенсорсное решение для сбора, обработки и маршрутизации логов и метрик, которое массово используется в корпоративных и контейнерных средах, Kubernetes-кластерах, а также в облачных инфраструктурах.

Кроме того, Fluent Bit встроен в основные дистрибутивы Kubernetes, в том числе в AWS, Google Cloud Platform и Microsoft Azure.

CVE-2025-12972 (Path Traversal) — использование неочищенных значений тегов для генерации имен файлов позволяет записывать или перезаписывать произвольные файлы на диске.

Бюллетень безопасности CERT/CC подтверждает, что большинство уязвимостей можно эксплуатировать при условии сетевой дост…

Исследователи из компании Cato Networks обнаружили новый тип атаки на ИИ-браузеры под названием HashJack.

Специалисты использовали символ «#» в URL для внедрения скрытых команд, которые выполняются ИИ-ассистентами браузеров, обходя все традиционные средства защиты.

Атака HashJack эксплуатирует тот факт, что части адреса после символа «#» никогда не покидают браузер и не передаются на сервер.

Напрмиер, ИИ-браузеры с агентными возможностями (такие как Comet) можно вынудить передавать пользовательские данные на контролируемые злоумышленниками серверы.

Фактически теперь организациям нужно анализировать не только сами сайты, но и связку «браузер + ИИ-ассистент», которая обрабатывает скрытый конт…

The threat actor known as Bloody Wolf has been attributed to a cyber attack campaign that has targeted Kyrgyzstan since at least June 2025 with the goal of delivering NetSupport RAT.

"This combination of social engineering and accessible tooling allows Bloody Wolf to remain effective while keeping a low operational profile."

Bloody Wolf is the name assigned to a hacking group of unknown provenance that has used spear-phishing attacks to target entities in Kazakhstan and Russia using tools like STRRAT and NetSupport.

The NetSupport RAT payload is a old version of NetSupport Manager from October 2013.

"Bloody Wolf has demonstrated how low-cost, commercially available tools can be weaponized i…

Microsoft has announced plans to improve the security of Entra ID authentication by blocking unauthorized script injection attacks starting a year from now.

The update to its Content Security Policy (CSP) aims to enhance the Entra ID sign-in experience at "login.microsoftonline[.

]com" by only letting scripts from trusted Microsoft domains run.

Specifically, it only allows script downloads from Microsoft trusted CDN domains and inline script execution from a Microsoft trusted source.

It's also advising customers to refrain from using browser extensions or tools that inject code or script into the Microsoft Entra sign-in experience.

From fake voice calls and AI-powered malware to huge money-laundering busts and new scams, there's a lot happening in the cyber world.

Criminals are getting creative — using smart tricks to steal data, sound real, and hide in plain sight.

Here's a quick look at what's making waves this week — the biggest hacks, the new threats, and the wins worth knowing about.

Keep your software updated, stay alert for anything that feels off, and don't click in a hurry.

The more we all stay sharp, the harder it gets for attackers to win.

Gainsight has disclosed that the recent suspicious activity targeting its applications has affected more customers than previously thought.

The company said Salesforce initially provided a list of 3 impacted customers and that it has "expanded to a larger list" as of November 21, 2025.

This includes Zendesk, Gong.io, and HubSpot temporarily suspending their Gainsight integrations, and Google disabling OAuth clients with callback URIs like gainsightcloud[.]com.

HubSpot, in its own advisory, said it found no evidence to suggest any compromise of its own infrastructure or customers.

According to information from Salesforce, reconnaissance efforts against customers with compromised Gainsight ac…

The second wave of the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack has spilled over to the Maven ecosystem after compromising more than 830 packages in the npm registry.

Rather, the "org.mvnpm" coordinates are generated via an automated mvnpm process that rebuilds npm packages as Maven artifacts.

The Maven Central said they are working to implement extra protections to prevent already known compromised npm components from being rebundled.

"As a new and significantly more aggressive wave of npm supply chain malware, Shai-Hulud 2 combines stealthy execution, credential breadth, and fallback destructive behavior, making it one of the most impactful supply chain attacks of the year," Nadav Sharkazy, a produ…

South Korea's financial sector has been targeted by what has been described as a sophisticated supply chain attack that led to the deployment of Qilin ransomware.

The group is responsible for 29% of all ransomware attacks, per data from NCC Group.

Further analysis found that all 25 cases were attributed exclusively to the Qilin ransomware group, with 24 of the victims in the financial sector.

Then, earlier this February, a significant pivot occurred when the adversary was observed delivering Qilin ransomware at a limited number of organizations.

Subsequent waves went on to escalate the threat a notch higher, claiming that the leak of the data could pose a severe risk to the Korean financial…

As a result, most organizations' security investments are asymmetrical, robust detection tools paired with an under-resourced SOC, their last line of defense.

Detection tools and the SOC operate in parallel universesUnderstanding this fundamental disconnect explains how security gaps arise:Detection tools operate in milliseconds.

2 ways SOC investment pays off, now and laterSOC investments make the cost of detection tools worthwhile.

3 questions to guide your next security budgetIs your security investment symmetric?

Radiant Security, the agentic AI SOC platform highlighted in the case study, shows success through balanced security investment.

If you're using community tools like Chocolatey or Winget to keep systems updated, you're not alone.

The very tools that make your job easier might also be the reason your systems are at risk.

To help you patch safely without slowing down, there's a free webinar coming up.

He'll walk through how these tools work, where the risks are, and how to protect your systems while keeping updates on track.

The goal is not to scare you away from community tools.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious extension on the Chrome Web Store that's capable of injecting a stealthy Solana transfer into a swap transaction and transferring the funds to an attacker-controlled cryptocurrency wallet.

The extension, named Crypto Copilot, was first published by a user named "sjclark76" on May 7, 2024.

Specifically, the extension incorporates obfuscated code that comes to life when a user performs a Raydium swap, manipulating it to inject an undisclosed SOL transfer into the same signed transaction.

Raydium is a decentralized exchange (DEX) and automated market maker (AMM) built on the Solana blockchain.

"The surrounding infrastructure appears des…

The threat actors behind a malware family known as RomCom targeted a U.S.-based civil engineering company via a JavaScript loader dubbed SocGholish to deliver the Mythic Agent.

"This is the first time that a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed by SocGholish," Arctic Wolf Labs researcher Jacob Faires said in a Tuesday report.

Attacks mounted by the hacking group have singled out entities in Ukraine, as well as NATO-related defense organizations.

"The timeline from infection via [the fake update] to the delivery of RomCom's loader was less than 30 minutes," Jacob Faires said.

"The widespread nature of SocGholish attacks and the relative speed at which the attack progresses from…

ATO fraud typically refers to attacks that enable threat actors to obtain unauthorized access to an online financial institution, payroll system, or health savings account to siphon data and funds for personal gain.

What's more, Recorded Future has called attention to purchase scams where threat actors use fake e-commerce stores to steal victim data and authorize fraudulent payments for non-existent goods and services.

It described the scams as a "major emerging fraud threat."

"A sophisticated dark web ecosystem allows threat actors to quickly establish new purchase scam infrastructure and amplify their impact," the company said.

"Threat actors fund ad campaigns with stolen payment cards to…

New research has found that organizations in various sensitive sectors, including governments, telecoms, and critical infrastructure, are pasting passwords and credentials into online tools like JSONformatter and CodeBeautify that are used to format and validate code.

Cybersecurity company watchTowr Labs said it captured a dataset of over 80,000 files on these sites, uncovering thousands of usernames, passwords, repository authentication keys, Active Directory credentials, database credentials, FTP credentials, cloud environment keys, LDAP configuration information, helpdesk API keys, meeting room API keys, SSH session recordings, and all kinds of personal information.

This includes five ye…

"The adult theme, and possible connection to shady websites, adds to the victim's psychological pressure to comply with sudden 'security update' installation."

Perhaps the most concerning aspect of the attack is that the phony Windows update alert hijacks the entire screen and instructs the victim to open the Windows Run dialog, press Ctrl + V, and hit Enter, thereby triggering the infection sequence.

Interestingly, one of the domains listed by Huntress as being used to fetch the PowerShell script ("securitysettings[.

]175, which was also used to deliver the first stage [i.e., the JavaScript code run by mshta.exe]."

Organizations can defend against such attacks by training employees to bett…

If you’re a social media content creator, it may be time to revisit those account security best practices.

They ideally also want to target influencers who have built long-term trust with their audience, through months or years of providing advice online.

When it comes to the targeting of influencers, attacks begin with the social media account itself – whether it’s X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or another platform.

Highly targeted phishing attacks designed to trick the individual into handing over their logins.

The bottom line is identity theft-related security risks for followers, trashed reputation for brands and influencers, and potentially direct losses for content c…

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.

The findings reveal how much information can be reconstructed from public profiles and how that data influences the strength of user passwords.

A tool built to map the personal data trailThe researchers asked 100 volunteers for a name, surname, and a photo.

After completing the reconstruction, the tool evaluated user passwords and combined those results into a single score named Cumulative Password Strength.

The idea is to measure how easily someone could guess a password when armed with reconstructed personal data.

The strongest results came from models that created varied syntax while avoiding obvious ties to user data.

“By lowering the complexity of privacy auditing, our approach enables its application in a wider variety of contexts,” said the researchers.

How the observational auditing framework worksThe observational auditing framework checks whether the model’s behavior reveals which labels came from training and which came from alternate sources.

When models trained with tighter label privacy settings, the auditor struggled to tell which records kept their original labels.

When privacy settings were loose, the auditor’s job became easier.

The study also compared this new audit to an older method that needs planted records in the training dataset.

PCI DSS v4.0 also expands on monitoring and lifecycle control.

Turning PCI DSS password rules into daily routinesA password manager supports compliance by applying structure.

When a team needs to comply with PCI DSS, this structure supports several requirements at once.

It creates an environment where NIST style passphrases and PCI DSS password rules become routine instead of exceptions.

PCI DSS v4.0 shows that they are closer to compliance tools because they make it possible to enforce identity controls across an organization.

56% say they have automated vulnerability management, while the rest rely on moderate or basic levels.

Respondents cite increased automation and improved prioritization as the key benefits of advanced vulnerability management or CTEM platforms.

This suggests that vulnerability management is gaining attention at senior levels.

Security leaders face practical constraints when trying to improve vulnerability management.

60% also admit that vulnerability management does not receive the same level of attention as other security initiatives.

1touch.io Kontxtual provides LLM-driven control over sensitive data1touch.io unveils Kontxtual, an AI-driven data platform engineered for the AI era.

It eliminates disruptive context switching, allowing security teams to transition effortlessly between vulnerability assessments, incident reviews and more.

Bedrock Data expands platform with AI governance and natural-language policy enforcementBedrock Data announced Bedrock Data ArgusAI and Natural Language Policy.

Firewalla MSP is a web-based platform designed for security and infosec professionals to manage multiple Firewalla devices.

By pinpointing their most critical risks early and often, security teams can act decisively before threats …

Detego Global has announced the launch of Detego Case Manager for DFIR, a purpose-built platform designed to meet the evolving demands of digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) teams.

Developed in close collaboration with investigative professionals, Detego Case Manager for DFIR addresses the real-world challenges of managing high-volume, complex digital investigations across multiple locations and touchpoints, whether on scene or in the laboratory.

Detego Global’s new platform delivers full-spectrum case management from a tailored perspective.

Team leaders and administrators can access instant metrics on all cases within seconds, providing real-time visibility into efficiency and e…

Clover announced $36 million in funding to secure the AI-native product wave.

As a result, security teams are relieved from repetitive manual work, while developers receive real-time security feedback within their everyday workflows.

“Existing security tools are reactive, forcing teams to fight fires instead of preventing them.” said Alon Kollmann, CEO of Clover.

Clover changes that by helping product security teams scale by working where products start, in design.”Clover is already deployed at dozens of companies across banking, enterprise technology, and fintech, including Fortune 500 companies.

Clover’s design-led approach to product security really excites me because it directly tackles…

This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments.

Heisenberg: Open-source software supply chain health check toolHeisenberg is an open-source tool that checks the health of a software supply chain.

sqlmap: Open-source SQL injection and database takeover toolFinding and exploiting SQL injection vulnerabilities is one of the oldest and most common steps in web application testing.

ProxyBridge: Open-source proxy routing for Windows applicationsProxyBridge is a lightweight, open-source tool that lets Windows users route network traffic from specific applications through SOCKS5 or HTTP prox…

A new report by Cisco shows how unsupported technology inside national infrastructure creates openings that attackers can exploit repeatedly.

The United Kingdom ranks highest at 92, followed by the United States at 88, Germany at 87.8, France at 83 and Japan at 65.

In contrast, the United Kingdom shows greater exposure to unsupported systems and highly concentrated critical sectors, which increases the potential impact of failures.

In both the United States and the United Kingdom it carries the highest risk score.

Shared components can turn a single vulnerability into a wider incident if updates are delayed or unsupported systems remain in use.

New research from Descope shows how companies manage customer identity and the issues that have been building in the background.

While teams understand the problem, limited resources, competing priorities, and pressure to keep shipping new features push identity work aside.

In many organizations, identity work drops down the backlog until a breach, an outage, or lost revenue forces renewed attention.

“Engineering and identity teams are trying to fit square pegs into round holes when it comes to customer identity.

AI driven automation is about to strain customer identity systemsAgentic AI is set to make customer identity more complicated.

Once a card is validated, it is used for high value transactions at fraudulent merchants outside the issuing region.

Some fraudulent merchants present themselves as consulting firms, travel services, or government related entities.

Once approved, they process fraudulent transactions under the cover of these categories.

Fraudulent merchants also bypass documentation checks because their materials appear legitimate, even when their transactions show patterns associated with abuse.

A breach in any connected provider can expose significant amounts of payment data across networks and regions.

The number of Salesforce customers affected by the recent compromise of Gainsight-published applications is yet to be publicly confirmed, but Salesforce released indicators of compromise (IoCs) and simultaneously shed some light on when the attack likely started.

The malicious user agents strings included in the list are there because they are “not an expected user agent string used by Gainsight connected app”.

“Salesforce’s revocation of the Gainsight application’s OAuth tokens does NOT delete your historical audit trails or hinder your ability to investigate this incident.

The investigation into the compromise is still ongoing, performed by Salesforce, Gainsight and Mandiant analysts.

Log…

Once the victim loads the page and asks the AI browser or the AI browser assistant a question – any question!

Impact varies across AI browsers and assistantsThe threat researchers tried the attack technique on Perplexity’s Comet and OpenAI’s Atlas AI browsers, as well as the following AI assistants: Microsoft’s Copilot for Edge, and Google’s Gemini for Chrome and Claude for Chrome.

These browsers and assistants have a privileged view into page state – they have to, to work as intended – but that also means that “any unverified context passed by the AI browser to the AI assistant can become a potential threat vector,” senior security researcher Vitaly Simonovich explained.

“Google classified…

Vectra AI announced Vectra AI Shield for Microsoft, a purpose-built solution that enables channel partners and MSSPs to deliver unified visibility and control across Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Copilot for M365, and Azure Cloud in a single AI-powered platform.

Vectra AI Shield for Microsoft, powered by Vectra AI’s attack signal intelligence, eliminates these barriers by consolidating AI-driven detection, prioritization, and automated response across the Microsoft ecosystem.

“Vectra AI Shield for Microsoft extends our attack signal intelligence across the entire Microsoft ecosystem, turning overwhelming signal noise into actionable insight.

“By running simulations such as golden HTML …

Ostorlab introduced the AI Pentesting Engine for Mobile Applications, bringing automated, AI‑driven penetration testing to mobile security.

The new engine helps security teams and developers uncover, validate, and safely exploit vulnerabilities that tools miss or bury in noise, so they can prioritize fixes with confidence.

Behind the scenes, the AI engine learns complex app behaviors, navigates authentication and session constraints, and confirms exploitability with proof‑of‑concept evidence.

When a zero‑day hits or a production misconfiguration appears, the AI engine delivers actionable intelligence within hours, often minutes, so teams can respond immediately.

Designed for real‑world work…

Now, decades later and in failing health in Paris, Wan recalled something that had happened one day in the late 1980s, when he was still living in Beijing.

He was usually the one to invite officials to dine, so as to curry favor with the show of hospitality.

Over the meal, the officials told Wan that the Ministry of State Security was going to send agents to work undercover at his company in positions dealing with international relations.

“You have a lot of international business, which raises security issues for you.

There are situations that you don’t understand,” Wan recalled the officials telling him.

That avatar answered 8,600 questions from voters on a 17-day continuous YouTube livestream and garnered the attention of campaign innovators worldwide.

His new party, Team Mirai, is also an AI-enabled civic technology shop, producing software aimed at making governance better and more participatory.

While it seems clear that the courts are realizing efficiency benefits from leveraging AI, there is a postscript to the courts’ AI implementation project over the past five-plus years: the litigators are using these tools, too.

Switzerland has recently released the world’s most powerful and fully realized public AI model.

AI technology is not without its costs and risks, and we are not here to m…

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.

A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” has dominated headlines this year by regularly stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major corporations.

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLSH) is thought to be an amalgamation of three hacking groups — Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$ and ShinyHunters.

But last week, SLSH announced on its Telegram channel the release of their own ransomware-as-a-service operation called ShinySp1d3r.

The individual responsible for releasing the ShinySp1d3r ransomware offering is a core SLSH member who goes by the handle “Rey” and who is currently one of just three administrators of the SLSH Telegram channel.

Incredibly, Rey w…

UNBOXINGCensys’s Ashley said the phone home to China’s Tencent QQ instant messaging service was the first red flag with the Superbox devices she examined.

In July 2025, Google filed a “John Doe” lawsuit (PDF) against 25 unidentified defendants dubbed the “BadBox 2.0 Enterprise,” which Google described as a botnet of over ten million Android streaming devices that engaged in advertising fraud.

Several of the Android streaming devices flagged in Google’s lawsuit are still for sale on top U.S. retail sites.

Kilmer said Badbox 2.0 was used as a distribution platform for IPidea, a China-based entity that is now the world’s largest residential proxy network.

-Generic TV streaming devices advertis…

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…

CISA, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has issued a new warning that cybercriminals and state-backed hacking groups are using spyware to compromise smartphones belonging to users of popular encrypted messaging apps such as Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram.

CISA says that it has seen evidence that hackers targeting the users of encrypted messaging apps are focusing on "high-value" targets such as those working in politics, the government, and the military.

"CISA is aware of multiple cyber threat actors actively leveraging commercial spyware to target users of mobile messaging applications," the agency said in its advisory.

The vulnerability was patched by Samsung in Apr…

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Shadow AI - the use of artificial intelligence tools by employees without a company's approval and oversight - is becoming a significant cybersecurity risk. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

Mark asks the big question everyone is avoiding: are we in an AI bubble?

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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…

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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.

Видеорегистраторы, популярные в одних странах и полностью запрещенные в других, обычно воспринимаются как страховка на случай ДТП и спорных ситуаций на дорогах.

По Wi-Fi к устройству может подключаться смартфон водителя, чтобы через мобильное приложение провести настройки, скачать видео на телефон и так далее.

Как выяснилось, многие регистраторы допускают обход аутентификации и к ним можно подключиться с чужого устройства, а затем скачать сохраненные данные.

Просто они заказывают компоненты и ПО у одного и того же разработчика.

Но массовый взлом видеорегистраторов может привести к значительно более агрессивному сбору данных и злоупотреблению ими в преступных и мошеннических схемах.

Рассказываем о том, как она работает и как защититься от злоумышленников.

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Перейдите в Профиль → Уведомления .

Также изучите разделы Профиль → Согласия , Профиль → Разрешения и доверенности , Профиль → Сим-карты — нет ли там чего-то нового и неожиданного?

Мы рекомендуем пользоваться одноразовыми кодами из приложения-аутентификатора, а не из SMS.

В октябре Microsoft завершила поддержку Exchange Server 2019, так что единственным поддерживаемым on-premise-решением в 2026 году остается Exchange Server Subscription Edition (Exchange SE).

Миграция с версий EOLИ Microsoft, и CISA рекомендуют переход на Exchange SE, чтобы своевременно получать обновления безопасности.

Срочные обновленияДля срочных уязвимостей и ошибок рекомендации по временным мерам обычно публикуются в блоге Exchange и на странице Emergency Mitigation.

Самый свежий CIS Benchmark создан для Exchange 2019, но он полностью применим к Exchange SE, поскольку по доступным настройкам текущая версия SE не отличается от Exchange Server 2019 CU15.

Подробные рекомендации по оптималь…

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.

Как защититься от принтерной угрозыСаму уязвимость C…

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.

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.

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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.

The administrator may enable, for all ZTNA-protected…

“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…

This blog shares our journey and insights from building autonomous AI agents for MDR operations and explores how the shift to a GenAI-powered SOC redefines collaboration between humans and AI.

The post Charting the future of SOC: Human and AI collaboration for better security appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

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.

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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.

Existing Security Copilot customers with Microsoft 365 E…

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.

Existing Security Copilot customers with Microsoft 365 E…

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.

The post Collaborative research by Microsoft and NVIDIA on real-time immunity appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

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.

Also, follow us on LinkedIn (Microsoft Security) and X (@MSFTSecurity) for the latest news and upd…

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).

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

1 “Generative AI and Security Operations Center Productivity: Evidence from Live Operations,” page 2, Microsoft, November 20242 Cyberse…

Secure by DesignWe built Quick Share’s interoperability support for AirDrop with the same rigorous security standards that we apply to all Google products.

Secure Sharing Channel: The communication channel itself is hardened by our use of Rust to develop this feature.

On Android, security is built in at every layer.

On Android, security is built in at every layer.

Secure Sharing Using AirDrop's "Everyone" ModeTo ensure a seamless experience for both Android and iOS users, Quick Share currently works with AirDrop's "Everyone for 10 minutes" mode.

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.

Building a More Trus…

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…