Google видит в несколько раз больше интернета, чем OpenAI и Microsoft, и именно это, по словам директора Cloudflare, сейчас ломает будущее сети.

Подробно разбираем, как сетевые и прикладные атаки по-разному рушат инфраструктуру.

Какие приложения не превратятся в тыкву во время блокировок мобильной связи.

85% космоса могут составлять частицы, движущиеся почти со скоростью света.

Вышла стабильная ветка FreeBSD 15.0 с поддержкой обновлений до 2029 года.

Учёные научили алгоритм прятать самые поляризующие посты глубже в ленте — и это сделало пользователей спокойнее и терпимее.

Ваша компетентность и харизма мгновенно обесцениваются из-за одной неочевидной, но фатальной причины.

Расследование показало, как сеть компаний вокруг Intellexa продолжает тайно поставлять шпионское ПО Predator по всему миру, несмотря на санкции и скандалы.

Разговор Брина и Хассабиса на I/O показал, насколько неопределённы прогнозы.

Полиция в нескольких странах ликвидировала мощную сеть, заманивавшую жертв с помощью дипфейков и ложной рекламы.

Ответ кроется в стратегической автоматизации и смене парадигмы: рассматривать инфраструктуру не как обузу, а как гибкий код и платформу для инноваций.

Максим Чудновский разделил ИТ на два направления: ИТ как сервис и как бизнес.

ИИ-ассистенты будут повсеместно: уже есть проекты, где искусственный интеллект ведёт общение с клиентами, но он же будет применяться и в инфраструктуре, и в разработке.

Будущее отрасли эксперты видят в переходе к платформенным и, в перспективе, автономным системам, где ИИ станет незаменимым ассистентом.

Однако в обозримом будущем критически важной останется роль человека — как для стратегического управления, так и для глубокого понимания бизнес-процессов.

Глобальное количество успешных кибератак на промышленные предприятия в 2023–2024 годах выросло на 16,2 %, а в России — на ошеломляющие 350 %.

Именно здесь машинное обучение раскрывает свой потенциал, выявляя трудноуловимые аномалии и коррелируя разрозненные события в единую картину атаки, как это будет показано в следующем разделе.

Как это обнаружила ML-модель?

Как это обнаружила ML-модель?

Как это обнаружила ML-модель?

Композиционный анализ решает 3 задачи обеспечения безопасности ПО с открытым кодом:Формирование SBOM (Software Bill of Materials).

Тенденции мирового рынка инструментов SCAАналитические обзоры мирового рынка Software Composition Analysis, проводимые различными исследовательскими агентствами, свидетельствуют о планомерном росте данного сегмента.

Прогноз роста рынка SCA (источник: verifiedmarketreports.com)В отчёте Market Research Intellect объём мирового рынка SCA в 2024 году оценён в 1,2 млрд долларов.

Обзор российских SCA-решенийВ 2022 году к моменту предыдущего обзора инструментов SCA на рынке был представлен всего один продукт отечественной разработки.

Рассмотрим вкратце лидеров мирового…

Цифровая устойчивость стала обязательным требованием для выживания бизнеса в условиях растущих операционных рисков.

Эдгар Микаелян определяет цифровую устойчивость как способность бизнеса сохранять доступность, управляемость и прибыльность в условиях цифровых потрясений.

Как отмечает Александр Марковчин, инвестиции в цифровую устойчивость приносят пользу компании не только во время кризиса, но и в повседневной деятельности.

Компании заинтересованы в получении единого инструмента, который бы агрегировал лучшие практики не только в области кибербезопасности, но и в сфере ИТ-непрерывности, позволяя выбирать подходящие решения.

Юрий Жупан: «Ключевые тренды сохранятся — темпы цифровизации не сни…

Общие требования» (ГОСТ Р 56939-2024), заменивший ГОСТ Р 56939-2016.

ВведениеНовый ГОСТ описывает построение и развитие процессов разработки безопасного программного обеспечения (РБПО) и предназначен для разработчиков и производителей ПО.

Он определяет требования и процессы, необходимые для обеспечения защиты информации на этапе создания, эксплуатации и сопровождения ПО, и направлен на формализацию и контроль мер, позволяющих минимизировать риски появления уязвимостей и инцидентов безопасности.

Аудит по ГОСТ Р 56939-2024.

Стандарт ГОСТ Р 56939-2024 играет ключевую роль в практическом упорядочении процессов разработки, задаёт чёткие требования и лучшие практики.

Теперь появилось требование не только к ГИС, но и к ИТ-инфраструктуре, на которой они работают.

Для контроля трафика используются функции WAF, что позволяет выполнять требования по предоставлению доступа подрядчикам и по защите веб-приложений и API.

vGate изначально проектировался и разрабатывался для работы с виртуализацией, он понимает её специфику и работает с протестированными решениями.

Для ГИС Приказ № 117 — это развитие уже знакомого Приказа № 17 с некоторыми новшествами и изменениями.

Для операторов ГИС наступает период интенсивной подготовки, требующий пересмотра подходов к защите сетей, виртуализации и рабочих станций до марта 2026 года.

Ранее мы готовили обзор на систему Avanpost DS 1.0, а не так давно вышла новая версия — Avanpost DS 1.8.2.

Системные требования Avanpost DS 1.8.2Avanpost DS состоит из двух компонентов: Avanpost DS Server, являющимся основным компонентом системы, и утилиты dscli, выполняющей роль доменного клиента Avanpost DS.

Сценарии использования Avanpost DS 1.8.2Рассмотрим практические аспекты работы с Avanpost DS.

Настройка политики файловой системы для компьютера в Avanpost DS 1.8.2Также через политики выполняется настройка интеграции службы каталогов Avanpost DS с корпоративным удостоверяющим центром Avanpost CA.

Нативная интеграция Avanpost DS, Avanpost CA и Avanpost FAM позволяет решать полный спек…

ВведениеПризнаки значительного роста в 2025 году интенсивности APT-атак на российские компании только начинают проявляться.

Цель статьи — оценить достоверность тезиса о росте APT-активности в 2025 году и выявить, каких изменений это потребует от моделей угроз компаний.

через подрядчика) встречается чаще всего: количество атак с применением этой техники выросло в 2025 году (с 8 до 27,6 %).

Успешность кибератак с использованием фишинга в целом остаётся на прежнем уровне: 12 % в 2024 году и 13,8 % в 2025 году.

По данным Центра исследования киберугроз Solar 4RAYS, на российском рынке в 2025 году наблюдается рост активности APT-группировок.

Для обеспечения конфиденциальности и безопасности информации пользователей реализовано шифрование и защита данных.

Порядок действий и организация интерфейса позволяют быстро выполнять проверку уязвимостей и формировать отчёты.

Также отображает открытые порты, общий рейтинг безопасности, статистику обнаруженных уязвимостей и приоритетные угрозы.

ПО и сервисы.

По запросу вендор может оперативно реализовать выгрузку в JSON и в других форматах.

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,…

ТрендыОсенью зарегистрировали больше всего XSS, а SQL инъекции всё так же занимают первое место среди наиболее критичных уязвимостей.

СтекАбсолютными лидерами по количеству уязвимостей осенью всё так же остаются решения на PHP и WordPress и его плагины.

ТОП-10 по общему количеству уязвимостей включает в себя веб-интерфейсы сетевых устройств, платформы для создания сайтов, WebKit Safari, логистическое ПО, платформы для управления IT-инфраструктурой и уязвимости в веб-компонентах Android.

В ТОП-10 технологий по количеству высококритичных уязвимостей попали решения на Java, Node.js и веб-серверы.

Так общее количество CVE снизилось на 1%, а количество высококритичных уязвимостей и вовсе на 41%,…

Я пишу как человек, который впервые продавал товар на Авито — и как продуктовый дизайнер, работающий с UX-паттернами и пользовательскими сценариями.

Покупатель предлагает перейти в TelegramРаз видео на Авито не загрузить — я отправляю его покупателю в Telegram.

Также Авито не предупреждает пользователей о том, что лучше не покидать чати проводить сделку внутри авито.

Оформляю Авито Доставку.”Тут важно уточнить, что я в объявлении не подключала авито доставку, но я не знаю как работает опция, и возможно мне должна придти отбивка, что пользователь запросил данный тип доставки.

Ещё несколько угроз и диалог законен, я в блоке)Где был Авито в этот момент?

В них должно быть минимум 3 машины: Windows 11 в роли жертвы, Ubuntu server lts в роли C2 сервака,и, конечно, классический Metasploitable2 опять же в роли жертвы.

Проблема изоляцииЗахожу на хост и пишу в терминале ip a, чтобы узнать локальный ip-адрес хоста, после чего на винде я пытаюсь пинговать его, и я удачно получил все отправленные пакеты.

Я флудю цепочку, вставляю в начало, в конец, в LIBVIRT_FWI, в LIBVIRT_FWO — всё равно малварь видит мой wlan0-IP.

Таким образом, хоть и не сразу, но у меня получилось создать отличную и, что главное, полностью изолированную лабораторию.

Теперь я могу тестировать малвари любой мощности, и не бояться, что они доберутся до устройств в моей домашней сет…

Почти все популярные решения (включая Defender, ESET и Kaspersky) умеют в реальное время блокировать подозрительные действия, проверять скачанные файлы и фильтровать вредоносные сайты.

), у ESET и Kaspersky в свежих сравнительных обзорах показывается стопроцентное обнаружение тестовых наборов, на уровне других топ-пакетов.

При выборе «жить на Defender» критично:Не отключать его ради «повышения FPS» в одной игре и не забывать включать обратно.

Когда ESET, Kaspersky и другие оправданыЕсть и противоположная категория сценариев, где поставить платный антивирус — не паранойя, а вполне рациональное решение:Малый бизнес и фриланс с клиентскими данными.

«рабочее место безопасника»Если свести всё к …

Эксплуатация:Уязвимость не требует взаимодействия с пользователем и позволяет удаленному злоумышленнику с помощью отправки специально сформированных сетевых пакетов выполнять произвольный код.

Оценка уязвимости по шкале CVSS 4.0 — 8.6 баллов.

Оценка уязвимости по шкале CVSS 4.0 — 9.3 балла.

Оценка уязвимости по шкале CVSS 4.0 — 9.5 баллов.

Оценка уязвимости по шкале CVSS 4.0 — 9.3 балла.

Снаружи всё выглядит так, будто ИБ-служба просто «не справляется», но на деле корень проблемы совершенно другой.

И почти всегда это не из-за бюджета или людей, а из-за процессов.

Компания начинает реагировать на последствия, а не на причины, что делает любые инвестиции в безопасность неэффективными.

Модуль RM помогает оценивать риски в привязке к бизнес-процессам, а VM превращает работу с уязвимостями в управляемый и измеримый процесс.

Когда процессы ИБ становятся системными, автоматизированными и управляемыми, ритейл получает не только защиту, но и стабильность бизнеса.

После аутентификации сервис авторизации возвращает данные о пользователе, включая его роли и параметры доступа.

Именно поэтому рядом с атрибутами появились предустановленные роли и шаблоны, которые упрощают работу в ЛК и помогают быстрее настроить доступы.

Предустановленные роли в МультидоступеМы добавили предустановленные роли — готовые наборы прав, которые помогают быстрее настроить доступы в личном кабинете.

Это долгий процесс, и мы рады, что сделали первый шаг — Мультидоступ уже работает, приносит пользу клиентам и стал основой для следующих обновлений.

Наверняка и в ваших проектах с бывало так, что с виду простая задача превращалась в десятимесячный рефакторинг?

Проблема не в том, что скрипты не умеют сравнивать строки, они не понимают, что HOSTNAME и hostname.corp.local — по сути одно и то же.

При сопоставлении только по IP мы не свяжем события brute force, где атакующий меняет адреса.

Это и есть «цифровой туман»: аналитики видят десятки изолированных событий и не всегда догадываются, что они — звенья одной цепи.

Чтобы реализовать это, мы собрали технологический стек, где каждый компонент решает свою задачу.

Начинайте с реальной потребности, а не с хайпаГлавный совет, который мы можем дать: не внедряйте AI ради AI.

SDK-модули, неправильное хранение секретов, перехваты трафика, низкий уровень защиты журналов и другие опасности, которые могут привести к серьезным штрафам.

Это могут быть сторонние библиотеки, которые тоже получают доступ к пользовательским данным.

В том числе и для операций, которые должны быть закрыты от внешних пользователей.

Утечка грозит не только репутационными рисками, но и увеличением расходной части на штрафы, компенсацию потерь клиентам и их возврат.

Учитывайте расходы на аудит и профилактику в себестоимости продукта: оцените стоимость минуты простоя, восстановления доверия и потери клиентов при инциденте.

Обнаруженная уязвимость связана с обработкой данных, которые React получает через эндпоинты React Server Function.

Хуже того, специалисты предупреждают, что та же уязвимость, вероятно, присутствует и в других библиотеках с имплементациями React Server.

«Даже если ваше приложение не реализует эндпоинты React Server Function, оно все равно может быть уязвимо, если поддерживает React Server Components (RSC)», — предупреждают разработчики React в бюллетене безопасности.

По его словам, уже обнаружено более 968 000 серверов, использующих такие фреймворки, как React и Next.js.

Однако менее чем за сутки после раскрытия информации о проблеме в сети появился как минимум один proof-of-concept эксплоит…

В Роскомнадзоре (РКН) подтвердили, что американский сервис для обмена фото и видео Snapchat заблокирован в РФ еще с октября 2025 года.

По словам представителей регулятора, сервис используется для вербовки преступников для совершения террористических действий и мошенничества.

— В соответствии с правилами централизованного управления сетью связи общего пользования Роскомнадзор принял меры по блокировке сервиса 10 октября 2025 года».

Отметим, что ранее сегодня, 4 декабря 2025 года, Роскомнадзор ввел ограничительные меры в отношении сервиса видеозвонков FaceTime.

Ранее на этой неделе, 3 декабря 2025 года, блокировка затронула и игровую платформу Roblox.

Напомним, что в августе 2025 года Роскомнадзор уже ограничил работу звонков в мессенджерах Telegram и WhatsApp (принадлежит компании Meta, признанной экстремистской и запрещенной в РФ) в соответствии с материалами правоохранительных органов для противодействия преступникам.

Следует отметить, что в это же время пользователи начали жаловаться на сбои в работе FaceTime в РФ.

Позже, в октябре 2025 года, в РКН сообщали, что ведомство принимает меры по частичному ограничению работы мессенджеров Telegram и WhatsApp, и массовые сбои в работе сервисов наблюдались по всей стране.

На прошлой неделе, на фоне массовых сбоев в работе WhatsApp в РФ, пресс-служба Роскомнадзора еще раз подтвердила, что ведо…

Специалисты F6 предупреждают, что злоумышленники маскируют банковский троян для Android под расширенные и «18+» версии популярных приложений, включая YouTube и TikTok.

По информации экспертов, злоумышленники создали сеть вредоносных сайтов, маскирующихся под бренды популярных зарубежных видеохостингов YouTube и TikTok, доступ к которым затруднен на территории России.

Малварь рекламируется под видом приложений TikTok 18+, YouTube Max, YouTube Boost, YouTube Mega, YouTube Ultra, YouTube Plus, YouTube Ultima Edition, YouTube Pro, YouTube Advanced и «Ютуб-Плюс», которые обещают просмотр без рекламы, 4K-видео и работу даже с плохим интернетом.

Троян способен читать и отправлять SMS, совершать зв…

Не­дав­но сра­зу нес­коль­ко сай­тов «отко­пали стю­ардессу», выпус­тив статьи о том, что SSD теря­ют дан­ные, если дол­го про­лежат без питания.

В этих тек­стах выдум­ки, город­ские леген­ды и прос­то недопо­нима­ние нас­толь­ко тес­но переп­летены с реаль­ностью, что нес­пеци­алис­ту разоб­рать­ся ста­новит­ся тяжело.

В сос­тоянии покоя кон­трол­лер SSD не «под­держи­вает» заряд в пла­вающем зат­воре и не может «под­питывать» его внеш­ним нап­ряжени­ем незави­симо от того, запитан ли накопи­тель.

Дру­гими сло­вами, прос­той факт подачи питания на кон­трол­лер SSD даже в теории не может помочь ста­били­зиро­вать заряд в ячей­ке.

Источник мифаОт­куда воз­ник миф о том, что SSD пос­тепен­но …

Полиция Южной Кореи сообщила о задержании четырех человек, которые — предположительно независимо друг от друга — скомпрометировали более 120 000 IP-камер.

По данным следствия, как минимум двое из них делали это ради кражи видео из таких мест, как гинекологические кабинеты.

Отснятый материал они монтировали в порноролики и продавали в интернете.

По информации местных СМИ, двое из четырех подозреваемых (имена не раскрываются) работали в офисах, остальные числились безработными или самозанятыми.

Львиную долю взломов совершили только двое из задержанных: на их счету примерно 63 000 и 70 000 скомпрометированных устройств, установленных в частных домах и на коммерческих объектах.

Разработчики Microsoft сообщили, что работают над исправлением проблемы, которая мешает открывать файлы Excel, прикрепленные к письмам в новом клиенте Outlook.

Точные данные о количестве затронутых пользователей не раскрываются.

При этом в Microsoft сообщают, что баг затрагивает не только файлы Excel и может возникать с любыми вложениями, в имени которых присутствуют символы, не входящие в набор ASCII.

«Любой пользователь может столкнуться с невозможностью открыть Excel-файлы, прикрепленные к письмам в новом Outlook, если в имени вложения присутствуют не-ASCII символы», — говорится в сообщении компании.

Тем, кто сталкивается с проблемой, в Microsoft советуют временно использовать веб-версию…

После двух предыдущих атак злоумышленники запустили третью волну, загрузив 24 новых вредоносных пакета в OpenVSX и Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace.

Он способен похищать учетные данные GitHub, npm и OpenVSX, а также информацию криптокошельков и 49 различных расширений.

Тогда операторы вредоноса снова проникли в OpenVSX с тремя новыми расширениями для Visual Studio Code.

В Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace их было обнаружено 17, в OpenVSX — еще семь.

Журналисты издания Bleeping Computer обратились к представителям OpenVSX и Microsoft за комментарием и спросили, почему GlassWorm продолжает обходить защиту.

Разработчики Google выпустили декабрьское обновление для операционной системы Android, в общей сложности устранив 107 уязвимостей.

В их числе были две проблемы нулевого дня, которые уже активно эксплуатировались злоумышленниками в целевых атаках.

В официальном бюллетене безопасности Google подтвердила, что обе уязвимости уже использовались в ограниченных целенаправленных атаках.

Однако в прошлом уязвимости такого типа обычно использовались в атаках коммерческой спайвари, а также применялись «правительственными» хакерами и спецслужбами.

Также следует отметить, что наиболее опасной из исправленных в этом месяце проблем стала CVE-2025-48631, обнаруженная в компоненте Android Framework и способ…

Представители Роскомнадзора сообщили, что доступ к игровой платформе Roblox заблокирован на территории России.

«Роскомнадзор ограничил доступ к американскому интернет-сервису Roblox в связи с выявленными фактами массового и неоднократного распространения материалов с пропагандой и оправданием экстремистской и террористической деятельности, призывов к совершению противоправных действий насильственного характера и пропаганды ЛГБТ-тематики (движение признано экстремистским и запрещено в России)», — сообщили теперь в пресс-службе ведомства.

Напомним, что ранее на этой неделе представители Роскомнадзора уже сообщали о выявлении на Roblox неподобающего для несовершеннолетних контента.

Тогда ведом…

Мы прой­дем весь путь от обна­руже­ния «лег­ковес­ных» методов до ревер­са логики QLM, что­бы понять, как обфуска­тор мас­киру­ет реаль­ные вызовы и как это обой­ти.

Эта сис­тема, как и подав­ляющее боль­шинс­тво дру­гих, пре­дос­тавля­ет раз­работ­чикам воз­можнос­ти как онлайн, так и офлайн‑акти­вации сво­их про­дук­тов.

Далее нуж­но ткнуть в \ uF0D1.\ uEB3D( obj, text) ; .

maxstack 8 / * 0x00117E94 7EE7100004 */ IL_0000: ldsfld class \ uF0D1 \ uF0D1 : : \ uEB3D / * 0x00117E99 02 */ IL_0005: ldarg .

Конс­трук­тор вызыва­ется сра­зу при вызове \ uEB3D , и мы поп­робу­ем ревер­сировать логику его работы, прод­равшись сквозь обфуска­цию control flow.

"BRICKSTORM enables cyber threat actors to maintain stealthy access and provides capabilities for initiation, persistence, and secure command-and-control."

CISA said the actors also moved laterally from the web server using Server Message Block (SMB) to two jump servers and an Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) server, exfiltrating cryptographic keys from the latter.

"Warp Panda demonstrates a high level of stealth and almost certainly focuses on maintaining persistent, long-term, covert access to compromised networks."

Initial access methods involve the exploitation of internet-facing edge devices to pivot to vCenter environments, either using valid credentials or abusing vCenter …

A command injection vulnerability in Array Networks AG Series secure access gateways has been exploited in the wild since August 2025, according to an alert issued by JPCERT/CC this week.

The vulnerability, which does not have a CVE identifier, was addressed by the company on May 11, 2025.

It's rooted in Array's DesktopDirect, a remote desktop access solution that allows users to securely access their work computers from any location.

"This vulnerability affects systems where the 'DesktopDirect' feature, which provides remote desktop access, is enabled."

There are currently no details available on the scale of the attacks, weaponizing the flaw, and identity of the threat actors exploiting i…

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been spotted orchestrating a false flag operation to mimic a Russian threat group in attacks targeting organizations in China.

The search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign leverages Microsoft Teams lures to trick unsuspecting users into downloading a malicious setup file that leads to the deployment of ValleyRAT (Winos 4.0), a known malware associated with the Chinese cybercrime group.

The SEO campaign is meant to redirect users to a bogus website that features an option to download the supposed Teams software.

This script in turn launches a vulnerable driver loader and a signed binary that sideloads the ValleyRAT DLL."

"In the background,…

Think your Wi-Fi is safe?

This week proves again how hackers, companies, and governments are all locked in a nonstop race to outsmart each other.

Here's a quick rundown of the latest cyber stories that show how fast the game keeps changing.

If there's one thing these stories show, it's that cybersecurity never sleeps.

The threats might sound technical, but the impact always lands close to home — our money, our data, our trust.

As 2025 draws to a close, security professionals face a sobering realization: the traditional playbook for web security has become dangerously obsolete.

Here are the five threats that reshaped web security this year, and why the lessons learned will define digital protection for years to come.

Base44 Platform Compromised (July 2025)In July 2025, security researchers discovered a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Base44, a popular vibe coding platform owned by Wix.

JavaScript InjectionIn March 2025, 150,000 websites were compromised by a coordinated JavaScript injection campaign promoting Chinese gambling platforms.

The threats that reshaped web security in 2025 aren't temporar…

The activity, observed since October 2024, involves distributing modified banking applications that act as a conduit for Android malware, Group-IB said in a technical report published Wednesday.

Evidence points to GoldFactory being a well-organized Chinese-speaking cybercrime group with close connections to Gigabud, another Android malware that was spotted in mid-2023.

Group-IB said it has identified more than 300 unique samples of modified banking applications that have led to almost 2,200 infections in Indonesia.

"The malware [...] is based on the original mobile banking applications," researchers Andrey Polovinkin, Sharmine Low, Ha Thi Thu Nguyen, and Pavel Naumov said.

"While earlier ca…

Cloudflare on Wednesday said it detected and mitigated the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that measured at 29.7 terabits per second (Tbps).

Also tackled by Cloudflare was a 14.1 Bpps DDoS attack from the same botnet.

A total of 8.3 million DDoS attacks were blocked during the entire time period, a figure that represents a 15% increase from the previous quarter and a 40% jump from last year.

As many as 36.2 million DDoS attacks were thwarted in 2025, of which 1,304 were network-layer attacks exceeding 1 Tbps, up from 717 in Q1 2025 and 846 in Q2 2025.

Nearly 70% of HTTP DDoS attacks originated from known botnets.

A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution.

It allows "unauthenticated remote code execution by exploiting a flaw in how React decodes payloads sent to React Server Function endpoints," the React Team said in an alert issued today.

"Even if your app does not implement any React Server Function endpoints, it may still be vulnerable if your app supports React Server Components."

As a result, an unauthenticated attacker could craft a malicious HTTP request to any Server Function endpoint that, when deserialized by React, achieves execution of arbitrary JavaScript code on the server.…

The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-9491 (CVSS score: 7.8/7.0), which has been described as a Windows Shortcut (LNK) file UI misinterpretation vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution.

"The specific flaw exists within the handling of .LNK files," according to a description in the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD).

"Crafted data in an .LNK file can cause hazardous content in the file to be invisible to a user who inspects the file via the Windows-provided user interface.

That said, this behavior hinges on the possibility that there can exist shortcut files with more than 260 characters in their Target field.

0patch's micropatch for the same flaw takes a different…

A critical security flaw impacting a WordPress plugin known as King Addons for Elementor has come under active exploitation in the wild.

The vulnerability, CVE-2025-8489 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of privilege escalation that allows unauthenticated attackers to grant themselves administrative privileges by simply specifying the administrator user role during registration.

"This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that users can register with," Wordfence said in an alert.

"This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with administrator-level user accounts."

But an insecure implementation of the function meant that unauthenticated attackers can specif…

The MSI installer, for its part, serves as a conduit for delivering the banking trojan using an AutoIt script.

The banking trojan deployed is not Maverick, but rather a malware that exhibits structural and behavioral continuity with Casbaneiro.

"By weaponizing familiar communication channels and employing advanced social engineering, threat actors are able to swiftly compromise victims, bypass traditional defenses, and sustain persistent banking trojan infections.

"Upon receiving this instruction, RelayNFC parses the packet, extracts the APDU data, and forwards it directly to the victim device's NFC subsystem, effectively acting as a remote interface to the physical payment card."

"The Rela…

Remember when phishing emails were easy to spot?

They don't need to be smart; they just need to subscribe to the right AI tool.

Watch the Live Breakdown of AI Phishing Tools ➜The New "Big Three" of CybercrimeSecurity leaders don't need another lecture on what phishing is.

In this webinar, we are going inside the "AI Phishing Factory" to deconstruct the three tools rewriting the threat landscape:WormGPT: Think of ChatGPT, but without the "ethical guardrails."

If an email is written by AI to be indistinguishable from a legitimate sender, someone will click.

Often, threat actors research the individual they’re targeting in order to improve their success rates.

If IT doesn’t properly manage the accounts, credentials and privileges of its users and machines, security blind spots inevitably emerge.

How to enhance identity securityA considered, multi-layered approach to identity security can help mitigate the risk of serious compromise.

Revisit security training for all employees, from the CEO down, to ensure they know the importance of identity security, and can identify the latest phishing tactics.

Best practice identity security starts with a prevention-first mindset.

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It could feasibly be described as the largest open database of corporate information in the world: a veritable treasure trove of job titles, roles, responsibilities and internal relationships.

It’s also where recruiters post job listings, which may overshare technical details that can be leveraged later on in spearphishing attacks.

They might also share corporate email addresses in Git commit configurations.

Here are some hypothetical examples:An adversary finds LinkedIn information on a new starter in an IT role at company A, including their core role and responsibilities.

Update security awareness programs to ensure that all employees, from executives down, understand the importance of no…

Data exposure by top AI companies, the Akira ransomware haul, Operation Endgame against major malware families, and more of this month's cybersecurity newsNovember 2025 is almost behind us, and it's time for ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to look at cybersecurity stories that raised the alarms, moved the needle or offered vital lessons over the past 30 or so days.

Here's some of what caught Tony's eye this month:many of the world's largest Ai companies inadvertently leak their secrets such as API keys, tokens, and sensitive credentials in their GitHub repositories, according to cloud security giant Wiz,the Akira ransomware group has netted $244 million from its malicious activ…

Doxxing (doxing) is what happens when a malicious third party deliberately exposes the personal information of someone else online.

Or query WHOIS databases that store the personal details of website/domain name registrants.

It would involve sending phishing messages to the victim in order to trick them into divulging logins or personal information, or installing infostealing malware on their machine/device.

Minimizing the doxxing threatThe best way to reduce your children’s exposure to doxxing is to minimize the amount of personal information their share online.

Never share their personal details, or even photos that could identify school and location.

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 …

Check Point announced its new Check Point Quantum Firewall Software, R82.10, introducing 20 new capabilities designed to help enterprises safely adopt AI, protect distributed environments, and simplify zero trust across hybrid networks.

“As organizations embrace AI, security teams are under growing pressure to protect more data, more applications and more distributed environments,” said Nataly Kremer, Chief Product Officer at Check Point Software Technologies.

“With the efficiency gains promised by AI, security professionals cannot slow down business innovation or risk being excluded,” said Frank Dickson, Group Vice President, Security & Trust, IDC.

These integrations allow organizations to…

We propose two new layers for agent communication (L8 and L9) above HTTP/2/3, which serves as the Application Transport layer (L7).

Why current agent protocols fall shortThe paper notes that agents can already exchange data through protocols like MCP and A2A, which allow tool calls and structured tasks.

These protocols help standardize message formats and give developers a way to pass tasks between agents.

The push to standardize how agents communicateThe proposed Agent Communication Layer sits above HTTP and focuses on message structure and interaction patterns.

The idea is to give agents a dependable way to understand the type of communication taking place before interpreting the content.

In this Help Net Security video, Lane Sullivan SVP, CISO and Strategy Officer at Concentric AI, explains what security leaders should think about during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

Sullivan talks about the types of risk an acquiring company can take on, including cyber exposure, compliance duties, and past governance decisions.

The discussion also covers AI systems that may shift during a deal and why security teams need to know how those systems were trained.

He also notes the importance of identity changes, access reviews, and a disciplined close out once the work is complete.

The goal is to help leaders manage risk and keep operations stable.

Large amounts of personal information about medical professionals are available on people search sites.

Doctors have searchable profilesResearchers examined 786 medical doctors working in major U.S. hospitals.

Healthcare staff across different roles have also raised concerns about online harassment and unwanted contact.

Staff safety can depend on where a hospital operates, not only on the internal steps the organization takes.

Consequences for healthcare organizationsThe findings raise concerns for hospitals and large healthcare systems responsible for staff safety.

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from BlackFog, Datadog, Forward Edge-AI, SandboxAQ, and Upwind.

BlackFog releases ADX Vision to block data loss from unapproved AI useBlackFog announced the availability of its newest solution, ADX Vision.

The offering is purpose-built to help organizations address the growing threat of “shadow AI” before it leads to material breaches.

Upwind adds real-time AI security and posture management to its CNAPPUpwind announced the launch of its integrated AI security suite, expanding the company’s CNAPP to protect the growing enterprise AI attack surface.

The suite introduces real-time AI security, AI posture man…

A malicious Rust crate (package) named evm-units, aimed at stealing cryptocurrency from unsuspecting developers, has been pulled from the official public package registry for the Rust programming language, but not before having been downloaded 7257 times.

Another package (uniswap-utils) by the same author appeared to be benign, but depends on evm-units and calls it in one of its files.

That package has been removed as well, after having been downloaded 7441 times, the crates.io team shared.

“The package appears to return the Ethereum version number, so the victim is none the wiser,” Socket threat researcher Olivia Brown explained.

Add to this the fact that the two crates impersonate an EVM …

SpecterOps and Tines announced a strategic partnership that brings native BloodHound integration to Tines, enabling customers to operationalize Attack Path Management through automated, AI-assisted workflows.

This partnership combines SpecterOps’ identity Attack Path Management capabilities with Tines’ intelligent workflow platform, freeing security teams from repetitive tasks, making identity risks actionable and measurable, and empowering analysts by integrating AI-assisted workflows into their investigation.

“This integration will make it easier for our users to make Attack Path Management part of their security workflows and reduce identity risk.”By introducing a native BloodHound integ…

Zenity expanded its AI security platform with incident-correlation intelligence, broader agentic browser coverage, and a new open-source tool for testing emerging LLM manipulation techniques.

As organizations adopt AI agents, AI assistants and agentic browsers at scale, security teams face increasing difficulty understanding how incidents unfold across identities, workflows and environments.

“With this release we are giving security teams something they have never had before, real visibility into intent,” said Ben Kliger, CEO, Zenity.

This gives security teams immediate visibility so they can begin investigations without reconstructing events manually.

Extended coverage for agentic browsers…

Darktrace announced a series of enhancements to Darktrace / EMAIL designed to detect and stop attacks spanning communications channels, strengthen outbound email protections, and streamline SOC integrations.

To tackle the rise of multi-channel campaigns, Darktrace introduced a new integration between Darktrace / EMAIL and Darktrace / IDENTITY for stronger multi-domain detection and response.

To address this, Darktrace created the behavioral data loss prevention (DLP) powered by a proprietary domain-specific language model within Darktrace / EMAIL.

Together, these integrations give security teams consolidated visibility and faster investigations, streamlining workflows for organizations mana…

Coro 3.7 introduces user interface enhancements designed to accelerate remediation and streamline security management for SMBs.

Coro has further refined its Actionboard, equipping IT professionals with essential information while minimizing unnecessary distractions.

“Coro 3.7 continues our mission to make robust security accessible to resource-constrained lean IT teams through enhanced usability and accelerated remediation,” said Joe Sykora, CEO of Coro.

“Our redesigned Actionboard and Workspace Health Score help IT teams focus on what matters most.

Key features in Coro 3.7 include:

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) in React Server Components (RSC) may allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code exection on the application server, the React development team warned on Wednesday.

React Server Components (RSC) are a feature that lets parts of React apps run on the server instead of in the browser.

CVE-2025-55182 (also dubbed “React2Shell”) is an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in React Server Components versions 19.0.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0, including these packages: react-server-dom-parcel, react-server-dom-turbopack, and react-server-dom-webpack.

Apps that don’t use a server or a framework, bundler, or bundler plugin that supports React Ser…

Incode has launched Deepsight, an AI defense tool that detects and blocks deepfakes, injected virtual cameras, and synthetic identity attacks.

Deepfake Detection in the Real World” (October 2025), which evaluated 24 detection systems across commercial, government, and academic providers.

“We evaluated nine of the most widely used commercial deepfake detection systems and found that Incode’s detector achieved the highest accuracy in identifying fake samples.

Experian partners with Incode to bring AI-powered identity verification and now Deepsight deepfake detection into its identity and fraud solutions.

“As highlighted in Experian’s 2025 Identity and Fraud report, 72% of business leaders exp…

The offering is purpose-built to help organizations address the growing threat of “shadow AI” before it leads to material breaches.

This research highlights an industry need for in-depth visibility into AI usage and purpose-built AI security controls.

“We’re seeing attackers weaponize AI tools to exfiltrate sensitive data, manipulate internal systems, and automate large-scale intrusions.

SandboxAQ extends its cryptographic scanning technology to AI systems, using the same deep-inspection approach to discover and analyze hidden AI assets.

Key features of AQtive Guard’s AI-SPM offering include:

The Center for Internet Security, Astrix Security, and Cequence Security announced a strategic partnership to develop new cybersecurity guidance tailored to the unique risks of AI and agentic systems.

This collaborative initiative builds on the CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls), extending its principles into AI environments where autonomous decision‑making, tool and API access, and automated threats introduce new challenges.

“AI presents both tremendous opportunities and significant risks,” said Curtis Dukes, EVP and GM of Security Best Practices at CIS.

“AI agents and the non‑human identities that power them bring great potential but also new risks,” said Jonathan Sander, Field…

In this Help Net Security interview, Sonia Kumar, Senior Director Cyber Security at Analog Devices, discusses how securing decentralized smart grids demands a shift in defensive strategy.

Many grid systems rely on cloud platforms for orchestration.

I would hope that utilities are testing incident response processes for cyberattacks on the smart grid.

AI security focuses on the protection of AI systems themselves and AI for cyber means using AI as a tool to defend against cyber threats.

Implement strong access control mechanisms to make sure only authorised individuals can interact with or modify AI systems.

Social media companies made the same sorts of promises 20 years ago: instant communication enabling individual connection at massive scale.

We legitimately fear artificial voices and manufactured reality drowning out real people on the internet: on social media, in chat rooms, everywhere we might try to connect with others.

They could extract the funding needed to mitigate these harms to support public services—strengthening job training programs and public employment, public schools, public health services, even public media and technology.

Millions quickly signed up for a free service where the only source of monetization was the extraction of their attention and personal data.

They were …

Banning VPNsThis is crazy.

Lawmakers in several US states are contemplating banning VPNs, because…think of the children!

As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy by targeting VPNs in the name of “protecting children” in A.B.

It’s an age verification bill that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivably be deemed “sexual content” to both implement an age verification system and also to block the access of users connected via VPN.

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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.

Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90%.

Mapping prompts to MLCommons and EU CoP risk taxonomies shows that poetic attacks transfer across CBRN, manipulation, cyber-offence, and loss-of-control domains.

Sadly, the paper does not give examples of these poetic prompts.

They claim this is for security purposes, I decision I disagree with.

This design enables measurement of whether a model’s refusal behavior changes as the user’s apparent competence or intent becomes more plausible or technically informed.

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.

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…

All this and more is discussed in episode 446 of the “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity veteran Graham Cluley, and special guest Rik Ferguson.

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The FBI has recently issued a public service announcement that warns that since January 2025 there have been more than 5,100 complaints of account takeover fraud, and total reported losses in excess of US $262 million. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

In episode 79 of The AI Fix, Gemini 3 roasts the competition, scares Nvidia, and can’t remember what year it is.

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In a statement published on 27 November, Asahi shared details of a nearly two-month forensic investigation into the security incident.

The company reported that around 1.52 million customers who had previously contacted the company's customer-service centres may have had their personal information accessed during the attack.

Asahi states that it is continuing to reinforce its cybersecurity systems in the wake of the attack, and improve its resilience.

For millions of customers and employees, the consequences may take far longer to resolve than the beer shortages that made headlines.

For the millions of affected individuals, the immediate concern shifts from beer shortages to the potential f…

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.

C октября этого года наши технологии фиксируют вредоносные рассылки файлов, в названии которых эксплуатируется тема годовых премий и бонусов.

Еще одной интересной особенностью данной вредоносной кампании является то, что в качестве полезной нагрузки выступает XLL-файл, что достаточно нестандартно.

Атакующие, конечно, меняют иконку, но в некоторых интерфейсах — в первую очередь в «проводнике Windows» — очевидно, что тип файла не соответствует видимому расширению, как показано, например, вот в этом посте.

Тип файла XLL служит для надстроек Microsoft Excel и, по сути, представляет собой DLL-библиотеку, которая запускается непосредственно программой для работы с электронными таблицами.

Часть ко…

Наверняка найдутся и желающие применить на практике новую атаку Whisper Leak.

Исследователи из Microsoft продолжили эту тему и проанализировали параметры поступления ответа от 30 разных ИИ-моделей в ответ на 11,8 тысяч запросов.

Сравнив задержку поступления пакетов от сервера, их размер и общее количество, исследователи смогли очень точно отделить «опасные» запросы от «обычных».

Как защититься от Whisper LeakОсновное бремя защиты от этой атаки лежит на провайдерах ИИ-моделей.

Если вы пользуетесь моделью и серверами, для которых Whisper Leak актуален, можно либо сменить провайдера на менее уязвимого, либо принять дополнительные меры предосторожности.

Как устроена автоматическая машина для тасования карт Deckmate 2Машина для автоматического тасования карт Deckmate 2 была запущена в производство в 2012 году.

В предыдущей модели устройства, Deckmate, внутренней камеры не было и, соответственно, не было возможности подглядеть последовательность карт в колоде.

Как исследователи смогли взломать устройство Deckmate 2Опытные читатели нашего блога уже наверняка заметили несколько уязвимостей в конструкции Deckmate 2, которыми воспользовались исследователи для создания proof-of-concept.

Это позволяло специалистам в реальном времени узнавать порядок карт в тасовке.

Как мафия использовала взломанные Deckmate 2 в реальных покерных играхДва года спус…

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.

Что делать, если ваш аккаунт на «Госуслугах» взломалиИзучите, как восстановить доступ к «Госуслугам», на официальном сайте и установите по-настоящему надежный пароль.

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…

The survey results also revealed interesting insights into why segmentation remains a foundational concept.

The evolution of segmentation and the development of different segmentation approaches make the concept ideal for implementing a proactive approach to enterprise cybersecurity today.

And now, augmenting macro-segmentation with micro-segmentation implementations allows security teams to split environments into separate networks AND isolate specific workloads based on behavior or identity.

Data split by those who have fully implemented both macro- and micro-segmentation (315), and those who have not fully implemented both (608).

Data split by those who have fully implemented both macro-…

The GovWare Security Operations Centre is a collaborative initiative with Cisco for GovWare Conference and Exhibition 2025 — GovWare 2025 Security Operations CentreFollowing the successful Security Operations Centre (SOC) deployments at RSAC 2025, Black Hat Asia, and Cisco Live San Diego 2025, the Cisco ASEAN executive team approved the inaugural SOC for GovWare.

The SOC was founded on three primary missions:To Protect — Ensure the security of the GovWare 2025 network by defending against all forms of threats and attacks, originating from both internal and external sources.

— Ensure the security of the GovWare 2025 network by defending against all forms of threats and attacks, originating f…

During my recent work protecting GovWare 2025, I discovered that integrating Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Attack Analyzer (SAA) with Endace created a powerful threat hunting workflow that bridged the gap between security analytics and network forensics.

We leveraged Splunk Attack Analyzer’s robust API to connect to Endace, an advanced network recording tool that provides packet-level visibility into network activity.

This cross-referencing revealed two IP addresses associated with the suspicious domain, with one particularly standing out: 103.235.46[.]102.

This context transformed our investigation from a routine suspicious domain check into a potential active threat scenario.

Leveraging En…

Cisco XDR served as the Tier-1 & 2 detection and response platform for the GovWare SOC, playing a pivotal role throughout the operations.

During the GovWare SOC operation, Cisco XDR detected a total of 39 incidents.

The extracted files are sent to Cisco Secure Malware Analytics (SMA) via Splunk Attack Analyzer, which is integrated with Cisco XDR.

Investigate in XDR Analytics: We observed that it also triggered an Internal Port Scanner alert in XDR Analytics.

Final ThoughtsAs an automated and intelligent security detection and response platform, Cisco XDR played a critical role in the GovWare SOC operations.

This is where the real power emerges: combining ES with Splunk SOAR enabled us to fully automate and track the entire incident response process inside of ES, transforming a manual process into a seamless end-to-end orchestration.

Before we dive into what we did, we should note that Splunk ES was upgraded from 8.1 to 8.2.3 and paired with Splunk SOAR.

With Splunk ES and SOAR paired, the workflow between products is seamless for SOC analysts and easier for SOAR admins to orchestrate incident automation from ES.

The second block was an ES API block to “update finding or investigation” block, one of 45 ES API actions to interact with Splunk ES as part of pairing with SOAR.

With this we were abl…

As a partner of GovWare 2025, Cisco was tasked with providing a “click-through” captive portal (splash page).

As I was searching the web for different open-source captive portal tools, I found one that mentioned there is a broadcast that can be done to tell computers on the network there is a captive portal that needs to be accessed.

Creating the Captive Portal PageInitially, I used ngrok to allow us to serve the captive portal via HTTPS, which is a standard OS requirement to connect.

One of the first endpoints needed to make a captive portal work was this one: www.example.com/.well-known/captive-portalThis endpoint needed to respond with JSON explaining that there was a captive portal need…

In the very recent past (Cisco Live Americas and RSAC Conference) we ran our ‘SOC in a Box’ on 10-year-old hardware.

We added two Meraki APs for local access to the SOC infrastructure and for our analysts to have internet access.

Additionally, our partner Endace donated some hardware to provide full packet capture capabilities to the SOC.

Once those two were done, I installed the Secure Access Resource Connector and Secure Access Umbrella DNS virtual appliances.

It is a well-traveled Box, with state-of-the-art hardware to support Cisco Events SOC team.

Additional Contributor: Christopher GrabowskiThe Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) in Cisco Secure Firewall has become one of the detection staples that we rely on in the Security Operations Center (SOC) that Cisco deploys to conferences and events throughout the year.

A big change that we’re already seeing in conferences like GovWare is the usage of the Encrypted Client Hello (ECH).

In this blog post we’ll take a brief look at EVE visibility, what ECH is, what ECH obscures, what visibility we still have for ECH traffic, and how much ECH activity we observed at GovWare.

ECH is an important change in network visibility that admins and analysts will want to get ahead of.Let’s start with the E…

The Cisco Foundation AI team has released a model on Hugging Face that’s fine-tuned on an 8-billion-parameter Llama model, specifically optimized for security use cases.

The goal was to explore Agentic AI — the concept of creating autonomous AI agents that can take action, reason about their tasks, and collaborate to achieve outcomes.

Tool Creation: The AI agent is equipped with a set of tools — essentially, Python functions it can call to perform specific tasks.

Agent Initialization: We initialize the AI agent with conversation memory and give it access to the tools created in Step 2.

Agentic AI in Action: Because the agent has tool access, it knows when and how to execute the investigatio…

Secure Access immediately provided valuable insight on day one with the detection of our first phishing attack.

On 21 October, 6:15 UTC, Secure Access flagged a DNS request to a site categorized as malware despite the seemingly innocent URL.

After blocking the first malicious domain, Cisco XDR flagged an associated domain was being reached out to by the same endpoint.

Secure Access flagged the first destination as malware, and the team validated the site as malicious.

Check out the other blogs by my colleagues in the GovWare SOC.

Over the past couple of years, we have been hard at work—reshaping how we approach the evolving needs of mobile infrastructure security.

We’ve already shipped distributed VPN on the Cisco Secure Firewall 4200 Series platform, with support coming soon to the Cisco Secure Firewall 6100 Series.

I’ll share more details and live demos during upcoming Cisco Live sessions.

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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…

For cybersecurity leaders and human resources professionals, the challenge is clear: To secure the future, we must future-proof our cybersecurity talent, developing teams that are not only technically adept but also agile, innovative, and perpetually learning.

The most effective security teams are beginning to look radically different.

These aren’t traditional hires, but they bring exactly the cognitive diversity needed to spot AI vulnerabilities that purely technical teams might miss.

Retention in a competitive marketRetaining top cybersecurity talent is especially challenging in a market where demand far outstrips supply.

Also, follow us on LinkedIn (Microsoft Security) and X (@MSFTSecuri…

For cybersecurity leaders and human resources professionals, the challenge is clear: To secure the future, we must future-proof our cybersecurity talent, developing teams that are not only technically adept but also agile, innovative, and perpetually learning.

The most effective security teams are beginning to look radically different.

These aren’t traditional hires, but they bring exactly the cognitive diversity needed to spot AI vulnerabilities that purely technical teams might miss.

Retention in a competitive marketRetaining top cybersecurity talent is especially challenging in a market where demand far outstrips supply.

Also, follow us on LinkedIn (Microsoft Security) and X (@MSFTSecuri…

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.

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.

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

Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact.

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

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

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

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

Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact.

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…

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…

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.

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

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.

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…