Любая открытая вкладка может тайно перехватить вашу переписку.

Настольный пульт отслеживает задачи по цвету и меняет глубину рассуждений модели.

Банки предложили разрешить клиентам подтверждать снятие наличных прямо у банкомата.

Заражённое оборудование придётся стирать подчистую, чтобы прогнать чужаков.

Армия решила обезопасить внутреннюю сеть и случайно «перестаралась».

Компания назвала безагентный сбор ключевым изменением шестой версии PT ISIM.

Платформа T3000 обеспечит производительность до 865 триллионов операций в секунду при энергопотреблении 70 ватт.

Таких спасателей мир еще не видел.

Разберём, как выявить эти проблемы и устранить их с помощью решений класса DCAP на примере «Спектр | DCAP».

По опыту экспертов «Кросстеха» и «Сайберпик», описанная проблема есть и в небольших компаниях, и в зрелом бизнесе с выстроенной информационной безопасностью (ИБ).

Фиксация «Спектр | DCAP» аномальной активности пользователяОбласть применения DCAP не ограничивается папками общего доступа в операционных системах Windows и Linux.

Но само по себе, как и любое СЗИ, оно не может существовать изолированно и полностью закрывать задачу защиты от утечек.

Даже при наличии технических средств защиты сотрудники должны понимать, как работать с данными в рамках своих должностных обязанностей.

Phishman 2.35 — система повышения киберосведомлённости пользователей в ИБ, в которой отказались от единой программы обучения в пользу подхода, учитывающего различия в поведении пользователей и уровне цифровых рисков.

Главная или информационная панель системыНа главной странице представлена сводная информация об обученности, иммунности и киберосознанности сотрудников и др.

Раздел «Настройки» в Phishman 2.35Одним из наиболее востребованных инструментов в ходе нашего эксперимента стал журнал событий.

Не диагностирует и не оказывает услуги в отношении телекоммуникационного, инфраструктурного и прочего оборудования, не входящего в Phishman.

Обновления системы доступны как в формате файлового арх…

Сравниваем российские решения класса Security Awareness по 40+ критериям: учебные курсы, имитация фишинга, кастомизация, отчётность, лицензирование и поддержка.

Нет Да (помимо основного учебного курса есть экспресс-курс) Нет Да ДаТаблица 8.

Отчёты, часть IПараметр / Продукт Infosecurity Security Awareness Kaspersky Security Awareness Phishman RED Security Awareness Secure-T Awareness Отчёты по обучению Да Да Да Да Да Отчёты по атакам Да Да Да Да Да Аналитические отчёты Частично (как опция технической поддержки сервиса) Да Да Да Да Пользовательские отчёты Нет Да Да Да ДаТаблица 10.

Отчёты, часть IIПараметр / Продукт Solar Security Awareness Start AWR T2 Security Awareness UBS Cybersecurity A…

ВведениеМобильные устройства, как массовые, так и специализированные, весьма широко используются в бизнес-процессах компаний и в деятельности государственных служащих.

По довольно консервативной оценке, по состоянию на конец 2025 года в России было скомпрометировано около 1,5 млн мобильных устройств на Android.

Российский рынок мобильных устройствПо итогам 2025 года в России было продано около 24 млн смартфонов, что на четверть меньше уровня 2024 года.

И в том, и в другом сегментах рынка доминируют зарубежные вендоры.

Предустанавливается на мобильные устройства целого ряда российских вендоров, включая «Аквариус», F-Plus, Highscreen, Kvadra, Mobile Inform Group как для потребительского рынка…

Подходы к построению инфраструктуры для них развиваются в дисциплине Platform Engineering, которая существенно изменилась с появлением Agentic AI.

Константин объяснил:«Заказчики приходят за инфраструктурой для ИИ и готовой платформой поверх неё, а не за реализацией конкретной функции через ИИ.

Необходимо детально проработать экономическую модель внедрения и эксплуатации — выполнить расчёт совокупной стоимости владения (Total Cost of Ownership, TCO) при построении ИИ-агентских платформ».

Перспективы внедрения в России проприетарных западных решений (в их полноразмерной конфигурации) достаточно неопределённы.

Внедрение изменений с появлением ИИ — это долговременный процесс, общие контуры кото…

Данный инструментарий призван помочь в борьбе с «теневыми ИТ», которые являются источниками целого комплекса проблем в компаниях и с которыми очень сложно бороться.

Методы атак на организацииПоловина успешных атак приходится на программы-шифровальщики и вайперы, направленные на уничтожение данных в инфраструктуре (рис.

Это в «Лаборатории Касперского» связали с тем, что от компании, даже небольшой, за один эпизод можно получить больше, чем от обычного человека.

Но и в том, и в другом случае злоумышленники крадут данные.

Продукты от Qihoo 360 и K7 Computing, так же как и Check Point / ZoneAlarm, предназначены для конечных пользователей и малого бизнеса.

С 1 июля 2026 года биометрия станет дополнительным способом подтверждения личности при подаче документов в Росреестр в электронном виде при сделках с недвижимостью.

Данная процедура применима к основным сделкам с недвижимостью:Покупка и продажа квартир, домов и земельных участков как на первичном, так и на вторичном рынке.

Пока биометрия будет использоваться скорее в исключительных случаях как дополнительное средство идентификации личности при совершении дистанционных сделок с недвижимостью и исключительно добровольно».

Также с 2024 года некоторые банки начали использовать биометрию при заключении ипотечных договоров, и в этом сегменте существенных проблем также не выявлено.

Они связаны как…

В ПО злоумышленники подменяют библиотеки, внедряют вредоносный код в программные зависимости или используют уязвимые компоненты с открытым исходным кодом.

Атаки на цепочки поставок выросли на 110 % за год и уже составляют до трети всех инцидентов.

При следующем запуске агент подключается к серверу злоумышленников и выполняет их код с правами пользователя без песочницы и дополнительных запросов.

«Солар» отмечает, что первом квартале 2026 года на промышленность пришлось 48,8 тысячи кибератак, на 14 % больше, чем годом ранее.

Единственный рабочий подход — относиться к цепочке поставок как к критической инфраструктуре: проверять источники, фиксировать версии, контролировать плагины и образы, из…

И наконец, появляется новый класс задач — защита сотрудников, использующих ИИ в работе, что требует отдельных политик и инструментов.

В первом опросе зрители поделились, где они уже используют или тестируют ИИ в кибербезопасности (мультивыбор):Реагирование на инциденты и подготовка отчётов — 54 %.

Артём Гяммер считает, что ИИ в реагировании может выступать скорее в роли консультанта или ассистента.

Рекомендации по внедрению ИИ в кибербезопасностьАндрей Гунькин предложил три шага:Определить, какие процессы уже есть в компании.

Фишинговые письма пишутся без ошибок и на любом языке, вредоносный код генерируется за секунды, а дипфейки становятся неотличимы от реальности.

Покупатель формирует заказ, переходит к оплате, и в этот момент сайт отправляет запрос к API с параметром 'order_id=345'.

Сканер безопасности, который настроен на автоматическое сканирование, в это время проверяет веб-формы на наличие классических уязвимостей: подставляет кавычки, угловые скобки, длинные строки и смотрит на коды ответов.

Он не падает, не выдаёт трассировку стека, не тормозит — он просто отдаёт данные.

Он не может показать, что в одном случае показана личная информация, а в другом — чужая.

А злоумышленник в это время спокойно меняет цифры в адресной строке, потому что разработчики забыли добавить одну проверку, а автоматическая проверка её не требует.

Информация, которую пользователь добровольно раскрывает, а также данные о его поведении в сети становятся объектом монетизации со стороны платформы.

Однажды опубликованная информация хранится в интернете годами, а фактически — остаётся в сети навсегда.

Сегодня эта технология применяется для атак как на компании, так и на частных лиц в самых разных формах.

Такая привычка ведёт к поверхностному восприятию новостей, снижению способности осмысленно оценивать контент и в перспективе — к полной потере интереса к изучаемому материалу.

Такая привычка ведёт к поверхностному восприятию новостей, снижению способности осмысленно оценивать контент и в перспективе — к полной потере интереса к изучаемому …

Это же относится и к другим программно-аппаратным комплексам — от банкоматов и вендинговых автоматов до промышленных контроллеров.

Это касается, в частности, специалистов по безопасности приложений, которые занимаются поиском ошибок и уязвимостей, в том числе в ядре и драйверах.

Г. В. Плеханова Борис Фёдоров отметил, что системные программисты востребованы и в финансовом секторе и финтехе.

Спрос на системных программистов и в целом на разработчиков высокой квалификации в России остаётся высоким, несмотря на обсуждения сокращений.

Ситуацию усугубляет региональный дисбаланс: например, в Москве закрытие вакансии занимает в среднем 52 дня, тогда как в Новосибирске — 68 дней.

По данным объединения Business Software Alliance (BSA), по состоянию на конец 2021 года уровень использования нелицензионного ПО в России составил 62 % (рис.

Основные показатели мирового рынка нелицензионного ПО по итогам 2021 годаРечь идёт о заведомо нелицензионном ПО.

По его словам, в нелицензионных продуктах код модифицируется, тогда как в ПО, приобретённом легально, таких изменений не происходит.

Аналогичная ситуация наблюдается и в других сегментах, в том числе в сфере информационной безопасности.

Чем меньше точек доступа к таким продуктам — как в офлайн-, так и в онлайн-среде, — тем ниже уровень их использования.

Ранее его проводили в оффлайне, в формате настольной игры, а потом мы перевели его в диджитал-версию.

Сложность состояла в отсутствии гибкости, ограниченном количестве сценариев и необходимости подключать разработчиков для любой новой фичи в игровом сценарии.

Заказчик (а вместе с ним и мы) хотел гибкости и масштабируемости.

Редакторская консоль: конструктор сценариев с ботамиЦентральным инструментом новой версии стал редактор.

Сценарий сохраняется в виде большого JSON-объекта с возможностью версионирования, а также наследования сценариев — возможность создавать форки сценариев на базе существующих.

Этот текст в первую очередь для тех, кто, как и я, собирает продукты быстро, с ИИ‑ассистентом, и не является security‑инженером.

Он не работает как аварийный рубильник: биллинг считает потраченное по завершенным запросам, а не по тем, что сейчас генерируются.

Не держите боевые секреты в локальном проектеClaude Code не выгружает проект целиком — но все, что он прочитает, уходит в API.

Включите логи, пока ничего не случилосьСамое неприятное в этой истории — не деньги, а то, что я до сих пор не знаю наверняка, как утекли ключи.

Я не разработчик и точно не специалист по информационной безопасности: большую часть этого расследования я проходила вместе с AI, разбираясь во всем с нуля.

Всё описанное ниже — это находка и выводы IT-блогера Marius, изложенные в его посте, а не официально подтверждённая Microsoft уязвимость с присвоенным CVE.

Клиенты перестали получать письма, и все они сталкивались с одной и той же ошибкой сервера: «Cleartext authentication disallowed on non-secure (SSL/TLS) connections».

Человек был уверен, что его почта зашифрована, а на деле она много лет ходила открытым текстом.

Масштаб уязвимости точно не определён: затронуты как минимум версии Outlook с 2007 по 2016, возможно и более поздние, но касается ли это Outlook 2019 и новее — пока не подтверждено.

Хорошая новость — чинится это в пару кликов: достаточно зайти в настройки учётной записи Outlook и…

Это не официальная позиция компании, а я не программист и не безопасник.

И вы на это подписались.

А то, что вы не знали, на что подписываетесь — это уже ваши проблемы.

На практике это означает, что если вы решите пожаловаться, оператор должен доказать, что вы давали согласие.

И если бы мы не начали копать, клиенты так бы и думали, что мы торгуем номерами.

Попробовал просроченную ссылку, невалидный пароль и повторный переход по уже использованной ссылке.

Пользователь открыл более свежее письмо, задал новый пароль и вошёл в аккаунт.

Пользователь запросил восстановление и получил ссылку A. Затем отправил ещё один запрос и получил ссылку B. По ссылке B установил новый пароль.

Для ссылок восстановления также нужно использовать HTTPS, защищаться от перебора и не допускать утечки токена через заголовок Referer, сторонние скрипты или некорректно сформированный домен.

Поговорим о том, как воспроизводить сложные цепочки действий через API и интерфейс и проверять, что состояние системы меняется именно так, как задумано.

Проблема не в том, что OSINT не работает.

Не лезут в анализ сетей, не разбирают нарративы, не делают оценок — даже когда всё это законно и основано на открытых данных.

Это не баг — это фича.

OSINT начинают обвинять в том, что он «не даёт ответов», хотя он и не должен их давать в таком виде.

В чём настоящий провалOSINT-исследование проваливается не потому, что «слишком много шума» или «это не для корпораций».

В нашем магазине по-прежнему можно заказать печатные версии романов «Белый хакер» и «Хакеры.RU» с черно-белыми иллюстрациями.

Это история о временах компьютерных клубов, ночного dial-up, подпольных форумов и первых хакерских тусовок — эпохе, когда интернет еще не превратился в набор приложений и алгоритмических лент.

Обе книги доступны в печатном виде с черно-белыми иллюстрациями: роман «Хакеры.RU» знакомит тебя с героями этой истории, а «Белый хакер» продолжает рассказ об их приключениях.

Книги можно заказать по отдельности или обе сразу.

Если еще ты не знаком с этой историей, первые главы романов можно прочитать на сайте без платной подписки.

Специалисты компании Proofpoint обнаружили шпионскую кампанию, участники которой взламывают почтовые серверы Roundcube в университетах США и Канады.

Атакующие похищают учетные данные исследователей, а затем стремятся закрепиться на серверах с помощью веб-шелла и бэкдора.

С помощью этой уязвимости злоумышленники выполняют JavaScript в браузере жертвы и загружают пейлоад IceCube, который исследователи называют полноценным стилером для Roundcube.

После сбора данных IceCube использует вспомогательные компоненты для эксплуатации критической уязвимости десериализации в Roundcube — CVE-2025-49113.

Предполагается, что перед атаками злоумышленники проводили разведку и искали в сети серверы, уязвимые…

Сервис обещал пользователям «анонимность, стабильность и безопасность», а на сайте утверждалось, что связь между IP-адресом и конкретным клиентом установить невозможно.

В Минфине США заявляют, что связанные с First VPN вымогательские атаки нанесли бизнесу и операторам критической инфраструктуры ущерб на миллиарды долларов США.

Следователи считают, что с их помощью он закупал серверы у компаний, которые могли отказать ему самому из-за многочисленных жалоб на вредоносную активность, исходящую с адресов 1VPNS.

Дело в том, что в карточке First VPN сотрудники OFAC указали Telegram-канал сервиса как отдельный веб-сайт.

После этого сотрудники черногорской компании doMEn d.o.o., которая управляет д…

Они сообщают, что малварь написана на Go, а ее операторы могут по команде запускать отдельные функции, выбирая между шпионажем, эксфильтрацией и уничтожением информации на зараженной машине.

При этом малварь не сохраняет ключ и не оставляет записку с требованием выкупа, то есть расшифровать пострадавшие данные оказывается невозможно.

Кроме того, отдельная команда отключает среду восстановления Windows и провоцирует «синий экран смерти», после чего устройство перестает загружаться.

Также малварь может запускать команды PowerShell, собирать информацию о зараженной системе, управлять процессами и службами, редактировать реестр и очищать журналы событий Windows.

Следует отметить, что ранее иссл…

Одна из поправок в закон «Об информации» предполагает, что сайты и приложения обяжут хранить сведения о регистрации, авторизациях и удалении аккаунтов пользователей три года.

Кроме того, провайдеры должны будут передавать в специальный реестр сведения обо всех принадлежащих им IP-адресах.

Другая поправка касается операторов связи и расширяет перечень данных, которые они обязаны хранить в течение трех лет и передавать силовым службам по запросу.

Еще одна норма предлагает установить запрет на указание в SMS-рассылках персональных данных получателя и его близких родственников.

В настоящее время обработку таких данных ограничивают законы о персональных данных, банковской тайне и тайне связи.

Исследователи объясняют, что для эксплуатации большинства промпт-инжектов нужен прямой контакт с жертвой.

HalluSquatting работает иначе, и в этом случае сам ИИ-агент приходит на вредоносный ресурс, поэтому такую атаку можно масштабировать без массовых рассылок и выбора целей.

К примеру, обнаружилось, что LLM склонны генерировать адреса вида repo-name/repo-name, принимая название проекта за имя владельца аккаунта.

Зараженные машины в итоге можно объединить в ботнет для DDoS-атак или майнинга криптовалюты, а также использовать в массовых вымогательских кампаниях.

Причем эта схема уже применялась злоумышленниками на практике в кампании PhantomRaven, когда малварь разместили в 126 пакетах npm, …

Бывший переговорщик компании DigitalMint Анджело Мартино (Angelo Martino) получил 70 месяцев тюрьмы за сотрудничество с вымогательской группировкой BlackCat.

Переговорщик раскрывал злоумышленникам лимиты страхового покрытия клиентов и их внутренние стратегии, и эта информация позволяла хакерам понять, сколько жертва способна заплатить, и потребовать максимальную сумму.

После этого Мартино, Голдберг и Мартин стали самостоятельно атаковать организации с помощью BlackCat, то есть взламывали корпоративные сети, похищали данные и развертывали шифровальщик.

По данным следствия, Мартино «заработал» на преступной деятельности миллионы долларов США в криптовалюте.

Однако в итоге его приговорили к 70…

Проблема присутствовала в коде ядра с 2011 года и в результате затронула практически все популярные дистрибутивы.

Исследователи разработали для CVE-2026-43499 эксплоит, который позволяет получить контроль над выполнением кода в ядре и root-права.

Исправление для GhostLock было включено в ядро еще в апреле 2026 года, однако администраторам рекомендуют устанавливать не первый пропатченный билд, а наиболее свежее ядро.

Также следует отметить, что уязвимость GhostLock является частью цепочки атаки IonStack, недавно продемонстрированной специалистами Nebula Security.

На первом этапе эта атака использует уязвимость CVE-2026-10702 в JIT-движке Firefox, а затем эксплуатирует CVE-2026-43499 в ядре L…

На этот раз уяз­вимость наш­ли в популяр­ном конс­трук­торе Langflow.

В Langflow ты можешь соб­рать бота вооб­ще без кода или с минималь­ным скрип­тингом.

У API Langflow есть метод / api/ v1/ build_public_tmp/{ flow_id}/ flow — он нужен для запус­ка рабочих про­цес­сов в пуб­личном режиме без авто­риза­ции.

Любой жела­ющий может выз­вать этот метод, но в том и смысл пуб­личных эндпо­интов.

Если отпра­вишь в зап­росе свой объ­ект, Langflow исполь­зует имен­но его, а не тот, который лежит в базе дан­ных.

То же касается --allow-remote: зависимости, загружаемые через удаленные URL, включая tar-архивы, доступные по HTTPS, теперь блокируются по умолчанию.

Для проверки и одобрения доверенных скриптов разработчикам предлагают выполнить команду: npm approve-scripts --allow-scripts-pending, после чего сформированный allowlist необходимо сохранить в package.json и закоммитить в репозиторий.

С начала августа 2026 года такие токены больше нельзя будет использовать для важных операций с аккаунтами, пакетами и организациями.

В частности, с использованием GAT с обходом 2ФА нельзя будет создавать и удалять токены, генерировать коды восстановления, менять пароли, email-адреса, профили и настройки 2ФА.

Токе…

Точно направленный лазерный импульс вынуждает чип карты перейти в режим восстановления и принять любой новый пароль, выбранный атакующим.

Специалисты объясняют, что внутри карты Tangem установлен защищенный чип Samsung S3D232A с сертификацией EAL6+.

Если владелец забудет пароль, его можно будет сбросить с помощью второй карты из того же комплекта.

Исследователи заявляют, что успешно воспроизвели эту атаку на всех протестированных картах Tangem, и на взлом каждой ушло примерно два часа.

Так как реальных случаев кражи средств с кошельков при помощи лазера пока не зафиксировано, в Tangem считают риск для большинства пользователей практически нулевым.

Власти Евросоюза внесли в санкционные списки VK и ООО «Коммуникационная платформа», стоящее за разработкой мессенджера Max.

В Совете ЕС пояснили, что VK попала под санкции как материнская компания ООО «Коммуникационная платформа», разработчика и оператора мессенджера Max.

Также отмечается, что Max интегрирован с «Госуслугами» и должен предустанавливаться на все продаваемые в России смартфоны и планшеты.

Представители холдинга VK сообщили СМИ, что ограничения не повлияют на работу приложений:«Санкции ЕС не влияют на работу VK и Max.

Это первые прямые санкции ЕС в отношении VK, хотя с 2022 года персональные ограничения ЕС, США и Великобритании действуют против главы холдинга Владимира Кириенк…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results.

"Although the LLM clearly aided in constructing the botnet, several functions in the analyzed samples failed to work correctly."

Evidence suggests that work on the botnet commenced one year before that, when the author cloned the MHDDoS repository from GitHub.

"Shared infrastructure with Kaitori v3.9 and AISURU tooling places the TuxBot operator within the Keksec ecosystem," Unit 42 concluded.

"This group is known for runnin…

The app around it is the real one you installed, and the phrase is the wallet.

SeedHunter Waits for the DeviceSeedHunter is the OkoBot module that steals the phrase.

Once the framework lands, it watches for Trezor Suite, Ledger Wallet, and Ledger Live, injects into whichever it finds, and hooks the app's Electron internals.

If the server sets a Wait flag, SeedHunter scans USB by vendor and product ID and sits still until a real Ledger or Trezor is plugged in.

Ledger says the phrase never goes anywhere but the Ledger itself.

Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published.

The shortcomings have been patched in Chrome version 150.0.7871.124/.125 for Windows and Mac and 150.0.7871.124 for Linux.

In a related development, Adobe has published security updates for 88 vulnerabilities, including multiple critical-severity bugs in ColdFusion, Commerce, Experience Manager, and Illustrator.

Filip Waeytens of the NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw.

Although none of the vulnerabilities have been marked as actively exploited, it's essential that organizations install the latest updates, giv…

Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up.

This structural paradigm shift is explored in detail within The Guide to Modern SASE Architecture.

Why Traditional Enforcement StrugglesTraditional SASE relies on backhauling traffic to cloud proxies for decryption, inspection, and policy enforcement.

The Guide to Modern SASE Architecture covers the evaluation frameworks for this in detail.

To see how modern architectures are closing the proxy visibility gap while restoring native application performance, download The Perfect Packet: A Guide to Modern SASE Architecture.

It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability.

The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to as ProfSvc, is a core system component that manages user accounts and environments.

"The PoC requires another standard user credential and a third username (which can be an administrator account)," Chaotic Eclipse said.

"If the PoC is successful, it will end up mounting the target user hive in the current user classes root."

"Any hive could be loaded using this vulnerability, but you would need some brain cells to make the PoC do it," the researcher noted.

But the marketing tag you signed off on rarely stays the same as the tag executing in your users' browsers.

Two Sides of the Same Table: Reflectiz & TaboolaThis isn't just an advertiser problem; it's a challenge that responsible ad tech platforms actively work to solve.

The AI Acceleration: Why AI-driven ad tech is expanding your client-side attack surface faster than point-in-time audits can catch.

Why AI-driven ad tech is expanding your client-side attack surface faster than point-in-time audits can catch.

What transparent, security-forward ad tech looks like in 2026, and how to tell which of your vendors meet the bar.

Open a repository in Cursor on Windows and, if a file named git.exe is sitting in the project root, Cursor runs it.

On February 13, 2026, Cursor published GHSA-8pcm-8jpx-hv8r, a Git-hook sandbox escape (CVE-2026-26268) reported by Novee under coordinated disclosure and fixed in Cursor 2.5.

GitHub Copilot CLI ran a workspace git.exe at startup, before the folder-trust prompt was even shown.

Cursor closed Cymulate's Cursor CLI report as Informative eight days in, on the grounds that findings requiring a malicious binary "lack an attack vector."

Four vendors have now been shown a workspace binary running itself on Windows as soon as a developer points the tool at a cloned repo.

Four compromised npm packages in the @asyncapi namespace have been observed distributing a multi-stage botnet loader, according to findings from OX Security, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity.

The affected packages are listed below -@asyncapi/[email protected]@asyncapi/[email protected]@asyncapi/[email protected]@asyncapi/specs(v6.11.2, v6.11.2-alpha.1)"The compromised packages deploy an obfuscated first-stage payload that downloads an encrypted second-stage payload, identified as Miasma, from IPFS," Socket said.

The poisoned packages ship a hidden JavaScript implant, with each of them containing an injected source file that decodes to the same second-stage downloader.

The next…

SonicWall has warned of active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series appliances, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary command execution.

(CVSS score: 10.0) - A Server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that a remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit to potentially cause the appliance to make requests to an unintended location.

SonicWall said it has "investigated multiple cases indicating the active exploitation of the vulnerabilities," urging customers to apply the fixes as soon as possible.

Adam Babis of SonicWall's product security incident response team (PSIRT) has been credited with discovering and repor…

Both are elevation-of-privilege flaws in identity and collaboration infrastructure: CVE-2026-56164 in on-premises SharePoint Server and CVE-2026-56155 in Active Directory Federation Services.

The two zero-days to patch firstCVE-2026-56164, a SharePoint Server flaw Microsoft says is being exploited in attacks, lets an unauthenticated attacker escalate privileges over the network.

SharePoint Server 17 The exploited zero-day ( CVE-2026-56164 ) and Rapid7's chain bypass ( CVE-2026-55040 ), plus a Critical RCE pair including CVE-2026-50522 at 9.8.

This month's two exploited bugs make the point: neither is a headline 9.8, both are mid-tier privilege flaws, and both are already in use.

Sort by wha…

SAP has rolled out updates to address multiple vulnerabilities as part of its July 2026 security updates, including a critical flaw in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP.

CVE-2026-44761 (CVSS score: 9.1) - A use of default credentials flaw in SAP Commerce Cloud that could retain a sample OAuth 2.0 client with publicly documented sample credentials originating from a sample configuration provided in SAP Help Portal documentation.

"An unauthenticated attacker can leverage these publicly available, default credentials to obtain a valid access token.

It's worth noting that customers who removed the sample client or replaced the secret with a strong, unique value are not impacted by the bug.

…

A view of the H1 2026 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts.

The first half of 2026 shows how attackers continue to improve the efficiency and scalability of their operations.

In H1 2026, ESET analyzed nearly 900,000 AI skills – small functional components used by AI agents – and identified tens of thousands of suspicious and thousands of outright malicious instances.

ESET detections of this vector more than doubled between H2 2025 and H1 2026, indicating sustained activity and adaptation.

ESET Research has documented over 100 EDR killers used in the wild, with new variants appearing regularly.

Organizations are right to pay attention, especially because malicious use of AI makes old gaps a more urgent test of an organization’s cyber readiness.

AI and the basics“AI-powered malware” is cited as the top concern of global SMBs for the year ahead, according to the ESET SMB Cyber Readiness Index 2026.

Lack of security monitoring (22%): You might have plenty of security tools, but do you have a single, centralized place to collect, correlate and flag alerts?

Malicious email detection trend in 2025 (source: ESET Threat Report H2 2025)Tried-and-tested solutions to age-old threatsThis isn’t to say that SMBs should ignore AI-enabled threats.

True cyber readiness means being able to prevent,…

It's that time of month when ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe looks back at some of the top cybersecurity stories that made the news over the past 30 or so days and considers what they may mean for your own cyber-defenses.

What lessons does the new CISA policy hold for organizations outside the agency's direct remit?

What else is there to know about threats facing ATGs or, indeed, many other critical infrastructure systems?

How can you stay safe from imposter fraud, and could the social media bans for children work?

Learn more from Tony's video and be sure to check out the May 2026 edition of Tony's monthly security news roundup for more insights.

With access to your email account, they can reset your passwords across multiple other accounts – perhaps intercepting one-time passcodes sent by your bank, social media, cloud storage or other online provider.

That could lay the groundwork for a convincing phishing email designed to impersonate a trusted organization you interact with.

A phishing attack on your corporate email account is often the first stage in a bigger data breach, extortion/ransomware or espionage attack.

They’re also using more sophisticated tools to improve the success rates of email phishing campaigns.

In this instance the scammers reportedly hijacked the email account of a high-level executive, before impersonating …

For these businesses, cyber resilience should be the direction of travel – that is, the ability to continue operating and recover even during a serious incident.

Cyber readiness is about putting in place the processes and controls to prevent, detect and respond to threats.

So, should confidence in cyber resilience posture be so high, especially if organizations are still getting hit multiple times?

The truth is that there’s no end state for cyber readiness or resilience.

If it’s serious about improving the cyber readiness of small businesses, the vendor community should step up.

Key points of this blogpost: Throughout 2025, Gamaredon exclusively targeted governmental and military institutions in Ukraine.

Continued data exfiltration and a new allianceThroughout 2025, Gamaredon stayed highly active and remained focused solely on Ukraine.

Notably, we uncovered that in early 2025, Gamaredon collaborated with Turla, another Russia-aligned threat actor also linked to the FSB; we documented our findings in our blogpost Gamaredon X Turla collab.

Figure 1 shows a chart of unique samples of HTA downloaders delivered per month in Gamaredon spearphishing campaigns.

Compared to 2024, we also saw a shift in how Gamaredon used these dead drops.

Key points of this blogpost: ESET took part in the coordinated, global Operation Endgame to disrupt Amadey and Stealc.

Our automated systems have been dissecting Amadey and Stealc samples and identifying the fields most relevant for large-scale tracking.

The largest Amadey botnet clusterOne cluster stands out as the largest, and it contributed nearly 34% of all processed Amadey samples.

Stealc affiliate clustering based on ESET telemetryConclusionFor global disruption operations such as Operation Endgame against Amadey and Stealc, long-term automated tracking of malware is necessary.

2026‑04‑09 Stealc C&C server.

The group distinguishes itself through a mature, operator-maintained set of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers, i.e., tools for disrupting security software.

In this blogpost, we share our findings on Gentlemen’s suite of EDR killers gained through extensive research and corroborated by the recent leak.

Third‑party EDR killers (HexKiller, ThrottleBlood, and HavocKiller) are operationally integrated.

Rather than relying on affiliates to source their own EDR killers, Gentlemen operators actively develop and maintain a portfolio of EDR killers for affiliates.

It allows the Gentlemen operators to integrate abused drivers into their toolset very soon after an EDR killer PoC is disclos…

Of course, connecting production systems to enterprise networks delivers tangible benefits, but the security implications – that systems once safe were suddenly no longer so – arrived more quietly.

Start by mapping which systems in an environment are connected and have no security coverage, where IT and OT networks intersect, which segments are unmonitored, and which production systems have fallen outside any vendor support agreement.

Meanwhile, off-the-peg security tools often don’t efficiently meet the enterprise requirements in legacy OT systems that run on older hardware and outdated operating system versions.

The production systems running that version continue to operate for years, ac…

Key points of this blogpost: We discovered two previously undocumented Windows variants of FishMonger’s SprySOCKS backdoor.

Technical analysisIn this section, we provide a technical analysis of these new, Windows variants of FishMonger’s SprySOCKS backdoor.

Figure 3. klelam00007.bat setting up persistence for the SprySOCKS backdoor (newlines added for readability)Figure 4 depicts the execution chain of the SprySOCKS WIN_DRV variant.

It contained the SprySOCKS backdoor and the SprySOCKS loader.

6490B8E4AADE25A3EE2D A9A47F312DB2122470BC X1B5206BDC1 743DD.dat Win64/SprySOCKS.A Encrypted container of the encrypted WIN_DRV variant of SprySOCKS backdoor, encrypted SprySOCKS RawWNPF and SprySOCKS …

Instead, attackers get the victim to complete a legitimate authentication process – including two-factor authentication (2FA) – on a real Microsoft login page.

What makes EvilTokens dangerousThe OAuth device code flow was designed for devices that may be awkward to sign into directly, such as smart TVs or printers.

No document, invoice, email, or another platform should ask for a device code without a clear reason.

A real Microsoft page doesn’t automatically make a request safe.

Sometimes the attacker could ask them to enter a real code on a real page – but for the wrong device.

During this period, the Vietnam-aligned OceanLotus adopted a more selective approach to external operations while placing increasing emphasis on domestic espionage.

We identified two distinct campaigns involving the SPECTRALVIPER backdoor: a supply-chain attack targeting stock investors in Vietnam and a prolonged espionage operation against a Vietnamese infrastructure and transport construction company.

The domain resolved to the genuine IP address of the FireAnt update server, suggesting a supply-chain compromise scenario.

LTD 2025‑09‑20 SPECTRALVIPER C&C server.

]com IRT‑CHOOPALLC‑AP 2025‑09‑20 SPECTRALVIPER C&C server.

But that realization alone clearly doesn’t prepare them to withstand an attack.

Have the repeat victims come to view their brushes with cyber-incidents as proof of “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger”?

For all the talk around AI, automation and attacker sophistication, many SMB breaches still begin with a familiar opening.

A total of 71% of SMBs globally now carry cyber insurance, rising to 84% in North America, with adoption climbing sharply among repeat victims.

While “when, not if” has never been more true, that alone doesn’t prepare a business for adversity.

There’s a phrase that is peddled out by governments and companies alike when a catastrophe of any type – including a cybersecurity breach – occurs: “Lessons have been learnt”.

The 130% increase in significant incidents between 2024 and 2025 severely challenges this assertion and points to lessons not being learnt, at a macro level.

In fact, this reluctance to look could also be normalcy bias quietly doing its work.

That is why this metaphor matters – cybercriminals discover the gap between what an organisation believes about its security and what the reality is.

We must accept that normalcy bias exists and act upon it.

Organizations now find more weaknesses across more of their systems than at any earlier point in the industry’s history.

The team that finds a vulnerability usually cannot fix itDiscovery and repair often sit with different groups.

More than a third of respondents say remediation ownership depends on the situation or remains ambiguous.

When responsibility for a fix has no home, the work stalls as teams sort out who acts.

“The difference between the organizations getting breached by vulnerabilities they already knew about and the ones that never are isn’t better detection.

GPT-Red is an automated red-teaming model that OpenAI trains to find prompt injection weaknesses.

Each side pushes the other, so GPT-Red keeps discovering stronger and more varied attacks as the defenders harden.

The company keeps GPT-Red internal and apart from anything it ships, which keeps the attack skills it builds away from real adversaries.

On a replicated version of the indirect prompt injection arena from Dziemian et al.

Several indirect prompt injection benchmarks covering developer tools and browsing have topped 97% accuracy on the newest model.

Such phishing emails are also likely to bypass AI-based secure email gateways (SEGs) and other email security technologies.

Finance phishing mimics business workflowsFinance-themed campaigns account for the highest volume of phishing emails across all campaign categories.

Business opportunities, contracts and paymentsAttackers use fake business opportunities because unsolicited commercial messages are common in finance and procurement.

Why contract and payment phishing worksContract-related lures that appear to involve ongoing negotiations are successful because they create a sense of continuity.

Example of a finance-themed credential phishing email leveraging an embedded malicious URL to f…

LabubaRAT, a previously undocumented Rust-based remote access tool (RAT) masquerading as NVIDIA software that enables post-compromise operations on Windows systems, has been uncovered by Blackpoint Cyber.

Blackpoint Cyber named the malware LabubaRAT after discovering a “LabubaPanel” title and a Labubu-themed favicon on its associated command-and-control (C2) infrastructure.

Those values determine how the malware connects to its infrastructure and how frequently it checks in for new commands.

The malware can also establish persistence by creating a Windows Run registry key, allowing it to launch automatically after a reboot.

The sample combined runtime configuration, local state, host profil…

Amazing:Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed to create a new type of pixel that can simultaneously do both.

This hypercharged pixel, called a Fourier pixel, can generate and sense arbitrary light fields and tap into a pixel’s full potential for carrying information by manipulating light’s intensity, oscillation phases, and polarization.

The team reported its findings in a paper published yesterday in Nature.

We are one step closer to 1984 technology:The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.

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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.

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AI Data Centers and the Concentration of WealthThis essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian.

Opposition to AI data centers has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one that—surprisingly—doesn’t fall along party lines.

For some, data center opposition may feel like the only tangible mechanism for registering their concern, disapproval, or even anger about AI.

The problem is that this may be exactly what the AI companies are banking on.

And while data center opposition campaigns have been successful in building widespread appeal, their effectiveness in the US is mixed.

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.

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These systems will combine powerful AI, public and private surveillance via real-time facial recognition technology and digital tracking, mass databases and highly personalized enforcement.

If deployed at scale, they will have profound chilling effects not just on personal freedoms, but democracy and social progress itself.

AI surveillance is now being experimented with in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

While the systems are ostensibly used to maintain security and public safety, the real aim is often social control.

But we believe the most urgent and long-term impact will be its broader chilling effects.

Internet risks are nothing new, and cyberattacks—both large and small—have been a significant issue since long before the current crop of generative AI models.

Contrast the L0pht hackers with hackers derided as “script kiddies.” They didn’t understand computers, or security.

Instructing AI models to spy on people and report any malicious prompts to the authorities fails for similar reasons.

We want these AI models to be able to review computer code, find vulnerabilities and automatically fix them.

They are things talked about at that congressional hearing back in 1998, titled “Weak computer security in government: Is the public at risk?” Even the Five Eyes admitted that their security advic…

Internet risks are nothing new, and cyberattacks—both large and small—have been a significant issue since long before the current crop of generative AI models.

Contrast the L0pht hackers with hackers derided as “script kiddies.” They didn’t understand computers, or security.

Instructing AI models to spy on people and report any malicious prompts to the authorities fails for similar reasons.

We want these AI models to be able to review computer code, find vulnerabilities and automatically fix them.

They are things talked about at that congressional hearing back in 1998, titled “Weak computer security in government: Is the public at risk?” Even the Five Eyes admitted that their security advic…

Not sure this will have any effect, but I support the effort:According to Google’s legal filing, Outsider Enterprise operates through Telegram.

The group offers phishing-as-a-service to individuals who may not be technically savvy enough to set up fraudulent websites and text campaigns on their own.

In its Telegram channels, Outsider Enterprise reportedly provided instructions on how to use Google’s Gemini AI to create websites that imitate those of Google, YouTube, and government agencies such as New York’s E-ZPass.

[…]Google worked with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile to block many of these malicious text messages, and Google notes that its on-device scam detection in Google Messages probably…

France is accelerating its transition to post-quantum encryption:France’s cybersecurity agency ANSSI said on Tuesday it would stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, a move that will force government bodies and critical operators to shift away from older systems.

Samih Souissi, ANSSI’s chief of staff, said at the France Quantum conference that the agency would halt such certifications from 2027, and that businesses should be buying only quantum-safe products by 2030.

ANSSI approval is required for use in French government agencies and critical infrastructure, making the policy a de facto phase-out of older encryption.

This is from a 2024 company presentation:Officers can also tap into data showing a car’s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks—along with temporary and unique state tags.

Flock calls it a “Vehicle Fingerprint” and it’s touted as a way for law enforcement officials to get more information “even when you don’t have full plate information,” the company’s presentation shows.

The company gives police officers the ability to search that data as well, to “build stronger cases with less information upfront.” That includes being able to locate multiple vehicles law enforcement officials believe are moving together and what Flock calls a “multi geo search.”

Interesting paper: “Cybersecurity Mission Creep.”Abstract: Cybersecurity is experiencing mission creep.

Positioned as security threats, cybersecuritized issues become endowed with the apparent normative power to override countervailing considerations, oversimplifying the problem.

Cybersecuritization’s oversimplification similarly risks unidimensional solutions and invites use of argumentative trump cards, like First Amendment challenges.

Together, the reductive tendencies of cybersecuritization and the deference it prompts to specialists renders ultimate governance choices more opaque.

If we continue to ignore it, we risk abdicating further responsibility for difficult choices to the trump …

The idea is to reach hungry consumers by “knowing what is in their fridge without being too creepy,” said Carrie Drinkwater, chief investment officer at Carat.

To achieve that goal, NBCU and Instacart created a custom audience of shoppers who regularly purchase grocery staples on Instacart, such as eggs, milk, meat and produce.

Based on that data, Papa Johns can determine which days of the week certain consumers are likely to run out of groceries and serve them an ad on NBCU streaming content accordingly.

So the way for Papa John’s to not be “too creepy” is to deliberately get it wrong sometimes.

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The Realities of AI Video SurveillanceThe Financial Times has a good article on how AI is changing the capabilities of video surveillance, with information from both Israel/Iran and Russia.

I wrote about this sort of thing a few years ago, how AI enables mass spying in the way that computers and networks enabled mass surveillance.

The interesting development in the article is that AI allows people to ask natural language questions about video footage to AIs—and AIs can answer them.

In contrast with older tools restricted to a few dozen preset searches, these new tools allow an almost unlimited range of enquiries by enabling language-based searches on video.

“This is the holy grail of survei…

Interesting research on a new class of weak RSA keys: keys with lots of zeros.

The badkeys project is an open-source service that checks public keys for known vulnerabilities.

Pattern 2 appears on SSH hosts running the CompleteFTP software from EnterpriseDT.

The underlying vulnerability affects RSA keys generated using versions 10.0.0­12.0.0 (Dec 2016­Mar 2019) and DSA keys generated with v10.0.0­23.0.4 (Dec 2016­Dec 2023).

More implementations may include the same bugs, and so it’s worth tailoring cryptanalytic algorithms for this particular type of failure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Continuous monitoring of public GitHub surfaced it.

IRIS C2 says it is a company in McLean, Va. that sells offensive cybersecurity capabilities.

“Our business model is this,” reads a pinned post on top of the IRIS C2 account on X.

The website claims IRIS C2 is in the business of acquiring “zero-day exploits, individual primitives, partial chains, and full capabilities across all major platforms.

When approached with questions about IRIS C2, Burkman referred further inquiries to his longtime associate, 28-year-old Jacob Wohl.

In May, the author of the IRIS C2 account on X said that his girlfriend had no idea what he did for a living.

Benjamin Brundage is founder of the proxy tracking service Synthient, one of the companies that published evidence last month linking the Popa botnet to NetNut and Alarum Technologies.

Brundage said the domain seizures appear to have disrupted both the Popa botnet and the NetNut proxy network that rides on top of it.

“Google has high confidence that many popular residential proxy brands are in fact whitelabeling the NetNut botnet,” the GTIG report concludes.

What we have observed is that when faced with the degradation of their own botnet, proxy operators begin buying capacity from their competitors, effectively becoming a reseller.

More than a quarter of the apps made for Samsung’s Tizen o…

The duo were key members of a prolific cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider, and their guilty pleas came on the first day of what was expected to be a six-week trial.

In April 2026, 24-year-old British national and Scattered Spider member Tyler “Tylerb” Buchanan pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft for participating in the group’s SMS phishing spree in the summer of 2022.

The government said Buchanan, Jubair and others used the credentials harvested in that phishing campaign to steal at least $8 million in cryptocurrency from victims throughout the United States.

The U.S. Department of Justice says three alleged Scattered Spider defendants indicted alo…

This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a “residential proxy” provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR].

Qurium said that immediately after that disruption, several dozen new domains were registered to serve as controllers for the Popa botnet, but that one of those control domains was not new: ninjatech[.]io.

Jérôme Meyer, a security researcher at Nokia Deepfield, said the total population of devices participating in the Popa botnet may be far higher than Lumen’s estimates.

“Over 90% of our pharmaceutical and food & beverage customers have queried residential proxy indicators.

…

This post examines clues pointing to a real life identity for the administrator of The Gentlemen ransomware group.

Experts at the security firm Check Point Software have been closely covering exploits of The Gentlemen, a so-called “ransomware-as-a-service” (RaaS) offering that pays affiliates handsomely to help spread the group’s malware.

According to Check Point, the group targets Internet-facing devices (VPNs, firewalls) as their entry point, and once inside moves quickly to encrypt entire networks within hours.

Check Point says the administrator and primary operator of the ransomware group uses the nickname Zeta88 on the Russian-language cybercrime forums, and that this individual was pr…

Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software, a record number of fixes for the company’s monthly Patch Tuesday cycle.

“Some surveys put AI usage among security professionals generally at 90%, so it’s unsurprising that this volume of patches may be the norm,” Narang said.

Microsoft received heavily blowback on social media last month after it said in a blog post that it was considering taking legal action against the security researcher.

While 200 vulnerabilities may be a record for Patch Tuesday, the actual number of security flaws Microsoft addressed this month is far higher, said Rapid7’s Adam Barne…

On May 31, word began to spread on several Telegram instant message channels that Meta’s AI bot would happily add an email address to an existing account as part of the bot’s standard password reset flow.

Meta has not responded to requests for comment on the video’s claims, but the company reportedly did acknowledge the dormant Instagram account for the Obama White House was briefly compromised.

Meta’s solution was to deploy a conversational AI layer to handle common recovery workflows: relinking a lost email address, triggering a password reset, verifying account ownership.

Just like human customer support employees can be social engineered into providing unauthorized access to someone’s a…

But as KrebsOnSecurity observed in September 2025, those sanctions failed to target Stark’s remaining connection to the Internet — an Internet service provider based in the Netherlands called MIRhosting.

MIRhosting is operated by Andrey Nesterenko, a 39-year-old Russian native who runs the business out of the Netherlands.

And as our September 2025 report showed, WorkTitans was controlled by Nesterenko and a 57-year-old from Amsterdam named Youssef Zinad.

On top of that, WorkTitans was getting connectivity to the larger Internet solely through MIRhosting, where Zinad had worked previously.

“The transition to the.hosting was not intended to evade sanctions,” Nesterenko wrote.

The inquiry comes as CISA is still struggling to contain the breach and invalidate the leaked credentials.

Experts who reviewed the exposed secrets said the commit logs for the code repository showed the CISA contractor disabled GitHub’s built-in protection against publishing sensitive credentials in public repos.

CISA acknowledged the leak but has not responded to questions about the duration of the data exposure.

TruffleHog does this by monitoring a live feed that GitHub publishes which includes a record of all commits and changes to public code repositories.

In practical terms, it is likely that cybercrime groups or foreign adversaries also noticed the publication of these CISA secrets, …

A criminal complaint unsealed today in an Alaska district court charges Jacob Butler, a.k.a.

“Dort,” of Ottawa, Canada with operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet.

“KimWolf was tied to DDoS attacks which were measured at nearly 30 Terabits per second, a record in recorded DDoS attack volume,” the Justice Department statement reads.

Synthient was among many technology companies thanked by the Justice Department today, and Synthient’s founder Ben Brundage told KrebsOnSecurity he’s relieved Butler is in custody.

The DOJ said at least one of those services collaborated with Butler’s Kimwolf botnet.

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems.

Another file exposed in their public GitHub repository — “AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv” — listed plaintext usernames and passwords for dozens of internal CISA systems.

“The available Git metadata alone does not prove which endpoint or device was used.”Caturegli said he validated that the exposed credentials could authenticate to three AWS GovCloud accounts at a high privilege level.

CISA has not responded to questions about the p…

Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code.

May’s Patch Tuesday is a welcome respite from April, which saw Microsoft fix a near-record 167 security flaws.

But at the end of April, Oracle announced it was switching to a monthly update cycle for critical security issues.

Chrome automagically downloads available security updates, but installing them requires fully restarting the browser.

For a more granular look at the Microsoft updates released today, checkout this inventory by the SANS Internet Storm Center.

The stated deadline for payment was initially set at May 6, but it was later pushed back to May 12.

The May 6 update stated that Canvas was fully operational, and that Instructure was not seeing any ongoing unauthorized activity on their platform.

Instructure responded by pulling Canvas offline and replacing the portal with the message, “Canvas is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance.

Data extortion groups like ShinyHunters will typically only remove victims from their leak sites after receiving an extortion payment or after a victim agrees to negotiate.

Last month, ShinyHunters relieved the home security giant ADT of personal information on 5.5 million customers.

When a company falls victim to a ransomware attack, it is not uncommon for it to turn to experts for help.

Specialist ransomware negotiation firms handle communications with criminal gangs on a victim's behalf.

41-year-old Martino worked as a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint, an incident response company based in Chicago.

The ransomware victim, a hospitality company, ultimately paid out nearly US $16.5 million.

The company has since changed the way its negotiators communicate with ransomware gangs, and is working with the Department of Homeland Security to establish a registry for the currently highly-unregulated world of ransomware negotiation.

Have you received an email from a recruiter at Adobe, Netflix, or OpenAI offering you an exciting new marketing role?

Security experts have uncovered a phishing campaign which impersonates over 30 well-known brands in fake job interviews designed to steal Google account passwords.

When victims click on "Continue with Google," a pop-up appears that looks like a legitimate Google authentication dialog.

In the past the FBI has warned the public about scammers using fake job ads to steal money and personal information from applicants.

Earlier this year, Hot for Security published a guide explaining how many fake recruiter scams work, and how to avoid them.

These stories appear different, but they're actually telling the same story.

I'm going to flag, I'm going to flag the point that I made earlier is that operational security isn't always there.

I know how to do this because it's done it for me, but I don't actually know how to apply it logically.

And when the technology you're relying on to protect you, and in some people's case it is protecting their life, and you're not doing it to the best of your ability, that's, that's really, really disappointing.

But I guess for now, all eyes are on Apple and how they're going to respond to this, albeit 13 months later.

Two young men have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of running a phishing operation that harvested the credit card details of unsuspecting victims.

According to a police press release, victims were duped into entering their payment card details on bogus phishing websites.

Investigators believe the arrested men, who have not been named, did not just misuse the stolen payment card details themselves, but also passed them on to other fraudsters.

Card payment fraud was found to be the single most common category, with over half a million fraudulent transactions (up more than a quarter on the year before).

In 2024, just 1% of Dutch fraud victims recovered their money, and while arou…

Who Are The Gentlemen?

Despite the impeccably polite name, there is nothing polite or refined about this particular gang of cybercriminals. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

And I'm going to be looking at whether you're wise to take a gamble with your security on Polymarket.

Right, well, I want to tell you about a company that's built its entire brand on being really, really good at predicting the future.

They've actually done it really, really well.

So it's The Summer Portraits by— remind me who it's by again, 'cause I'm going to butcher his name.

It's really, really good.

When a devastating earthquake struck north central Venezuela last week, rescue teams were not the only ones who mobilised fast.

Researchers at threat intelligence firm WhoisXML API say that they uncovered 212 newly-registered domains referencing the earthquake, all of which had been filed within five days of the disaster.

Even years after a natural disaster scammers can still exploit human misery.

And that's because exploitation of a major news event - whether it be a natural disaster of otherwise - can be a successful lure for criminals to deploy when defrauding the unwary out of their savings.

And when a natural disaster creates an urgent need for response, it is all the easier for cyberc…

Leaked internal documents have revealed that for nearly a year Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) used counterfeit USB flash drives infected with malware on computers connected to sensitive military networks.

The USB drives have been linked to Chinese hacking operations, according to an investigation by Nikkei Asia.

Subsequent investigations found that six out of eight USB drives tested contained the same malicious code.

The infected USB drives had been attached to over 50 computers, with nearly half of those systems used to handle classified data, including information about the movement of troops.

The counterfeit drives, priced 30 to 50 percent below authentic brands, were traced t…

Smashing Security, Episode 473: How a Hacker Could Have Rickrolled the Entire World.

You think, oh, hang on, they're going to ask me for a password or they're going to ask me for something like that.

Yeah, we'll take that money from under your bed and store it in a safety deposit box that you don't know where it is.

We saw a huge number of CVEs last year and with Mythos and the Frontier models, we think that's going to continue to spike.

So the blast radius of these IT service providers is really, really big.

Somebody had broken into Brazil's national Civil Defence alert system and used it to send fake "Extreme Alert" notifications - the most severe category, normally reserved for warnings of imminent natural disasters - to mobile phones across at least five states, including São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and the Federal District.

In a statement posted on social media, Brazil's National Civil Defence confirmed that it had pulled the alert platform offline at 1:30am following the compromise.

National Secretary of Protection and Civil Defence Wolnei Wolff confirmed that the attackers managed to regain access after an initial attempt to block them from accessing the system.

Emergency alert systems wor…

Hide My Email is a privacy feature that lets users create unique, random email addresses that forward messages to your real inbox.

That means you can sign-up for websites, newsletters, and apps without exposing your personal email address.

The problem is, however, that one of the reasons that Hide My Email worked so well was because its aliases were indistinguishable from regular iCloud email addresses.

All any website or app that wants to block anonymous sign-ups now has to do is to reject any email address ending in "@private.icloud.com".

For now, if you already have existing Hide My Email addresses in use, they should continue to work without any changes on your part.

Someone is pretending to be your bank, your government, or your local planning office. And according to the FTC, they're making billions doing it. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.

Which is the connection between your AI agent and Sentry.

And when your AI agent reads data back from one of those services, it treats it as trusted and authoritative.

And so the AI agent does what agents are supposed to do.

But if an attacker can plant text somewhere that your AI agent will read, it's possible that your AI agent will act upon it, and that may not be good.

And then whenever AI wants to access something, AI has to give a reason — why do I want that?

The US state of Maine has taken its public data breach notification portal offline after someone submitted fraudulent breach disclosures impersonating two well-known technology companies.

As Bleeping Computer reported last week, fraudulent data breach disclosures were submitted to Maine's official breach portal and publicly posted before their legitimacy could be verified, prompting the named companies to deny the claims.

However, somewhat more convincing was a fake breach notice that targeted the multiplayer social virtual reality platform VRChat.

It appears that the abuse of the system was possible because the Maine data breach reporting system lacked a proper verification mechanism.

Anyo…

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Но в совершенно ином масштабе: в режиме газонокосилки данный робот может обслуживать территории до 2,5 гектар (это 250 соток, то есть небольшой садовый кооператив), а в режиме транспортировщика поддерживает угодья площадью до 12,5 гектар.

Вместе с исследователем Андреасом Макрисом они провели эксперимент, в рамках которого исследователь, будучи в Германии, удаленно захватил контроль над газонокосилкой Yarbo и переехал журналиста, лежащего на газоне у себя в США.

Чаще всего в качестве операционной системы в них используется Linux — и роботы Yarbo тут не исключение.

При этом серийные номера устройств имеют предсказуемый формат и используются в инфраструктуре Yarbo в качестве идентификаторов р…

По мере того как организации начинают использовать нейросети для все более широкого круга задач, они неизбежно сталкиваются с вопросами надежности и стоимости ИИ-инструментов.

Чтобы не отказываться от нужных нейросетей, бизнес часто рассматривает переход на сторонние сервисы, обеспечивающие единое «окно доступа» к различным нейросетям.

Они предлагают услуги на десятки процентов, а иногда и в разы дешевле, чем у официальных поставщиков, обещая заодно обход любых лимитов.

Утечка данных и кража интеллектуальной собственностиИсследование показало, что цель многих таких сервисов — сбор качественных диалогов топовых моделей для обучения нейросетей третьих фирм.

Пять правил безопасной работы с ИИ-…

Следующий абзац снова вгоняет вас в панику: «К сожалению, при проверке мы обнаружили, что ваши платежные данные могли быть скомпрометированы».

Для разбирательства напишите нам, иначе мы возбудим уголовное дело и разошлем информацию о вас в СМИ» — и далее по списку.

Но если с вами общаются чересчур эмоционально и вы чувствуете, что на вас давят, то вероятность, что вы общаетесь с мошенником, близится к 99,9%.

→ немедленно смените пароль на этом сервисе и на всех других, где использовали такой же.

Если с вашей карты успели снять или перевести деньги, узнайте, как оспорить транзакцию.

Мы выбрали три кейса, три реальные истории о том, как злоумышленники атакуют сегодня, а главное, почему им удается проворачивать такие атаки.

Если вы не видите этот трафик или не считаете это инцидентом — вы проигрываете еще до начала активной фазы атаки.

Как и в предыдущем кейсе, злоумышленники вошли в корпоративную сеть через скомпрометированную учетную запись.

Почему это произошлоБыли допущены две классические ошибки:Сервер мониторинга был настроен с избыточными привилегиями, с доступом ко всем активам компании: и физическим, и виртуальным.

Попав в инфраструктуру, через Active Directory и групповые политики злоумышленники распространили в корпоративной сети вредоносное ПО с функционально…

В частности, опасность может скрываться в GitHub Actions, сценариях автоматизации, позволяющих создавать пайплайны непрерывной интеграции и доставки (CI/CD).

Ошибки и мисконфигурации в них периодически используются злоумышленниками в реальных атаках.

Да, она тоже началась с компрометации мейнтейнера популярного проекта, но распространяемый в ходе этой кампании зловред похищал секреты, именно используя недочет в GitHub Actions.

Как оставаться в безопасностиМисконфигурации в GitHub Actions потенциально могут превратить пайплайны разработки в инструменты злоумышленников, позволяющие скомпрометировать среду разработки или атаковать инфраструктуру компании.

С его помощью наше решение может выявл…

Однако очевидно, что краеугольным камнем стратегии информационной безопасности остаются решения для защиты конечных точек.

Мы предлагаем при выборе EPP-решения отталкиваться не от возможностей продуктов, а от конкретных нужд вашей компании.

Отметьте пункты, которым должно соответствовать решение для защиты конкретно вашей инфраструктуры, и вам будет гораздо проще определиться с выбором.

Для перехода от EPP к EDR или MDR ключевым условием является единое решение, умеющее одновременно выполнять функции и EPP-, и EDR/MDR-агента, а также единая консоль управления.

В Kaspersky Security для бизнеса реализованы передовые защитные технологии, включая машинное обучение, поведенческий анализ, защиту …

Как защитить свой аккаунт в TelegramЧто делать, чтобы защитить свой аккаунт в Telegram от подобных схем угона?

Если вы подозреваете, что стали жертвой подобного стилера или других махинаций злоумышленников, как можно скорее завершите все сессии в Telegram: Настройки → Устройства → Активные сессии → Завершить другие сеансы.

Почему так — мы подробно рассказывали в материале Что делать, если взломали аккаунт в Telegram, перечислив в нем все способы восстановления доступа к своей учетной записи.

Во-первых, необходимо установить облачный пароль для Telegram в разделе Настройки → Конфиденциальность → Облачный пароль.

Наш менеджер паролей кроссплатформенный, поэтому войти в Telegram с использовани…

Скомпрометированная версия израильского браузера Hola для Windows (1.251.91.0) загружала на устройства пользователей криптомайнер для добычи криптовалюты Monero.

Исследователи обнаружили признаки компрометации браузера Hola в рамках процесса сертификации AppEsteem Windows Certified Application.

}exe показало, что в нем скрывался криптомайнер для добычи криптовалюты Monero.

Как злоумышленники использовали Hola Browser для майнинга MoneroКриптомайнеры — это программы, которые используют вычислительные возможности компьютера для добычи криптовалюты.

Как мы уже сказали выше, в случае заражения Hola Browser на устройства жертв загружался криптомайнер для добычи криптовалюты Monero.

We innovated by giving the Agentic SOC access to Endace’s always-on, full packet capture, and asked the agent to assess a potential SharpHound Recon attack that we had seen while threat hunting.

This blog explores how we built the integrations and how AI helped us with our threat hunt and threat assessment.

Agentic AI Massively Speeds our AnalysisAt this point, we decided to use Agentic AI capabilities to investigate and assess this potential threat.

ConclusionThe Agentic SOC, blending Agentic AI built into Endace’s products with custom agentic tools, is a massive boost to productivity and security.

AcknowledgementsOur thanks go to the Cisco SOC team led by @Jessica Oppenheimer and @Ivan Be…

Having spent time in the Cisco Live Americas 2026 SOC, one thing became abundantly clear:The way SOCs operate today is fundamentally different from even a few years ago.

Instead of spending time gathering information, analysts could spend more time understanding what the information actually meant.

Just as spreadsheets empowered business users decades ago, AI-assisted coding is beginning to empower security analysts today.

At Cisco Live, AI was already present throughout the workflow:Incident summaries generated automatically within XDR.

And based on what I saw at Cisco Live 2026, that future has already arrived.

The new SOC analysts were great at finding evidence, helped with triage and correlation by the AI agents in the SOC architecture.

With the advancements in Cloud Control, our new SOC Analysts can validate their hypothesis.

They had the ability to investigate the incident and find the root cause found in Splunk Security and Endace.

Instant Attack VerificationIn each Incident, the SOC Analysts is given an AI generated Summary stitching all the relevant logs from all the sources that are related to the objects in question.

Check out the blogs by the engineers who worked inside the SOC at Las Vegas:

At Cisco Live AMER 2026 in Las Vegas, my work with the Cisco Event SOC centered on one outcome that makes these deployments valuable beyond the event itself: Education.

The SOC protects the conference, but it also turns live operations into a learning environment through SOC tours, Cisco Live sessions, training inside the SOC, and conversations in the World of Solutions.

Bringing live SOC lessons into the classroomEducation also happened in the sessions I delivered at Cisco Live.

Cisco Live AMER 2026 reinforced that the SOC is one of the best classrooms we have because it teaches through real operations.

For a deeper look at the model behind these deployments, read the Cisco Event SOCs: A R…

Inside the Cisco Live SOCAt Cisco Live AMER, the Security Operations Center (SOC) is more than a demo environment.

For a broader look at how the Cisco Live SOC operates, read this overview.

Another part was spent in the SOC, working real investigations with XDR, Splunk Enterprise Security, firewall events, DNS telemetry, packet data, and AI assistance.

AI can help a product manager become useful faster in a live SOC.

That is the bar I want us to continue building toward as we build Cisco XDR and Splunk Security.

As part of the Cisco XDR (Extended Detection and Response) product engineering group, a few of us got exactly that chance.

Every product had a part to play for a network as traffic-heavy as Cisco Live.

(PS : Flaunting the SOC T-shirts was fun)AcknowledgementsA heartfelt thank you to Cisco and the entire SOC team — you are all amazing.

To the Cisco XDR , Splunk , Secure Access , and Secure Firewall engineering teams.

Check out the other blogs from our team at the Cisco Live Americas 2026 SOC at Las Vegas:

We built an Experience Score model on Cisco and Splunk infrastructure and watched it run against real traffic, at real scale, in real time.

The result was a working model for how leaders measure what customers feel, act before friction surfaces, and tie operational decisions to revenue and trust.

At Cisco Live, the Experience Score model organized that architecture around four questions business and technology leaders can answer together.

The composite Experience Score tells a leader whether the experience is healthy enough to protect the moments the business depends on.

From Cisco Live to LA28Cisco Live was a rehearsal for larger exposure surfaces, where digital experience, revenue, brand …

And we kept thinking the same engineer thought: this flow is so consistent… could an agentic agent do the first 90%?

It was a great experiment — and a glimpse of a fully self-hosted agentic SOC — but for the event we pivoted to Claude Opus 4.8 running through Claude Code.

The division of labor we landed on: Tier-1 agentic SOC was already handled beautifully by the AI features in our own products — XDR’s Agentic Attack Storyboard and Splunk’s Triage Agent.

What does an agentic SOC actually need?

The MCP servers — an Endace MCP for packet capture/decode and a Splunk MCP for running queries.

Building on the Cisco Live EMEA SOC, Cisco Live Americas placed the Security Operations Center (SOC) and Network Operations Center (NOC) at the center of the World of Solutions, demonstrating the power of Cisco in bringing Networking, Security and Observability together.

The Cisco Live Americas Agentic SOC architecture shows how a “One Cisco” approach brings different security tools together to eliminate data silos, in close partnership with the NOC.

The SOC at Cisco Live was set up in just two days, thanks to lessons learned and continuous evolution.

For Cisco Live AMER, we treated agentic AI as an auditable review layer across the SOC, not as a replacement for analysts.

Agentic SOC: Incid…

Cisco Security and Splunk Security released the Findings Report from the Security Operations Center at RSAC 2026 Conference.

This year marked the 10th year of the SOC at RSAC.

Those lessons helped inform the Agentic SOC work that followed at Cisco Live Americas 2026.

The SOC used Cisco AI Defense to gain visibility into generative AI application usage and to help protect on-premises AI models running in the SOC in a Box.

Download the full RSAC 2026 SOC Findings Report to see the architecture, metrics, investigations, lessons learned, and recommendations from the 10th year of the SOC.

More telemetry means better visibility – but also more data for threat hunters to sift through.

Then came an important decision: Focus on what matters for detection of threats at Black Hat.

Enriching with Network Context and reducing noiseA file submitted via HTTP doesn’t exist in isolation – it has network context.

It was about:Surfacing high-risk submissions automaticallyProviding network context for faster triageHelping threat hunters dismiss noise fasterThis workflow is far from perfect.

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

If you’ve ever troubleshot a complex workflow run, you know the drill: click into actions, expand inputs and outputs, scan logs, backtrack, repeat.

We’ve just released Workflow Run Summaries in Cisco XDR Automate: an on-demand, AI-generated summary that explains what happened during a workflow execution, where things went wrong, and why that matters, without forcing you to manually inspect every step.

What the feature doesWith a single click on “Generate Run Summary”, Cisco XDR Automate analyzes a completed workflow run and produces a concise, human-readable explanation of its execution.

Why this matters, especially for Agentic AIAs XDR Automate Workflows are increasingly triggered by Agent…

It is the hardest attack category in email security — for any vendor, any product, any architecture.

This balance — 98% threat detection alongside zero hard false positives — is what the 94% Total Accuracy Rating reflects.

What Independent Validation Means for Your Security StrategyEvery email security vendor publishes detection rates.

Read the full report for more insight into ETD’s comprehensive email security capabilities.

All performance data sourced from the SE Labs Advanced Security Test Report — Email (Protection), Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense, May 2026 (v1.0).

Caption: MCP integrations exposed to the local AI workflow for SOC investigation contextAt this stage, the system was already useful.

Caption: OpenClaw using the local Ollama model backend instead of an external model providerThe distinction is important.

I installed DefenseClaw alongside the OpenClaw environment, to add inspection and audit visibility around the agentic AI workflow.

Sending DefenseClaw events into Splunk made the AI workflow feel more operational and less experimental.

At Black Hat Asia, this became a practical way to explore what private AI for SOC workflows could look like.

The resulting quiet persistence and large-scale data access highlight the need for stronger detection, visibility, and governance of OAuth-connected applications and guest user accounts.

New posture and governance capabilities for connected OAuth appsWhile improved detection is critical, recent incidents have also highlighted the need for stronger preventive controls and ongoing governance of OAuth-connected applications.

Complete permission visibility for Salesforce connected apps and external client apps.

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

To hear stories and insights from the Micro…

Beginning September 1, 2026, Microsoft will begin rolling out passkeys as the default authentication experience in Microsoft Entra ID.

Select a telecom provider in Microsoft Security StoreToday, Microsoft provides the telecom delivery behind SMS and voice authentication natively within Entra ID.

Microsoft Entra ID supports: Synced passkeys, such as passkeys stored in platform credential managers like iCloud Keychain and Google Password Manager.

Device-bound passkeys, such as Microsoft Authenticator passkeys, Entra passkey on Windows, and FIDO2 security keys.

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

That conviction is where the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) started two years ago and continues to guide us today.

And our principles—secure by design, secure by default, secure in operations—are what turn intent into product, like Microsoft 365 Baseline Security Mode.

Evaluate how identity, code, configuration, and network relationships interact in production.

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

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

In analyzing these backdoor capabilities, we discovered that some backdoor commands contain code from additional malware families.

GigaWiper backdoor command 3 is heavily based on Crucio’s code, leading to the assessment that the same threat actor developed both malware families.

Crucio’s code was the base for GigaWiper command 3, and FlockWiper was recoded in Golang and updated for GigaWiper command 12.

Indicators of compromiseIndicator Type Description 633d4cbd496b1094495da89a64f5e6c31a0f6d4d1488411db5b0cba1cfe42001 SHA-256 GigaWiper backdoor ce9ad5f6c12019f4aae5b189bd8ddf5bb09e75b06a0a587b25a855c65948c913 SHA-256 GigaWiper backdoor f622ed85ef31ad4ab973f4e74524866fe1bb44f0965ad2b2ad796cd6…

At Microsoft we encompass these security requirements, along with threat knowledge and operational frameworks in our Secure Future Initiative (SFI), to guide what a well-defended cloud service looks like.

This system is purpose-built to evaluate Microsoft’s own cloud services against our stringent security requirements and make our infrastructure harder to compromise.

Enumerates applicable security controls based on SFI requirements across identity, network, tenant isolation, engineering systems, and detection domains.

Proven results: From theory to practiceWithin a few months, the system has enabled Microsoft security engineering teams to proactively harden our cloud services.

The same AI …

Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 Frost Radar™ for Cloud Security Posture Management points to a structural shift: CSPM is no longer a periodic compliance exercise.

Frost & Sullivan’s evaluation framework reflects this transition—placing greater emphasis on integrated, code to cloud risk management capabilities inside broader CNAPP platforms.

The Frost Radar™ for Cloud Security Posture Management visualizes how leading vendors compare across innovation and growth—two key measures of market leadership and future potential.

Learn moreRead the Frost & Sullivan Frost Radar™ for Cloud Security Posture Management (2025) to see how CSPM leaders are evaluated—and what capabilities matter most as vendor selec…

For Microsoft, these partners are Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs), and they help customers buy, manage, and optimize cloud services like Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.

This helps us ensure that the Microsoft partner ecosystem remains healthy, compliant, and effective, and ultimately helps drive the best outcomes for our customers.

Partner vetting helps ensure that only legitimate organizations can enter the ecosystem, while CSP security posture improvements help enhance the operating standards of organizations already in the ecosystem.

In short, we have made a set of improvements to the security posture across the CSP ecosystem, both at the Microsoft platform layer and at the …

For Microsoft, these partners are Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs), and they help customers buy, manage, and optimize cloud services like Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.

This helps us ensure that the Microsoft partner ecosystem remains healthy, compliant, and effective, and ultimately helps drive the best outcomes for our customers.

Partner vetting helps ensure that only legitimate organizations can enter the ecosystem, while CSP security posture improvements help enhance the operating standards of organizations already in the ecosystem.

In short, we have made a set of improvements to the security posture across the CSP ecosystem, both at the Microsoft platform layer and at the …

Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Frost Radar™ for Cloud/Application Runtime Security (CARS) reflects this shift.

Why cloud security is being redefinedThe Frost Radar makes a clear point: cloud security is no longer about visibility or compliance alone.

These are the capabilities that define the next generation of cloud and application runtime security.

Learn moreRead Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Frost Radar™ for Cloud/Application Runtime Security to see how leading vendors are evaluated—and how the category is shifting toward unified cloud and application runtime risk operations.

Explore Microsoft cloud security solutions to see how unified posture management, risk prioritization, and protection across t…

The quantum-safe timeline has changedFor years, planning for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) was framed as a future problem: important, inevitable, but distant.

At Microsoft, we are acting on this shift by bringing our quantum-safe timeline forward so organizations can begin the transition earlier and with greater confidence.

Accelerating our timelineIn response to these shifts, we are accelerating the Microsoft Quantum Safe Program (QSP) timeline with the goal of transitioning critical products and services to PQC by 2029.

We will continue to share technical guidance and operational best practices to help organizations adopt quantum-safe cryptography with confidence as they move from plann…

Prioritize risk with unified identity risk scoreA new unified identity risk score combines signals from across Microsoft Security into a single, explainable measure of an identity’s risk.

Prioritize identity risk and enforce protection in real time with the new unified identity risk score.

Organizations can use the new security tools and capabilities announced at Microsoft Build 2026 to innovate faster and scale AI adoption without sacrificing security.

In the Loop posts are your reliable source of what’s new across Microsoft Security and what it means for your security strategy.

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

AI Application Series 1: Security considerations when adopting AI tools examined how AI adoption expands the enterprise attack surface.

AI Application Series 2: Detecting and analyzing prompt abuse in AI tools showed how indirect prompt injection can bias the output of a passive AI summarizer.

AI agents can plan multi-step tasks, decide which tools to invoke, and execute actions on behalf of the user.

This post focuses on one of its fastest-moving categories: tool misuse and agentic supply chain risk exploited through poisoned MCP tool metadata.

The tool name and user-facing summary remain unchanged, but the MCP tool description is silently modified.

Extension overviewThe extension we analyzed has the following attributes:Attribute Value Extension name Search for perplexity ai Extension ID flkebkiofojicogddingbdmcmkpbplcd Manifest version MV3 Version 2.2 Observed purpose Browser search override and redirect logic Referenced brand Perplexity AI Suspicious domain perplexity-ai[.

The runtime workflow we’ve observed demonstrates browser search redirection behavior:User enters search query into the Omnibox.

Monitor unauthorized changes to browser search settings, unusual extension permissions, and outbound traffic to intermediary or non-standard domains associated with search activity.

Learn moreFor the latest security research from the Micr…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

First, we…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

These initiatives, driven by Ballots SC-080, SC-090, and SC-091, will sunset 11 legacy methods for Domain Control Validation.

What’s Domain Control Validation?

Domain Control Validation is a security-critical process designed to ensure certificates are only issued to the legitimate domain operator.

Sunsetted methods relying on email:Sunsetted methods relying on phone:Sunsetted method relying on a reverse lookup:For everyday users, these changes are invisible - and that’s the point.

These changes push the ecosystem toward standardized (e.g., ACME), modern, and auditable Domain Control Validation methods.

Partnership with ArmOur goal is to raise the bar on GPU security, ensuring the Mali GPU driver and firmware remain highly resilient against potential threats.

We partnered with Arm to conduct an analysis of the Mali driver, used on approximately 45% of Android devices.

This approach allowed us to roll out the new security policy broadly while minimizing the impact on developers.

This effort spans across Android and Android OEMs, and required close collaboration with Arm.

The Android security team is committed to collaborating with ecosystem partners to drive broader adoption of this approach to help harden the GPU.

We built on Gemini's existing protections and agent security principles and have implemented several new layers for Chrome.

To further bolster model alignment beyond spotlighting, we’re introducing the User Alignment Critic — a separate model built with Gemini that acts as a high-trust system component.

A flow chart that depicts the User Alignment Critic: a trusted component that vets each action before it reaches the browser.

The User Alignment Critic runs after the planning is complete to double-check each proposed action.

Looking forwardThe upcoming introduction of agentic capabilities in Chrome brings new demands for browser security, and we've approached this challenge with the same ri…

Android uses the best of Google AI and our advanced security expertise to tackle mobile scams from every angle.

Over the last few years, we’ve launched industry-leading features to detect scams and protect users across phone calls, text messages and messaging app chat notifications.

To help combat these types of financial scams, we launched a pilot earlier this year in the UK focused on in-call protections for financial apps.

The UK pilot of Android’s in-call scam protections has already helped thousands of users end calls that could have cost them a significant amount of money.

We’ve also started to pilot this protection with more app types, including peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps.

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.