Aggregated from vendor advisories, security research, and industry publications.
Millions of people rely on a network of unpaid volunteers to stay anonymous online, and for 25 years that network has run on altruism rather than profit. Tor, short for The Onion Router, routes a user’s traffic through three volunteer operated relays, as many as 9,000 of them scattered across the globe, so no single relay knows both who is asking and where they are going. At the DEF CON securi…
OpenAI has developed a new model called "GPT 5.6 Cyber," designed for vulnerability research, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation. [...]
It's time to turn from CVSS-backed patching to choke-point patching focused on breaking chains to critical assets.
A financially motivated threat actor previously associated with the Medusa ransomware operation is now deploying a new ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. [...]
Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost
Sitting inside almost every server is a potential backdoor that could put an enterprise network at risk. Baseboard management controllers, or BMCs, are the hardware embedded in …
Sophisticated iPhone exploit chains previously limited to nation-states are spreading far and wide to organized cybercrime groups.
What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?
Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. The …
A public policy expert mapped global cybercrime laws to develop a five-point framework for protecting ethical hackers and good-faith security research.
Take a Network Break! Cisco takes center stage in our Red Alert after the network giant discovered a bunch of high-severity bugs in its Catalyst SD-WAN platform. It has rolled out …
Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved
The crime solver wore disguises, spied on targets, and built intelligence networks long before modern-day tactics emerged. He has lessons for today's ethical- and unethical hackers…
A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default. That pretty muc…
CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSR…
The current GPT-5.6-Sol has been assigned a ‘high’ cybersecurity threshold, but Astra could reach the maximum ‘critical’ threshold. The post OpenAI’s Upcoming Astra Model Raises A…
The startup analyzes subtle telemetry signals to detect attacks that traditional security tools cannot see inside accelerator-powered AI infrastructure. The post Stealthium Targets…
Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK
Remote, unauthenticated attackers could exploit the bugs to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The post Cisco Warns of High-Severity ClamAV Vulnerabilities With Public PoC …
AI is making phishing, credential theft, and social engineering faster and more efficient, while traditional trust signals such as passwords, MFA, IP reputation, and geolocation be…
Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data
Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either
North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country's main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) of…
An AI agent executes instructions that an attacker has planted in the log or alert that records a blocked request word for word. The post ‘Ghostjacking’ Attack Uses Poisoned Logs t…
A member of "The Com," a loose-knit online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers, has been sentenced to two years in prison for blackmail and sextortion offense…
Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable…
No, no nasties to see here, guv...
LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendo…
AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, prioritize fixes, and control risk …
Video game publisher and digital distribution giant Valve is notifying Steam hardware customers in Europe that hackers stole their data after hacking its shipping partner, CEVA Log…