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- Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Recordsby Nate Nelson on August 31, 2022 at 12:57 pm
2.5 million people were affected, in a breach that could spell more trouble […]
- Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keyloggerby Nate Nelson on August 30, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, […]
- Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firmsby Nate Nelson on August 29, 2022 at 2:56 pm
Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a […]
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- Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startupby BrianKrebs on July 8, 2026 at 12:31 pm
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day […]
- FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnetby BrianKrebs on July 2, 2026 at 7:27 pm
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry […]
- Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trialby BrianKrebs on June 23, 2026 at 4:12 pm
Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges […]
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- AI Coding: Do Security Risks Outweigh…by Alexander Culafi on July 10, 2026 at 1:00 pm
AI coding tools cost $19-$200/month/user, but security scanning, remediation, […]
- Iran’s Cyber Crosshairs Focus Beyond…by Joe Slowik on July 9, 2026 at 8:32 pm
Obscurity isn’t a defense. If your company has any Internet-facing […]
- Microsoft Reins in RoguePlanet Zero-Day…by Rob Wright on July 9, 2026 at 8:21 pm
The researcher known as “Nightmare-Eclipse” published a proof-of-concept (PoC) […]
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- 3 Years In: How Is AI Doing? SANS Weighs Inby Katrina Thompson on December 15, 2025 at 8:09 am
It’s no secret that AI is “here.” It’s been here for three years now, […]
- What Is Log Management and Why you Need itby Anirudh Chand on November 24, 2025 at 6:00 am
It is arguable that log management forms the basis of modern cybersecurity. […]
- What Did We Learn from the NCSC’s 2025 Annual Review?by Josh Breaker-Rolfe on November 21, 2025 at 11:47 am
Earlier this year, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released […]
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- A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our…by Isabella Ward on July 9, 2026 at 1:55 pm
Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, […]
- Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebritiesby Noah Shachtman, Maddy Varner on July 9, 2026 at 10:00 am
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks […]
- OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappearby Matt Burgess on July 8, 2026 at 10:30 am
Scammers are hijacking government websites to upload ads for “leaked” […]
- AI Surveillance and Social Progressby Bruce Schneier on July 10, 2026 at 11:02 am
In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track […]
- The Language of AI Could Change How Humans Speakby Bruce Schneier on July 9, 2026 at 11:00 am
Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice […]
- Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Abilityby Bruce Schneier on July 8, 2026 at 11:03 am
Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that’s the rich, […]
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- Invited to a “job interview” with Netflix or OpenAI? Beware! Your Google…by Graham Cluley on July 9, 2026 at 1:17 pm
Have you received an email from a recruiter at Adobe, Netflix, or OpenAI […]
- Smashing Security podcast #475: JadePuffer – the AI that ran a ransomware…by Graham Cluley on July 8, 2026 at 11:19 pm
A 15-year-old boy asked a chatbot for help – and cancelled nearly 47,000 anime […]
- Two arrested over credit card phishing – as the Netherlands is named…by Graham Cluley on July 7, 2026 at 12:56 pm
Two young men have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of running a […]
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- Zimbra urges customers to patch critical web client XSS flawby Sergiu Gatlan on July 10, 2026 at 11:47 am
The Zimbra security team urged customers to patch a critical vulnerability […]
- Former ransomware negotiator gets 4 years for BlackCat attacksby Sergiu Gatlan on July 10, 2026 at 8:17 am
A former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint was […]
- OpenMandriva Linux says contributor tried to sabotage the projectby Bill Toulas on July 9, 2026 at 10:14 pm
The OpenMandriva Linux project announced that it was the target of an […]
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- After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo…by Jagmeet Singh on July 10, 2026 at 4:36 am
Vivo’s joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in […]
- OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid…by Lucas Ropek on July 10, 2026 at 12:16 am
OpenAI’s new family of models will continue to power Microsoft’s suite of […]
- Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude himby Kirsten Korosec on July 10, 2026 at 12:13 am
The new exchange-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, […]
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- New MODBEACON RAT Uses gRPC Streaming for Encrypted C2 Trafficby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on July 10, 2026 at 1:15 pm
The China-linked cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been attributed to a […]
- Unpatched XRING Flaw in XQUIC Lets Remote Clients Crash HTTP/3 Serversby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on July 10, 2026 at 11:47 am
A single wrong variable on one line in XQUIC, Alibaba’s QUIC and HTTP/3 […]
- From 17,000 to 1.1 Million Assets: How Lumen Technologies Rebuilt Exposure…by [email protected] (The Hacker News) on July 10, 2026 at 11:39 am
Most enterprises assume their asset inventory is close enough to accurate. The […]
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- From Bing Search to Ransomware: Bumblebee and AdaptixC2 Deliver Akiraby editor on June 29, 2026 at 1:07 pm
Key Takeaways This case was first reported to customers in a threat brief released in July 2025 and in a public flash alert in August 2025 in partnership with Swisscom B2B CSIRT, which observed another intrusion tied to the same campaign. This report contains data from both intrusions. We plan to release a DFIR Labs The post From Bing Search to Ransomware: Bumblebee and AdaptixC2 Deliver Akira appeared first on The DFIR Report.
- Flash Alert: EtherRat and TukTuk C2 End in The Gentleman Ransomwareby editor on May 11, 2026 at 2:05 pm
The EtherRAT malware family was first reported by Sysdig back in December 2025. At that time, the initial access vector was exploitation of CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) targeting Linux servers. In March 2026, a Windows variant campaign was reported by Atos, with their investigation showing evidence of activity going back to the previous December. In April, we The post Flash Alert: EtherRat and TukTuk C2 End in The Gentleman Ransomware appeared first on The DFIR Report.
- Bissa Scanner Exposed: AI-Assisted Mass Exploitation and Credential Harvestingby editor on April 22, 2026 at 2:51 pm
Key Takeaways We identified an exposed server that provided unusual visibility into a large-scale, multi-victim exploitation and collection operation. Artifacts on the host showed that Claude Code and OpenClaw were embedded in the operator’s day-to-day workflow, supporting troubleshooting, orchestration, and refinement of the collection pipeline. This AI-assisted workflow resulted in the modular platform Bissa scanner The post Bissa Scanner Exposed: AI-Assisted Mass Exploitation and Credential Harvesting appeared first on The DFIR Report.
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- Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard diskby Dan Goodin on July 9, 2026 at 8:52 pm
The feud between NightmareEclipse and Microsoft shows no signs of resolving […]
- Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CAby Scharon Harding on July 9, 2026 at 8:28 pm
Broadcom accuses Allstate of dodging VMware audits.
- Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapesby Dan Goodin on July 8, 2026 at 7:01 pm
Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
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- A Comparison Between the Real User ID and the Effective User ID is not Enough to Prevent Privilege Escalationby Websec Security Team on October 3, 2023 at 7:39 pm
In Unix-like systems, processes have a real and effective user ID determining their access permissions. While usually identical, they can differ in situations like when the setuid bit is activated in executables.
- Websec DevSecOps Webinarby Websec Security Team on August 29, 2022 at 12:00 am
Roberto Salgado and Kobalt.io’s Miki Fukushima are hosting a free webinar on September 20, 2022 covering why application security matters, the shift to developer-first security, and a practical roadmap for embedding security into DevSecOps.
- CVE-2022-21404: Another story of developers fixing vulnerabilities unknowingly because of CodeQLby Websec Security Team on May 19, 2022 at 6:18 pm
How CodeQL may help reduce false negatives within Open-Source projects. Taking a look into a deserialization vulnerability within Oracle Helidon (CVE-2022-21404).
















