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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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- 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 […]
- ‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firmby BrianKrebs on June 18, 2026 at 5:37 pm
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has […]
- Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’by BrianKrebs on June 10, 2026 at 2:03 pm
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active […]
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- GISEC GLOBALon September 16, 2026 at 11:00 am
- Black Hat USAon August 1, 2026 at 11:00 am
- Anthropic’s AI Finds Bugs. IBM Bets $5B…by Jeffrey Schwartz on July 2, 2026 at 12:33 pm
IBM and Red Hat assign 20,000 engineers to the new Project Lightwell service as […]
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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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- Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music…by Andy Greenberg on July 1, 2026 at 10:00 am
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break […]
- Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex,…by Dhruv Mehrotra, Joel Khalili on June 29, 2026 at 9:49 pm
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in […]
- Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Changeby Matt Burgess on June 29, 2026 at 10:00 am
Europe’s pro-competition proposals could see Google Search and Android […]
- Cybersecurity Mission Creep in the USby Bruce Schneier on July 2, 2026 at 11:11 am
Interesting paper: “Cybersecurity Mission Creep.” Abstract: Cybersecurity […]
- Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertisingby Bruce Schneier on July 1, 2026 at 10:53 am
Papa Johns is spying on people’s buying activities to predict when they are […]
- The Realities of AI Video Surveillanceby Bruce Schneier on June 30, 2026 at 12:05 pm
The Financial Times has a good article on how AI is changing the capabilities […]
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- Google loses final appeal to overturn €4.1 billion EU fineby Bill Toulas on July 2, 2026 at 3:18 pm
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has dismissed Google’s final […]
- ConsentFix and ClickFix: How Microsoft 365 Accounts are Hijacked in 3 Secondsby Sponsored by Huntress Labs on July 2, 2026 at 2:00 pm
ConsentFix and ClickFix attacks steal Microsoft 365 tokens in seconds using […]
- Microsoft fixes bug that removed Copilot buttons in Outlookby Sergiu Gatlan on July 2, 2026 at 12:15 pm
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing the Copilot Chat or Copilot buttons […]
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- Melinda Gates’ venture firm backs Magnify Ventures’ $46.6M Fund IIby Dominic-Madori Davis on July 2, 2026 at 3:26 pm
Early-stage firm Magnify Ventures has raised a $46.6 million Fund II from LPs, […]
- OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fundby Russell Brandom on July 2, 2026 at 3:20 pm
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s […]
- Popular TV-tracking app TV Time is shutting down as company focuses on AIby Sarah Perez on July 2, 2026 at 3:14 pm
TV Time, the popular TV-tracking app, is shutting down on July 15 as parent […]
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- ThreatsDay: AI Compute Hijacking, Apple Email Flaw, BlueHammer Ransomware + 14…by [email protected] (The Hacker News) on July 2, 2026 at 3:24 pm
This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, […]
- ToddyCat-Linked Umbrij Malware Abuses OAuth to Access Gmail via Google APIby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on July 2, 2026 at 1:04 pm
The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been attributed to a new malware called […]
- Identity Lifecycle Management Wasn’t Built for AI Agents by [email protected] (The Hacker News) on July 2, 2026 at 11:30 am
Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an […]
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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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- T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuitby Scharon Harding on July 1, 2026 at 9:21 pm
T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.
- New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad ideaby Dan Goodin on June 30, 2026 at 8:03 pm
Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden […]
- US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spreeby Dan Goodin on June 29, 2026 at 10:05 pm
Operation by two Russia-state groups has been ongoing since at least March.
Websec Cybersecurity Blog Expert insights, trends, research findings, and best practices from Websec security team to help you strengthen your organization’s security posture.
- 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).

















