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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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- Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stickby BrianKrebs on July 30, 2026 at 4:49 pm
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of […]
- LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Appsby BrianKrebs on July 22, 2026 at 1:10 am
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend […]
- Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flawsby BrianKrebs on July 14, 2026 at 7:22 pm
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security […]
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- CISA Issues Fresh SBOM Guidance. Did…by Nate Nelson on July 31, 2026 at 6:13 pm
A couple-dozen changes to SBOM fields will make them more comprehensive, but […]
- The Morning After We Pull a Root of…by Rajeev Mohindra on July 31, 2026 at 2:00 pm
The most valuable move any security team can make is building a certificate and […]
- Interpol Leverages Global System to…by Robert Lemos on July 31, 2026 at 1:30 pm
When a fraudulent transaction occurs, law enforcement agencies must work […]
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- 7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iranby Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, Dell Cameron, Andy Greenberg on August 1, 2026 at 10:30 am
Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges […]
- The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontierby Lily Hay Newman on August 1, 2026 at 9:30 am
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and […]
- The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security…by Kim Zetter on July 31, 2026 at 10:00 am
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for […]
- 7MS #733: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 87by Brian Johnson on July 31, 2026 at 4:55 pm
Hey friends! Today’s episode comes to you from a parking lot in the rain, […]
- 7MS #732: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 86by Brian Johnson on July 24, 2026 at 12:07 pm
Hey friends! Welcome back to another Tales of Pentest Pwnage — my favorite […]
- 7MS #731: CARTP – Cloud Red Team Tactics for Attacking and Defending Azure…by Brian Johnson on July 17, 2026 at 12:17 pm
Hey friends! Fair warning: today’s episode is a bit of an emotional […]
- Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Speciesby Bruce Schneier on July 31, 2026 at 9:06 pm
The Squid is a new scientific machine: One of the technological breakthroughs […]
- Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injectionby Bruce Schneier on July 31, 2026 at 5:23 pm
The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, […]
- Facial Recognition at Madison Square Gardenby Bruce Schneier on July 31, 2026 at 11:08 am
Last month, the story broke (alternate link) that Madison Square Garden uses […]
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- The $5 million threat: AI Is supercharging phishing attacksby Graham Cluley on July 31, 2026 at 11:43 am
According to the newly-published study, phishing and social engineering are […]
- North Korea’s elite hackers turned on their own government – and got caughtby Graham Cluley on July 30, 2026 at 9:17 am
For years, North Korea’s state-trained hackers have been one of the world’s […]
- Smashing Security podcast #478: This job interview could destroy your companyby Graham Cluley on July 29, 2026 at 11:09 pm
You’ve been headhunted for a great job in cryptocurrency. All you have to do is […]
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- Can LLMs Exploit the Critical Vulnerabilities They Find?by News team on July 31, 2026 at 1:00 pm
On April 7, 2026, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, which would provide […]
- CISA Upgrades SBOM Standardsby Stevin on July 31, 2026 at 12:00 pm
A Modern Blueprint for Software Transparency On July 29, 2026, CISA linked up […]
- Who’s Actually in Charge of Your Cyber Incident Response?by News team on July 30, 2026 at 1:00 pm
When a cyber incident hits, most organizations discover something […]
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- Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potentialby Bill Toulas on August 1, 2026 at 2:20 pm
A critical vulnerability in the Active Storage framework can allow an […]
- Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary infoby Lawrence Abrams on July 31, 2026 at 10:16 pm
Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat […]
- Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware floodby Bill Toulas on July 31, 2026 at 9:38 pm
The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User […]
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- Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead?by Jagmeet Singh on August 1, 2026 at 6:47 pm
Apple’s new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is […]
- Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPTby Anthony Ha on August 1, 2026 at 5:07 pm
OpenAI’s CEO seemed excited to share a “cool use case” for parents.
- This $9 key physically locks your most addictive appsby Lauren Forristal on August 1, 2026 at 3:58 pm
This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps […]
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- Coldcard Hardware Wallet Flaw Linked to $70 Million Bitcoin Theft in 41 Minutesby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on August 1, 2026 at 5:17 pm
An attacker drained 1,196 Bitcoin addresses in 41 minutes on July 30, taking […]
- Hackers Poison Adform Script to Swap Crypto Wallet Addresses Across Customer…by [email protected] (The Hacker News) on August 1, 2026 at 9:03 am
Attackers modified a JavaScript file served by advertising technology company […]
- Adobe Campaign Classic CVSS 10.0 Flaw Could Run Code Without User Interactionby [email protected] (The Hacker News) on August 1, 2026 at 7:12 am
Adobe has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw […]
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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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- Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companiesby Dan Goodin on July 31, 2026 at 8:39 pm
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
- Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackersby Dan Goodin on July 30, 2026 at 8:57 pm
Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation […]
- Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commissionby Dan Goodin on July 29, 2026 at 10:07 pm
HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found […]
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).




















