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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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- Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Todayby BrianKrebs on October 21, 2026 at 3:26 pm
Expect to see quite a few websites serving “404” or “Page Not Found” errors […]
- Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Siteby BrianKrebs on October 19, 2026 at 1:48 pm
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that […]
- U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Launderingby BrianKrebs on October 14, 2026 at 2:22 pm
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a […]
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- Trust Is Not What It Seems — And…by Arielle Waldman on October 23, 2026 at 8:57 pm
Threat actors don’t need to rely on malware to breach organizations anymore. […]
- Exposed to PHP2Shell? Cyber Experts…by Nate Nelson on October 23, 2026 at 7:41 pm
Fixing the critical PHP flaws is not as simple as clicking “Update.” Here’s how […]
- AI Tools Are Generating Massive Attacks…by Robert Lemos on October 23, 2026 at 5:26 pm
One campaign targets 105 sites using open-weight models; in another, public […]
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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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- Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patchedby Lily Hay Newman on October 22, 2026 at 2:24 am
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell […]
- ‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the…by Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman on October 21, 2026 at 2:26 pm
The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact […]
- AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackersby Lily Hay Newman on October 21, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and […]
- 7MS #745: Securing Your Family During and After a Disaster – Part 10by Brian Johnson on October 23, 2026 at 7:33 pm
This episode is a downer, but asks some important topics related to losing a […]
- 7MS #744: Using n8n to Automate the Security Dog Foodby Brian Johnson on October 17, 2026 at 12:07 am
Hey friends! Today I’m mashing two of our mini-series — eating the […]
- 7MS #743: Eating the Security Dog Food – Part 9by Brian Johnson on October 9, 2026 at 9:17 pm
Hey friends, it has been a long time since we talked about eating our own […]
- Friday Squid Blogging: Increasing Squid Populationsby Bruce Schneier on October 23, 2026 at 9:00 pm
This article in Nature argues that it’s due to an overfishing of predators […]
- Compromised TLS Certificatesby Bruce Schneier on October 23, 2026 at 11:04 am
The Indian CA eMudhra Limited has eight TLS certificates with laughably weak […]
- New Serious PHP Vulnerabilities Released and Patchedby Bruce Schneier on October 22, 2026 at 1:26 pm
PHP maintainers have released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities: PHP […]
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- Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany’s far-right AfD partyby Graham Cluley on October 23, 2026 at 12:29 pm
The AfD has confirmed that hackers breached its hosting provider. A leak site […]
- Smashing Security podcast #489: How a brand new crypto wallet came with a spy…by Graham Cluley on October 21, 2026 at 11:12 pm
Imagine buying a brand new hardware wallet for your cryptocurrency with the […]
- Police arrest Qilin ransomware suspect on holiday, as links made to Synnovis…by Graham Cluley on October 20, 2026 at 9:41 am
A 28-year-old Russian man has been arrested by German police, suspected of […]
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- Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of devices to RCE attacksby Bill Toulas on October 23, 2026 at 8:55 pm
Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned […]
- Microsoft Teams to get AI-powered, context-aware phishing detectionby Sergiu Gatlan on October 23, 2026 at 6:54 pm
Microsoft has announced plans to add AI-powered phishing detection to Teams […]
- Microsoft: Windows Server 2016 reaches end of support in Januaryby Sergiu Gatlan on October 23, 2026 at 5:05 pm
Microsoft says Windows Server 2016 will stop receiving security updates after […]
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- Startups don’t need to go viral to win customersby Lucas Ropek on October 23, 2026 at 11:07 pm
At TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not […]
- OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing…by Tim Fernholz on October 23, 2026 at 11:05 pm
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its […]
- Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots,…by Julie Bort on October 23, 2026 at 9:59 pm
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell […]
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- CISA Flags Two Actively Exploited Critical Flaws in Collabora Online and…by [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 24, 2026 at 6:25 am
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday […]
- BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows Systems Missing…by [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 23, 2026 at 6:50 pm
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated […]
- Ruby Fixes Three Regex Engine Bugs Responsible for Four Critical GitLab RCE…by [email protected] (The Hacker News) on October 23, 2026 at 5:54 pm
Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in […]
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- BengalSEO Part 1: Anatomy of the Operationby editor on August 24, 2026 at 2:28 pm
Key Takeaways The DFIR Report Offerings Check out our Products here and our Services here. Want a demo, more information on our services, pricing or just want to chat? Get in Touch Contact us today for pricing or a demo! Case Summary In March 2026, our team identified an SEO poisoning campaign leading to malware deployment The post BengalSEO Part 1: Anatomy of the Operation appeared first on The DFIR Report.
- 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.
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- Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4by Dan Goodin on October 22, 2026 at 8:17 pm
Flubbed key signing “ceremony” allowed minting of web credentials for any site.
- 333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext…by Dan Goodin on October 22, 2026 at 11:30 am
For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing […]
- Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worseby Scharon Harding on October 21, 2026 at 9:48 pm
Survey of 2,018 IT heads at big firms points to a lack of leverage.
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).

















