A hacker has taken responsibility for last week's University of Pennsylvania "We got hacked" email incident, saying it was a far more extensive breach that exposed data on 1.2 million donors and...
The Open VSX registry rotated access tokens after they were accidentally leaked by developers in public repositories and allowed threat actors to publish malicious extensions in an attempted...
AI coding is used everywhere. A particular version of it "vibecoding" is letting the AI do the programming after a prompt only and seeing how it does. The author of this post asked the LLM to...
Pickle, a serialization format in Python, is actually a small bytecode format that is a small interpreter. It can import modules and execute arbitrary code. Because of this, accepting pickle files...
In Clarity, there is both tx.origin as tx-sender and msg.sender as contract-caller. Many contracts, including SIP-010 tokens, use tx-sender for authentication. This has the issue of phishing,...
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has issued a bulletin about ongoing cyber attacks targeting unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices in the country with a previously undocumented implant known as...
OpenAI is planning to introduce ads on ChatGPT, as it continues to struggle with revenue from paid users. [...]
In an interview with Alex Culafi on the Dark Reading Confidential podcast, Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert speaks about changes in the digital ecosystem over the past 25 years. Deibert notes he...
Google Ads are not going anywhere. Eventually, AI Search results on Google and likely other properties will have ads. [...]
Windows 11 Build 26220.7051 is now rolling out to testers in the Windows Insider Program, and there are at least three new features, including Ask Copilot in the taskbar. [...]
Windows 11 Build 26220.7051 is now rolling out to testers in the Windows Insider Program, and there are at least three new features, including Ask Copilot in the taskbar. [...]
China-linked cyber-espionage actors tracked as 'Bronze Butler' (Tick) exploited a Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager vulnerability as a zero-day to deploy an updated version of their Gokcpdoor malware. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a critical Linux kernel vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, warning that threat actors are actively...
Cybersecurity authorities are raising urgent alarms as threat actors continue to exploit a critical vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE devices, deploying a malicious implant known as BADCANDY across...
OpenAI has announced the launch of an "agentic security researcher" that's powered by its GPT-5 large language model (LLM) and is programmed to emulate a human expert capable of scanning,...
Baron Cain Martin, a 21-year-old, allegedly joined the nihilistic violent extremist group in 2019. Officials described his alleged crimes as “atrocious” and “so depraved they defy comprehension.”...
A suspected nation-state threat actor has been linked to the distribution of a new malware called Airstalk as part of a likely supply chain attack. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it's tracking...
I can’t believe that I haven’t yet posted this picture of a giant squid at the Smithsonian. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t...
A China-affiliated threat actor known as UNC6384 has been linked to a fresh set of attacks exploiting an unpatched Windows shortcut vulnerability to target European diplomatic and government...
The exploitation of a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager has been attributed to a cyber espionage group known as Tick. The vulnerability, tracked as...
An FCC ruling issued days before Donald Trump took office was an "ineffective response" to the Salt Typhoon intrusions into U.S. telecom networks, the agency's new leadership said in announcing...
Oleksii Lytvynenko, 43, was arrested in Ireland in 2023 and extradited to the U.S. earlier this month. He pleaded not guilty in federal court Thursday. The post Ukrainian allegedly involved in...
In a report shared with Recorded Future News, Unit 42 attributed the targeting of Cisco ASA devices to Storm-1849 — a China-based threat group that Cisco previously said has been attacking the...
MSPs are facing rising client expectations for strong cybersecurity and compliance outcomes, while threats grow more complex and regulatory demands evolve. Meanwhile, clients are increasingly...
If you have two headphones, speakers, earbuds, or any other Bluetooth hardware, you can now use both simultaneously on a Copilot+ PC. [...]
Rare case of the state turning on its own, but researchers say it may be doing so more often Russia's Interior Ministry says police have arrested three suspects it believes helped build and spread...
Authors: Sathwik Ram Prakki and Kartikkumar Jivani Contents Introduction Key Targets Industries Geographical Focus Infection and Decoys Technical Analysis PowerShell Stage Persistence...
AI is becoming a buzzword among Canadian policymakers, but should there be more focus on regulation than innovation? In a new article, Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert speaks with The Financial...
The University of Pennsylvania suffered a cybersecurity incident on Friday, where students and alumni received a series of offensive emails from various University email addresses, including those...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and National Security Agency (NSA), along with international partners from Australia and Canada, have released guidance to harden...