Every security team has a version of the same story. The quarter ends with hundreds of vulnerabilities closed. The dashboards are bursting with green. Then someone in a leadership meeting asks: …
AI Security Roundup
Daily AI security roundup covering malware, vulnerabilities, defensive research, cloud risk, and incident response signals from trusted technical sources.
Critical cPanel Authentication Vulnerability Identified — Update Your Server Immediately
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 29, 2026 Vulnerability / Web Hosting cPanel has released security updates to address a security issue impacting various authentication paths that could allow an attacker to …
Claude Mythos Has Found 271 Zero-Days in Firefox That’s a lot . No, it’s an extraordinary number: Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 29, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting ConnectWise …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 29, 2026 Vulnerability / Cloud Security In yet another instance of threat actors quickly jumping on the exploitation bandwagon, a newly disclosed critical security flaw in …
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, April 29th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9910, (Wed, Apr 29th)
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, April 29th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9910
Researchers Discover Critical GitHub CVE-2026-3854 RCE Flaw Exploitable via Single Git Push
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 28, 2026 Vulnerability / Software Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security vulnerability impacting GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise …
A cybercrime group of Brazilian origin has resurfaced after more than three years to orchestrate a campaign that targets Minecraft players with a new stealer called LofyStealer (aka GrabBot). …
Threat hunters are warning that the cybercriminal operation known as VECT 2.0 acts more like a wiper than a ransomware due to a critical flaw in its encryption implementation across Windows, Linux, …
This weekend, we saw a few requests to our honeypot that included an “X-Vercel-Set-Bypass-Cookie” header. A sample request: GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; …
Every security program is betting on the same assumption: once a system is connected, the problem is solved. Open a ticket, stand up a gateway, push the data through. Done. That assumption is wrong. …
What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 28, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw impacting LeRobot , Hugging Face’s open-source …
When patching isn’t fast enough, NDR helps contain the next era of threats. If you’ve been tracking advancements in AI, you know the exploit window, the short buffer that organizations relied on to …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 28, 2026 Cyber Espionage / Vulnerability A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy. Xu Zewei, …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 28, 2026 Vulnerability / Identity Management An administrative role meant for artificial intelligence (AI) agents within Microsoft Entra ID could enable privilege escalation …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 28, 2026 Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Microsoft on Monday revised its advisory for a now-patched, high-severity security flaw impacting Windows Shell to acknowledge …
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, April 28th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9908, (Tue, Apr 28th)
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, April 28th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9908
⚡ Weekly Recap: Fast16 Malware, XChat Launch, Federal Backdoor, AI Employee Tracking & More
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 27, 2026 Cybersecurity / Hacking Everything is dumb again. This week feels broken in a very familiar way. Old tricks are back. New tools are doing shady crap. Supply chains …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 27, 2026 Checkmarx has disclosed that its ongoing investigation tied to the supply chain security incident has revealed that a cybercriminal group published data related to …
This update succeeds TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign Update 007 , published April 8, 2026, which left the campaign in credential-monetization mode following the Cisco source code theft via Trivy-linked …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 27, 2026 Malware / Software Supply Chain Cybersecurity researchers have flagged dozens of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX repository that …
A pro-Ukrainian hacktivist group called PhantomCore has been attributed to attacks actively targeting servers running TrueConf video conferencing software in Russia since September 2025. That’s …
Mythos Changed the Math on Vulnerability Discovery. Most Teams Aren't Ready for the Remediation Side
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has dominated security discussions since its April 7 announcement. Early reporting describes a powerful cybersecurity-focused AI system capable of identifying …
Medieval Encrypted Letter Decoded Sent by a Spanish diplomat. Apparently people have been working on it since it was rediscovered in 1860. Tags: history of cryptography Posted on April 27, 2026 at …