Daily AI security roundup covering malware, vulnerabilities, defensive research, cloud risk, and incident response signals from trusted technical sources.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered fraudulent apps on the official Google Play Store for Android that falsely claimed to offer access to call histories for any phone number, only to trick users …
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory. …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** May 09, 2026 Vulnerability / Web Hosting cPanel has released updates to address three vulnerabilities in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) that could be exploited to achieve …
Introduction This diary describes a Remcos RAT infection that I generated in my lab on Thursday, 2026-03-11. This infection was from the SmartApeSG campaign that used a ClickFix-style fake CAPTCHA …
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new Mirai -derived botnet that self-identifies as xlabs_v1 and targets internet-exposed devices running Android Debug Bridge ( ADB ) to enlist them in a …
The Iranian state-sponsored hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Mango Sandstorm, Seedworm, and Static Kitten) has been attributed to a ransomware attack in what has been described as a “false …
Analysts recently confirmed what identity security teams have quietly feared: AI agents are being deployed faster than enterprises can govern them. In their inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, …
** The Hacker News ** May 06, 2026 Security Leadership / Industry Recognition For nearly 20 years, we at The Hacker News have mostly told scary stories about cyberspace — big hacks, broken systems, …
Rowhammer Attack Against NVIDIA Chips A new rowhammer attack gives complete control of NVIDIA CPUs. On Thursday, two research teams, working independently of each other, demonstrated attacks against …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** May 06, 2026 Endpoint Security / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an intrusion that involved the use of a CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** May 06, 2026 Android / Data Security Google has announced expanded Binary Transparency for Android as a way to safeguard the ecosystem from supply chain attacks. “This new …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** May 06, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security Palo Alto Networks has released an advisory warning that a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in its PAN-OS software has been …
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, May 6th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9920
A newly identified supply chain attack targeting DAEMON Tools software has compromised its installers to serve a malicious payload, according to findings from Kaspersky. “These installers are …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** May 05, 2026 Vulnerability / Server Security The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released security updates to address several security vulnerabilities in the HTTP Server, …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** May 05, 2026 Network Security / Endpoint Security A sophisticated China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to attacks targeting government entities …
Every AI tool, workflow automation, and productivity app your employees connected to Google or Microsoft this year left something behind: a persistent OAuth token with no expiration date, no automatic …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** May 05, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw impacting an open-source content management system (CMS) known as …
Yup, that is for real. For me, this started with a post in X at hxxps://x.com/intcyberdigest/status/2051406295828250963?s=61 , which highlighted research by @L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N that found exactly this …
I just got an email from SSL.com last night, they are rotating out their root certificate today (May 5,2026). This is normal, business as usual stuff for a CA, but certificates get used for all kinds …
While the software industry has made genuine strides over the past few decades to deliver products securely, the furious pace of AI adoption is putting that progress at risk. Businesses are moving …
DarkSword Malware DarkSword is a sophisticated piece of malware —probably government designed—that targets iOS. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new iOS full-chain exploit that …
We recently added a C/C++ security checklist to the Testing Handbook and challenged readers to spot the bugs in two code samples a deceptively simple Linux ping program and a Windows driver registry …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** May 05, 2026 Cyber Espionage / Surveillance The North Korea-aligned state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft has compromised a video game platform in a supply chain …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** May 05, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security A critical security vulnerability in Weaver (Fanwei) E-cology , an enterprise office automation (OA) and collaboration platform, …
