** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Aug 24, 2026 Cybersecurity / Hacking A package gets installed. A login prompt opens. A box sits exposed to the internet. Nothing looks unusual yet. That’s roughly the mood this …
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** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Aug 24, 2026 Malware / SEO Poisoning Cybersecurity researchers have found that several websites are still actively distributing a malware family known as Weedhack to gamers by …
** The Hacker News ** Aug 24, 2026 AI Security / Webinar If your developers are using AI coding tools, you are probably already seeing the upside: faster development, more code, and less time spent on …
This morning, I noticed specific sources “hunting” for vulnerabilities in URLs that I haven’t noticed before. All of these URLs appear to be associated with diagnostic tools: The …
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 5th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10038, (Wed, Aug 5th)
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 5th, 2026 <https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10038>
When you learn that a compromised package executed on one of your build hosts, muscle memory takes over: revoke the npm token, rotate the GitHub PAT, cycle the cloud keys. That reflex has been correct …
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10036, (Tue, Aug 4th)
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 <https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10036>
[This is a Guest Diary by Daryl Jiminez, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Introduction On May 23, 2026, a threat actor successfully authenticated to my Cowrie SSH honeypot using …
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, August 6th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10040, (Thu, Aug 6th)
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, August 6th, 2026 <https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10040>
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, August 7th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10042, (Fri, Aug 7th)
ISC Stormcast For Friday, August 7th, 2026 <https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10042>
UNIX systems (including Linux) are well-known to record a lot of activities in many different locations. But there is one domain where they definitely lack of “modern” logging: shells. …
Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency , we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standard …
We’re running Patch the Planet , an ongoing collaboration with OpenAI that pairs Trail of Bits engineers directly with more than 30 open-source projects. Its goal is to front-run a serious problem …
We’ve added a new chapter to our Testing Handbook a comprehensive guide to security testing Rust programs. This chapter covers the tools and techniques we use at Trail of Bits to validate the …
In April we released Mewt , our open-source mutation-testing engine that finds the gaps in your test suite. Today we’re expanding it with support for DAML, the language Canton Network applications are …
Codex’s /goal feature amplifies bug hunting, but getting good results requires the right prompt, the right scope, and the right number of outcomes per run. For Patch the Planet , our joint initiative …
Uniswap v4 hooks let developers add custom behavior to pools, including dynamic fees, custom accounting, and external integrations. This flexibility moves some security responsibilities into …
Nitro Enclaves and Key Management Service (KMS) feel like a natural fit: since the KMS can verify attestation documents generated by the enclaves, developers can offload key management tasks from …
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut , a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the …
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most …
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a recent data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials — including AWS Govcloud …
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant …
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less …
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the …
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 …