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. …
AI Security Roundup
Daily AI security roundup covering malware, vulnerabilities, defensive research, cloud risk, and incident response signals from trusted technical sources.
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 …
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a telecommunications fraud campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA verification tricks to dupe unsuspecting users into sending international text messages …
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Lua-based malware created years before the notorious Stuxnet worm that aimed to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program by destroying uranium enrichment …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 25, 2026 Network Security / Infrastructure Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added four vulnerabilities impacting …
Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survived Extinction Events Science news : Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced …
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency’s Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 24, 2026 Espionage / National Security, The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese …
Hiding Bluetooth Trackers in Mail It was used to track a Dutch naval ship: Dutch journalist Just Vervaart, working for regional media network Omroep Gelderland, followed the directions posted on the …
The AI Agent Authority Gap - From Ungoverned to Delegation As discussed in our previous article, AI agents are exposing a structural gap in enterprise security, but the problem is often framed too …
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious apps on the Apple App Store that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets in an attempt to steal recovery phrases and private keys since …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 24, 2026 Malware / Threat Intelligence Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the …