Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine. Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every polished message …
AI Security Roundup
Daily AI security roundup covering malware, vulnerabilities, defensive research, cloud risk, and incident response signals from trusted technical sources.
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jun 08, 2026 Cybersecurity / Hacking Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn’t. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jun 08, 2026 Spyware / Mobile Security Meta on Monday said it detected and blocked spear-phishing attempts linked to Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group . In addition, the tech …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jun 08, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security Check Point has warned of active exploitation of a critical vulnerability impacting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments …
** Swati Khandelwal ** Jun 08, 2026 Linux / Vulnerability Security researchers have published a detailed, working exploit for a Linux kernel use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user …
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9954, (Tue, Jun 2nd)
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026 <https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9954>
For a few days, my SANS ISC mailbox is flooded with emails that delivers SVG files. An SVG (“Scalable Vector Graphic”) is a web-friendly vector file format used for graphics and icons. No …
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9956, (Wed, Jun 3rd)
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 <https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9956>
Enterprise applications often still use complex standards like SOAP for web services. The big advantage of SOAP is its tight and extensive standards, which enable interoperability across an enterprise …
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, June 4th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9958, (Thu, Jun 4th)
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, June 4th, 2026 <https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9958>
Public skill marketplaces are being flooded with malicious skills that steal credentials, exfiltrate data, and hijack agents. In response, a segment of the security industry released skill scanners, a …
Microsoft Threatening Security Researcher An anonymous security researcher called “Nightmare Eclipse” has been publishing a series of significant security exploits against Microsoft Windows—including …
The Intersection of Encryption and AI As part of their 20th Anniversary celebration, Dark Reading asked five cybersecurity industry leaders who wrote blogs or columns for them over the years to select …
AI Used to Decrypt Medieval Ciphers Researchers are using machine learning algorithms to decrypt historical pencil-and-paper ciphers. Tags: AI , history of cryptography , machine learning Posted on …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jun 03, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an unpatched issue that could be exploited to disclose a user’s NTLMv2 …
Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP)
The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jun 03, 2026 Vulnerability / Software Development Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a one-click attack via Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes it possible …
** Swati Khandelwal ** Jun 03, 2026 Vulnerability / Mobile Security A development flag left switched on in production builds of several Microsoft 365 Android apps disabled the check that limits …
Redis has patched a use-after-free in its blocking-client code that lets an authenticated user run arbitrary OS commands on the machine hosting the database. The flaw was found by an autonomous AI …
** Swati Khandelwal ** Jun 03, 2026 Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence A single poisoned notification from WhatsApp, Slack, SMS, Signal, Instagram, or Messenger could have hijacked Google …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jun 03, 2026 Malware / Microsoft Defender Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malspam campaign that makes use of Google’s DoubleClick domain as a way to evade …
** The Hacker News ** Jun 03, 2026 Exposure Management Assume the breach. Zero-days keep shipping, AI is writing exploits faster than anyone patches, and “patch everything in time” stopped …
ISC Stormcast For Monday, June 1st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9952, (Mon, Jun 1st)
ISC Stormcast For Monday, June 1st, 2026 <https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9952>
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions …
Vulnerability Disclosure in the Age of AI New article: “ Responsible Disclosure in the Age of AI: A Call for Urgent Action ,” by Melissa Hathaway. > Abstract: > Artificial intelligence is …