** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 12, 2026 Malware / Threat Intelligence Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like …
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** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 12, 2026 Vulnerability / Endpoint Security Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in …
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation …
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Overfishing in the South Pacific Regulation is hard : The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) oversees fishing across roughly 59 million …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 10, 2026 Malware / Blockchain Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that’s …
Sen. Sanders Talks to Claude About AI and Privacy Claude is actually pretty good on the issues. Tags: AI , privacy , video Posted on April 10, 2026 at 6:41 AM • 0 Comments
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 10, 2026 Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence A critical security vulnerability in Marimo , an open-source Python notebook for data science and analysis, has been exploited …
While much of the discussion on AI security centers around protecting ‘shadow’ AI and GenAI consumption, there’s a wide-open window nobody’s guarding: AI browser extensions. A new report …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 10, 2026 Malware / Browser Security Google has made Device Bound Session Credentials ( DBSC ) generally available to all Windows users of its Chrome web browser, months …
I spotted an interesting piece of JavaScript code that was delivered via a phishing email in a RAR archive. The file was called “cbmjlzan.JS” …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 10, 2026 Malware / Website Security Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 09, 2026 Vulnerability / Mobile Security Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability in a widely used third-party Android software development kit (SDK) …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 09, 2026 Malware / Windows Security A previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed UAT-10362 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 09, 2026 Hacking News / Cybersecurity News Thursday. Another week, another batch of things that probably should’ve been caught sooner but weren’t. This …
On Microsoft’s Lousy Cloud Security ProPublica has a scoop : In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing …
We added a new chapter to our Testing Handbook: a comprehensive security checklist for C and C++ code . We’ve identified a broad range of common bug classes, known footguns, and API gotchas across C …
An apparent hack-for-hire campaign likely orchestrated by a threat actor with suspected ties to the Indian government targeted journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East …
As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 09, 2026 Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Threat actors have been exploiting a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader using maliciously crafted PDF …
In a previous diary [1], we looked to see how numbers were used within passwords submitted to honeypots. One of the items of interest was how dates, and more specifically years, were represented …
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** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 08, 2026 Cryptomining / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant ofmalware called Chaos that’scapable of hitting misconfigured cloud …
This is the seventh update to the TeamPCP supply chain campaign threat intelligence report, “When the Security Scanner Became the Weapon” (v3.0, March 25, 2026). Update 006 covered …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 08, 2026 IoT Security / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that’s designed for distributed denial-of-service …
One question that often comes up when I talk about honeypots: Are attackers able to figure out if they are connected to a honeypot? The answer is pretty simple: Yes! Most “medium …