** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 03, 2026 Malware / Phishing The threat activity cluster known as SloppyLemming has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government entities and critical …
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** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 03, 2026 Vulnerability / Mobile Security Google on Monday disclosed that a high-severity security flaw impacting an open-source Qualcomm component used in Android devices …
Starkiller Phishing Suite Uses AitM Reverse Proxy to Bypass Multi-Factor Authentication
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new phishing suite called Starkiller that proxies legitimate login pages to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections. It’s …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 03, 2026 Phishing / Malware Microsoft on Monday warned of phishing campaigns that employ phishing emails and OAuth URL redirection mechanisms to bypass conventional phishing …
The Rise of MCPs in the Enterprise The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a practical way to push LLMs from “chat” into real work. By providing structured access to applications, APIs, …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 03, 2026 Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence The threat actor behind the recently disclosed artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate …
Every CISO knows the uncomfortable truth about their Security Operations Center: the people most responsible for catching threats in real time are the people with the least experience. Tier 1 analysts …
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9832, (Tue, Mar 3rd)
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9832
Threat hunters have called attention to a new campaign as part of which bad actors masqueraded as fake IT support to deliver the Havoc command-and-control (C2) framework as a precursor to data …
Wireshark 4.6.4 Released Published 2026-03-02. Last Updated 2026-03-02 11:11:45 UTC by Didier Stevens (Version: 1) 0 comment(s) Wireshark release 4.6.4 fixes 3 vulnerabilities and 15 bugs. Didier …
In diary entry " Quick Howto: Extract URLs from RTF files " I mentioned ZIP files. There are OLE objects inside this RTF file: They can be analyzed with oledump.py like this:
North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 02, 2026 Supply Chain Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new iteration of the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign, where the North Korean threat …
LLM-Assisted Deanonymization Turns out that LLMs are good at de-anonymization: We show that LLM agents can figure out who you are from your anonymous online posts. Across Hacker News, Reddit, …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 02, 2026 Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence A recently disclosed security flaw patched by Microsoft may have been exploited by the Russia-linked state-sponsored threat …
Most SaaS teams remember the day their user traffic started growing fast. Few notice the day bots started targeting them. On paper, everything looks great: more sign-ups, more sessions, more API …
YARA-X 1.14.0 Release Published 2026-03-07. Last Updated 2026-03-07 09:56:54 UTC by Didier Stevens (Version: 1) 0 comment(s) YARA-X’s 1.14.0 release brings 4 improvements and 2 bugfixes. One of …
ISC Stormcast For Friday, March 6th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9838, (Fri, Mar 6th)
ISC Stormcast For Friday, March 6th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9838
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 06, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Hikvision and …
Differentiating Between a Targeted Intrusion and an Automated Opportunistic Scanning [Guest Diary], (Wed, Mar 4th)
[This is a Guest Diary by Joseph Gruen, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] The internet is under constant, automated siege. Every publicly reachable IP address is probed continuously …
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, March 5th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9836, (Thu, Mar 5th)
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, March 5th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9836
Mutational grammar fuzzing is a fuzzing technique in which the fuzzer uses a predefined grammar that describes the structure of the samples. When a sample gets mutated, the mutations happen in such a …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 05, 2026 Malware / Dark Web A joint law enforcement operation has dismantled LeakBase , one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell …
Europol-Led Operation Takes Down Tycoon 2FA Phishing-as-a-Service Linked to 64,000 Attacks
Tycoon 2FA , one of the prominent phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkits that allowed cybercriminals to stage adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) credential harvesting attacks at scale, was dismantled by a …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Mar 05, 2026 Cyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Russian cyber campaign that has targeted Ukrainian entities with two …
Organizations typically roll out multi-factor authentication (MFA) and assume stolen passwords are no longer enough to access systems. In Windows environments, that assumption is often wrong. …