AI Security Roundup

Daily AI security roundup covering malware, vulnerabilities, defensive research, cloud risk, and incident response signals from trusted technical sources.

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WSL in the Malware Ecosystem, (Wed, Feb 11th)

WSL or “Windows Subsystem Linux”[ 1 ] is a feature in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem that allows users to run a real Linux environment directly inside Windows without needing a traditional virtual …

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Apple Patches Everything: February 2026, (Wed, Feb 11th)

Apple Patches Everything: February 2026 Published 2026-02-11. Last Updated 2026-02-11 19:36:59 UTC by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 1) 0 comment(s) Today, Apple released updates for all of its operating …

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Catching malicious package releases using a transparency log

We’re getting Sigstore’s rekor-monitor ready for production use, making it easier for developers to detect tampering and unauthorized uses of their identities in the Rekor transparency log. This work, …

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Use GWP-ASan to detect exploits in production environments

Memory safety bugs like use-after-free and buffer overflows remain among the most exploited vulnerability classes in production software. While AddressSanitizer (ASan) excels at catching these bugs …

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Can chatbots craft correct code?

I recently attended the AI Engineer Code Summit in New York, an invite-only gathering of AI leaders and engineers. One theme emerged repeatedly in conversations with attendees building with AI: the …

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Detect Go’s silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint

Go’s arithmetic operations on standard integer types are silent by default, meaning overflows “wrap around” without panicking. This behavior has hidden an entire class of security vulnerabilities from …

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Building cryptographic agility into Sigstore

Software signatures carry an invisible expiration date. The container image or firmware you sign today might be deployed for 20 years, but the cryptographic signature protecting it may become …

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Celebrating our 2025 open-source contributions

Last year, our engineers submitted over 375 pull requests that were merged into non–Trail of Bits repositories, touching more than 90 projects from cryptography libraries to the Rust compiler. This …

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Thinking Outside The Box [dusted off draft from 2017]

Preface Hello from the future! This is a blogpost I originally drafted in early 2017. I wrote what I intended to be the first half of this post (about escaping from the VM to the VirtualBox host …

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Welcome to the new Project Zero Blog

While on Project Zero, we aim for our research to be leading-edge, our blog design was … not so much. We welcome readers to our shiny new blog! For the occasion, we asked members of Project Zero to …

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Bypassing Windows Administrator Protection

A headline feature introduced in the latest release of Windows 11, 25H2 is Administrator Protection . The goal of this feature is to replace User Account Control (UAC) with a more robust and …

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Bypassing Administrator Protection by Abusing UI Access

In my last blog post I introduced the new Windows feature, Administrator Protection and how it aimed to create a secure boundary for UAC where one didn’t exist. I described one of the ways I was …

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The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a …

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Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?

Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf has infected more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android TV streaming boxes . …