AI Security Roundup

Ireland Proposes Giving Police New Digital Surveillance Powers This is coming : The Irish government is planning to bolster its police’s ability to intercept communications, including encrypted …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 26, 2026 Malware / Endpoint Security The North Korean threat actor known as Konni has been observed using PowerShell malware generated using artificial intelligence (AI) …

Based on the sensors reporting to ISC, this activity started on the 13 Jan 2026. My own sensor started seeing the first scan on the 21 Jan 2026 with limited probes. So far, this activity has been …

ISC Stormcast For Monday, January 26th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9780

A new multi-stage phishing campaign has been observed targeting users in Russia with ransomware and a remote access trojan called Amnesia RAT. “The attack begins with social engineering lures …

AI agents are accelerating how work gets done. They schedule meetings, access data, trigger workflows, write code, and take action in real time, pushing productivity beyond human speed across the …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 24, 2026 Malware / Critical Infrastructure The Russian nation-state hacking group known as Sandworm has been attributed to what has been described as the “largest …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 24, 2026 Vulnerability / Enterprise Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical security flaw affecting Broadcom …

Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid in the Star Trek Universe Spock befriends a giant space squid in the comic Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Seeds of Salvation #5. As usual, you can also use this …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 23, 2026 Vulnerability / Software Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 23, 2026 Network Security / Vulnerability Fortinet has officially confirmed that it’s working to completely plug a FortiCloud SSO authentication bypass vulnerability …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 23, 2026 Regulatory Compliance / National Security TikTok on Friday officially announced that it formed a joint venture that will allow the hugely popular video-sharing …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 23, 2026 Email Security / Endpoint Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new dual-vector campaign that leverages stolen credentials to deploy …

AIs are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Internet Vulnerabilities Really interesting blog post from Anthropic: In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models …

Microsoft has warned of a multi‑stage adversary‑in‑the‑middle ( AitM ) phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector. “The campaign …

ISC Stormcast For Friday, January 23rd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9778

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ransomware family called Osiris that targeted a major food service franchisee operator in Southeast Asia in November 2025. The attack …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 22, 2026 Vulnerability / Linux A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon ( telnetd ) that went unnoticed for nearly 11 years. The …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 22, 2026 Cybersecurity / Hacking News Most of this week’s threats didn’t rely on new tricks. They relied on familiar systems behaving exactly as designed, just …

Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: “I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 22, 2026 Vulnerability / Email Security A new security flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail email software has come under active exploitation in the wild, two days after the …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 22, 2026 Cryptojacking / Malware A new malicious package discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) has been found to impersonate a popular library for symbolic …

** The Hacker News ** Jan 22, 2026 Email Security / SaaS Security Security teams at agile, fast-growing companies often have the same mandate: secure the business without slowing it down. Most teams …

The title of this diary is perhaps a bit catchy but the question is important. I don’t consider myself as a good developer. That’s not my day job and I’m writing code to improve my daily tasks. I like …

** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 22, 2026 Network Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf has warned of a “new cluster of automated malicious activity” that involves …