ISC Stormcast For Friday, February 20th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9818, (Fri, Feb 20th)
ISC Stormcast For Friday, February 20th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9818
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, February 20th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9818
Introduction For at least the past year or so, I’ve been receiving Japanese-language phishing emails to my blog email addresses at @malware-traffic-analysis.net. I’m not Japanese, but I …
Before launching their Comet browser, Perplexity hired us to test the security of their AI-powered browsing features. Using adversarial testing guided by our TRAIL threat model, we demonstrated how …
Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abuse activists and security firms. But a …
Ring Cancels Its Partnership with Flock It’s a demonstration of how toxic the surveillance-tech company Flock has become when Amazon’s Ring cancels the partnership between the two companies. As …
Malicious AI Interesting : Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation …
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the first Android malware that abuses Gemini, Google’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, as part of its execution flow …
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon I like this one . As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. Tags: …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 20, 2026 Cybercrime / Law Enforcement A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for his role in facilitating North …
Two former Google engineers and one of their husbands have been indicted in the U.S. for allegedly committing trade secret theft from the search giant and other tech firms and transferring the …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 20, 2026 Financial Crime / Banking Security The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of an increase in ATM jackpotting incidents across the country, leading …
** The Hacker News ** Feb 20, 2026 Cyber Insurance / Password Security With one in three cyber-attacks now involving compromised employee accounts, insurers and regulators are placing far greater …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 20, 2026 Malware / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ClickFix campaign that abuses compromised legitimate sites to deliver a …
In yet another software supply chain attack, the open-source, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cline CLI was updated to stealthily install OpenClaw , a self-hosted autonomous AI …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 20, 2026 Vulnerability / Cyber Attack Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and …
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9812
This morning, I received an interesting phishing email. I’ve a “love & hate” relation with such emails because I always have the impression to lose time when reviewing them but sometimes it’s a …
A few days ago I wrote a diary called “Malicious Script Delivering More Maliciousness”[ 1 ]. In the malware infection chain, there was a JPEG picture that embedded the last payload …
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9814
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, February 19th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9816
Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of …
Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. “ Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference “: Abstract: Scaling up …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 18, 2026 Threat Intelligence / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited …
AI Found Twelve New Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL The title of the post is” What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works ,” and I agree: In the latest OpenSSL security release> on January 27, …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 18, 2026 Vulnerability / Application Security Notepad++ has released a security fix to plug gaps that were exploited by an advanced threat actor from China to hijack the …