Daily AI security roundup covering malware, vulnerabilities, defensive research, cloud risk, and incident response signals from trusted technical sources.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Oct 08, 2026 Hacking News / Cybersecurity News The crooks have trust problems of their own. One ransomware affiliate decided to keep the profits for himself. Elsewhere, an …
Attackers behind a string of personal data leaks at Japanese organizations have abused APIs for mobile apps and targeted known software flaws, the JPCERT Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC) said. The …
Hackers tied to a Chinese cybersecurity company stole email from government organizations, law enforcement agencies, healthcare systems, and religious institutions in Southeast Asia, the FBI and …
We just did a major update to FOR577 and added a lot of new material on day 5 about investigating AI usage in incident response. In the new material we dicsuss 8 of the most popular AI coding …
How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs . Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Oct 08, 2026 Browser Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 16 malicious Mozilla Firefox extensions that are capable of stealing …
Phishing kits are no longer limited to copying a familiar login page and waiting for a victim to enter credentials. Attackers are increasingly building filtering, session management, and traffic …
The Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 has been attributed to a previously undocumented .NET infostealer and remote access trojan (RAT) codenamed ASHVEIN . According to TrendAI, the malware …
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a targeted campaign aimed at South Korean financial organizations that used an artificial intelligence (AI) pen testing tool named ARTEX to carry …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Oct 08, 2026 Cybercrime / Ransomware The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding …
** Swati Khandelwal ** Oct 08, 2026 Cybercrime / Cyber Espionage The U.S. State Department is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of Zhang Yu, a …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Oct 08, 2026 Artificial Intelligence / Cloud Security The npm package known as " tensorlake ," a TypeScript software development kit (SDK) for Tensorlake applications, …
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, October 8th, 2026 <https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10128>
A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of …
On October 5th, Atlassian published patches for multiple products to fix an “Arbitrary File Access” vulnerability [ CVE-2026-21589 ]. An attacker can read arbitrary files in the web …
Apple’s Verified Photography System Apple just released a system called “Reference Image.” It can verify the image is exactly as taken by an iPhone—new models only—without tying it to a specific …
The 2026 findings are not just a year-over-year shift. They mark the latest point in a five-year arc where resilience, AI governance, human risk, and board scrutiny are converging inside the systems …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Oct 07, 2026 Cybercrime / Network Security The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Secret Service (USSS) on Tuesday warned that the FortiBleed credential harvesting …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Oct 07, 2026 Vulnerability / Web Security Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Data Center products that could allow …
** Swati Khandelwal ** Oct 07, 2026 Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence A critical vulnerability in LMCache , open-source software that speeds up large language model (LLM) servers such as vLLM, …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Oct 07, 2026 Botnet / Cryptojacking Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware family that has been observed targeting exposed artificial intelligence (AI) …
** Swati Khandelwal ** Oct 07, 2026 Vulnerability / Network Security SonicWall has released hotfixes for four flaws in its SMA1000 appliances, the gateways that give remote workers access to a …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Oct 07, 2026 Supply Chain / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a long-running npm supply chain malware campaign that pushes information stealers and …
Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, Google said on October 6 . Google’s own systems were …
