Daily AI security roundup covering malware, vulnerabilities, defensive research, cloud risk, and incident response signals from trusted technical sources.
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 02, 2026 Hacking News / Cybersecurity Every week brings new discoveries, attacks, and defenses that shape the state of cybersecurity. Some threats are stopped quickly, while …
AI Coding Assistants Secretly Copying All Code to China There’s a new report about two AI coding assistants, used by 1.5 million developers, that are surreptitiously sending a copy of everything they …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 02, 2026 Threat Intelligence / Malware The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility’s update mechanism to redirect …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Feb 02, 2026 Developer Tools / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a supply chain attack targeting the Open VSX Registry in which unidentified threat …
The update infrastructure for eScan antivirus, a security solution developed by Indian cybersecurity company MicroWorld Technologies, has been compromised by unknown attackers to deliver a persistent …
ISC Stormcast For Monday, February 2nd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9790
A Farsi-speaking threat actor aligned with Iranian state interests is suspected to be behind a new campaign targeting non-governmental organizations and individuals involved in documenting recent …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 31, 2026 Social Engineering / SaaS Security Google-owned Mandiant on Friday said it identified an “expansion in threat activity” that uses tradecraft consistent …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 31, 2026 Network Security / SCADA CERT Polska, the Polish computer emergency response team, revealed that coordinated cyber attacks targeted more than 30 wind and …
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered A new species of squid . pretends to be a plant: Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in …
Charlie, one of our readers, has forwarded an interesting phishing email. The email was sent to users of the Vivladi Webmail service. While not overly convincing, the email is likely sufficient to …
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious Google Chrome extensions that come with capabilities to hijack affiliate links, steal data, and collect OpenAI ChatGPT authentication tokens. One of …
AIs Are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities From an Anthropic blog post : In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed …
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign attributed to a China-linked threat actor known as UAT-8099 that took place between late 2025 and early 2026. The activity, discovered by Cisco …
Behind the scenes of law enforcement in cyber: what do we know about caught cybercriminals? What brought them in, where do they come from and what was their function in the crimescape? Introduction: …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 30, 2026 Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Ivanti has rolled out security updates to address two security flaws impacting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that have …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 30, 2026 Vulnerability / Email Security SmarterTools has addressed two more security flaws in SmarterMail email software, including one critical security flaw that could …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 30, 2026 Artificial Intelligence / Economic Espionage A former Google engineer accused of stealing thousands of the company’s confidential documents to build a startup …
ISC Stormcast For Friday, January 30th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9788
A new joint investigation by SentinelOne SentinelLABS, and Censys has revealed that the open-source artificial intelligence (AI) deployment has created a vast “unmanaged, publicly accessible …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 29, 2026 Cybersecurity / Hacking News This week’s updates show how small changes can create real problems. Not loud incidents, but quiet shifts that are easy to miss …
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, January 29th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9786
A study by OMICRON has revealed widespread cybersecurity gaps in the operational technology (OT) networks of substations, power plants, and control centers worldwide. Drawing on data from more than …
** The Hacker News ** Jan 29, 2026 Threat Intelligence / Incident Response Beyond the direct impact of cyberattacks, enterprises suffer from a secondary but potentially even more costly risk: …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Jan 29, 2026 Vulnerability / Software Security SolarWinds has released security updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities impacting SolarWinds Web Help Desk, …
