Daily AI security roundup covering malware, vulnerabilities, defensive research, cloud risk, and incident response signals from trusted technical sources.
** Dec 16, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Cloud Security / Vulnerability Amazon’s threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a “years-long” Russian state-sponsored campaign that …
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9740
The security vulnerability known as React2Shell is being exploited by threat actors to deliver malware families like KSwapDoor and ZnDoor, according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and NTT …
** Dec 16, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Dark Web / Online Safety Google has announced that it’s discontinuing its dark web report tool in February 2026, less than two years after it was launched as …
** Dec 16, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Network Security / Vulnerability Threat actors have begun to exploit two newly disclosed security flaws in Fortinet FortiGate devices, less than a week after public …
AI-assisted coding and AI app generation platforms have created an unprecedented surge in software development. Companies are now facing rapid growth in both the number of applications and the pace of …
Exploits for React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) remain active. However, at this point, I would think that any servers vulnerable to the “plain” exploit attempts have already been exploited …
** Dec 15, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Software Security Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including …
In early December 2025, security researchers exposed a cybercrime campaign that had quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions on a massive scale. A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda …
ISC Stormcast For Monday, December 15th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9738
A Google Chrome extension with a “Featured” badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered …
** Dec 15, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Ransomware / Cybercrime The pro-Russian hacktivist group known as CyberVolk (aka GLORIAMIST) has resurfaced with a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering …
Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill . Amidst the many seismic …
Wireshark 4.6.2 Released Published 2025-12-14. Last Updated 2025-12-14 16:07:32 UTC by Didier Stevens (Version: 1) 0 comment(s) Wireshark release 4.6.2 fixes 2 vulnerabilities and 5 bugs. The Windows …
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active phishing campaign that’s targeting a wide range of sectors in Russia with phishing emails that deliver Phantom Stealer via malicious …
Introduction Since as early as November 2025, the finger protocol has been used in ClickFix social engineering attacks. BleepingComputer posted a report of this activity on November 15th , and Didier …
** Dec 13, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Network Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity flaw impacting Sierra Wireless …
** Dec 13, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Zero-Day / Vulnerability Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two …
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eating a Diamondback Squid I have no context for this video —it’s from Reddit—but one of the commenters adds some context: Hey everyone, squid biologist here! Wanted …
Introduction Between July 2024 and February 2025, 6 suspicious image files were uploaded to VirusTotal. Thanks to a lead from Meta, these samples came to the attention of Google Threat Intelligence …
Cybersecurity researchers have documented four new phishing kits named BlackForce, GhostFrame, InboxPrime AI, and Spiderman that are capable of facilitating credential theft at scale. BlackForce, …
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that’s leveraging GitHub-hosted Python repositories to distribute a previously undocumented JavaScript-based Remote Access …
Building Trustworthy AI Agents The promise of personal AI assistants rests on a dangerous assumption: that we can trust systems we haven’t made trustworthy. We can’t. And today’s versions are failing …
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged federal agencies to patch the recent React2Shell vulnerability by December 12, 2025, amid reports of widespread exploitation. …
