Most Akira write-ups focus on the ransom note or the encryption routine. By the time those show up the interesting forensic work is over. The questions that matter to defenders sit earlier. How did …
Using the data collected over the past year and using Kibana these two ES|QL query to summarize the data, this shows the list of the most uploaded threat to two DShield sensors (local and cloud) over …
Introduction
This diary provides indicators from an unidentified RAT infection on Wednesday 2026-05-27 that was followed by a malicious NetSupport Manager RAT package. This originated from the …
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and …
Identifying People Using Wi-Fi Routers Not identifying people based on their use of Wi-Fi routers, but identifying people using Wi-Fi signals .
> This is accomplished through what is known as > …
Friday Squid Blogging: Another Squid Someone named “Squid” seems to be a “ West Country legend .”
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I …
FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report The 2025 Internet Crime Report was published a few weeks ago, but I only just saw it.
Lots of interesting statistics.
Press release . News articles .
Tags: crime , …
Chilling Effects Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency , but they are not protesting it.
Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration , …
The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky (aka Velvet Chollima) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting South Korean military and corporate entities through …
Shadow AI used to mean employees pasting things they shouldn’t into ChatGPT. It now means something bigger: employees building full applications with AI, wiring them into production systems, and …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
May 29, 2026
Cyber Espionage / Artificial Intelligence
A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed GREYVIBE has been attributed to ongoing and persistent attacks targeting …
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious NuGet package that masquerades as a C# software development kit for Sicoob, one of Brazil’s largest cooperative financial systems, to siphon …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
May 29, 2026
Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence
An unknown threat actor has been observed using a large language model (LLM) agent to conduct post-compromise actions after …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
May 30, 2026
Vulnerability / Network Security
Palo Alto Networks has warned that a recently disclosed medium-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access has come …
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT that leverages the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant’s implicit trust in Markdown links and images to …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
May 31, 2026
IoT Security / Network Security
Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, …
This week, I’m attending the SEC670[ 1 ] training (“Red Teaming Tools - Developing Windows Implants, Shellcode, Command and Control”). From my point of view, this training fits perfectly with FOR610 …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
May 23, 2026
Vulnerability / Website Security
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently patched critical security flaw impacting …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
May 23, 2026
Vulnerability / Web Security
A maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin has come under active exploitation in the wild. …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
May 23, 2026
Malware / DevSecOps
A new “coordinated” supply chain attack campaign has impacted eight packages on Packagist including malicious code designed to run a …
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Ravie Lakshmanan **
May 23, 2026
Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability
Anthropic on Friday disclosed that Project Glasswing has helped uncover more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity …