Daily AI security roundup covering malware, vulnerabilities, defensive research, cloud risk, and incident response signals from trusted technical sources.
** Dec 10, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Malware The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a security flaw impacting the WinRAR file archiver and …
Microsoft closed out 2025 with patches for 56 security flaws in various products across the Windows platform, including one vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 56 flaws, …
AI vs. Human Drivers Two competing arguments are making the rounds. The first is by a neurosurgeon in the New York Times . In an op-ed that honestly sounds like it was paid for by Waymo, the author …
Zero Trust helps organizations shrink their attack surface and respond to threats faster, but many still struggle to implement it because their security tools don’t share signals reliably. 88% …
Google on Monday announced a set of new security features in Chrome, following the company’s addition of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to the web browser. To that end, the …
** Dec 09, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Ransomware / Endpoint Security The threat actor known as Storm-0249 is likely shifting from its role as an initial access broker to adopt a combination of more …
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have likely become the latest to exploit the recently disclosed critical security React2Shell flaw in React Server Components (RSC) to deliver a previously …
** Dec 09, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity / Malware Four distinct threat activity clusters have been observed leveraging a malware loader known as CastleLoader , strengthening the previous …
Canadian organizations have emerged as the focus of a targeted cyber campaign orchestrated by a threat activity cluster known as STAC6565 . Cybersecurity company Sophos said it investigated almost 40 …
** Dec 09, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Threat Analysis Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new extensions on Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace that are designed to …
Substitution Cipher Based on The Voynich Manuscript Here’s a fun paper: “ The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich Manuscript-like ciphertext “: Abstract: In …
** Dec 08, 2025 ** The Hacker News Cybersecurity / Password Security The holiday season compresses risk into a short, high-stakes window. Systems run hot, teams run lean, and attackers time automated …
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign dubbed JS#SMUGGLER that has been observed leveraging compromised websites as a distribution vector for a remote access trojan named …
** Dec 08, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Hacking News / Cybersecurity It’s been a week of chaos in code and calm in headlines. A bug that broke the internet’s favorite framework, hackers …
A critical security flaw in the Sneeit Framework plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited in the wild, per data from Wordfence. The remote code execution vulnerability in question is …
** Dec 08, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Network Security / Vulnerability The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater has been observed leveraging a new backdoor dubbed UDPGangster that uses the User …
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two new Android malware families dubbed FvncBot and SeedSnatcher , as another upgraded version of ClayRat has been spotted in the wild. The findings …
** Dec 06, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan AI Security / Vulnerability Over 30 security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in various artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Integrated Development Environments …
** Dec 06, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Patch Management The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday formally added a critical security flaw impacting React …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Website Security A critical security flaw impacting a WordPress plugin known as King Addons for Elementor has come under active exploitation in the …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Endpoint Security Microsoft has silently plugged a security flaw that has been exploited by several threat actors since 2017 as part of the …
The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to a sophisticated, highly layered infection chain that uses HTML Application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate via …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** The Hacker News Cybercrime / Artificial Intelligence Remember when phishing emails were easy to spot? Bad grammar, weird formatting, and requests from a “Prince” in a …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Cloud Security A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in …
** Dec 03, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Web3 Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Rust package that’s capable of targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and …
