** Dec 03, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Machine Learning / Vulnerability Three critical security flaws have been disclosed in an open-source utility called Picklescan that could allow malicious actors to …
AI Security Roundup
Daily AI security roundup covering malware, vulnerabilities, defensive research, cloud risk, and incident response signals from trusted technical sources.
Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices In his 2020 book, “ Future Politics , ” British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th century was “How much of our …
Most people know the story of Paul Bunyan. A giant lumberjack, a trusted axe, and a challenge from a machine that promised to outpace him. Paul doubled down on his old way of working, swung harder, …
** Dec 02, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan AI Security / Software Supply Chain Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an npm package that attempts to influence artificial intelligence …
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Iran-Linked Hackers Hits Israeli Sectors with New MuddyViper Backdoor in Targeted Attacks
Israeli entities spanning academia, engineering, local government, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and utilities sectors have emerged as the target of a new set of attacks undertaken by …
** Dec 02, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Blockchain The supply chain campaign known as GlassWorm has once again reared its head, infiltrating both Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX …
** Dec 02, 2025 ** The Hacker News Identity Theft / Threat Intelligence A joint investigation led by Mauro Eldritch, founder of BCA LTD , conducted together with threat-intel initiative NorthScan and …
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India Orders Messaging Apps to Work Only With Active SIM Cards to Prevent Fraud and Misuse
** Dec 02, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Regulatory Compliance / Online Safety India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to …
Vulnerability management is a core component of every cybersecurity strategy. However, businesses often use thousands of software without realising it (when was the last time you checked?), and …
** Dec 02, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Mobile Security / Vulnerability Google on Monday released monthly security updates for the Android operating system, including two vulnerabilities that it said have …
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Webinar: The "Agentic" Trojan Horse: Why the New AI Browsers War is a Nightmare for Security Teams
The AI browser wars are coming to a desktop near you, and you need to start worrying about their security challenges. For the last two decades, whether you used Chrome, Edge, or Firefox, the …
Banning VPNs This is crazy. Lawmakers in several US states are contemplating banning VPNs , because…think of the children! As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy …
** Dec 01, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Hacking News / Cybersecurity Hackers aren’t kicking down the door anymore. They just use the same tools we use every day — code packages, cloud accounts, …
A threat actor known as ShadyPanda has been linked to a seven-year-long browser extension campaign that has amassed over 4.3 million installations over time. Five of these extensions started off as …
** Dec 01, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Surveillance / National Security India’s telecommunications ministry has reportedly asked major mobile device manufacturers to preload a government-backed …
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Tomiris Shifts to Public-Service Implants for Stealthier C2 in Attacks on Government Targets
** Dec 01, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Threat Intelligence The threat actor known as Tomiris has been attributed to attacks targeting foreign ministries, intergovernmental organizations, and …
A new Android malware named Albiriox has been advertised under a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model to offer a “full spectrum” of features to facilitate on-device fraud (ODF), screen …
** Nov 30, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Hacktivism / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog to …
Prompt Injection Through Poetry In a new paper, “ Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models ,” researchers found that turning LLM prompts into poetry …
** Nov 28, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Supply Chain Attack / Malware The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have continued to flood the npm registry with 197 more …
Friday Squid Blogging: Flying Neon Squid Found on Israeli Beach A meter-long flying neon squid ( Ommastrephes bartramii ) was found dead on an Israeli beach. The species is rare in the Mediterranean. …
** Nov 28, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain …
** Nov 28, 2025 ** The Hacker News Enterprise Security / Threat Detection As IT environments become increasingly distributed and organizations adopt hybrid and remote work at scale, traditional …
** Nov 28, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Email Security / Enterprise Security Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cross-tenant blind spot that allows attackers to bypass Microsoft Defender for …
** Nov 27, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Web Security / Zero Trust Microsoft has announced plans to improve the security of Entra ID authentication by blocking unauthorized script injection attacks …