China-linked Fire Ant Hides Inside Trusted Infrastructure
China-linked Fire Ant Hides Inside Trusted Infrastructure Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2026 Fire Ant hijacked Cisco routers, stole credentials and altered logs to hide its…
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The AI Kill Switch Act is repeating the Clipper Chip’s mistakes
“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Policymakers alarmed by the recent incidents of autonomous AI agents breaking through guardrails to hack other companies…
ValleyRAT is spreading disguised as adware
Attackers typically try to pass off malware as legitimate applications or as potentially unwanted programs that users deliberately search for and download, such as cheats…
Trusted Chrome, Edge extensions weaponized in supply chain campaign
The campaign was heavily focused on cryptocurrency theft, but its capabilities went further. Socket observed code that captured information typed into web forms and extracted…
OpenAI-backed initiative targets critical infrastructure cyber gaps with AI-powered defenses, coordinated global response
OpenAI and a broad group of technology and cybersecurity organizations are launching a collective cyber defense initiative calling for coordinated global efforts to protect essential…
US water systems face persistent cybersecurity gaps as July attacks renew scrutiny of federal protections, CRS says
A new report from the U.S. Congressional Research Service revealed that the cyberattacks reported against water systems in at least seven U.S. states in July…
Uncovering Hybrid Cloud Attacks Part 3 – The Response
In the final section of this blog series on uncovering complex hybrid cloud attacks, we’ll share key elements of the response to the real-world sophisticated…
Manage your Elastic security stack as code with the Elastic Stack Terraform provider
The Elastic Stack Terraform provider has reached a significant milestone. Starting with release v0.13.1, you can manage your Elastic security posture – detection rules, exception…
Nigerians extradited to US for sextortion, deaths of two teens
Two Nigerian men extradited to the U.S. on Thursday have been charged with involvement in sextortion schemes that resulted in the deaths of two minor…
New AI-Built Malware Watches How Security Teams Remove It and Fights Back
A new Windows malware toolkit is showing how artificial intelligence can change the economics of cybercrime. Known as Gryxa, it gives a criminal operator remote…
D-Link DIR-X1860Z Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Admin Password Reset and Wi-Fi Credential Theft
D-Link has released a security update for the DIR-X1860Z router after researchers discovered vulnerabilities that could enable an unauthenticated attacker on the local network to…
Debian developers rejected an LLM ban and left disclosure voluntary
A maintainer reading a merge request can’t tell whether a person or a model wrote the diff, and nobody has to say. Debian developers voted…