The Kill Chain Is Obsolete When Your AI Agent Is the Threat
In September 2025, Anthropic disclosed that a state-sponsored threat actor used an AI coding agent to execute an autonomous cyber espionage campaign against 30 global…
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FCC Bans New Foreign-Made Routers Over Supply Chain and Cyber Risk Concerns
Ravie LakshmananMar 25, 2026Network Security / Data Protection The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Monday that it was banning the import of new,…
Tax Search Ads Deliver ScreenConnect Malware Using Huawei Driver to Disable EDR
Ravie LakshmananMar 24, 2026Endpoint Security / Social Engineering A large-scale malvertising campaign active since January 2026 has been observed targeting U.S.-based individuals searching for tax-related…
TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 Likely via Trivy CI/CD Compromise
TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recent compromises of Trivy and KICS, has now compromised a popular Python package named litellm, pushing two malicious versions…
5 Learnings from the First-Ever Gartner Market Guide for Guardian Agents
On February 25, 2026, Gartner published its inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, marking an important milestone for this emerging category. For those unfamiliar with…
Ghost Campaign Uses 7 npm Packages to Steal Crypto Wallets and Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new set of malicious npm packages that are designed to steal cryptocurrency wallets and sensitive data. The activity is being…
U.S. Sentences Russian Hacker to 6.75 Years for Role in $9M Ransomware Damage
Ravie LakshmananMar 24, 2026Cybercrime / Network Security A 26-year-old Russian citizen has been sentenced in the U.S. to 6.75 years (81 months) in prison for…
Trivy Hack Spreads Infostealer via Docker, Triggers Worm and Kubernetes Wiper
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious artifacts distributed via Docker Hub following the Trivy supply chain attack, highlighting the widening blast radius across developer environments. The…
North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that’s…
Microsoft Warns IRS Phishing Hits 29,000 Users, Deploys RMM Malware
Ravie LakshmananMar 23, 2026Email Security / Cloud Security Microsoft has warned of fresh campaigns that are capitalizing on the upcoming tax season in the U.S.…
We Found Eight Attack Vectors Inside AWS Bedrock. Here’s What Attackers Can Do with Them
AWS Bedrock is Amazon’s platform for building AI-powered applications. It gives developers access to foundation models and the tools to connect those models directly to…
Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-32975 (CVSS 10.0) to Hijack Unpatched Quest KACE SMA Systems
Ravie LakshmananMar 23, 2026Vulnerability / Endpoint Security Threat actors are suspected to be exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA),…