Global supply chain and distribution giant Wesco has confirmed in a statement for BleepingComputer that it is investigating a cybersecurity incident. [...]

When I give talks about AI genies, I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It’s happened. The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. And.... Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered a way to book …

Ukraine, Iran, and football inspire geopolitically motivated DDoS attacks, while 1 Tbps traffic jams up 519 percent [...]

Mozilla announced today that it updated the GPG key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after it was accidentally exposed on GitHub. [...]

AI agents can improvise beyond the intended scope of a task when they are given broad access to enterprise systems and data. Token Security explains why organizations need to define agent intent and continuously enforce permissions around what each agent was actually created to do. [...]

Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year. [...]

Face-swap software blinked for 'barely a second,' giving Spanish cops the break they needed [...]

CISA confirmed today that ransomware gangs have begun abusing a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability, which has been flagged as actively exploited since early July. [...]

Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update [...]

Last week, a researcher outlined what he said was a “novel attack surface” in passkeys, the new authentication paradigm that offers a more secure alternative to password-based methods. In fact, the attacks demonstrated in the post are neither novel nor unique to passkeys. This distinction is important because the …

Interesting empirical research: “ Black Box Warfare: Human Judgment and Military Decision-Making in the Age of AI.” Abstract: How is AI transforming decision-making in modern conflict? This study provides a unique empirical window into that question by deploying a high-fidelity replica of an AI decision-support system (DSS) used in military …

Cisco warned of two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Secure Endpoint Connector that allow threat actors to crash the ClamAV scanning process in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. [...]

U.S. federal agencies and South Korea's National Policy Agency warned government and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide to secure their systems against Gunra ransomware attacks. [...]

Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code [...]

Hackers breached a heat-and-power plant facility in Poland, which supplies heat to about 50,000 residents, using a private APN (Access Point Name) to access an OT (Operational Technology) network. [...]

A threat actor compromised the upstream infrastructure of BdThemes, a developer of premium WordPress web-design tools, and modified a remote JSON feed delivered to administrators' browsers to create rogue admin accounts. [...]

Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI [...]

We’re excited to announce that our Europe (London) AWS Region has renewed its accreditation for United Kingdom (UK) Police-Assured Secure Facilities (PASF) for Official-Sensitive data. Since 2017, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Europe (London) Region has been accredited under the PASF program. This demonstrates our continuous commitment to …

OpenAI has developed a new model called "GPT 5.6 Cyber," designed for vulnerability research, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation. [...]

A financially motivated threat actor previously associated with the Medusa ransomware operation is now deploying a new ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. [...]

Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost [...]

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed theCyberVadis assessment of its security posture with the highest score (Mature) in all assessed areas. This demonstrates our continued commitment to meet the heightened expectations for cloud service providers. Customers can now use the 2026 AWS CyberVadis …

What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw? [...]

CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw. [...]

AI is making phishing, credential theft, and social engineering faster and more efficient, while traditional trust signals such as passwords, MFA, IP reputation, and geolocation become easier to bypass. Specops explains why organizations are increasingly adding device trust to their Zero Trust strategies. [...]

Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data [...]

Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either [...]

A member of "The Com," a loose-knit online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers, has been sentenced to two years in prison for blackmail and sextortion offenses against nearly 120 victims worldwide. [...]

No, no nasties to see here, guv... [...]

LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendor. [...]

Video game publisher and digital distribution giant Valve is notifying Steam hardware customers in Europe that hackers stole their data after hacking its shipping partner, CEVA Logistics. [...]

Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape [...]

This is good : Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency, we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standard key-establishment primitive, and ML-DSA, the NIST-standard digital-signature primitive, in pyca/cryptography. Remember, the reason to do this now is because …

Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are exploiting a critical-severity Progress Kemp LoadMaster command injection vulnerability. [...]

PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare [...]

Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops [...]

The Head Mare hacktivist group has been exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched TrueConf video conferencing servers to replace client installers with malicious versions that deliver backdoors. [...]

Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools [...]

Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI [...]

Nice video of the Arctic bobtail squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy. [...]

A critical Metabase SQL injection vulnerability was exploited in zero-day attacks to breach customer instances in data theft attacks, known to impact Framework and Tally. [...]

Calling all defenders [...]

Ten years ago, we launched AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, a fully managed Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS Cloud. In that original announcement, Jeff Barr described a straightforward promise: “You will spend less time administering and more time working on your applications and your business.” A …

Healthcare software company Unlimited Technology Systems reported that more than 3.8 million people were impacted by a data breach incident that occurred in October 2025. [...]

Misconfigured Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets can expose your data to unauthorized access. Without proactive review, S3 bucket policies or Access Control Lists (ACLs) configured with broad access may go unnoticed in your environment. In this post, you learn how to identify and fix over-permissioned S3 buckets …

What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you? [...]

At Google Cloud, securing your data and business systems is our foundational commitment. We empower our customers with the tools, governance, and infrastructure needed to securely deploy workloads and maintain long-term trust. We approach security from a shared fate model, and we continuously work to proactively identify and mitigate …

Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) says that hackers used social engineering on three of its employees to gain access to and steal corporate data stored on their machines. [...]

Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch – again [...]