GitHub is adopting AI-based scanning for its Code Security tool to expand vulnerability detections beyond the CodeQL static analysis and cover more languages and frameworks. [...]

Attacks leveraging the 'PolyShell' vulnerability in version 2 of Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce installations are underway, targeting more than half of all vulnerable stores. [...]

A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization A new service that helps coding agents stay up to date on their API calls could be dialing in a massive supply chain vulnerability.... [...]

They cleverly mimic most traits of a real phone Smartphones have fast become the basis of our digital identities, securing payment systems and bank accounts. Now virtual devices that pretend to be real handsets have become a key tool for financial scammers, according to one company.... [...]

Threat actors are evading phishing detection in campaigns targeting Microsoft accounts by abusing the no-code app-building platform Bubble to generate and host malicious web apps. [...]

Ex-CISA boss also says no reason to panic about AI and security RSAC 2026 "Everybody feels massive FOMO if they don't get to RSAC," Jen Easterly says.... [...]

Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC... rsac 2026 There's a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the US will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line "is whatever the President says it is," according to former NSA boss …

A new info-stealing malware called Torg Grabber is stealing sensitive data from 850 browser extensions, more than 700 of them for cryptocurrency wallets. [...]

Citrix has patched two NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway vulnerabilities, one of which is very similar to the CitrixBleed and CitrixBleed2 flaws exploited in zero-day attacks in recent years. [...]

Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades' worth of secrets belonging to militaries, banks, governments, and nearly every individual on earth. In a post published on Wednesday, Google …

AI accounts are becoming part of the cybercrime supply chain, sold like email accounts or VPS access. Flare Systems shows how underground markets bundle and resell premium AI access at scale. [...]

Kali Linux 2026.1, the first release of the year, is now available for download, featuring 8 new tools, a theme refresh, and a new BackTrack mode for Kali-Undercover. [...]

TP-Link has patched several vulnerabilities in its Archer NX router series, including a critical-severity flaw that may allow attackers to bypass authentication and upload new firmware. [...]

Sen. Ron Wyden is warning us of an abuse of Section 702: Wyden took to the Senate floor to deliver a lengthy speech, ostensibly about the since approved (with support of many Democrats) nomination of Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA. Wyden was protesting that nomination, but in the …

A Russian national has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting that the phishing botnet he managed was used to launch BitPaymer ransomware attacks against 72 U.S. companies. [...]

Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects from customers and painted a picture of the world’s enterprise hardware …

PTC Inc. is warning of a critical vulnerability in Windchill and FlexPLM, widely used product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, that could allow remote code execution. [...]

The TeamPCP hacking group continues its supply-chain rampage, now compromising the massively popular "LiteLLM" Python package on PyPI and claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of thousands of devices during the attack. [...]

Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group's executive director when Cohn departs this summer.... [...]

The Federal Communications Commission has updated its Covered List to include all consumer routers made in foreign countries, banning the sale of new models in the U.S. [...]

Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like …

Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain attack that injected them with malicious credential-stealing code.... [...]

Mozilla released Firefox 149 with added privacy protection through a built-in VPN tool offering up to 50GB of monthly traffic. [...]

Passing MFA doesn't mean a session is safe, attackers can hijack tokens and bypass identity checks. Specops Software explains why Zero Trust must verify both user identity and device health. [...]

Nearly 300 employees caught up in intrusion at benefits provider Navia Almost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.... [...]

A new hacking group has been rampaging the Internet in a persistent campaign that spreads a self-propagating and never-before-seen backdoor—and curiously a data wiper that targets Iranian machines. The group, tracked under the name TeamPCP, first gained visibility in December, when researchers from security firm Flare observed it …

Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.... [...]

Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millions A Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing victims millions of dollars.... [...]

Japan’s election last month and the rise of the country’s newest and most innovative political party, Team Mirai, illustrates the viability of a different way to do politics. In this model, technology is used to make democratic processes stronger, instead of undermining them. It is harnessed to …

'It freakin' worked' says Rob Joyce - and shows how relentless AI agents can find holes humans miss RSAC 2026 The now-infamous Anthropic report about Chinese cyberspies abusing Claude AI to automate cyberattacks was a Rorschach test for the infosec community, according to former NSA cyber boss Rob Joyce.... [...]

Mazda Motor Corporation (Mazda) announced that information belonging to its employees and business partners had been exposed in a security incident detected last December. [...]

Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairs RSAC 2026 Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to …

The Tycoon2FA phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform that Europol and partners disrupted on March 4 has already returned to previously observed activity levels. [...]

Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to …

June 3, 2022: Original publication date of this post. This post has been updated to add the additional IAM policy types: Resource control policies. You manage access in AWS by creating policies and attaching them to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals (roles, users, or groups of users …

The TeamPCP hacking group is targeting Kubernetes clusters with a malicious script that wipes all machines when it detects systems configured for Iran. [...]

Popular anime streaming platform Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed to have stolen personal information for approximately 6.8 million people. [...]

The TeamPCP hackers behind the Trivy supply-chain attack continued to target Aqua Security, pushing malicious Docker images and hijacking the company's GitHub organization to tamper with dozens of repositories. [...]

A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran’s time zone or have Farsi set as the default language. Experts say …

Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy Google's Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization.... [...]

Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins RSAC 2026 Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate – and the No. 1 tactic …

Most threat intelligence teams have plenty of data, as they’re inundated with thousands of false positives that can all too easily obscure the threats that matter most. Merely reducing the alerts can risk missing out on critical threats, so a smarter solution is needed — and Google Threat Intelligence …

aside_block ), ('btn_text', ''), ('href', ''), ('image', None)])]> AI-driven defense is changing the cybersecurity industry in ways that defenders have long hoped for, and Google Security is bringing its most significant capabilities yet to RSA Conference. With the agentic security operations center as our foundation, and empowered by the unprecedented reasoning capabilities …

AI agents can access data directly, making data security the foundation of AI security. Learn more about how Varonis Atlas helps orgs see, secure, and control AI systems and the data they can reach. [...]

Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn't 'material,' but then stolen data was published Trio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discovering stolen data had been disclosed.... [...]

Infosec pros descend on San Francisco kettle When El Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons joins infosec industry colleagues in San Francisco for RSAC 2026 this week, she's expecting agentic AI to be on everyone's lips - at least those who aren't busy gossiping about the lack of presence from any …

The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patch Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability.... [...]

It’s an impressive feat, over a decade after the box was released: Since reset glitching wasn’t possible, Gaasedelen thought some voltage glitching could do the trick. So, instead of tinkering with the system rest pin(s) the hacker targeted the momentary collapse of the CPU voltage rail …

Ukraine's battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardware NATO is unprepared to deal with attacks by cheap, mass-produced drones and urgently needs layered, affordable air defense systems to counter the threat, taking a cue from the experience gained by Ukrainian forces over the past four years …

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned network defenders that Iranian hackers linked to the country's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) are using Telegram in malware attacks. [...]