Security

AI giant Anthropic has unveiled Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative built around Claude Mythos Preview, a model it describes as “cybersecurity in the age of AI” that can autonomously identify software vulnerabilities at scale. Rather than release the model publicly, Anthropic is restricting access to a closed consortium of more than 40 companies that includes Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet-owned Google, and the Linux Foundation, along with a small group of security vendors such

Hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (FortiClient EMS) since at least the end of March. Fortinet has published an advisory and released an emergency hotfix that can be applied to affected deployments until a patched version can be released. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-35616, allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code on FortiClient EMS, which organizations use to manage, monitor, provision, pat

Every asset you manage expands your attack surface. Internet‑facing applications, cloud workloads, credentials, endpoints, and third‑party integrations all represent potential entry points for attackers. As environments grow more distributed, that exposure expands faster than most security teams can track manually. Attack surface management (ASM) helps answer a critical question for IT security teams: What can attackers actually reach right now? By continuously identifying and prioritizing e

Supply chain attacks have rapidly become one of the most damaging and difficult threats facing IT and security teams. When an adversary compromises a trusted vendor, software component, cloud service, or MSP tool, they bypass traditional defenses and enter through the front door. For organizations managing distributed environments, and for MSPs supporting dozens or hundreds of clients, the impact can cascade quickly. Strengthening supply chain security is no longer an isolated risk managemen

Identity compromise has become one of the most effective ways for attackers to infiltrate business systems. Firewalls, endpoint protection, and monitoring tools mean little once an attacker logs in using valid credentials. For MSPs and corporate IT teams, strengthening identity security and enforcing least privilege access are two of the most powerful ways to reduce blast radius and stop attacks earlier. This article outlines five practical steps to improve identity security across human, ma

Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code. Microsoft said in a blog post today it identified more than 200 organizations and 5,000 consumer devices that w

The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard) has been linked to a new campaign that has compromised insecure MikroTik and TP-Link routers and modified their settings to turn them into malicious infrastructure under their control as part of a cyber espionage campaign since at least May 2025. The large-scale exploitation campaign has been codenamed View the full article

A high-severity security vulnerability has been disclosed in Docker Engine that could permit an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34040 (CVSS score: 8.8), stems from an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-41110, a maximum-severity vulnerability in the same component that came to light in July 2024. "View the full article

Indirect prompt injection is possible on AI-powered dashboards, allowing exfiltration of sensitive enterprise data without user authentication. Security researchers are warning about a critical Grafana issue, dubbed GrafanaGhost, that allows attackers to leak sensitive data from Grafana environments, including financial metrics, infrastructure health data, private customer data, and operational logs, among others. Noma Security disclosed the flaw to the Grafana team, which reportedly val

Indirect prompt injection is possible on AI-powered dashboards, allowing exfiltration of sensitive enterprise data without user authentication. Security researchers are warning about a critical Grafana issue, dubbed GrafanaGhost, that allows attackers to leak sensitive data from Grafana environments, including financial metrics, infrastructure health data, private customer data, and operational logs, among others. Noma Security disclosed the flaw to the Grafana team, which reportedly val

An active campaign has been observed targeting internet-exposed instances running ComfyUI, a popular stable diffusion platform, to enlist them into a cryptocurrency mining and proxy botnet. "A purpose-built Python scanner continuously sweeps major cloud IP ranges for vulnerable targets, automatically installing malicious nodes via ComfyUI-Manager if no exploitable node is alreadyView the full article

In the rapid evolution of the 2026 threat landscape, a frustrating paradox has emerged for CISOs and security leaders: Identity programs are maturing, yet the risk is actually increasing. According to new research from the Ponemon Institute, hundreds of applications within the typical enterprise remain disconnected from centralized identity systems. These "darkView the full article

When talking about credential security, the focus usually lands on breach prevention. This makes sense when IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report puts the average cost of a breach at $4.4 million. Avoiding even one major incident is enough to justify most security investments, but that headline figure obscures the more persistent problems caused by recurring credentialView the full article

Microsoft has warned that Storm-1175, a cybercrime group linked to Medusa ransomware, is exploiting vulnerable web-facing systems in fast-moving attacks, at times moving from initial access to data theft and ransomware deployment within 24 hours. The company said the group has heavily targeted organizations in healthcare, education, professional services, and finance across Australia, the UK, and the US, showing how quickly ransomware affiliates can exploit exposed perimeter systems before d

For many years, supply chain security was viewed purely as a technical concern. However, with high-profile vulnerabilities and regulations, it is now a board-level issue that requires organizations to rethink how to build resiliency and insulate their operations. The changing regulatory landscape has been a key driver of the C-suite’s focus, as legislation such as the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) includes fines of up to 2.5% of global turnover for non-compliance. Additionally, the prolif

For many years, supply chain security was viewed purely as a technical concern. However, with high-profile vulnerabilities and regulations, it is now a board-level issue that requires organizations to rethink how to build resiliency and insulate their operations. The changing regulatory landscape has been a key driver of the C-suite’s focus, as legislation such as the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) includes fines of up to 2.5% of global turnover for non-compliance. Additionally, the prolif

For more than two decades, cybersecurity has been built on a reactive model: detect intrusions, patch vulnerabilities, respond to incidents, and repeat. That model is now under sustained pressure from a threat environment that is faster, more coordinated, and increasingly automated. Two recent developments illustrate how quickly that model is breaking down. Earlier this month, the White House released its long-awaited cyber strategy that elevates proactive or offensive cybersecurity to the t

I recently had the opportunity to review five popular SIEM solutions as part of a judging panel for a Security award. While each platform had its own unique flair, their core promises were remarkably consistent: 24/7/365 SOC monitoring: Round-the-clock coverage backed by global experts to validate and prioritize alerts. Proactive threat hunting: Active searches for hidden threats rather than just waiting for automated triggers. AI and machine learning integration: Leveraging everyth

New academic research has identified multiple RowHammer attacks against high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) that could be exploited to escalate privileges and, in some cases, even take full control of a host. The efforts have been codenamed GPUBreach, GDDRHammer, and GeForge. GPUBreach goes a step further than GPUHammer, demonstrating for the first time thatView the full article

A China-based threat actor known for deploying Medusa ransomware has been linked to the weaponization of a combination of zero-day and N-day vulnerabilities to orchestrate "high-velocity" attacks and break into susceptible internet-facing systems. "The threat actor's high operational tempo and proficiency in identifying exposed perimeter assets have proven successful, with recentView the full article

Threat actors are exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw in Flowise, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score: 10.0), a code injection vulnerability that could result in remote code execution. "The CustomMCP node allows users to input configuration settings for connectingView the full article

An Iran-nexus threat actor is suspected to be behind a password-spraying campaign targeting Microsoft 365 environments in Israel and the U.A.E. amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The activity, assessed to be ongoing, was carried out in three distinct attack waves that took place on March 3, March 13, and March 23, 2026, per Check Point. "The campaign is primarilyView the full article

Threat actors likely associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South Korea. The attack chain, per Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, involves obfuscated Windows shortcut (LNK) files acting as the starting point to drop a decoy PDFView the full article

Your attack surface no longer lives on one operating system, and neither do the campaigns targeting it. In enterprise environments, attackers move across Windows endpoints, executive MacBooks, Linux infrastructure, and mobile devices, taking advantage of the fact that many SOC workflows are still fragmented by platform.  For security leaders, this creates aView the full article

This week had real hits. The key software got tampered with. Active bugs showed up in the tools people use every day. Some attacks didn’t even need much effort because the path was already there. One weak spot now spreads wider than before. What starts small can reach a lot of systems fast. New bugs, faster use, less time to react. That’s this week. Read&View the full article

DPRK-linked threat actors are preferring stealth over sophistication in targeting South Korean organizations, as researchers report the use of weaponized Windows shortcut (.LNK) files and GitHub-based command-and-control (C2) channels in a new campaign. According to new Fortinet findings, a series of attacks that began in 2024 were found using a multi-stage scripting process and GitHub C2 to evade detection, with obfuscation improving with each iteration of the campaign. “In recent month

The most active piece of enterprise infrastructure in the company is the developer workstation. That laptop is where credentials are created, tested, cached, copied, and reused across services, bots, build tools, and now local AI agents. In March 2026, the TeamPCP threat actor proved just how valuable developer machines are. Their supply chain attack onView the full article

Threat actors associated with Qilin and Warlock ransomware operations have been observed using the bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) technique to silence security tools running on compromised hosts, according to findings from Cisco Talos and Trend Micro. Qilin attacks analyzed by Talos have been found to deploy a malicious DLL named "msimg32.dll,"View the full article

Authentication keeps breaking where it matters most: On regulated front lines such as healthcare, government, aerospace and travel. The core issue is not a lack of innovation. Instead, it is a brittle and fragmented ecosystem of cards, readers, middleware and software that rarely work together under real-world pressure. Even today’s “passwordless” solutions can be undermined by poor implementation, downgrades and fallback paths that attackers are quick to exploit. This article examines where the

Attackers are starting to exploit AI systems to mount attacks in the same way they once relied on built-in enterprise tools such as PowerShell. Instead of relying on malware, cybercriminals are increasingly abusing AI tools enterprises depend on — a trend some experts describe as living off the AI land. “We’re seeing it in things like poisoned MCP servers in the supply chain, attackers using legitimate models like Claude to extract sensitive data, and even viral agents like OpenClaw acci

Over the years, enterprise cybersecurity environments have accumulated staggering numbers of commercial tools. Industry research converges on a consistent picture of tool proliferation that drives complexity, cost, and risk. The global cybersecurity market is valued at approximately $243 billion in 2024 and projected to surpass $520 billion annually by 2026. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software promises speed and maturity, while avoiding years of custom development. At first, everything work

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identity of the main threat actors associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. The threat actor, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS cybercrime forum. He View the full article

An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021. Shchukin was named as UNKN (a.k.a. UNKNOWN) in an advisory published by the German Federal Criminal Police (the “Bundeskrimin

Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based decentralized exchange described it as "an attack six months in theView the full article

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent implant. "Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository,View the full article

Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation. "An improper access control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiClient EMS may allow anView the full article

An apparent security lapse has allowed researchers to peer into the work of a threat group currently exploiting unpatched servers open to the four-month-old React2Shell vulnerability to steal login credentials, keys, and tokens at scale. Researchers from Cisco Systems’ Talos threat intelligence team who made the discovery said Thursday that the data harvested by an unattributed group they call UAT-10608 went to a password protected database behind a web application. However, that application

An apparent security lapse has allowed researchers to peer into the work of a threat group currently exploiting unpatched servers open to the four-month-old React2Shell vulnerability to steal login credentials, keys, and tokens at scale. Researchers from Cisco Systems’ Talos threat intelligence team who made the discovery said Thursday that the data harvested by an unattributed group they call UAT-10608 went to a password protected database behind a web application. However, that application

When Daniel Rhyne pleaded guilty on April 1 to having launched an insider extortion attack against his then-employer, authorities enumerated the techniques he used, including unauthorized remote desktop sessions, deletion of network administrator accounts, changing of passwords, and scheduling unauthorized tasks on the domain controller.  After he shut down key systems and accounts, he sent a note to employees in which he claimed to have deleted all backups, and threatened to continue shutti

A China-aligned threat actor has set its sights on European government and diplomatic organizations since mid-2025, following a two-year period of minimal targeting in the region. The campaign has been attributed to TA416, a cluster of activity that overlaps with DarkPeony, RedDelta, Red Lich, SmugX, UNC6384, and Vertigo Panda. "This TA416 activity included multipleView the full article

Google has patched another zero-day vulnerability in Chrome, its fourth this year. In patching the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5281, the company acknowledged that an exploit for it already exists in the wild. According to the report in NIST’s National Vulnerability Database, the vulnerability in Dawn, the implementation of WebGPU used by Chrome, allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. It advised users to upd

Researchers who identify and report bugs in open-source software will no longer be rewarded by the Internet Bug Bounty team. HackerOne, which administers the program, has said that it is “pausing submissions” while it contemplates ways in which open source security can be handled more effectively. The Internet Bug Bounty program, funded by a number of leading software companies, has been run since 2012 and has awarded more than $1.5m to researchers who have reported bugs. Up to now, 80% of i

The leak of Claude Code’s source is already having consequences for the tool’s security. Researchers have spotted a vulnerability documented in the code. The vulnerability, revealed by AI security company Adversa, is that if Claude Code is presented with a command composed of more than 50 subcommands, then for subcommands after the 50th it will override compute-intensive security analysis that might otherwise have blocked some of them, and instead simply ask the user whether they want to go

The European Union’s Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-EU, has traced last week’s theft of data from the Europa.eu platform to the recent supply chain attack on Aqua Security’s Trivy open-source vulnerability scanner. The attack on the AWS cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa.eu web hub on March 24 resulted in the theft of 350 GB of data (91.7 GB compressed), including personal names, email addresses, and messages, according to CERT-EU’s analysis. The compromise of Trivy allowed

Threat actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. "Instead of exposing command execution through URL parameters or request bodies, these web shells rely on threat actor-supplied cookie values to gate execution,View the full article

The maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked as UNC1069. Maintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their social engineering efforts "specifically to me" by first approaching him under the guise of the founder of aView the full article

The next major breach hitting your clients probably won't come from inside their walls. It'll come through a vendor they trust, a SaaS tool their finance team signed up for, or a subcontractor nobody in IT knows about. That's the new attack surface, and most organizations are underprepared for it. Cynomi's new guide, Securing the Modern Perimeter: The Rise of Third-PartyView the full article

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the SparkCat malware on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, more than a year after the trojan was discovered targeting both the mobile operating systems. The malware has been found to conceal itself within seemingly benign apps, such as enterprise messengers and food delivery services, whileView the full article

The 2026 RSA circus is over. The tents are packed and the elephants have been loaded onto the train. Nevertheless, it was an eventful week. There were fleets of vehicles — Escalades, Rivians, trucks but curiously, no Teslas — strewn with vendor names and tag lines, and you couldn’t walk anywhere near Howard Street in San Franciso without seeing, “AI-[insert word here like enabled, enhanced, native, powered, etc., etc., etc.]” I spent the week speaking with CISOs, cybersecurity profession

Solana-based decentralized exchange Drift has confirmed that attackers drained about $285 million from the platform during a security incident that took place on April 1, 2026. "Earlier today, a malicious actor gained unauthorized access to Drift Protocol through a novel attack involving durable nonces, resulting in a rapid takeover of Drift’s Security Council administrative powers," the&View the full article

ArtemisDiana | shutterstock.com Manuelles, siloartiges Management ist in der modernen IT-Welt unangebracht. Erst recht im Bereich der IT-Sicherheit: Der Umfang von modernem Enterprise Computing und State-of-the-Art-Application-Stack-Architekturen erfordern Sicherheits-Tools, die: Einblicke in den Sicherheitsstatus von IT-Komponenten ermöglichen, Bedrohungen in Echtzeit erkennen, und Aspekte der Bedrohungsabwehr automatisieren. Diese Anforderungen haben zum Aufkommen von

ArtemisDiana | shutterstock.com Manuelles, siloartiges Management ist in der modernen IT-Welt unangebracht. Erst recht im Bereich der IT-Sicherheit: Der Umfang von modernem Enterprise Computing und State-of-the-Art-Application-Stack-Architekturen erfordern Sicherheits-Tools, die: Einblicke in den Sicherheitsstatus von IT-Komponenten ermöglichen, Bedrohungen in Echtzeit erkennen, und Aspekte der Bedrohungsabwehr automatisieren. Diese Anforderungen haben zum Aufkommen von

Cloudflare on Wednesday rolled out EmDash, which it described as “the spiritual successor to WordPress.” The security vendor positioned EmDash as a far more secure site building tool that avoids the extensive cybersecurity problems with WordPress plugins.  But the Cloudflare claims go far beyond cybersecurity issues. The vendor is arguing that the very nature of websites in 2026 is sharply different to the kind of website that WordPress was designed to handle.  “WordPress powers over 40%

Cisco has released patches for a critical vulnerability in its out-of-band management solution, present in many of its servers and appliances. The flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain admin access to the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC), which gives administrators remote control over servers even when the main OS is shut down. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20093, stems from incorrect handling of password changes and can be exploited by sending specially c

Cisco has released patches for a critical vulnerability in its out-of-band management solution, present in many of its servers and appliances. The flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain admin access to the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC), which gives administrators remote control over servers even when the main OS is shut down. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20093, stems from incorrect handling of password changes and can be exploited by sending specially c

A large-scale credential harvesting operation has been observed exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability as an initial infection vector to steal database credentials, SSH private keys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, shell command history, Stripe API keys, and GitHub tokens at scale. Cisco Talos has attributed the operation to a threat cluster it tracks asView the full article

Cisco has released updates to address a critical security flaw in the Integrated Management Controller (IMC) that, if successfully exploited, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to the system with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20093, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "ThisView the full article

The latest ThreatsDay Bulletin is basically a cheat sheet for everything breaking on the internet right now. No corporate fluff or boring lectures here, just a quick and honest look at the messy reality of keeping systems safe this week. Things are moving fast. The list includes researchers chaining small bugs together to create massive backdoors, old software flawsView the full article

A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) campaign is abusing Microsoft’s device code authentication flow to gain unauthorized access to user accounts. Sekoia researchers first spotted the toolkit “EvilTokens” that lets attackers capture authentication tokens by tricking users into completing a legitimate login process in Microsoft’s own environment. The activity, observed since at least mid-February, relies on social engineering lures that prompt victims to enter a device code on a real Micro

A financially motivated operation codenamed REF1695 has been observed leveraging fake installers to deploy remote access trojans (RATs) and cryptocurrency miners since November 2023. "Beyond cryptomining, the threat actor monetizes infections through CPA (Cost Per Action) fraud, directing victims to content locker pages under the guise of software registration," ElasticView the full article

In December 2025, we shared the first-ever The State of Trusted Open Source report, featuring insights from our product data and customer base on open source consumption across our catalog of container image projects, versions, images, language libraries, and builds. These insights shed light on what teams pull, deploy, and maintain day to day, alongside the vulnerabilities andView the full article

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp said it alerted about 200 users who were tricked into installing a bogus version of its iOS app that was infected with spyware. According to reports from Italian newspaper La Repubblica and news agency ANSA, the vast majority of the targets are located in Italy. It's assessed that the threat actors behind the activity used social engineeringView the full article

AI is rapidly changing how software is written, deployed, and used. Trends point to a future where AIs can write custom software quickly and easily: “instant software.” Taken to an extreme, it might become easier for a user to have an AI write an application on demand — a spreadsheet, for example — and delete it when you’re done using it than to buy one commercially. Future systems could include a mix: both traditional long-term software and ephemeral instant software that is constantly being wr

Apple on Wednesday expanded the availability of iOS 18.7.7 and iPadOS 18.7.7 to a broader range of devices to protect users from the risk posed by a recently disclosed exploit kit known as DarkSword. "We enabled the availability of iOS 18.7.7 for more devices on April 1, 2026, so users with Automatic Updates turned on can automatically receive important securityView the full article

Gorodenkoff | shutterstock.com Model Context Protocol (MCP) verbindet KI-Agenten mit Datenquellen und erfreut sich im Unternehmensumfeld wachsender Beliebtheit. Allerdings ist auch MCP nicht frei von Sicherheitslücken, wie entsprechende Entdeckungen, etwa beim SaaS-Anbieter Asana oder dem IT-Riesen Atlassian gezeigt haben. Inzwischen hat sich jedoch einiges in Sachen MCP-Sicherheit getan. Einerseits wurden mit Blick auf das Kernprotokoll etliche Fortschritte erzielt. Beispielsweise in Form v

Gorodenkoff | shutterstock.com Model Context Protocol (MCP) verbindet KI-Agenten mit Datenquellen und erfreut sich im Unternehmensumfeld wachsender Beliebtheit. Allerdings ist auch MCP nicht frei von Sicherheitslücken, wie entsprechende Entdeckungen, etwa beim SaaS-Anbieter Asana oder dem IT-Riesen Atlassian gezeigt haben. Inzwischen hat sich jedoch einiges in Sachen MCP-Sicherheit getan. Einerseits wurden mit Blick auf das Kernprotokoll etliche Fortschritte erzielt. Beispielsweise in Form v

When your network goes down, your business stops. That’s a stark truth we see confirmed daily in incident response—and N-able’s 2026 State of the SOC Report only underscores it. Backup isn’t just an IT routine anymore; it’s the backbone of your business resilience strategy. Yet, too many teams leave gaps that threat actors are ready to exploit.  Let’s get proactive. Here are seven common backup priorities and what we recommend to ensure your organization can recover from anything the modern

How many times has your SOC hit crisis mode at 2:00 AM, with the dashboard blaring red and analysts scrambling to separate real threats from useless noise? We’ve all been there, and if you’re still measuring success by the number of alerts closed, chances are you’re feeling the strain. The truth is, responding to everything is neither sustainable nor effective—and it puts resilience at risk.  In this article, we’ll show you the five most important steps you can take to move from alert fatigu

Business resilience starts at the endpoint. Between March and December 2025, the N-able SOC processed over 900,000 alerts—and a staggering 18% originated from network and perimeter exploits that most endpoint-only security never saw. Attackers are constantly shifting tactics, and endpoints remain an exposed attack surface. The good news: the right proactive strategies put you in control, stopping threats before they ripple across your business.  Here’s our concise, field-tested playbook to o

Silos are the enemy of business resilience. As IT leaders, we’ve all felt the pain: the backup administrator, SOC analyst, and endpoint engineer operating in separate worlds—often meeting for the first time in the chaos of a live cyberattack. The result? Delayed responses, missed signals, and greater impact on the business. The N-able 2026 State of the SOC Report leaves no doubt. In just one year, 18% of all security alerts came from network and perimeter exploits—risks many endpoint-only te

If you’re in IT, you know: what we don’t measure puts business resilience at risk. In the face of rising threat volumes, scaling complexity, and board-level scrutiny, tracking the right operational metrics isn’t just about visibility—it’s the foundation for proactive risk management and business continuity. Compliance and insurance demands are also driving the scrutiny around measuring cybersecurity programs.   Recent findings from the 2026 N-able State of the SOC Report are clear: the threa

What does it really take to keep your organization running when attackers strike? The answer is business resilience—being able to detect, contain, and recover fast enough that disruptions are minimized, customers stay confident, and operations keep moving.   From the latest 2026 State of the SOC Report, which is based on more than 900,000 alerts observed between March and December 2025 from the Adlumin Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provided by the N-able SOC, we’ve seen firsthand wher

Developers can spend days using fuzzing tools to find security weaknesses in code. Alternatively, they can simply ask an LLM to do the job for them in seconds. The catch: LLMs are evolving so rapidly that this convenience might come with hidden dangers. The latest example is from researcher Hung Nguyen from AI red teaming company Calif, who, with simple prompts to Anthropic’s Claude Code, was able to uncover zero-day remote code exploits (RCEs) in the source code of two of the most popul

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a new phishing campaign in which the cybersecurity agency itself was impersonated to distribute a remote administration tool known as AGEWHEEZE. As part of the attacks, the threat actors, tracked as UAC-0255, sent emails on March 26 and 27, 2026, posing as CERT-UA to distribute a password-protected ZIP archiveView the full article

There is a character that keeps appearing in enterprise security departments, and most CISOs know exactly who that is. It doesn’t build. It doesn’t enable. Its entire function is to say "No." No to ChatGPT. No to DeepSeek. No to the file-sharing tool the product team swears by. For years, this looked like security. But in 2026, "Doctor No" is no longer just a management headache &View the full article

A multi-pronged phishing campaign is targeting Spanish-speaking users in organizations across Latin America and Europe to deliver Windows banking trojans like Casbaneiro (aka Metamorfo) via another malware called Horabot. The activity has been attributed to a Brazilian cybercrime threat actor tracked as Augmented Marauder and Water Saci. The e-crime group was first documented by Trend Micro inView the full article

Microsoft is calling attention to a new campaign that has leveraged WhatsApp messages to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBS) files. The activity, beginning in late February 2026, leverages these scripts to initiate a multi-stage infection chain for establishing persistence and enabling remote access. It's currently not known what lures the threat actors use to trick users intoView the full article

Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address 21 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-5281 (CVSS score: N/A), concerns a use-after-free bug in Dawn, an open-source and cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU standard. "Use-after-free in Dawn in Google Chrome priorView the full article

Microsoft is warning WhatsApp users of a new malware campaign that tricks them into executing malicious Visual Basic Script (VBS) files, ultimately enabling persistence and remote access. In a March 31 report, Microsoft Defender Experts said attackers have been distributing malicious Visual Basic Script (VBS) files through WhatsApp since at least late February, relying on social engineering to get them executed. Once launched, the scripts run a delayed malware execution, first initiating

For years, cybersecurity has followed a familiar model: block malware, stop the attack. Now, attackers are moving on to what’s next. Threat actors now use malware less frequently in favor of what’s already inside your environment, including abusing trusted tools, native binaries, and legitimate admin utilities to move laterally, escalate privileges, and persist without raising alarms. MostView the full article

PX Media – shutterstock.com Hacker haben nach Angaben der iranischen Justiz mutmaßlich Zugriff auf Daten eines bekannten Exilportals erlangt. Dabei seien große Menge an Daten erbeutet worden, darunter Schriftwechsel, Listen von Angestellten, Informanten sowie streng vertrauliche Daten, berichtete das Sprachrohr der iranischen Justiz, die Nachrichtenagentur Misan.  Bei dem Portal handelte es sich um die gut informierte Website Iranwire. Sie war am Dienstag zunächst nicht wie gewöhnlich er

AI hallucinations are a well-known problem and, when it comes to compliance assessments, these convincing but inaccurate assessments can cause real damage with poor risk assessments, incorrect policy guidance, or even inaccurate incident reports. Cybersecurity leaders say the real trouble starts when AI moves past writing summaries and begins making judgment calls. That’s when it’s asked to decide things such as whether security controls are doing their job, if a company is meeting complianc

Organizations have been responding to phishing, business email compromise, and credential theft in essentially the same manner for over ten years. They essentially follow a playbook that involves investing in awareness training, running phishing simulations, and requiring employees to complete annual security modules. The reason behind this is simple and the reasoning behind these efforts is straightforward: if people can better spot malicious emails and recognize malicious activity, incidents w

Google has formally attributed the supply chain compromise of the popular Axios npm package to a financially motivated North Korean threat activity cluster tracked as UNC1069. "We have attributed the attack to a suspected North Korean threat actor we track as UNC1069," John Hultquist, chief analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), told The Hacker News in a statement. "North KoreanView the full article

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Anthropic on Tuesday confirmed that internal code for its popular artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, Claude Code, had been inadvertently released due to a human error. "No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed," an Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement shared with CNBC News. "This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a securityView the full article

IT leaders are setting their operations strategies for 2026 with an eye toward agility, flexibility, and tangible business results.  Download the January 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World and learn about the trends and technologies that will drive the IT agenda in the year ahead. View the full article

Sergey Zaykov | shutterstock.com Regelmäßige Netzwerk-Scans reichen für eine gehärtete Angriffsfläche nicht mehr aus. Um die Sicherheit von Unternehmensressourcen und Kundendaten zu gewährleisten, ist eine kontinuierliche Überwachung auf neue Ressourcen und Konfigurationsabweichungen erforderlich. Werkzeuge im Bereich Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) und External Attack Surface Management (EASM) sind darauf ausgelegt, die Angriffsfläche von Unternehmen: zu quantifizieren,

An Anthropic employee accidentally exposed the entire proprietary source code for its AI programming tool, Claude Code, by including a source map file in a version of the tool posted on Anthropic’s open npm registry account, a risky mistake, says an AI expert. “A compromised source map is a security risk,” said US-based cybersecurity and AI expert Joseph Steinberg. “A hacker can use a source map to reconstruct the original source code and [see] how it works. Any secrets within that code – if

Attackers compromised the npm account of the lead maintainer of Axios, a widely used JavaScript HTTP client library, and used it to publish malicious versions of the package that deployed a cross-platform remote access trojan on developer machines. The incident represents the highest-impact npm supply chain attack on record given Axios’ approximately 100 million weekly downloads and its presence in frontend frameworks, backend services, and countless enterprise applications. Luckily the troj

A vulnerability misclassified five months ago as a denial-of-service issue in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) turned out to be a critical pre-authentication remote code execution flaw that is now under active exploitation. Hackers are using it to deploy a persistent malware program that runs with root privileges. The CVE-2025-53521 vulnerability was first disclosed in October 2025 as a DoS issue with a CVSS severity score of 7.5. F5 updated the advisory Friday, reclassifying it as remo

Google on Monday said it's officially rolling out Android developer verification to all developers to combat the problem of bad actors distributing harmful apps while "hiding behind anonymity." The development comes ahead of a planned verification mandate that goes into effect in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand this September, before it expands globally next year. As part of thisView the full article

A high-severity security flaw in the TrueConf client video conferencing software has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day as part of a campaign targeting government entities in Southeast Asia dubbed TrueChaos. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3502 (CVSS score: 7.8), a lack of integrity check when fetching application update code, allowing an attacker to distribute a tampered update,View the full article

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security "blind spot" in Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform that could allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to be weaponized by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and compromise an organization's cloud environment. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the issue relates to how the Vertex AI permission model can be misusedView the full article

RSA 2026 covered no shortage of ground. From identity and platform consolidation to exposure management, detection, and the expanding role of AI across security operations, there was a lot competing for attention. But beneath the broader conference conversation, one theme felt especially relevant from an operational standpoint: how security teams are rethinking the Security Operations Center itself. That shift stood out. The discussion was less about AI in the abstract and more about how modern

OpenAI has fixed two flaws in its AI stack that could allow AI agents to move sensitive data in unintended ways. The issues, disclosed by researchers at BeyondTrust and Check Point Research, affect the OpenAI Codex coding agent and ChatGPT’s code execution environment, respectively. One enabled GitHub token theft through command injection, while the other exposed a hidden channel for silently leaking user data. Both bugs have now been patched, but researchers warn that giving AI tools au

Chinese-speaking users are the target of an active campaign that uses typosquatted domains impersonating trusted software brands to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan named AtlasCross RAT. "The operation covers VPN clients, encrypted messengers, video conferencing tools, cryptocurrency trackers, and e-commerce applications, with eleven confirmed delivery domains impersonatingView the full article

The cybersecurity landscape is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. What is emerging is not simply a rise in the number of vulnerabilities or tools, but a dramatic increase in speed. Speed of attack, speed of exploitation, and speed of change across modern environments. This is the defining challenge of the new era of digital warfare: the weaponization of Artificial Intelligence. Threat actorsView the full article

As every CISO knows, maintaining a strong cybersecurity posture is costly. What’s not so well known is that there are many ways cybersecurity can be enhanced with the help of relatively trivial investments. Simply by thinking creatively, a security leader can substantially boost enterprise protection at a minimal cost. Could your organization benefit from some extra low-cost protection? If so, here are eight ways to improve enterprise cybersecurity without seriously denting your budget.