Black Hat USA 2026: Will vulnerability discovery eventually decline in the AI era?
And will today’s surge in AI-driven vulnerability discovery eventually make tomorrow’s software safer?
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The State of Ransomware Q2 2026
For the past year, the ransomware conversation has centered on concentration: a handful of dominant RaaS operations controlling most of the damage, and a shr...
Black Hat USA 2026: What the Hugging Face hack tells us about human responsibility
The incident involving OpenAI models shows that autonomous hacks make human oversight more important, not less
Armored Likho expands its cyber-espionage toolkit
Kaspersky experts break down a new Armored Likho campaign that poses as a fundraising efforts and delivers a new Still Toolkit aimed at stealing Telegram dat...
Malware Crypting Services and the Threat Actors Who Sell Them
Insikt Group analyzes 24 threat actors selling malware crypting services. Learn about their evasion techniques, market dynamics, and how defenders can priori...
Black Hat USA 2026: AI is racing ahead of cybersecurity controls
AI took center stage, but the clearest lesson was less about what AI can do than about who is accountable when something goes wrong
How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats
Every Signal chat starts the same way: the client asks the Signal server for the public key associated with your contact’s phone number. But how do you know ...
Shattering the Dream – When a Job Offer Becomes a Zero-Day Attack
Key Points Introduction Since early 2026, Check Point Research has tracked a wave of the Operation Dream Job campaign. This wave primarily targeted the defen...
Head Mare APT is exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched TrueConf server to deliver PhantomCore and PhantomGraph to video conference participants
Kaspersky experts have discovered malicious TrueConf software installers. The Head Mare APT group uses them to deliver the PhantomCore and PhantomGraph backd...
Project CAV3RN continues: Google Apps Script as C2 relay and DNS-based C2 channel selection
Project CAV3RN targets Israel with Google Apps Script C2 relays and DNS-based routing. Modular .
Kimwolf v7: An Evolution of the Kimwolf Botnet
Discover how Kimwolf v7 targets Android IoT devices with HTTP/2 DDoS fingerprinting, Ethereum ENS C2 resolution and Tor backup routing. The post Kimwolf v7: ...
Mines, Minds, and Machines: The Journey of AI
Minerals become chips. Chips become data centers.
13 million tool calls: auditing every AI coding agent action with Elastic Agent
Cursor hooks and Elastic Agent capture every tool call, shell command, file read and MCP request as structured events you can hunt with ES|QL.
13 million tool calls: auditing every AI coding agent action with Elastic Agent
Cursor hooks and Elastic Agent capture every tool call, shell command, file read and MCP request as structured events you can hunt with ES|QL.
The Permanent Threat: Analyzing Aeternum’s Blockchain-Based C2 Operations and Communications
Analysis of the Aeternum botnet loader, a threat leveraging Polygon blockchain smart contracts for decentralized C2 infrastructure and payload execution. The...
10th August – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 10th August, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES North Ca...
IT threat evolution in Q2 2026. Non-mobile statistics
The report presents key trends and statistics on malware that targeted personal computers running Windows and macOS, as well as internet of things (IoT) devi...
IT threat evolution in Q2 2026. Mobile statistics
This report contains mobile threat statistics for Q2 2026, along with noteworthy discoveries and quarterly trends: the Anatsa banker and a transition to drop...
Are AI tutors safe for your kids?
AI tutors can offer useful support, but their quality and safeguards vary widely. Here’s what parents should check before handing one to a child.
The Hugging Face Hack Was Cheap Persistence at Work
The Hugging Face incident shows AI won't make attackers brilliant. It makes persistence cheap.