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Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for a critical remote code execution flaw in protobuf.js, a widely used JavaScript implementation of Google's Protocol Buffers. [...]
Microsoft is warning that a recent Microsoft Edge browser update introduced a bug that breaks right-click paste in chats in the Microsoft Teams desktop client. [...]
NAKIVO Inc. announced the general availability of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v11.2, focused on fast, reliable, and proactive data protection. [...]
In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak passwords. Unmanaged non-human identities that nobody was watching. For every employee in your org, there are 40 to 50 automated credentials: service accounts, API tokens, AI age...
Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-incorporated cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.K. and the U.S. last year, said it's suspending operations after it blamed Western intelligence agencies for a $13.74 million hack. The exchange said it fell victim to what it described as a large-scale cyber attack tha...
Threat actors are exploiting security flaws in TBK DVR and end‑of‑life (EoL) TP-Link Wi-Fi routers to deploy Mirai-botnet variants on compromised devices, according to findings from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs and Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The attack targeting TBK DVR devices has been found to exp...
Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unfriendly states."
Pretty fantastic video from Japan of a giant squid eating another 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.
The Payouts King ransomware is using the QEMU emulator as a reverse SSH backdoor to run hidden virtual machines on compromised systems and bypass endpoint security. [...]
Kyrgyzstan-based cryptocurrency exchange Grinex has suspended its operations after suffering a $13.7 million hack attributed to Western intelligence agencies. [...]
In cybercrime markets, trust isn't assumed, it's verified. Flare reveals how underground guides teach actors to evaluate carding shops based on data quality, reputation, and survivability. [...]
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Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain elevated privileges in compromised systems. The activity involves the exploitation of three vulnerabilities that are codenamed BlueHammer (requires GitHub sign-in), RedSun, ...
Cyberattacks are evolving faster than many MSP and corporate defenses can keep up, with phishing driving much of today's cybercrime. Join our upcoming webinar to learn how to combine security and recovery strategies to reduce risk and maintain business continuity. [...]
Last week, Anthropic pulled back the curtain on Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model so capable at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities that the company decided it was too dangerous to release to the public. Instead, access has been restricted to roughly 50 organizations—Microsoft, Apple...
Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.
Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025. The new policy updates relate to contact and location p...
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the Roomba. The real ambition for many of these researchers was the r...
CISA warned that attackers are now exploiting a high-severity Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability, which was patched earlier this month after going undetected for 13 years. [...]
Lakehouse architectures enable multiple engines to operate on shared data using open table formats such as Apache Iceberg. However, differences in SQL identifier resolution and catalog naming rules create interoperability failures. This article examines these behaviors and explains why enforcing ...
Microsoft warns that some Windows domain controllers are entering restart loops after installing the April 2026 security updates. [...]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), stating it will only enrich those that fulfil certain conditions owing to an explosion in C...
23-year-old Kamerin Stokes of Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for selling access to tens of thousands of hacked DraftKings accounts. [...]
Threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed Windows security vulnerabilities in attacks aimed at gaining SYSTEM or elevated administrator permissions. [...]
An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations that were used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals. The ongoing effort, dubbed Operation PowerOFF, disrupted access to the DDo...
A recently disclosed high-severity security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ Classic has come under active exploitation in the wild, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). To that end, the agency has added the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34197 (CVSS score: 8.8), to it...
The latest wave of "Operation PowerOFF," on April 13, 2026, targeted the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ecosystem and its users across 21 countries. [...]
A new malware called ZionSiphon, specifically designed for operational technology, is targeting water treatment and desalination environments to sabotage their operations. [...]
A researcher known as "Chaotic Eclipse" has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a second Microsoft Defender zero-day, dubbed "RedSun," in the past two weeks, protesting how the company works with cybersecurity researchers. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that's targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet dubbed PowMix since at least December 2025. "PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persist...
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Hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Marimo reactive Python notebook to deploy a new variant of NKAbuse malware hosted on Hugging Face Spaces. [...]
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You know that feeling when you open your feed on a Thursday morning and it's just... a lot? Yeah. This week delivered. We've got hackers getting creative in ways that are almost impressive if you ignore the whole "crime" part, ancient vulnerabilities somehow still ruining people's days, and enoug...
The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For this reason,...
There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advantage is structural:...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to modify simulation parameters, training configuration and training records. The following versions of AVEVA Pipeline Simulation are affected: Pipeline Simulation <=2025_SP1_build_7.1.9497.635...
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-34197 Apache ActiveMQ Improper Input Validation Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses s...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to systems and services. The following versions of Horner Automation Cscape and XL4, XL7 PLC are affected: Cscape v10.0 XL7 PLC v15.60 XL4 PLC v16.32.0 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnera...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The following versions of Delta Electronics ASDA-Soft are affected: ASDA-Soft <=V7.2.2.0 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.8 Delta Electronics Delta Electronics ASDA-Soft St...
Proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for a critical remote code execution flaw in protobuf.js, a widely used JavaScript implementation of Google's Protocol Buffers. [...]
Microsoft is warning that a recent Microsoft Edge browser update introduced a bug that breaks right-click paste in chats in the Microsoft Teams desktop client. [...]
NAKIVO Inc. announced the general availability of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v11.2, focused on fast, reliable, and proactive data protection. [...]
In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak passwords. Unmanaged non-human identities that nobody was watching. For every employee in your org, there are 40 to 50 automated credentials: service accounts, API tokens, AI age...
Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-incorporated cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.K. and the U.S. last year, said it's suspending operations after it blamed Western intelligence agencies for a $13.74 million hack. The exchange said it fell victim to what it described as a large-scale cyber attack tha...
Threat actors are exploiting security flaws in TBK DVR and end‑of‑life (EoL) TP-Link Wi-Fi routers to deploy Mirai-botnet variants on compromised devices, according to findings from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs and Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The attack targeting TBK DVR devices has been found to exp...
Pretty fantastic video from Japan of a giant squid eating another 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.
The Payouts King ransomware is using the QEMU emulator as a reverse SSH backdoor to run hidden virtual machines on compromised systems and bypass endpoint security. [...]
In this post, we demonstrate how you can build a scalable, multi-tenant configuration service using the tagged storage pattern, an architectural approach that uses key prefixes (like tenant_config_ or param_config_) to automatically route configuration requests to the most appropriate AWS storage...
In this post, we walk through the new installation experience, demonstrate three deployment methods (console, CLI, and Terraform), and show how features like multi-instance-type deployment and native node affinity give you fine-grained control over inference scheduling
This post describes a solution that uses fixed camera networks to monitor operational environments in near real-time, detecting potential safety hazards while capturing object floor projections and their relationships to floor markings. While we illustrate the approach through distribution center...
In this blog post, we take a building blocks approach. Starting with the tools like AWS Backup to protect your data, we then add protection for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS). Finally, we show how to use the full capabilities of AWS...
In this post, you will learn how Aigen modernized its machine learning (ML) pipeline with Amazon SageMaker AI to overcome industry-wide agricultural robotics challenges and scale sustainable farming. This post focuses on the strategies and architecture patterns that enabled Aigen to modernize its...
In this post, we demonstrate how to architect AWS systems that enable AI agents to iterate rapidly through design patterns for both system architecture and code base structure. We first examine the architectural problems that limit agentic development today. We then walk through system architectu...
In this post, we look at how Generali is using Amazon EKS Auto Mode and its integration with other AWS services to enhance performance while reducing operational overhead, optimizing costs, and enhancing security.
In this post, you'll learn how AWS DevOps Agent integrates with your existing observability stack to provide intelligent, automated responses to system events.
Illustration showing a person with a Pixel phone in a beach town farmers' market by the water
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the Roomba. The real ambition for many of these researchers was the r...
AI Mode in Chrome
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The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For this reason,...
There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advantage is structural:...
The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than ever before in the current conflict with Iran. AI is no longer just helping humans analyze intell...
The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.
Lakehouse architectures enable multiple engines to operate on shared data using open table formats such as Apache Iceberg. However, differences in SQL identifier resolution and catalog naming rules create interoperability failures. This article examines these behaviors and explains why enforcing ...
In this article, the author explores how hierarchical agentic RAG systems coordinate specialized workers through structured orchestration to improve accuracy, reliability, and explainability in complex enterprise analytics workflows. The article uses Protocol-H as a to show how deterministic rout...
Agent workflows make transport a first-order concern. Multi-turn, tool-heavy loops amplify overhead that is negligible in single-turn LLM use. Stateful continuation cuts overhead dramatically. Caching context server-side can reduce client-sent data by 80%+ and improve execution time by 15–29% . B...
Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to ... unfriendly states."
Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.
Western Union exec says there were "challenges" working with Broadcom.
As the US and Israel's war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.
End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.
The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.
GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.
No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.
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