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  • AI is Everywhere, But CISOs are Still Securing It with Yesterday’s Skills and Tools, Study Finds

    AI is Everywhere, But CISOs are Still Securing It with Yesterday’s Skills and Tools, Study Finds

    A majority of security leaders are struggling to defend AI systems with tools and skills that are not fit for the challenge, according to the AI and Adversarial Testing Benchmark Report 2026 from Pentera.
    The report, based on a survey of 300 US CISOs and senior security leaders, examines how organizations are securing AI infrastructure and highlights critical gaps tied to skills shortages and

  • Konni Deploys EndRAT Through Phishing, Uses KakaoTalk to Propagate Malware

    Konni Deploys EndRAT Through Phishing, Uses KakaoTalk to Propagate Malware

    North Korean threat actors have been observed sending phishing to compromise targets and obtain access to a victim’s KakaoTalk desktop application to distribute malicious payloads to certain contacts.
    The activity has been attributed by South Korean threat intelligence firm Genians to a hacking group referred to as Konni.
    “Initial access was achieved through a spear-phishing email disguised as a

  • CISA Flags Actively Exploited Wing FTP Vulnerability Leaking Server Paths

    CISA Flags Actively Exploited Wing FTP Vulnerability Leaking Server Paths

    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Wing FTP to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
    The vulnerability, CVE-2025-47813 (CVSS score: 4.3), is an information disclosure vulnerability that leaks the installation path of the application under certain conditions

  • GlassWorm Attack Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Force-Push Malware Into Python Repos

    GlassWorm Attack Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Force-Push Malware Into Python Repos

    The GlassWorm malware campaign is being used to fuel an ongoing attack that leverages the stolen GitHub tokens to inject malware into hundreds of Python repositories.
    “The attack targets Python projects — including Django apps, ML research code, Streamlit dashboards, and PyPI packages — by appending obfuscated code to files like setup.py, main.py, and app.py,” StepSecurity said. “Anyone who runs

  • ⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Days, Router Botnets, AWS Breach, Rogue AI Agents & More

    ⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Days, Router Botnets, AWS Breach, Rogue AI Agents & More

    Some weeks in security feel normal. Then you read a few tabs and get that immediate “ah, great, we’re doing this now” feeling.
    This week has that energy. Fresh messes, old problems getting sharper, and research that stops feeling theoretical real fast. A few bits hit a little too close to real life, too. There’s a good mix here: weird abuse of trusted stuff, quiet infrastructure ugliness,

  • DRILLAPP Backdoor Targets Ukraine, Abuses Microsoft Edge Debugging for Stealth Espionage

    DRILLAPP Backdoor Targets Ukraine, Abuses Microsoft Edge Debugging for Stealth Espionage

    Ukrainian entities have emerged as the target of a new campaign likely orchestrated by threat actors linked to Russia, according to a report from S2 Grupo’s LAB52 threat intelligence team.
    The campaign, observed in February 2026, has been assessed to share overlaps with a prior campaign mounted by Laundry Bear (aka UAC-0190 or Void Blizzard) aimed at Ukrainian defense forces with a malware

  • Android 17 Blocks Non-Accessibility Apps from Accessibility API to Prevent Malware Abuse

    Android 17 Blocks Non-Accessibility Apps from Accessibility API to Prevent Malware Abuse

    Google is testing a new security feature as part of Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM) that prevents certain kinds of apps from using the accessibility services API.
    The change, incorporated in Android 17 Beta 2, was first reported by Android Authority last week.
    AAPM was introduced by Google in Android 16, released last year. When enabled, it causes the device to enter a heightened

  • OpenClaw AI Agent Flaws Could Enable Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration

    OpenClaw AI Agent Flaws Could Enable Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration

    China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT) has issued a warning about the security stemming from the use of OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot), an open-source and self-hosted autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent.
    In a post shared on WeChat, CNCERT noted that the platform’s “inherently weak default security configurations,” coupled with its

  • GlassWorm Supply-Chain Attack Abuses 72 Open VSX Extensions to Target Developers

    GlassWorm Supply-Chain Attack Abuses 72 Open VSX Extensions to Target Developers

    Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new iteration of the GlassWorm campaign that they say represents a “significant escalation” in how it propagates through the Open VSX registry.
    “Instead of requiring every malicious listing to embed the loader directly, the threat actor is now abusing extensionPack and extensionDependencies to turn initially standalone-looking extensions into transitive

  • Chinese Hackers Target Southeast Asian Militaries with AppleChris and MemFun Malware

    Chinese Hackers Target Southeast Asian Militaries with AppleChris and MemFun Malware

    A suspected China-based cyber espionage operation has targeted Southeast Asian military organizations as part of a state-sponsored campaign that dates back to at least 2020.
    Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the threat activity under the moniker CL-STA-1087, where CL refers to cluster, and STA stands for state-backed motivation.
    “The activity demonstrated strategic operational patience and