Cybersecurity

• Finding Signal in the Noise: Lessons Learned Running a Honeypot with AI Assistance [Guest Diary] [This is a Guest Diary by Austin Bodolay, an ISC intern as part of the SANS • edu

• A Chinese keyboard warrior inadvertently leaked information about politically motivated influence operations through a ChatGPT account

• The vulnerabilities highlight a big drawback to integrating AI into software development workflows and the potential impact on supply chains

• js job interview tests backdoor developer’s devices February 25, 2026 04:47 PM 0 A coordinated campaign targeting software developers with job-themed lures is using malicious rep

• Researchers suggest defenders monitor how these malicious groups re-form and leverage the useful threat intel to guide their next moves

• The CLAIR Model: A Synthesized Conceptual Framework for Mapping Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies [Guest Diary] [This is a guest diary contributed by Claire Perry (Linked

• The PCI Security Standards Council experienced a record year in many regards, but its first annual report shows it needs to work even faster to stay ahead of attackers

• Google Disrupts UNC2814 GRIDTIDE Campaign After 53 Breaches Across 42 Countries Google on Wednesday disclosed that it worked with industry partners to disrupt the infrastructure

• Chinese cyberspies breached dozens of telecom firms, govt agencies February 25, 2026 12:00 PM 0 Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), Mandiant, and partners disrupted a glob

• Linked to North Korean fake job-recruitment campaigns, the poisoned repositories are aimed at establishing persistent access to infected machines

• Weak access controls, AI confusion, and the interconnection of business continue to expand Threat • More than half (56%) of the 400,000 vulnerabilities IBM X-Force tracked in 202

• Google announced on Wednesday that it has disrupted a significant China-linked cyberespionage campaign targeting telecoms and government organizations worldwide • The threat acto

• Marquis sues SonicWall over backup breach that led to ransomware attack February 25, 2026 10:54 AM 0 Marquis Software Solutions has filed a lawsuit against SonicWall, accusing th

• SLH Offers $500-$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks The notorious cybercrime collective known asScattered LAPSUS$ Hunters(SLH) has been observed off

• The OpenClaw Hype: Analysis of Chatter from Open-Source Deep and Dark Web February 25, 2026 10:01 AM 0 OpenClaw started as a side project of a developer who wanted to make his (a

• Triage is supposed to make things simpler • In a lot of teams, it does the opposite • When you can’t reach a confident verdict early, alerts turn into repeat checks, back-and-for

• Attackers are bypassing email gateways through telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD), in which the only email payload is a phone number

• Medical device manufacturer UFP Technologies on Tuesday disclosed a cybersecurity incident that involved the theft of files and the disruption of some IT systems • UFP Technologi

• An Australian national was sentenced to 87 months in a US prison for stealing trade secrets from a defense contractor and selling them to a Russian cyber-exploit broker • Accordi

• Zyxel warns of critical RCE flaw affecting over a dozen routers February 25, 2026 07:53 AM 0 Taiwan networking provider Zyxel has released security updates to address a critical

• Malicious NuGet Packages Stole ASP • NET Data; npm Package Dropped Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four malicious NuGet packages that are designed to target ASP

• More than 12 million users have been affected by a data breach at automotive research and shopping website CarGurus.The incident was disclosed last week, when the infamous extort

• ICS/OT experts have devised a scoring system for rating the severity and effects of cybersecurity events in operational technology environments.

• Immediate Action Required: CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Secure Cisco SD-WAN Systems WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today issuedEme

• Las Vegas-based high-end casino and hotel operator Wynn Resorts has confirmed that hackers have stolen employee data.‘We have learned that an unauthorized third party acquired ce

• Why automating sensitive data transfers is now a mission-critical priority More than half of national security organizations still rely on manual processes to transfer sensitive

• Cybersecurity startup Astelia has announced raising $35 million in seed and Series A funding. • The investment was led by Index Ventures and Team8, with additional support from H

• US sanctions Russian broker for buying stolen zero-day exploits February 25, 2026 05:31 AM 0 The U.S. • Treasury Department has sanctioned a Russian exploit broker who bought sto

• Britain’s data privacy watchdog slapped online forum Reddit on Tuesday with a fine worth nearly $20 million for failures involving children’s personal information • The Informati

• The stocks of major cybersecurity companies have fallen sharply after AI firm Anthropic unveiled a new security capability for its Claude LLM.Anthropic announced on Friday that i

• Defense Contractor Employee Jailed for Selling 8 Zero-Days to Russian Broker A 39-year-old Australian national who was previously employed at U.S. • defense contractor L3Harris h

• Ad tech firm Optimizely has confirmed that threat actors accessed certain internal business systems through a sophisticated voice phishing (vishing) attack.The incident, the comp

• Ex-L3Harris exec jailed for selling zero-days to Russian exploit broker February 25, 2026 03:21 AM 0 The former head of Trenchant, a specialized U.S. • defense contractor unit, w

• In the latest operation targeting cybercrime groups, African law enforcement agencies cooperated with Interpol and cybersecurity firms to recover more than USD 4.3 million.

• Windows 11 KB5077241 update improves BitLocker, adds Sysmon tool February 25, 2026 02:51 AM 0 Microsoft has released the KB5077241 optional cumulative update for Windows 11, whic

• SolarWinds Patches 4 Critical Serv-U 15.5 Flaws Allowing Root Code Execution SolarWinds hasreleased updatesto address four critical security flaws in its Serv-U file transfer sof

• Phishing campaign targets freight and logistics orgs in the US, Europe February 24, 2026 06:57 PM 0 A financially motivated threat group dubbed ‘Diesel Vortex’ is stealing creden

• Wynn Resorts confirms employee data breach after extortion threat February 24, 2026 04:51 PM 0 Wynn Resorts has confirmed that a hacker stole employee data from its systems after

• 1Campaign platform helps malicious Google ads evade detection February 24, 2026 04:45 PM 0 A newly identified cybercrime service known as 1Campaign is enabling threat actors to r

• Credential misuse, AI tools, and security blind spots help attackers move through breached networks faster than ever, CrowdStrike finds.

• Cyberattacks & Data Breaches Cyber Risk Endpoint Security Threat Intelligence News Lazarus Group Picks a New Poison: Medusa Ransomware The North Korean threat group also leverage

• RoguePilot Flaw in GitHub Codespaces Enabled Copilot to Leak GITHUB_TOKEN A vulnerability inGitHub Codespacescould have been exploited by bad actors to seize control of repositor

• CarGurus data breach exposes information of 12.4 million accounts February 24, 2026 01:08 PM 0 The ShinyHunters extortion group has published personal information in more than 12

• Open Redirects: A Forgotten Vulnerability? • In 2010, OWASP added ‘Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards’ to its Top 10 list and merged it into ‘Sensitive Data Exposure’ in 2013 [ow

• Microsoft adds Copilot data controls to all storage locations February 24, 2026 12:30 PM 0 Microsoft is expanding data loss prevention (DLP) controls to block the Microsoft 365 C

• Microsoft Defender Experts identified a coordinated developer-targeting campaign delivered through malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical a

• A new infostealer named ‘Arkanix Stealer’ operated as a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) enterprise in a one-shot campaign, Kaspersky says.Implemented in both C++ and Python, the malw

• Identity-First AI Security: Why CISOs Must Add Intent to the Equation February 24, 2026 10:02 AM 0 Author: Itamar Apelblat, CEO and Co-Founder, Token Security Not long ago, AI de

• UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully February 24, 2026 09:54 AM 0 The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Reddit £14.47 million (over

• Broadcom has released patches for several vulnerabilities affecting VMware Aria Operations, including high-severity flaws.The most important of the newly patched vulnerabilities

• UAC-0050 Targets European Financial Institution With Spoofed Domain and RMS Malware A Russia-aligned threat actor has been observed targeting a European financial institution as

• Why OT Defenses Often Start Too Late Industrial organizations are facing a growing paradox in cybersecurity. • While operational technology (OT) environments are increasingly con

• Timothy Youngblood didn’t set out to be a CISO, but he became CISO at four major enterprises, took on angel investing and won the Most Valued Member award at the Summer Investor

• The Australian Signals Directorate launched Azul, a free malware analysis tool. • Azul is designed for reverse engineers and incident responders. • The platform runs on Kubernete

• Security researchers have uncovered a new supply chain attack targeting the NPM registry with malicious code that exhibits worm-like propagation capabilities.DubbedSandworm_Mode,

• Investments in cybersecurity startups took off in 2025, as venture capital firms focused not just on AI-native tech, but talent as well.

• Cisco career story transitions from factory floor to cybersecurity leadership. • Host shares personal journey and challenges faced during career shift. • Story highlights importa

• Full‑session encryption critical for modern TACACS+ security. • Attackers use stolen credentials and protocol weaknesses to breach infrastructure. • Cisco Talos reports highlight

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• IT hiring services require deeper background checks for privileged access. • AI era demands more thorough verification of IT professionals. • Podcast discusses criteria for selec