Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones
The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions,…
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The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions,…
Ravie LakshmananSep 01, 2026Cyber Attack / Artificial Intelligence METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced «Meter»), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for…
Ravie LakshmananSep 01, 2026Malware / Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that’s been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against…
Ravie LakshmananSep 01, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence Threat actors are exploiting two critical flaws impacting Langflow and Ruby on Rails, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerabilities in question…
Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed seeking job opportunities beyond the information technology (IT) sector, with recent…
Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest…
Ravie LakshmananAug 31, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted…
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and…
Swati KhandelwalAug 31, 2026Malware / Endpoint Security The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the…
A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers,…