AI is beginning to take over much of the work that has traditionally defined the security analyst’s job. Investigating alerts, collecting evidence, correlating activity across tools, and executing response actions are becoming tasks that AI systems can perform on their own. As these capabilities mature, security operations centers (SOCs) willRead More »The Rise of the Threat Operator: How AI Will Redefine Security Operations and Careers

26,400 credentials that developers left in public code on Gitee, a Chinese code-hosting service, still worked when a researcher tested them. Anyone who copied one from that code could have used it. Independent researcher Ben Zimmermann found them by scanning 7.25 million public Gitee repositories and reported the results on October 28.Read More »26,400 Valid Cloud and AI Credentials Found Exposed in Public Gitee Repositories

Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw in Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76418, is rated 8.6 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation couldRead More »Cisco Patches Actively Exploited ASA and FTD VPN Flaw That Can Crash Firewalls

GitHub has announced that it’s introducing a new package firewall as a preview to block installation of suspicious npm packages during installation time. “The firewall inspects both metadata requests and package downloads for signs of malicious activity, acting as an install-time policy gate,” GitHub said. The feature, which currently supportsRead More »GitHub Launches npm Firewall to Block Malicious Packages Before Installation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware ESX to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, after CrowdStrike revealed that it had been weaponized by a China-nexus threat actor known as Warp Panda in attacks targeting the U.S. legal sector. TheRead More »China-Linked Hackers Exploited VMware ESX Zero-Day to Reduce Audit Trail Visibility

Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday warned that threat actors are exploiting the recently patched PHP2Shell vulnerabilities against publicly-accessible management interfaces. “Active exploitation has been observed targeting the Palo Alto Networks management interface exposed to the internet,” the network security company said in an update to its advisory. The vulnerabilities, trackedRead More »Attackers Exploit PHP2Shell Flaws in Internet-Exposed Palo Alto Networks Management Interfaces

The China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Volt Typhoon has been attributed to a now-disrupted covert access network dubbed Silent Train that has been put to use for zero-day exploitation and strategic access. “First identified in late 2023, Silent Train uses rotating chains of compromised SOHO, IoT, and enterprise infrastructure,”Read More »Volt Typhoon Used Covert Silent Train Network in Four Zero-Day Exploitation Campaigns