This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking and signing books at the Chicago Public Library in Chicago, Illinois, USA, at 6:00 PM CT on February 5, 2026. Details to come. I’m speaking at Capricon 44 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The conventionRead More »Upcoming Speaking Engagements
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity flaw impacting Sierra Wireless AirLink ALEOS routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. CVE-2018-4063 (CVSS score: 8.8/9.9) refers to an unrestricted file upload vulnerability that could be exploitedRead More »CISA Adds Actively Exploited Sierra Wireless Router Flaw Enabling RCE Attacks
Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two security flaws that it said have been exploited in the wild, one of which is the same flaw that was patched by Google in Chrome earlier this week. TheRead More »Apple Issues Security Updates After Two WebKit Flaws Found Exploited in the Wild
I have no context for this video—it’s from Reddit—but one of the commenters adds some context: Hey everyone, squid biologist here! Wanted to add some stuff you might find interesting. With so many people carrying around cameras, we’re getting more videos of giant squid at the surface than in previousRead More »Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Eating a Diamondback Squid
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that’s leveraging GitHub-hosted Python repositories to distribute a previously undocumented JavaScript-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed PyStoreRAT. “These repositories, often themed as development utilities or OSINT tools, contain only a few lines of code responsible for silently downloading a remote HTARead More »Fake OSINT and GPT Utility GitHub Repos Spread PyStoreRAT Malware Payloads
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Pentagon orders accelerated move to PQC, US shuts down scheme to smuggle GPUs to China, DroidLock Android ransomware. The post In Other News: PromptPwnd Attack, macOS Bounty Complaints, Chinese Hackers Trained in Cisco Academy appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have documented four new phishing kits named BlackForce, GhostFrame, InboxPrime AI, and Spiderman that are capable of facilitating credential theft at scale. BlackForce, first detected in August 2025, is designed to steal credentials and perform Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) attacks to capture one-time passwords (OTPs) and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA).Read More »New Advanced Phishing Kits Use AI and MFA Bypass Tactics to Steal Credentials at Scale
Threat actors have hacked at least nine organizations by exploiting the recently patched Gladinet CentreStack flaw. The post Gladinet CentreStack Flaw Exploited to Hack Organizations appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Akira ransomware group took credit for the Fieldtex Products hack in November, claiming to have stolen 14 Gb of data. The post Fieldtex Data Breach Impacts 238,000 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Because user input is not sufficiently sanitized, attackers could exploit the flaw to define external entities within an XML request. The post Recent GeoServer Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
