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Nick Andersen Appointed Acting Director of CISA

Madhu Gottumukkala has been assigned to a new role within the Department of Homeland Security. The post Nick Andersen Appointed Acting Director of CISA appeared first on SecurityWeek.

LLM-Assisted Deanonymization

Turns out that LLMs are good at de-anonymization: We show that LLM agents can figure out who you are from your anonymous online posts. Across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, and anonymized interview transcripts, our method identifies users with high precision ­ and scales to tens of thousands of candidates. WhileRead More »LLM-Assisted Deanonymization

APT28 Tied to CVE-2026-21513 MSHTML 0-Day Exploited Before Feb 2026 Patch Tuesday

APT28 Tied to CVE-2026-21513 MSHTML 0-Day Exploited Before Feb 2026 Patch Tuesday

A recently disclosed security flaw patched by Microsoft may have been exploited by the Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28, according to new findings from Akamai. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-21513 (CVSS score: 8.8), a high-severity security feature bypass affecting the MSHTML Framework. “Protection mechanism failure in MSHTMLRead More »APT28 Tied to CVE-2026-21513 MSHTML 0-Day Exploited Before Feb 2026 Patch Tuesday

North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT

North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new iteration of the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign, where the North Korean threat actors have published a set of 26 malicious packages to the npm registry. The packages masquerade as developer tools, but contain functionality to extract the actual command-and-control (C2) by using seemingly harmlessRead More »North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT

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