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Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the content management systems (CMS) platform’s plugins team to temporarily disable their downloads.
“Unlike traditional software … Continue reading BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins
Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor.
The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary’s previous use of… Continue reading China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware, Likely via N-central Flaw
A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default.
That pretty much covers the mood this week. Old bugs are back, supply chains are gettin… Continue reading ⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Goes Rogue, Metabase 0-Day, MCP Supply-Chain Attacks, and Router Backdoors
North Korea’s state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country’s main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in i… Continue reading Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development
Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on.
Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authen… Continue reading New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA
AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, prioritize fixes, and control risk at human speed.
When software output jumps 10 to 50 times, the problem … Continue reading Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development
The threat actor known as Head Mare has been observed weaponizing security flaws in unpatched TrueConf servers once again in attacks targeting Russian companies spanning instrumentation, electronics, transport, energy, IT, and software development sect… Continue reading TrueConf Server Flaws Exploited to Replace Client Installers with PhantomCore
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro (“solidity-pro”) that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer.
The names of the extensions are below –
… Continue reading Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials
OpenAI has announced that it’s pausing some “internal activities” involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity.
In response … Continue reading OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause
Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian’s Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only on… Continue reading Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers