In 2026, renting $30,000-class GPUs and buying thermally hardened, modular workstations are both viable ways to run AI-driven password cracking and red-team labs — but they solve different problems. This article lays out the cost inflection, the thermal and software constraints that determine sustained throughput, and the concrete decision points teams face today. How rental […]
The recent sequence of fixes for the Ninja Forms – File Upload extension matters because an incomplete February patch left thousands of WordPress sites exposed to unauthenticated remote code execution until a full remediation arrived on March 19, 2026. CVE-2026-0740 (CVSS 9.8) allows arbitrary file upload via the plugin’s handle_upload() AJAX endpoint; only version 3.3.27 […]
APT28 (Fancy Bear, GRU Unit 26165) has shifted from classic phishing and malware to a hybrid approach that begins on compromised home and SOHO routers and finishes inside Microsoft 365 environments—using DNS hijacking and a cloud-native malware toolkit called “AUTHENTIC ANTICS” to steal OAuth tokens and live cloud content. That contrast—network infrastructure compromise at the […]
In early April 2026 a large-scale phishing campaign began pushing QR codes in fake traffic–violation texts across the U.S., not just isolated nuisance messages. The repeated use of the fake case number “26-TR-273196” — seen with state prefixes like CO, NJ, IL, TX, MN and TN — makes clear this is a volume-driven, adaptive scam […]
On March 31, 2026, attackers used a hijacked npm maintainer account to publish poisoned axios releases that exercised npm’s install lifecycle, not by altering axios source code but by adding a phantom dependency (plain-crypto-js@4.2.1) whose postinstall hook deployed a cross‑platform remote access trojan (RAT). The publication used stolen long‑lived npm tokens to bypass GitHub Actions […]
LinkedIn runs hidden JavaScript that checks for thousands of Chrome extensions inside users’ browsers, links those findings to identifiable LinkedIn profiles, and shares the results with third parties — a practice uncovered by Fairlinked e.V. in early 2026 that now sits at the intersection of GDPR Article 9 and the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA). […]
Between Nov 9 and Nov 25, 2023, Daniel Rhyne — a 57‑year‑old core infrastructure engineer — used legitimate administrator privileges and a hidden virtual machine on his company laptop to change passwords and schedule shutdowns that locked IT staff out of 254 Windows servers and 3,284 workstations. This was an insider sabotage operation that looked […]
In March 2026 an accidental release of 512,000 lines of Anthropic’s Claude Code source combined with concurrent InstallFix social‑engineering campaigns to create a single, practical threat: attackers now pair intimate knowledge of an AI agent’s internals with cloned install pages that convince developers to run one-line commands that deploy credential‑stealing malware. What the leak actually […]
CrystalRAT (aka CrystalX RAT) is being sold openly on Telegram as an easy-to-use malware package, but calling it merely “prankware” misses the point: it is a modular malware-as-a-service that combines full remote access, clipboard-based cryptocurrency theft, and nuisance/psychological disruption into a single commercially marketed toolkit. Why the “prank” label understates the risk Security vendors and […]
More than half of surveyed enterprises — 56% — reported at least one cyberattack that exploited VPN vulnerabilities in the past year, up from 45% the year before. With 91% of organizations saying VPNs weaken their security posture and 78% planning Zero Trust rollouts within 12 months, the industry is pivoting toward Zero Trust Network […]
Mercor’s recruiting platform was breached after attackers slipped malicious code into a published LiteLLM package, turning a widely reused open‑source proxy into a broad data exfiltration channel. The incident — detected and removed from distribution within hours but still exploited — exposed terabytes of sensitive material and has forced immediate, industry‑wide dependency audits and credential […]
AI agents aren’t just smarter chatbots; they operate with distinct identities and degrees of autonomy that let them act on infrastructure and data. That identity-plus-autonomy combo requires enterprises to move security from conversational filters to identity governance, least-privilege controls, and operational checkpoints. Three agent types and why identity changes the problem Enterprises now deploy three […]
