The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation FlashHole targeting at least three organizations in South Korea spanning the construction, software, and wire-communication equipment manufacturing sectors. According to Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, the campaign has been active since at least July 2025. It's assessed to pick up
Interesting research: “AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities” Abstract: Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited. We show this assumption does not hold under adversarial conditions by constructing backdoor attacks that embed encrypted neural networks within host model weights…
Cloudflare's new post-quantum GeoKey Manager protects geographically fenced decryption keys from harvest now, decrypt later attacks. Learn how we redesigned our cryptography stack to support strict data sovereignty in a post-quantum world.
The Indian CA eMudhra Limited has eight TLS certificates with laughably weak private keys: The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. A normal size for a NIST P-384 elliptic curve cryptography private key contains roughly 384 bits of entropy, a size allowing almost 2384, or a number with 116 digits, different possibilities.…
Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, has already passed the House of Commons, and is now before the Canadian Senate. Canadians still have an opportunity to speak out and stop this dangerous legislation. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is urging all Cana…
IntroductionIn September 2026, Zscaler Threat Hunting identified an SEO poisoning campaign that used fake websites impersonating the Chocolatey package manager and the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool to distribute a Python-based malware family we track as Armorsteal. The fake websites targeted users searching for Chocolatey or MAS software installation commands. Each lure page displayed a malicious PowerShell…
Once data is in use, encryption falls short. A tested approach that replaces sensitive values with realistic substitutes could make stolen information far less useful to hackers. The post Encryption isn’t enough to protect data wherever it goes appeared first on CyberScoop.
The FBI, CISA and international partners have issued a warning about SafePay ransomware, a group that has impacted at least 600 victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors since August 2024. Published on October 20, 2026, the joint cybersecurity advisory describes SafePay as among the most active ransomware groups in 2026, with operations affecting organizations in North America, South America, Europe and…
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and James Wilson are joined by special guest co-host security engineer Mark El-Khoury to talk through the week’s cybersecurity news, including: The PHP foundation is about to release patches for a couple of critical bugs… We’re watching to see if the internet burns down 8 private keys underpinning some CA certs got compromised. The keys only had 8 bits of entropy! Is the breach-polcal…
Kaspersky researchers analyze Operation FlashHole – a recent complex attack by Lazarus, involving a sophisticated malware set, watering-hole technique and abuse of CrossWeb EX financial security software.
Following the discovery that eight eMudhra intermediate certificates use weak keys, Cloudflare is deploying mitigations and releasing client updates. We explain the impact, our response, and what customers and developers should do next.
At the request of the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), Quarkslab performed a security audit of mbedTLS, evaluating the security of the changes in version 4.0.
Advisory at a Glance Title #StopRansomware: SafePay Ransomware Original Publication October 20, 2026 Executive Summary This advisory details recent activity by the SafePay ransomware group. SafePay actors have been highly active since August 2024, targeting businesses and critical infrastructure across North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. SafePay actors typically gain access to networks by stealing or…
OverviewIn early October 2026, Rapid7 analysts investigated a compromise of a Citrix NetScaler ADC appliance. The appliance was running an affected 14.1 build and was exposed to active exploitation targeting NetScaler authentication and SAML deployments.The intrusion achieved root code execution, deployed multiple persistence mechanisms, installed PHP web shells, created outbound command-and-control and internal tunn…
Artificial Intelligence technologies have made a huge impact on the security industry. But as with any public technology, adversaries have access to AI as well. They’re wasting no time incorporating AI into their malicious workflows and ransomware operators have been able to leverage it - unfortunately, this has led to some of their successes.Fortunately, there is plenty of potential for defenders to leverage similar…
Brave has added end-to-end encryption and hardware-backed confidential computing to its Leo browser assistant, protecting conversations with the GLM 5.3 Flash model from access by the companies handling them. Announced yesterday, the update uses Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) to encrypt prompts before they leave the browser, with decryption restricted to verified trusted execution environments (TEEs) operated … The post Brav…
گارتنر هشدار می‌دهد پیشرفت رایانش کوانتومی می‌تواند تا سال ۲۰۳۰ رمزنگاری‌های رایج را تهدید کند و تغییرپذیری سریع سیستم‌ها ضروری است. The post هشدار کارشناسان گارتنر: شرکت‌ها برای عصر کامپیوترهای کوانتومی هنوز آماده نیستند appeared first on دیجیاتو.
Session says it has implemented the core cryptography for its Protocol v2 upgrade, moving the decentralized messenger closer to perfect forward secrecy, post-quantum encryption, and stronger controls over linked devices. Session said it has published the protocol specification and implemented encryption for one-to-one messages and verified device linking in libsession, the shared cryptographic library used … The post…
A text message about an unpaid traffic challan could cost Android users in India far more than a fine. GhostBat RAT, an Android malware strain first identified by cybersecurity firm Cyble in October 2025, has evolved to capture PINs from 60 banking, UPI apps, wallet and fintech applications, according to new research published by Cyble. The firm's investigation into fake mParivahan and eChallan apps also exposed a wi…
Ransomware attackers are expanding their tactics beyond encrypting corporate systems and threatening to leak stolen data. They are increasingly using AI in attacks, exploiting organizations’ own AI systems and even using physical intimidation by threatening employees and their families to pressure companies into paying ransoms. The Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report found that 84% of surveyed ransomware victims ex…
یک مهندس فعال در پروژه بلاک‌چین Thru می‌گوید با صرف حدود ۲۰۰۰ دلار برای استفاده از هوش مصنوعی Muse متعلق به متا، توانسته طراحی یک شتاب‌دهنده رمزنگاری را به مرحله چیدمان فیزیکی برساند.
Executive Summary Cyble has continued tracking GhostBat RAT activity targeting Android users in India since its initial identification in October 2025. Recent investigations into malicious mParivahan and eChallan-themed applications revealed a broader operator-controlled ecosystem that we track as GhostX. Analysis of the exposed GhostX backend identified administrative and user-management structures, device-control r…
Bulletin ID: 2026-135-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/14/2026 12:30 PM PDT Description: We identified CVE-2026-110310, an issue in Amazon S3 encryption client for .NET that could allow a remote user who can read encrypted objects in the S3 bucket can force a padding downgrade by altering the padding scheme recorded in an object's metadata to legacy PKCS#1 v1.5. Since t…
Overview This note covers thirteen library-specific records (VU#948176.6, .8–.19) of how widely used TLS libraries apply X.509 Name Constraints. The records describe cases where a constrained name may be accepted by one library and rejected by another. Some are fixed, some remain under review, and some were not accepted as security issues. Description Name Constraints are meant to keep a subordinate CA inside an allo…
When quantum vendor IonQ on Sunday announced a $1.2 billion all stock deal to take over cybersecurity vendor Elisity, it spoke of a near-term future where enterprise quantum cybersecurity needs will move beyond replacing to-be-outdated encryption. The acquisition brings together IonQ’s post-quantum cryptography (PQC) and quantum key distribution (QKD) capabilities and Elisity’s enterprise Zero Trust technology platfo…
Overview This note covers differences in how TLS libraries interpret X.509 Name Constraints. A certificate that one library accepts may be rejected by another. Some of those differences are defects; others follow from behavior that RFC 5280 does not fully specify. Description The observed differences concern DNS name comparison, IP address handling, URI-authority parsing, and wildcard matching. These include both imp…
It was discovered that some AMD processors did not properly perform Reverse Map Table (RMP) checks when the IOMMU accessed certain host buffers. A local attacker with hypervisor access could possibly use this to trigger an out-of-bounds condition and compromise the integrity of SEV-SNP guest memory. (CVE-2023-20585) Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to c…
