IntroductionOn October 21, 2026, the Node.js project disclosed CVE-2026-111497, an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Google’s Brotli decoder used by Node.js and other software. The vulnerability is also known as Node2Shell and more recently as HTTP2Shell. The CVE score, filed by Google as the numbering authority, is 9.2 (Critical) on CVSS 4.0. The flaw can be triggered when a vulnerable process decompresses attack…
On November 4, 2026, the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) will publish advisories to disclose security vulnerability information along with fixed software releases for the following Cisco products: Identity Services Engine (ISE) UCS Central Software Unified Communications Manager To remediate vulnerabilities to be disclosed on November 4, 2026, Cisco strongly recommends that customers upgrade to…
For most of my career, I have watched new security platforms work through enterprise programs at a slow pace, so when AI began showing up in security operations tools, I assumed it would follow the same path. I expected AI adoption in the SOC to lag behind almost every other category of security technology, because I’d always viewed the tension between moving quickly on innovations and satisfying strict compliance ob…
Swimlane has announced new capabilities in the Swimlane Turbine platform that allow security teams to run their own detection logic against large volumes of data and send resulting alerts directly into Swimlane AI SOC for investigation and response. The October release also adds two-way Model Context Protocol (MCP) support and new Hero AI agent that uses natural-language prompts to build applications for any use case…
Explore the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) our incident response (IR) experts are actively facing in the quarterly TTP Briefing, a report built on frontline threat intelligence from our global incident response investigations across LevelBlue during Q3 2026. Download the full report Register for the Global Webinar Register for EMEA Webinar A Unified View of the Threat Landscape This TTP Briefing is…
AI is now everywhere in cybersecurity. But how much of it is actually making SOC teams’ jobs easier? Almost every vendor offers AI-powered solutions promising faster threat detection, automated malware analysis, and smarter investigations. For SOC teams, separating real value from AI branding has become a challenge of its own. Meanwhile, alert volumes keep growing, […] The post AI-Powered Malware & Phishing Analysis…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade's defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large datasets, and support faster decision-making. Cybersecurity has experienced a similar transformation. While attackers employ AI to automate
Imagine arriving at work on a Monday morning to find employees cannot log in, customer service is unavailable, and critical business applications have stopped working. Security alerts are flashing. The IT team is investigating. Business leaders want to know when operations will resume. Then comes the question everyone hopes they never have to ask: Can we recover safely, and how long will it take? Most organizations h…
AI is widening the attack surface of the critical infrastructure facilities and services that state, local, and education (SLED) organizations run. In the final post of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month series, we explain how a whole-of-state security approach can help SLED agencies protect their critical infrastructure.Key takeawaysBecause cyber attackers prey on under-resourced targets, they often go after SLED org…
The company says it reacted to an issue affecting some of its systems, including DreamHost webmail. The post Unexplained DreamHost Incident Prompts Email, FTP Password Resets appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Ukraine warns that attackers can remotely access Dahua cameras and recorders via Easy4IP, viewing video and changing settings. Ukraine’s cyber incident response team CERT-UA has warned about attackers taking over video surveillance systems made by Dahua. In its alert dated October 23, 2026, it reports unauthorized remote access to IP cameras and video recorders. The […]
Every SOC struggles with a pile of alerts. Very few of those alerts explain how an attack started or how it progressed. Network data, like that from a network detection and response (NDR) platform, connects individual alerts into one timeline, and it feeds the defensive systems that can tie all events together into one coordinated view. SOC teams often first see the shape of an intrusion
We look at best practices for deploying AI tools securely in corporate environments, with Kaspersky Security Center and Kaspersky Endpoint Security as examples. We also cover ways that EDR and TIP can detect AI agents.
The number of cybersecurity startups attempting to cash in on the AI boom is staggering. But an analysis of the cybersecurity marketplace indicates that the incumbents, rather than resting on their laurels and opening themselves up for disruption, are quickly adapting to the new AI-centric threat environment. The major players are integrating AI technology throughout their platforms, and offering innovative AI produc…
When Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos Preview, the cybersecurity debate quickly turned to what AI could do: uncover decades-old vulnerabilities, develop working exploits and accelerate tasks that once required specialist expertise. Anthropic noted that Mythos discovered software flaws no human had caught, and early tests showed it could carry out multi-stage network attacks in minutes, tasks that once took skilled…
Vijendra Katiyar, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer, CleanStart Fintech businesses build and operate products across payments, lending, wealth management, insurance, financial infrastructure and embedded finance. Despite their differences, they share a common dependency: software assembled from components developed and maintained across a global ecosystem. Open-source libraries, container images and third-party co…
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities sent criminal forum operators scrambling to protect their own infrastructure, revealing that threat actors face the same exposure management challenges as the organizations they target.Key takeawaysThe adversary economy operates on the same fundamental principles as the legitimate economy. Forum self-evacuations: Criminal forums including BreachForums initiated emergency infrastructur…
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…
When an IOC hits the SOC, the clock is already running. An IP address, domain, file hash, or suspicious URL can trigger a detection, but an analyst still needs to understand what it is, whether it is connected to known malicious activity, and what happened around it. The longer it takes to build that context, […] The post Cyber Threat Context for Early Response: Enriching SOC Telemetry with Real-Time Intel from 16K O…
Vendors are checking their products for PHP2Shell, security firms are shipping detections, and governments are urging immediate patching. The post Tech and Security Companies Respond to PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hackers hijacked the software release pipeline of LiteLLM, a popular open-source AI gateway, to distribute credential-stealing malware, marking the project’s second supply chain compromise this year despite security measures introduced after an earlier attack. The compromised version, 1.107.0, was distributed through the Python Package Index (PyPI) and official Docker images on October 21. LiteLLM said the malicious…
A China-state-aligned threat actor compromised a ConnectWise cloud backup application and used an open-source agentic AI framework to turn its stolen credentials against more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, Microsoft said. Microsoft Threat Intelligence attributed the activity to Storm-0940, which it said has used the ARTEX framework since as early as September 2026 to automate attacks on hundreds of organizations.…
*October 26, 2026: This advisory has been updated to clarify language describing exploitability and potential impact.*October 23, 2026: This advisory has been updated with new ThreatLabz analysis and Zscaler Deception telemetry on exploitation activity observed during the first 48 hours following disclosure.IntroductionOn October 21, 2026, two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and…
On October 21, 2026, the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) published the following advisories. To remediate the vulnerabilities that were disclosed on October 21, 2026, Cisco strongly recommends that customers upgrade to the fixed software that is indicated in the advisories. For more information about changes in Cisco PSIRT vulnerability disclosure, see Strengthening the Foundation: A Predictable…
During triage, analysts may overlook valuable threat intelligence simply because they don’t know it exists. Previous investigations, related malicious activity, and industry-specific observations could provide the context needed to decide what to investigate next. Now, all that valuable context is finally within reach! With Related Threat Context, now available to ANY.RUN Enterprise clients, SOC and […] The post Your…
Broken object-level authorization ranks first on the OWASP API Security Top 10, and OWASP says that traditional static application security testing (SAST) tools struggle to find access control flaws. A missing authorization check is an absence of code, so a scanner that matches patterns has nothing to match. You can find the gap only if you already know what the endpoint is meant to enforce.We're building Business Lo…
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…
Why the controls on an AI agent have to live outside of it, and what a security operations team can do to implement and maintain those controls.The new privileged user in your environmentSecurity teams spent two decades learning how to work with the people they trust most. Domain admins, DBAs, finance approvers and contractors with VPN access all get a mature playbook: verified identity, scoped access, logged activit…