Threat hunters are warning that the cybercriminal operation known as VECT 2.0 acts more like a wiper than a ransomware due to a critical flaw in its encryption implementation across Windows, Linux, and ESXi variants…
Every security program is betting on the same assumption: once a system is connected, the problem is solved. Open a ticket, stand up a gateway, push the data through. Done. That assumption is wrong. It…
Ravie LakshmananApr 28, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw impacting LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open-source robotics platform with nearly 24,000 GitHub stars, that could be exploited to achieve…
When patching isn’t fast enough, NDR helps contain the next era of threats. If you’ve been tracking advancements in AI, you know the exploit window, the short buffer that organizations relied on to patch and…
Ravie LakshmananApr 28, 2026Cyber Espionage / Vulnerability A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy. Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in…
Ravie LakshmananApr 28, 2026Vulnerability / Identity Management An administrative role meant for artificial intelligence (AI) agents within Microsoft Entra ID could enable privilege escalation and identity takeover attacks, according to new findings from Silverfort. Agent…
Ravie LakshmananApr 28, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Microsoft on Monday revised its advisory for a now-patched, high-severity security flaw impacting Windows Shell to acknowledge that it has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability…
Ravie LakshmananApr 27, 2026 Checkmarx has disclosed that its ongoing investigation tied to the supply chain security incident has revealed that a cybercriminal group published data related to the company on the dark web. “Based…
Ravie LakshmananApr 27, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking Everything is dumb again. This week feels broken in a very familiar way. Old tricks are back. New tools are doing shady crap. Supply chains got hit. Fake help…
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has dominated security discussions since its April 7 announcement. Early reporting describes a powerful cybersecurity-focused AI system capable of identifying vulnerabilities at scale and raising serious questions about how quickly organizations…