Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Cybersecurity / Artificial Intelligence OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The…
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business…
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Vulnerability / Patch Management The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,…
Swati KhandelwalJun 06, 2026Vulnerability / Endpoint Security Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches…
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Supply Chain Attack / Malware Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four…
Ravie LakshmananJun 06, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a CVSS score of 7.8…
Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively.…
Ravie LakshmananJun 05, 2026Spyware / Mobile Security Arabic-speaking users have emerged as the target of a new Android spyware codenamed Asin, according to findings from ESET. The Slovakian cybersecurity company said it first detected the…
Ravie LakshmananJun 05, 2026Cyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously unreported threat cluster dubbed OP-512 (where “OP” stands for “opponent”) that has been observed targeting Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) servers to…
Eighteen months ago, the AI SOC was a marketing line. Today it’s a budget item. The category has crossed over from interesting to inevitable, with billions of dollars now flowing into AI-powered security operations platforms,…