Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, Exploits & Government Alerts
Ravie LakshmananMar 30, 2026Threat Intelligence / Browser Security A new campaign has leveraged the ClickFix social engineering tactic as a way to distribute a previously undocumented malware loader referred to as DeepLoad. “It likely uses…
Ravie LakshmananMar 30, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking Some weeks are loud. This one was quieter but not in a good way. Long-running operations are finally hitting courtrooms, old attack methods are showing up in new places,…
What is really slowing Tier 1 down: the threat itself or the process around it? In many SOCs, the biggest delays do not come from the threat alone. They come from fragmented workflows, manual triage…
Secrets sprawl isn’t slowing down: in 2025, it accelerated faster than most security teams anticipated. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report analyzed billions of commits across public GitHub and uncovered 29 million new hardcoded…
Ravie LakshmananMar 30, 2026Malware / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote access toolkit of Russian-origin that’s distributed via malicious Windows shortcut (LNK) files that are disguised as private key folders. The CTRL toolkit,…
Ravie LakshmananMar 30, 2026Threat Intelligence / Network Intrusion Three threat activity clusters aligned with China have targeted a government organization in Southeast Asia as part of what has been described as a “complex and well-resourced…
Threat actors with ties to Iran successfully broke into the personal email account of Kash Patel, the director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and leaked a cache of photos and other documents…
Ravie LakshmananMar 28, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway is witnessing active reconnaissance activity, according to Defused Cyber and watchTowr. The vulnerability, CVE-2026-3055 (CVSS…
Ravie LakshmananMar 28, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical security flaw impacting F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)…
Ravie LakshmananMar 28, 2026Mobile Security / Email Security Proofpoint has disclosed details of a targeted email campaign in which threat actors with ties to Russia are leveraging the recently disclosed DarkSword exploit kit to target…