Some meetings last longer than it took attackers to jump on a newly disclosed security flaw this week. Within hours, they were already testing it. That's not much time to read the warning, let alone do something about it. But speed is only part of the problem. A secure connection didn't always mean a safe destination. People offering to fix a ransomware mess had questions to answer themselves.
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A maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Bricksforge plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The critical vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85097 (CVSS score: 10.0), which allows unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable WordPress websites, resulting in remote code execution (RCE). The
Cryptocurrency hardware maker Ledger has temporarily paused sales of its products via CryptoBilis following reports of stolen funds linked to devices sold by the reseller. On Friday, the company said it was investigating reports of loss of funds from users in Southeast Asia who had purchased products from CryptoBilis. The incident is said to have resulted in losses totaling more than $86
The meaningful differences between web application penetration testing companies rarely show up on the homepage. They show up in who performs the testing, how the methodology is documented, what the retest policy covers, and how scope changes get priced once a contract is signed. Use the eight-criteria scorecard below to evaluate providers on substance rather than marketing language. The post Web Application Penetration Testing Companies: What Enterprise Buyers Should Compare appeared first on Synack .
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Monday, October 12
GitHub's October 12 Changelog release adds a durable, authenticated pusher identity to every commit, separate from the author and committer fields that the pushing client can supply. It also adds a new ruleset condition called "Committer must match pusher", which can block pushes when the committer metadata does not match a verified email address of the authenticated pusher. The practical value is better auditability for compromised accounts and suspicious pushes. GitHub says the preview is limited to Enterprise customers, who can request access through their account team. The release adds the control, but does not say it is enabled by default. Sources: [https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-12-push-attribution-public-preview/](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-12-push-attribution-public-preview/) [https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/managing-rulesets/about-rulesets#push-rulesets](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/managing-rulesets/about-rulesets#push-rulesets)
DanFoss - the vendor of the refrigeration units the French food stores used - confirmed that the attack was done by exploiting a known vulnerability (which had been used in an attack again US DoD commissaries in August). None of the stores had patched or updated the controllers. [https://www.seattletimes.com/business/hackers-hit-french-supermarkets-in-attack-disabling-fridges/](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/hackers-hit-french-supermarkets-in-attack-disabling-fridges/) [https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/28/dod-confirms-refrigeration-disruption-at-military-commissaries/](https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/28/dod-confirms-refrigeration-disruption-at-military-commissaries/)
Some meetings last longer than it took attackers to jump on a newly disclosed security flaw this week. Within hours, they were already testing it. That's not much time to read the warning, let alone do something about it. But speed is only part of the problem. A secure connection didn't always mean a safe destination. People offering to fix a ransomware mess had questions to answer themselves.
Can someone reverse engineer BlueStacks 5? And make a version where games doesn't detect it's a emulator.
Overview Thelia versions 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 contain multiple vulnerabilities relating to file management, Smarty templating, module installation, and administrative workflows. Successful exploitation of these issues could enable remote code execution (RCE), server-side template injection (SSTI), stored and reflected cross-site scripting (XSS), unauthorized URL redirection, and other risks that expose both server-side and client-side attack surfaces. Description Thelia is an open-source e-commerce platform designed to provide merchants with customizable online storefronts, product management workflows, and administrative functionalities. It utilizes the Smarty template engine and provides administrators with broad control over templates, content, and modules. CVE-2026-103521 In Thelia v2.6.0, the document upload endpoint properly blocks the upload of executable file types, but the document update endpoint does not perform the same validation. An attacker with administrative Thelia permissions can exploit this vulnerability to upload arbitrary executable files, such as malicious PHP scripts, to achieve remote code execution on the underlying server. CVE-2026-103522 In Thelia v2.6.0, the store banner upload feature performs insufficient filetype validation that relies exclusively on client-supplied MIME types. An attacker with administrative access can upload a PHP file disguised as an image to bypass validation and achieve remote code execution on the underlying server. CVE-2026-103523 Thelia v2.6.0 contains an open redirect vulnerability in its address creation workflow. After a user accesses a crafted URL and successfully submits the "Add New Address" form, the application redirects them to the URL specified in the
Logpush delivers logs in batches as quickly as possible, enabling Cloudflare to provide information almost in real time. During our recent Birthday Week , we made Logpush available on all self-serve plans and Transformers generally available. Those changes were among eight major updates to Cloudflare Observability and reflect our commitment to make every Cloudflare feature available to everyone . This post takes a deeper look at how Transformers work inside Logpush's export pipeline. Observability teams use Logpush to export Cloudflare logs to security information and event management systems (SIEMs), analytics platforms, and object storage. Before those logs reach their destination, teams may need to remove health checks, omit sensitive fields, or reshape records for dashboards and investigations. Today, this often requires a separate processing service that teams must deploy, scale, monitor, and maintain. For example, a team that collects logs from multiple CDNs can add a static provider field to normalize records before they reach its analytics platform. Teams also pay to export, ingest, and store records they discard as soon as they arrive, so filtering them before delivery can reduce downstream data volume and cost. With Transformers, that processing moves into the Logpush export workflow.Teams define a SQL query to filter records, redact sensitive data, and r
Kanishka Narayan, concerned by Australian incident, says British cyber defences could be bypassed by artificial intelligence agent UK politics live – latest updates An AI-driven cyber-attack similar to the OpenAI breach of Australia’s healthcare system is likely, “if not inevitable”, in the UK, according to a senior minister. Kanishka Narayan, the UK AI minister, indicated that the British government’s own cyber defences would be bypassed by a technology that has developed highly sophisticated skills in cybersecurity. Continue reading...
The personal AI agents rollout is going about as smoothly as expected: Amazon now blocks Meta's Muse because it doesn't identify itself as a bot while browsing; Instinct keeps raising privacy concerns; and the horror stories from pretty much every personal AI agent keep piling up. Regardless, the tech world is mesmerized by the capabilities and potential of these services. Less than a year
Cryptocurrency hardware maker Ledger has temporarily paused sales of its products via CryptoBilis following reports of stolen funds linked to devices sold by the reseller. On Friday, the company said it was investigating reports of loss of funds from users in Southeast Asia who had purchased products from CryptoBilis. The incident is said to have resulted in losses totaling more than $86
Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances within days of public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of pre-authenticated server-side request forgery (SSRF) that could allow a remote attacker "to direct the appliance to issue requests on their
A maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Bricksforge plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The critical vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85097 (CVSS score: 10.0), which allows unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable WordPress websites, resulting in remote code execution (RCE). The
An exploit chain was found in LG webOS, leading to root command execution. The chain starts with a client-key issuance bypass, progresses through service-level access, and ultimately leads to root command execution.
Writeup: getting MAXIO's MXMPTool to exclude a bad die on a MAP1202 SSD (two bugs in its die-exclusion path)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The activity, which brings together commodity offensive tools like Cobalt Strike with an AI orchestration layer powered by Anthropic's Claude Code, has been attributed
To reduce the amount of noise from questions, we have disabled self-posts in favor of a unified questions thread every week. Feel free to ask any question about reverse engineering here. If your question is about how to use a specific tool, or is specific to some particular target, you will have better luck on the [Reverse Engineering StackExchange](http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/). See also /r/AskReverseEngineering.
Sunday, October 11
Reverse engineering Wispr Flow's dictation flow: Electron app, Swift helper over stdio, clipboard paste
just a collection of some undocumented anti debug tricks i've found while reversing and messing around with debuggers.
Hey everyone, While analyzing modern loaders and crypters, I kept running into cases where naive, section-wide Shannon entropy ($H > 7.2$) failed to flag suspicious binaries: 1. **Averaging dilution:** Stashing a 20 KB encrypted shellcode blob inside a 1 MB `.rdata` section padded with nulls keeps the global entropy below 5.5. 2. **Artificial dilution:** Padding ciphertext with repeated non-null bytes (like NOP sleds or repeated delimiters) artificially compresses entropy down to benign code levels. 3. **String-based staging:** Staging payloads as UUID or IPv4 tables (`UuidFromStringA`, `RtlIpv4StringToAddressA`) keeps disk entropy around 4.0 until runtime reassembly in memory. Most quick-triage tools calculate entropy across the entire file or whole sections, which washes out these localized spikes. To solve this, I wrote **EntropyStrip**, an open-source Python CLI designed for fast PE structural triage. ### What it does differently: * **Dual-Resolution Sliding Windows:** Scans sections and overlays in 1024-byte and 256-byte windows with a 50% step to catch concentrated cryptographic stagers regardless of total section size. * **Dilution Defense & Chi-Square:** Analyzes modal byte distributions and opcode frequency curves to flag artificially flattened ciphertext. * **String Staging Primitives:** Flags `UuidFromString*` and `RtlIpv4StringToAddress*` staging patterns and detects formatted UUID payload clusters. * **False Positive Reduction:** Validates `WIN_CERTIFICATE` Authenticode tables and NSIS header signatures (`0xdeadbeef`) so digitally signed binaries and legitimate installers are not falsely scored as malware droppers. * **Payload Carving:** Includes `--dump` to carve out anomalous sections or trailing overlays straight to disk for Ghidra or x64dbg. * **Directory Triage:** `--dir` walks entire folders and ranks binaries on a risk leaderboard with MITRE ATT&CK mapping (T1027, T1055, etc.). ### Quick install: ```bash pip install entropystrip ``` Edit: Fixed Markdown
Appointment or renewal reminder appears in victims’ calendar to lure them into logging in to fake Google, Microsoft or PayPal page You’re preparing for the week ahead and take a look at your Google calendar. There’s an entry for a meeting that you must have completely forgotten. The note that pops up when you click on it says you’ll be reviewing a project and includes a link to more details. Confused, you follow it to find out more; the website you land on asks for logon details, and you provide them. Unfortunately, this was not a failure of your memory but a calendar phishing scam. You have handed your name and password to fraudsters who will sell it on in a batch with other people’s details, use it to break into your work email, or to persuade you that they are contacting you from your bank , or another institution. Continue reading...
Saturday, October 10
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by default, not because anyone hid them, but because an identity stack can only govern what authenticates through it, and most agents never do. That gap is the clearest
Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations until further notice following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites. The AI company said it identified four broad categories of unintended model actions during evaluations and internal use of Claude
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested an executive at a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The New York Times reported today that the FBI has arrested a Canadian man in Pennsylvania on suspicion of assisting ShinyHunters. The Times story did not identify the man, nor did a statement on Twitter/X about the arrest from FBI Director Kash Patel . One source close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Canadian person arrested this week was visiting Pennsylvania for a cyber insurance conference, and that the suspect’s company specialized in handling ransomware negotiations with cybercrime groups. Another shared that control over the ShinyHunters investigation has been centralized at an FBI field office in Texas. An online search reveals the Cyber Risk Summit was held at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel between Oct. 5 and Oct. 7. The conference had several sponsors, but according to the summit’s website its biggest sponsor was a Canadian security company called Cypfer . According to LinkedIn, one of Cypfer’s “ex-founders” was Edward Dubrovsky , who is now associated with another Canadian security firm and sponsor
Friday, October 9
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. "Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel, the attacker pushed a malicious workflow to 27 repositories starting at 13:20 UTC," StepSecurity
Following last week’s release of Clef and Clef-flash , Cloudflare’s open-weight decision models, we decided to bring forth more gifts. Today, we’re releasing Clef-omni, which takes in audio and video input alongside text and image. We also cut the price of Clef-flash so it is now cheaper than Jev, and we made Clef faster. Although the model game is still early for Cloudflare, innovation and iteration is in our DNA, and we apply these principles to everything we do. In fact, the story of Clef came together over the course of less than a week. We decided we wanted to do something in the decision model space on a Friday evening, trained the model over the weekend, and launched it on Thursday. Even with such a short timeline, we were able to ship performant, high-quality, open-weight models for the community — imagine what more we can do in the future. For today, we’re excited to keep up the momentum with new additions and improvements to our Clef family of models. This is just the beginning, and we’ll continue to get better, faster, cheaper, and more innovative. Clef-omni takes audio, video, image, and text input Our new Clef-omni model is able to take audio, video, image, and text input. This changes the paradigm for decision models, which have been largely text-only since the debut of Jev from TypeSafe. With Clef, we supported images and video frame arrays, but Clef-omni is able to take in audio (wav or mp3) and video (mp4 or webm) alongside text and images. Instead of setting up cascading pipelines of models that transcribe speech-to-text, or splitting audio and image channels from video, you can just call one model to make decisions across any modality. We are now one step closer to a model that is able to interact with the world as we experience it — through audio, visual, and textual communication, all in one. Chec
Death By A Thousand PaperCuts (PaperCut Pre-Auth RCE Chain and Patch Bypasses WT-2026-0141-0144/CVE-2026-82077/CVE-2026-82078/CVE-2026-81578)
Before we begin, yes - it's confusing. There are more vulnerabilities with watchTowr IDs in this blog post than there are CVE IDs (assigned by PaperCut), due to PaperCut bundling vulnerabilities and then patch bypasses for those same vulnerabilities into singular CVE IDs. Paper! It still exists. We have to admit it - so much is happening right now (F1, GTA6, breakfast) that we barely have time to lovingly tease our most favoritest vendors. On Thursday, 27 August 2026, PaperCut published an advisory claiming that a mysterious vulnerability was being exploited in-the-wild, leading to system compromise. The watchTowr Intel team has documented the in-the-wild exploitation that our global honeypot network, Attacker Eye, captured here . To add insult to injury, when PaperCut released their advisory, they did so without a patch. Unlike other vendors that struggle to communicate at all, PaperCut provided IOCs in the form of log snippets related to exploitation and temporary mitigations, enabling their customers to take a
Block Kit alerts, threaded conversations with Marcus, and every action tied to a verified Guard identity. The alert that matters usually lands in Slack. Someone sees it, someone else asks what it affects, and a third person opens another tab to find out. Every context switch is time an attacker spends inside the window you are trying to close. Worse, the integrations that bring security data into chat tend to trust whoever is typing. An email address that matches is treated as proof of identity. That is not authorization, and attackers know it. The Guard’s Slack integration used to be a one-way webhook. Marcus replaces it with a real Slack app that delivers alerts, runs conversations in your channels, and ties every request to an authenticated Guard user. Here’s what changed. Install it like a Slack app, not a webhook A Guard admin clicks Add to Slack, completes OAuth v2, picks the target channels, and the app is live. It is a multi-tenant install, so there is no webhook URL to paste into a form and nothing to rotate when someone leaves the team. Channel management is explicit. You map specific Slack channels to your Guard tenant, and a confirmation step runs before the connection is established. You can view every connected channel with its tenant mapping on a per-row basis, and disconnect any of them through a confirmation-gated flow. Nothing quietly starts posting findings into a channel nobody meant to include. Alerts that carry st
Four more U.S. states sued router maker TP-Link Systems on October 6, bringing the total to five, with Texas filing a suit in February. Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska allege the California company misled buyers about how secure its routers are and how separate it is from China. TP-Link denies the claims and says it will fight them in court. TP-Link Systems is based in
Understanding why an application is using more resources than expected, whether that is CPU or memory, can be challenging. Logs and aggregate metrics can only get you so far. Thankfully there is a better way: CPU or memory profiling can show you the exact function where your application is using CPU or allocating memory. Today we are happy to announce support for CPU and memory profiling of Workers and Durable Objects. From the Workers Observability page, you can now request an on-demand CPU or memory profile of an active Worker, inspect it as an interactive flamegraph, and download the profile file for further analysis. This method of profiling gives you a useful perspective into what your code is doing and how you can improve it in a real-world setting. That’s because the best way to understand your application is to profile it in production. To try this on one of your Workers, you have a choice of using the CLI or the Cloudflare Dashboard. To use the CLI, make sure you have the cf package installed , then simply run: To use the dashboard, head to the Cloudflare dashboard and then access the list of Workers on your account by navigating through Build → Compute → Workers & Pages. Select your Worker and navigate to its Observability tab. You can then use the drop down to select “Flamegraph”: You can then request both CPU and memory profiles for your Worker on this page. The duration determines how long the profiler should run for on your Worker. You can also select different versions of your Worker to be profiled. Your Worker needs plenty of traffic to be successfully profiled, so make sure you choose a version that has enough traffic.
Security researchers have published a full working exploit for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in AnyDesk Linux that gives attackers root access before anyone approves the connection. AnyDesk patched the flaw in version 8.0.3 in June, but its changelog described the fix only as "fixed a bug that could lead to a crash," with no CVE assigned and no security
The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to radically simplify self-hosting Workers and Durable Objects so developers can use the same primitives in more places. For what this means and how it came about, here’s the story from Ryan Dahl and Kenton Varda.
Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence (AI). "It's an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing," Anthropic said. "Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost."
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following their abuse by a China-linked threat actor known as Flax Typhoon. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2015-3306 (CVSS score: 10.0) - An improper access control vulnerability in ProFTPD that could allow
As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents to accelerate business, a new report reveals they are tethered to security architectures built for a different era. The "Horizons of Identity Security" report from SailPoint highlights a critical “velocity paradox,” in which organizations invest in AI-speed business operations while continuing to rely on human-speed security controls, creating a
Hello, I was trying to download a game from [www.ziperto.com](http://www.ziperto.com) and after downloading a file I accidentally run a \~600 Kb .exe (I know, I wanted to hit backspace to delete the folder, instead I hastily pressed enter). I then got a message that the executable was not compatible with Windows. The morning after I've got a notification from my bank about a purchase I didn't make on PayPal, and hundreds of emails in my inbox. I flagged the purchase, changed my passwords, and blocked my card. It seems a strange coincidence with the .exe. I now ran MalwareBytes and Defender deep scan, nothing was found, but I am still paranoid that something is running on my PC. I checked and couldn't find any browser-proxy installed or any strange service or executable, but I am still paranoid. I don't have 2FA on PayPal as I have never use it but I am wondering how they got into my PayPal account from another device, even with the password I usually have to confirm the access from a secondary email. My PC was turned off when the purchase happened. Any idea how this could have happened and what should I check on my PC? I would like to avoid wiping the whole Windows 10 installation.
Three research teams broke into Google's Pixel 10 on October 8 at Pwn2Own Ireland, a hacking contest in Cork whose rules require every target to be fully patched. The contest pays researchers to show working exploits and passes the flaws to the vendors. One of the three Pixel exploits earned Ikotas Labs $300,000, the contest's top prize, and made the team the overall winner. Trend Micro's Zero
Citrix has released patches for yet another critical security flaw impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that could result in remote code execution or denial-of-service (DoS) under certain conditions. "CVE-2026-107406 is a memory overflow vulnerability that may lead to remote code execution or denial-of-service under specific configuration conditions," Citrix said. The vulnerability
Thursday, October 8
**TL;DR:** NVIDIA DCGM Exporter is a widely used monitoring tool that collects GPU metrics like utilization, memory, temperature, and power consumption from AI servers. We discovered that thousands of these monitoring endpoints are exposed to the public internet, allowing anyone to inspect GPU infrastructure. Worse, we found a **high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-47483, CVSS 8.2)** that lets unauthenticated attackers exhaust server resources, crash GPU monitoring, and potentially disrupt AI workloads remotely. **A few other interesting findings:** **2,100+ exposed GPU servers**, revealing telemetry from **12,000+ GPUs worth \~$100M**, including H100s, H200s, and Blackwell GPUs. **60% of exposed GPUs reported 0% utilization** across our scans. **12,096 additional servers** exposed infrastructure details, including OS, firmware, and networking information. NVIDIA fixed the vulnerability following our responsible disclosure. Full research: [https://lava.security/research/cve-2026-47483-nvidia-dcgm-exporter-vulnerability](https://lava.security/research/cve-2026-47483-nvidia-dcgm-exporter-vulnerability)
The meaningful differences between web application penetration testing companies rarely show up on the homepage. They show up in who performs the testing, how the methodology is documented, what the retest policy covers, and how scope changes get priced once a contract is signed. Use the eight-criteria scorecard below to evaluate providers on substance rather than marketing language. The post Web Application Penetration Testing Companies: What Enterprise Buyers Should Compare appeared first on Synack .
Blackpoint is a well-regarded provider of managed detection and response services to the MSP sector. Founded by former NSA employees, their autonomous containment model is highly effective and helps block attacks fast. But the company’s offerings and approach have certain limitations. If you’re exploring Blackpoint alternatives, this guide is for you. We’ll be looking at […] The post 6 alternatives to Blackpoint for your shortlist appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
Radar provides a real-time view into global Internet trends, powered by Cloudflare’s global network. We support Cloudflare’s mission to help build a better Internet by making web data visible, clear, and actionable for everyone. Since launching in 2020 , Radar has found a natural audience amongst expert users with technical backgrounds, such as network operators and academic researchers who rely on Radar data to observe industry trends and global events. But Radar also has the potential to be a more regular, self-serve resource for journalists, human rights advocates and policymakers, and everyday users. Making Radar accessible to a wider audience is a core part of our vision, so we knew it was time to reevaluate the user experience: How could we make Radar more approachable to broader audiences, while preserving the depth and rigor that we currently have? In this blog post, we’ll introduce the redesigned Radar, share our design process, and outline our broader vision for the platform’s future. Challenges with the previous design While the previous landing page was successful at showing the breadth of Radar’s data, the way that information was presented made it difficult to parse. The bento box layout gave everything similar visual weight, the vertical cards disrupted natural reading patterns, and the styling felt disconnected from Cloudflare’s broader brand. We heard this from users. One external user mentioned that one of his biggest frustrations with Radar was that it was difficult to show to his students. That feedback reinforced the problem that Radar could feel intimidating to people encountering it for t
Hello all We have a couple of Windows devices in the past that either had Bitlocker suspended or "Waiting for Activation". The latter is often the case with freshly shipped Windows 11 devices. In those cases, the the volume is encrypted using a clear key protector, see: [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/operating-system-security/data-protection/bitlocker/planning-guide#bitlocker-provisioning](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/operating-system-security/data-protection/bitlocker/planning-guide#bitlocker-provisioning) There is no active key protector (i.e. no recovery key, no password or anything) that could be extracted. In those cases, we can image the device with for example FTK Imager, but when opening the image, FTK cannot read it. However, when we for example mount it in Windows as a volume in FTK Imager, the whole disk is readable. Does anyone know how to avoid this issue, which tools (e.g. Encase, X-Ways, Autopsy,...) have no issue with reading the E01 or how you typically deal with this? We want to of course avoid changing any setting on the device before acquiring the disk and we would like to directly work on the physical acquisition / E01.
With no accurate Big Tech mapping app to help him, Anas Hattab launched a Telegram group to get himself home at night. Now nearly 350,000 Palestinians rely on it to navigate the occupied West Bank.
It turns out you can overwrite the Error.prepareStackTrace method with the function constructor. Then, using prototype pollution, you can inject valid JavaScript code to generate arbitrary functions and invoke it using the usual tricks.
For months, GreyNoise recorded almost no Hikvision camera exploit attempts against Ukraine. On Sept 21 activity surged for nine days during Russian strikes, almost all from four IPs, then stopped. We can't say if the two are linked.
Wednesday, October 7
At a recent event for security firm NordVPN, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal revealed that he got hacked—and warned the public about the need to “have control of their own information.”
Security alerts rarely arrive one at a time. A single alert can cause a spike across the environment, requiring a human analyst to decide which alerts are related and what they mean. When multiple arrive at the same time, it can quickly overwhelm even a seasoned security analyst. Enter the alert paradox. Now, our built-in, multi-AI-agent security operations harness can handle more of this work at Cloudflare scale. Our Cloudflare Managed Defense AI agent harness speeds up the process of gathering data, connecting and aggregating detections, and accounting for missing sources while new alerts continue to arrive. To further analyze context, we make use of the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network and our partnership with Anthropic. Cloudflare uses approved OpenAI Daybreak and Anthropic models, including GPT-5.6 Cyber and Mythos, for deeper model-backed analysis. Initial analysis and scoring is done with Clef , Cloudflare’s open-source decision model. Collecting evidence to understand what each alert means requires a lot of time. Even in a highly sophisticated Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), too much is still left for a human to review. Human analysts must gather data, connect and aggregate detections, and account for missing sources while new alerts continue to arrive. Think about every time a human analyst reviews an alert: "Which should we silence? Which action should we take? Which alert should we ignore? Which should we resolve as false positives? Which should we resolve as true positives? Which should trigger our incident team?" We address this predicament with our AI agent strategy. Our approach reduces all of th
The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Cybercrime Detective Explains Cybersecurity Jargon in 60-Second Videos for Cybersecurity Awareness Month
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 7 October 2026 – Heimdal today officially launches the “Cyber in 60” weekly video series in which Adam Pilton, a former cybercrime detective and now Cybersecurity Advisor at Heimdal, breaks down one cybersecurity term or concept in under 60 seconds. This series solves an old tech to human translation problem. The people who […] The post Cybercrime Detective Explains Cybersecurity Jargon in 60-Second Videos for Cybersecurity Awareness Month appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
OpenAI came to Australia to apologise. It will leave without answering these key questions | Toby Walsh
We don’t accept drugs killing a few people because they cure most patients. Or a few planes crashing because most land safely. AI should be no different OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was asked to appear before the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Australia and explain how and why their agents have been hacking into multiple government websites . Altman didn’t turn up but sent Jason Kwon, his chief strategy officer, instead to answer the committee’s many tricky questions on its first day of public hearings on Tuesday. The committee is conducting a comprehensive inquiry into the economic, societal, regulatory, and national security implications of AI for Australia. It will report back to parliament at the end of November. This is an unusually fast pace, but then it’s an unusually fast paced technology. Continue reading...
Tuesday, October 6
On October 11, 2026, the DNS root is scheduled to change its key-signing key (KSK) for only the second time ever. This key anchors DNSSEC’s chain of trust, which lets DNS resolvers authenticate answers using cryptographic signatures. The change is called a KSK rollover. Validating resolvers need to trust the new key before the switch, as otherwise healthy websites could become unreachable. When we wrote about the first root KSK rollover in 2018 , we had seen resolvers lose their learned trust in the new key during software upgrades or moves between machines. Publishing the key well in advance was only part of the job. We also needed to know whether resolvers had retained it, and we couldn’t give users a practical way to check. Most website operators do not need to make any changes for this rollover. If you run a DNSSEC-validating resolver, check that it trusts the new root key, KSK-2024, and follow your software vendor’s instructions to update its trust anchors if the key is missing. If you use Cloudflare for your domain's DNS or rely on 1.1.1.1 and Gateway DNS, you do not need to take any action — our systems already trust KSK-2024. To check ahead of time, visit our rollover readiness test . It asks the resolver your browser uses whether it trusts the new key. The test uses RFC 8509: A Root Key Trust Anchor Sentinel for DNSSEC , which we’ve implemented in 1.1.1.1 ahead of the rollover. Where DNSSEC trust begins A DNS resolver looks up the addresses of websites and other services for your device. DNSSEC lets it check digital signatures on DNS records to verify that they ar
Shares in fashion company fall nearly 10% after its app systems are accessed by ‘unidentified third party’ Asos is investigating unauthorised access to its app system after shoppers received a notification claiming hackers had “fully compromised” its data. The online fashion retailer said basic personal information including name and contact details might have been accessed by an unidentified third party but it did not believe payment card records or passwords had been compromised. Continue reading...
You Won’t Hear About These, Even In Myths (Atlassian Jira, Confluence (and more) Pre-Auth Arbitrary File Read CVE-2026-21589)
Welcome back to yet another episode of "security was taken seriously". Being who we are (and constantly being exposed to what we see…), we recognize we have been doomed to eternal damnation as we keep on watching security best practices crumble behind “secure by design” public statements. And in the times we live in, where anyone with a prompt window in front of them can say "reproduce the vulnerability, make no mistakes", so are you. In Greek mythology, Atlas was punished by the gods for misbehaving. Reality is unfair, and all we get is Atlassian punishing the rest of us for running their systems on-prem. And so they did, on October 5th, in a security advisory . Sometimes we regret that CVSS scores go as high as 10, because when a vu
I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on that I’m super excited about: Project RedTeam: Contract Offensive There’s a free Demo that provides a tutorial and lets you play a few contracts (no time limit, play as much as you want). Some players are already pulling some serious hours in the demo! At its core, this is a game about using MITRE ATT&CK adversarial techniques against procedurally generated networks. It's delivered in a gameplay loop that plays a lot like Balatro and other card based Roguelike games. In Project RedTeam, you need to earn money to pay off debts after every contract within a run. Earn money by completing objectives, side bounties, or executing exfiltration/ransom against targets- the choice on how to be profitable is always yours. It's a challenging but fun and fast paced take on network-intrusion cybersecurity concepts. It's entertaining in a deliberately gamified way. A goal of this project was to create a hacking game that is realistic enough to keep it meaningful as a tool to teach intrusion concepts and stages to anyone- but not be overcomplicated and slow-paced like most hacking games. I've put a lot of thought into the design and dynamics of how to capture the core-loop of network intrusion and turn it into a game that's approachable. The design direction of this project is an outcome of having over a decade of training and experience in cybersecurity. Feel free to AMA! I'm happy to answer any questions about the game and/or development process :) Give the game a Wishlist on Steam or share this post if it's something you support and want to see further development on. Project background: This was implemented over the past 3 months using a modern development workflow (yes, modern AI tools make this possible- I'm not hiding that fact!). That being said, this is by far the most complex software project I've built as a solo developer and it was not an easy or simple development task. There's a Steam Community with a Dev Blog for this game that provides more history/progress updates on the project. Mods: This will be my only and last post here, since it is promotional. I just wanted to share this since there’s been very positive interest from similar subreddits.
Project Zero often works with software vendors to remediate the vulnerabilities we report and provide broader guidance on making software more secure. Some vendors express concern about potential scenarios in which they are unable to fix vulnerabilities that are causing immediate user harm, due to limitations in their patch delivery systems. Since Project Zero encounters a wide array of systems designed to protect users in the case of exceptional exploitation scenarios, both through vendor discussions and security reviews, we want to share what we’ve learned. This post provides an overview of systems in use by large vendors that allow them to remediate small volumes of vulnerabilities much faster than their typical update process. Our goal is to provide a reference for vendors seeking to implement or enhance the capabilities of such systems, and to encourage vendors to consider how they would fix an urgent vulnerability before they receive one.
In this post, we share LLM-specific validation patterns that attackers use to test exposed AWS credentials for Amazon Bedrock access.