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The licensing heartbeat that brought down a billion-message phishing network
A technical read of the Yam Store takedown: how Iron Man's self-hosted phishing kits stayed alive through a vendor licensing heartbeat, a 911-build container pipeline, and customer-fronted domains — and why those design choices were also the network's weakest links.
Ivanti's July Fix Left the Door Ajar — and AI Cybersecurity Threats Walked Right In
CVE-2026-104935 is an authentication-bypass-by-spoofing flaw in Ivanti Connect Secure that a July patch only partly closed. Here's what's affected, how it's being used in the wild, and how to verify you're actually safe.
Dismantling Yam Store: Inside the Global Phishing-as-a-Service Operation Behind One Billion Malicious Messages
Expanded article on Yam Store takedown, phishing-as-a-service, and AI cybersecurity threats.
Hirudo’s App-Swap Tactic Puts Global Cybersecurity Events & Conferences and Mobile Banking Defenses to the Test
Detailed analysis of Hirudo, an Android banking malware that uninstalls legitimate banking apps and replaces them with modified versions utilizing YAHFA and Dobby hooking engines to evade Play Integrity and steal credentials, discussed across global cybersecurity events.
AI Worms, Autonomous Replication, and Emerging AI Cybersecurity Threats 2026
Anthropic’s evaluation finds pieces of autonomous replication are emerging, but experiments do not establish a practical uncontrolled outbreak. Examine AI cybersecurity threats, lab tests, agentic security, and mitigation practices for 2026.
Identity Is the New Perimeter: Why Security & Compliance Can't Keep Treating IAM as an Afterthought
Cloud identity providers now sit at the center of every enterprise attack surface. Here's why security and compliance teams need to rebuild their access management strategy from scratch.
AI Model Local Deployment Architecture: How Five 2026 Open Weights Stack Up Under the Hood
A technical breakdown of MoE vs dense design choices, context window engineering, and benchmark positioning across Flash Next, Qwen3.8 27B, Muse Glimmer 30B, MiniCPM-V 4.7, and LFM2.5-24B-A2B.
AI Model Local Deployment in 2026: A Cohort Leaderboard From MiniCPM to LFM2.5
Five open-weight models dropped within hours of each other in late October 2026 — MiniCPM-V 4.7, Muse Glimmer 30B, Qwen3.8-27B, Flash Next, and LFM2.5-24B-A2B. Here's what each one brings to local inference and how to pick between them.
AI Cybersecurity Threats in 2026: North Korea's Spear-Phishing Push for Ukraine War Intelligence
DPRK operators are phishing Ukrainians for battlefield intel using tactics that sit at the intersection of low-effort social engineering and the AI-accelerated phishing ecosystem reshaping state-sponsored cyber operations in 2026.
Navigating Insider Threats: Integrating NIST Standards and the Threats Vulnerabilities Assets Worksheet
Expanded and comprehensive article on navigating insider threats, integrating NIST standards, and leveraging the threats vulnerabilities assets worksheet with insights from CISA catalogs and NIST security controls.
Fahmida Rashid's Dark Reading Ascension Is a Blueprint for Financial Journalism Jobs, Remote and On-Site
Fahmida Y Rashid takes the Editor-in-Chief chair at Dark Reading, succeeding Kelly Jackson Higgins. Her two decades of enterprise security journalism and emphasis on accuracy over hype offer lessons for every specialist editorial career — in cybersecurity, finance, and beyond.
Dark Reading's 20-Year Arc and the Future of Financial Journalism Jobs, Remote and Otherwise
Kelly Jackson Higgins reflects on two decades of cybersecurity journalism at Dark Reading, from profiling legendary researchers to announcing a leadership handoff — and what one publication's evolution reveals about where media careers are heading.