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advanced persistent threats apts4 days ago4 min

How msaRAT Hides Its C2 Traffic Inside Your Browser — And Why AI Cybersecurity Threats Just Got Harder

The Chaos ransomware gang's new msaRAT backdoor routes all command-and-control traffic through headless Chrome and Edge browsers, making it nearly invisible to traditional network monitoring.

ai powered email security5 days ago6 min

How AI Is Used in Cybersecurity: AegisAI’s Autonomous Agents Are Rewriting the Rules

AegisAI, founded by former Google security leaders Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, deploys autonomous AI agents to detect and neutralize hyper-personalized spear phishing attacks that bypass traditional email security systems. Their $36M Series A funds artificial intelligence cybersecurity defense built for the age of AI-driven threats.

active vulnerability exploitation5 days ago5 min

AI Cybersecurity Threats: Why InfraTrust Forces You to Stop Chasing CVSS Scores

Eclypsium's InfraTrust report reveals how state-sponsored actors exploit infrastructure flaws before patches ship — and why your patching strategy is already obsolete.

aerospace program audits delays5 days ago3 min

Why Scientists Are Finally Taking UAPs Seriously: AI, Security, and the Human Cost

How artificial intelligence, national security imperatives, and psychological insight are transforming UAP research from fringe curiosity into a critical pillar of science and public trust.

active vulnerability exploitation5 days ago3 min

The wp2shell Crisis: AI Cybersecurity Threats Targeting WordPress Core at Scale

Security researchers detail how threat actors are chaining two critical WordPress Core vulnerabilities—CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137—to deploy persistent webshells, with AI tools accelerating the exploit development process.

cloud security incidents5 days ago5 min

Collabora CODE 26.04: Optional AI, Markdown, and the Cloud Security Angle Nobody's Talking About

Collabora ships CODE 26.04 with opt-in AI, Markdown support, and Calc improvements — but the real story for security teams is what this means for on-prem office deployments and data sovereignty.

ai national security sovereignty1 week ago5 min

The Quiet March Toward Full AI Communism

How Moonshot AI’s open-weight Kimi model is accelerating a global shift toward state-controlled AI as public infrastructure — and why the U.S. response is dangerously out of step.

active vulnerability exploitation1 week ago5 min

AI Cybersecurity Threats: The Human Layer Is the Weak Link

Two Scattered Spider members sentenced to 5.5 years for TfL cyberattack—exposing how AI-enhanced social engineering is the real AI cybersecurity threat.

advanced persistent threats apts1 week ago4 min

How Russia’s APT28 Weaponized ClickFix to Bypass AI Cybersecurity Defenses

Russia’s APT28 group has evolved ClickFix from a social engineering trick into an API-driven attack that bypasses traditional EDR and AMSI protections — turning human trust into a persistent foothold in Ukrainian critical infrastructure.

cloud security incidents1 week ago5 min

Google's Agentic Defense Playbook: What the Wiz Acquisition Actually Changes for Cloud Security

After its $32 billion Wiz acquisition, Google Cloud is betting that autonomous AI agents — not human analysts — will close the gap between breach detection and response. Here's what the agentic defense platform actually does, and why the 22-second handoff window makes it unavoidable.

trojanized exploit malicious package delivery1 week ago6 min

Fake GitHub Repos, Real Damage: A Case Study in AI Cybersecurity Threats

A threat actor published nearly 300 fake GitHub repositories impersonating legitimate software and security projects to distribute the BoryptGrab infostealer, collecting data from 19 browsers, 32 crypto wallets, and messaging apps before exfiltrating to a Russia-based C2 server.

active vulnerability exploitation2 weeks ago5 min

How a China-Linked Cluster Weaponized Roundcube Flaws Against University Cybersecurity Researchers

A China-aligned espionage group tracked by Proofpoint as UNK_MassTraction has been exploiting two known Roundcube vulnerabilities—CVE-2024-42009 (XSS) and CVE-2025-49113 (deserialization)—to compromise webmail servers at U.S. and Canadian universities, deploying credential-stealing malware and persistent backdoors targeting physics and engineering researchers.