Cybersecurity
Defensive security practice across the stack.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Critical Security Flaw Discovered in Official Gitea Docker Image
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-20896) in Gitea's official Docker image, allowing unauthorized users to impersonate others, including administrators. Users are urged to upgrade to version 1.26.4 immediately or apply strict IP filtering for trusted proxies.
Shim: The Tiny Bootloader That Saved Linux Inside Microsoft's Secure Boot
The shim bootloader was invented as a cryptographic bridge to extend UEFI Secure Boot to Linux devices and utility software — solving the problem of unsigned kernels in a signed-boot world.
Flipping the Script: Artificial Intelligence AI Cybersecurity and the War on Scrapers
A look at how web administrators are using hidden, defensive prompt injections to disrupt unauthorized AI web crawlers and scrapers, turning a well-known LLM vulnerability into an active application-level defense.
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.