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How Samsung Knox Helps Stop Your Network Security Breach

As you know, enterprise network security has undergone significant evolution over the past decade. Firewalls have become more intelligent, threat detection methods have advanced, and access controls are now more detailed. However (and it’s a big “however”), the increasing use of mobile devices in business operations necessitates network security measures that are specifically

Compromised dYdX npm and PyPI Packages Deliver Wallet Stealers and RAT Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new supply chain attack in which legitimate packages on npm and the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have been compromised to push malicious versions to facilitate wallet credential theft and remote code execution. The compromised versions of the two packages are listed below - @dydxprotocol/v4-client-js (npm) - 3.4.1, 1.22.1, 1.15.2, 1.0.31&

Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic revealed that its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.6, has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries, including Ghostscript, OpenSC, and CGIF. Claude Opus 4.6, which was launched on Thursday, comes with improved coding skills, including code review and debugging capabilities, along

ISC Stormcast For Friday, February 6th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9798, (Fri, Feb 6th)

EnCase Driver Weaponized as EDR Killers Persist

The forensic tool's driver was signed with a digital certificate that expired years ago, but major security gaps allowed Windows to load it.

Agentic AI Site 'Moltbook' Is Riddled With Security Risks

Someone used AI to build an entire Web platform, which then did something predictable and preventable: It exposed all its data through a publicly accessible API.

AISURU/Kimwolf Botnet Launches Record-Setting 31.4 Tbps DDoS Attack

The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as AISURU/Kimwolf has been attributed to a record-setting attack that peaked at 31.4 Terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted only 35 seconds. Cloudflare, which automatically detected and mitigated the activity, said it's part of a growing number of hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks mounted by the botnet in the fourth quarter of 2025. The

Cyber Success Trifecta: Education, Certifications & Experience

Colonel Georgeo Xavier Pulikkathara, CISO at iMerit discusses the importance of fundamentals, continuous learning, and human ingenuity in the face of AI-driven cybersecurity evolution.

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Codespaces RCE, AsyncRAT C2, BYOVD Abuse, AI Cloud Intrusions & 15+ Stories

This week didn’t produce one big headline. It produced many small signals — the kind that quietly shape what attacks will look like next. Researchers tracked intrusions that start in ordinary places: developer workflows, remote tools, cloud access, identity paths, and even routine user actions. Nothing looked dramatic on the surface. That’s the point. Entry is becoming less

The Buyer’s Guide to AI Usage Control

Today’s “AI everywhere” reality is woven into everyday workflows across the enterprise, embedded in SaaS platforms, browsers, copilots, extensions, and a rapidly expanding universe of shadow tools that appear faster than security teams can track. Yet most organizations still rely on legacy controls that operate far away from where AI interactions actually occur. The result is a widening

Infy Hackers Resume Operations with New C2 Servers After Iran Internet Blackout Ends

The elusive Iranian threat group known as Infy (aka Prince of Persia) has evolved its tactics as part of efforts to hide its tracks, even as it readied new command-and-control (C2) infrastructure coinciding with the end of the widespread internet blackout the regime imposed at the start of the month. "The threat actor stopped maintaining its C2 servers on January 8 for the first time since we

Broken Phishing URLs, (Thu, Feb 5th)

For a few days, many phishing emails that landed into my mailbox contain strange URLs. They are classic emails asking you to open a document, verify your pending emails, …

Protests Don't Impede Iranian Spying on Expats, Syrians, Israelis

Iranian threat actors have been stealing credentials from people of interest across the Middle East, using spear-phishing and social engineering.

Critical n8n Flaw CVE-2026-25049 Enables System Command Execution via Malicious Workflows

A new, critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the n8n workflow automation platform that, if successfully exploited, could result in the execution of arbitrary system commands. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-25049 (CVSS score: 9.4), is the result of inadequate sanitization that bypasses safeguards put in place to address CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score: 9.9), another critical defect that

Hackers Exploit React2Shell to Hijack Web Traffic via Compromised NGINX Servers

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active web traffic hijacking campaign that has targeted NGINX installations and management panels like Baota (BT) in an attempt to route it through the attacker's infrastructure. Datadog Security Labs said it observed threat actors associated with the recent React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182, CVSS score: 10.0) exploitation using malicious NGINX

ISC Stormcast For Thursday, February 5th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9796, (Thu, Feb 5th)

Ransomware Gang Goes Full 'Godfather' With Cartel

Since its launch in 2023, DragonForce has pushed a cartel model, emphasizing cooperation and coordination among ransomware gangs.

CISA Makes Unpublicized Ransomware Updates to KEV Catalog

A third of the "flipped" CVEs affected network edge devices, leading one researcher to conclude, "Ransomware operators are building playbooks around your perimeter."

Attackers Use Windows Screensavers to Drop Malware, RMM Tools

By tapping the unusual .scr file type, attackers leverage "executables that don't always receive executable-level controls," one researcher noted.

Microsoft Develops Scanner to Detect Backdoors in Open-Weight Large Language Models

Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in open-weight large language models (LLMs) and improve the overall trust in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The tech giant's AI Security team said the scanner leverages three observable signals that can be used to reliably flag the presence of backdoors while maintaining a low false positive