AI Phishing Is Crushing SOCs with Alert Volume: How to Reduce Tier 1 Overload

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Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine. Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every

VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM on Linux Appliances

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A China-nexus cyber espionage group has been observed deploying a BSD variant of a known backdoor called BRICKSTORM, as well as two other malware families codenamed PLENET (aka GRIMBOLT) and

UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January

VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

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Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in

New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration

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OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is

CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence

Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI

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A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping

Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack

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Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub

AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs

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Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-20245 Flaw Actively Exploited – No Patch Available

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Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of