From federal SOCs to Talos: Ryan Fetterman on practical security research

What does it mean to be "blue collar" for the blue team? Amy sat down with security researcher Ryan Fetterman to discuss his journey from federal agency work to his new role at Talos. He shares the realities of detection engineering -- including the creative, often frustrating ways attackers evol...

Ryan Su Simple Admin encryption vulnerability

Ryan Su Simple Admin versions 1.8.7 and earlier have an encryption-related vulnerability. This vulnerability stems from the hardcoded value of Auth.AccessSecret in the api/etc/core.yaml file. Unverified attackers can exploit this public key to forge super administrator tokens. By using a JWT clai...

WordPress Mang Board WP plugin <= 2.3.8 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered by John Ryan Albon in WordPress Plugin Mang Board WP versions = 2.3.8...

Malicious Package

Overview ryan-pdf-js is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package authorshi...

Malware in ryan-pdf-js

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outsid...

Ransomware Negotiator Gets 70 Months in Prison for Aiding BlackCat Attacks

A 41-year-old former ransomware negotiator has been sentenced to nearly six years i.e., 70 months in prison in the U.S. for their role in conspiring with the now-defunct BlackCat ransomware operators to extort multiple victims and working with two other cybersecurity professionals to target...

Malicious code in ryan-pdf-js (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector c3d966501b5f533318c26b54887cd29b3cd6c9495035a0f74519ba349357e3eb [email protected] is an empty stub package index.js exports whose sole purpose is to deliver an off-registry payload at install time. Its package.js...

Two Cybersecurity Professionals Get 4-Year Sentences in BlackCat Ransomware Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday announced the sentencing of two cybersecurity professionals to four years each in prison for their role in facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks in 2023. Ryan Goldberg , 40, of Georgia, and Kevin Martin , 36, of Texas, were accused of deploying th...

CVE-2026-27068

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Ryan Howard Website LLMs.txt website-llms-txt allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Website LLMs.txt: from n/a through = 8.2.6...

CVE-2026-27068: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Ryan Howard Website LLMs.txt website-llms-txt allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Website LLMs.txt: from n/a through = 8.2.6...

Ryan Liles, master of technical diplomacy

Cisco Talos is back with another inside look at the people who keep the internet safe. This time, Amy chats with Ryan Liles, who bridges the gap between Cisco's product teams and the third-party testing labs that put Cisco products through their paces. Ryan pulls back the curtain on the delicate...

FileRise security vulnerabilities

FileRise is a lightweight, self-hosted web-based file manager developed by Ryan as an individual developer. Versions of FileRise prior to 3.3.0 contained security vulnerabilities, which were caused by HTML injection, potentially allowing modifications to the DOM or redirecting users...

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the Optimizer component. An attacker can cause the application to hang or crash repeatedly by sending crafted requests over multiple protocols with high privileges. Remediation...

CVE-2025-68891: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Ryan Sutana WP App Bar wp-app-bar allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WP App Bar: from n/a through = 1.5...

WordPress Link Whisper Free plugin <= 0.8.8 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Ryan Novotny in WordPress Plugin Link Whisper Free versions = 0.8.8...

WordPress g-FFL Cockpit plugin <= 1.7.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure vulnerability

Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure vulnerability discovered by Ryan Kozak in WordPress Plugin g-FFL Cockpit versions = 1.7.1...

WordPress eMagicOne Store Manager for WooCommerce plugin <= 1.2.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via set_image() vulnerability

Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via setimage vulnerability discovered by Ryan Kozak in WordPress Plugin eMagicOne Store Manager versions = 1.2.5...

WordPress Bread & Butter plugin <= 7.11.1374 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability

Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability discovered by Ryan Kozak in WordPress Plugin Bread & Butter versions = 7.11.1374...

WordPress AI Feeds plugin <= 1.0.11 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability

Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability discovered by Ryan Kozak in WordPress Plugin AI Feeds versions = 1.0.11...

WordPress S2B AI Assistant – ChatBot, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Content & Image Generator plugin <= 1.7.8 - Authenticated (Editor+) Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability

Authenticated Editor+ Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability discovered by Ryan Kozak in WordPress Plugin S2B AI Assistant versions = 1.7.8...