What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era

AI is changing the pace of open source development and the security challenges that come with it. Maintainers are reviewing unfamiliar contributions, managing new attack surfaces, and responding to vulnerabilities with limited time and resources. Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund...

Malicious code in picasso.js (npm)

npm/picasso.js is affected by the large-scale, self-propagating npm supply-chain worm of 2026-08-04 the "Shai-Hulud: Here We Go Again" wave — the same campaign that began with the compromise of the keyv and cacheable maintainer account. The listed versions were trojanized and republished by the...

73% of Organizations Say They Are Not Fully Ready for a Major Cyberattack

Most organizations have incident response plans, security tools, and technical teams in place. Yet new research suggests that many still lack the coordination, visibility, and executive alignment needed to withstand a serious cyberattack. According to The State of Incident Response Readiness 2026...

Preview: Cisco Talos at Black Hat USA 2026

We're looking forward to having some great conversations with those of you heading to the desert for Hacker Summer Camp 2026. We have a presence within the Cisco and Splunk booth 2633 during Black Hat where you can chat to us about our latest threat research, incident response, and how Talos powe...

CVE-2026-46412 Malicious code in @beproduct/nestjs-auth (0.1.2 through 0.1.19) — Mini Shai-Hulud worm

@beproduct/nestjs-auth is a NestJS authentication module for BeProduct IDS Identity Server with OpenID Connect support. Between 2026-05-11 20:19 UTC and 22:56 UTC, an attacker used a compromised npm publish token to publish 18 malicious versions of @beproduct/nestjs-auth 0.1.2 through 0.1.19. The...

CVE-2026-58644: Microsoft SharePoint Server Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Overview On July 14, 2026, Microsoft published a security advisory addressing CVE-2026-58644, a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability affecting on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server deployments. The vulnerability, which carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8 Critical, results from the...

CVE-2026-12616

The /v1/upload/sbom endpoint extracts the iss claim from the attacker-supplied JWT with signature verification disabled, then interpolates that string into three log statements before any validation gate. Because the configured log format "%asctimes - %names - %levelnames - %messages" renders...

CVE-2026-12616

The /v1/upload/sbom endpoint extracts the iss claim from the attacker-supplied JWT with signature verification disabled, then interpolates that string into three log statements before any validation gate. Because the configured log format "%asctimes - %names - %levelnames - %messages" renders...

Malicious code in rstreams-metrics (npm)

The rstreams-metrics npm package was compromised as part of the Miasma worm campaign targeting the LeoPlatform npm ecosystem. On June 24, 2026, 20 LeoPlatform packages were published within a 3-second window by a threat actor who had taken over the npm account czirker belonging to the LeoPlatform...

Security Bulletin: Aspera Applications are affected by an OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2016-8610)

Question Security Bulletin: Aspera Applications are affected by an OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2016-8610 "Business Unit":"code":"BU059","label":"IBM Software w/o TPS","Product":"code":"SS8NDZ","label":"IBM Aspera","Component":"","Platform":"code":"PF025","label":"Platform Independent","Version":"Al...

EUVD-2026-37877

Local privilege escalation by loading DLLs from a shared temporary directory in ANSSI’s DFIR-ORC, versions 10.2.7 and prior. An attacker with prior access to the system, can place a malicious DLL in C:\Windows\Temp and wait for the application to be executed. Because DFIR-ORC is extracted and...

VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM on Linux Appliances

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 AGENTPSD to target Linux systems. The activity has been attributed by Volexity to a threat cluster it tracks...

PT-2026-46384

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Iris versions prior to 2.4.28 Description Iris is a web collaborative platform designed for incident responders to share technical details during investigations. The software contains an open redirect flaw that allows an attacker to redirect...

Exploit for Improper Access Control in Proftpd

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Pirates in the crosshairs: how one cybercrime gang has been infecting book, movie, and TV show fans for years

Introduction In late April 2026, a client reached out to us for incident response support after discovering a miner running on users' computers. We later discovered that the malware was being distributed via illegal movie and TV show streaming sites. The infection chain leveraged a fake update fo...

Introducing EvidenceForge: Synthetic security logs that don’t look (as) fake

Security teams need high-quality, labeled datasets to train threat hunters and incident responders, validate detection logic, and develop robust analytic models. EvidenceForge helps teams overcome the limitations of anonymized or stale public datasets, while avoiding the cost and complexity of...

Real-Time Webhook Notifications: No More Lost Security Alerts

Every security team knows the pain: a critical alert lands in someone’s inbox, buried under dozens of other emails, or filtered out by a spam rule. By the time anyone sees it, the incident is already in full swing—no ticket opened, no Slack message sent, no automated workflow triggered. The...

Decentralized Threat: Stealthy P2P Cryptominer Targeting Ollama Endpoints

The Akamai SIRT uncovered a custom P2P Trojan masquerading as system activity. Learn how to detect and mitigate this stealthy Go-based cryptominer...

SOC-Alert-Investigation-Portfolio

SOC Alert Investigation Portfolio This repository contains pr...

How to Reduce Phishing Exposure Before It Turns into Business Disruption

What happens when a phishing email looks clean enough to pass through security, but dangerous enough to expose the business after one click? That is the gap many SOCs still struggle with: the attacks that leave teams unsure what was exposed, who else was targeted, and how far the risk has spread...