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Android
A banking malware sample led researchers to an Android bug that can loop-crash phones

Bitdefender Labs researchers built an Android app that contains no executable code and requests no permissions, and installing it leaves a Pixel 10 in a crash loop that can …

rsync
Open-source file sync tool rsync 3.5.2 fixes a CPU exhaustion flaw

The rsync project released version 3.5.2, and it closes a flaw that let a connecting client tie up a server’s CPU with checksum math that leads nowhere. The new version also …

Ghostunnel
Ghostunnel: Open-source TLS proxy with mutual authentication

Ghostunnel is an open-source proxy that handles TLS for programs that cannot handle it themselves. It works in two directions. In server mode it sits in front of a backend, …

fireperf
Fireperf: Open-source network testing tool for firewalls and routers

The IPFire project has released fireperf, an open-source measurement tool that opens connections at a fixed rate and reports what the device in the middle did with each one. …

Byoky
Byoky: Open-source wallet for AI API keys

Byoky is an open-source wallet for AI API keys, available as a Chrome and Firefox extension and as iOS and Android apps. Users store their keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google …

CISA
CISA updates ScubaGear and ScubaGoggles, and says Microsoft 365 checks get faster

CISA released ScubaGear v2.0 and ScubaGoggles v1.1.0, new versions of the open-source tools it publishes to check Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace settings against its …

AbuseBox
AbuseBox: Open-source monitor for blacklists, DNS, SSL and email records

AbuseBox is a free, open-source tool that checks IP addresses and domains against 60 DNS blacklists, pulls reputation scores from AbuseIPDB, inspects DNS, SSL and …

Witness
Witness: Open-source framework for verifying how your software was built

Witness is an open-source command-line tool that records how software gets built, signs that record, and checks it against a policy before the software ships. TestifySec built …

OpenSSL
OpenSSL 4.1.0: What’s new, what’s removed, and what’s still broken

The OpenSSL project released version 4.1.0, adding support for DTLS 1.3 and listing four known bugs in the DTLS code that ships with it. DTLS is the variant of TLS built for …

PHP2Shell scanner
New PHP2Shell scanner checks your hosts for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619

Searchlight Cyber released php2shell-scanner, an open-source tool that tests whether a host is exposed to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the pair of PHP remote code …

DevGuard
DevGuard: Open-source vulnerability management for the software supply chain

DevGuard is a free, open source vulnerability management platform that collects a software project’s security findings in one place, ranks them by risk, and tracks them. …

TorchTPU
Google open-sourced TorchTPU, so PyTorch on TPUs just got a lot easier

Google released TorchTPU as open source, giving PyTorch developers a native way to run models on the company’s Tensor Processing Units. Google also announced TPU support in …

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