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GitHub
Private repos still leak secrets to Gheist, a stolen GitHub token campaign

Wiz Research has recovered more than 13,500 planted branches from 850+ compromised GitHub accounts, the work of a campaign it calls Gheist, after the user agent the tool sends …

cybercrime
Stolen AI API keys are paying for hackers’ autonomous scans

A seller on a restricted criminal forum is marketing an autonomous hacking tool that runs on stolen OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys, so the key’s owner pays for …

world
The internet’s attack surface moves at very different speeds

Censys found that AI-related software exposed to the public internet grew 63% in nine months, from 164,088 IP addresses in October 2025 to 267,915 in July 2026. Elsewhere in …

Christiaan Beek
What the BPFDoor backdoor tells us about attacks on the network edge

A backdoor that makes no noise is hard to catch, and that’s the point of BPFDoor. The Linux malware waits for a special “magic packet” before it acts. In …

Windows
The TASK#STOMP Windows backdoor takes Wi-Fi passwords, screenshots, and business files

Researchers have taken apart TASK#STOMP, a Windows backdoor that searches a victim’s drives for business documents, uploads them to attacker servers, and then stays put …

hand
Your threat feed is someone else’s database: What ingesting malware intel at scale takes

The advice is to consume shared threat intelligence. Join the ISAC. Wire the community feeds into your pipeline. This looks like a fine advice and I agree to it. What nobody …

Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers

Askeal takes the opposite approach to omniscient Gen AI: rather than pretending to know everything, it combines AI with community expertise. Vetted vendors, researchers, and …

Salesforce ServiceNow
A stranger has been reading Salesforce and ServiceNow portals worldwide for 17 months

Most security stories start with something broken. This one starts with everything working as designed. Researchers at Reco have been tracking a campaign they call City-Forum, …

industry
What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how

Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned …

Google
Google changes how it names cyber threat actors

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has started using a new naming system for the threat actors it tracks. The change comes after Mandiant and Google’s Threat …

software supply chain security
Turning software supply chain security into a daily habit

In this Help Net Security video, Anastasia Tikhonova, Global Threat Research Lead at Group-IB, explains how to operationalize software supply chain risk. Instead of filing an …

hands
A single malware file can outweigh an entire AI dataset

Antivirus vendors and security startups keep shipping AI features that promise to read malware the way a seasoned analyst would. The results inside security teams tell a …

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