How AI is Rewriting the Zero-Day Playbook for Preemptive Security
The scenario is all too familiar for any cybersecurity professional: It’s late in the day, and a critical zero-day vulnerability is disclosed. When this happ...
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Mythos Asks the Right Question. It Doesn't Answer It.
AI is compressing exploit timelines. The real question isn't whether your vulnerability management playbook needs to change, it's which part of it you've bee...
Malicious Steam workshop map delivered malware to MECCHA CHAMELEON players
As outlined in Cyber Insider, a malicious Steam Workshop map for the game MECCHA CHAMELEON exploited a vulnerability in the game's mod-loading system to deli...
Download: The High-Performance Team Playbook
Get practical insight from teams who’ve built, scaled and handed over engineering functions at enterprise level. Most engineering teams don’t fail because of...
The containment paradox: Why your ransomware playbook has the wrong people in charge
I have sat in on a version of the same incident post-mortem in three sectors over the past two years. The script does not vary much.
CTM360 Research Reveals How Insurance Phishing Has Evolved Into Real-Time Account Hijacking
For years, phishing campaigns targeting financial institutions followed the same playbook. Victims were tricked into entering usernames and passwords, attack...
Hackers Exploit Industrial PLCs and Manipulate HMI Displays to Hide Attacks
Six federal agencies have updated a joint advisory warning that Iranian-affiliated advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are actively exploiting internet-e...
Google Fined €890M Under EU Digital Markets Act Over Search and Play Store Practices
EU fined Google €890M under the DMA for favoring its own services and restricting Play Store competition, with AI search features also under scrutiny.
4 ways AI-driven defense is rewriting the cybersecurity playbook
The cybersecurity landscape has evolved beyond human scale. Today’s adversaries have replaced predictable, manual playbooks with machine-generated attack cha...
What the World Cup can teach us about cybersecurity resilience
Future major events can’t rely on yesterday's playbook. Lessons from the World Cup show why true cyber resilience starts months before kickoff and extends fa...
LG Monitors Spotted Installing Adware-Like App on Windows PCs
Connecting certain LG monitors prompts Windows Update to install an LG app without consent, while the software runs at startup and displays McAfee trial adve...
AI Has Enhanced Iran’s Asymmetric Playbook During the 2026 Conflict
Explore how Iran has utilized AI to enhance its asymmetric playbook during the 2026 conflict. Learn how AI acts as a force multiplier for Iranian cyber opera...
Qilin Dominates Ransomware Market Amid Growing Cybercrime Consolidation
The ransomware landscape is reconsolidating around major players, with Qilin emerging as the leading RaaS operation, researchers say
Infosecurity Europe: Practical Lessons From Lloyds' Agentic AI Security Playbook
Lloyds Banking Group shared its approach for securing agentic AI workflows, with a mix of hands on experimentation and cross functional governance
[webapps] Quick Playground for WordPress 1.3.1 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
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Foul play: Fake FIFA websites target soccer fans looking for World Cup tickets, merchandise
Watch out for bogus World Cup websites that mimic official ticket and merchandise flows to steal money and personal data
At Mythos Speed: A Defender's Playbook for the AI Vulnerability Surge in 2026
Frontier AI models like Mythos are making vulnerability discovery fast and cheap. Here's how defenders use threat intelligence and agentic processing to prio...
Fake call logs, real payments: How CallPhantom tricks Android users
ESET researchers uncovered fraudulent apps on Google Play that claim to provide the call history “for any number” and had been downloaded more than seven mil...