Tag: tool
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New Crypter-as-a-Service Cruciferra Fuels Stealthy Malware Attacks Worldwide
Proofpoint uncovered Cruciferra, a crypter-as-a-service that helps hackers evade antivirus and deliver malware in multiple campaigns. Proofpoint’s research team traced a wave of income-tax-themed lures targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams back to a crypter service called Cruciferra, and the tool turns out to be shared infrastructure used across multiple unrelated criminal…
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Operation BlueDash Maintains Redundant Remote Access Even After One RMM Tool Is Removed
A newly analyzed phishing-driven intrusion set tracked as Operation BlueDash demonstrates how threat actors are operationalizing legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools to maintain persistent and redundant access to compromised environments. The infection chain begins with a Microsoft Teams-themed phishing email delivering a “secure document” lure. Victims are redirected through compromised infrastructur to a…
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Too Many AI Tools? How to Create Story Videos In One Workflow With Wondershare Media.io
Wondershare Media.io brings AI story writing, character creation, storyboards, and video generation into one workflow for faster, simpler content creation work. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/ai-tools-create-story-videos-workflow-wondershare-media-io/
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AI Agent Drives Espionage Attack on Thai Ministry of Finance
Attackers used Hermes, an autonomous open source tool, in unrestricted YOLO mode to conduct espionage against Thailand’s Ministry of Finance. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ai-agent-espionage-attack-thai-ministry-finance
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Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/microsoft-unveils-ai-security-tools-it-says-outperform-competing-platforms/
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Nvidia Launches Open-Source AI Security Alliance
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Absent as 37 Firms Back Open AI Security Tools. Nvidia and 36 other technology giants launched the Open Secure AI Alliance to build and share open-source AI security tools, arguing open models are critical defensive assets – while Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, makers of the most capable closed models, are absent…
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NVIDIA Forms 37-Member Open Secure AI Alliance and Open-Sources NOOA Framework
Tags: ai, cisco, cloud, crowdstrike, framework, group, ibm, intelligence, linux, microsoft, network, nvidia, open-source, software, toolNVIDIA and 36 other organizations have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to develop and share open technologies, techniques, and tools for securing software and artificial intelligence (AI) agents.The 37-member group spans cloud, security, enterprise software, and AI companies, including Microsoft, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, and the Linux…
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Adversaries Don’t Need a Zero-Day, They Read Your Rulebook
Confidence in autonomous security tools is declining, and here’s why. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/adversaries-do-not-need-zero-day-they-read-your-rulebook
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Tech industry giants say US must embrace openness, transparency in AI
Open-source and open-weight AI models are essential cybersecurity tools, two groups of major AI and security firms said. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-open-source-weights-tech-industry-promote/826240/
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NVIDIA, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike Launch Alliance for Open-Source AI Security
Tags: ai, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, linux, microsoft, nvidia, open-source, technology, toolNVIDIA, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike have joined a broad coalition of technology, cybersecurity, and open-source organizations to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance. This initiative focuses on developing open tools, models, agent harnesses, and security techniques to defend AI-enabled infrastructure. The alliance builds on the groundwork laid by the Linux Foundation’s Akrites initiative and the Open…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, Check Point Exploit, Slopsquatting, ClickFix Lures and More
Monday starts with the usual promise that everything is under control. Then the logs wake up.This week, trusted tools crossed lines, old flaws found new work, exposed systems stayed exposed, and attackers kept hiding inside normal-looking services. Nothing looked strange at first. That helped.That is the mood. Here is the full recap.âš¡ Threat of the…
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Over 70 Fake Windows App Sites Could Turn Trusted Downloads Into Malware
A newly uncovered cluster of more than 70 impersonation domains targeting popular Windows applications is raising fresh concerns about a scalable malware distribution campaign that leverages trust in legitimate software ecosystems. The discovery, triggered by a developer investigating unusual search results for their own application, reveals a coordinated infrastructure designed to mimic well-known tools while…
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GitHub Adds 3-Day Dependabot Cooldown to Limit Poisoned Package Adoption
GitHub has announced a new cooldown mechanism in Dependabot, allowing the tool to wait at least three days after a release is published before opening a pull request.”The cooldown configuration option in the dependabot.yml still controls the behavior, though, so you can choose a different cooldown parameter that fits your project,” the Microsoft-owned subsidiary said.According…
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Claude Code Symlink Flaw Exfiltrates Sensitive Files Without User Approval
Claude Code has a flaw in its startup memory loader related to handling symbolic links (symlinks) that can unintentionally expose readable files from outside a cloned repository, without requiring explicit user approval. The issue arises not from the tool following symlinks, something that is standard behavior in filesystems, but from a mismatch in how its…
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GitHub delays version updates so malware gets caught first
An automated update tool watches a package registry, catches a new release the moment it publishes, and opens a pull request for your team. That is the job it was built to do. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/27/github-dependabot-cooldown/
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GitHub, PyPI add time-based defenses against supply chain attacks
GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to protect against supply-chain attacks and to limit their impact. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-pypi-add-time-absed-defenses-against-supply-chain-attacks/
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GitHub, PyPI add time-absed defenses against supply chain attacks
GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to protect against supply-chain attacks and to limit their impact. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-pypi-add-time-absed-defenses-against-supply-chain-attacks/
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The most vulnerable AI products are also some of the most commonly exposed online
It is becoming increasingly easy for hackers to target vulnerable AI tools on companies’ networks, even as those companies come to depend on them for more tasks. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/industrial-control-systems-ai-internet-exposure-censys-report-preview/826133/
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KI-Trojaner Dolphin X nimmt wertvolle IT-Ziele automatisiert ins Visier
Die Schadsoftware Dolphin X nutzt einen KI-Profiler zur automatischen Bewertung infizierter Systeme. Das Tool filtert besonders wertvolle Ziele heraus. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/ki-trojaner-dolphin-x
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ChatGPT Among Top 10 Most Impersonated Brands in Phishing Attacks, Says Check Point
OpenAI’s chatbot tool ChatGPT ranked among the top 10 most impersonated brands in phishing attacks for the first time First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chatgpt-most-impersonated-brands/
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Hackers Weaponize Notepad++ Plugins to Silently Infect Windows Systems
CERT-UA has issued a warning regarding the UAC-0099 threat cluster, which has revised its malware delivery method by exploiting the legitimate Notepad++ application to load a malicious DLL disguised as a plugin. This campaign, observed since mid-summer 2026, introduces two newly identified tools, LUNCHPOKE and BURNYBEAR, along with an updated MATCHBOIL.V2 loader. This activity highlights…
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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/how-ai-guardrails-are-impeding-the-work-of-offensive-cybersecurity-researchers/
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Apiiro CEO: Coding Agents Are the New Enterprise Perimeter
Idan Plotnik: AI Development Tools Have Become Enterprises’ Newest Attack Surface. Apiiro CEO Idan Plotnik says AI coding agents have become the enterprise’s newest security perimeter, prompting organizations to shift from application security posture management to automated protection as AI accelerates both software development and vulnerability exploitation. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/apiiro-ceo-coding-agents-are-new-enterprise-perimeter-a-32314
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Censys Finds AI/LLM Tool Exposures Up More Than 60%
Censys found Internet-exposed AI/LLM tools increased more than 60% in nine months, expanding organizations’ attack surfaces. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/censys-finds-ai-llm-tool-exposures-up-more-than-60/
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Two-Thirds of Ransomware Victims Say AI Boosted Attack Effectiveness
A new study of organizations which have fallen victim to ransomware suggests the rise of AI-tools being used by hackers is making life harder for defenders First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-boosts-ransomware-effectiveness/
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Google Unveils CodeMender AI Agent for Automated Vulnerability Detection and Remediation
Google has unveiled CodeMender, a managed AI security agent designed to identify, validate, and remediate software vulnerabilities at machine speed. Announced in preview on July 22, 2023, the tool is available through the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and can also function as a core component of Google’s AI Threat Defense offering. This launch comes as…
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Lookout launches tool to identify software exposure risk in mobile apps
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/lookout-launches-tool-to-identify-software-exposure-risk-in-mobile-apps
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Attackers Are Learning to Live Off the AI Toolchain
Sandworm_Mode is an early example of malware that exploits trusted AI tools and workflows to make malicious activity virtually indistinguishable from normal activity. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/attackers-live-off-ai-toolchain
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Malware is targeting AI tools in software development environments
The worm blends in with thousands of other commands occurring daily in any given environment, yet its intent and origins remain unknown. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/sandworm-mode-malware-ai-supply-chain-crowdstrike/