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The assembly line behind 1.5 million malicious domains

The assembly line behind 1.5 million malicious domains 2026-06-12 at 11:07 By Anamarija Pogorelec Attackers registered roughly 1.5 million malicious domains during the first five months of 2026. The registration patterns resemble industrial output. Most of the domains were created by attackers, put to use within weeks, and concentrated among a small set of registrars, […]

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Making the cloud prove it followed your privacy wishes

Making the cloud prove it followed your privacy wishes 2026-06-11 at 08:43 By Sinisa Markovic Making companies that store personal data in cloud key-value databases handle deletion requests by running the operation and confirming the job is complete. The people making those requests and the regulators overseeing them have had limited means to confirm the […]

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Every set of AI guardrails can be broken by the right prompt

Every set of AI guardrails can be broken by the right prompt 2026-06-10 at 11:31 By Mirko Zorz Companies that build AI systems wrap them in guardrails meant to block harmful output, including deepfakes, malware, and instructions for making biological weapons or illicit drugs. When a user prompts the system for such content, the guardrails […]

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The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills

The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills 2026-06-10 at 09:55 By Mirko Zorz Billions of working smartphones reach the end of their service lives each year and move into drawers, recycling streams, and waste piles. The WEEE Forum estimated that 5.3 billion mobile phones became electronic waste in 2022. Many of these […]

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Malware ships with bugs that defenders could use against it

Malware ships with bugs that defenders could use against it 2026-06-09 at 08:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec Static analysis tools have spent years scanning legitimate software for security bugs before it goes out the door. The same scanners work on malware, and malware carries a steady supply of its own bugs. Researchers ran four of these […]

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OAuth marketplace apps keep access after publishers vanish

OAuth marketplace apps keep access after publishers vanish 2026-06-04 at 16:06 By Mirko Zorz Installing an app from the Google Workspace Marketplace or GitHub Marketplace can grant a third party access to company email, files, calendars, code repositories, CI workflows, organization settings, and secrets. Marketplace presence gives these apps the appearance of approval. The OAuth […]

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Autonomous AI-driven worm can reason its way through corporate networks

Autonomous AI-driven worm can reason its way through corporate networks 2026-06-03 at 20:20 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers at the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and the University of Cambridge have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven worm that does not operate on a fixed list of exploits. Instead, it analyzes each target it encounters, […]

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Only 11% of production agents pass the AI agent security bar

Only 11% of production agents pass the AI agent security bar 2026-06-03 at 14:00 By Mirko Zorz Enterprise teams are running AI agents that write code, drive browsers, answer customer calls, manage cloud infrastructure, and query data warehouses with standing credentials. A new independent assessment of 100 production agents finds that nearly all of them […]

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This AI model backdoor attack stays hidden until you customize the model

This AI model backdoor attack stays hidden until you customize the model 2026-06-02 at 09:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most teams that deploy AI start with a backbone model. They download a large pre-trained system, adapt it to a specific task, and put it into production. The download step carries a security question: the origin of […]

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Websites can spy on user activity by analyzing SSD behavior

Websites can spy on user activity by analyzing SSD behavior 2026-05-29 at 14:08 By Sinisa Markovic Websites have spent years collecting information about visitors through browser fingerprinting, tracking scripts, and other techniques designed to identify devices and monitor behavior. Researchers have demonstrated another method that relies on something most users would never expect a website […]

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Zapier exploit chain shows how known anti-patterns compose into critical risk

Zapier exploit chain shows how known anti-patterns compose into critical risk 2026-05-28 at 16:00 By Mirko Zorz A five-stage exploit chain disclosed by Token Security researchers turned a free Zapier account into write access on Zapier’s public developer SDK packages and on internal packages that load in every authenticated zapier.com session. Each link in the […]

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Frontier AI models collapse under multi-turn AI attacks, Cisco finds

Frontier AI models collapse under multi-turn AI attacks, Cisco finds 2026-05-28 at 10:16 By Mirko Zorz Attackers who probe large language models rarely give up after one refusal. They reframe, build context across turns, adopt personas, and escalate gradually. New research from Cisco’s AI threat intelligence team finds that the safety benchmarks used across the […]

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$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality

$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality 2026-05-22 at 17:05 By Mirko Zorz Vulnerability researchers have spent the past year arguing about whether AI agents can find real bugs at scale or whether they mostly generate noise. A pipeline built in three days by researchers from TrendAI and CHT Security supplies an answer, […]

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Deleted Google API keys keep working for up to 23 minutes, researchers warn

Deleted Google API keys keep working for up to 23 minutes, researchers warn 2026-05-22 at 15:08 By Zeljka Zorz Google API keys are credentials that let applications access Google services, from Maps to the Gemini AI. If a key is leaked, an attacker can use it to make API calls, rack up charges, and, if […]

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Meet Fractal, an OS made for microarchitecture reverse engineering

Meet Fractal, an OS made for microarchitecture reverse engineering 2026-05-22 at 12:17 By Sinisa Markovic Probing how a CPU isolates user code from kernel code is messy work. Researchers patch kernels, write drivers, or boot stripped-down bare-metal programs, and any of those choices change variables they were trying to hold still. Fractal, a new operating […]

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Most dark web activity revolves around a handful of topics

Most dark web activity revolves around a handful of topics 2026-05-21 at 08:31 By Sinisa Markovic Dark web activity often becomes visible during marketplace seizures, major data leaks, or sudden spikes in criminal activity. Those events can create an impression of an ecosystem where attention shifts quickly and new trends regularly replace old ones. A […]

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AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested

AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested 2026-05-21 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Adversarial probing of LLMs has piled up a sprawling toolkit over the past three years. Attack techniques with names like Tree of Attacks with Pruning, Crescendo, and Skeleton Key sit alongside hundreds of prompt transforms and scoring methods across open-source […]

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When your AI assistant has the keys to production

When your AI assistant has the keys to production 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Sinisa Markovic Large language models in operational roles query telemetry, propose configuration changes, and in some deployments execute those changes against live infrastructure. Ticket drafting and alert summarization were the starting point. Vendors describe this work as autonomous remediation or self-healing infrastructure. […]

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds

Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Mirko Zorz Researchers built a continuous authentication system called AccLock that identifies a wearer by the tiny vibrations a heartbeat makes inside the ear canal. The signal comes from an accelerometer of the kind already sitting inside many wireless earbuds, so […]

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Public Instagram posts provide raw material for AI phishing campaigns

Public Instagram posts provide raw material for AI phishing campaigns 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Sinisa Markovic A handful of public Instagram posts can give attackers enough material to generate convincing phishing emails with GenAI. Research from the University of Texas at Arlington and Louisiana State University showed how public social media activity can be turned […]

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