Posts I wrote, intel from the CTI pipeline, and redacted engagement reports from the honeypot fleet.
Google Threat Intelligence Group discovered DarkSword, a sophisticated iOS full-chain exploit leveraging six zero-day vulnerabilities to target iOS 18.4-18.7 devices. Adopted by multiple state-sponsored actors and commercial surveillance vendors, the pure-JavaScript exploit chain bypasses modern iOS mitigations to deploy data-mining payloads like GHOSTBLADE, GHOSTKNIFE, and GHOSTSABER.
The proliferation of autonomous AI agents like OpenClaw has introduced severe security risks, including unauthorized data access and silent exfiltration via prompt injection and malicious plug-ins. To mitigate these threats, organizations must transition from local agent deployments to hardened, isolated cloud environments utilizing defense-in-depth strategies such as kernel-level eBPF monitoring and runtime prompt interception.
SnappyClient is a newly discovered C++ C2 framework implant delivered via HijackLoader, primarily designed for cryptocurrency theft and remote access. It utilizes advanced evasion techniques such as AMSI patching, Heaven's Gate, and transacted hollowing to bypass security controls, including Chromium's App-Bound Encryption, while communicating over a custom ChaCha20-Poly1305 encrypted protocol.
The TC39 committee has advanced the Temporal API to Stage 4, marking its official inclusion in the ECMAScript 2026 specification as a modern, immutable replacement for JavaScript's legacy Date object.
Cisco Talos introduced DispatchLogger, an open-source dynamic analysis tool designed to intercept and log late-bound COM automation calls. By utilizing transparent proxying and recursive object wrapping, the tool provides analysts with deep semantic visibility into script-based malware behavior, such as WMI abuse and fileless execution, effectively bypassing common script obfuscation techniques.
Threat actors exploited an exposed Spring Boot Actuator endpoint and plaintext credentials found in a spreadsheet to authenticate via the legacy ROPC flow. This allowed them to bypass MFA, obtain a Microsoft Graph access token, and exfiltrate sensitive data from SharePoint Online without deploying malware.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published a daily digest of 11 security advisories on March 18, 2026. The advisories highlight vulnerabilities across various enterprise, networking, and consumer products, including a critical remote pre-auth buffer overflow in GNU InetUtils telnetd, and urge administrators to apply necessary updates and mitigations.
CISA has issued an alert regarding malicious cyber activity targeting endpoint management systems, specifically highlighting a recent attack on Stryker Corporation's Microsoft environment. The alert strongly urges organizations to harden Microsoft Intune and similar platforms by enforcing least privilege, phishing-resistant MFA, and Multi Admin Approval to prevent unauthorized high-impact administrative actions.
CISA has added CVE-2026-20963, a Microsoft SharePoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog due to evidence of active exploitation. Organizations are strongly urged to prioritize timely remediation of this flaw as part of their vulnerability management practices to reduce exposure to cyberattacks.
The Akamai 2026 SOTI report highlights the industrialization of cyberattacks, driven by automation and the convergence of API threats, web exploits, and DDoS campaigns. Key trends include a massive 104% surge in Layer 7 DDoS attacks powered by super botnets, increased risks from untested AI-generated code, and a 73% rise in web application attacks.
The article outlines the emerging security risks associated with autonomous Agentic AI and presents a collaborative architectural solution between TrendAI and NVIDIA. By integrating TrendAI's governance and behavioral analysis with NVIDIA's OpenShell runtime, enterprises can safely deploy self-evolving AI agents with runtime policy enforcement and protection against AI-native threats like prompt injection.
Unit 42 researchers demonstrated that both open and closed-source LLMs remain vulnerable to prompt jailbreaking at scale using a genetic algorithm-based fuzzing technique. By systematically generating meaning-preserving variants of disallowed requests, researchers successfully bypassed content filters and model guardrails, highlighting the fragility of current AI safety mechanisms under automated adversarial variation.
This report summarizes a LABScon 25 presentation detailing the sophisticated attack vectors used in cryptocurrency heists, which have resulted in $9 billion in losses. Threat actors are increasingly targeting developers and software supply chains—such as modifying production JavaScript code and compromising GitHub accounts via personal infrastructure—to execute massive wallet drains.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security released a daily digest highlighting critical vulnerabilities in Spring AI, including SQL and JSONPath injections, as well as unspecified vulnerabilities in GitHub Enterprise Server. Organizations utilizing these products are advised to apply the latest security patches to mitigate potential exploitation risks.
Boggy Serpens (MuddyWater) is conducting ongoing cyberespionage campaigns targeting critical infrastructure and diplomatic entities globally. The group leverages hijacked accounts for trusted relationship compromises, delivering advanced, AI-assisted malware toolkits including Rust-based backdoors and custom C2 protocols to maintain long-term persistence and evade detection.
The Warlock ransomware group (Water Manaul) has enhanced its attack chain by exploiting Microsoft SharePoint servers for initial access and deploying a sophisticated post-exploitation toolkit. The group leverages BYOVD techniques via the NSecKrnl.sys driver to disable security tools, establishes redundant C&C channels using legitimate tools like Velociraptor and Cloudflare Tunnels, and automates ransomware deployment domain-wide using Group Policy Objects (GPO).
Modern AI factories utilize massive, interconnected GPU clusters that generate high volumes of east-west traffic, rendering traditional perimeter and host-based security ineffective. To secure these environments without degrading performance, organizations must adopt infrastructure-level, identity-based microsegmentation using technologies like DPUs to enforce Zero Trust and contain lateral movement.
In 2025, ransomware operators increasingly relied on vulnerability exploitation for initial access and heavily targeted virtualization infrastructure like ESXi. While overall ransomware profitability appears to be declining, threat actors have adapted by increasing data theft extortion, targeting smaller organizations, and utilizing cross-platform ransomware families like REDBIKE, AGENDA, and INC.
A novel phishing campaign is abusing the legitimate LiveChat SaaS platform to impersonate brands like PayPal and Amazon. By engaging victims in real-time chat interfaces using automated bots or human operators, attackers successfully harvest sensitive information, including account credentials, multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes, personally identifiable information (PII), and credit card details.
Elastic has introduced open-source Agent Skills that enable AI coding agents to natively interact with Elastic Security. These skills allow security teams to rapidly provision cloud environments, generate realistic sample attack data, and manage alerts and detection rules directly from their IDEs.
