Most good security work is invisible by design. Today is the exception. The 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards winners are announced across 95 subcategories in four main award categories. The reason is simple. Cybersecurity is full of work that deserves recognition and rarely gets it. Products that quietly close real gaps. Teams that stop incidents nobody…
It’s been one of those weeks. You expect the usual noise: recycled malware, sloppy attacks, another easy target getting hit. Instead, there’s a supply chain attack kit in a public repo, a $5,000-a-month RAT that clones browsers, and research showing AI agents can be tricked into leaking real credentials. The bigger problem is how polished…
For thirty years, vulnerability management ran on a buffer: the months between when a vulnerability was found and when someone could figure out how to weaponize it. The solution was straightforward enough; triage by severity, schedule the fix, validate, and move on. The buffer was what made that work. Today, that buffer is gone. AI…
The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at a Vietnamese infrastructure and transport construction corporation between mid-2024 and February 2026, as well as a supply chain…
GitHub has announced what it said are “breaking changes” coming to npm version 12, one of which turns off install scripts by default to combat software supply chain threats. The changes aim to combat attack techniques that abuse the “npm install” command to trigger the execution of malicious code using npm lifecycle hooks. “Npm install”…
What is the Vulnerability? A critical authentication bypass vulnerability, CVE-2026-50751 (CVSS 9.3), is being actively exploited against vulnerable Check Point Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange protocol. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass user authentication through a certificate validation logic weakness and establish a VPN…
North Korea’s gross domestic product (GDP) has grown, in part because of the cybercrime gains of groups linked to the nation, which target business and financial firms.
The new directive gives federal agencies three days to fix the most dangerous flaws, while less severe issues can be deferred.
Bug bounty research inadvertently led organizations to believe they were being breached through their ServiceNow instances.
As companies adopt AI, many insurance firms are explicitly excluding AI risks, while others are forging ahead to create the right framework. What risks can firms reasonably manage?