CISOs Face A Tighter Insurance Market in 2026

It’s called “grokking,” and gives spammers a way to skirt X’s ban on links in promoted posts and reach larger audiences than ever before.

Threat actors with ties to the Qilin ransomware family have leveraged malware known as SmokeLoader along with a previously undocumented .NET compiled loader codenamed NETXLOADER as part of a campaign observed in November 2024. “NETXLOADER is a new .NET-based loader that plays a critical role in cyber attacks,” Trend Micro researchers Jacob Santos, Raymart Yambot,…

For over a decade, application security teams have faced a brutal irony: the more advanced the detection tools became, the less useful their results proved to be. As alerts from static analysis tools, scanners, and CVE databases surged, the promise of better security grew more distant. In its place, a new reality took hold—one defined…

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 8: Federal funding for the CVE Program expires in April 2026, and a trio of experts agree the industry isn’t doing enough to deal with the looming crisis. Bugcrowd’s Trey Ford, expert Adam Shostack, and CVE historian Brian Martin sit down with Dark Reading to help us figure out what a…

The researchers who discovered the initial assault warned that the simple, staged attack is just the beginning for advanced exploit sequences that will test cyber defenses in new and more difficult ways.

Threat intelligence firm GreyNoise is warning of a “coordinated surge” in the exploitation of Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities spanning multiple platforms. “At least 400 IPs have been seen actively exploiting multiple SSRF CVEs simultaneously, with notable overlap between attack attempts,” the company said, adding it observed the activity on March 9, 2025. The countries…