A ransomware last week left the Asahi brewery in Japan struggling to take orders and deliver its products domestically, as manufacturers become a favored target.

Researchers report an increase in the use of hidden content in spam and malicious email to confuse filters and other security mechanisms.

In a recent poll, readers shared how they’re using vibe coding in AppDev (if they are at all). While some found success, others found the risks too great.

A Vietnamese threat actor named BatShadow has been attributed to a new campaign that leverages social engineering tactics to deceive job seekers and digital marketing professionals to deliver a previously undocumented malware called Vampire Bot. “The attackers pose as recruiters, distributing malicious files disguised as job descriptions and corporate documents,” Aryaka Threat Research Labs

Researchers say exploitation of CVE-2025-10035 requires a private key, and it’s unclear how Storm-1175 threat actors pulled this off.

Google’s DeepMind division on Monday announced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered agent called CodeMender that automatically detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent future exploits. The efforts add to the company’s ongoing efforts to improve AI-powered vulnerability discovery, such as Big Sleep and OSS-Fuzz. DeepMind said the AI agent is designed to be both reactive…

For years, security leaders have treated artificial intelligence as an “emerging” technology, something to keep an eye on but not yet mission-critical. A new Enterprise AI and SaaS Data Security Report by AI & Browser Security company LayerX proves just how outdated that mindset has become. Far from a future concern, AI is already the…

Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of XWorm malware, turning it into a versatile tool for supporting a wide range of malicious actions on compromised hosts. “XWorm’s modular design is built around a core client and an array of specialized components known as plugins,” Trellix researchers Niranjan Hegde and Sijo Jacob said in an analysis…

A 13-year-old flaw with a CVSS score of 10 in the popular data storage service allows for full host takeover, and more than 300k instances are currently exposed.

Redis has disclosed details of a maximum-severity security flaw in its in-memory database software that could result in remote code execution under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-49844 (aka RediShell), has been assigned a CVSS score of 10.0. “An authenticated user may use a specially crafted Lua script to manipulate the garbage collector, trigger…