#dark-reading

Pluralsight Launches SecureReady to Help Organizations Build Job-Ready Cybersecurity Teams

Niobium Introduces The Fog

Full Sail University to Open IBM Cyber Defense Range Powered by AWS and Cloud Range on Campus

Fraud Rockets Higher in Mobile-First Latin America

Cyber-fraudsters move quickly from compromised devices to account takeover to funds transfer, shifting money before many financial institutions can react.

OWASP GenAI Security Project Gets Update, New Tools Matrix

In recognition of 21 generative AI risks, the standards groups recommends that companies take separate but linked approaches to defending GenAI and agentic AI systems.

Shadow AI in Healthcare Is Here to Stay

Medical professionals are not going to stop using AI tools to manage growing workloads. Organizations should prioritize bolstering security protocols to limit their blast radius.

Automated Credential Harvesting Campaign Exploits React2Shell Flaw

An emerging threat cluster tracked as UAT-10608 is exploiting vulnerable Web-exposed Next.js apps and using an automated tool to exfiltrate credentials, secrets, and other system data.

Fortinet Issues Emergency Patch for FortiClient Zero-Day

The authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-35616, is the latest in a series of Fortinet vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild.

Axios Attack Shows Social Complex Engineering Is Industrialized

The attack on the popular NPM package Axios is just one of many targeting maintainers and has shone a light on how threat actors can scale sophisticated social engineering campaigns.

AI-Assisted Supply Chain Attack Targets GitHub

PRT-scan is the second in recent months where a threat actor appears to have leveraged AI for automated targeting of a widespread GitHub misconfiguration.

CrowdStrike Next-Gen SIEM Can Now Ingest Microsoft Defender Telemetry

Once CrowdStrike's nemesis, Microsoft is now a collaborator. A shared interest in Formula 1 helped thaw the years-long fierce rivalry.

Chainguard Unveils Factory 2.0 to Automate Hardening the Software Supply Chain

The rebuilt Chainguard platform adds deeper security designed to continuously reconcile open source artifacts across containers, libraries, agent skills, and GitHub Actions.

Claude Source Code Leak Highlights Big Supply Chain Missteps

Or, why the software supply chain should be treated as critical infrastructure with guardrails built in at every layer.

Picking Up 'Skull Vibrations'? Could Be XR Headset Authentication

"Skull vibration harmonics generated by vital signs" can be used to sign in to VR, AR, and MR headsets, according to emerging research.

Blast Radius of TeamPCP Attacks Expands Amid Hacker Infighting

As organizations disclose breaches tied to TeamPCP's supply chain attacks, ShinyHunters and Lapsus$ are getting involved, taking credit, and creating a murky situation for enterprises.

Apple Breaks Precedent, Patches DarkSword for iOS 18

Even organizations with users unwilling or unable to adopt iOS 26 can now protect themselves from a severe mobile OS-cracking tool.

Inconsistent Privacy Labels Don't Tell Users What They Are Getting

Data privacy labels are a great idea for mobile apps, but the current versions just aren't good enough.

Ransomware Will Hit Hospitals. Rehearsals Are Key to Defense

A chief medical information officer describes what hospitals face when they inevitably suffer a ransomware attack—whether it leads to short- or long-term outages.

Bank Trojan 'Casbaneiro' Worms Through Latin America

Augmented Marauder's multipronged banking-Trojan cyber campaigns are targeting Spanish speakers, evading detection, and replicating rapidly.

RSAC 2026: AI Dominates, But Community Remains Key to Security

As AI took center stage at this year's conference, experts debated automation, oversight and the evolving role of human intelligence in cybersecurity — despite the US government's notable absence.