Security Vulnerability in a Voting System
It’s a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast, newly exploited with AI tools. Nearly four years since the original vulnerability was disclosed, I was still able t
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Angry Birds: Toy Ghouls’ new toys
Kaspersky GERT experts have discovered new backdoors used by the Toy Ghouls group. One version of the backdoor uses the HiveMQ MQTT broker as its command-and-control server; the other uses the Matrix-
Why judgment is emerging as cybersecurity’s defining skill
AI is getting better at much of what security teams have long spent time on: analyzing information, identifying patterns, and providing technically sound recommendations quickly. As those capabilities
ISC Stormcast For Friday, September 4th, 2026
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Attackers exploit zero-days in consistently besieged SonicWall product
SonicWall customers have confronted a barrage of attacks for years, including five actively exploited vulnerabilities in SMA 1000 appliances since late 2025. The post Attackers exploit zero-days in co
Incident response guide for AWS CloudTrail investigations – Part 2
In Part 1 of this guide, we examined two common incident scenarios: cross-account Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data deletion with ransomware implications, and cryptocurrency mining deploy
Incident response guide for AWS CloudTrail investigations – Part 1
AWS CloudTrail logs contain the evidence you need when investigating suspicious activity in your AWS environment, but knowing which fields matter and how to interpret them can mean the difference betw
The G7 tells industry to hurry up and prep for post-quantum encryption
The nations warn that governments and industry can no longer treat quantum codebreaking as a distant or theoretical possibility. The post The G7 tells industry to hurry up and prep for post-quantum en
Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Super Forms Plugin
On July 9th, 2026, we publicly disclosed a critical Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Super Forms, a WordPress plugin with an estimated 13,000 active installations. This vulnerabi
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 24, 2026 to August 30, 2026)
Last week, there were disclosed in and that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were that contributed to WordPress Security last week. Review those vulnerab
StreamRat Android malware spreads through Meta and TikTok ads
Social media ads for a free streaming service exposed roughly 570,000 people to StreamRat, a banking Trojan that can take control of infected phones.
ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion
Invisible Unicode characters popularized for hiding instructions from AI models are now being used to obfuscate words before email filters parse them. The post ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI pro
Exaforce: SOC Platform Built For AI From The Ground Up
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Sep. 3, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video Exaforce is trusted by next-gen startups to Fortune 500 and Global 20
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Honeypot-Omaha and batch.py [Guest Diary]
[This is a Guest Diary by Frank Igbokwe, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] 
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, September 3rd, 2026
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Impersonating IT support: how threat actors turn a remote session into enterprise-wide access
Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed a human-operated intrusion campaign that abuses Microsoft Teams external collaboration to impersonate IT support, gain remote access, and deploy a Node.js-based
Agentic security: Detection and response at machine speed
After talking with enterprise security leaders over the past year, one thing has become clear: the rise of autonomous AI agents is the most significant shift in security posture since the move to clou
AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns
I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I a
Dogged Russia-based botnet dismantled after 23-year run
Sality’s peer-to-peer infrastructure allowed it to evade system-wide disruption efforts for an exceptionally long period. Authorities and cybersecurity experts finally brought it down. The post Dogged
Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in Elementor Pro Plugin
On August 19th, 2026, we publicly disclosed a critical Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Elementor Pro, a WordPress plugin with more than 6,000,000 active installations. This vuln