'Ransom Busters': Ransomware Actor Poses as Incident-Recovery Service
A ransomware affiliate appears to be sidling up to victims with offers of aid, masking its true intention of diverting ransom payments.
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A ransomware affiliate appears to be sidling up to victims with offers of aid, masking its true intention of diverting ransom payments.
The Python-based malware framework takes living-off-the-land tactics to a new heights of stealth, with a modular implant that steals credentials and achieves persistence.
Agents need to run untrusted code, and the microVM has become the standard way to do it: a dedicated guest kernel per workload, isolated from the host and from every other workload on the same machine. But recent security research and real-world incidents have revealed that agents running untrusted code do not need to cross a VM boundary to escape containment; they only need one network path the security model failed to account for, which we explained in our post .A sandbox without a network bo
Rapid7 warns that traditional patch cycles cannot keep pace with soaring vulnerability disclosures and faster exploitation, forcing defenders to prioritize exposure over severity scores. The post AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions. The work, released as a preprint on August 10, 2026, tests the technique in a simulated six-agent coding
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented Python implant framework dubbed TWINLOOT. "TWINLOOT is a modular, PyArmor-hardened Python implant designed to operate its entire command-and-control infrastructure inside trusted Microsoft services," Ontinue said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News. "Tasking flows through SharePoint Online file
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