Cybersecurity has always involved elements of uncertainty. Every day, security teams are asked to make decisions with incomplete information, while attackers rely on defenders not being able to see the…
Executive Summary Cato CTRL has discovered a vishing-based delivery technique used against an Italy-based consumer services company associated with PhantomBackdoor, a multi-stage WebSocket-based backdoor previously reported in a Ukraine-focused spear…
CVE-2026-50656: Windows Defender Patch Introduces Disk Exhaustion Vulnerability A recent patch for the Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability, RoguePlanet (CVE-2026-50656), which previously allowed remote administrative control of Windows 10 and 11,…
Executive Summary During the March–April 2026 reporting period, AI use in offensive operations advanced from development and planning to real-time operational deployment. Multiple independent cases, involving individual criminal actors, mass…
Gopan Sivasankaran is Regional Director, Middle East & Africa, at Rapid7 From AI adoption and cloud-first strategies to smart cities and critical infrastructure modernization, organizations across the United Arab Emirates…
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Howdy friends, and hello from Cisco Live U.S., here in sunny (and very hot) Las Vegas! An interesting quirk of being sent…
Introduction F5 Labs honeynet sensors recorded a sharp increase in Microsoft Exchange exploitation activity during April 2026, driven primarily by renewed interest in the ProxyShell vulnerability chain. While these vulnerabilities…
For years, the cyber security industry tracked AI as a force multiplier: something that made existing attack techniques faster, cheaper, and more accessible. That framing was accurate. But the Annual AI Security Report 2026 from…
The NIS2 directive asks covered organizations to take a more structured approach to risk management, governance, supply chain security, and incident reporting. It expands the scope of who may be…
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for June 2026, which includes 206 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 32 that Microsoft marked as “critical”. Out of 32 “critical” entries, 28 are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in…
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