WhatsApp announced on August 25 that more than one billion people now use passkeys to log back into the app. The announcement included two other security upgrades: a stronger two-step verification method and more context for incoming calls from unknown numbers. It marks one of the largest passwordless authentication rollouts to date. Passkeys are now firmly mainstream, with the FIDO Alliance estimating that 5 billion are in use worldwide and 75% of consumers have enabled one on at least one…
Microsoft released the KB5120998 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2, which comes with 35 changes, including improvements to the Start menu, taskbar, and Windows search. [...]
Elastic Defend 9.5.0 detects dynamic link library (DLL) search-order hijacking [1] in a single field. Writing that rule before 9.5.0 took about 88 lines, covering approximately 2,600 named libraries, 10 excluded Windows system paths, signature checks, and a drop-to-load time window. It now takes one: dll.Ext.defense_evasions: "DLL Hijack: Masquerading".DLL search-order hijacking, which Defend labels Masquerading, runs attacker code inside a legitimate process by abusing the order that Windows…
As organizations incorporate AI agents into more processes across business and operations, security teams can benefit from greater visibility and new purpose-built tools that help manage, secure, and govern AI. This month’s updates provide new capabilities to help organizations gain insights into agent activity, expand security coverage across supported environments, and enhance security management across their environments. Here’s what’s new: Extend expert-led protection with new capabilities…
Aikido's agents pentest your Android app and its backend in a single whitebox assessment. You get reproducible findings, AutoFix, and retests for every issue. Category: Product & Company Updates
Open the entity analytics (EA) graph in Elastic Security and you'll see a user wired to the hosts they log in to and the devices they own, along with scattered accounts that turn out to be the same user. While interesting on its own, it provides a critical piece of context during a threat hunting or incident investigation. This post gives an overview of EA fundamentals and opens the hood to see how edges are drawn and accounts are resolved. Why is that important? Well, everything downstream,…
Open the entity analytics (EA) graph in Elastic Security and you'll see a user wired to the hosts they log in to and the devices they own, along with scattered accounts that turn out to be the same user. While interesting on its own, it provides a critical piece of context during a threat hunting or incident investigation. This post gives an overview of EA fundamentals and opens the hood to see how edges are drawn and accounts are resolved. Why is that important? Well, everything downstream,…
Your Mac comes with a built-in firewall, but it’s probably not something you’ve given much thought to. A firewall helps control incoming connections—requests from apps and other devices that want to connect to your Mac—giving you an extra layer of protection whenever you’re online. For most people, the default settings work just fine. But if you ever want more control over how your firewall works, whether you’re on public Wi-Fi or want to adjust which apps can connect, those settings aren’t…
Today, we’re introducing a redesigned GreyNoise Visualizer that makes it easier to navigate those capabilities and brings related workflows together in one place.
This wrap-up brings a full-on shell parade. Thirteen shiny new modules landed, starting with a buffet of RCEs. WordPress WP2Shell, Ghost CMS, Joomla JCE, Langflow, OpenCATS, Pterodactyl Panel, SonicWall SMA1000, Ray Dashboard, a Pix-for-WooCommerce, and for those who like their exploits closer to the bare-metal, the Fragnesia Linux kernel LPE (CVE-2026-46300). Metasploit also got the glow-up of the summer with the new http malleable profiles, MCP functionality and linux multi fetch payloads …
Key Takeaways Cloud environments change continuously, while security still relies on periodic scans, leaving gaps where risks go undetected. That gap becomes exposure. Qualys Real-Time CSPM monitors cloud changes as they happen, while still supporting periodic scans for environments that require them. It evaluates each finding in context by correlating posture data with vulnerabilities, asset criticality, and exploitability. Cloud risk is not handled in isolation; it is unified with…
[vde-2025-056] This advisory addresses multiple security vulnerabilities in PLCnext firmware versions prior to 2026.0.3. The vulnerabilities may allow unauthenticated attackers to cause denial of service, trigger unexpected system behavior, or execute unauthorized SQL queries. Successful exploitation could impact the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of affected PLCnext Control devices. All issues are resolved in PLCnext firmware version 2026.0.3.
Key Takeaways Human-speed compliance is dead. Attackers utilizing modern, autonomous AI tools can chain enterprise misconfigurations and weaponize vulnerabilities in under 25 minutes, rendering manual, periodic audit cycles completely obsolete. The “Configuration Gap” is your biggest blind spot. Organizations take an average of 14 months to remediate basic identity, access control, and logging flaws, leaving a massive, open window of exposure for automated exploitation. Hyper-prioritization is…
Access your Huntress data easily with the Huntress MCP Server, connecting your AI assistant directly to your incidents, agents, billing, and more. No portal required.
ciaops is Group-IB's open-source Python library for integrating Threat Intelligence, Digital Risk Protection, and Attack Surface Management APIs. Zero event loss, guaranteed.
Discover how Tenable Hexa AI closes the gap between exposure management and endpoint patching using intent-driven routines, smart guardrails, and human approval.Key takeawaysThe problem: A slow handoff between security workflows creates a days-long remediation gap. The solution: Tenable Hexa AI bridges this gap using intent-driven Routines that automate scoping, deployment, and verification across integrated platforms like Jamf. Safety and control: Autonomy is governed by the harness built into…
Continuous AI pentesting for teams that can't use the cloud. The Aikido Machine keeps models, code, and results entirely inside your network. Category: Product & Company Updates
The calculus of cybersecurity has changed. AI is reshaping how organizations build, deploy, operate, and defend digital systems. AI-powered development tools, agents, and autonomous workflows are accelerating innovation but they are also introducing new attack surfaces, new trust boundaries, and new security challenges. Microsoft has long helped organizations secure their digital estates using Zero Trust principles. That leadership was recently recognized by KuppingerCole analysts, which named…
OverviewOn July 29, 2026, the Ruby on Rails project published a security advisory for CVE-2026-66066, an arbitrary file read in Active Storage applications that use the Vips image processor with untrusted uploads. The affected Active Storage ranges are < 7.2.3.2, >= 8.0, < 8.0.5.1, and >= 8.1, < 8.1.3.1. Vips is the default Active Storage variant processor for applications that load Rails 7.0 or later defaults. Rails 6 applications are affected only when they explicitly configure Vips.Our…
Executive Summary In the Frontier AI era, the number of CISA-known exploited vulnerabilities has increased by 6.5x over the past four years, and time-to-exploitation has collapsed to -7 days. Traditional monthly patch cycles cannot keep up. Organizations need a new operating model that detects at AI speed, hyper-prioritizes truly exploitable exposures, and remediates immediately. TruRisk Eliminate delivers operational resiliency through the AI-Powered Patch Reliability Score, patchless…
Powered by TruConfirm — Exploit Validation That Now Runs on the Network and the Host Executive Summary Qualys TruConfirm now validates exploitability across the entire attack surface, not just the network. Cloud Agent-Based TruConfirm brings the same proof-based validation model to the endpoint, closing the gap on local, kernel, browser, and post-authentication CVEs that network scanning alone could never reach. AI-assisted vulnerability research has compressed the time between disclosure and…
Executive Summary Frontier AI has turned CVE weaponization timelines to hours, making scan-bound detection a growing compliance and breach-risk challenge. Agent Insta powers InstaScan to deliver scanless detection by transforming existing inventory, telemetry, and threat intelligence into validated exposure findings within minutes of disclosure. Operating 24/7, InstaScan enables AI-speed detection with 90%+ coverage across technologies representing 60–70% of enterprise vulnerability volume.…
Elastic Security now tracks every change to a detection rule and lets you roll back to any previous version with one click. The same history log gives compliance teams a timestamped audit trail that's immutable and append-only. Case data is queryable across 3 global indices (down from 12 per space), so SOC managers can build dashboards on closure rates, assignment load, and case volume without configuring anything. A rebuilt template system gives analysts structured, investigation-specific…
Elastic Security now tracks every change to a detection rule and lets you roll back to any previous version with one click. The same history log gives compliance teams a timestamped audit trail that's immutable and append-only. Case data is queryable across 3 global indices (down from 12 per space), so SOC managers can build dashboards on closure rates, assignment load, and case volume without configuring anything. A rebuilt template system gives analysts structured, investigation-specific…
At Elastic, we know that the best way to build security tools is to bring them to the community, have security pros use them, and let them tell us what features and functionality matter and why. This year, we’re excited to do this at Black Hat and DEFCON, the weeklong security marathon affectionately known as Hacker Summer Camp. Our smartest technical experts and practitioners will be at Black Hat showing off our latest innovations, sponsoring and hosting events to help security experts and…
At Elastic, we know that the best way to build security tools is to bring them to the community, have security pros use them, and let them tell us what features and functionality matter and why. This year, we’re excited to do this at Black Hat and DEFCON, the weeklong security marathon affectionately known as Hacker Summer Camp. Our smartest technical experts and practitioners will be at Black Hat showing off our latest innovations, sponsoring and hosting events to help security experts and…
Black Hat USA returns to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this August, bringing together security practitioners, researchers, and leaders from around the world. Rapid7 will be there in the Business Hall, with new capabilities, live demonstrations, expert-led sessions, and two days of activities at the Border Grill.This year, our focus is preemptive security: helping security teams anticipate credible risk, respond at machine speed, and maintain an accurate view of their security and compliance posture…
We know you’re tired of hearing how every vendor is going to finally help you solve alert fatigue. Well, one way we’re improving alert fatigue is from a slightly different angle, better prevention at the endpoint. Because stopping more at the endpoint means fewer alerts ever raised. We have three endpoint enhancements, all contributing to better endpoint prevention: To be even more proactive about Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attacks, we’re continuously monitoring public vulnerable…
It's 9 a.m. Monday, the start of your shift. You begin the day like any other Monday: You open the queue, and the wall of alerts is already waiting. New alerts land between 9:05 and 9:10 a.m., while you close yesterday’s. You're already drowning, and you haven’t even had a chance to refill your coffee. You know that you won’t be able to get to things that really need prioritization. Threat hunting stays deferred, and detection engineering waits. Incident response practice never quite starts.…
GreyNoise Tactics gives anyone running a Deception Sensor visibility into what adversaries do after initial compromise, automatically mapping qualifying sessions to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
We know you’re tired of hearing how every vendor is going to finally help you solve alert fatigue. Well, one way we’re improving alert fatigue is from a slightly different angle, better prevention at the endpoint. Because stopping more at the endpoint means fewer alerts ever raised. We have three endpoint enhancements, all contributing to better endpoint prevention: To be even more proactive about Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attacks, we’re continuously monitoring public vulnerable…
It's 9 a.m. Monday, the start of your shift. You begin the day like any other Monday: You open the queue, and the wall of alerts is already waiting. New alerts land between 9:05 and 9:10 a.m., while you close yesterday’s. You're already drowning, and you haven’t even had a chance to refill your coffee. You know that you won’t be able to get to things that really need prioritization. Threat hunting stays deferred, and detection engineering waits. Incident response practice never quite starts.…
Every organization needs security that protects end to end with the speed and scale of AI. Microsoft’s vision is simple: security should be ambient and autonomous, just like the AI it protects. As organizations scale AI and expand across environments, security teams need protection that covers every surface. This month’s updates help security and IT teams secure their AI environments, use AI to defend at speed and scale, and strengthen the foundations that AI-powered operations depend on.…
TrendAI joins Nvidia as an inaugural partner in the Open Secure AI Alliance, advancing open models, harnesses, and research to strengthen cyber defense.
Huntress Webhooks push incidents and escalations straight to Slack, your PSA, or SIEM in real time with no polling. See how you can set them up in minutes.
The scenario is all too familiar for any cybersecurity professional: It’s late in the day, and a critical zero-day vulnerability is disclosed. When this happens, CISOs from every industry immediately turn to their Security Operations Centers (SOC) with the single most important, and often most difficult, question: "Are we exposed?”Answering questions like these when zero-days drop tends to trigger a frantic, high-stress fire drill. Analysts scramble to cross-reference outdated Configuration…
Key Takeaways AI adoption has outpaced enterprise controls, with AI and LLM workloads appearing faster than security teams can inventory or approve them. AI governance has become an evidence problem. Policies, questionnaires, and risk registers cannot prove that AI systems are safe. Traditional security tools see only fragments of AI risk. They miss model behavior, cannot produce technical evidence, and do not discover or assess the full AI estate. TotalAI connects four components of AI…
Elastic automatically translates your Microsoft Sentinel detection rules into Elastic Security. Export your Scheduled and Near Real Time (NRT) analytics rules from Sentinel, upload them, and Elastic picks up the mapping and translation from there using an LLM you choose. Watchlists and severity mappings carry over. This is the first automatic migration path off a modern SIEM, available now in Tech Preview in 9.5, and it works across multiple cloud providers and regions so you can deploy closer…
Elastic automatically translates your Microsoft Sentinel detection rules into Elastic Security. Export your Scheduled and Near Real Time (NRT) analytics rules from Sentinel, upload them, and Elastic picks up the mapping and translation from there using an LLM you choose. Watchlists and severity mappings carry over. This is the first automatic migration path off a modern SIEM, available now in Tech Preview in 9.5, and it works across multiple cloud providers and regions so you can deploy closer…
[VDE-2026-076] The ADS-TEC IRF1000 and IRF3000 products are affected by multiple vulnerabilities in firmware releases prior to 2.3.0: authorization, robustness and redirect flaws in the proprietary configuration interface and web UI, and multiple vulnerabilities in the bundled third-party components dnsmasq, OpenSC and OpenSSL. All are fixed in firmware 2.3.0.
See agentic security operations governance in action: Huntress' AI SOC lets Athena investigate and act autonomously within guardrails our human analysts set.
Update (July 30): A table listing the new names of select prominent threat actors was appended to this post. Introduction Today, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) will begin rolling out a unified naming schema for tracking threat actors. This new naming taxonomy represents an effort to standardize tracking across platforms and public reporting. Why are we Adopting a Different Naming System? Historically, Mandiant and Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) maintained distinct tracking…
Aikido Intel is a real-time feed that catches malware and undisclosed vulnerabilities across open-source ecosystems, often within 8 minutes of release. Category: Product & Company Updates
GreyNoise's Threat Brief Library is now live in the Visualizer — browse, search, filter, and download weekly At The Edge briefs, Executive Situation Reports, and more, all built on primary-source sensor data.
Huntress Managed SAT now offers localized phishing simulations for Canada, using familiar, country-specific brands and scenarios to provide more effective security awareness training for your learners.
Aikido has acquired Root to secure the software supply chain, fixing open source vulnerabilities in the version you already run, no upgrade required. Critical fixes go back to the community, free. Category: Product & Company Updates
Aikido's malware feed now blocks bad package versions in Composer by default. A look at how Packagist is closing whole classes of supply chain attacks. Category: Product & Company Updates
Aikido partners with Drydock to bring pre-publish package review to npm and PyPI. See exactly what's inside a release before it ships, malware caught before download number one. Category: Product & Company Updates
AAD Graph Activity Logs are now ingestible into Elastic and usable for threat detection within the SIEM/XDR solution. That sentence shouldn't be exciting, but it is. For most of the past decade, this slice of telemetry simply didn't exist as a customer-accessible log stream. Microsoft Graph Activity Logs (the modern graph.microsoft.com surface) went GA in April 2024. The legacy graph.windows.net surface, the one adversary tooling actually hits, stayed dark until early 2026. This post walks the…
TrendAI™ integrates the Claude Compliance API into TrendAI Vision One™ through two collectors that bring AI-aware visibility and detection to Claude Enterprise usage: one keeps all data inside the environment, while the other feeds TrendAI Vision One™ for deeper correlation and compliance.
Aikido now supports Docker Hardened Images with built-in VEX integration, helping teams reduce CVE noise and focus on container vulnerabilities that actually need attention. Category: Product & Company Updates
Elastic Security natively ingests Google Threat Intelligence: known-malicious IPs, domains, URLs, and file hashes matched against your telemetry the moment they appear, each carrying a verdict and a 0–100 threat score. The setup consists of an API key and two data streams, with no extra infrastructure. When an indicator is ambiguous, workflows built on Agent Builder query VirusTotal in real time, enrich the alert, correlate with your telemetry, and summarize findings in real time. How threat…
[VDE-2026-050] This advisory addresses security issues in PLCnext firmware versions prior to 2026.0.3 that are related to APP handling and the processing of configuration files. The identified vulnerabilities affect APP installation authenticity as well as the handling of configuration data in writable directories. Successful exploitation may allow authenticated attackers with different privilege levels to compromise integrity, availability, and system security of affected PLCnext Control. Both…