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The Hidden Cost of Cybersecurity Specialization: Losing Foundational Skills

Cybersecurity has changed fast. Roles are more specialized, and tooling is more advanced. On paper, this should make organizations more secure. But in practice, many teams struggle with the same basic problems they faced years ago: unclear risk priorities, misaligned tooling decisions, and difficulty explaining security issues in terms the business understands. These challenges do not

TeamPCP Hacks Checkmarx GitHub Actions Using Stolen CI Credentials

Two more GitHub Actions workflows have become the latest to be compromised by credential-stealing malware by a threat actor known as TeamPCP, the cloud-native cybercriminal operation also behind the Trivy supply chain attack. The workflows, both maintained by the supply chain security company Checkmarx, are listed below - checkmarx/ast-github-action checkmarx/kics-github-action Cloud security

U.S. Sentences Russian Hacker to 6.75 Years for Role in $9M Ransomware Damage

A 26-year-old Russian citizen has been sentenced in the U.S. to 6.75 years (81 months) in prison for his role in assisting major cybercrime groups, including the Yanluowang ransomware crew, in conducting numerous attacks against U.S. companies and other organizations. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), Aleksei Olegovich Volkov facilitated dozens of ransomware attacks across the

Citrix Urges Patching Critical NetScaler Flaw Allowing Unauthenticated Data Leaks

Citrix has released security updates to address two vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including a critical flaw that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from the application. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-3055 (CVSS score: 9.3) - Insufficient input validation leading to memory overread CVE-2026-4368 (CVSS score: 7.7) - Race condition leading to user

ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9862, (Tue, Mar 24th)

AI in the SOC: What Could Go Wrong?

Two cybersecurity leaders tested out AI in their respective SOCs for six months — and here's what they learned.

Trivy Supply Chain Attack Targets CI/CD Secrets

A threat actor used the open source security tool to deploy an infostealer into CI/CD workflows and steal cloud credentials, SSH keys, tokens, and other sensitive secrets.

Ransomware's New Era: Moving at AI Speed

Threat actors bypass security tools and use AI to launch faster ransomware attacks that exploit valid credentials and target data

Tool updates: lots of security and logic fixes, (Mon, Mar 23rd)

So, I&&#x23&#x3b;x26&#x3b;&#x23&#x3b;39&#x3b;ve been slow to get on the Claude Code/OpenCode/Codex/OpenClaw bandwagon, but I had some time last week so I asked Claude to review (/security-review) some of my python scripts. He found more than I&&#x23&#x3b;x26&#x3b;&#x23&#x3b;39&#x3b;d like to admit, so I checked in a bunch of updates. In reviewing his suggestions, he was right, I made some stupid mistakes, some of which have been sitting in there for a long time. It was nothing earth-shattering and it took almost no time for Claude, it took longer for me to read through the updates he wanted to make, figure out what he was seeing, and decide whether to accept them or tweak them. Here are a few of them.

CISOs Debate Human Role in AI-Powered Security

The idea of a "human in the loop" in AI deployment was challenged during a security executive panel at the RSAC 2026 Conference this week.

North Korean Hackers Abuse VS Code Auto-Run Tasks to Deploy StoatWaffle Malware

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that's distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects. The use of VS Code "tasks.json" to distribute malware is a relatively new tactic adopted by the threat actor since December 2025, with the attacks

‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran

A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran's time zone or have Farsi set as the default language.

Attackers Hide Infostealer in Copyright Infringement Notices

A phishing campaign targeting healthcare, government, hospitality, and education sectors in various countries uses several evasion techniques to avoid detection.

⚡ Weekly Recap: CI/CD Backdoor, FBI Buys Location Data, WhatsApp Ditches Numbers & More

Another week, another reminder that the internet is still a mess. Systems people thought were secure are being broken in simple ways, showing many still ignore basic advisories. This edition covers a mix of issues: supply chain attacks hitting CI/CD setups, long-abused IoT devices being shut down, and exploits moving quickly from disclosure to real attacks. There are also new malware tricks

We Found Eight Attack Vectors Inside AWS Bedrock. Here's What Attackers Can Do with Them

AWS Bedrock is Amazon's platform for building AI-powered applications. It gives developers access to foundation models and the tools to connect those models directly to enterprise data and systems. That connectivity is what makes it powerful – but it’s also what makes Bedrock a target. When an AI agent can query your Salesforce instance, trigger a Lambda function, or pull from a SharePoint

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Microsoft Warns IRS Phishing Hits 29,000 Users, Deploys RMM Malware

Microsoft has warned of fresh campaigns that are capitalizing on the upcoming tax season in the U.S. to harvest credentials and deliver malware. The email campaigns take advantage of the urgency and time-sensitive nature of emails to send phishing messages masquerading as refund notices, payroll forms, filing reminders, and requests from tax professionals to deceive recipients into opening

Trivy Hack Spreads Infostealer via Docker, Triggers Worm and Kubernetes Wiper

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious artifacts distributed via Docker Hub following the Trivy supply chain attack, highlighting the widening blast radius across developer environments. The last known clean release of Trivy on Docker Hub is 0.69.3. The malicious versions 0.69.4, 0.69.5, and 0.69.6 have since been removed from the container image library. "New image tags 0.69.5 and

Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-32975 (CVSS 10.0) to Hijack Unpatched Quest KACE SMA Systems

Threat actors are suspected to be exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA), according to Arctic Wolf. The cybersecurity company said it observed malicious activity starting the week of March 9, 2026, in customer environments that's consistent with the exploitation of CVE-2025-32975 on unpatched SMA systems exposed to the internet. It's

ISC Stormcast For Monday, March 23rd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9860, (Mon, Mar 23rd)