Networking, AI, and good boys
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This new Windows malware can take over your PC and wipe it clean
Microsoft published new research on GigaWiper, a modular Golang backdoor for Windows that combines robust remote access with multiple ways
What makes or breaks it
“Fix the roof while the sun is shining.” – proverb Cybersecurity has a familiar way of saying the storm will
Europe revives law allowing big tech to scan for CSAM
The European Parliament has voted to bring back a rule giving big tech permission to scan users’ messages to hunt
The Cyber Express Weekly Roundup: Campus Cyberattack, Januscape VM Escape, Router Backdoors, UniFi Flaw, And Wireshark Security Updates
Enterprise infrastructure is increasingly under pressure as attackers and researchers alike expose weaknesses across the technology stack. This week, a
Ransomware Never Stopped: Over 9,000 Confirmed Attacks Since 2018
Ransomware Never Stopped: Over 9,000 Confirmed Attacks Since 2018 Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2026 Ransomware remains above 1,400 attacks yearly
Abusing Cloud Logging Services for Defense Evasion and Visibility
Executive Summary Cloud logging services provide comprehensive visibility into actions performed within cloud resources, making them essential for security monitoring.
Winning 54% of the time
Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter. There’s a fairly cliché phrase in cybersecurity that I’m sure our audience is
“Comment stuffing” in an HTML phishing attachment as a mechanism for evading AI-based detection?
” tag and was made up of a single HTML comment containing a little over 430 thousand copies of the
Two Chrome updates in two days fix critical vulnerabilities
Updating Chrome is becoming an almost daily task lately. But it’s too important to ignore. On Wednesday, July 8, Google