A recent congressional hearing highlighted how states are reeling from federal cutbacks to important cyber grants and information sharing initiatives amid damaging attacks to critical infrastructure.
TeamPCP, the hackers behind the Shai-Hulud worm, has done significant damage to the open source ecosystem. But it's not necessarily due to skill alone.
Every company needs an agentic AI strategy, but the tools to allow agentic AI frameworks be safely and securely adopted are just starting to appear.
SharePoint access often means access to the keys of the kingdom, something attackers and defenders understand all too well.
The co-founder and former editor-in-chief passed away five years ago in November. As Dark Reading enters is third decade, we pause to celebrate and honor Wilson's instrumental role in building and elevating the media site.
When Akamai announced its LayerX acquisition, the company joined a growing list of vendors adding secure enterprise browsers to their product portfolios.
Ransomware and vendor breaches persist, but the 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tactics make the sector more vulnerable.
The advanced persistent threat group also relied on SOCKS proxies like SoftEther VPN, tunneling tools that act as a middleman between victim and attacker.
Finding ways to document both component and execution attributes for AI bill of materials (AI BOM).
A security researcher discovered the API keys can still be used for 23 minutes after deletion, even though the cloud provider claims deletion is immediate.
AI agent projects are proliferating throughout the enterprise, and those AI agent identities require management, security, and governance. New Omdia research shows the AI agent identity budget dynamics are very different than traditional IAM projects.
"Showboat" doesn't show off, but clearly it doesn't need to, as it's long helped China spy on small market communications providers.
The Underminr domain-fronting attack allows threat actors to modify Web requests and leverage trusted websites to cloak malicious activity.
There is nothing cybersecurity professionals are more excited about, and nothing they fear more, than AI.
Open source software giant GitHub confirmed a data breach this week involving the theft of thousands of repos. One threat actor — TeamPCP — took credit.
The disguised apps use WebView automation, JavaScript injection, and OTP interception to avoid detection and complete fraudulent subscriptions.
Government leaders revealed that, in spite of state laws meant to improve cyber hygiene, an analysis of incidents showed issues persist and visibility falls short.
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the command injection vulnerability to gain remote access to robotic systems, causing significant disruption to the environment.
While the numbers are modest, the crackdown on cybercrime involved 13 countries in the MENA region, the largest law enforcement collaboration to date.
Five ways CISOs can prepare for consuming AI Bill of Materials and influence the direction of how they're generated.
A brief overview of the forces at play that will get more organizations on board with creating and consuming AI bill of materials (BOMs).
Verizon's "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" ("DBIR") finds that exploits are now involved in 31% of initial access for breaches, while patching lags too far behind the bad guys.
YellowKey, GreenPlasma, and MiniPlasma add to the growing list of vulnerabilities a security researcher disclosed over the past six weeks.
The agency's GitHub repository, publicly available since November 2025, was ironically named "Private-CISA."
Dark Reading editors reflect on two decades of dramatic change — from perimeter defense to assume-breach strategies — and warn that while AI, cloud, and COVID-19 have transformed the threat landscape, organizations are still failing at fundamental security hygiene that could stop sophisticated attacks in their tracks.
The SHub Reaper stealer, which hides behind fake WeChat and Miro installers, marks a shift from ClickFix social engineering to Apple script-based execution.
Understanding AI BOMs and where they fit into risk management for artificial intelligence.
CVE-2026-42897 stems from a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability and can allow an attacker to compromise Outlook Web Access (OWA) mailboxes.