Smashing Security podcast #491: How AI agents are spooking the banks
Bank of America has a message for its customers: please, for the love of God, stop handing your banking passwords...
Month: November 2026
The Fridge-Hacking Spree Is an Internet-of-Things Wake-Up Call
Escalating hacks affecting blood labs and grocery stores show the very real risks to critical infrastructure that come from basic...
Hackers leak personnel data of 41,000+ Homeland Security staff, including ICE and border agents
The US Department of Homeland Security has had the details of more than 41,000 staff, including ICE and CBP agents,...
Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at Hacking
An experiment in which AI models were asked to break into simulated networks showed the hacking skills of DeepSeek and...
BYOD cyberattack diverts ambulances and cancels classes at University of New Mexico health center
Ambulances were diverted, surgeries cancelled, and medical students sent home from classes after a ransomware group attacked the University of...
6 Best VPN Services (2026), Tested and Reviewed
Every VPN says it’s the best, but only some of them are telling the truth. (more…)
Smashing Security podcast #490: How Jared Kushner’s iPhone was allegedly hacked twice
Dutch spies, Russian hackers and Jared Kushner’s iPhone. It sounds like the ingredients for a thriller, but according to claims...
SlippyNunchucks hijacks Sogou Input Method’s brand promotion mechanism to distribute malware
ESET Research analyzes a DNS hijacking operation abusing insecure HTTP communications in Windows versions of Sogou Input Method (more…)
Hive ransomware affiliate jailed, years after FBI infiltrated the gang’s systems
A Ukrainian man who carried out ransomware attacks for both the Nefilim and Hive gangs, including attacks on law firms...
Gorbag: Orcs at the border harvesting intelligence from Ukraine
ESET researchers uncover Gorbag, a Russia-aligned group using simple infostealers to harvest data from Ukrainian organizations near the front line...
When confusion reigns, trusted vendors must guide their SMB customers
SMBs need guided onboarding and supervised protection to optimize their investments (more…)
AI Security
Two weeks ago, I attended the prompted AI security conference in San Francisco. It was an excellent event: three days...
This month in security with Tony Anscombe – October 2026 edition
The PHP2Shell disclosure and other major cybersecurity news this month brought into relief the need for well-thought-out cyber-readiness plans (more…)
Friday Squid Blogging: New Jurassic Squid Predecessors
News story: “Scientists discover a bizarre Jurassic ‘squid’ unlike anything ever seen.” Scientists have identified the “fattest” belemnite ever discovered,...
Amatera: How the prolific infostealer works and spreads
The malware that topped ESET’s infostealer detections in Latin America in the first half of 2026 is an example of...
