First 2026 cyber recap covering IoT exploits, wallet breaches, malicious extensions, phishing, malware, and early AI abuse.

Transparent Tribe (APT36) is linked to new cyber-espionage attacks using malicious LNK files, adaptive RATs, and long-term ...

Aider is a “pair-programming” tool that can use various providers as the AI back end, including a locally running instance of ...

During his sabbatical, Will McGugan, maker of Rich and Textual( frameworks for making Textual User Interfaces (TUI)), put his UI skills to work to build Toad. The newly publicly released tool aims to ...

Malicious shell commands are linchpins to many cyber-attacks, but may not be easy to understand by security analysts due to complicated and often disguised code structures. Advances in large language ...

But I’ve noticed that when I open everything all at once, I slip into a reactive mode before I’ve even decided what I actually need to work on. That was the problem I wanted to solve, so I wrote a ...

The company suffered one sophisticated five-alarm campaign and one messy spray-and-pray attack, mere days apart.

On Windows 11, PowerShell is a command-line interface (CLI) developed by Microsoft to execute commands and run scripts. In a ...

Microsoft is testing a new version of the Run command window (summoned by pressing Win + R simultaneously) in Windows 11. The new version is based on Microsoft’s Fluent Design ethos, which infuses ...

Cisco has released security updates to patch a critical vulnerability in the Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software, which could enable attackers to execute commands with root privileges. The ...