Category: Interesting Stuff

The Verizon DBIR 2026 report shows that 69% of organizations are refusing to pay extortion demands, a rise from last year that may help create long-term deterrence against ransomware. However, this progress could also push criminals to intensify their tactics in the short term, making preparedness and recovery planning more important than ever. #VerizonDBIR2026 #Verizon

MSPs must test ransomware recovery in isolated, realistic conditions because a successful backup does not guarantee a clean or usable restore. The article emphasizes integrating security telemetry with backup data to identify safe recovery points, avoid reinfection, and improve recovery across multitenant environments. #AcronisCyberPlatform #NIS2 #ISO27001

Google I/O 2026 introduced four major AI agent surfaces—Project Mariner, Agent2Agent (A2A), managed MCP servers, and always-on information agents—but each inherits the same core weakness: the model cannot reliably distinguish instructions from untrusted data. The result is a broad new attack surface where poisoned web pages, malicious Agent Cards, and hostile emails can steer agents that have access to Gmail, Drive, and external tools. #GoogleIO2026 #ProjectMariner #Agent2Agent #A2A #MCP #Gmail #GoogleDrive

This article outlines a structured roadmap for breaking into penetration testing, emphasizing cybersecurity fundamentals, networking, Linux, and consistent hands-on practice before using offensive tools. It also recommends starting with eJPT, then CompTIA PenTest+, and working toward OSCP while building a portfolio through TryHackMe, OverTheWire, Hack The Box, GitHub, and a personal blog. #eJPT #CompTIAPenTestPlus #OSCP #TryHackMe #OverTheWire #HackTheBox

AI-driven vulnerability discovery has moved from theory to reality, with Claude Mythos finding thousands of flaws and generating working exploits across widely used software. The article argues that the real challenge is not discovery but the growing gap between vulnerability volume and remediation capacity, making patch-only security strategies unsustainable. #ClaudeMythos #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #FFmpeg #EUCyberResilienceAct #RunSafeSecurity

The European Commission, CNIL, CISA, FTC, and other authorities issued major 2026 guidance and enforcement actions covering high-risk AI classification, AI content marking, critical infrastructure resilience, privacy compliance, and deceptive AI marketing. The updates also include Poland’s hybrid-threat assessment, G7 AI SBOM minimum elements, and Louisiana’s new data privacy bill, signaling tighter rules for AI governance, cybersecurity, and consumer data protections. #EUAIAct #CNIL #CISA #FTC #BSI #ABW #LouisianaDataPrivacyAct #G7

STRIDE was designed for traditional software, but AI systems break its assumptions across prompts, training data, tool chains, and agent workflows, so STRIDE-AI remaps the six threat categories for machine learning environments. It also highlights AI-specific extensions like MAESTRO and ASTRIDE for modeling threats such as prompt injection, data poisoning, model spoofing, denial of wallet, and excessive agency. #STRIDE-AI #MAESTRO #ASTRIDE #OWASPLLMTop10

AI-powered offensive tools are poised to transform vulnerability exploitation by finding and weaponizing flaws far faster than current patching cycles can handle. The article argues that the biggest barriers are not just technical, but also business disruption, process delays, and organizational resistance to change. #Mythos #Cobalt #CyentiaInstitute #Cobalt2026StateofPentestingReport

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is the backbone of digital trust, enabling authentication, confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation through trusted digital certificates. It uses a Certificate Authority to bind a public key to a real identity, preventing fake certificates and helping secure online communication. #PKI #CertificateAuthority #DigitalCertificates

This article demonstrates eight User Account Control bypass techniques on a default-configured Windows 10 host, including Metasploit modules and manual registry hijacks using fodhelper.exe and ComputerDefaults.exe. It also maps each method to practical defenses such as Always Notify UAC, registry monitoring, PowerShell logging, and application whitelisting. #UAC #fodhelper.exe #ComputerDefaults.exe #Metasploit #PowerShell #Sysmon #WDAC #AppLocker

This walkthrough shows how Nmap can bypass static iptables rules by changing TCP flags, packet length, TTL, source port, MAC/IP spoofing, payload bytes, and options. It concludes that defenders need layered controls like stateful inspection, IDS/IPS, rate limiting, and host-based monitoring rather than relying on iptables alone. #Nmap #iptables

The Cybersecurity Pulse covers a week of major security news, including GitHub’s poisoned VS Code extension incident, the latest DBIR findings, TeamPCP’s malicious durabletask PyPI compromise, and Cloudflare’s testing of Anthropic’s Mythos for exploit chaining. It also highlights new industry moves such as OpenAI’s Daybreak, Akamai’s LayerX acquisition, and Torq’s purchase of Jit as AI reshapes both offensive and defensive security. #GitHub #TeamPCP #durabletask #Mythos #DBIR #Akamai #LayerX #Torq #Jit #OpenAI #Daybreak #Cloudflare

AI models like Mythos are now being used to uncover memory corruption vulnerabilities in firmware and hardware, including a kernel memory flaw in Apple’s M5 chip that powers MacBooks and iPads. This signals a major shift in vulnerability research, as future threats will increasingly target the full technology stack from software to processors and system memory. #Mythos #AppleM5 #MacBooks #iPads #ARM #Apple #Qualcomm #Intel #AMD #Nvidia

Business email compromise caused more than $3 billion in reported losses last year, exploiting trust rather than malware to trick employees into sending money or sharing sensitive information. The article explains seven warning signs that email defenses may be missing BEC attempts, from weak behavioral detection to limited visibility into internal email traffic. #BEC #FBIIC3 #IRONSCALES

This walkthrough shows an end-to-end compromise of the ignite.local Windows Server 2019 domain controller, starting from one low-privileged credential and ending with krbtgt, full domain control, and SYSTEM on an MSSQL host. It uses NetExec, BloodHound, LSASSY, Backup Operators abuse, ForceChangePassword, xp_cmdshell, and PrintSpoofer to map each step of the attack chain and pair it with defenses. #ignite.local #NetExec #BloodHound #LSASSY #PrintSpoofer #xp_cmdshell #krbtgt