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Ravie LakshmananMay 15, 2026Botnet / Threat Intelligence The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that’s engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts. Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is assessed to be affiliated with Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). It overlaps with activity traced by the broader cybersecurity community under the names ATG26, Blue Python, Iron Hunter, Pensive Ursa, Secret Blizzard (formerly Krypton), Snake, SUMMIT, Uroburos, Venomous Bear, Waterbug, and WRAITH. The hacking group is known for its…
It’s nearly summer. Birds are migrating, flowers are blooming, and REI is kicking off its annual anniversary sale.It’s the outdoor retailer’s biggest sale of the year. This year’s REI sale starts May 15 and runs through Memorial Day, May 25. Many items are up to 30 percent off, but REI Co-op members save up to 20 percent on any full-price item and an extra 20 percent off any REI Outlet item. To get the discount, add the promo code ANNIV26 at checkout.We’ve highlighted the best deals on gear we’ve loved over our years of testing. There’s something for nearly all…
Landlords would rather hold out for higher-paying tenants than lower rent For most Singaporeans, the mall is where life happens—groceries, dinner, a haircut, the kids’ enrichment class, all under one roof. It’s as much infrastructure as it is retail. And we are not short of options. According to shopping mall directory SingMalls, there are at least 106 malls across the island—serving a total population of 6.11 million people. That works out to roughly one mall for every 58,000 people, in a country spanning just 700 square kilometres. But in some once-bustling malls today, the silence is striking: empty shopfronts, boarded-up…
In just a short few months, we have witnessed several artificial intelligence technology events that deserve the overused “unprecedented” descriptor: a highly complex supply chain attack by TeamPCP, Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code source leak, and the debut of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, a tool said to be so powerful that its use was immediately restricted to selected enterprises. As security professionals, we’re staring into a future where AI-related attacks will come from every angle very quickly, and AI defenses simply aren’t ready. It’s the software supply chain that is the real pay dirt for an attacker. Dangerous convergence The recent TeamPCP…
Three structural changes. Remote work put corporate credentials on personal devices outside EDR. Infostealer malware harvests them and ransomware affiliates buy that access. Cloud adoption created east-west traffic between workloads that most security tools can’t see, giving attackers undetected lateral movement space. Hybrid identity, meaning on-premises AD syncing to cloud identity platforms like Entra ID, introduced high-privilege sync accounts that are rarely hardened. Verizon DBIR 2025: ransomware appeared in 44% of all confirmed breaches, up from 32% the prior year. That 12-point jump reflects those structural changes, not smarter malware.
Movable dividers. Infinite layouts. One system. Live now on Kickstarter from US$42. Melbourne, AU (May 2026) – Orbitkey, the Melbourne-based organisation brand behind 12 successful Kickstarter campaigns and over 67,000 rewards delivered, today launches the Grid Desk Organiser on Kickstarter. It is the brand’s most ambitious desk product to date: a modular, stackable desk organisation system built around a patent-pending snap-in divider that lets users configure their own compartments around the items they actually use. Most desk organisers solve the wrong problem. Fixed compartments force users to work around the product. Open trays look organised for a day before everything…
AI agents built to run everyday computer tasks have a serious context problem, according to new research from UC Riverside. The team tested 10 agents and models from major developers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Alibaba, and DeepSeek. On average, the agents took undesirable or potentially harmful actions 80% of the time and caused damage 41% of the time. These systems can open apps, click buttons, fill out forms, move through websites, and act on a computer screen with limited supervision. Their mistakes land differently from a chatbot’s bad answer because the software can actually do things. The UC Riverside findings…
Ravie LakshmananMay 15, 2026Microsoft / Vulnerability Microsoft has disclosed a new security vulnerability impacting on-premise versions of Exchange Server that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42897 (CVSS score: 8.1), has been described as a spoofing bug stemming from a cross-site scripting flaw. An anonymous researcher has been credited with discovering and reporting the issue. “Improper neutralization of input during web page generation (‘cross-site scripting’) in Microsoft Exchange Server allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network,” the tech giant said in a Thursday advisory. Microsoft, which tagged the vulnerability…
(GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) I can’t get “Road to Nowhere” out of my head. The 1985 Talking Heads anthem is built on contradiction — upbeat and anxious at the same time. Songwriter David Byrne once described it as “a resigned, even joyful look at doom.” That paradox felt especially relevant this week as two headlines collided. Gene Balk reported in The Seattle Times that Seattle ranked fourth among large U.S. cities for population growth. At nearly the same moment, KUOW’s Monica Nickelsburg reported that Washington ranked second nationally in tech layoffs. So, what is it? Are we growing,…
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