#defenses


New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

Sep 29, 2026 // 20:00

A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines […]

Malicious npm packages evade install-script defenses at runtime

Sep 20, 2026 // 17:17

An ongoing npm malware campaign involving the ‘indexed-btree’ package shows how threat actors bypass supply chain defenses by hiding malicious code in a package’s normal […]

OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior

Aug 19, 2026 // 21:13

OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up […]

Enterprise Defenses Recovered at the Edge and Collapsed Inside

Aug 12, 2026 // 14:46

Enterprise defenses are tuned to catch the attacks that make noise. This year’s data shows attackers winning by making none. According to Picus Labs’ new […]

New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs

Aug 7, 2026 // 01:16

An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using […]

GitHub, PyPI add time-based defenses against supply chain attacks

Jul 26, 2026 // 23:37

GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to protect against supply-chain attacks and to limit […]

GodDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX Driver to Disable Endpoint Defenses

Jul 9, 2026 // 14:32

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called GodDamn that employs the PoisonX kernel driver to neutralize security software as part of its defense […]

Gentlemen ransomware uses multiple EDR killers to disable defenses

Jun 19, 2026 // 01:36

The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers to help affiliates evade detection in attacks. The […]

Deepfake Voice Attacks are Outpacing Defenses: What Security Leaders Should Know

Apr 27, 2026 // 16:17

By Brian Long, CEO and Co-founder, Adaptive Security In March 2025, a finance director at a multinational firm in Singapore joined what appeared to be […]

AI as the Attacker: Traditional Cyber Defense Fails OR AI Attacks: Kill Chain Defenses Can’t Keep Up

Mar 25, 2026 // 15:03

In September 2025, Anthropic revealed that a government-backed attacker utilized an AI coding tool for an automated cyber spying operation targeting 30 global victims. The […]