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Author: Robert Timlick

  • 5 Steps to Managing Shadow AI Tools Without Slowing Down Employees

    When an employee installs an AI writing assistant, connects a coding copilot to their IDE, or starts summarizing meetings with a new browser tool, they are doing exactly what a productive employee should do: finding faster ways to work.

    Across most organizations today, employees are running three to five AI tools on any given day. Most were never reviewed by IT. A significant portion connects

  • AI Chatbot Recommendations Redirect Users to Cryptojacking Malware Sites

    AI Chatbot Recommendations Redirect Users to Cryptojacking Malware Sites

    Microsoft has warned of an active cryptojacking campaign that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot interactions as a mechanism for surfacing malicious download sites.

    “This emerging delivery technique extends social engineering beyond conventional search results and increases the visibility of malicious software recommendations,” Microsoft Defender Experts and the Microsoft

  • Preliminary election results: May 19 Primary

    Preliminary election results: May 19 Primary

    Free news: Though official results won’t be posted until June 12, preliminary results are in for the May 19 Primary Election.
  • Preliminary election results

    Preliminary election results

    Free news: Though official results won’t be posted until June 12, preliminary results are in for the May 19 Primary Election.
  • MuddyWater Uses DLL Side-Loading in Espionage Campaign Targeting 9 Countries

    MuddyWater Uses DLL Side-Loading in Espionage Campaign Targeting 9 Countries

    The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater has been linked to a new campaign affecting at least nine organizations across nine countries on four continents in the first quarter of 2026.

    The activity targeted industrial and electronics manufacturing, education and public-sector bodies, financial services, and professional services, per the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec and Carbon Black.

  • New AI DDoS Attacks Are Smarter. Learn How to Fight Back in This Webinar

    New AI DDoS Attacks Are Smarter. Learn How to Fight Back in This Webinar

    Every single day, hackers are finding new ways to crash websites and steal data.

    But right now, something has changed. Hackers are no longer working alone. They are now using powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to make their attacks faster, stronger, and much harder to stop.

    According to recent updates from The Hacker News, bad actors are using AI to find weak spots in systems and

  • MFA Prompt Bombing: Why Your Second Factor Isn’t Saving You

    MFA Prompt Bombing: Why Your Second Factor Isn’t Saving You

    Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was supposed to close a critical gap in identity security. It meant that, even if an attacker possessed the account credentials, they couldn’t log in without the second factor. While that logic was sound, attackers have now figured out that they don’t need to steal the second factor: they just need the user to hand it over.

    If your workforce authenticates with

  • CERT-In Mandates 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks

    CERT-In Mandates 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks

    The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where “feasible” to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors’ abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability
  • Iranian Hackers Deploy MiniFast and MiniJunk V2 via Phishing and SEO Poisoning

    Iranian Hackers Deploy MiniFast and MiniJunk V2 via Phishing and SEO Poisoning

    The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore (aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East following the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the country in late February 2026.

    The activity, besides embracing

  • KnowledgeDeliver LMS Flaw Exploited to Deploy Godzilla and Cobalt Strike

    KnowledgeDeliver LMS Flaw Exploited to Deploy Godzilla and Cobalt Strike

    A now-patched high-severity security flaw affecting Digital Knowledge KnowledgeDeliver, a Learning Management System (LMS) popular in Japan, was exploited as a zero-day to deliver the Godzilla web shell and ultimately facilitate the deployment of Cobalt Strike Beacon.

    The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5426 (CVSS score: 7.5), stems from the use of hard-coded ASP.NET machine keys, leading to