The YubiKey user who thinks they are safe We recorded an attack on an account protected by a YubiKey. An infostealer on the victim’s laptop copies the browser session cookies, the attacker loads them on their own machine, and they are logged in without the YubiKey ever being asked for. The key did its job at login, but the session created after login is a separate thing it does
On October 21, 2026, PHP released emergency updates for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, known as "PHP2Shell". Their severity is rated 9.2 out of 10. PHP2Shell allows an attacker to run code on your server remotely, without logging in or having an account on your website. A single crafted request can be enough. What is PHP? PHP is the language that runs
On October 17, 2026, a security researcher reported that 8 private keys belonging to eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority, were compromised. The problem? These keys were so weak that anyone could calculate them. Six of the affected certificates could be used to issue fake HTTPS certificates for legitimate websites, including banks, crypto exchanges, and wallet interfaces. An attacker could potentially impersonate a real website, intercept your connection, and access sensitive
At 04:59 UTC on 9 October, 30 TRON wallets quietly handed control to a new key. Their owners had not touched them. Eight minutes later, the money started moving, and within an hour the attacker had emptied wallets on six blockchains. Bitquery's on-chain investigation counts $93.2 million taken from 315 wallets. The victims had one thing in common: they bought their Ledger hardware wallets from
From the first message to the fake login page, a step by step look at how scammers turn career aspirations into phishing attacks. An InMail offering a BlackRock advisory seat. An InMail arrived on LinkedIn at 1:03 PM offering a Strategic Advisor seat on BlackRock’s Executive Committee. Four to six hours a month. An annual retainer between $190,000 and $275,000. The sender introduced herself as a
On September 9th, attackers compromised Brevo (the email platform behind Trezor's newsletter) and sent a fake security alert to roughly 347,000 subscribers. Trezor wasn't the only one hit: BitBox and CoinTracking got caught in the same net. The email looked legitimate to subscribers. It came from the official help@trezor.io address, with headers referring to mailing.trezor.io, and it passed standard SPF, DKIM,
If you are part of OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, there is a new requirement to act on. From October 1st, 2026 (previously Sept 1st), individual TAC members must turn on Advanced Account Security (AAS) and sign in with a physical security key. A passkey synced through a password manager will not qualify. This guide covers what TAC is, what AAS changes on your account, which
Signal used to have one hard rule: your messages lived on your device and nowhere else. Lose the phone, lose the history. That changed. Signal Secure Backups are now live on Android and iOS. They are end-to-end encrypted, opt-in, and Signal cannot read them. If your Signal threads touch treasury approvals, deployment coordination or incident response, this is worth ten minutes of your attention. Setup takes five.
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