Antino Backdoor Uses Outlook and OneDrive for C2 in China-Nexus Espionage Campaign
Government and policy organizations across Asia have become the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-nexus threat actor. The activity, which has targeted government and policy organizations in Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand, and Myanmar, involves the deployment of a previously undocumented backdoor codenamed Antino. Cisco Talos is tracking the cluster
Dell CSM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Admin Access and Root on Kubernetes Nodes
Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-63688 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability in the csm-authorization-storage gRPC server that an
OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling
OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. “We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information,” a spokesperson for the company was quoted as saying. “Our investigation confirmed that these
Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board's Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report
The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud posture tool, the vulnerability scanner, the SIEM and the EDR console. Someone is building a spreadsheet to reconcile them. Someone else is turning that spreadsheet into slides. Then a board member asks three questions: How secure is the organization, overall? What is
Engineering Multipole Resonances in Dielectric Metasurfaces for Transmission, Reflection, and Absorption Control
Dielectric metasurfaces have moved to the forefront of nanophotonics, offering flat, low-loss alternatives to conventional bulk optical elements for controlling the amplitude, phase, and polarization of light. These structures are of growing interest to researchers and engineers working on sensing, energy harvesting, and flat optics, as their performance hinges on precisely engineered optical…
Android 17 Advanced Protection Locks Accessibility Services to Verified Accessibility Tools
Google has announced a new security measure that limits access to Android’s accessibility services to verified applications classified as Accessibility Tools when Advanced Protection is enabled. With malicious Android applications abusing the API serving as the main conduit for malware and financial fraud, the tech giant said the move would block a major attack pathway. Advanced Protection is a
The Integration Tax Your Budget Never Shows
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Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix
It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. This leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as well as when it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers. More than half of the countries that track these metrics lost at least 10 percent of their electricity in 2023, according to the World Bank. Losses topped 20…