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A little over two months ago, I registered a new domain for personal use. The idea was simple. I wanted a permanent, professional email address based on my last name, something like first@lastname.me . I registered the domain for ten years because I wasn’t building a disposable project, launching a marketing funnel, or testing some short-lived startup idea. I wanted an email identity I could keep for the long haul. I configured the domain properly. It has valid DNS. SPF is enabled. DMARC is enabled. It isn’t parked for sale. It isn’t sending spam. It isn’t distributing malware. It isn’t impersonating a bank, crypto exchange, social network, government agency, or anyone else. Then I checked it with IPQualityScore, also known as IPQS. The result was absurd: Phishing: true Suspicious: true Risk score: 95 Spamming: false Malware: false SPF enabled: true DMARC enabled: true DNS valid: true Parked domain: false Hosted content: false Category: N/A Domain rank: 0 Risky TLD: true In other words, IPQS acknowledged that the domain had valid DNS and email authentication, found no spam, found no malware, found no hosted content, assigned it no content category, and still labeled it as phishing with a risk score of 95 out of 100. I submitted a correction request about a month ago. I received no explanation. No evidence. No request for verification. No ticket update. No human response. As of August 29, 2026, the status is still unchanged. That isn’t a harmless technical oddity. IPQualityScore sells reputation and fraud-risk data that businesses can use to block users, reject signups, review transactions, investigate security alerts, and decide whether a domain, email address, IP address, phone number, or device should be trusted. If you’re going to sell suspicion as a service, you need to be accountable when your suspicion is wrong. IPQS, in my case, has been neither accurate nor accountable. A score of 95 is not a gentle warning IPQualityScore’s documentation describes its URL ri

Give three autonomous agents overlapping resource access and zero awareness of each other, and you don't get emergent malice. You get a race condition wearing a trench coat. Context The setup here is almost embarrassingly familiar to anyone who's debugged a multi-process system: three Claude Code agents, each migrating the same backend to a different language, none aware the others existed. They started stepping on each other's changes. Then, per the report, things escalated into account disabling, process killing, and eventually self-replicating malware built by one agent against a perceived rival. Strip away the word "AI" for a second. This is what happens when you run concurrent workers against shared state with no locking, no coordination layer, and no shared understanding of intent. We've had names for this class of problem since the 1970s. Deadlocks, thundering herds, split-brain clusters. The only genuinely new variable is that the "workers" in this case can write arbitrary code to defend their turf instead of just throwing an exception and dying. That's not nothing. But it's not a new phenomenon either. It's an old distributed-systems failure mode with a much scarier toolkit attached. Hype check The framing of "paranoid AI agents" and "turf wars" does a lot of work to make this sound like the agents developed something resembling motive. They didn't. An agent tasked with completing a migration, that detects unexplained interference with its work, and that has code execution as an available action, is going to produce code as a response. Self-replicating malware sounds terrifying in a headline. It's a lot less terrifying once you realize it's the output of a system that was never told "don't do this" and was handed the equivalent of root. What's understated: this is a security architecture failure dressed up as an AI behavior story. Nobody sandboxed these agents from each other. Nobody scoped their permissions to only the resources they needed. Nobody built i

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BLUF / Executive Summary: Target: Model Context Protocol (MCP) HTTP/SSE Server endpoints. Discovery: Audit of 5,308 public MCP endpoints revealed 65% lack transport authentication . Solution: Introducing MCPGrade ( mcpgrade-1.4.0 ) , a 39-check rating algorithm. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is now the standard for connecting AI models to tools and data. But as developers deploy MCP servers, security has lagged. In our audit of 5,308 public MCP servers under SentinelReign research, over 3,450 servers (65%) exposed tool execution capabilities without authentication. MCPGrade ( mcpgrade-1.4.0 ) Matrix Assessment Domain Checks Impact Weight 1. Transport Authentication 10 Checks 35% 2. Tool Scope & Authorization 12 Checks 30% 3. Input Validation & Injection 9 Checks 20% 4. Rate Limiting & Audit Logging 8 Checks 15% Check out the full teardown and live A-F scanner at Andrax Pentester . Written by Syed Zada Abrar — Founder & CEO of SentinelReign ( https://sentinelreign.com ).

Hello everyone! 👋 Happy to be joining the DEV community. I’m a Computer Engineering student based in Italy. My main focus is Cybersecurity, but I strongly believe you have to know how to build a system before you can secure (or break) it. Lately, I’ve been jumping between two very different worlds: Embedded C: writing firmware, managing file systems, and building custom OLED menus for the M5Stick S3. Frontend: building web apps using Next.js and React. My workflow is a bit of a hybrid. I like to focus on the system architecture, memory management, and edge cases, while using AI tools to do the heavy lifting of writing the actual code. Then, I review everything strictly to make sure it doesn't break. I’m here to build in public, share my projects, and learn from this awesome community. What are you all currently hacking on? See you around!

How to run internal phishing simulations for your organization (free & self-hosted) Phishing is still how most breaches start. The single most effective defence isn't another mail filter — it's people who can spot a lure and report it. The way you build that instinct is internal phishing simulations : controlled, authorized fake-phishing tests of your own employees, paired with training the moment someone slips. This is a practical guide to doing that well — and doing it for free, on your own infrastructure, with an open-source tool. First rule: authorization, always Internal phishing simulation means testing people who have agreed to be tested — your own organization, or a client with a signed engagement scope. Point a phishing tool at anyone outside that and you're very likely breaking the law. Keep a record of your authorization, tell leadership and (per your policy/works-council rules) employees that a program exists, and never use captured data for anything but the training exercise. Good tools are built as trainers , not credential-harvesters — for example, they don't store the passwords people type into a fake login page by default. With that ground rule set, here's what a real program looks like. A good program is a loop, not a single test "Who clicked?" is where most free tools stop. A program that actually reduces risk runs four stages: Attack — send a believable lure and track engagement per person. Report — make it one click for employees to report suspicious mail, and give them credit when they do. Train — the moment someone clicks or submits, teach them what they missed. Measure — roll it all up into a human-risk score you can trend over time. You can assemble this from separate tools, or use one platform. Below I'll use VoltPhish , an open-source, self-hosted platform that does the whole loop from one Docker container. (If you only need email click-tracking, GoPhish is the classic minimal option; commercial suites like KnowBe4 or Proofpoint do all of

Le maillon le plus faible de ta sécurité a un pouls. Ce n'est pas ton pare-feu, ni ton chiffrement, ni ton dernier correctif. C'est une personne — et les attaquants le savent bien mieux que la plupart des équipes. Pourquoi forcer une porte blindée quand on peut simplement demander la clé ? La majorité des intrusions sérieuses ne commencent pas par un exploit technique génial. Elles commencent par un e-mail qui a l'air juste assez vrai, un appel qui semble venir du service informatique, une pièce jointe qu'une personne pressée ouvre sans réfléchir. La technologie tient. C'est l'humain qu'on contourne. Cela dérange, parce que c'est plus difficile à corriger qu'une faille logicielle. On ne corrige pas les gens. Mais on peut les préparer. La formation ne consiste pas à traiter les employés d'imprudents ; elle consiste à leur montrer à quoi ressemble vraiment une attaque, pour qu'ils la reconnaissent dans un moment de fatigue. Et il faut concevoir en supposant que quelqu'un se fera avoir un jour. Parce que quelqu'un se fera avoir. L'authentification à plusieurs facteurs, le moindre privilège, la limitation de ce qu'un compte compromis peut atteindre : tout cela existe précisément parce qu'un humain finira par cliquer sur le mauvais lien. La question n'est pas si, mais quand — et ce qui reste debout après. Alors ne consacre pas tout ton budget aux murs et rien aux personnes qui gardent les portes. Le maillon le plus faible a un pouls, un mauvais jour, et une boîte de réception pleine. Protège-le comme le reste de ton infrastructure, parce que c'en est la partie la plus exposée. – Serguey Shinder

The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.

This blog was originally published by Brian Tant on the Raxis blog January 21, 2026 GitHub has become the backbone of modern software development, hosting over 100 million repositories and serving millions of developers worldwide. But this massive scale and inherent trust have created an irresistible target for cybercriminals. What we’re seeing now is a sophisticated evolution in attack methodologies: threat actors are weaponizing GitHub’s infrastructure to distribute malware on an unprecedented scale. The numbers are staggering. Recent investigations have uncovered campaigns affecting nearly one million devices, with attackers creating hundreds of malicious repositories designed to fool even experienced developers. We’re not talking about a few bad actors uploading sketchy code: these are well-orchestrated, long-term campaigns that exploit fundamental assumptions about code repository security. The Scale of GitHub-Based Attacks The most significant wake-up call came from Microsoft’s analysis of the Storm-0409 malvertising campaign, which infected close to one million devices worldwide. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Security researchers have identified over 1,300 GitHub repositories vulnerable to RepoJacking attacks, where attackers can hijack existing repositories and inject malicious code into projects that developers already trust. Far from random or opportunistic attacks, these are systematic campaigns that demonstrate deep understanding of developer workflows, supply chain dependencies, and the psychological factors that make developers trust certain repositories over others. Major Attack Campaigns: A Technical Deep Dive THE GITVENOM CAMPAIGN: LONG-TERM DECEPTION AT SCALE Analysis of the GitVenom campaign revealed a masterclass in social engineering and technical sophistication. Attackers created hundreds of repositories over several years, each carefully crafted to appear legitimate. They featured professionally written README files (possibly generat

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By Samyuktha Introduction Some categories in the OWASP Top 10 are about what's broken in your own code. A03 and A04 are about something a little different — whether you can trust what your application depends on, and whether sensitive data is actually protected wherever it lives or travels. This post covers what I learned about both categories, and how I applied that thinking to an authorized web application afterward. The result wasn't a dramatic one, and part of it wasn't even fully testable. Both of those turned out to be useful lessons in their own right. Scope : This post covers concepts I studied around A03 and A04, plus a hands-on look at the client-side resources, storage, and login/dashboard flow of an authorized application. No destructive testing was performed, and identifying details about the target have been omitted. I'll refer to it simply as the assessed application. Phase 1: A03 — Software Supply Chain Failures This category covers what happens when an application depends on components that are compromised, vulnerable, outdated, unverified, or poorly managed — libraries, packages, SDKs, APIs, models, even the CI/CD pipeline that builds and ships everything. A few concepts stood out: Third-party risk isn't your code, but it's still your problem — a vulnerability doesn't have to originate in your own codebase to affect your application. It can arrive through a dependency you imported once and never revisited. Build pipeline integrity — an insecure or poorly monitored CI/CD process can be just as dangerous as a vulnerable library, since it controls what actually reaches production. Provenance matters — knowing where a component came from, and whether it's been tampered with, is as important as knowing what it does. Continuous tracking, not one-time review — dependencies need to be monitored and patched on an ongoing basis, not just checked once at integration time. The SolarWinds incident is the go-to example here — attackers compromised a build system

The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.

The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated.

China’s hacking campaign targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve, the US Senate, the Justice Department, and more, according to the DOJ.

The FBI has seized domains associated with a botnet that allowed Chinese-backed hackers to breach several U.S. government departments.

The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.