Blake McDermott is Senior Threat Hunter at Rapid7. Every week, threat hunt teams are faced with a steady flow of blogs, advisories, and DFIR reports containing valuable intelligence about adversary…
Malware: Agenda, AgendaCrypt, Akira, Gold Feather, INC, INC Ransom, Makop, Phobos, Qilin, QilinCrypt, Qilin Locker, Shanya, VX Crypt, Warlock, Water Galura, Water Manaul CVEs: CVE-2019-19781, CVE-2020-1472, CVE-2021-40444, CVE-2022-30190, CVE-2023-27532, CVE-2023-27997,…
Encrypted data has a shelf life, and for many organizations it must remain secret for years. The post-quantum risk is not a dramatic collapse of encryption, but a quieter threat:…
Introduction The underground market for criminally oriented generative AI has moved beyond the early hype surrounding ‘malicious chatbots.’ The gradual integration of AI as a productivity layer within cybercrime operations…
Introduction We evaluated 15 new models this month and noted some surprising changes in behavior and CASI scores. During the same period, three production incidents demonstrated specific failure modes in…
Executive Summary Cato CTRL’s Vitaly Simonovich (senior security researcher) has discovered a new vulnerability (CVE-2026-25611 with a “High” severity rating of 7.5 out of 10) in all MongoDB versions with…
Overview On June 10, 2026, Oracle published a security alert for CVE-2026-35273, a critical vulnerability in the Updates Environment Management component of PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. Oracle released an out-of-band patch…
Introduction Just as we continually analyze the threat landscape, we also look to broaden and improve our telemetry to provide the best possible insights from our datasets. With this, in…
Agentic AI does not just answer, it acts. The moment an agent has a reachable control plane, you have effectively created a “remote hands” interface into your environment. In our…
Acrobat Reader Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild for Many Months A zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader has been actively exploited since November 2025, and potentially earlier, as discovered by…
