Threat Note

Researchers discovered a modular, "cloud-first" framework that is feature-rich and designed to maintain stealthy, long-term access to Linux environments. Read More  

 Austin, TX / USA, January 14th, 2026, CyberNewsWire New monitoring capability delivers unprecedented visibility into vendor identity exposures, moving enterprises and government agencies from static risk scoring to protecting against…

 Large language models are changing how ransomware crews plan and run their attacks. Instead of inventing new kinds of malware, LLMs are speeding up every step of the existing ransomware…

 New York, NY, January 14th, 2026, CyberNewsWire Leading secrets security platform sees accelerated adoption across Fortune 500, with 60% of new customers choosing multi-year commitments. GitGuardian, the leading secrets and…

AI agents have quickly moved from experimental tools to core components of daily workflows across security, engineering, IT, and operations. What began as individual productivity aids, like personal code assistants, chatbots, and copilots, has evolved into shared, organization-wide agents embedded in critical processes. These agents can orchestrate workflows across multiple systems, for example:

 In August 2025, Fortinet issued an advisory for CVE-2025-25256, an OS command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) in FortiSIEM that exposed the platform to unauthenticated remote code execution via crafted CLI requests.…

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 Panorays has just dropped the latest edition of its annual CISO Survey for Third-Party Cyber Risk Management, and it contains some major wakeup calls for security professionals. The biggest takeaway is that software supply…

Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that's exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity trojans and stealers. "Attackers achieve evasion by pairing a malicious libcares-2.dll with any signed version of the legitimate ahost.exe (

 Discord users are facing a growing threat from VVS Stealer, a Python-based information-stealing malware that targets sensitive account data, including credentials and tokens. This stealer was actively marketed on Telegram…

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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jan. 14, 2026 –Read the full story in Finextra With the democratization of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, deepfakes are…

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 Threat actors have launched a sophisticated malware campaign against members of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, exploiting charity operations as a cover for their attacks. Operating between October and December 2025, the…