Research examines attack methods, defenses, and vulnerabilities, helping security teams understand risks and improve protection.
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Research is the systematic study of technologies, systems, attack methods, vulnerabilities, and defensive techniques to establish evidence and produce new findings. In information security, it includes work such as discovering flaws in software or protocols, analyzing malware and attacker behavior, testing cryptographic designs, and evaluating security controls. News under this tag may describe a proof of concept, a measurement study, or a proposed technique rather than a confirmed real-world attack.
For practitioners, research can change how risks are prioritized and mitigated. A demonstrated vulnerability may require vulnerability-management teams to verify affected assets, apply fixes, or add compensating controls; responsible disclosure gives developers time to assess and remediate before technical details enable exploitation. Research involving live systems, personal data, or offensive tooling also raises privacy, authorization, dual-use, and ethical concerns. Sound findings should state their assumptions, scope, limitations, and reproducibility, since laboratory results do not automatically show that an attack is practical in every environment.
Eset: Lazarus Group Shares Backdoor With Newer Pyongyang Threat ActorA gang of North Korean hackers behind fake IT job recruitment scams now have access to a remote access Trojan favored by their more technically advanced counterparts tracked collectively as the Lazarus Group, say security researchers.
Agentforce Agentic AI Tool Was Exposed to Indirect Prompt Injection AttacksSalesforce has patched a vulnerability involving its Agentforce agentic artificial intelligence tool, discovered by researchers, that attackers could have exploited using an indirect prompt injection attack to steal sensitive customer data and leads being stored in the CRM system.
Government Agencies Targeted With Infostealers and Cryptomining MalwareA fake police alert is the social engineering cornerstone of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian government agencies, warn security researchers. They're tracking a surge in malicious SVG file attachments, in this case leading to information-stealing and cryptocurrency-mining malware.
OpenAI, Apollo Research Find Models Hide Misalignment; Training Cuts DeceptionFrontier artificial intelligence models are learning to hide their true intentions to pursue hidden agendas, said OpenAI and Apollo Research. Researchers say the risk of deception needs to be tackled now, especially as AI systems take on more complex, real-world responsibilities.
Researchers Uncover Covert Chinese Access to US Service Provider InfrastructureMandiant said it has tracked a Chinese-linked espionage campaign using BRICKSTORM malware to quietly embed within U.S. infrastructure and service providers for over a year, exploiting appliance-level blind spots to maintain persistence, evade detection and potentially develop zero-day exploits.
'More Research' Needed, Says GoogleGoogle DeepMind expanded its risk framework to cover scenarios where artificial intelligence models might manipulate people or resist shutdown, marking the company's most explicit warning yet about potential misalignment. DeepMind frames many of these scenarios as a malfunction.
Attackers Could Siphon Gmail Data Unnoticed From Users Who Let AI Tool Access EmailOpenAI patched a flaw in ChatGPT's Deep Research agent that could have enabled hackers to extract Gmail data without the user's knowledge. Radware researchers said the flaw affected subscribers who authorized the artificial intelligence tool to access their email accounts.