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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.
France's share of MOD cash is growing while the US's shrinks The UK's Ministry of Defence (MOD) is gradually shifting its spending from the US to Europe, according to research from Tussell.…
Pixtral Models 60 Times More Likely to Generate Harmful Content Than RivalsPublicly available artificial intelligence models made by Mistral produce child sexual abuse material and instructions for chemical weapons manufacturing at rates far exceeding those of competing systems, found researchers from Enkrypt AI.
Forescout Vedere Labs security researchers have linked ongoing attacks targeting a maximum severity vulnerability impacting SAP NetWeaver instances to a Chinese threat actor. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new campaign that's targeting Portuguese-speaking users in Brazil with trial versions of commercial remote monitoring and management (RMM) software since January 2025
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged three malicious npm packages that are designed to target the Apple macOS version of Cursor, a popular artificial intelligence (AI)-powered source code editor
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed what they say is an "industrial-scale, global cryptocurrency phishing operation" engineered to steal digital assets from cryptocurrency wallets for several years
Threat actors with ties to the Qilin ransomware family have leveraged malware known as SmokeLoader along with a previously undocumented .NET compiled loader codenamed NETXLOADER as part of a campaign observed in November 2024
Researchers spot in-the-wild exploits of Samsung MagicInfo despite recent patch
Security researchers at Aon have discovered a threat actor who bypassed SentinelOne EDR protection to deploy Babuk ransomware
Microsoft researchers identify 10 new potential pitfalls for companies who are developing or deploying agentic AI systems, with failures potentially leading to the AI becoming a malicious insider.
NIH, CMS Project Raises Patient Data Privacy Concerns, Advocates SayThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it will build a data platform "allowing researchers to 'securely'" access data from Medicare and Medicaid claims, patient electronic medical records and consumer wearables to better understand autism spectrum disorder causes and treatments.
Researchers from Aon's Stroz Friedberg incident response firm discovered a new attack type, known as "Bring Your Own Installer," targeting misconfigured SentinelOne EDR installs.
New Research Uncovers Tokenizer Blind Spots in Leading LLMsSubtle obfuscation techniques can systematically evade the guardrails that today's large language models rely on. Researchers from Mindgard team found that adversaries can "smuggle" malicious payloads past tokenizers using emojis, zero-width spaces and homoglyphs.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security flaw in the on-premise version of SysAid IT support software that could be exploited to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a seemingly harmless Discord-related utility but incorporates a remote access trojan
Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on two threat actors that orchestrate investment scams through spoofed celebrity endorsements and conceal their activity through traffic distribution systems (TDSes)
Microsoft has warned that using pre-made templates, such as out-of-the-box Helm charts, during Kubernetes deployments could open the door to misconfigurations and leak valuable data
Researchers from Arctic Wolf Labs detailed a new spear-phishing campaign that targets hiring managers and recruiters by posing as a job seeker.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a series of now-patched security vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay protocol that, if successfully exploited, could enable an attacker to take over susceptible devices supporting the proprietary wireless technology