The story of Chaos RAT is emblematic of a larger cybersecurity trend: the migration of benign open-source tools into the shadowy corners of the cyber threat landscape. Once celebrated for their technical flexibility and communal development, these tools increasingly become the foundation for...
The latest update from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) underscores the persistent and evolving threat landscape facing organizations that rely on widely used open-source components. On May 6, CISA announced the addition of a single, but critical, new vulnerability to...
It’s a truth universally acknowledged, at least in IT circles, that when something is marketed as “open,” everyone wants a piece—but no one wants to be left with the security bill. Yet here we are. According to Tenable’s freshly brewed Cloud AI Risk Report 2025, there’s an urgent warning for...
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Open-source artificial intelligence tools and cloud services are not just the darlings of digital transformation—they’re also, if we’re being blunt, a hotbed of risk just waiting to be exploited by anyone who knows where to look (and, according to the latest industry alarms, plenty of...