open source risks

North Korea’s infamous Lazarus Group has returned to the international cyber stage with worrying new tactics. In a move that marks a tactical shift from sheer disruption to subtle infiltration, recent research reveals the group is seeding malware-laden open source software, bringing fresh...

Schneider Electric’s System Monitor Application, utilized within the Harmony and Pro-face Industrial PC series, has recently come under scrutiny after a significant security vulnerability—improper neutralization of input during web page generation, commonly known as cross-site scripting...

Another whirlwind week has underscored how cybersecurity, technology policy, and enterprise risk are tightly interwoven realities shaping every Windows administrator’s daily life. With Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday introducing a critical, wormable remote code execution (RCE) fix and the ongoing...

In the dim and often misunderstood world of the dark web, a new phenomenon is reshaping the landscape of cybercrime: illicit, highly capable, generative AI platforms built atop legitimate open-source models. The emergence of Nytheon AI, detailed in a recent investigation by Cato Networks and...

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...

Each passing month underscores a relentless reality for IT defenders: adversaries move faster than patch cycles, exploiting weaknesses long before many organizations are even aware they exist. May 2025 drove this point home with a wave of high-severity vulnerabilities—several already...

Amid growing concerns over open-source software security, a recent campaign targeting the npm ecosystem has underscored the persistent vulnerabilities in modern development pipelines. According to research by Socket’s Threat Research Team, a coordinated attack has seen at least 60 malicious npm...

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...

Just when you thought your cloud environment was slicker than a Silicon Valley demo, along comes a fresh warning to spoil the illusion: organizations worldwide are diving headlong into the open-source AI pool, but too many are coming up hacking. The latest alarm comes courtesy of Tenable’s Cloud...

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...