Key takeaways GoBruteforcer (also called GoBrut) is a modular botnet, written in Go, that brute-forces user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers. The botnet spreads through a chain of web shell, downloader, IRC bot, and bruteforcer modules. The current wave of campaigns is driven by two factors: the…
Getty Images Baby outside in cold weather Winter often brings the challenge of dealing with icy weather and snow. Here are some tips for coping with low temperatures. How can I keep my baby warm? Babies and young children under five are more at risk in cold weather. While outside, the NHS advises that babies…
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent BBC Listen to this piece “Fat people just need more self-control.” “It’s about personal responsibility.” “It’s simple, just eat less.” These were some of the 1,946 comments, posted by readers, beneath an article I wrote last year about weight-loss injections. The idea that obesity is simply a matter of willpower is held…
Malicious use of QR codes has long been ubiquitous, both in the real world as well as in electronic communication. This is hardly surprising given that a scan of a QR code can lead one to a phishing page as easily as clicking a link in an e-mail. No more surprising is that vendors of…
Executive Summary Identity is now the #1 attack surface. Agent Grant in Qualys ETM Identity uses agentic AI to measure and reduce identity risk across AD, Entra, Okta & other cloud IdPs/IDaaS. It operationalizes identity risk by turning messy Active Directory & identity-risk signals into validated, prioritized, and closed-loop actions with proof of risk removed….
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9756, (Wed, Jan 7th) Source link
Elon Musk hasn’t stopped Grok, the chatbot developed by his artificial intelligence company xAI, from generating sexualized images of women. After reports emerged last week that the image generation tool on X was being used to create sexualized images of children, Grok has created potentially thousands of nonconsensual images of women in “undressed” and “bikini”…
As we move into 2026, 2025 stands out as a defining year for the Qualys Cloud Agent. In 2025, Cloud Agent delivered deeper visibility into running systems and applications, stronger security controls, expanded support across operating systems and architectures, and meaningful platform modernization. Adoption increased by 18% year over year, driven by organizations standardizing on a single, lightweight agent…
In yesterday’s podcast, I mentioned “tailsnitch”, a new tool to audit Tailscale configurations. Tailscale is an easy-to-use overlay to Wireguard. It is probably best compared to STUN servers in VoIP in that it allows devices behind NAT to connect directly to each other. Tailscale just helps negotiate the setup, and once the connection is established,…
On December 29, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced first-year state awards from the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program (the “rural health fund”), which is being administered by a new Office of Rural Health Transformation. The rural health fund was created as part of the July 2025 budget reconciliation law,…
