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The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess

24 April 2026 at 15:10
A US surveillance program that lets the FBI view Americans’ communications without a warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concernsβ€”with smoke and mirrors.

NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software

24 April 2026 at 14:13
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities, universities, and private companies, in violation of export control laws. "For years, NASA employees

Bridging the AI Agent Authority Gap: Continuous Observability as the Decision Engine

24 April 2026 at 11:49
The AI Agent Authority Gap - From Ungoverned to Delegation As discussed in our previous article, AI agents are exposing a structural gap in enterprise security, but the problem is often framed too narrowly. The issue is not simply that agents are new actors. It is that agents are delegated actors. They do not emerge with independent authority. They are triggered, invoked, provisioned, or

26 FakeWallet Apps Found on Apple App Store Targeting Crypto Seed Phrases

24 April 2026 at 11:48
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious apps on the Apple App Store that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets in an attempt to steal recovery phrases and private keys since at least fall 2025. "Once launched, these apps redirect users to browser pages designed to look similar to the App Store and distribute trojanized versions of legitimate wallets," Kaspersky

What Really Happened In There? A Tamper-Evident Audit Trail for AI Agents

Full disclosure: I work on community at Always Further, the team behind this. Not the author. Posting because Luke's approach to tackling this challenge is unique and of an interest to the netsec community.

The core idea: if an AI agent is compromised, any log the agent itself writes becomes part of the attack surface. The post walks through how they split auditing into a supervisor process the sandboxed child can't reach, then uses the same Merkle tree + hash-chain construction RFC 6962 (Certificate Transparency) uses to make edits, truncation, and reordering all detectable.

There's a concrete threat-model table near the end that lists what each attack looks like and what structurally stops it. Worth skipping to if you don't want the crypto primer.

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Tropic Trooper Uses Trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub to Deploy AdaptixC2

24 April 2026 at 09:29
Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) tunnels for remote access. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which discovered the campaign last month, has attributed it with high confidence to Tropic Trooper (aka

LMDeploy CVE-2026-33626 Flaw Exploited Within 13 Hours of Disclosure

24 April 2026 at 07:24
A high-severity security flaw in LMDeploy, an open-source toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving large language models (LLMs), has come under active exploitation in the wild less than 13 hours after its public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33626 (CVSS score: 7.5), relates to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that could be exploited to access

Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain ...

Bitwarden CLI npm package got compromised today, looks like part of the ongoing Checkmarx supply chain attack

If you’re using @bitwarden/cli version 2026.4.0, you might want to check your setup

From what researchers found:

- malicious file added (bw1.js)

- steals creds from GitHub, npm, AWS, Azure, GCP, SSH, env vars

- can read GitHub Actions runner memory

- exfiltrates data and even tries to spread via npm + workflows

- adds persistence through bash/zsh profiles

Some weird indicators:

- calls to audit.checkmarx.cx

- temp file like /tmp/tmp.987654321.lock

- random public repos with dune-style names (atreides, fremen etc.)

- commits with β€œLongLiveTheResistanceAgainstMachines”

Important part, this is only the npm CLI package right now, not the extensions or main apps

If you used it recently:

probably safest to rotate your tokens and check your CI logs and repos

Source is Socket research (posted a few hours ago)

Curious if anyone here actually got hit or noticed anything weird

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