Application security company Checkmarx has confirmed that the LAPSUS$ threat group leaked data stolen from its private GitHub repository. Although the investigation is ongoing, Checkmarx believes that the access vector was the Trivy supply-chain attack attributed to the hacker group known as TeamPCP. which provided access to credentials from downstream users. Using stolen credentials obtained from the Trivy incident, the threat actor was able to access Checkmarx’s GitHub repositories and publish malicious code on March 23. “As a result of that access, the attackers were able to interact with Checkmarx’s GitHub environment and subsequently publish malicious code to certain artifacts,” the company explains.…
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According to a report that Backblaze released this morning, traffic from content delivery networks and hosting and Internet services providers have stayed largely within historical norms over the past year. But traffic from hyperscalers and neoclouds fluctuated dramatically, with steep climbs in September and October and another uptick in March. Another network traffic change related to AI is geography. “Traditionally, it didn’t matter where cloud infrastructure was located,” says Nowak. But with AI workloads, if storage is close to compute, enterprises get lower latency and higher throughput. Today, Virginia and California have a high concentration of AI compute providers. This,…
A Chinese national accused of being part of a notorious state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group was extradited from Italy to the US over the weekend, the Department of Justice announced. The individual, Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 after being charged in the US for participating in multiple cyberattacks mounted by Silk Typhoon (also known as Hafnium and Murky Panda), including attacks against US universities. Xu, the DOJ says, conducted cyberattacks on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) and Shanghai State Security Bureau (SSSB), while working for Shanghai Powerock Network, a company known for supporting…
Here’s how I built a high-quality content automation system for the Ahrefs blog using Claude Code and 23 skill files.Back in August 2025, I shared the AI content process I had developed for the Ahrefs blog. It used ChatGPT projects and custom GPTs to speed up certain types of content creation from several days to a couple of hours, but still required tons of manual intervention.Now, barely eight months later, I’m sharing our new process. I use Claude Code and 23 custom skill files, chained together, to generate publish-ready article drafts in six to twelve minutes. We have published around 15…
If you approach the Asia-Pacific search strategy as simply an extension of your U.S. or European Google strategy, you will miss how discovery actually works across the region. Google is still dominant in many markets. But the landscape is far more fragmented than most global teams assume. Japan is a clear example. Bing holds 31.63% of search share alongside Google’s 59.58%, which is enough to materially influence both SEO and paid performance. South Korea tells a different story, but leads to the same conclusion. Google (46.81%) and Naver (43.96%) operate at near parity, making any Google-only strategy incomplete by design.…
Ravie LakshmananApr 28, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw impacting LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open-source robotics platform with nearly 24,000 GitHub stars, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS score: 9.3), which has been described as a case of untrusted data deserialization stemming from the use of the unsafe pickle format. “LeRobot contains an unsafe deserialization vulnerability in the async inference pipeline, where pickle.loads() is used to deserialize data received over unauthenticated gRPC channels without TLS in the policy server and robot client components,”…
The AEO benefits that matter most to marketing leaders have shifted from theoretical to measurable. As AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity handle a growing share of how buyers discover brands, the rise of AI-powered search results increases brand visibility; the teams investing now are seeing real returns in conversion quality, pipeline influence, and long-term authority.
Branded search is often treated as predictable and easy to manage. In practice, it isn’t. PPC teams see rising CPC on brand terms. SEO teams see declining branded CTR, even when rankings hold. These issues are usually investigated separately, with different dashboards, hypotheses, and fixes. Both signals often stem from changes within a single SERP. What look like two separate problems are, in reality, one shared environment reacting to shifts in competition and visibility. The issue isn’t a lack of data. Most teams already have basic reports and brand monitoring tools, including PPC and SEO platforms. The problem is how…
Microsoft has confirmed a new issue causing newly introduced Windows security warnings to display incorrectly when opening Remote Desktop (.rdp) files. This known issue impacts all supported Windows versions, including Windows 11 (KB5083768 & KB5083769), Windows 10 (KB5082200), and Windows Server (KB5082063). As Microsoft explains in updates to the original advisories, “the security warning that appears when opening Remote Desktop (RDP) files might not display correctly in some cases.” On affected systems, the text in the warning windows is difficult to read, and the buttons are misplaced, making it hard, if not impossible, to interact with the security dialog. “This…
Threat detection startup Spectrum Security has emerged from stealth mode with $19 million in seed funding. The investment round was led by TechOperators, with additional support from WhiteRabbit Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and various angel investors. Founded in 2025, San Francisco-based Spectrum is aiming to close the detection gap with a platform that automates detection upstream. The solution works with existing stacks, SIEM solutions, data lakes, and EDR tools, looking for coverage gaps to fix detection with production-ready logic tailored to the environment. According to Spectrum, its platform can compress detection authoring and reduce engineering hours while continuously monitoring…