Author: V Diwahar

With macro-based malware continuing to dominate phishing and initial access attacks, WhiteHat Hub has announced a 3-day intensive workshop on VBA Macros security, aimed at equipping cybersecurity learners with practical, real-world skills. The workshop will run from March 20 to March 22, 2026, between 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM IST, offering a structured learning experience focused on both offensive and defensive macro techniques. 📌 Why VBA Macros Remain a Critical Security Threat Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros are widely abused by threat actors to deliver malicious payloads through seemingly legitimate documents like Excel and Word files. Even in 2026,…

In under 10 minutes, a leaked API key can be abused in the wild. Teams already run scanners, enforce policies, and review code yet exposed credentials still slip through pipelines and land in production. Betterleaks secrets scanner targets the exact detection gaps that older tools consistently miss, especially in CI logs, encoded data, and large Git histories. The problem isn’t visibility. It’s accuracy and signal quality. One exposed token is enough to trigger cloud abuse, lateral movement, and real financial damage often before anyone notices. According to IBM, breaches involving credentials cost over $4 million on average, and most start…

The cybersecurity weekly report for March 9–15, 2026 captures a week where several pressure points in modern security infrastructure failed at once: enterprise software vulnerabilities, cloud configuration errors, and ransomware operations experimenting with AI-generated malware. None of these trends are new. What changed this week is how clearly they collided. Organizations spent much of the week responding to Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday releases and emergency security updates for Google Chrome. Meanwhile, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added several vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, immediately placing patch pressure on enterprise security teams. And the incidents…

Most penetration tests don’t fail because defenders lack tools they fail because humans can’t run them fast enough. In under 15 minutes, a publicly exposed server can face dozens of automated probes from opportunistic attackers. That gap between machine-speed attacks and human-speed testing is exactly why the AI-powered penetration testing tool model is gaining attention. Platforms like PentAGI aim to automate reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, and exploitation workflows by coordinating specialized agents that control multiple security tools simultaneously. Instead of juggling dozens of scripts and terminals, security teams can experiment with autonomous penetration testing that runs structured assessments with minimal human…

Enterprise breaches dont happen overnight, as a dramatic one-off event. In fact, according to recent incident response reports, attackers often linger inside corporate networks undetected for more than 200 days before anyone even starts to suspect something is amiss. Metasploit Pro 5.0.0 by the time security teams do figure it out, the bad guys have had months to quietly get their foot in the door – moving sideways, escalating their privileges & getting themselves all cozy with the network architecture. Its this very reason why our offensive security tools need to stay one step ahead of the attackers at an…

A newly disclosed CrackArmor AppArmor vulnerability is putting more than 12.6 million enterprise Linux systems at risk of Linux privilege escalation, container escape, and even full kernel-level compromise. The issue surfaced during a deep technical review by researchers at the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), who were examining how AppArmor operates inside the Linux kernel. What they uncovered wasn’t a single bug but a chain of weaknesses that allow unprivileged local users to escalate privileges to root by abusing how AppArmor processes certain security policy operations. And here’s the unsettling part. According to the researchers, the vulnerable code dates back…