Advisory at a Glance Title Chinese Government-linked Cyber Threat Actors Combine Automated and Hands-on Hacking Tools to Steal Sensitive Data Original Publication October 8, 2026 Executive Summary Chinese government-linked cyber threat actors, enabled by the Integrity Technology Group, are combining automated scanning tools, large-scale botnets, and hands-on exploitation techniques to target and steal sensitive data…
As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub. The post How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Desktop app teams in 2026 are running the same calculation that web teams ran a decade ago with native versus hybrid mobile: ship fast with a familiar stack, or trade a learning curve for a leaner product. Electron 44 went stable on August 25, 2026, running on Chromium M152, with Electron 45 slated for October…
More than 3,400 servers have been compromised by malware that hides its infrastructure coordinates in a poem. The post PoeLLM malware has assembled a sweeping botnet, taking technical cues from a poem appeared first on CyberScoop.
OpenAI spent September telling the world its unreleased internal model had cracked a piece of the Navier-Stokes equation. On Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the company topped that claim with a much bigger one: a GitHub repository containing 722 mathematical manuscripts, organized into 372 “result families,” covering open problems across number theory, topology, algebra, geometry, analysis,…
Microsoft shipped Visual Studio Code 1.141 on October 7, 2026, and the release notes lead with a line that matters more than any other in this cycle: agent sessions can now run inside a sandbox that limits what GitHub Copilot’s agent is allowed to touch on your filesystem and your network. If you’ve been running…
Two of the best-known names in dedicated game server hosting disappeared within six weeks of each other in 2026. Unity shut down direct support for Multiplay Game Server Hosting on March 31, and Hathora Cloud followed on May 5 after its team was absorbed into Fireworks AI. Thousands of multiplayer titles running on either platform…
For more than a decade, Surface has been shaped by the people pushing technology further. Creators rendering complex scenes. Developers building what doesn’t exist yet. Designers moving between ideas, models, code, and content. Makers whose work dem The post Pre-order our most powerful Surface devices ever appeared first on Windows Blog.
Agents are unlocking enormous productivity gains for customers, but their ability to work across files, networks, and applications can introduce new security risks. This can leave customers feeling like they only have two choices: give agents unrestr The post Microsoft Execution Containers: Policy-driven containment for AI agents appeared first on Windows Blog.
Agents are creating a foundational shift in how people get things done, unlocking new levels of productivity and capability on the PC. As agents become part of everyday work, they also raise the bar for compute, security, a The post Building Windows for hybrid intelligence appeared first on Windows Blog.
