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Microsoft Defender Security Research Team details PHP-based web shells on Linux servers that use HTTP cookies as a stealthy command-and-control channel.

The Hacker News

51 min read

Security•2026-04-03

UNC1069 Social Engineering of Axios Maintainer Led to npm Supply Chain Attack

North Korean threat actors (UNC1069) compromised the Axios npm package via a targeted social engineering attack against its maintainer, Jason Saayman.

The Hacker News

41 min read

Security•2026-04-03

Why Third-Party Risk Is the Biggest Gap in Your Clients' Security Posture

This article argues that third-party risk management (TPRM) has become a critical security challenge and a growth opportunity for MSPs and MSSPs.

Databricks

01 min read

AI•2026-04-03

AiChemy: Next-Generation Agent with MCP, Skills and Custom Data for Drug Discovery

AiChemy is a multi-agent AI assistant built on Databricks that integrates MCP servers and custom chemical libraries to accelerate drug discovery workflows.

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The Hacker News

41 min read

Security•2026-04-03

New SparkCat Variant in iOS, Android Apps Steals Crypto Wallet Recovery Phrase Images

A new variant of the SparkCat malware has been discovered on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, targeting cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases via OCR.

The Hacker News

61 min read

Security•2026-04-03

Drift Loses $285 Million in Durable Nonce Social Engineering Attack Linked to DPRK

Drift, a Solana-based decentralized exchange, lost $285 million in a sophisticated attack using durable nonces and social engineering, with evidence linking it to North Korean threat actors.

Google Cloud

011 min read

Security•2026-04-03

April 03, 2026

This post covers Google Cloud release notes from early April 2026, highlighting updates across SecOps, SOAR, and various cloud services.

Netflix

31 min read

Backend•2026-04-02

Smarter Live Streaming at Scale: Rolling Out VBR for All Netflix Live Events

Netflix explains their January 26, 2026 transition from CBR to VBR encoding for all Live events, detailing the engineering challenges and solutions involved.

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KernelEvolve: How Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent Optimizes AI Infrastructure

This is the second post in the Ranking Engineer Agent blog series exploring the autonomous AI capabilities accelerating Meta’s Ads Ranking innovation. The previous post introduced Ranking Engineer Agent’s ML exploration capability, which autonomously designs, executes, and analyzes ranking model experiments. This post covers how to optimize the low-level infrastructure that makes those models run [...] Read More... The post KernelEvolve: How Meta’s Ranking Engineer Agent Optimizes AI Infrastructure appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-55182 to Breach 766 Next.js Hosts, Steal Credentials

This article covers a large-scale credential harvesting campaign exploiting CVE-2025-55182, a critical Next.js vulnerability, to compromise 766 hosts across multiple cloud providers.

Airbnb

11 min read

Culture•2026-04-02

My Journey to Airbnb — Jonathan Woodard

This article tells the career story of Jonathan Woodard, a former professional NFL defensive end who transitioned into software engineering and joined Airbnb's Secure Development Engineering team.