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Microsoft gives Windows admins a legacy migration headache with WINS sunset

Microsoft has given system administrators until 2034 to stop using WINS (Windows Internet Name Service) NetBIOS name resolution technology in their networks — but even nine years may not be enough notice for some: WINS is very much still in use, supporting a niche range of difficult-to-replace legacy systems. WINS dates from Windows NT in […] more…

Gartner: European IT leaders to boost spending on local clouds amid geopolitical worries

Western European organizations are ramping up investments in local and regional cloud providers because growing geopolitical tensions are raising concerns that access to global cloud services could be disrupted for political reasons. A survey of 214 CIOs and IT leaders in Western Europe, conducted by Gartner between May and June, found that more than 61% plan to increase their reliance […] more…

Does talk of government backstops mean an AI bubble is about to burst?

It’s been an uncomfortable few days for AI vendors. On Friday, the big tech companies saw $1.2 trillion wiped off their market valuations, reflecting the concerns of many analysts that AI valuations are too high and the market is heading for a serious crash. Just a few days earlier, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar suggested that […] more…

VTPRACTITIONERS{ACRONIS}: Tracking FileFix, Shadow Vector, and SideWinder

Introduction We have recently started a new blog series called #VTPRACTITIONERS. This series aims to share with the community what other practitioners are able to research using VirusTotal from a technical point of view. Our first blog saw our colleagues at SEQRITE tracking UNG0002, Silent Lynx, and DragonClone. In this new post, Acronis Threat Research […] more…

Reversing at Scale: AI-Powered Malware Detection for Apple’s Binaries

TL;DR: We ran our new AI-based Mach-O analysis pipeline in production, no metadata, no prior detections, just raw Apple binaries. On Oct 18, 2025, out of 9,981 first-seen samples, VT Code Insight surfaced multiple real Mac and iOS malware cases that had 0 antivirus detections at submission time, including a multi-stage AppleScript infostealer and an […] more…

The AWS outage post-mortem is more revealing in what it doesn’t say

When AWS suffered a series of cascading failures that crashed its systems for hours in late October, the industry was once again reminded of its extreme dependence on major hyperscalers. (As if to prove the point, Microsoft suffered a similar collapse a few days later.) The incident also shed an uncomfortable light on how fragile these massive environments have become. […] more…

Industrial and medical devices struggle to upgrade to Windows 11

While enterprises continue to respond to the end of life of Windows 10 and the wide scale adoption of Windows 11, there are signs that some sectors are finding the transformation difficult. A report in Digital Health News revealed that while a UK health authority has managed to upgrade most of its machines to the […] more…

AI systems will learn bad behavior to meet performance goals, suggest researchers

There are plenty of stories out there about how politicians, sales representatives, and influencers, will exaggerate or distort the facts in order to win votes, sales, or clicks, even when they know they shouldn’t. It turns out that AI models, too, can suffer from these decidedly human failings. Two researchers at Stanford University suggest in […] more…

AI browsers can be abused by malicious AI sidebar extensions: Report

AI browsers may be smart, but they’re not smart enough to block a common threat: Malicious extensions. That’s the conclusion of researchers at SquareX, who on Thursday released a report showing how attackers can exploit AI sidebars through compromised browser extensions. This attack vector isn’t new. Malicious extensions have been inserted into browser web stores […] more…

VTPRACTITIONERS{SEQRITE}: Tracking UNG0002, Silent Lynx and DragonClone

Introduction One of the best parts of being at VirusTotal (VT) is seeing all the amazing ways our community uses our tools to hunt down threats. We love hearing about your successes, and we think the rest of the community would too. That’s why we’re so excited to start a new blog series where we’ll […] more…

Omni Group devs explain how they use Apple Foundation Models

With Foundation Models, Apple has given developers the power to use Apple Intelligence large language models (LLMs) from within their own apps using a few lines of code. This is an important step toward the endpoint AI ecosystem the company is painstakingly working to create. I spoke with developers from The Omni Group to find out more about what these models can […] more…

5 ideas to help bridge the genAI skills gap

Generative AI has gone from curiosity to core capability in less than two years. Companies across sectors now face an urgent skills shortage — not just of AI specialists, but of employees who can use generative AI tools in everyday work. In industries ranging from IT services and software development to staffing, travel, and industrial […] more…

UK government announces digital champion to accelerate use of blockchain in financial sector

The UK government has announced plans to appoint a “digital markets champion” as part of its drive to modernize the way financial transactions are conducted by adopting blockchain-based shared ledgers. News of the new role was announced by Economic Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby, in a speech on Wednesday at the Digital Assets Week […] more…

Crowdsourced AI += Exodia Labs

We’re adding a new specialist to VirusTotal’s Crowdsourced AI lineup: Exodia Labs, with an AI engine focused on analyzing Chrome extension (.CRX) files. This complements our existing Code Insight and other AI contributors by helping users better understand this format and detect possible threats. What you get in VirusTotal Second opinion for .CRX: Exodia Labs […] more…

California AI Bill SB 53 officially becomes law

The first kick at the AI legislative can in California may have failed, but a new iteration of it succeeded with the signing into law on Monday of Senate Bill 53 (SB 53), The Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFIA), by the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom. California, he said in a statement, has proven […] more…

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, acknowledged in its own research that large language models will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies. The study, published on September 4 and led by OpenAI researchers Adam Tauman […] more…

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