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Threat actors are increasingly abusing Shop, the order-tracking app from Shopify, by adding fake purchase receipts in users' order histories to trick them into providing sensitive data or installing remote access software. [...]
Microsoft has quietly extended its free Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers by an additional year, allowing enrolled devices to continue receiving security updates until October 12, 2027. [...]
A newly discovered macOS malware dubbed "Gaslight" is designed to confuse AI-assisted malware analysis tools by hiding prompt injection strings and fake debugging data within the executable. [...]
A major sports piracy ring linked to the illegal PirloTV streaming platform has been disrupted in an action that targeted 44 domains. [...]
The Bluekit phishing-as-a-service platform continues to evolve with nearly 70 new hostnames identified over the past week and by adding browser-in-the-middle capabilities for improved data theft. [...]
A high-severity flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager disclosed in early June was exploited as early as March
An analysis of a popular Google Chrome ad block extension for YouTube has uncovered the ability to execute arbitrary JavaScript code. According to Island, the extension, named Adblock for YouTube (ID: cmedhionkhpnakcndndgjdbohmhepckk), has more than 10 million…
Fraudsters don't attack just one transaction. They target accounts, platforms, and entire ecosystems. IPQS explains the four elevations of fraud prevention and why broader visibility improves fraud detection. [...]
Digital Citizens Alliance report claims that millions of Americans may have unwittingly had IP connections used by cybercriminals
The startup’s platform functions as a secure control layer, aiming to secure AI tools across enterprises. The post Runlayer Raises $30 Million in Series A Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.
It’s dumb out there again. This week has the usual smell of prod on fire and nobody wanting to admit who left the door open — old creds still working, trusted apps doing sketchy crap, browser tricks jumping the fence, and “normal” workflows turning into phishi…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 25, 2026 – Listen to the podcast SlashGear reports that a hacker in Germany was stunned to find he had complete control of a robotic lawnmower. Weighing over 200 pounds…
Account takeover attacks continue to challenge security teams because attackers often operate through legitimate accounts and trusted services. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations identify compromised accounts faster and automate res…
Mandiant has helped the California water utility investigate the cyberattack launched by Iranian hacker group Handala. The post Cal Water Says No OT Systems Breached in Iranian Handala Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cobalt study finds 20-percentage-point drop in number of organizations relying solely on AI automation for testing
New CISA guidance shows federal agencies how to use SASE to move from legacy TIC 2.0 to zero trust
The exploited flaw, CVE-2025-67038, is one of the vulnerabilities disclosed in April as part of the BRIDGE:BREAK research project. The post Lantronix Serial-to-IP Converter Flaw Exploited in Attacks After OT Threat Warning appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Despite the abundance of telemetry at analysts’ disposal, many security operations teams struggle to answer a few basic questions during incident investigation: What happened? What evidence do we have? How do we know we’re seeing it all, in context? Answering…
The latest GitLab CE/EE updates address 13 vulnerabilities, including three high-severity defects. The post GitLab Patches Code Execution, Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Analysis of ransomware incidents by researchers at Black Kite found that attacks have risen by over 50% in the last year, with supply chain attacks increasing
The latest version of the open source data transfer tool resolves 18 medium and low-severity vulnerabilities. The post 25-Year-Old Vulnerability Patched in Curl appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A previously undocumented Rust-based macOS implant and information stealer has been found to embed a prompt injection payload designed to trick a malware analyst's artificial intelligence (AI) tools and trick it into aborting or refusing an analysis of the art…
The 2026 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Conference takes place October 6-8, 2026, at the W Nashville. The post SecurityWeek ICS Cybersecurity Conference Heads to Nashville for Special 25-Year Anniversary Edition appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A new, stealthy backdoor named Mistic has been deployed as part of suspected financially motivated attacks aimed at multiple organizations spanning insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors since April 2026. According to Symantec and Carbon B…
The guidance aims to establish product cybersecurity requirements for IoT devices integrated into federal agencies’ networks. The post NIST Opens Updated IoT Security Guidance to Public Review appeared first on SecurityWeek.
More than half of the bugs are use-after-free defects, which can potentially lead to remote code execution. The post Chrome 149 Update Resolves 18 Severe Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CVE-2026-20245, the 7th Cisco SD-WAN vulnerability exploited in 2026, was used for months prior to its disclosure and patching. The post Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited Months Before Patching appeared first on SecurityWeek.
An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned Mandiant. The vulnerability, trac…
Google is rolling out new privacy controls for Search services and Google Play, giving you more control over saved history and personalized recommendations. [...]
A 21-year-old using the alias "Snoopy" was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in hacking DraftKings accounts in the November 2022 cyberattack. [...]
New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices. [...]
A malicious Microsoft Edge extension dubbed 'Edgecution' has been used in a ransomware attack to escape the browser sandbox and deploy a Python-based backdoor. [...]
From hidden content injections to cognitive state poisoning, attackers are turning trusted data sources into traps for autonomous AI. The post When Information Becomes the Attack Surface – Understanding AI Agent Traps appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation of a critical security flaw impacting Lantronix EDS5000 Series devices, urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by Jun…
LayerX tricked AI browsers including ChatGPT Atlas and Comet into bypassing their guardrails
A coordinated law enforcement operation, in partnership with private sector companies, including Bitdefender, Bitsight, ESET, and Microsoft, has resulted in the takedown of criminal infrastructure powering Amadey and StealC. "The main common goal was to disrup…
Operation Endgame seized around 50 domains and nearly 200 active IP-based servers associated with the infostealers
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of hackers actively exploiting flaws in Ubiquity UniFi OS and Lantronix serial-to-ethernet servers. [...]
Microsoft, Europol, and international partners have disrupted infrastructure used by the Amadey and StealC malware operations as part of Operation Endgame, which targets cybercriminal services and ransomware gangs. [...]
Service desks have become a favored target for attackers seeking password resets, MFA changes, and access to corporate accounts. Specops Software breaks down how service desk social engineering attacks work and how organizations can defend against them. [...]
SentinelLabs found a North Korea-linked macOS backdoor using prompt injection on AI triage tools
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new class of CI/CD workflow weakness that allows attackers to hijack workflows and compromise open-source supply chains. The "critical exploitable pattern" has been codenamed Cordyceps by Novee Security. The issue can a…
Customers of the affected Japanese email services are “strongly advised” to change their email passwords
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 24, 2026 – Read the full story from BreackLock AEV, BAS, and penetration testing each answer a different security question. Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) maps w…
An NCC Group report warns state-backed hackers are attempting to hide activity by posing as ransomware groups and deploying commercially available malware
We are standing at the end of an era we never thought to mourn: the era of human-speed threats. For years, cybersecurity moved to a rhythm organizations could follow. A researcher found a bug, a CVE was cataloged, a vendor navigated a patch cycle, and weeks or…
A new backdoor dubbed Mistic has been observed in financially motivated attacks targeting organizations in the insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors. [...]
New ReliaQuest study reveals the six ways AI is practically being used in attacks today
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a cloud computing account put to use by subsidiaries of Cambodia-based corporate conglomerate HuiOne Group, as the Treasury unveiled fresh sanctions against nine individuals and 26 entiti…
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warns that museums and galleries aren’t getting enough government support on cyber
Threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2…
A Russian-speaking initial access broker (IAB) driven by financial gain is assessed to be behind a large-scale credential-harvesting operation known as FortiBleed that has targeted over 430,000 FortiGate firewalls globally. The campaign, active since February…
Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the entity responsible for the public transport network in the Greater London area. The duo were key members…
Security firm AIR built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it…
President Trump signed an executive order on June 22 setting hard deadlines for federal agencies to move high-value assets and high-impact systems to post-quantum cryptography. Key establishment must move by December 31, 2030; digital signatures by December 31…
JFrog found an npm package impersonating postcss-selector-parser to drop a multi-stage Windows RAT
GitHub is moving to strengthen software supply chain security by updating "actions/checkout" to block pwn request attacks that exploit the risky use of the "pull_request_target workflow" trigger to run malicious code with the workflow's full privileges. Effect…
OpenAI expanded Daybreak with a full GPT-5.5-Cyber release to help defenders patch software flaws
All US federal agencies will have to complete their post-quantum cryptography transition by 2031, according to a new Trump Executive Order
Cybercriminals launch fake GTA 6 pre-order sites offering early access for crypto payments
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 23, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Richard Seewald, founder and Managing Partner at Evolution Equity Partners, joins Steve Morgan, founder of Cybersecurity Ventures, for…
Every weapon begins as an extension of the hand that holds it. The spear lengthened the reach of the arm. The bow sent the point flying without the throw. The rifle placed a man's death a quarter mile beyond his sight, and the aircraft carried that death acros…
Two young British men have pleaded guilty to hacking Transport for London as part of a Scattered Spider plot
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver a Windows-based remote access trojan (RAT). The list of identified packages, is below - aes-decode-runner-pro (145 downloads) postcss-minify-selector (256 do…
The Five Eyes Alliance has published a rare call to action for organizations facing AI threats
Direct messages sent via WhatsApp are being used to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) files that lead to the installation of legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software. Per findings from Kaspersky, the active campaign is targe…
OpenAI on Monday said it's releasing an improved version of its GPT‑5.5‑Cyber model to trusted defenders as part of the Daybreak initiative the artificial intelligence (AI) company announced last month. Calling GPT‑5.5‑Cyber its "strongest model yet for findin…
Multiple WordPress plugins from ShapedPlugin were compromised in a supply chain attack after unknown threat actors managed to tamper with the official release channels and push backdoor code. "Attackers compromised the vendor's build and distribution pipeline,…
A heap over-read in the Squid web proxy can leak another user's cleartext HTTP request, including any credentials or session tokens it carries, to anyone already allowed to send traffic through the same proxy. The bug traces to a 1997 FTP-parsing change and is…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of four vulnerabilities in Dify, an open-source agentic workflow platform with more than 146,000 GitHub stars, that could allow attackers to stealthily read artificial intelligence (AI) conversions from other cu…
ESET details GentleKiller, the EDR-killer framework the Gentlemen ransomware gang gives affiliates
Apple BootROM exploit exposes unpatchable USB flaw on A12 and A13 devices
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that delivers CastleStealer by means of a previously unreported malware loader dubbed OXLOADER. According to Elastic Security Labs, the campaign leverages malicious Google Ads as a starting poi…
Google has set September 30, 2026, as the day it begins enforcing Android developer verification in the first four countries, and the major device-maker app stores are in from the start. On that date, certified Android phones in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, a…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 22, 2026 – Visit MidnightInTheWarRoom.com Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that cybercrime would cost the world $10.5 trillion in 2025, according to a post on Public Se…
Earlier this month, I spoke at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit about a blind spot most security programs are still not accounting for - how attackers are circumventing AI security programs by using legacy infrastructure to hijack AI agents. AI ad…
North Korean threat actor Sapphire Sleet has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting Mastra, according to Microsoft security researchers
It’s Monday again. This week’s threat list looks painfully familiar: abused integrations, fake tools, poisoned websites, ransomware crews trying to shut down security tools, and mobile malware asking for way too much control. The annoying part is how little of…
At least four cybersecurity firms confirmed they have been affected by a breach of business intelligence platform Klue via Salesforce integration
The UK’s data protection regulator the information commissioner has resigned after his position became “untenable”
Canada's spy service got a judge's permission to reach into infected servers, home routers, and IoT gear sitting on Canadian soil and neutralize two foreign-run botnets. The Federal Court released a public version of the ruling on June 15. It is the first time…
The NCSC has released guidance for Fortinet customers impacted by the FortiBleed threat campaign
A new malware family is turning forgotten home routers into a distributed reconnaissance and proxy network, not the DDoS botnet these devices usually end up in. QiAnXin's XLab calls it AryStinger and counts at least 4,300 infected routers, a total it says is s…
A new report from INTERPOL has revealed a "dramatic increase" in cybercrime in Asia and the South Pacific, fueled by rapid digitalization, internet penetration, new technologies, organized criminal networks, and a disparity in cybersecurity maturity. According…
Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that's installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw th…
Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published a working exploit, dubbed usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple's A12 and A13 chips. That code is burned into the silicon at manufacture. No software update can rea…
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers that it hands out to affiliates for impairing system defenses before deploying the encryptor. This mature por…
Microsoft researchers have detailed an exploit chain, named AutoJack, that turns an AI browsing agent into a delivery vehicle for remote code execution. Steer the agent to load an attacker's web page, and that page's JavaScript can reach a privileged local ser…
Dutch law enforcement authorities, along with counterparts from Canada , Germany, and the U.S., have disrupted malicious infrastructure associated with SocGholish and cleaned up nearly 15,000 infected WordPress websites. "With these actions we deprive cybercri…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices. The sweeping campaign,…
Introduction The average enterprise security team has 40 or more security tools, giving a lot of visibility into internal telemetry and asset data. But often, these tools are working in siloes, generating (overlapping) alerts and data. And yet, breach dwell ti…
Working with frontier AI models, this new platform aims to help discovering, prioritizing, validating and remediating code vulnerabilities
The first wave of enterprise AI concern was straightforward. It was simply employees pasting sensitive data into public AI tools. Security teams responded with usage policies, domain blocks, and data loss prevention rules. That response made sense at the time.…
SocGholish malware has been removed from 15,000 sites associated with Evil Corp hackers
Salesforce has revealed that it disabled the Klue Battlecards app integration within its platform in response to a security incident impacting the competitive intelligence company on June 11, 2026. To that end, organizations will be unable to connect to Salesf…
Half of cybersecurity leaders lack confidence in detecting threats on Slack, Teams and other non-email platforms, despite growing attacker focus
Apple has updated its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds to patch a high-severity vulnerability that could be exploited by nearby hackers to eavesdrop on users. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20701 (CVSS score: 8.8), refers to a case of incorrect autho…
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple securi…
F5 has released security updates to address two critical security flaws in NGINX Open Source that could be exploited to achieve code execution on affected systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-42530 (CVSS v4 score: 9.2) - A use-after-free vu…
If an autonomous AI agent interacts with your company's core intellectual property today, can your security team instantly name the person who authorized it? For most enterprises, the answer is a simple no. The rush to adopt internal AI tools has left a massiv…
The internet did not break this week. It got used exactly as designed, which is worse. Searches were siphoned through shady browser add-ons. AI chat links turned into malware delivery paths. macOS attacks ran in memory and left almost nothing behind. Cloud age…
A Rust crypto clipper hides behind fake GitHub stars and AI-narrated YouTube videos
Hospital insider escapes criminal prosecution after attempting to sell royal’s medical records
Microsoft has disclosed details of a Windows-based cryptocurrency clipper campaign codenamed CryptoBandits that has targeted users since February 2026 with clipboard-intercepting malware with self-spreading capabilities and using the Tor anonymity network to h…
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of INC from an nascent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation to one of the most prolific cybercrime groups in 2026, claiming no less than 830 victims since August 2023. "The disruption of LockBit and the…
An independent PCI assessor tested Reflectiz against the new PCI DSS rules. Here is the verdict: See the full QSA assessment here → When a customer types their card number into your checkout, their browser is running far more than your code. Analytics tags, a…
Threat actors associated with the DragonForce ransomware have been observed using a custom Go-based remote access trojan (RAT) called Backdoor.Turn to conceal command-and-control (C2) traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. According to findings f…
Analysis of chatter on underground forums by Sophos finds that hackers fear AI could take work away from them
CloudSEK maps Operation Escaneo, a campaign hitting Latin American infrastructure via perimeter bugs
Richard Horne, the NCSC CEO, said three-quarters of cyber-attacks targeting UK critical infrastructure came from nation-state actors
Interpol claims cybercrime accounts for third of crime in over half of Asia and South Pacific countries
An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging paid or promoted posts on legitimate news websites to drum up buzz for their warez, according to new findings from Check Point Research. The threat actor also has at their disposal a dedicated WordPress phis…
Microsoft has formally disclosed that it's working to release a patch to address a Defender zero-day codenamed RoguePlanet. The vulnerability has now been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), with the tech giant describing it as a priv…
A French-speaking attacker broke into a small French automotive business, planted a keylogger, and stole banking and email credentials. Ordinary stuff, until one move near the end. Before his command-and-control server went dark, he installed OpenSSH and Tails…
Nisos infiltrated a North Korean IT-worker fraud cell running on AI interviews and a US laptop farm
GitBait phishing kit abuses GitHub Pages and the SheetBest API to steal Mexican banking credentials
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 17, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video “I started my cybersecurity ‘career’ as one of the earlier virus developers in the world,” Nir Zuk, co-founder of Palo Alto Networks,…
The rise of AI-assistants and applications in the enterprise has seen a 93% increase in employees attempting to upload sensitive data, bringing security challenges
Filigran survey at Infosecurity Europe 2026 reveals AI-powered attacks as the top concern, with false positives, alert fatigue and manual processes draining security teams
Ukraine has been added to the EU Cybersecurity Reserve, which provides incident response services against large-scale incidents
Aikido Security has discovered at least 15 IDE plugins on the JetBrains Marketplace
SANS Institute study finds few SOCs have built AI into defined workflows, despite widespread adoption
China-linked SprySOCKS backdoor gains stealthy Windows variants and 30-plus C2 commands
Rokarolla Android trojan steals banking logins and spies on victims while blocking fraud alerts
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 16, 2026 – Read the full story from LinkedIn The 2026 CISO Report by Cybersecurity Ventures, published in partnership with Sophos, lays out numbers that explain why mid…
ISSA study finds most security professionals feel challenged by colleagues’ involvement in cyber
Command and control traffic exploited a Teams visitor token to make malicious activity look legitimate to defenders
Athena is a new an industry coalition to fix the vulnerabilities frontier AI models find before attackers can exploit them
The FBI claims couriers are being used to circumvent bank transfers in crypto investment schemes
Tampered OptinMonster and sister plugins plant hidden backdoors on 1.2 million WordPress sites
How the Anubis ransomware group stole and leaked an Italian Adriatic port authority's data
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 15, 2026 – Read the full story from CMBlog By harnessing AI, cybercriminals are developing increasingly sophisticated techniques to commit their crimes, posing a growin…
Access to two Anthropic large language models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, has effectively been banned to any non-US nationals by the Trump administration
Government departments find hundreds of vulnerabilities after testing frontier models
The Office of the Maine Attorney General has suspended its breach reporting portal
Domain of dark web money laundering platform AudiA6 seized and suspects arrested in joint operation by the FBI, Europol and others
NPM, part of GitHub, announced a new version of the npm package manager with several security improvements, including disabling install scripts
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 12, 2026 – Watch the YouTube Short During World War II, some of America’s most powerful weapons weren’t bombs or guns. They were women sitting in secret rooms breaking…
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off, a new Darktrace report warns that sports teams and bodies are a major target for cyber criminals