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Malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) and the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivered stealer malware to developers and users of Paysafe, Skrill, and Neteller payment applications. [...]
A China-linked threat cluster has been exploiting vulnerable Roundcube servers at U.S. and Canadian universities to steal credentials and deploy backdoor malware. [...]
Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rules written to catch human intruders. The agents are not malicious. They just do a lot of things that, to…
A threat actor has been targeting organizations across multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that ask Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey. [...]
The professional services giant says it contained the incident, remediated its source, and experienced no operational or service delivery impact. The post Accenture Confirms Data Breach After Hacker Claims Source Code Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cisco says the threat actor behind the LapDogs campaign has expanded its SOHO router malware toolkit with LongLeash, DogLeash, and JarLeash backdoors. The post China-Linked APT Expands Arsenal With New ‘Leash’ Backdoors appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Zimperium found RedWing, an Android spyware sold as a service via Telegram to target banking apps
AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist. New research, which its authors call HalluSquatting, turns that habit into an attack…
Ubiquiti has shipped updates to address multiple critical security flaws impacting UniFi Connect, UniFi Talk, UniFi Access, UniFi Protect, and UniFi OS that could result in privilege escalation and arbitrary command execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as…
Cisco Talos said China-linked APT UAT-7810 is growing its proxy relay network with new malware
Specops Software explains how AI is making service desk impersonation attacks more convincing, personalized, and scalable, along with practical steps organizations can take to strengthen onboarding and identity verification. [...]
Join the webinar as we break down why email-layer defenses alone can’t keep pace with the modern phishing ecosystem. The post Webinar Today: Why Email Security Keeps Failing appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This “ghost phishing” technique keeps the malicious page hidden until it decrypts and comes to life inside the victim’s browser. For securit…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 8, 2026 – Listen to the podcast The Internet is often portrayed as a neutral space, open and even democratic, a place full of possibilities. But for many women, the web…
A new banking fraudulent operation is targeting customers of Mexican banks, fintech, payment processors, and cryptocurrency exchanges using ClickFix lures. The activity cluster, tracked by Elastic Security Labs under the moniker REF6045, involves infecting vic…
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a…
Sygnia report details how agentic AI accelerated weeks-long attack to just 72 hours
The "Rogue Agent" vulnerability could have enabled attackers to silently manipulate AI conversations, exfiltrate data, and compromise every Dialogflow CX agent within the same Google Cloud project. The post Google Dialogflow CX Bug Allowed Attackers to Hijack…
DuckDuckGo announced that its browser can now block most video ads on YouTube, including those shown before the video starts playing and during playback. [...]
New research shows that a signed Git commit's hash is not the one-of-a-kind name that much of the software world assumes it to be. Given any signed commit, someone without the signing key can mint a second commit with the same files, author, and date, and a va…
For years, account takeover (ATO) followed a predictable script. Attackers bought stolen credentials in bulk, ran them through automated tools, and waited for matches. Credential stuffing was cheap, scalable, and for defenders, relatively well understood. That…
Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI says that millions of people had their email addresses and passwords exposed after attackers breached an email platform used by five internet service providers (ISPs) in the country. [...]
An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers Ab…
Cyber threat actors are infecting victims with the Vidar stealer and the XMRig cryptocurrency miner in a new malicious campaign
Two newly disclosed critical vulnerabilities in Adobe ColdFusion and Langflow join two Joomla extension flaws in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, with federal agencies given until July 10 to patch. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Explo…
Researchers show how attackers can use a crafted public GitHub Issue to trick AI-powered workflows into exposing data from private repositories without authentication. The post Critical Vulnerability Exposes GitHub Agentic Workflows to Prompt Injection appeare…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave federal agencies until Friday to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in the Langflow visual framework for building AI agents. [...]
A Chinese threat actor tracked as UAT-7810 is actively refining its bespoke malware to expand its Operational Relay Box (ORB) network by breaking into internet-facing networking devices. According to findings from Cisco Talos, UAT-7810 is an advanced persisten…
Ubiquiti has released security updates to patch seven critical vulnerabilities in UniFi OS, including a maximum-severity flaw that can be exploited in command injection attacks. [...]
The National Cyber Security Centre wants to work with AI partners to build a new “Cyber Shield” to defend the UK
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered government agencies to patch an actively exploited maximum-severity flaw in the Adobe ColdFusion commercial web app development platform by Friday. [...]
Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take full root control of a machine that has not been patched. The vulnerable code has shipped by default in essentially ever…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-48282 (CVSS scor…
IT services giant Accenture has confirmed it suffered a security breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen 35 GB of source code and other data from the company. [...]
Because scaling security isn’t just about better detection—it’s about removing the friction around it – Mayuresh Ektare, Senior Vice President, Product Management San Jose, Calif. – Jul. 7, 2026 Every security team wants better outcomes. Faster detection. Fast…
Chinese hackers tracked as 'UAT-7810' are actively evolving their malware to expand their Operational Relay Box (ORB) network by compromising internet-facing networking devices, primarily unpatched Ruckus routers. [...]
The alleged victim, believed to be a small Ohio county, reportedly paid the extortion group to prevent the public release of sensitive stolen data. The post County Government Reportedly Paid $1 Million to Cyber Extortion Group appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A hidden authentication backdoor has been found in multiple Tenda router firmware versions, potentially allowing an attacker to gain administrative access to the device's web management panel. [...]
Attackers are exploiting the critical Gitea vulnerability CVE-2026-20896 to bypass authentication with a single HTTP header and access vulnerable repositories and secrets. The post Critical Gitea Flaw Under Active Exploitation, Researchers Warn appeared first…
A new Android malware operation called RedWing is being rented out on Telegram as a ready-made bank-fraud service. It lets even low-skill criminals take over a victim's phone, steal their banking logins, and capture the one-time codes that protect their accoun…
A critical flaw in Google's Dialogflow CX could have let an attacker with edit rights on one Code Block-enabled agent compromise other Code Block-enabled agents in the same Google Cloud project. From there, they could read live conversations, steal the data us…
A suspected Chinese threat cluster is exploiting Roundcube vulnerabilities to compromise university networks in the US and Canada and harvest user credentials
The National Police in Spain have arrested a man who is suspected of being an active member of the CyberArmy of Russia Reborn (CARR) and Z-Pentest, both pro-Russian hacktivist groups. [...]
A Microsoft 365 device code phishing campaign has been observed leveraging collaboration-themed lures to take control of victim accounts between the last week of June 2026 and into early July, per findings from ZeroBEC. "The campaign did not depend on a fake M…
A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization's private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker needs only to open a normal-looking issue on a public repository, with no stolen creden…
ActiveState explains how GitHub Actions attack chains can evade traditional CI security scanners, why passing a scan doesn't guarantee a secure pipeline, and how organizations can better govern their CI/CD workflows. [...]
Group-IB analysis argued Scattered Spider is a decentralized collective of independent clusters
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 7, 2026 – Listen to the podcast EdTech company Instructure confirmed a massive data breach this past spring. The ShinyHunters group claimed responsibility, alleging tha…
U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal complaint. Microsoft records tied that ID first to the account the attackers used…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in cross-tenant compromise. The one-click vulnerability has…
The audits are reportedly being spearheaded by CISA’s Attack Surface Evaluation team, a specialized unit tasked with conducting digital defense assessments and simulated hacking exercises. The post CISA Reportedly Using Anthropic’s Mythos to Scan Government So…
Hackers are exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-48282) in Adobe ColdFusion that carries a CVSS score of 10/10. The post Critical Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Tomorrow's webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations detect sophisticated phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks while reducing alert fatigue through automated investigation and response workflows. [...]
Software supply chain security was hard enough. Then AI joined the build pipeline. For five years, "software supply chain security" meant one question: what's in your code? Which open-source packages, which versions, which transitive dependencies three layers…
More than 60 organizations, including M&S, Microsoft UK and Vodafone, have signed the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge, a new initiative aimed at boosting cyber security and resilience across British businesses
A suspected China-aligned threat activity cluster has been observed exploiting Roundcube webmail software belonging to physics and engineering departments of U.S. and Canadian universities as part of a new campaign. The activity involves the exploitation of no…
Threat actors are exploiting an Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability which has a CVSS score of 10.0
Attacks also used a compromised chatbot in campaign to steal sensitive information from Business Users
Several versions of firmware released by Chinese network device manufacturer Tenda have been found to embed an undocumented authentication backdoor that enables administrative access to the devices' web management interfaces, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT…
BeyondTrust has released updates to address two critical security flaws affecting Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated attackers to take control of susceptible devices. The…
An Iranian hacking group affiliated with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been wielding a previously undocumented modular command-and-control (C2) framework dubbed Cavern (aka Cav3rn) targeting Israeli organizations. The activity, which…
A use-after-free bug in Linux's KVM hypervisor can be triggered from a guest virtual machine to corrupt the shadow-page state of the host kernel that runs it. Dubbed 'Januscape' and tracked as CVE-2026-53359, the flaw sits in the shadow MMU code that KVM share…
Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Gitea Docker images, according to Sysdig. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20896 (CVSS score: 9.8), a vulnerability that stems from the DevOps platform…
Check Point researchers have identified a new cyber adversary targeting Israeli government and IT businesses, tracked as ‘Cavern Manticore’
Zscaler found sites hiding prompt-injection text to manipulate AI agents into crypto payments
Opera GX flaw let sites automatically install mods to steal data from other pages, now patched
A streaming box should not need a threat model. Neither should a username field, a demo repo, a reset flow, or a browser permission prompt. That is the irritating part this week: the risky pieces were ordinary. Home devices became a routing cover. Clean code p…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 6, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video “One of the biggest misconceptions in cybersecurity is that seeing a problem means you’re protected,” Ariel Litmanovich, co-founder an…
Building a shortlist for an AI SOC evaluation can be tough. SIEM, SOAR, and pureplay AI SOC vendors are all saying the same thing. But behind the identical label sit very different products, from chat assistants bolted onto a legacy SIEM to agent platforms tha…
A suspected China-nexus threat activity cluster has been observed targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams to deliver a remote access trojan designed to steal sensitive data from compromised hosts. The multi-stage campaign, co…
IWF and NCA warn that growing numbers of images and videos are being manipulated into sexual abuse material
Researchers at Shandong University have shown a fast new way to pull data off computers that are cut off from every network. The technique, called TrojPix, tweaks on-screen pixels in ways the eye cannot see, so that the video cable carrying them radiates a fai…
Researchers have revealed JadePuffer, the first agentic AI-powered ransomware campaign, highlighting how autonomous agents can automate cyber-attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a novel Java-based remote access trojan (RAT) called QuimaRAT that's capable of targeting Windows, Linux, and macOS environments. According to LevelBlue, the cross-platform malware is advertised under a malware-as-a-servi…
Researchers found a flaw in Opera GX, the gaming-focused version of the Opera browser, that let a malicious website silently install a browser add-on and use it to lift specific data from the pages a victim visits. In a proof of concept, they reconstructed a s…
Scanners meant to catch malicious add-on "skills" for AI coding agents can be fooled by a few simple changes that leave the malware working, according to a new study from researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Their strongest trick…
A U.S. government entity paid about $1 million to keep stolen files from being leaked, according to a new case study by Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC, built on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left. The odd part: the group that…
The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing 108 unique packages and web browser extensions spanning npm, Packagist, Go, and Google Chrome as part of an ongoing activity referred to as PolinRider. "Th…
Security firm runZero has disclosed seven vulnerabilities in FatFs, a small filesystem library that lets a device read and write the FAT and exFAT formats used on USB drives and SD cards. The flaws matter because FatFs is nearly everywhere. It ships inside the…
A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out. Bad Epoll sits in the same small stret…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented modular malware framework codenamed Avalon that's distributed by means of a multi-stage phishing chain capable of bypassing traditional security controls. Avalon combines credential collection…
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been linked to a fresh set of malicious npm packages that masquerade as Rollup polyfill tooling to facilitate remote access and data theft. According to JFrog, the packages "rollup-packages-polyfill-core" and "rollup…
A previously undocumented threat actor known as Armored Likho has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting government agencies and the electric power sector across Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. "Armored Likho blends financially motivated campaigns targetin…
The ransomware landscape is reconsolidating around major players, with Qilin emerging as the leading RaaS operation, researchers say
Researchers warn that collaboration could lead to “unprecedented” ransomware attacks, as FBI also issues warning
A new report from the Citizen Lab has revealed that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou had his mobile device repeatedly hacked with the notorious Pegasus spyware while serving on a committee that was tasked with investigating the abuse…
The NetNut proxy network and the ‘Popa’ botnet are known to have infected devices with variants of Mirai DDoS botnets
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called PamStealer that employs a series of clever tricks to infect systems and siphon sensitive data. The stealer, discovered by Jamf Threat Labs, is distributed as a compiled AppleScript (…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR].…
Google has significantly degraded NetNut, one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people's traffic. Working with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said this week it had reduced the ne…
Threat actors associated with the Anubis ransomware operation have been observed exploiting the Citrix Bleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) vulnerability to obtain initial access. "Although tactics differ between affiliates, common patterns emerged in tradecraft through us…
This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem in different ways. Everything looks normal until someone tests a small gap and finds a way through. This is not one big break…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 1, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video For years, social engineering has been the most common and effective attack vector in cybersecurity, according to Doppel, developers o…
The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been attributed to a new malware called Umbrij that's designed to gain surreptitious access to a victim's email correspondence via the Google API. "In this campaign, the attackers focused their attention on corporate emai…
Infosecurity spoke with the researcher who dumped over 30 proof-of-concept exploits without disclosing the vulnerabilities first
Bitdefender researchers warned of curious ransomware campaign which has targeted businesses around the world
Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an employment record, a manager, and a departure date. AI agents have none of those. As autonomous principals proliferate across enterprise environments, the governance model built for humans d…
The NCSC has shared best practice advice from pen testers which could help improve system resilience
Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent. Its Threat Research Team calls the operator JADEPUFFER and says a large language model handled the whole job: breaking in, stealing…
A teenager accused of hacking as part of Scattered Spider has been arrested
The recently discovered financially-motivated FortiBleed campaign has been attributed to INC and Lynx ransomware operations, indicating that the verified, stolen credentials were intended for follow-on intrusions. "An operator tied to FortiBleed's infrastructu…
Attackers are hiding a data-stealing trojan inside fake exploit code aimed at the people who hunt bugs for a living. The malware, called ChocoPoC, travels in Python proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories on GitHub that claim to exploit hot new CVEs. Run one, and…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, trac…
Argo CD, a widely used tool for deploying software to Kubernetes, has an unpatched flaw in its repo-server component that lets an unauthenticated attacker run code, provided they can reach the component's internal network port. Synacktiv, which found the bug,…
Securonix said the Veil#Drop campaign abuses Google Blogspot to deliver PureLog Stealer in memory
FortiGuard says the Brazilian banking trojan Ousaban is targeting Spain and Portugal via phishing
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 1, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video “Black Hat USA 2026 is where CISOs come to gain the intelligence and insights that inform the toughest decisions they make,” says Suzy…
The new classifier in Fable 5 blocks the jailbreak technique that prompted the US export controls “in over 99% of cases”
Microsoft has brought forward its timelines for transitioning to post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
Aflac Japan has notified regulators that policy details and personal and banking information have been compromised
Nissan says employees' data was stolen via the Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day campaign
Attackers exploited a critical SimpleHelp RMM bug to deploy TaskWeaver and Djinn Stealer malware
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 30, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video Anvilogic is on a mission to make advanced detection accessible to every security team, enabling them to detect across hybrid, multi-…
ReliaQuest report warns of a surge in ClickFix social engineering attacks against Windows and macOS users
A wave of phishing emails sent to Booking.com partner accommodations in Japan in May led to blockchain-hosted malware
SonicWall records 264,000 events in first five months of 2026 as UK hospitals come under siege
Report Fraud data reveals that more than half of 323 UK ransomware victims last year were SMEs
OpenAI is previewing its GPT-5.6 Sol model to a vetted few at the US government's request
Group-IB says Millenium RAT, now rewritten in C++, has hit 62,289 devices in 160+ countries
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 29, 2026 – Read the report Forrester forecasts that worldwide information security spending will reach $200 billion in 2026, while Gartner projects $240 billion for 202…
An attacker has exploited a zero day in Oracle Peoplesoft to gain access to the IT systems of the NAIC, the standard-setting association for the US federal insurance system
Experts warn the Jaguar Land Rover breach bears hallmarks of Kremlin-backed hackers, citing novel ransomware, strategic timing and efforts to obscure attribution
The FBI claims Russian spies are targeting Signal backup keys
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 26, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video The 2026 CISO Report from Cybersecurity Ventures in partnership with Sophos reports that in Jan. 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Inf…
A China-linked threat group has been targeting critical infrastructure in Southeast Asia with a new custom backdoor called TinyRCT
The UK Cyber Monitoring Centre reviews the Canvas breach affecting 160 UK universities, highlighting data theft risks and financial impacts of cyber incidents
A high-severity flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager disclosed in early June was exploited as early as March
Digital Citizens Alliance report claims that millions of Americans may have unwittingly had IP connections used by cybercriminals
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…
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
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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