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A new data-extortion group called Helix is using identity-focused tactics such as voice phishing (vishing), device code phishing, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) abuse to steal data from SharePoint environments. [...]
Microsoft says Windows users should expect to see an increase in security updates as the company increasingly relies on artificial intelligence to discover vulnerabilities in its codebase. [...]
GitHub has officially announced the release of npm version 12 with install scripts disabled by default, along with deprecating granular access tokens (GATs) designed to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA). The Microsoft-owned subsidiary noted that the follo…
Most security mess starts as admin work. A link gets clicked. A tool gets trusted. A bucket name gets reused. A setting stays loose because nobody wants to touch it. This week is full of that kind of damage. Not loud. Not clever. Just small gaps doing big jobs…
The Israeli company has developed a cryptographic posture and post-quantum cryptography management platform. The post QIZ Security Raises $17 Million for Cryptographic Governance Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called Forg365 focuses on stealing Microsoft 365 accounts by combining adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) and device code methods with AI-assisted lure generation. [...]
Two announcements on July 7, 2026, demonstrate the government’s determination to improve the level of cybersecurity within the UK. The post UK Government Rolls Out Agentic AI Defense Plan Alongside Industry Pledge appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Security operations don't slow down when IT teams take vacation, but staffing levels often do. Kaseya explains how AI-driven automation can help organizations maintain consistent security operations and reduce reliance on manual processes year-round. [...]
Huntress found a threat actor using vibe-coded PowerShell to map an Active Directory network
Buffer overflow, DoS, command injection, SSRF, authentication bypass, and other types of vulnerabilities have been found in PAN-OS software. The post Palo Alto Networks Patches 13 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 9, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Strangers were watching your children sleep. For months, anyone with basic technical knowledge could access 1.1 million baby monitors an…
AI has changed how fast attacks move. Work that once took an attacker days now takes minutes. Using models like Mythos, attackers write tailored bait, pick targets, test what lands, and jump to the next host before your team clears the first alert. That is the…
Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party system to access a KDDI email system for ISPs. The post 12 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Japanese Telco KDDI appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Survey of cybersecurity leaders by MetaCompliance finds that many feel boards are uninterested in ever-evolving cyber risks
Affecting every major distribution since 2011, the Linux kernel vulnerability allows attackers to gain root access. The post 15-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability ‘GhostLock’ Earns Researchers $92k From Google appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Operation First Light 2026, coordinated by Interpol and funded by the Chinese government, has led to 5,811 arrests
Microsoft has announced plans to disable Outlook Web Access (OWA) Light, the lightweight version of the Outlook Web App email client, in a future Exchange Server update. [...]
Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and running when we announced it — built quietly months earlier, heads down, taking f…
Wiz discovered GhostApproval, a symlink flaw in six major AI coding assistants that bypasses approval
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called GodDamn that employs the PoisonX kernel driver to neutralize security software as part of its defense evasion strategy. According to a new report published by the Threat Hunter Team from Sym…
The privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-50656 has been patched with a Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update. The post Microsoft Patches Defender ‘RoguePlanet’ Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hackers accessed the institution’s internal network and deleted two drives containing employee, student, and university data. The post Mount Royal University Confirms Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Law enforcement agencies have arrested 5,811 suspects and seized $293 million in illicit assets in a global anti-fraud operation spanning 97 countries. [...]
Over 70 cybersecurity organizations have signed the CREST AI Charter detailing responsible use of AI for security
Wiz has disclosed the details of a new AI coding assistant attack method it has dubbed GhostApproval. The post AI Coding Tools Tricked Into Hacking Developer Machine via Decades-Old Technique appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft has released security updates for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, nearly a month after details of the flaw became public. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a privilege escalation issue in the Microsoft…
American insurance company AssuranceAmerica has disclosed a data breach impacting nearly 7 million drivers after attackers gained access to its systems earlier this year. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers at ESET identify big rise in suspicious and malicious toolsets which put users at risk from cyber-attacks
The security refresh resolves 13 use-after-free bugs, including two critical-severity flaws found by Google. The post Chrome 150 Update Patches 27 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it's enabled by default. "You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific…
The Spanish startup has closed an extended pre-seed funding round two months after launching its digital identity protection platform. The post 8Layers Raises $2.9 Million for Identity Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft has released a security patch to address a Defender zero-day vulnerability known as "RoguePlanet," disclosed after the June 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls "Friendly Fire." It…
Researchers at Wiz found that a flaw in six popular AI coding assistants lets a booby-trapped code project quietly take control of a developer's computer. The assistant asks permission to edit one harmless-looking file, but the write lands on a sensitive one i…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains. The activity dates back…
Mount Royal University in Calgary says hackers stole and then deleted data from its file storage systems after breaching the university's network. [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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
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
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…
The National Cyber Security Centre wants to work with AI partners to build a new “Cyber Shield” to defend the UK
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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].…
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…
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
The NCSC has shared best practice advice from pen testers which could help improve system resilience
A teenager accused of hacking as part of Scattered Spider has been arrested
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