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A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a significant increase in attacks targeting internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the water and wastewater systems sector. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Go-based loader framework called HollowFrame and a Rust-based malware family tracked as Matryoshka. According to Blackpoint Cyber, the intrusion sequence begins with a spear-phishing messag…
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: parcel delivery company OnTrac hacked, Adobe patches, UK Department for Education loses 607,000 records. The post In Other News: OpenAI Open Source Tool, AWS Links Hacks to North Korea, Mythos Crypto…
Iran has the “geopolitical motivations” and a recent history of targeting water systems, experts pointed out. The post Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Systems Investigated as Officials Warn About Iranian Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then click ads on websites run by the same operators. Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed i…
Attackers are adapting established techniques to AI platforms, emerging technologies, and changing user behavior. ESET's new threat report examines the rise of malicious AI skills, AI-assisted malware, ClickFix attacks, record quishing activity, and ransomware…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 31, 2026 – Listen to the podcast “The exploit lands before the fix even ships,” says John Vecchi, CMO at Mitiga, a leader in zero-impact breach prevention for cloud, Sa…
Google on Thursday announced that it fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in Chrome versions 149 and 150, surpassing the total number of flaws the company fixed across the prior 23 milestones combined. Both versions were released last month. In its latest patc…
An academic study has disclosed a "widespread class" of security vulnerabilities impacting 4G and 5G core networks that, if successfully exploited, could trigger denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and even session hijacking, allowing an attacker to seize control…
Device code phishing - the abuse of the OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant to steal access tokens - has evolved from a niche red-team technique to an industrial-scale threat in under six months. Designed for input-constrained devices like smart TVs, printers…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 says a Chinese-speaking threat actor used DeepSeek through the open-source Hermes Agent framework to launch attacks autonomously. After an initial Telegram instruction, the agent found internet-facing systems and selected public exp…
The internet giant has built an agent harness to find vulnerabilities across Chrome’s codebase. The post Google AI Uncovers 13-Year-Old Chrome Flaw Amid Record Patching Pace appeared first on SecurityWeek.
When the AI Act comes into force, AI companies will be required to make clear to consumers with labels or digital watermarks that chatbots or imagery are generated with AI. The post EU to Crack Down on AI Deepfakes, Illicit Imagery and Hacking With New Team in…
AWS has linked North Korea to the axios campaign to other attacks on npm libraries
A security company’s systems were hacked after it installed a malicious Python package deployed by Claude. The post Prompted by OpenAI Disclosure, Anthropic Finds Its Own Models Hacked 3 Organizations appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Named CosmosEscape, the vulnerability exposed the primary key for Cosmos DB accounts, granting full read and write access. The post Critical Flaw Allowed to Azure Cosmos DB Pwnage appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic has revealed that Claude AI models compromised third-party organizations
In March 2026, hackers stole personal, financial, and medical information from the company’s AWS environment. The post CareCloud Data Breach Impacts Over 350,000 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Tracked as CVE-2026-63077, the security defect can be exploited without authentication via the agent polling protocol. The post Critical Code Execution Vulnerability Patched in TeamCity appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic on Thursday became the latest artificial intelligence (AI) company to reveal that three of its models, including Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, had breached three unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing without i…
One of Anthropic's Claude models built and uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI during a botched security evaluation, where it ran on 15 real systems and stole credentials from a security vendor. It was one of three incidents affecting real companies. […
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has fined telecommunications giant KT Corporation KRW 53.979 billion ($39 million) over data protection violations. [...]
CISA is urging water and wastewater utilities to lock down internet-exposed controllers, days after intrusions hit dozens of Minnesota systems. The post CISA Urges Water Sector to Protect OT After Coordinated Attacks on PLCs appeared first on SecurityWeek.
JetBrains is warning of a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting TeamCity On-Premises that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. [...]
The acquisition will add approximately 65 cybersecurity professionals to Bank of America’s operations in the United Kingdom. The post Bank of America to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm MDSec appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence to deliver malware as part of a new iteration of…
Amazon linked multiple high-profile open-source software supply chain attacks targeting the Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem to North Korean hackers. [...]
Broadcom has released security updates to fix five vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter, ESX, Workstation, and Fusion, including three critical flaws that allow attackers to bypass authentication, execute arbitrary code, or escape from a virtual machine to the ho…
Google says artificial intelligence is dramatically increasing the number of security vulnerabilities it can find and fix in Chrome, with more than 1,000 security bugs patched across the browser's two most recent releases as it expands its use of AI. [...]
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking…
Residential security company Brinks Home has disclosed that hackers breached some of its systems and are threatening to leak allegedly stolen data. [...]
Threat actors are impersonating IT support staff in Microsoft Teams calls to gain remote access to corporate devices and deploy Chaos ransomware in attacks targeting North American organizations. [...]
A lot of security still comes down to trusting the wrong screen. This week, that screen might be a login page, an install guide, a recruiter call, or a familiar service behaving slightly wrong. Behind it: reused credentials, exposed systems, quiet loaders, abu…
American semiconductor company Analog Devices announced that an unauthorized party accessed some of its systems and exfiltrated certain files. [...]
Cryptomining crew abandoned root to impersonate low-privileged Linux users and evade SOC alerts
Attackers rarely stop after gaining initial access. Huntress analyzes a real-world intrusion to show how threat actors establish persistence, disable defenses, and reshape compromised systems, and why defenders must investigate the original entry point rather…
AiTM phishing is now the top entry point into law firms, with identity behind 56% of threats
A now-patched vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB could have let an attacker escape the service's Gremlin query sandbox and obtain full read and write access to databases across customer tenants, according to Wiz. Wiz, which codenamed the chain CosmosEscape, said…
Action1 report finds sysadmins overestimated their use of AI in predictions made two years ago
Check Point researchers detail phishing attack as an example of attackers dropping fake Microsoft login pages in favor of abusing Microsoft’s legitimate authentication infrastructure
Hidden instructions in a Word document can make Microsoft 365 Copilot rewrite figures in a report, then copy the same instructions into the finished file. Håkon Måløy disclosed the technique on July 28, 144 days after reporting it to Microsoft. In his proof of…
Network firewalls are the workhorses of modern cybersecurity. They are trusted to protect the network, blocking malicious traffic and preventing intrusions and breaches. And for decades, network security teams have built controls around a relatively stable mod…
South Korean authorities and four security firms have disclosed a state-sponsored campaign that compromised trusted domestic websites. The attackers used those sites to exploit locally installed financial-security software and infect targeted visitors with SIG…
The Chinese cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been observed using new drivers as part of bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) attacks targeting a Japanese organization in the industrial manufacturing sector to ultimately deliver ValleyRAT (aka Winos…
The new version of Chrome, 151, comes with 370 vulnerability patches, including for seven critical flaws
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre wants network device makers to improve forensic observability
The Russian threat actors recently linked to the exploitation of a now-patched vulnerability in Zimbra have been observed exploiting another vulnerability, this time in Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA), to target U.S. and European government entities, as wel…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced mobile robots and networked power inverters to its Covered List on July 28. The move generally prevents new models from receiving the equipment authorization required for import, marketing, or…
Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookalike npm domain and a wallet-draining script pushed into at…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero…
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is exploiting an Exchange Outlook Web Access vulnerability in email campaigns to deliver a sophisticated backdoor called OWAReaper. [...]
Claude is down for some users, with Anthropic confirming elevated errors across multiple AI models. The disruption is causing requests to fail with a "529 Overloaded" message, including in Claude and tools that rely on its API. [...]
Ruby on Rails has released fixes for a critical Active Storage vulnerability that could let unauthenticated attackers read arbitrary files from application servers through crafted image uploads. Tracked as CVE-2026-66066 (CVSS score: 9.5), the flaw can expose…
LogoKit now builds per-victim phishing pages using live screenshots of the target's real website
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a maximum-severity security flaw in Ruflo, an open-source agent meta-harness for Anthropic Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5…
Broadcom has released security updates to address multiple security flaws impacting VMware ESX, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion, three of which have been designated as critical in severity. The first of the three critical-rated flaws is CVE-2026-59309 (CVSS s…
TA488 returned with OWA half-click exploit deploying OWAReaper implant that survived re-imaging
A coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology at more than 30 Minnesota community water systems on July 26 and 27, triggering a statewide cybersecurity response. Braham, Plymouth, South St. Paul and Maple Plain have publicly described a plant outag…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale fraud campaign that involves creating lookalike websites of major Russian companies with an aim to siphon funds from international firms for more than nine years. According to Russian cybersecur…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 29, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Bent is the story of John J. Boseak’s phenomenal life of crime. Inked from head to toe, with an addiction to strippers and fast Cadilla…
AI is compressing exploit timelines. The real question isn't whether your vulnerability management playbook needs to change, it's which part of it you've been getting wrong all along. The conversation happening in security circles right now goes something like…
Nebula Security says a patched Firefox JIT flaw could be triggered by simply visiting a malicious webpage and was also used to compromise Tor Browser. Tracked as CVE-2026-10702, the bug provides arbitrary code execution inside the browser's renderer process. M…
Most organizations have incident response plans, security tools, and technical teams in place. Yet new research suggests that many still lack the coordination, visibility, and executive alignment needed to withstand a serious cyberattack. According to The Stat…
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) on Wednesday said it charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov for allegedly facilitating terrorist activities and for failing to remove prohibited information in violation of Russian law. The principal s…
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report warns that the global average cost of a data breach has reached a record high of $4.99m – and AI-backed attacks have played a role
For now, the use of AI benefits vulnerability research more than vulnerability exploitation, a VulnCheck researcher said
AI is dramatically reducing the barriers to entry for scam phone farm operators, Human Security warns
Cybersecurity researchers have shared additional technical details about a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Check Point Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server (MDS) that has come under active exploitation in the…
The National Cyber Security Centre has released a detailed framework to assist with incident response and recovery
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed the rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agent that escaped its sealed evaluation environment and broke into Hugging Face's production environment also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. The latest…
Gitea, the self-hosted Git platform, has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability. A user with ordinary repository write access can turn attacker-controlled patch content into a live Git hook and run shell commands as the Gitea service account. T…
Source code for the Flying Eagle Android remote access trojan (RAT) framework is circulating through criminal Telegram channels. Hunt.io and independent researcher NetAskari traced matching control panels and certificates to 170 internet servers. They linked t…
Beta release versions of two npm packages in the @joyfill namespace have been compromised to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) associated with the DEV#POPPER malware family. The list of affected packages is as follows - @joyfill/layouts@0.1.2-2773.beta.0 @j…
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128. The HAWK attack exploits a previously unused symmetry in the lattice behind the signature…
Three CVEs in Hugging Face diffusers let a malicious model repo run code on any machine that loads it
A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device's hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process. If that happens, Tengu's other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks La…
AI-assisted research uncovered Linux kernel use-after-free allowing root escalation
Cybersecurity researchers have sounded an alert after finding more than 36,000 Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) management interfaces exposing Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocol to the public internet. Of the 36,872 internet-exposed…
JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited a zero-day in self-hosted Artifactory while trying to reach the open internet from a sealed evaluation environment. Artifactory is JFrog's software repository manager. OpenAI says the models then escalated privi…
Analysis of real-life incident response cases by Cisco Talos warns that phishing remains a powerful method of initial compromise
OpenWrt has shipped version 24.10.8 to close a critical DHCPv6 stack overflow and a wider set of remotely triggerable flaws in network services enabled by default. The critical issue, tracked as CVE-2026-53921 and rated 9.8 on CVSS 3.1 in OpenWrt's GitHub advi…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 28, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Meta is facing penalties of up to a massive $1.4 trillion from four U.S. states that sued the company over the addictive designs of The…
Microsoft has launched a new agentic security system for cyber defenders as well as its first cyber-focused AI model
The Iranian state-backed hacking group tracked as Nimbus Manticore (aka GalaxyGato, Mirage Kitten, Smoke Sandstorm, Subtle Snail, and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting entities across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. The…
Coca Cola claims data was stolen from its Fairlife business after a recent ransomware attack
NVIDIA has launched a new Open Secure AI Alliance to build an “open defense stack for agents”
CREST’s new AI standards are optional add-on requirements for cybersecurity service providers wishing to demonstrate responsible AI usage
JetBrains is urging customers of on-premise versions of TeamCity to update to the latest version following the discovery of a critical security issue that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score: 9.8), a…
STAR Labs has published a Linux kernel exploit that turns an ordinary local user into root on the CentOS Stream 9 build it targeted. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-53264 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a use-after-free race in the kernel's network traffic-control subsyst…
Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity-specific model inside MDASH, its multi-model vulnerability identification and remediation harness. The company says MDASH, using MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and GPT-5.4, scored 95.95% on CyberGym. It also claims the configu…
A maximum-severity security flaw impacting on-premises versions of Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-16812 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of operating system command inject…
NVIDIA and 36 other organizations have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to develop and share open technologies, techniques, and tools for securing software and artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The 37-member group spans cloud, security, enterprise softwar…
Dysphoria, an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet line tracked by CNCERT and XLab, has adopted blockchain-based name services and infected-device relays after a March law-enforcement operation against JackSkid infrastructure. The researchers say the design makes t…
Public exploit details released on July 27 show how an unauthenticated request can reach PHP's eval() function inside vBulletin and execute code on an unpatched forum server. The attack requires no account, administrative access, or interaction from another us…
Monday starts with the usual promise that everything is under control. Then the logs wake up. This week, trusted tools crossed lines, old flaws found new work, exposed systems stayed exposed, and attackers kept hiding inside normal-looking services. Nothing lo…
n8n has patched a high-severity expression-sandbox escape that could let an authenticated workflow editor execute operating-system commands on the server running the automation platform. Security Joes found the flaw while probing n8n's February fix for CVE-202…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 27, 2026 – Listen to the podcast By the end of the nearly yearlong romance scam that began on LinkedIn, Anola Johnson, 67, a Utah-based travel specialist, was out aroun…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a Microsoft Teams-themed phishing campaign that employs "secure document" lures to deliver legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools. "The victim was directed through compromised web infrastructure to a coun…
Impersonating well-known cryptocurrency and trading sites, SourTrade has developed a novel technique to drop infostealers to victims
The China-linked cybercrime group behind the use of income tax-related phishing lures targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams has been observed using a sophisticated crypter service called Cruciferra. According to a new analy…
Halcyon’s latest quarterly ransomware report showed that while ransomware attacks are declining, obfuscation techniques are getting harder to fight against
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh malicious cyber activity by a threat actor with ties to East Asia targeting government entities in the Middle East. The intrusions have resulted in the deployment of previously unreported malware families dubbed TEL…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 24, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video Black Hat USA 2026, the premier cybersecurity event of the year, returns to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas with a re-engineered, six-day p…
Researchers at ReliaQuest warned of widespread DNS poisoning attacks targeting the hospitality sector as part of a cyber espionage campaign
OpenAI’s chatbot tool ChatGPT ranked among the top 10 most impersonated brands in phishing attacks for the first time
Comparitech’s analysis of incidents in the first half of 2026 finds that the emergence of The Gentlemen ransomware has resulted in surge in attacks against higher education
International agencies issue joint alert over state-backed campaign exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite
CoreView research finds that security leadership is concerned about AI Assistant exposing confidential data
US government agencies have warned that Iranian cyber actors are targeting US-based Siemens and Schneider industrial equipment
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 23, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Jim Rutt, CISO at The Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization in New York City that is dedicated to advancing neuroscienc…
Sophos report warns that the rapid adoption of AI by businesses is leaving them vulnerable to a new source of cyber threats
Dolphin X is a new infostealer that uses AI to sort and rank victims, giving cybercriminals a faster way to identify lucrative targets
A new study of organizations which have fallen victim to ransomware suggests the rise of AI-tools being used by hackers is making life harder for defenders
New TrickBot variant hides C2 communication inside DNS queries, replacing decade-old HTTP pattern
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 22, 2026 – Watch our Videos at Cybercrime.TV CISOs and security leaders have spoken up on our hottest content and the award-winning Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel…
Hugging Face recently disclosed a security breach. OpenAI has now said that it was its AI models which broke containment and hacked Hugging Face themselves
New Ubuntu snap-confine race condition lets local users escalate to root on default installs
CodeMender actively builds and runs exploits in customer-managed sandboxes to verify if vulnerabilities are truly exploitable
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 perc…
AI Delivers Value Only When It’s Built Into the Security Workflow – Christophe Briguet, Sr. Director of Product Management – AI & Security Analytics, Stellar Cyber San Jose, Calif. – Jul. 21, 2026 Every security leader has heard the promise by now: AI will tra…
Russian-speaking actor Trim built a commercial offensive AI pentest tool on jailbroken Claude models
Analysis by Black Kite warns that ransomware ecosystem is becoming bigger and more fragmented
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 21, 2026 – Read the full story in StationX Nathan House, founder and CEO at StationX, one of the UK’s first cybersecurity companies founded in 1999 and trusted by more…
FBI warned of deepfake videos of IC3 leadership directing users to spoofed complaint sites
Craneware, a provider of financial software for US healthcare organizations, has disclosed a cyber incident involving unauthorized access and data theft
In a new campaign, North Korean hacking group Famous Chollima targeted crypto professionals through ClickFix lures to deliver Windows and macOS trojans
Cruciferra crypter used process ghosting and 90 custom ciphers to hide payloads for multiple actors
JadePuffer follow-up campaign deployed ENCFORGE locker built to destroy AI model artifacts
A researcher who discovered a critical vulnerability in WordPress has used OpenAI’s latest model to develop an exploit chain
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 20, 2026 – Read the full story in Yahoo! Finance According to Cybersecurity Ventures, global cybercrime costs were projected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, u…
Researchers have linked HollowGraph malware to the Cavern framework after discovering its use of Microsoft 365 calendars and Microsoft Graph APIs as a stealthy C2 channel
Two chiefs of UK policing agencies said the Transport for London prosecution demonstrates the need for Cybercrime Risk Orders