U.S. Government Entity Paid Kairos $1 Million in Data-Theft Extortion Case
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-IS…
New Avalon Malware Framework Packs CrownX Ransomware Capabilities
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented modular malware framework codenamed Avalon that's distributed by means of…
North Korea-Linked npm Packages Mimic Rollup Polyfills to Steal Developer Secrets
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…
Armored Likho Targets Government Agencies, Power Sector with BusySnake Stealer
A previously undocumented threat actor known as Armored Likho has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting government agencies and the…
European Parliament Member Investigating Spyware Was Hacked With Pegasus
A new report from the Citizen Lab has revealed that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou had his mobile device…
PamStealer Uses Fake Maccy Sites and PAM Checks to Steal Mac Login Passwords
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called PamStealer that employs a series of clever tricks to infect…
Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices
Google has significantly degraded NetNut, one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people's traffic.…
Ransomware Groups Turn to Citrix Bleed 2, BYOVD, and Supply Chain Credentials
Threat actors associated with the Anubis ransomware operation have been observed exploiting the Citrix Bleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) vulnerability…
ThreatsDay: AI Compute Hijacking, Apple Email Flaw, BlueHammer Ransomware + 14 Stories
This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem…
ToddyCat-Linked Umbrij Malware Abuses OAuth to Access Gmail via Google API
The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been attributed to a new malware called Umbrij that's designed to gain surreptitious access to a…
Identity Lifecycle Management Wasn't Built for AI Agents
Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an employment record, a manager, and a departure date. AI agents have none…
AI Agent Exploits Langflow RCE to Automate Database Ransomware Attack
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…
FortiBleed Credential Theft Linked to INC and Lynx Ransomware Operations
The recently discovered financially-motivated FortiBleed campaign has been attributed to INC and Lynx ransomware operations, indicating that…
Unpatched Argo CD Repo-Server Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Over Kubernetes Clusters
Argo CD, a widely used tool for deploying software to Kubernetes, has an unpatched flaw in its repo-server component that lets an…
19-Year-Old Scattered Spider Suspect Extradited to Face U.S. Hacking Charges
A teenager accused of belonging to the hacking group Scattered Spider has been extradited from Finland to face U.S. charges of conspiracy,…
SEO-Poisoned Software Sites Abuse ScreenConnect to Deploy AsyncRAT
Unknown threat actors are leveraging the ScreenConnect remote access tool as a way to deploy and execute AsyncRAT. Kaspersky said the activity…
VEIL#DROP Malware Chain Uses Blogger Platform to Deliver PureLogs Stealer
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new multi-stage malware delivery attack chain that uses social engineering and Blogger pages to…
Ousaban Banking Trojan Targets Iberian Bank Users with Fake PDF Lures
A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal. Fortinet's FortiGuard…
Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Shift to 2029
Microsoft on Tuesday said it's accelerating its quantum safe security roadmap, stating technology advances in quantum computing are making it…
Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware
Large language models keep inventing web addresses that do not exist. Attackers have started buying those made-up domains before anyone else…
Anthropic Restores Claude Fable 5 After U.S. Lifts Jailbreak-Linked Export Controls
Anthropic is putting Claude Fable 5 back online worldwide. On June 30, the U.S. Commerce Department lifted the export controls it had…
Azure CLI Password Spray Hits at Least 78 Microsoft Accounts in 81M+ Attempts
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "massive, ongoing, automated password spray attack" aimed at Microsoft's Azure command-line…
Researcher Analyzes 3,000 Live ClickFix Payloads, Exposing API-Driven Malware Delivery
ClickFix, the trick that fools people into running malware by hand, has quietly grown a back office. New research shows the malicious commands…
Attackers Exploit SimpleHelp CVE-2026-48558 to Deploy TaskWeaver and Djinn Stealer
An unknown threat actor has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed maximum-severity security flaw in SimpleHelp to deliver two…
AirDrop and Quick Share Flaws Let Nearby Attackers Trigger Crashes and Bypass Checks
Two researchers have found six security flaws in AirDrop and Quick Share, the wireless features that beam files between nearby devices with no…
New BioShocking Attack Tricks AI Browsers Into Leaking User Credentials
Convince an AI browser that it is playing a game, and it can hand over your login details. That is the finding behind BioShocking, a…
Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Could Let Attackers Run Root Commands Pre-Auth
A critical vulnerability in Progress Kemp LoadMaster can let an unauthenticated attacker execute arbitrary commands as root on the appliance…
Apple Patches 30+ iOS, macOS, Safari Flaws, Including AI-Discovered WebKit Bugs
Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, macOS, and the Safari web browser to address over three dozen flaws, including four…
Oracle E-Business Suite Flaw CVE-2026-46817 Actively Exploited in the Wild
A critical security flaw impacting Oracle E-Business Suite has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Defused Cyber. The…
Malicious Perplexity Chrome Extension Intercepted Searches and Address Bar Input
Microsoft has found a malicious Chrome extension that posed as the AI search engine Perplexity and quietly logged what people searched for. It…
WhatsApp is Finally Getting Usernames to Help Keep Phone Numbers Private
WhatsApp on Monday officially announced the start of global reservations of usernames with an aim to protect the privacy of more than three…
Microsoft Removes 119 Edge Extensions That Hid Malware in Images and Fonts
Microsoft has shut down a long-running malicious extension operation on the Edge Add-ons store that hid its payloads inside ordinary image and…
Public PoC Released for Critical libssh2 CVE-2026-55200 Client-Side SSH Flaw
A public proof-of-concept is now out for CVE-2026-55200, a critical flaw in libssh2 that lets a malicious or compromised SSH server trigger…
Hijacked npm and Go Packages Use VS Code Tasks to Deploy Python Infostealer
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two hijacked npm packages and a cluster of Go packages that are designed to deploy a Python-based…
Ukraine Says Russian Intelligence Used Fake Support Texts to Steal Messaging Credentials
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said it, together with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), uncovered a long-running campaign…
OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Sol With Restricted Access and Stronger Cyber Safeguards
OpenAI on Friday released three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to a small number of companies as part…
FBI Warns Russian Intelligence Hackers Target Signal Backup Recovery Keys
The FBI and CISA have updated their March warning about Russian intelligence phishing Signal accounts, and the operators have added…
New SharkLoader Malware Deploys Cobalt Strike in StrikeShark Cyberattacks
A newly discovered cyber attack campaign has been observed delivering a previously undocumented malware family called SharkLoader that acts as…
Chinese-Speaking APT Deploys New TinyRCT Backdoor in Southeast Asia Campaign
A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been linked to a new custom backdoor called TinyRCT as part of cyber attacks…
New Linux pedit COW Exploit Enables Root Access by Poisoning Cached Binaries
A flaw in the Linux kernel's traffic-control subsystem can let a local unprivileged user gain root on affected systems. CVE-2026-46331,…
Amazon Q Developer Flaw Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code via MCP Configs
A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer's cloud credentials. The path was…
CISA Adds Exploited PTC Windchill RCE Flaw to KEV as Web Shell Attacks Continue
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting…
New DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Cloned Packets
DirtyClone is a new Linux kernel privilege escalation in the DirtyFrag family. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit…