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FBI Warns Russian Hackers Target Signal, WhatsApp in Mass Phishing Attacks Threat actors affiliated with Russian Intelligence Services are conducting phishing campaigns to compromise commercial messaging applications (CMAs) like WhatsApp and Signal to seize control of accounts belonging to individuals with high intelligence value, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau…

CISA Flags Apple, Craft CMS, Laravel Bugs in KEV, Orders Patching by April 3, 2026 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added five security flaws impacting Apple, Craft CMS, and Laravel Livewire to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, urging federal agencies to patch them by April 3, 2026. The vulnerabilities…

Trivy Supply Chain Attack Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packages The threat actors behind the supply chain attack targeting the popular Trivy scanner are suspected to be conducting follow-on attacks that have led to the compromise of a large number of npm packages with a previously undocumented self-propagating worm dubbed CanisterWorm. The name is…

Trivy Security Scanner GitHub Actions Breached, 75 Tags Hijacked to Steal CI/CD Secrets Trivy, a popular open-source vulnerability scanner maintained by Aqua Security, was compromised a second time within the span of a month to deliver malware that stole sensitive CI/CD secrets. The latest incident impacted GitHub Actions “aquasecurity/trivy-action” and “aquasecurity/setup-trivy,” which are used to…

Google Adds 24-Hour Wait for Unverified App Sideloading to Reduce Malware and Scams Google on Thursday announced a new “advanced flow” for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour wait period to install apps from unverified developers in an attempt to balance openness with safety. The new changes come against the backdrop of a developer…

Critical Langflow Flaw CVE-2026-33017 Triggers Attacks within 20 Hours of Disclosure A critical security flaw impacting Langflow has come under active exploitation within 20 hours of public disclosure, highlighting the speed at which threat actors weaponize newly published vulnerabilities. The security defect, tracked as CVE-2026-33017 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case of missing authentication combined…

Magento PolyShell Flaw Enables Unauthenticated Uploads, RCE and Account Takeover Sansec is warning of a critical security flaw in Magento’s REST API that could allow unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary executables and achieve code execution and account takeover. The vulnerability has been codenamed PolyShell by Sansec owing to the fact that the attack hinges on…

The Importance of Behavioral Analytics in AI-Enabled Cyber Attacks Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how individuals and organizations conduct many activities, including how cybercriminals carry out phishing attacks and iterate on malware. Now, cybercriminals are using AI to generate personalized phishing emails, deepfakes and malware that evade traditional detection by impersonating normal user activity and…

DoJ Disrupts 3 Million-Device IoT Botnets Behind Record 31.4 Tbps Global DDoS Attacks The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the disruption of command-and-control (C2) infrastructure used by several Internet of Things (IoT) botnets like AISURU, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad as part of a court-authorized law enforcement operation. The effort also saw authorities…

Speagle Malware Hijacks Cobra DocGuard to Steal Data via Compromised Servers Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware dubbed Speagle that hijacks the functionality and infrastructure of a legitimate program called Cobra DocGuard. “Speagle is designed to surreptitiously harvest sensitive information from infected computers and transmit it to a Cobra DocGuard server that has been…

Apple Warns Older iPhones Vulnerable to Coruna, DarkSword Exploit Kit Attacks Apple is urging users who are still running an outdated version of iOS to update their iPhones to secure against web-based attacks carried out via powerful exploit kits like Coruna and DarkSword. These attacks employ malicious web content to target out-of-date versions of iOS,…

54 EDR Killers Use BYOVD to Exploit 35 Signed Vulnerable Drivers and Disable Security A new analysis of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers has revealed that 54 of them leverage a technique known as bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) by abusing a total of 35 vulnerable drivers. EDR killer programs have been a…

ThreatsDay Bulletin: FortiGate RaaS, Citrix Exploits, MCP Abuse, LiveChat Phish & More ThreatsDay Bulletin is back on The Hacker News, and this week feels off in a familiar way. Nothing loud, nothing breaking everything at once. Just a lot of small things that shouldn’t work anymore but still do. Some of it looks simple, almost…

OFAC Sanctions DPRK IT Worker Network Funding WMD Programs Through Fake Remote Jobs The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) worker scheme with an aim to defraud U.S. businesses…

CISA Warns of Zimbra, SharePoint Flaw Exploits; Cisco Zero-Day Hit in Ransomware Attacks The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged government agencies to apply patches for two security flaws impacting Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint, stating they have been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question…

Interlock Ransomware Exploits Cisco FMC Zero-Day CVE-2026-20131 for Root Access Amazon Threat Intelligence is warning of an active Interlock ransomware campaign that’s exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20131 (CVSS score: 10.0), a case of insecure deserialization of user-supplied Java byte…

Critical Unpatched Telnetd Flaw (CVE-2026-32746) Enables Unauthenticated Root RCE via Port 23 Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32746, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out…

LeakNet Ransomware Uses ClickFix via Hacked Sites, Deploys Deno In-Memory Loader The ransomware operation known as LeakNet has adopted the ClickFix social engineering tactic delivered through compromised websites as an initial access method. The use of ClickFix, where users are tricked into manually running malicious commands to address non-existent errors, is a departure from relying…

AI Flaws in Amazon Bedrock, LangSmith, and SGLang Enable Data Exfiltration and RCE Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new method for exfiltrating sensitive data from artificial intelligence (AI) code execution environments using domain name system (DNS) queries. In a report published Monday, BeyondTrust revealed that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter’s sandbox mode permits…

Konni Deploys EndRAT Through Phishing, Uses KakaoTalk to Propagate Malware North Korean threat actors have been observed sending phishing to compromise targets and obtain access to a victim’s KakaoTalk desktop application to distribute malicious payloads to certain contacts. The activity has been attributed by South Korean threat intelligence firm Genians to a hacking group referred…

AI is Everywhere, But CISOs are Still Securing It with Yesterday’s Skills and Tools, Study Finds A majority of security leaders are struggling to defend AI systems with tools and skills that are not fit for the challenge, according to the AI and Adversarial Testing Benchmark Report 2026 from Pentera. The report, based on a…

GlassWorm Attack Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Force-Push Malware Into Python Repos The GlassWorm malware campaign is being used to fuel an ongoing attack that leverages the stolen GitHub tokens to inject malware into hundreds of Python repositories. “The attack targets Python projects — including Django apps, ML research code, Streamlit dashboards, and PyPI packages…

CISA Flags Actively Exploited Wing FTP Vulnerability Leaking Server Paths The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Wing FTP to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-47813 (CVSS score: 4.3), is an information disclosure vulnerability that leaks the installation…

ClickFix Campaigns Spread MacSync macOS Infostealer via Fake AI Tool Installers Three different ClickFix campaigns have been found to act as a delivery vector for the deployment of a macOS information stealer called MacSync. “Unlike traditional exploit-based attacks, this method relies entirely on user interaction – usually in the form of copying and executing commands…

Why Security Validation Is Becoming Agentic If you run security at any reasonably complex organization, your validation stack probably looks something like this: a BAS tool in one corner. A pentest engagement, or maybe an automated pentesting product, in another. A vulnerability scanner feeding an attack surface management platform somewhere else. Each tool gives you…

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Days, Router Botnets, AWS Breach, Rogue AI Agents & More Some weeks in security feel normal. Then you read a few tabs and get that immediate “ah, great, we’re doing this now” feeling. This week has that energy. Fresh messes, old problems getting sharper, and research that stops feeling theoretical real…

Android 17 Blocks Non-Accessibility Apps from Accessibility API to Prevent Malware Abuse Google is testing a new security feature as part of Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM) that prevents certain kinds of apps from using the accessibility services API. The change, incorporated in Android 17 Beta 2, was first reported by Android Authority last week.…

OpenClaw AI Agent Flaws Could Enable Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT) has issued a warning about the security stemming from the use of OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot), an open-source and self-hosted autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent. In a post shared on WeChat, CNCERT noted that…

GlassWorm Supply-Chain Attack Abuses 72 Open VSX Extensions to Target Developers Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new iteration of the GlassWorm campaign that they say represents a “significant escalation” in how it propagates through the Open VSX registry. “Instead of requiring every malicious listing to embed the loader directly, the threat actor is now abusing…

INTERPOL Dismantles 45,000 Malicious IPs, Arrests 94 in Global Cybercrime INTERPOL on Friday announced the takedown of 45,000 malicious IP addresses and servers used in connection with phishing, malware, and ransomware campaigns, as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to dismantle criminal networks, disrupt emerging threats, and safeguard victims from scams. The effort is part…

Meta to Shut Down Instagram End-to-End Encrypted Chat Support Starting May 2026 Meta has announced plans to discontinue support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for chats on Instagram after May 8, 2026. “If you have chats that are impacted by this change, you will see instructions on how you can download any media or messages you…

Chinese Hackers Target Southeast Asian Militaries with AppleChris and MemFun Malware A suspected China-based cyber espionage operation has targeted Southeast Asian military organizations as part of a state-sponsored campaign that dates back to at least 2020. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the threat activity under the moniker CL-STA-1087, where CL refers to cluster,…

Storm-2561 Spreads Trojan VPN Clients via SEO Poisoning to Steal Credentials Microsoft has disclosed details of a credential theft campaign that employs fake virtual private network (VPN) clients distributed through search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques. “The campaign redirects users searching for legitimate enterprise software to malicious ZIP files on attacker-controlled websites to deploy digitally…

Investigating a New Click-Fix Variant Disclaimer: This report has been prepared by the Threat Research Center to enhance cybersecurity awareness and support the strengthening of defense capabilities. It is based on independent research and observations of the current threat landscape available at the time of publication. The content is intended for informational and preparedness purposes…

Veeam Patches 7 Critical Backup & Replication Flaws Allowing Remote Code Execution Veeam has released security updates to address multiple critical vulnerabilities in its Backup & Replication software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2026-21666 (CVSS score: 9.9) – A vulnerability that allows an authenticated…

Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud. “SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ)…

How to Scale Phishing Detection in Your SOC: 3 Steps for CISOs Phishing has quietly turned into one of the hardest enterprise threats to expose early. Instead of crude lures and obvious payloads, modern campaigns rely on trusted infrastructure, legitimate-looking authentication flows, and encrypted traffic that conceals malicious behavior from traditional detection layers. For CISOs,…

Hive0163 Uses AI-Assisted Slopoly Malware for Persistent Access in Ransomware Attacks Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-generated malware codenamed Slopoly put to use by a financially motivated threat actor named Hive0163. “Although still relatively unspectacular, AI-generated malware such as Slopoly shows how easily threat actors can weaponize AI to develop…

Rust-Based VENON Malware Targets 33 Brazilian Banks with Credential-Stealing Overlays Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new banking malware targeting Brazilian users that’s written in Rust, marking a significant departure from other known Delphi-based malware families associated with the Latin American cybercrime ecosystem. The malware, which is designed to infect Windows systems and was…

Researchers Trick Perplexity’s Comet AI Browser Into Phishing Scam in Under Four Minutes Agentic web browsers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to autonomously execute actions across multiple websites on behalf of a user could be trained and tricked into falling prey to phishing and scam traps. The attack, at its core, takes advantage of…

CISA Flags Actively Exploited n8n RCE Bug as 24,700 Instances Remain Exposed The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting n8n to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score: 9.9), concerns a case of expression…

Dozens of Vendors Patch Security Flaws Across Enterprise Software and Network Devices SAP has released security updates to address two critical security flaws that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on affected systems. The vulnerabilities in question listed below – CVE-2019-17571 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A code injection vulnerability in SAP Quotation Management…

Meta Disables 150K Accounts Linked to Southeast Asia Scam Centers in Global Crackdown Meta on Wednesday said it disabled over 150,000 accounts associated with scam centers in Southeast Asia as part of a coordinated effort in partnership with authorities from Thailand, the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Korea, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and…

Critical n8n Flaws Allow Remote Code Execution and Exposure of Stored Credentials Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two now-patched security flaws in the n8n workflow automation platform, including two critical bugs that could result in arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-27577 (CVSS score: 9.4) – Expression sandbox escape leading to…

How to Stop AI Data Leaks: A Webinar Guide to Auditing Modern Agentic Workflows Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a tool we talk to; it is a tool that does things for us. These are called AI Agents. They can send emails, move data, and even manage software on their own. But there…

FortiGate Devices Exploited to Breach Networks and Steal Service Account Credentials Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign where threat actors are abusing FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) appliances as entry points to breach victim networks.  The activity involves the exploitation of recently disclosed security vulnerabilities or weak credentials to extract configuration files containing…

Five Malicious Rust Crates and AI Bot Exploit CI/CD Pipelines to Steal Developer Secrets Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five malicious Rust crates that masquerade as time-related utilities to transmit .env file data to the threat actors. The Rust packages, published to crates.io, are listed below – chrono_anchor dnp3times time_calibrator time_calibrators time-sync The crates, per Socket,…

New “LeakyLooker” Flaws in Google Looker Studio Could Enable Cross-Tenant SQL Queries Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed nine cross-tenant vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio that could have permitted attackers to run arbitrary SQL queries on victims’ databases and exfiltrate sensitive data within organizations’ Google Cloud environments. The shortcomings have been collectively named LeakyLooker by Tenable. There…

KadNap Malware Infects 14,000+ Edge Devices to Power Stealth Proxy Botnet Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware called KadNap that’s primarily targeting Asus routers to enlist them into a botnet for proxying malicious traffic. The malware, first detected in the wild in August 2025, has expanded to over 14,000 infected devices, with more than…

UNC4899 Breached Crypto Firm After Developer AirDropped Trojanized File to Work Device The North Korean threat actor known as UNC4899 is suspected to be behind a sophisticated cloud compromise campaign targeting a cryptocurrency organization in 2025 to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. The activity has been attributed with moderate confidence to the state-sponsored adversary,…

Malicious npm Package Posing as OpenClaw Installer Deploys RAT, Steals macOS Credentials Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that masquerades as an OpenClaw installer to deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) and steal sensitive data from compromised hosts. The package, named “@openclaw-ai/openclawai,” was uploaded to the registry by a user named “openclaw-ai” on…

Can the Security Platform Finally Deliver for the Mid-Market? Mid-market organizations are constantly striving to achieve security levels on a par with their enterprise peers. With heightened awareness of supply chain attacks, your customers and business partners are defining the security level you must meet. What if you could be the enabler for your organization…

⚡ Weekly Recap: Qualcomm 0-Day, iOS Exploit Chains, AirSnitch Attack & Vibe-Coded Malware Another week in cybersecurity. Another week of “you’ve got to be kidding me.” Attackers were busy. Defenders were busy. And somewhere in the middle, a whole lot of people had a very bad Monday morning. That’s kind of just how it goes…

Chrome Extension Turns Malicious After Ownership Transfer, Enabling Code Injection and Data Theft Two Google Chrome extensions have turned malicious after what appears to be a case of ownership transfer, offering attackers a way to push malware to downstream customers, inject arbitrary code, and harvest sensitive data. The extensions in question, both originally associated with…

OpenAI Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Issues OpenAI on Friday began rolling out Codex Security, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered security agent that’s designed to find, validate, and propose fixes for vulnerabilities. The feature is available in a research preview to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers via the Codex…

Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities Using Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model Anthropic on Friday said it discovered 22 new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser as part of a security partnership with Mozilla. Of these, 14 have been classified as high, seven have been classified as moderate, and one has been rated low in…

The MSP Guide to Using AI-Powered Risk Management to Scale Cybersecurity Scaling cybersecurity services as an MSP or MSSP requires technical expertise and a business model that delivers measurable value at scale. Risk-based cybersecurity is the foundation of that model. When done right, it builds client trust, increases upsell opportunities, and drives recurring revenue. But…

Multi-Stage VOID#GEIST Malware Delivering XWorm, AsyncRAT, and Xeno RAT Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a multi-stage malware campaign that uses batch scripts as a pathway to deliver various encrypted remote access trojan (RATs) payloads that correspond to XWorm, AsyncRAT, and Xeno RAT. The stealthy attack chain has been codenamed VOID#GEIST by Securonix Threat Research.…

Transparent Tribe Uses AI to Mass-Produce Malware Implants in Campaign Targeting India The Pakistan-aligned threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has become the latest hacking group to embrace artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding tools to strike targets with various implants. The activity is designed to produce a “high-volume, mediocre mass of implants” that are developed using…

Iran-Linked MuddyWater Hackers Target U.S. Networks With New Dindoor Backdoor New research from Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team has discovered evidence of an Iranian hacking group embedding itself in several U.S. companies’ networks, including banks, airports, non-profit, and the Israeli arm of a software company. The activity has been attributed to a…

China-Linked Hackers Use TernDoor, PeerTime, BruteEntry in South American Telecom Attacks A China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been targeting critical telecommunications infrastructure in South America since 2024, targeting Windows and Linux systems and edge devices with three different implants. The activity is being tracked by Cisco Talos under the moniker UAT-9244, describing it…

Cisco Confirms Active Exploitation of Two Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Vulnerabilities Cisco has disclosed that two more vulnerabilities affecting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly SD-WAN vManage) have come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2026-20122 (CVSS score: 7.1) – An arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability that could allow an authenticated,…

Dust Specter Targets Iraqi Officials with New SPLITDROP and GHOSTFORM Malware A suspected Iran-nexus threat actor has been attributed to a campaign targeting government officials in Iraq by impersonating the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver a set of never-before-seen malware. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in January 2026, is tracking the cluster…

ThreatsDay Bulletin: DDR5 Bot Scalping, Samsung TV Tracking, Reddit Privacy Fine & More Some weeks in cybersecurity feel routine. This one doesn’t. Several new developments surfaced over the past few days, showing how quickly the threat landscape keeps shifting. Researchers uncovered fresh activity, security teams shared new findings, and a few unexpected moves from major…

Preparing for the Quantum Era: Post-Quantum Cryptography Webinar for Security Leaders Most organizations assume encrypted data is safe. But many attackers are already preparing for a future where today’s encryption can be broken. Instead of trying to decrypt information now, they are collecting encrypted data and storing it so it can be decrypted later using…

Where Multi-Factor Authentication Stops and Credential Abuse Starts Organizations typically roll out multi-factor authentication (MFA) and assume stolen passwords are no longer enough to access systems. In Windows environments, that assumption is often wrong. Attackers still compromise networks every day using valid credentials. The issue is not MFA itself, but coverage.  Enforced through an identity…

New RFP Template for AI Usage Control and AI Governance  As AI becomes the central engine for enterprise productivity, security leaders are finally getting the green light — and the budget — to secure it. But there’s a quiet crisis unfolding in the boardroom: many organizations know they need “AI Governance,” but they have no…

Coruna iOS Exploit Kit Uses 23 Exploits Across Five Chains Targeting iOS 13–17.2.1 Google said it identified a “new and powerful” exploit kit dubbed Coruna (aka CryptoWaters) targeting Apple iPhone models running iOS versions between 13.0 and 17.2.1. The exploit kit featured five full iOS exploit chains and a total of 23 exploits, Google Threat…

149 Hacktivist DDoS Attacks Hit 110 Organizations in 16 Countries After Middle East Conflict Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a surge in retaliatory hacktivist activity following the U.S.-Israel coordinated military campaign against Iran, codenamed Epic Fury and Roaring Lion. “The hacktivist threat in the Middle East is highly lopsided, with two groups, Keymous+ and DieNet,…

APT41-Linked Silver Dragon Targets Governments Using Cobalt Strike and Google Drive C2 Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed Silver Dragon that has been linked to cyber attacks targeting entities in Europe and Southeast Asia since at least mid-2024. “Silver Dragon gains its initial access by exploiting public-facing internet…

Fake Laravel Packages on Packagist Deploy RAT on Windows, macOS, and Linux Cybersecurity researchers have flagged malicious Packagist PHP packages masquerading as Laravel utilities that act as a conduit for a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) that’s functional on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The names of the packages are listed below – nhattuanbl/lara-helper (37…

Fake Tech Support Spam Deploys Customized Havoc C2 Across Organizations Threat hunters have called attention to a new campaign as part of which bad actors masqueraded as fake IT support to deliver the Havoc command-and-control (C2) framework as a precursor to data exfiltration or ransomware attack. The intrusions, identified by Huntress last month across five…

CISA Adds Actively Exploited VMware Aria Operations Flaw CVE-2026-22719 to KEV Catalog The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Aria Operations to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-22719 (CVSS score: 8.1), has been…

AI Agents: The Next Wave Identity Dark Matter – Powerful, Invisible, and Unmanaged The Rise of MCPs in the Enterprise The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a practical way to push LLMs from “chat” into real work. By providing structured access to applications, APIs, and data, MCP enables prompt-driven AI agents that can…

Open-Source CyberStrikeAI Deployed in AI-Driven FortiGate Attacks Across 55 Countries The threat actor behind the recently disclosed artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate appliances leveraged an open-source, AI-native security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI to execute the attacks. The new findings come from Team Cymru, which detected its use following an analysis of the IP…

Building a High-Impact Tier 1: The 3 Steps CISOs Must Follow Every CISO knows the uncomfortable truth about their Security Operations Center: the people most responsible for catching threats in real time are the people with the least experience. Tier 1 analysts sit at the front line of detection, and yet they are also the…

⚡ Weekly Recap: SD-WAN 0-Day, Critical CVEs, Telegram Probe, Smart TV Proxy SDK and More This week is not about one big event. It shows where things are moving. Network systems, cloud setups, AI tools, and common apps are all being pushed in different ways. Small gaps in access control, exposed keys, and normal features…

Google Develops Merkle Tree Certificates to Enable Quantum-Resistant HTTPS in Chrome Google has announced a new program in its Chrome browser to ensure that HTTPS certificates are secure against the future risk posed by quantum computers. “To ensure the scalability and efficiency of the ecosystem, Chrome has no immediate plan to add traditional X.509 certificates…

New Chrome Vulnerability Let Malicious Extensions Escalate Privileges via Gemini Panel Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome that could have permitted attackers to escalate privileges and gain access to local files on the system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0628 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a case…

APT28 Tied to CVE-2026-21513 MSHTML 0-Day Exploited Before Feb 2026 Patch Tuesday A recently disclosed security flaw patched by Microsoft may have been exploited by the Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28, according to new findings from Akamai. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-21513 (CVSS score: 8.8), a high-severity security feature bypass affecting the…

How to Protect Your SaaS from Bot Attacks with SafeLine WAF Most SaaS teams remember the day their user traffic started growing fast. Few notice the day bots started targeting them. On paper, everything looks great: more sign-ups, more sessions, more API calls. But in reality, something feels off: Sign-ups increase, but users aren’t activating.…

Thousands of Public Google Cloud API Keys Exposed with Gemini Access After API Enablement New research has found that Google Cloud API keys, typically designated as project identifiers for billing purposes, could be abused to authenticate to sensitive Gemini endpoints and access private data. The findings come from Truffle Security, which discovered nearly 3,000 Google…

ClawJacked Flaw Lets Malicious Sites Hijack Local OpenClaw AI Agents via WebSocket OpenClaw has fixed a high-severity security issue that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed a malicious website to connect to a locally running artificial intelligence (AI) agent and take over control. “Our vulnerability lives in the core system itself – no plugins, no…

Pentagon Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk Over AI Military Dispute Anthropic on Friday hit back after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to designate the artificial intelligence (AI) upstart as a “supply chain risk.” “This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two exceptions we requested to the lawful…

900+ Sangoma FreePBX Instances Compromised in Ongoing Web Shell Attacks The Shadowserver Foundation has revealed that over 900 Sangoma FreePBX instances still remain infected with web shells as part of attacks that exploited a command injection vulnerability starting in December 2025. Of these, 401 instances are located in the U.S., followed by 51 in Brazil,…

DoJ Seizes $61 Million in Tether Linked to Pig Butchering Crypto Scams The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) this week announced the seizure of $61 million worth of Tether that were allegedly associated with bogus cryptocurrency schemes known as pig butchering. The confiscated funds were traced to cryptocurrency addresses used for the laundering of criminally…

ScarCruft Uses Zoho WorkDrive and USB Malware to Breach Air-Gapped Networks The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft has been attributed to a fresh set of tools, including a backdoor that uses Zoho WorkDrive for command-and-control (C2) communications to fetch more payloads and an implant that uses removable media to relay commands and breach…

Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious Go module that’s designed to harvest passwords, create persistent access via SSH, and deliver a Linux backdoor named Rekoobe. The Go module, github[.]com/xinfeisoft/crypto, impersonates the legitimate “golang.org/x/crypto” codebase, but injects malicious code that’s responsible for exfiltrating secrets entered…

UAT-10027 Targets U.S. Education and Healthcare with Dohdoor Backdoor A previously undocumented threat activity cluster has been attributed to an ongoing malicious campaign targeting education and healthcare sectors in the U.S. since at least December 2025. The campaign is being tracked by Cisco Talos under the moniker UAT-10027. The end goal of the attacks is…

Aeternum C2 Botnet Stores Encrypted Commands on Polygon Blockchain to Evade Takedown Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet loader called Aeternum C2 that uses a blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) infrastructure to make it resilient to takedown efforts. “Instead of relying on traditional servers or domains for command-and-control, Aeternum stores its instructions on the…

Expert Recommends: Prepare for PQC Right Now Introduction: Steal It Today, Break It in a Decade Digital evolution is unstoppable, and though the pace may vary, things tend to fall into place sooner rather than later. That, of course, applies to adversaries as well. The rise of ransomware and cyber extortion generated funding for a…

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Kali Linux + Claude, Chrome Crash Traps, WinRAR Flaws, LockBit & 15+ Stories Nothing here looks dramatic at first glance. That’s the point. Many of this week’s threats begin with something ordinary, like an ad, a meeting invite, or a software update. Behind the scenes, the tactics are sharper. Access happens faster. Control…

Microsoft Warns Developers of Fake Next.js Job Repos Delivering In-Memory Malware A “coordinated developer-targeting campaign” is using malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments to trick victims into executing them and establish persistent access to compromised machines. “The activity aligns with a broader cluster of threats that use job-themed lures to blend…

Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20127 Exploited Since 2023 for Admin Access A newly disclosed maximum-severity security flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller (formerly vSmart) and Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly vManage) has come under active exploitation in the wild as part of malicious activity that dates back to 2023. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20127 (CVSS score: 10.0),…

SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH) has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks. The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT help desks, Dataminr said…

Claude Code Flaws Allow Remote Code Execution and API Key Exfiltration Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant, that could result in remote code execution and theft of API credentials. “The vulnerabilities exploit various configuration mechanisms, including Hooks, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and environment…

Google Disrupts UNC2814 GRIDTIDE Campaign After 53 Breaches Across 42 Countries Google on Wednesday disclosed that it worked with industry partners to disrupt the infrastructure of a suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as UNC2814 that breached at least 53 organizations across 42 countries. “This prolific, elusive actor has a long history of targeting international…

Top 5 Ways Broken Triage Increases Business Risk Instead of Reducing It Triage is supposed to make things simpler. In a lot of teams, it does the opposite. When you can’t reach a confident verdict early, alerts turn into repeat checks, back-and-forth, and “just escalate it” calls. That cost doesn’t stay inside the SOC; it…

CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of FileZen CVE-2026-25108 Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a recently disclosed vulnerability in FileZen to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-25108 (CVSS v4 score: 8.7), is a case of operating system (OS) command injection…

RoguePilot Flaw in GitHub Codespaces Enabled Copilot to Leak GITHUB_TOKEN A vulnerability in GitHub Codespaces could have been exploited by bad actors to seize control of repositories by injecting malicious Copilot instructions in a GitHub issue. The artificial intelligence (AI)-driven vulnerability has been codenamed RoguePilot by Orca Security. It has since been patched by Microsoft…