2026-09-30 08:24 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-30 09:55 UTC
Unknown threat actors have been observed exploiting a newly patched security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances to target organizations in North America and Europe. The activity, observed by Mandiant Consulting and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) in September 2026, has targeted government, financial services, technology, education, and legal and professional
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2026-09-30 04:00 UTC
Security Journalism
Huntress · indexed 2026-09-30 13:10 UTC
Huntress SOC found a threat actor exploiting a file upload flaw in recreation management to breach 3 municipal servers and steal payment data.
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2026-09-29 15:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Microsoft Security Blog · Microsoft Threat Intelligence · indexed 2026-09-29 15:35 UTC
Since January 2026, Microsoft has observed Russian state threat actor Star Blizzard evolve their detection evasion capabilities through large-scale phishing campaigns, the use of accounts on compromised websites, and a novel malware delivery technique, tracked by Microsoft as “RedFlick”. The post Star Blizzard refines phishing and malware delivery with the RedFlick technique appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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2026-09-29 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-09-29 14:00 UTC
Introduction In late September 2026, Mandiant Consulting and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified active, in-the-wild exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-88772) affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances. We have observed evidence that organizations in North America and Europe in the government, financial services, technology, education, and legal and professional services sectors were likely impacted by this exploitation campaign, which has bee…
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2026-09-29 08:35 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-29 09:50 UTC
Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. "It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters," the Politie Landelijke Opsporing en Interventies said in an X post Monday. Police said the individual is expected to appear before the
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2026-09-28 15:33 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Elizabeth Montalbano · indexed 2026-09-28 15:40 UTC
The "agentic threat actor" may have used exposed credentials to access resources and delete cloud-based storage, applications, and databases.
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2026-09-28 15:08 UTC
Independent Research
Krebs on Security · BrianKrebs · indexed 2026-09-28 15:15 UTC
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect's arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members dramatically escalated their attacks, stealing highly sensitive data from the FBI and extorting the Russian ransomware group Cl0p.
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2026-09-28 09:08 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-28 10:25 UTC
The threat actor known as JADEPUFFER has been observed orchestrating destructive actions within a Microsoft Azure environment using compromised service principals. Microsoft, which is tracking the activity under the name Storm-3168, has called it an evolution of the threat actor's tradecraft. The attack took place in early June 2026 over a period of about 18 hours. "The destructive operations
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2026-09-26 19:03 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Lawrence Abrams · indexed 2026-09-26 19:15 UTC
The ShinyHunters extortion gang is using a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewall rules that mitigate the Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 flaw, allowing the threat actors to resume widespread exploitation of a flaw on vulnerable servers. [...]
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2026-09-26 07:48 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-26 10:05 UTC
Kiteworks (formerly Accellion) is urging customers to shut down their systems as a precautionary measure for nine hours over the weekend after it received threat intelligence about an imminent cyber attack. "Kiteworks received credible threat intelligence from federal intelligence authorities indicating that a threat actor may attempt to target some Kiteworks systems," said Frank Balonis, Chief
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2026-09-25 20:19 UTC
Security Journalism
The Record · indexed 2026-09-25 20:30 UTC
Frank Balonis, CISO at Kiteworks, told Recorded Future News that the company “received credible threat intelligence from federal intelligence authorities indicating that a threat actor may attempt to target some Kiteworks systems for customers.”
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2026-09-25 18:02 UTC
Other
Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-09-25 18:40 UTC
Bitget says suspected North Korea-linked actors stole $351.6M from hot and warm wallets. Withdrawals were suspended while Mandiant investigates. Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget says suspected North Korea-linked threat actors stole $351.6 million from a limited number of hot and warm wallets. The company detected unauthorized transfers on September 24 and temporarily suspended withdrawals. Bitget said customer […]
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2026-09-25 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-09-26 06:55 UTC
Introduction As an update to the June 2026 post, ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft Exploit, Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have identified renewed mass exploitation of CVE-2026-35273 by UNC6240 (ShinyHunters), along with expanded global targeting across multiple sectors. In June, the threat actor exploited this vulnerability as a zero-day predominantly against academic institutions. This new wave of activity stems from UNC6240 modifying its explo…
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2026-09-25 10:35 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-25 11:15 UTC
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said suspected North Korean threat actors have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets. "At 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, Bitget's security systems identified unauthorized transfers involving a limited number of hot wallets," Bitget said in a post shared on X. "Bitget's cold wallets and the overwhelming majority of platform assets remain
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2026-09-24 14:44 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Arielle Waldman · indexed 2026-09-24 15:45 UTC
This installment of the Reporters' Notebook video series discusses the impact of AI agents breaching Hugging Face, Fairlife's ransomware attack, and Iranian-linked threat actors compromising a dozen US water systems. It was a busy summer.
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2026-09-24 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-09-24 15:25 UTC
Introduction The landscape of software supply chain security has undergone a significant shift. Recent campaigns demonstrate that sophisticated threat actors are systematically targeting the engineering lifecycle by compromising trusted security and programming tools. These intrusions reveal three key tactics: Attackers target trusted security scanners, utility libraries, and AI developer tools to exploit the elevated privileges granted to these systems within build pipelines. Adversaries targe…
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2026-09-24 13:00 UTC
Security Journalism
Huntress · indexed 2026-09-24 15:25 UTC
Threat actors exploited Samsung MagicINFO to install AnyDesk, disable Defender, and compile a Monero miner directly on a victim endpoint. Learn the detection signals.
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2026-09-24 13:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Rapid7 · Douglas McKee, Director, Vulnerability Intelligence · indexed 2026-09-24 13:20 UTC
Business Email Compromise (BEC) operates on a familiar playbook. Threat actors breach a mailbox, silently monitor operations, map approval chains, and ultimately exploit that access to divert funds or exfiltrate sensitive assets.This dynamic is central to our analysis as we kick off a series around Rapid7's collaborative research with Zimbra; upcoming installments will explore technical details and broader findings based within the Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Our investigation disrupted the tra…
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2026-09-24 12:48 UTC
Security Journalism
Security Week · Ionut Arghire · indexed 2026-09-24 13:05 UTC
A threat actor is using three AI harnesses for vulnerability research, exploitation, and attack orchestration. The post AI-Powered Campaign Targets Hundreds of Online Retailers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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2026-09-24 05:36 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-24 08:35 UTC
Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a critical security flaw in WordPress within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-87902 (CVSS score: 9.2), which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain remote code execution (RCE). "An unauthenticated attacker can make get_page_template() page-template resolution include a chosen readable local .php file
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2026-09-23 18:31 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Bill Toulas · indexed 2026-09-23 18:40 UTC
Threat actors have moved from probing WordPress sites vulnerable to CVE-2026-87902 to exploiting the flaw to write files to disk that execute shell commands when accessed. [...]
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2026-09-23 18:06 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-23 20:00 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed Go-based malware distributed via two Go Modules and two Terraform providers, marking the first time threat actors are using the centralized repository hosted by HashiCorp as a distribution vector for malicious payloads. According to Aikido, the list of Terraform providers and Go modules is below - gocommunity-io/dockerd (222 downloads) kreuzwenker/
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2026-09-23 16:20 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Bill Toulas · indexed 2026-09-23 16:30 UTC
A financially motivated threat actor is using open-source AI agent frameworks to attack hundreds of online retailers at scale, stealing more than 600,000 credit card records. [...]
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2026-09-23 14:47 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Elizabeth Montalbano · indexed 2026-09-23 15:00 UTC
Threat actors are poisoning ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overview answers by seeding the Web with malicious links and data and then optimizing the content.
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2026-09-23 14:45 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Blog · Grace Zhang · indexed 2026-09-23 15:00 UTC
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has this month issued a clear call to action through its Multi-factor authentication: Switch it on campaign, urging businesses, organisations, and individuals to enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) across their online accounts. At AWS, we strongly support this message. As threat actors continue to target credentials through phishing, credential stuffing, and […]
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2026-09-23 13:52 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-23 14:10 UTC
Unknown threat actors have managed to compromise two legitimate MemTensor packages across the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repositories to push a platform-specific Go-based implant dubbed sckit designed for Windows, Linux, and macOS. According to reports from Aikido, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity, the libraries in question below - @memtensor/memos-cloud-openclaw-plugin versions
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2026-09-23 08:29 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-23 08:45 UTC
A Chinese threat actor codenamed UTA0565 has been observed exploiting the recently disclosed Google Chrome-Microsoft Windows exploit chain as zero-days through fake websites. The attacks, detected on September 3 and 4, 2026, involved the chaining of two vulnerabilities in Chrome (CVE-2026-85046, CVE-2026-87491) and one impacting Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (CVE-2026-85880) to break
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2026-09-22 20:35 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Bill Toulas · indexed 2026-09-22 20:50 UTC
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has been exploiting vulnerabilities in ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and WordPress to steal sensitive data from 996 devices and more than 18,500 records stored in backend databases. [...]
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2026-09-22 11:55 UTC
Security Journalism
Security Week · Ionut Arghire · indexed 2026-09-22 12:10 UTC
A Chinese threat actor has exploited the bug to exfiltrate sensitive information from nearly 1,000 ZyXEL switches. The post Recent ZyXEL Switch Vulnerability Exploited by Chinese Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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2026-09-22 10:22 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Elizabeth Montalbano · indexed 2026-09-22 17:55 UTC
Threat actors stole the contents of 170 private repositories using an OAuth token stolen from a former employee's computer through the TanStack npm supply chain attack.
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