Companies are pouring time and dollars into security awareness training, but little evidence shows it actually works against social engineering. The post Social Engineering Detection Moves Into the Live Conversation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer's network in a ransomware-style attack. [...]
Understanding what a malware sample does and being able to detect it are two different jobs, and the second one needs a skill many teams are short of. The Group-IB Malware Detonation Platform now produces indicators, Sigma rules, and hunting queries from the behavior it observes.
Dell warns that a critical DSU flaw lets attackers run code as root. Customers should patch affected PowerEdge systems as soon as possible. Dell urged customers to patch a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-86360 (CVSS score of 9.6), in its System Update (DSU) tool. The vulnerability is a path traversal issue that can let attackers […]
A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product's web application root directory. The attacker must already know a file's exact name and path and cannot list what the directory holds. Atlassian disclosed the flaw, CVE-2026-21589, on October 5, rated it 9.3 out of 10, and
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft of personal details of thousands of bureau employees. That's according to a report from Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. "To date, our review has determined that the incident occurred as the result of a security failure
Fortinet details ClingSTUN, a Linux backdoor exploiting unpatched IoT devices and abusing public STUN servers to route traffic past NAT. FortiGuard Labs researchers spotted a Linux malware family they call ClingSTUN, and the name gives away its trick immediately. Instead of relying on a dedicated command server, the malicious code leans on STUN, the protocol […]
Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark's national population register, the country's digitalization ministry said on October 5. They used a private Danish company's lawful right to look up records in the Central Person Register (CPR). The ministry has told people never to
A new type of ClickFix attack is using compromised websites to trick users into executing a malicious payload cached in a web browser's cache. "Instead of downloading and executing remote payloads like the typical attack pattern, in this attack, the websites pre-fetch a script payload into the browser cache disguised as a PNG file," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a post on X.
Several mysteries surround what appeared to be an unauthorized push notification sent to customers of London-based clothing company ASOS.
OpenAI is preparing to add invisible watermarks to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the European Union. [...]
As AI models become more capable, they uncover more security vulnerabilities and identify increasingly sophisticated paths to exploit them, raising the bar for how quickly defenders must respond. Security teams now face more potential vulnerabilities than their existing processes were designed to handle — each requiring investigation, reproduction, and a repair that must be tested […]
Beyond the potential misuses of its services, Wikimedia said activity by AI agents can be a drain on web platforms that are already operating with limited resources.
The Linux backdoor exploits 24 known flaws to compromise IoT devices and uses legitimate public STUN servers to obscure communications.
Hackers are actively scanning for a Rejetto HFS weak signing key vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-61500, that allows session forgery, account takeover, and remote code execution (RCE). [...]
Saif al-Din Khader is cooperating with the FBI, reports said, as the bureau responds to a massive breach that exposed employee data.
AI-assisted research uncovered a critical Rejetto HFS flaw that enables authentication bypass and remote code execution, now exploited in the wild. A Rejetto HFS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-61500 (CVSS score of 9.3), discovered with the help of the Anthropic Mythos AI model is now being exploited in the wild, turning an interesting security research experiment […]
Citrix confirmed late on Friday that it was “tracking a newly observed issue” related to some customer-managed NetScaler deployments but claimed the problem was not connected to vulnerabilities reported last week that also caused alarm among cybersecurity experts.
Italy's Data Protection Authority (GPDP) has fined IQVIA €7 million ($7.8M) over poor data-processing practices that the agency says could have put roughly one million patients at risk of data exposure and de-anonymization. [...]
Ukraine’s largest grocery store chain, ATB, confirmed that it was hit by a cyberattack after hackers posted an extortion demand on its website.
Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-96940, is rated 8.8 on the CVSS scoring system. "Weak authorization in Microsoft Exchange Server allows an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a
An emerging threat group known as TA419 established seemingly legitimate professional relationships with AI policy experts working for US think tanks, universities, and legal organizations.
A ransomware attack that affected the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine resulted in the theft of some information from its servers.
Denmark's Central Population Register (CPR) is warning of a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 8.8 million registered individuals. [...]
Dell warned customers to patch a critical vulnerability in the System Update (DSU) command-line interface (CLI) deployment tool as soon as possible. [...]
Google has temporarily stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP). The post Google Narrows Open Source Bug Bounty Amid Wave of Invalid Automated Reports appeared first on SecurityWeek.
South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) held an emergency meeting following a series of cyberattacks targeting financial institutions in the country. [...]
A blank field. A public repo. One reply to an email. A box left exposed. None of this sounds dramatic, which is partly the problem. This week’s threats keep finding leverage in small things that were easy to overlook. There are actively exploited bugs in the mix, cleaner intrusion paths, smarter automation, and a long patch list waiting behind them. Some attacks are getting more capable. Others
ClickFix attacks leave no file to scan or block, which is why most endpoint tools miss it. See how Huntress Attack Disruption kills the chain in under a second.
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 5th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Arizona’s state court system has suffered a phishing-led cyberattack after an employee clicked a malicious link. Attackers copied backup files containing protective-order records and more than 150,000 Foster Care Review Board reports […] The post 5th October – Threat Intelligence Report appeared first on Check Point Research.
