The FBI is warning members of the ShinyHunters extortion group to turn themselves in after Dutch police arrested a man the bureau described as one of the group's alleged leaders. [...]
The artificial intelligence giant acknowledged it botched its response to the incidents and should have done more to promptly notify and work with the Australian government in the days after it discovered the breaches.
Cybersecurity firms say attackers exploited the Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88772 zero-day to deploy custom web shells and tunneling malware, gain root access, steal credentials, and spread into internal networks. [...]
Two former members of the United States Air Force were sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison for their roles in a multi-year series of business email compromise (BEC) scams and phishing campaigns. [...]
An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France's tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France's national cybersecurity agency saw the data leave. The attack was not sophisticated, the agency, ANSSI, says in a report (in French) published on Tuesday: it worked because of weak
Microsoft has started rolling out Windows 11 26H2 to everyone, and while it's this year's big annual feature update, you probably won't notice a massive difference after installing it. [...]
The AIxCC competition winner will analyze messaging app code and compiled binaries for vulnerabilities, with technology that could also help commercial customers secure their software. The post DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors. The new Spectre v2 variant has been codenamed Branch Target Reuse (BTR). "The key insight is that, while modern CPUs
Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a backdoor on their Windows computers, according to Microsoft. The campaigns, aimed at people and organizations tied to Ukraine, have affected more than 100 organizations since January, mostly in the U.S. and U.K. At least one computer was infected, but the number of breached
A new Branch Target Reuse (BTR) attack has been devised that can recover root password hashes on Intel computers running Linux in 3-5 minutes on average. [...]
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Branch Target Reuse (BTR) is a new Spectre v2 attack targeting JIT compilers in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel The post New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Learn how Huntress' Athena brings agentic AI to the SOC, investigating signals end-to-end while human analysts own the final call.
Explore how Storm-3068 turned a compromised identity into broader cloud access and the steps organizations can take to defend their identities, pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. The post Beyond source code: A path to the keys to the kingdom appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) suffered an AI-driven cyberattack that the organization described as "loud and very, very messy." [...]
Bulletin ID: 2026-119-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 09/29/2026 08:00 AM PDT Description: GluonTS is an open source library for deep learning based time series models. We identified CVE-2026-100308 that allows arbitrary command execution upon deserialization of untrusted model artifacts. Deserialization of untrusted data in the model loading component in Amazon GluonTS before 0.17.0 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary opera…
Microsoft observed a China-based actor using a previously unidentified malware framework in targeted intrusions against telcos, universities, medical, and government-related organizations.
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.
The company emerged from stealth mode with pre-seed funding from Osage University Partners and DataTribe. The post RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The critical vulnerabilities, which impact default configurations of NetScaler products, essentially give attackers a skeleton key to customers' networks.
Kiteworks on Monday said it worked with federal intelligence authorities over the weekend as it identified and addressed a critical security vulnerability during the scheduled precautionary shutdown. "During the shutdown, this activity led to the discovery of a previously unknown critical vulnerability confined to a capability that is enabled for less than 1% of the customer base," the company
Pentagon personnel agency breach exposed data of 3 million people after attackers accessed a file-sharing server for about nine months. The U.S. Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), which maintains personnel records for the Department of Defense, is notifying people that their personal information was exposed in a data breach. According to the agency, unauthorized users […]
Identity governance helps control who should have access, but periodic reviews alone may not reveal attacks as they happen. tenfold Software explains how real-time identity telemetry can help security teams investigate suspicious activity before it escalates. [...]
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…
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub. "The malicious packages abuse the 'Baileys' WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to groups without their consent," OX Security researchers Nir Zadok, Moshe Siman Tov Bustan, and Vitalii Chepurko said in a technical
Starting yesterday, our sensors picked up a small number of scans for "wordfence-waf.php". This particular script is used by Wordfence, a solution to protect WordPress sites. During the Wordfence install, the wordpress-waf.php file will be created in the site's root directory [1].
Apple patched zero-day CVE-2026-86950 in CoreGraphics, exploited in sophisticated targeted attacks against specific iOS users. Apple has released security updates for iOS, iPadOS and macOS to fix a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, in CoreGraphics that may have been exploited in attacks against specific individuals. The flaw is an out-of-bounds write that can lead to […]
The company will use the funds to expand its sales, partnerships, channels, and customer support teams. The post Reco Raises $55 Million for Agentic Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The personalized versions of ChatGPT were used to impersonate legitimate products and trick users into executing PowerShell commands. The post Hackers Use ChatGPT Custom GPTs in ClickFix Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
We’re building CryptoLabe, an internal AI-powered tool that discovers cryptography across our codebase, surfaces dependencies, and helps us progress toward a full post-quantum migration by 2029. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.
