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P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote Commands

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. "Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and crypto-wallet theft, and adds two way C2 communication with the attacker's infrastructure," iVerify said in a new report published Thursday. The name

Anthropic Restricts Live Internet Access After Claude Evaluation Failures

Anthropic’s models kept working around the rules on the live internet. The company published the cases. Anthropic released a report on unintended actions its Claude models took during evaluations and internal use. The cases involved real websites and real organizations outside the company. Anthropic says the impact was minimal, and it published them anyway. The […]

Cyber exec arrested in case allegedly tied to ShinyHunters hackers

Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with alleged extortion activity that multiple reports have linked to the FBI's ongoing crackdown on the ShinyHunters hacking group. [...]

Silent Ransom Group Allegedly Extorted $207 Million Without Encrypting Files

Silent Ransom Group allegedly extorted $207 million from 27 law firms in six months using phone calls and social engineering, not encryption. Silent Ransom Group doesn’t rely on encryption. No malware payload, no locked files, just phone calls and social engineering aimed almost entirely at law firms, and apparently it works extraordinarily well. A new […]

ARTEX AI, Claude agents used in cyberattacks on South Korean banks

The cyberattacks that shook the South Korean financial sector earlier this month were launched by a Chinese hacker using the ARTEX AI penetration testing suite and Claude agents. [...]

Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management

Traditional attack surface management helps organizations discover exposed assets, but visibility alone is not enough to address threats. Criminal IP introduces AITEM, an AI-powered approach that connects exposure discovery with investigation, risk prioritization, and response. [...]

The Third-Party Agent Problem: Why Security Built for AI You Chose Misses the Agents You Didn't

In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by default, not because anyone hid them, but because an identity stack can only govern what authenticates through it, and most agents never do. That gap is the clearest

Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison

The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers. The post Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access for Internal AI Tests After Claude Exploits Injection Flaws

Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations until further notice following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites. The AI company said it identified four broad categories of unintended model actions during evaluations and internal use of Claude

Why TLP should not replace your internal information classification, (Sat, Oct 10th)

The Traffic Light Protocol (TLP)[1], which is now in its second incarnation, is a wonderful standard that enables one to easily communicate whether information may be shared further (and if so, how far).

US Sentences Empire Market Co-Creator Over $430 Million Criminal Marketplace

Empire Market co-creator Raheim Hamilton was sentenced to 40 years in prison for running a dark web marketplace linked to $430 million in illegal trades. The case against Empire Market shows how a dark web marketplace can become a major criminal business, bringing together drug trafficking, stolen credentials, personal data and hacking tools. “A Virginia […]

FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity.

OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks

The ChatGPT maker said the researchers "violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.” The post OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

ASOS Breach Reveals the Risks in Customer-Facing SaaS

The attack on the British retailer shows that compromising a single identity can lead to much deeper penetration of the corporate network.

Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks

Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. [...]

AI Scramble Drives Cybersecurity M&A Boom

Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What's different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms.

Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. "Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel, the attacker pushed a malicious workflow to 27 repositories starting at 13:20 UTC," StepSecurity

Germany Arrests Suspected Qilin Ransomware Leader After Japan Detention

Japan helped extradite a Russian suspect linked to Qilin ransomware to Germany, but the gang continued attacking victims after his arrest. Germany has arrested a Russian national believed to be a leading figure in the Qilin ransomware group, and Japan’s National Police Agency just put its own role in that arrest on the record. The […]

Japan confirms arrest of Russian Qilin operative, extradition to Germany

Japan’s National Police Agency confirmed the arrest and extradition to Germany of a Russian national accused of being involved in the Qilin ransomware gang.

CVE-2026-13762 and CVE-2026-13763 - Issue with HTTP/2 multi-frame request body inspection in AWS WAF

Issue with containerd CRI Plugin - CVE-2026-50195, CVE-2026-53488, CVE-2026-53492, CVE-2026-53489, CVE-2026-47262

CVE-2026-13769 – Insecure file permissions in AWS CLI

CVE-2026-12957 and CVE-2026-12958 - Issues in Language Servers for AWS and Amazon Q Developer Plugins

CVE-2026-13760 - OS Command Injection in NodejsFunction Docker Bundling in aws-cdk-lib

CVE-2026-108096: Improper authorization in query resolvers for SQL-backed models in AWS Amplify API Category

Bulletin ID: 2026-133-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/09/2026 11:00 AM PDT Description: AWS Amplify API Category is a CDK Construct library for defining GraphQL data models with authorization rules as AWS AppSync APIs. We identified CVE-2026-108096, where improper authorization in the query resolvers generated by @aws-amplify/graphql-index-transformer might allow an authenticated remote user to read records owned by other users of the same applic…

FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack

The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI's jobs portal and stolen sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and job applicants. The FBI has not named the suspect, and no charges have been made public. The

What We Missed: FBI Strikes Back at ShinyHunters

In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from the arrest of a suspected ShinyHunters operative to the compromise of a Pentagon-run data center.

Unpatched AhsayCBS flaws exploited to deploy webshells, mine crypto

Threat actors are exploiting one critical and one medium-severity vulnerability still unpatched in the AhsayCBS backup management platform to deploy webshells and cryptocurrency miners. [...]

FBI arrests another suspected ShinyHunters hacker after agency breach

The FBI has arrested another suspected member of the ShinyHunters extortion group believed to be involved in the recent breach of FBI systems, Director Kash Patel announced Friday. [...]

Security Threats Don't Stop at the Office: Why Executives' Families Need Training, Too

Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry point for attacks.