2026-08-18 12:49 UTC
Vendor Research
Rapid7 · Rapid7 Labs · indexed 2026-08-18 15:35 UTC
You can’t patch everything. So what do you fix first? Findings in Q2 2026 have changed traditional answers.The latest Quarterly Threat Landscape Report from Rapid7 Labs shows vulnerability disclosures still surging while attackers use automation and AI-assisted tooling to compress the time between disclosure and exploitation. The gap that patch cycles were built to fill is closing. Speed and volume are overwhelming security teams that have relied on traditional patch cycles and reactive program…
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2026-08-18 07:18 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-18 07:50 UTC
Evooo1Bot is a Mirai-based Linux botnet that hijacks routers and IoT devices for DDoS attacks, credential theft and criminal proxy services. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs disclosed Evooo1Bot in mid-August, a previously undocumented Linux botnet that’s been active since July 2026. The bot borrows Mirai‘s DDoS engine but adds encrypted command-and-control communications, an SSH brute-force scanner, a […]
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2026-08-17 15:44 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Elizabeth Montalbano · indexed 2026-08-17 16:25 UTC
The botnet adds exploitation modules, credential theft, and reverse SOCKS relays to turn compromised devices into persistent attacker infrastructure.
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2026-08-17 12:00 UTC
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NIST Cybersecurity Insights · Julie Haney, Jody Jacobs · indexed 2026-08-17 12:40 UTC
When was the last time a cybersecurity process at work made you want to scream? Maybe it was a password requirement so complicated you had to write it down (defeating the purpose), a phishing simulation test that felt more like a trap than a lesson, or a confusing security warning pop-up that interrupted your work. Or maybe you’re on the other side of the equation, working as a cybersecurity professional who is wrangling a half dozen disconnected dashboards, drowning in alerts (all flagged "urg…
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2026-08-17 11:29 UTC
Vendor Research
Rapid7 · Anna Širokova · indexed 2026-08-18 15:35 UTC
Operation ASTERIX overviewRapid7 researchers identified an exposed web directory on infrastructure used to support a cryptocurrency fraud operation. The server contained raw phone-number datasets, account-validation tools, enriched lead records, phishing panels, voice-dialing scripts, fake wallet applications, persistence mechanisms, and Telegram exfiltration code. Among the artifacts was evidence that the operator relied on AI coding assistants throughout the campaign's development; recovered …
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2026-08-14 14:00 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Sponsored by Material Security · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC
Google Workspace attacks do not always begin with phishing. Stolen OAuth tokens can provide another path into Gmail, Drive, and connected systems. Material Security explains why organizations need defenses that cover the entire Workspace attack chain. [...]
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2026-08-14 10:57 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-17 10:50 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a large-scale, global recruitment-themed phishing campaign that uses fake interview scheduling pages and Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) windows to steal Google and Facebook credentials and, in more advanced cases, relay multi-factor authentication (MFA) prompts in real time. CTM360, which detailed the activity in a new report titled RecruitTrap, said it
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2026-08-13 10:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Cisco Talos Intelligence Blog · Chetan Raghuprasad · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC
Cisco Talos recently identified an undocumented phishing framework, internally branded "JWR" by its developer, built to convincingly impersonate checkout and login pages across major payment and shopping platforms.
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2026-08-10 13:19 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC
North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country's main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in its possession, and collecting the software parts needed to build AI into its malware. South Korean security firm Genians says it uncovered the
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2026-08-10 12:25 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC
Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Windows had exposed, abused a cloud-synced passkey system from malware already on the victim's machine, and used a
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2026-08-07 18:16 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC
A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services has been attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671. "UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via
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2026-08-07 10:38 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active "widespread email-driven phishing campaign" that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key personnel involved in financial workflows and gather related email. "The campaign uses residential proxies to disguise malicious sign-ins as ordinary consumer traffic,
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2026-08-06 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC
Written by: Tyler McLellan, Austin Larsen Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) continues to track UNC6671 actively conducting compromises leading to data theft extortion, despite the alleged announced retirement of the BlackFile extortion brand in May 2026. Telemetry and infrastructure analysis reveal that rather than disbanding, UNC6671 has diversified its operations across multiple extortion fronts including Redact, Pink, Helix, and Falcon. UNC6671 continues to rely on voice p…
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2026-08-04 07:00 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Nate Nelson · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC
Newer social engineering techniques help attackers ignore entrenched security controls and limit the evidence they leave behind.
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2026-07-31 21:01 UTC
Vendor Research
Microsoft Security Blog · Microsoft Threat Intelligence · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC
Storm-2945, a sub-cluster of the Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard, has been observed compromising the sign-in portals of hospitality-related organizations such as hotels since May 2026 in order to deliver malware to travelers and steal credentials in an operation we call CaptiveCrunch. The post CaptiveCrunch: Midnight Blizzard targets travelers worldwide for malware delivery and credential theft appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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2026-07-28 10:00 UTC
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Cisco Talos Intelligence Blog · Lexi DiScola · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC
Talos IR's Q2 report highlights a significant surge in phishing-based initial access and the weaponization of legitimate remote management tools. Learn how to sharpen your defenses.
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2026-06-15 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC
Written by: Patrick Whitsell, John McGuiness, Muhammad Umair Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a sophisticated campaign attributed to UNC6508, a People's Republic of China (PRC)-nexus threat actor, targeting institutions in the North American academic, medical, and military research community. While remaining undetected for over a year, the threat actor compromised externally facing web applications, deployed bespoke malware, pivoted to sensitive internal systems, and abuse…
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2026-06-05 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC
Written by: Chad Reams, Tufail Ahmed, Keith Knapp, Ashley Frazer, Tyler McLellan Introduction From January through May 2026, Mandiant identified a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign executed by the threat cluster UNC3753 (also tracked as "Luna Moth," “Chatty Spider,” and "Silent Ransom Group") targeting dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the United States. UNC3753 leverages voice phishing (vishing) and social engineering deception tech…
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2026-05-29 14:19 UTC
Vendor Research
Tenable Research Advisories · Ben Smith · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC
Amazon Cognito 1-Click Open Redirection via OAuth Error Handling Abuse Researchers associated with Tenable have discovered a 1-click open redirection technique in Amazon Cognito that can be triggered by abusing the OAuth error-handling mechanism. The vulnerability stems from AWS's OAuth implementation validation sequence: if validation fails due to an unsupported scope, mismatched PKCE parameters, or an unsupported response type, the error handling processes the failure and automatically issues…
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2026-05-29 13:56 UTC
Vendor Research
Tenable Research Advisories · Ben Smith · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC
Microsoft Entra ID 1-Click Open Redirection via OAuth Error Handling Abuse Researchers associated with Tenable have discovered new techniques to trigger 1-click open redirection attacks in Microsoft Entra ID by abusing the OAuth error-handling mechanism. The attack relies on an initial setup phase where a threat actor registers an OAuth application in an actor-controlled tenant and configures its redirect_uri to point to an attacker-controlled domain. When a victim clicks on a specifically craf…
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2026-05-25 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC
While Russian-speaking threat actors have historically dominated the phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) landscape, a rival ecosystem is rapidly growing within the Chinese-language underground. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) analyzed a dozen current PhaaS offerings in the Chinese underground, all of them mature services and many likely tied intricately to the broader criminal ecosystem in that region. These services not only lower the barrier to entry for Chinese cyber criminals, but reveal …
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2026-05-15 14:00 UTC
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Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC
Written by: Austin Larsen, Tyler McLellan, Genevieve Stark, Dan Ebreo Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track an expansive extortion campaign by UNC6671, a threat actor operating under the "BlackFile" brand, that targets organizations via sophisticated voice phishing (vishing) and single sign-on (SSO) compromise. By leveraging adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques to bypass traditional perimeter defenses and multi-factor authentication (MFA), UNC6671 gain…
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2026-04-23 14:00 UTC
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Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC
Written by: JP Glab, Tufail Ahmed, Josh Kelley, Muhammad Umair Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified a multistage intrusion campaign by a newly tracked threat group, UNC6692, that leveraged persistent social engineering, a custom modular malware suite, and deft pivoting inside the victim’s environment to achieve deep network penetration. As with many other intrusions in recent years, UNC6692 relied heavily on impersonating IT helpdesk employees, convincing their victim…
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2025-06-13 16:03 UTC
Vendor Research
Google Online Security Blog · Kimberly Samra · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC
Posted by Adam Gavish, Google GenAI Security TeamWith the rapid adoption of generative AI, a new wave of threats is emerging across the industry with the aim of manipulating the AI systems themselves. One such emerging attack vector is indirect prompt injections. Unlike direct prompt injections, where an attacker directly inputs malicious commands into a prompt, indirect prompt injections involve hidden malicious instructions within external data sources. These may include emails, documents, or…
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