Aggregated from vendor advisories, security research, and industry publications.
A cybercrime crew left one of its own servers wide open on the internet for three weeks, and it exposed the operation's inner workings: the hacking tools, the activity logs, and target lists naming more than 1.4 million websites. Far fewer were actually broken into, but the exposed files showed researchers how a mass site-hacking operation runs from the inside. The operation, now tracked as
The attackers call victims to direct them to phishing websites mirroring Microsoft Entra ID login pages. The post Okta Warns of Vishing Attacks Targeting Microsoft 365 Customers ap…
In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litt…
Researchers ran 281 of the most popular free VPN apps on the Google Play Store through a new testing system and found that many fail at the basics people install a VPN for, i.e., k…
A threat actor has been targeting organizations spanning multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that prompt Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey with…
Next version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server
NHS Forth Valley is the latest health board to bungle basic email data protection principles
The backdoor’s destructive capabilities include a standalone wiper, ransomware encryption, and a multi-pass wiping command. The post GigaWiper Combines Multiple Malware for System-…
Security firm Coinspect has disclosed a crypto wallet flaw it calls Ill Bloom, and attackers are already using it. The flaw is in how some wallet software generated its recovery ph…
Researchers demonstrate adversarial hallucination squatting against popular AI assistants to achieve remote code execution. The post ‘HalluSquatting’ Turns AI Hallucinations Into B…
Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light
A former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint was sentenced to 70 months in prison for targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks. […
A 41-year-old former ransomware negotiator has been sentenced to nearly six years (i.e., 70 months) in prison in the U.S. for their role in conspiring with the now-defunct BlackCat…
A Go module is used to load PowerShell code that fetches a resolver from public dead drops to execute Windows malware. The post Network of 200 GitHub Repositories Used for Malware …
Police wanted to call off a grudge game until tech support electrified fevered fans
Beware the golden screwdriver
More patches mean more reasons to buy Redmond’s auto-patching tools
Leaked negotiations spill the tea
The OpenMandriva Linux project announced that it was the target of an attempted act of internal sabotage after a dispute among contributors. [...]
One in four long-form social media posts appear entirely AI-generated, with nearly half of those on Microsoft's and Elon's platforms involving AI in some form
Obscurity isn't a defense. If your company has any Internet-facing vulnerability, you're at risk from multiple threats.
The researcher known as "Nightmare-Eclipse" published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for the Windows Defender vulnerability in early June after dropping several other Microsoft z…
Hackers compromised the Injective Labs SDK project's GitHub repository and used it to publish a malicious package on the Node Package Manager (npm) that stole cryptocurrency wallet…
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If you're handling AI agents like a service account or API token, consider yourself behind. AI agents need a fundamentally different approach.
Datadog Security Labs is warning of "several overlapping campaigns" that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the …
Microsoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper. What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, …
Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project
Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs
A new data-extortion group called Helix is using identity-focused tactics such as voice phishing (vishing), device code phishing, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) abuse to ste…
Microsoft says Windows users should expect to see an increase in security updates as the company increasingly relies on artificial intelligence to discover vulnerabilities in its c…