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Dubbed GopherWhisper, the group relies on multiple Go-based backdoors alongside custom loaders and injectors. The post China-Linked APT GopherWhisper Abuses Legitimate Services in Government Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Lua-based malware created years before the notorious Stuxnet worm that aimed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program by destroying uranium enrichment centrifuges. According to a new report published by SentinelOne, th…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added four vulnerabilities impacting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server, and D-Link DIR-823X series routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of…
Home security giant ADT has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened to leak stolen data unless a ransom is paid. [...]
Cybersecurity agencies in the U.S. and U.K. are warning about a custom malware called Firestarter persisting on Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall devices running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) or Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software. [...]
Microsoft is rolling out Windows Update improvements that give users more control over how updates are installed while reducing disruption from frequent or poorly timed restarts. [...]
A new financially motivated hacking group tracked as BlackFile has been linked to a wave of data theft and extortion attacks against retail and hospitality organizations since February 2026. [...]
Microsoft will roll out passkey support for phishing-resistant passwordless authentication to Microsoft Entra‑protected resources from Windows devices starting late April. [...]
A new vulnerability dubbed Pack2TheRoot could be exploited in the PackageKit daemon to allow local Linux users to install or remove system packages and gain root permissions. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency's Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software was compromised in September 2025 with a new malware called FIREST…
It targeted high-precision calculation software to tamper with results and packed a self-propagation mechanism. The post Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Supreme Court hacker sentenced, Lovable exposed user data, Google expands enterprise security. The post In Other News: Unauthorized Mythos Access, Plankey CISA Nomination Ends, New Display Secur…
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as…
Article 9 of DORA makes authentication and access control a legal obligation for EU financial entities. Here is what the regulation requires, and what a breach looks like when those controls are missing. [...]
Over 10,000 Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) instances exposed online are vulnerable to ongoing attacks exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) security flaw. [...]
UK government Minister confirms that breached health records of UK Biobank volunteers were up for sale on Chinese ecommerce platforms before being removed
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 24, 2026 – Read the full story in it-daily.net According to the 2026 CISO Report, published by Cybersecurity Ventures in collaboration with Sophos, a massive gap exists…
From autonomous code generation to decision-making systems that initiate actions without human intervention, the industry is entering a new phase. The post Why Cybersecurity Must Rethink Defense in the Age of Autonomous Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Locked Shields has grown significantly over the past 16 years, with only four nations participating in the first edition. The post Locked Shields 2026: 41 Nations Strengthen Cyber Resilience in World’s Biggest Exercise appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI tools are not just creating new vulnerabilities, they are reviving old security failures, warned Jurgen Kutscher, VP of Mandiant Consulting
The AI Agent Authority Gap - From Ungoverned to Delegation As discussed in our previous article, AI agents are exposing a structural gap in enterprise security, but the problem is often framed too narrowly. The issue is not simply that agents are new actors. I…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious apps on the Apple App Store that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets in an attempt to steal recovery phrases and private keys since at least fall 2025. "Once launched, these apps redirect user…
Microsoft says IT administrators can now uninstall the AI-powered Copilot digital assistant from enterprise devices using a new policy setting, which has become broadly available after the April 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
The malware provides remote access and control of infected devices and maintains post-patching persistence. The post US Federal Agency’s Cisco Firewall Infected With ‘Firestarter’ Backdoor appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies’ exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models. The post Trump Administration Vows Crackdown on Chinese Companies ‘Exploiting’ AI Models Made in US appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CrowdStrike has fixed a critical LogScale vulnerability, while Tenable addressed a high-severity Nessus flaw. The post Vulnerabilities Patched in CrowdStrike, Tenable Products appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) tunnels for r…
Malicious npm packages spread via worm-like propagation and steal developer credentials
Tied to a fresh Checkmarx supply chain attack claimed by TeamPCP, the incident references the Shai-Hulud worm. The post Bitwarden NPM Package Hit in Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Israel-based company, which just emerged from stealth mode, was founded by cloud and security experts from RSA, McAfee, and Unity. The post Copperhelm Raises $7 Million for Agentic Cloud Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A high-severity security flaw in LMDeploy, an open-source toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLMs, has come under active exploitation in the wild less than 13 hours after its public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33626 (CVSS sc…
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Breeze Cache plugin for WordPress that allows uploading arbitrary files on the server without authentication. [...]
The attacker’s blind spot just disappeared –Mayuresh Ektare, Senior Vice President, Product Management San Jose, Calif. – Apr. 23, 2026 Today’s attackers largely treat software as a black box. Some study open-source software (OSS) to tailor their techniques, b…
The Bitwarden CLI was briefly compromised after attackers uploaded a malicious @bitwarden/cli package to npm containing a credential-stealing payload capable of spreading to other projects. [...]
Recently observed Trigona ransomware attacks are using a custom, command-line tool to steal data from compromised environments faster and more efficiently. [...]
A previously undocumented threat activity cluster known as UNC6692 has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics via Microsoft Teams to deploy a custom malware suite on compromised hosts. "As with many other intrusions in recent years, UNC6692 relied…
Google Cloud’s COO advocated for combining general-purpose frontier large language models with task-specific AI agents
Hackers have compromised Docker images, VSCode and Open VSX extensions for the Checkmarx KICS analysis tool to harvest sensitive data from developer environments. [...]
Dutch cosmetics giant Rituals disclosed a data breach after attackers stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers from its "My Rituals" membership database. [...]
Password resets are one of the easiest ways for attackers to bypass security controls. Specops Software shows how helpdesk social engineering turns a seemingly legitimate reset request into full account compromise. [...]
Bitwarden CLI, the command-line interface for the password manager Bitwarden, has reportedly been compromised as part of a newly discovered and ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign, according to findings from JFrog and Socket. "The affected package version…
You scroll past one incident and see another that feels familiar, like it should have been fixed years ago, but it still works with small changes. Same bugs. Same mistakes. The supply chain is messy. Packages you did not check are stealing data, adding backdoo…
Apple patches iOS flaw that retained deleted notifications, exposing message data
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 23, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. The company’s next-generation privileged…
Imagine a world where hackers don't sleep, don't take breaks, and find weak spots in your systems instantly. Well, that world is already here. Thanks to AI, attackers are now launching automated, large-scale exploits faster than ever before. The time you have…
Google Cloud will attribute a unique cryptographic ID every AI agent that will be tied to “traceable and auditable” authorization policies
Last week, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, an AI model so effective at discovering software vulnerabilities that they took the extraordinary step of postponing its public release. Instead, the company has given access to Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon…
Quorum Cyber report finds higher and further education institutions experienced 63% increase in attacks over a year
Forcepoint has found 10 new indirect prompt injection attacks targeting AI agents
Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as GopherWhisper. "The group wields a wide array of tools mostly written in Go, using injectors and loaders…
The UK’s NCSC has fully backed passkeys as consumers’ first choice for login, citing progress with FIDO and successful use across the NHS
Vercel on Wednesday revealed that it has identified an additional set of customer accounts that were compromised as part of a security incident that enabled unauthorized access to its internal systems. The company said it made the discovery after expanding its…
Apple has rolled out a software fix for iOS and iPadOS to address a Notification Services flaw that stored notifications marked for deletion on the device. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28950 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a logging issue th…
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of malicious images pushed to the official "checkmarx/kics" Docker Hub repository. In an alert published today, software supply chain security company Socket revealed that unknown threat actors managed to have overwritten…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh set of packages that have been compromised by bad actors to deliver a self-propagating worm that spreads through stolen developer npm tokens. The supply chain worm has been detected by both Socket and StepSecurity…
macOS LOTL techniques bypass detection using native tools and metadata abuse
The threat actor known as Harvester has been attributed to a new Linux version of its GoGra backdoor deployed as part of attacks likely targeting entities in South Asia. "The malware uses the legitimate Microsoft Graph API and Outlook mailboxes as a covert com…
The UK’s cybersecurity agency said the devices will be available for purchase by organizations around the world
UK unveils £90m cybersecurity funding at CYBERUK to boost SME resilience, promote Cyber Essentials and a new Cyber Resilience Pledge, sparking industry debate
Null subject phishing campaigns bypass filters and target VIPs with QR code and RMM abuse
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 22, 2026 – Read the full story in Cairo SCENE Digital transformation across the Middle East has accelerated rapidly in recent years, and cybersecurity has followed clos…
A former ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to abusing his position by working with noted cybercrime group BlackCat
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented data wiper that has been used in attacks targeting Venezuela at the end of last year and the start of 2026. Dubbed Lotus Wiper, the novel file wiper has been used in a destructive campaign tar…
On January 31, 2026, researchers disclosed that Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, had left its database wide open, exposing 35,000 email addresses and 1.5 million agent API tokens across 770,000 active agents. The more worrying part sat inside th…
Infrawatch says ProxySmart platform enables SIM farm activity at “industrial scale”
Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address a security vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. It's rated Important in s…
The convergence of global tensions and rapid technological change is driving a new era of cyber risk, the NCSC warns
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of a known malware called LOTUSLITE that's distributed via a theme related to India's banking sector. "The backdoor communicates with a dynamic DNS-based command-and-control server over HTTPS and supports…
A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in a Python-based sandbox called Terrarium that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5752, is rated 9.3 on the CVSS scoring system. "Sandbox escape vulnerability i…
Threat actors associated with The Gentlemen ransomware‑as‑a‑service (RaaS) operation have been observed attempting to deploy a known proxy malware called SystemBC. According to new research published by Check Point, the command-and-control (C2 or C&C) server l…
NGate malware abuses HandyPay app to steal NFC card data and PINs in Brazil
Cybersecurity researchers have identified 22 new vulnerabilities in popular models of serial-to-IP converters from Lantronix and Silex that could be exploited to hijack susceptible devices and tamper with data exchanged by them. The vulnerabilities have been c…
A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the s…
A third individual who was employed as a ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to conducting ransomware attacks against U.S. companies in 2023. Angelo Martino, 41, of Land O'Lakes, Florida, teamed up with the operators of the BlackCat ransomware starting in…
Gentlemen RaaS expands quickly with multi-platform attacks and SystemBC-linked infections
Security teams often present MTTR as an internal KPI. Leadership sees it differently: every hour a threat dwells inside the environment is an hour of potential data exfiltration, service disruption, regulatory exposure, and brand damage. The root cause of slow…
Data exposure, operational disruption and financial losses among issues faced by businesses struggling with the rapid rise of AI agents, warns Cloud Security Alliance report
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new iteration of an Android malware family called NGate that has been found to abuse a legitimate application called HandyPay instead of NFCGate. "The threat actors took the app, which is used to relay NFC data, and…
The cybersecurity industry has spent the last several years chasing sophisticated threats like zero-days, supply chain compromises, and AI-generated exploits. However, the most reliable entry point for attackers still hasn't changed: stolen credentials. Identi…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Google's agentic integrated development environment (IDE), Antigravity, that could be exploited to achieve code execution. The flaw, since patched, combines Antigravity's permitted file-creation capa…
Cloud app developer Vercel appears to have suffered a security breach
North Korea’s Lazarus Group is pegged for a $290m crypto theft at KelpDAO
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including three flaws impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, citing evidence of active exploitati…
A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in SGLang that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5760, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been desc…
ZionSiphon malware targets OT water systems with sabotage and ICS scanning capabilities
Formbook attacks use combination of DLL Side-Loading and Obfuscated JavaScript to stay hidden, researchers at WatchGuard have uncovered
Monday’s recap shows the same pattern in different places. A third-party tool becomes a way in, then leads to internal access. A trusted download path is briefly swapped to deliver malware. Browser extensions act normally while pulling data and running code. E…
FortiGuard Labs has identified a Mirai-based Nexcorium campaign actively exploiting CVE-2024-3721 in TBK DVR devices
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 20, 2026 – Listen to the podcast The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast tops Million Podcast’s curated list of the best 60 cybercrime podcasts to listen to in 2026. These podc…
The fastest way to fall in love with an AI tool is to watch the demo. Everything moves quickly. Prompts land cleanly. The system produces impressive outputs in seconds. It feels like the beginning of a new era for your team. But most AI initiatives don't fail…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical "by design" weakness in the Model Context Protocol's (MCP) architecture that could pave the way for remote code execution and have a cascading effect on the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain. "This f…
The National Cyber Security Centre has shared an update of its resilience-building efforts for the NHS
Russian crypto-exchange Grinex claims Western intelligence agencies were behind a $13m heist
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called ZionSiphon that appears to be specifically designed to target Israeli water treatment and desalination systems. The malware has been codenamed ZionSiphon by Darktrace, highlighting its ability to set…
Web infrastructure provider Vercel has disclosed a security breach that allows bad actors to gain unauthorized access to "certain" internal Vercel systems. The incident stemmed from the compromise of Context.ai, a third-party artificial intelligence (AI) tool,…
In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak passwords. Unmanaged non-human identities that nobody was watching. For every employee in your org, there are 40 to 50 automated credentials:…
Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-incorporated cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.K. and the U.S. last year, said it's suspending operations after it blamed Western intelligence agencies for a $13.74 million hack. The exchange said it fell victim to what it descri…
Threat actors are exploiting security flaws in TBK DVR and end‑of‑life (EoL) TP-Link Wi-Fi routers to deploy Mirai-botnet variants on compromised devices, according to findings from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs and Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The attack targeting…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 17, 2026 – Listen to the podcast episode Kerem Albayrak from north London threatened to wipe 319 million accounts unless Apple gave him iTunes gift cards worth $100,000…
Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain elevated privileges in compromised systems. The activity involves the exploitation of three vulnerabilities that are codenamed BlueHamme…
AI models are making rapid gains in vulnerability research and exploit development, raising new cybersecurity risks, a Forescout study finds
Coordinated action by FBI, Europol and others seizes infrastructure, makes arrests – and sends warning letters to known DDoS service users
Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025. The new policy upd…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), stating it will only enrich those that fulfil certain…
An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations that were used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals. The ongoing effort, dubbed Operation…
A recently disclosed high-severity security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ Classic has come under active exploitation in the wild, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). To that end, the agency has added the vulnerability, tracked as CV…
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that's targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet dubbed PowMix since at least December 2025. "PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) bea…
US authorities jail two Americans for aiding North Korean laptop farm scams that infiltrated over 100 firms
APK malformation tactic now appears in over 3000 Android malware samples evading static analysis
Tennessee's CRMC notifies over 337,000 patients of Rhysida ransomware breach exposing sensitive data
You know that feeling when you open your feed on a Thursday morning and it's just... a lot? Yeah. This week delivered. We've got hackers getting creative in ways that are almost impressive if you ignore the whole "crime" part, ancient vulnerabilities somehow s…
NIST’s National Vulnerability Database will now prioritize enriching new and exploited flaws to address the record growth of reported CVEs
Cisco has announced patches to address four critical security flaws impacting Identity Services and Webex Services that could result in arbitrary code execution and allow an attacker to impersonate any user within the service. The details of the vulnerabilitie…
A "novel" social engineering campaign has been observed abusing Obsidian, a cross-platform note-taking application, as an initial access vector to distribute a previously undocumented Windows remote access trojan called PHANTOMPULSE in attacks targeting indivi…
Ox Security claims as many as 200,000 servers are exposed by newly discovered MCP vulnerability
Halcyon says ransomware now accounts for more than two-fifths of cyber-attacks targeting carmakers
New automation and AI-driven triage capabilities dramatically reduce alert noise and accelerate investigations for modern security teams San Jose, Calif. – Apr. 16, 2026 As security operations teams struggle to keep pace with escalating alert volumes and incre…
OpenAI’s new frontier model focused on cybersecurity comes following Anthropic’s launch of Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing
The EU cybersecurity agency looks to become the third Top-Level Root CVE Numbering Authority, alongside CISA and MITRE
Huntress uncovers adware deploying AV-killing payloads via signed updates across 23,000 endpoints
Critical nginx-ui MCP authentication bypass CVE-2026-33032 actively exploited with CVSS 9.8
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 15, 2026 – Read the full story from RSAC The top line on chief information security officer pay packages in 2026 is that CISOs are earning more than ever, writes Steve…
At VulnCon, Lindsey Cerkovnik, head of vulnerability management at CISA, said AI companies should play a bigger role in vulnerability disclosures in the future
Barracuda says 88% of brute-force attempts in Q1 were from the region
Microsoft has patched two zero-day flaws and over 160 others
Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed weakness in Windows Defender dubbed "BlueHammer." Se…
A new IANS report claims just 34% of cybersecurity professionals plan to stay put in the next 12 months
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 14, 2026 – Read the full story in Time For the past few years, it’s escaped no one that levels of Internet and telephone fraud have skyrocketed. TIME reports that one i…
Triad Nexus scales $200m scams, uses infrastructure laundering, localized fraud and US-access blocks
108 malicious Chrome extensions steal sessions, Google data, inject ads via single C2 infrastructure
The AISI has issued its judgement on Anthropic’s Mythos Preview model
Attackers are abusing Microsoft 365 mailbox rules to hide activity, exfiltrate data and retain access after account compromise, researchers warn
Security researchers warn of Mirax, an emerging Android banking trojan using MaaS, remote access and residential proxies to target European users
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 13, 2026 – Read the full story in Barron’s Cybersecurity stocks could be set for a massive boost from risks tied to Anthropic’s latest advances in artificial intelligen…
The W3LL phishing kit has been associated with fraud attempts totaling $20m
The UK Cyber Security Council has unveiled a new Associate Cyber Security Professional title aimed at supporting early‑career cybersecurity professionals
UK, US and Canadian authorities have identified over 20,000 victims of approval phishing scams that trick users into handing over full crypto wallet access