Over 100 Chrome extensions in Web Store target users accounts and data
More than 100 malicious extensions in the official Chrome Web Store are attempting to steal Google OAuth2 Bearer tokens, deploy backdoors, and carry out ad fraud. [...]
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Microsoft Patches Exploited SharePoint Zero-Day and 160 Other Vulnerabilities
Experts say this is the second-largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday ever based on CVE count. The post Microsoft Patches Exploited SharePoint Zero-Day and 160 Other Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5082200 extended security update
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5082200 extended security update to fix the April 2026 Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities, including 2 zero-days. [...]
McGraw-Hill confirms data breach following extortion threat
Education company McGraw-Hill has confirmed in a statement to BleepingComputer that hackers exploited a Salesforce misconfiguration and accessed its internal data. [...]
Windows 11 cumulative updates KB5083769 & KB5082052 released
Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5083769 and KB5082052 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities, bugs, and add new features. [...]
Microsoft April 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 167 flaws, 2 zero-days
Today is Microsoft's April 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 167 flaws, including 2 zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]
Adobe Patches 55 Vulnerabilities Across 11 Products
Critical ColdFusion vulnerabilities are the most at risk of being exploited in attacks, according to the software giant. The post Adobe Patches 55 Vulnerabilities Across 11 Products appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Fake Ledger Live app on Apple’s App Store stole $9.5M in crypto
A malicious Ledger Live app for macOS available from Apple's App Store has drained approximately $9.5 million in cryptocurrency from 50 victims in just a few days this month. [...]
New PHP Composer Flaws Enable Arbitrary Command Execution — Patches Released
Two high-severity security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Composer, a package manager for PHP, that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities have been described as command injection flaws affecting th…
Microsoft rolls out fast-track to reinstate Windows hardware dev accounts
Microsoft has rolled out a fast-track process to help developers regain access to accounts recently suspended from its Windows Hardware Program, following widespread complaints that they were locked out without warning. [...]
Google Adds Rust-Based DNS Parser into Pixel 10 Modem to Enhance Security
Google has announced the integration of a Rust-based Domain Name System (DNS) parser into the modem firmware as part of its ongoing efforts to beef up the security of Pixel devices and push memory-safe code at a more foundational level. "The new Rust-based DNS…
AI-Driven Pushpaganda Scam Exploits Google Discover to Spread Scareware and Ad Fraud
Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked a novel ad fraud scheme that has been found to leverage search engine poisoning (SEO) techniques and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content to push deceptive news stories into Google's Discover feed and trick use…
5 Ways Zero Trust Maximizes Identity Security
Stolen credentials remain a top breach vector, often leading to unchecked privilege escalation. Specops explains how identity-first Zero Trust limits access, enforces device trust, and blocks lateral movement. [...]
CISOs Urged to Innovate with Talent Retention as Job Satisfaction Declines
A new IANS report claims just 34% of cybersecurity professionals plan to stay put in the next 12 months
‘Mythos-Ready’ Security: CSA Urges CISOs to Prepare for Accelerated AI Threats
CISOs face a shrinking window to prepare as AI models like Mythos collapse the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation, driving a new era of high-velocity cyberattacks. The post ‘Mythos-Ready’ Security: CSA Urges CISOs to Prepare for Accelerated A…
Scamdemic: Over $1 Trillion Annually Lost To Online Fraud; AI Lends A Helping Hand
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…
Europe’s Largest Gym Chain Says Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Members
Basic-Fit has reported that hackers have stolen names, dates of birth, and even bank account details. The post Europe’s Largest Gym Chain Says Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Members appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Triad Nexus Expands Global Fraud Operations Despite US Sanctions
Triad Nexus scales $200m scams, uses infrastructure laundering, localized fraud and US-access blocks
Malicious Chrome Extensions Campaign Exposes User Data
108 malicious Chrome extensions steal sessions, Google data, inject ads via single C2 infrastructure
SAP Patches Critical ABAP Vulnerability
The company has released 19 new security notes addressing flaws in over a dozen enterprise products. The post SAP Patches Critical ABAP Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Triad Nexus Evades Sanctions to Fuel Cybercrime
The sprawling cybercrime operation abuses major providers to prevent takedowns and distance itself from sanctions. The post Triad Nexus Evades Sanctions to Fuel Cybercrime appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Google Adds Rust DNS Parser to Pixel Phones for Better Security
The parser is meant to mitigate the entire class of memory safety bugs in the low-level environment. The post Google Adds Rust DNS Parser to Pixel Phones for Better Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Mirax Android RAT Turns Devices into SOCKS5 Proxies, Reaching 220,000 via Meta Ads
A nascent Android remote access trojan called Mirax has been observed actively targeting Spanish-speaking countries, with campaigns reaching more than 220,000 accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads through advertisements on Meta. "Mirax integr…
Analysis of 216M Security Findings Shows a 4x Increase In Critical Risk (2026 Report)
OX Security recently analyzed 216 million security findings across 250 organizations over a 90-day period. The primary takeaway: while raw alert volume grew by 52% year-over-year, prioritized critical risk grew by nearly 400%. The surge in AI-assisted developm…
Nightclub Giant RCI Hospitality Reports Data Breach
The company said in an SEC filing that an IDOR vulnerability affecting RCI Internet Services exposed contractor data. The post Nightclub Giant RCI Hospitality Reports Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI Security Institute Advocates Security Best Practices After Mythos Test
The AISI has issued its judgement on Anthropic’s Mythos Preview model
Organizations Warned of Exploited Windows, Adobe Acrobat Vulnerabilities
The security defects allow attackers to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Organizations Warned of Exploited Windows, Adobe Acrobat Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abu…
ShowDoc RCE Flaw CVE-2025-0520 Actively Exploited on Unpatched Servers
A critical security vulnerability impacting ShowDoc, a document management and collaboration service popular in China, has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-0520 (aka CNVD-2020-26585), which carries a CVSS sc…
CISA Adds 6 Known Exploited Flaws in Fortinet, Microsoft, and Adobe Software
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added half a dozen security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-2164…
European Gym giant Basic-Fit data breach affects 1 million members
Dutch fitness giant Basic-Fit announced that hackers breached its systems and gained access to information belonging to a million of its customers. [...]
Stolen Rockstar Games analytics data leaked by extortion gang
Rockstar Games has suffered a data breach linked to a recent security incident at Anodot, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang now leaking the stolen data on its data leak site. [...]
Critical flaw in wolfSSL library enables forged certificate use
A critical vulnerability in the wolfSSL SSL/TLS library can weaken security via improper verification of the hash algorithm or its size when checking Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) signatures. [...]
FBI takedown of W3LL phishing service leads to developer arrest
The FBI Atlanta Field Office and Indonesian authorities have dismantled the "W3LL" global phishing platform, seizing infrastructure and arresting the alleged developer in what is described as the first coordinated enforcement action between the United States a…
OpenAI rotates macOS certs after Axios attack hit code-signing workflow
OpenAI is rotating potentially exposed macOS code-signing certificates after a GitHub Actions workflow executed a malicious Axios package during a recent supply chain attack. [...]
New Booking.com data breach forces reservation PIN resets
Booking.com has confirmed via a statement to BleepingComputer that it has detected unauthorized access to its systems that has exposed sensitive reservation and user data. [...]
JanelaRAT Malware Targets Latin American Banks with 14,739 Attacks in Brazil in 2025
Banks and financial institutions in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico have continued to be the target of a malware family called JanelaRAT. A modified version of BX RAT, JanelaRAT is known to steal financial and cryptocurrency data associated wit…
Adobe rolls out emergency fix for Acrobat, Reader zero-day flaw
Adobe has released an emergency security update for Acrobat Reader to fix a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34621, that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since at least December. [...]
Mailbox Rule Abuse Emerges as Stealthy Post-Compromise Threat
Attackers are abusing Microsoft 365 mailbox rules to hide activity, exfiltrate data and retain access after account compromise, researchers warn
FBI and Indonesian Police Dismantle W3LL Phishing Network Behind $20M Fraud Attempts
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Indonesian National Police, has dismantled the infrastructure associated with a global phishing operation that leveraged an off-the-shelf toolkit called W3LL to steal thousands of victims'…
Mirax Android Trojan Turns Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes
Security researchers warn of Mirax, an emerging Android banking trojan using MaaS, remote access and residential proxies to target European users
Booking.com Says Hackers Accessed User Information
The online travel platform has not said how many customers’ booking information was exposed, but said the issue has been contained. The post Booking.com Says Hackers Accessed User Information appeared first on SecurityWeek.
⚡ Weekly Recap: Fiber Optic Spying, Windows Rootkit, AI Vulnerability Hunting and More
Monday is back, and the weekend’s backlog of chaos is officially hitting the fan. We are tracking a critical zero-day that has been quietly living in your PDFs for months, plus some aggressive state-sponsored meddling in infrastructure that is finally coming t…
Anthropic’s New Mythos Agent Has Created A Stir In The Cybersecurity Market
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…
Your MTTD Looks Great. Your Post-Alert Gap Doesn't
Anthropic restricted its Mythos Preview model last week after it autonomously found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Palo Alto Networks' Wendi Whitmore warned that similar capabilities are weeks or months from…
FBI Dismantles $20m Phishing Operation W3LL
The W3LL phishing kit has been associated with fraud attempts totaling $20m
North Korea's APT37 Uses Facebook Social Engineering to Deliver RokRAT Malware
The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 (aka ScarCruft) has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the tr…
UK Cyber Security Council Launches Associate Cyber Security Professional Title
The UK Cyber Security Council has unveiled a new Associate Cyber Security Professional title aimed at supporting early‑career cybersecurity professionals
Operation Atlantic Seizes $12m in Crypto Losses
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
OpenAI Revokes macOS App Certificate After Malicious Axios Supply Chain Incident
OpenAI revealed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign its macOS apps led to the download of the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data or internal system was compromised. "Out of an abundance of caution, we are taking steps to protec…
CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID ("cpuid[.]com"), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote ac…
Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Acrobat Reader Flaw CVE-2026-34621
Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful explo…
Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by…
GlassWorm Campaign Uses Zig Dropper to Infect Multiple Developer IDEs
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that's designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environments (IDEs) on a developer's machine. The technique has been…
Cybercrime Is An Industrialized Economy
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 10, 2026 – Read the full story in BusinessWorld Cybercrime operates like a legitimate, profit-driven economy, writes Subhalakshmi Ganapathy, chief IT security evangelis…
Just Three Ransomware Gangs Accounted for 40% of Attacks Last Month
Qilin, Akira and Dragonforce were responsible for 40% of 672 ransomware incidents reported in March, says Check Point
Google Chrome Rolls Out Protection Against Infostealers Targeting Session Cookies
Chrome’s Device Bound Session Credentials is designed to block infostealers from harvesting session cookie
Browser Extensions Are the New AI Consumption Channel That No One Is Talking About
While much of the discussion on AI security centers around protecting ‘shadow’ AI and GenAI consumption, there's a wide-open window nobody's guarding: AI browser extensions. A new report from LayerX exposes just how deep this blind spot goes, and why AI extens…
Google Rolls Out DBSC in Chrome 146 to Block Session Theft on Windows
Google has made Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) generally available to all Windows users of its Chrome web browser, months after it began testing the security feature in open beta. The public availability is currently limited to Windows users on Chrome…
Marimo RCE Flaw CVE-2026-39987 Exploited Within 10 Hours of Disclosure
A critical security vulnerability in Marimo, an open-source Python notebook for data science and analysis, has been exploited within 10 hours of public disclosure, according to findings from Sysdig. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-39987 (CVSS score:…
Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Update Distributed via Compromised Nextend Servers
Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a backdoor. The incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35 for WordPress, per WordPress security co…
EngageLab SDK Flaw Exposed 50M Android Users, Including 30M Crypto Wallet Installs
Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability in a widely used third-party Android software development kit (SDK) called EngageLab SDK that could have put millions of cryptocurrency wallet users at risk. "This flaw allows apps on the same dev…
UAT-10362 Targets Taiwanese NGOs with LucidRook Malware in Spear-Phishing Campaigns
A previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed UAT-10362 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and suspected universities to deploy a new Lua-based malware called LucidRook. "LucidRook is a s…
STX RAT Targets Finance Sector With Advanced Stealth Tactics
STX RAT, a newly identified remote access trojan, attempted deployment in finance, showing advanced C2 and stealthy delivery methods
Bitcoin Depot Reports $3.6m Crypto Theft After System Breach
Bitcoin Depot has disclosed a cyber-attack that led to the theft of more than 50 Bitcoin, worth $3.66m, after hackers accessed its internal systems
Math Problem: Cybercrime Divided By Cybersecurity
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 9, 2026 – Read the full story in Illumio “Gartner says we are all going to spend $240 billion USD (on cybersecurity this year), but Cybersecurity Ventures says that cyb…
ThreatsDay Bulletin: Hybrid P2P Botnet, 13-Year-Old Apache RCE and 18 More Stories
Thursday. Another week, another batch of things that probably should've been caught sooner but weren't. This one's got some range — old vulnerabilities getting new life, a few "why was that even possible" moments, attackers leaning on platforms and tools you'd…
The Hidden Security Risks of Shadow AI in Enterprises
As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing workflows, they also operate outside the visibility of securi…
Atomic Stealer MacOS ClickFix Attack Bypasses Apple Security Warnings
macOS 26.4 update introduced security warnings into Terminal to prevent ClickFix attacks, so attackers have shifted to Script Editor instead
Adobe Reader Zero-Day Exploited via Malicious PDFs Since December 2025
Threat actors have been exploiting a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader using maliciously crafted PDF documents since at least December 2025. The finding, detailed by EXPMON's Haifei Li, has been described as a highly-sophisticated PDF e…
Middle East Hack-for-Hire Operation Traced to South Asian Cyber Espionage Group
A spear-phishing campaign which spread across the Middle East between 2023 and 2024 has now been linked to Bitter APT group
Bitter-Linked Hack-for-Hire Campaign Targets Journalists Across MENA Region
An apparent hack-for-hire campaign likely orchestrated by a threat actor with suspected ties to the Indian government targeted journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to findings from Access No…
Governance Gaps Emerge as AI Agents Drive 76% Increase in NHIs
SANS Institute reveals that AI agents are behind a 76% surge in non-human identities
Google Warns of New Threat Group Targeting BPOs and Helpdesks
Google’s threat intel team warns UNC6783, a new extortion group possibly linked to the “Raccoon” persona, is targeting BPOs and enterprises
New Chaos Variant Targets Misconfigured Cloud Deployments, Adds SOCKS Proxy
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant ofmalware called Chaosthat'scapable of hitting misconfigured cloud deployments, marking an expansion of the botnet's targeting infrastructure. "Chaos malware is increasingly targeting misconfigured cloud dep…
Masjesu Botnet Emerges as DDoS-for-Hire Service Targeting Global IoT Devices
Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that's designed for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Called Masjesu, the botnet has been advertised via Telegram as a DDoS-for-hire service since it first surfaced in 2023. It'…
Google API Keys Quietly Gain Access to Gemini on Android Devices
Google API key flaw exposes mobile apps to Gemini AI access, private files and billing risks
Critical Vulnerability in Ninja Forms Exposes WordPress Sites
Ninja Forms File Upload RCE via unauthenticated arbitrary file upload; update to 3.3.27 immediately
APT28 Deploys PRISMEX Malware in Campaign Targeting Ukraine and NATO Allies
The Russian threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard and Pawn Storm) has been linked to a fresh spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukraine and its allies to deploy a previously undocumented malware suite codenamed PRISMEX. "PRISMEX combines advanced ste…
Yesterday’s Cybersecurity Won’t Work For Next Generation Cloud Attacks
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 8, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video Why did Cybercrime Magazine meet up with Charlie Thomas, CEO at Mitiga, at RSAC Conference 2026? Because attackers will get in. Cloud,…
Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP)
The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, decentralized teams, machine identities, and autonomous system…
Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing to Use AI to Find and Fix Critical Software Vulnerabilities
Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, using its Claude Mythos Preview AI to autonomously identify and fix undiscovered vulnerabilities in critical software
US Thwarts DNS Hijacking Network Controlled by Russian APT28 Hackers
The FBI deployed a method to unplug US-based routers compromised by APT28 from the threat actor’s malicious network
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Finds Thousands of Zero-Day Flaws Across Major Systems
Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Anthropic announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing that will use a preview version of its new frontier model, Claude Mythos, to find and address security vulnerabilities. The model will be used by a…
Claude Discovers Apache ActiveMQ Bug Hidden for 13 Years
Anthropic’s Claude AI has helped researchers find a vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Classic
Iran‑Backed Threat Actors Hit US CNI Providers via Internet‑Facing OT Assets
CISA has revealed Iranian attacks causing disruption and financial loss at US critical infrastructure firms
N. Korean Hackers Spread 1,700 Malicious Packages Across npm, PyPI, Go, Rust
The North Korea-linked persistent campaign known as Contagious Interview has spread its tentacles by publishing malicious packages targeting the Go, Rust, and PHP ecosystems. "The threat actor's packages were designed to impersonate legitimate developer toolin…
Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Targeting Internet-Exposed PLCs
Iran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned Tuesday. "These attacks…
Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens
Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to…
Russian State-Linked APT28 Exploits SOHO Routers in Global DNS Hijacking Campaign
The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard) has been linked to a new campaign that has compromised insecure MikroTik and TP-Link routers and modified their settings to turn them into malicious infrastructure under their control as part…
[Webinar] How to Close Identity Gaps in 2026 Before AI Exploits Enterprise Risk
In the rapid evolution of the 2026 threat landscape, a frustrating paradox has emerged for CISOs and security leaders: Identity programs are maturing, yet the risk is actually increasing. According to new research from the Ponemon Institute, hundreds of applic…
Russian APT28 Hackers Hijack Routers to Steal Credentials, UK Security Agency Warns
Newly identified malicious campaigns are linked to virtual private servers modified by APT28 to operate as malicious DNS servers
Docker CVE-2026-34040 Lets Attackers Bypass Authorization and Gain Host Access
A high-severity security vulnerability has been disclosed in Docker Engine that could permit an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34040 (CVSS score: 8.8), stems from an incompl…
GPU Rowhammer Attack Enables Privilege Escalation and Full System Compromise
GPUBreach uses GPU Rowhammer on GDDR6 to flip bits, corrupt page tables and escalate to system root
GrafanaGhost Exploit Bypasses AI Guardrails for Silent Data Exfiltration
GrafanaGhost chains AI prompt injection and URL flaws to exfiltrate sensitive Grafana data
The Sound Of Cybersecurity From RSAC Conference 2026
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 7, 2026 – Listen to the podcast SoundCloud knows music… and cybersecurity. Late last year, the giant music streaming and sharing platform suffered a data breach that re…
Over 1,000 Exposed ComfyUI Instances Targeted in Cryptomining Botnet Campaign
An active campaign has been observed targeting internet-exposed instances running ComfyUI, a popular stable diffusion platform, to enlist them into a cryptocurrency mining and proxy botnet. "A purpose-built Python scanner continuously sweeps major cloud IP ran…
Over $17bn Lost to Cyber Fraud in the Last Year, Warns FBI
Cryptocurrency scams alone cost victims over $7 billion, while AI-enabled fraud threats are on the rise, says FBI
The Hidden Cost of Recurring Credential Incidents
When talking about credential security, the focus usually lands on breach prevention. This makes sense when IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report puts the average cost of a breach at $4.4 million. Avoiding even one major incident is enough to justify most se…
Storm-1175 Exploits Flaws in High-Velocity Medusa Attacks
Microsoft has released a new report about the Storm-1175 group and its connection to Medusa ransomware
Fortinet Releases Emergency Patch After FortiClient EMS Bug Is Exploited
Fortinet has updated its FortiClient EMS product after zero-day attacks surfaced
New GPUBreach Attack Enables Full CPU Privilege Escalation via GDDR6 Bit-Flips
New academic research has identified multiple RowHammer attacks against high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) that could be exploited to escalate privileges and, in some cases, even take full control of a host. The efforts have been codenamed GPUBr…
China-Linked Storm-1175 Exploits Zero-Days to Rapidly Deploy Medusa Ransomware
A China-based threat actor known for deploying Medusa ransomware has been linked to the weaponization of a combination of zero-day and N-day vulnerabilities to orchestrate "high-velocity" attacks and break into susceptible internet-facing systems. "The threat…
Flowise AI Agent Builder Under Active CVSS 10.0 RCE Exploitation; 12,000+ Instances Exposed
Threat actors are exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw in Flowise, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score: 10.0), a code injection vulne…
Iran-Linked Password-Spraying Campaign Targets 300+ Israeli Microsoft 365 Organizations
An Iran-nexus threat actor is suspected to be behind a password-spraying campaign targeting Microsoft 365 environments in Israel and the U.A.E. amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The activity, assessed to be ongoing, was carried out in three distinct at…
DPRK-Linked Hackers Use GitHub as C2 in Multi-Stage Attacks Targeting South Korea
Threat actors likely associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) have been observed using GitHub as command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in multi-stage attacks targeting organizations in South Korea. The attack chain, per Fortinet Forti…
Multi-OS Cyberattacks: How SOCs Close a Critical Risk in 3 Steps
Your attack surface no longer lives on one operating system, and neither do the campaigns targeting it. In enterprise environments, attackers move across Windows endpoints, executive MacBooks, Linux infrastructure, and mobile devices, taking advantage of the f…
⚡ Weekly Recap: Axios Hack, Chrome 0-Day, Fortinet Exploits, Paragon Spyware and More
This week had real hits. The key software got tampered with. Active bugs showed up in the tools people use every day. Some attacks didn’t even need much effort because the path was already there. One weak spot now spreads wider than before. What starts small c…
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 6, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video In 2021, Nicole Perlroth wrote “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race“, a New York Times Bestseller. The…
How LiteLLM Turned Developer Machines Into Credential Vaults for Attackers
The most active piece of enterprise infrastructure in the company is the developer workstation. That laptop is where credentials are created, tested, cached, copied, and reused across services, bots, build tools, and now local AI agents. In March 2026, the Tea…
Qilin and Warlock Ransomware Use Vulnerable Drivers to Disable 300+ EDR Tools
Threat actors associated with Qilin and Warlock ransomware operations have been observed using the bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) technique to silence security tools running on compromised hosts, according to findings from Cisco Talos and Trend Micro…
BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks
Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identities of two of the key figures associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. One of the threat actors, wh…
Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry o…
FAL.CON 2026: Secure The AI Revolution
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 3, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Daniel Bernard, aka “DB”, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike, told Cybercrime Magazine that cybersecurity is a team sport, and that a…
New Phishing Platform Used in Credential Theft Campaigns Against C-Suite Execs
A large-scale credential theft campaign targeting senior executives has been linked to a previously unknown automated phishing platform called Venom
New 'Storm' Infostealer Remotely Decrypts Stolen Credentials
This modern infostealer adopted server-side decryption of stolen credentials to bypass security controls
NCSC Issues Security Alert Over Hackers Targeting WhatsApp and Signal Accounts
The UK’s cybersecurity agency offered advice to “high-risk’ individuals” on how to protect against social engineering and cyber-attacks
Apple Expands iOS 18 Security Updates Amid DarkSword Threat
iOS/iPadOS 18.7.7 updates expanded to protect older devices from DarkSword web exploit kit
2026 CISO Salary And Compensation Data
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 2, 2026 – Read the full report The 2026 CISO Report from Cybersecurity Ventures in partnership with Sophos is out, with the latest chief information security officer co…
Researchers Observe Sub-One-Hour Ransomware Attacks
Halcyon says Akira is now capable of carrying out an entire ransomware attack in less than an hour
GitHub Used as Covert Channel in Multi-Stage Malware Campaign
LNK files use GitHub C2, embedded decoders and PowerShell for persistence and data exfiltration
Most CNI Firms Face Up to £5m in Downtime from OT Attacks
E2e-assure says 80% of critical infrastructure providers could face millions in downtime from cyber-attacks
Google Introduces Android Dev Verification Amid Openness Debate
Android requires dev identity verification for sideloaded apps; phased global rollout from September
New Venom Stealer MaaS Platform Automates Continuous Data Theft
Venom Stealer malware-as-a-service automates ClickFix social engineering, credential and crypto exfiltration
How Encryption Fights Cybercrime While Sometimes Aiding It
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 1, 2026 – Read the full story in Forbes In 2025, the global damage cost resulting from cybercrime was an estimated $10.5 trillion USD, up from just $3 trillion annually…
Chinese Hackers Target European Governments in Espionage Campaigns
Chinese state-backed group TA416 had suspended its cyber espionage operations in Europe since 2023, noted Proofpoint
Eight in 10 UK Manufacturers Hit by Cyber Incident in a Year
Most UK manufacturers compromised last year suffered financial loss, says ESET
Hackers Hijack Axios npm Package to Spread RATs
Threat actors hijacked the popular npm package axios to spread RAT malware after compromising an open‑source maintainer’s account, researchers warn
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