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Ukraine has been added to the EU Cybersecurity Reserve, which provides incident response services against large-scale incidents
The public PoC code exploits a race condition in Microsoft Defender to spawn a command prompt with System privileges. The post Microsoft Working on Patch for ‘RoguePlanet’ Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a "coordinated malware campaign" on the JetBrains Marketplace that has published no less than 15 malicious plugins capable of exfiltrating artificial intelligence (AI) provider keys. "Every plugin poses as an AI coding as…
Aikido Security has discovered at least 15 IDE plugins on the JetBrains Marketplace
Oracle has released its June 2026 Critical Security Patch Update to fix vulnerabilities in Communications, EBS, Enterprise Manager and other products. The post Oracle’s Second Monthly Security Updates Deliver 245 Patches appeared first on SecurityWeek.
SANS Institute study finds few SOCs have built AI into defined workflows, despite widespread adoption
Microsoft confirmed that it's working on a security patch for a Defender zero-day vulnerability named "RoguePlanet," disclosed one week ago. [...]
The browser updates address multiple memory safety bugs that could potentially lead to remote code execution. The post Chrome and Firefox Updated to Patch Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
As many as 144 npm packages associated with the Mastra namespace ("@mastra/*"), a popular open-source JavaScript and TypeScript framework for building artificial intelligence (AI) applications, have been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack co…
The flaws allow attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code and gain root privileges on shared hosting servers. The post Joomla, LiteSpeed Vulnerabilities Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Kodak has confirmed that it's working with external cybersecurity experts to investigate a security breach after hackers gained access to some of the company's data. [...]
SOCRadar has detected 30,000 compromised Fortinet firewalls that expose networks to hacking. The post 3 Recently Patched Fortinet FortiSandbox Vulnerabilities in Hacker Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation…
At least 15 malicious plugins found on the JetBrains Marketplace were designed to steal AI API keys from developers. [...]
A new Android banking trojan named Rokarolla is targeting 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications using an extensive set of 137 commands. [...]
A flaw in the Google Cloud Vertex AI SDK for Python let an attacker with no access to a victim's project hijack the victim's machine learning model upload and run code inside Google's serving infrastructure. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which found and reported…
Threat actors are abusing Steam Workshop, Valve's community hub for downloading game-related content, to push various malware hidden in wallpaper packages. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged multiple ClickFix campaigns that deliver three malware loaders called BabaDeda Loader, Lorem Ipsum Loader, and Potemkin, per independent reports from Morphisec, BlueVoyant, and Huntress, respectively. Attacks involving Ba…
The digital health company said it learned of the breach on June 8 and the attackers demanded a ransom. The post iRhythm Confirms Data Stolen in Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Opening a new social media account in the UK will soon mean proving you're over 16 with an ID upload or a facial age scan, under a government ban on under-16s taking effect in spring 2027. Security experts warn the age checks are easy to circumvent and create…
China-linked SprySOCKS backdoor gains stealthy Windows variants and 30-plus C2 commands
From building LED bulbs to graduating college and buying a house with money earned from bug bounties. The post Hacker Conversations: Isira Adithya, the Evolution of an Ethical Hacker appeared first on SecurityWeek.
GhostTree uses recursive NTFS junctions to generate vast numbers of valid Windows file paths. Varonis explains how the technique could cause Microsoft Defender folder scans to never complete, leaving malware undetected. [...]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses nearly tripling since 2020. [...]
The company is enhancing third-party risk management (TPRM) through autonomous AI agents. The post Magnitude Emerges From Stealth Mode With $10 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.
From defending networks to enabling attacks, artificial intelligence is changing every aspect of cybersecurity. Here's what dozens of experts say security leaders need to understand now. The post AI and Cybersecurity – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were A…
Rokarolla Android trojan steals banking logins and spies on victims while blocking fraud alerts
Security researchers at Zimperium's zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan, Rokarolla, that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps and packs 137 remote commands. Together, they give an operator near-total control of an infected phone: it lifts…
Ent has developed an intent-aware platform designed to interpret user and agent behavior before risky actions are carried out. The post Endpoint Security Startup Ent Emerges From Stealth With $100 Million Seed Round appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 16, 2026 – Read the full story from LinkedIn The 2026 CISO Report by Cybersecurity Ventures, published in partnership with Sophos, lays out numbers that explain why mid…
ISSA study finds most security professionals feel challenged by colleagues’ involvement in cyber
Security teams have never had more IP data at their disposal. Every day, analysts ingest enrichment feeds, geolocation data, reputation scores, telemetry, and threat intelligence from a growing ecosystem of vendors and platforms. Yet despite this abundance of…
Command and control traffic exploited a Teams visitor token to make malicious activity look legitimate to defenders
Athena is a new an industry coalition to fix the vulnerabilities frontier AI models find before attackers can exploit them
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. government agencies three days to secure their servers against an actively exploited vulnerability (CVE-2026-54420) in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin. [...]
Bad actors are exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox, according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the company said it has observed exploitation of CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, and CVE-2026-2508…
DragonForce ransomware used a custom malware named 'Backdoor.Turn' to hide command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS. "The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS," ESET said in a report shared…
Attackers are now exploiting several critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet's FortiSandbox cyber threat detection platform, according to threat intelligence company Defused. [...]
Windows variants for the SprySOCKS Linux malware have been used in attacks targeting government organizations in at least four countries. [...]
The FBI claims couriers are being used to circumvent bank transfers in crypto investment schemes
The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notifications to deliver malware called NarwhalRAT. "The attack email contained a message imp…
Digital healthcare company iRhythm Holdings has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole patients' personal and health information stored on third-party-hosted business applications. [...]
Cisco has released security updates for a medium-severity security flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0. "A vulnerability in t…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has seized the CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com websites, which allegedly hosted nonconsensual AI-generated nude images and videos of women, in what appears to be the first publicly announced domain seizure unde…
A vulnerability in the SimpleHelp remote management software allows unauthenticated attackers to create privileged technician accounts on servers using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication protocol. [...]
A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense email. The way in was a backdoor on their REDCap research servers that stole login…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious cyber campaigns that exhibit similarities with a persistent North Korean threat cluster known as Contagious Interview (aka Famous Chollima, HexagonalRodent, and Void Dokkaebi). According to a report publishe…
Tampered OptinMonster and sister plugins plant hidden backdoors on 1.2 million WordPress sites
A default low-privilege account on a LiteLLM proxy can climb to full admin and run code on the server by chaining three vulnerabilities, researchers at Obsidian Security disclosed LiteLLM is a widely deployed open-source AI gateway that brokers calls to more t…
How the Anubis ransomware group stole and leaked an Italian Adriatic port authority's data
A single click on a trusted Microsoft link could have let an attacker pull emails, calendar details, and indexed files out of Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search. Researchers at Varonis Threat Labs chained three bugs into a one-click exfiltration path they…
Stuff broke again. Not in a movie way. An old tool was left exposed. An abandoned package was abused. A deprecated feature was still running in prod. This week is the same lesson in a new form: phishing kits are easier to rent, AI names are useful bait, old lo…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 15, 2026 – Read the full story from CMBlog By harnessing AI, cybercriminals are developing increasingly sophisticated techniques to commit their crimes, posing a growin…
Employee onboarding is a busy time for IT teams. New starters need devices, accounts, access permissions, and passwords, all delivered within a tight timeframe. That usually means sharing a temporary "first-day" password so employees can access systems for the…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a network of 152 Google Chrome extensions that act as new tab live wallpaper add-ons to distribute a potentially unwanted program (PUP) family. The cluster spans 38 separate Chrome Web Store publisher accounts and thre…
Access to two Anthropic large language models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, has effectively been banned to any non-US nationals by the Trump administration
An attacker tampered with trusted JavaScript files used by WordPress sites running PushEngage, OptinMonster, and TrustPulse, turning those files into a way to break into the sites. When a site administrator was logged in as the file loaded, the code created an…
Government departments find hundreds of vulnerabilities after testing frontier models
The Office of the Maine Attorney General has suspended its breach reporting portal
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of fraudulent activity targeting users across the Middle East and North Africa by employing various fraudulent Facebook accounts impersonating politicians, public figures, and trusted organizations. "These accou…
Palo Alto Networks has revealed that it has observed "active exploitation" of a recently disclosed PAN-OS vulnerability by an unknown threat actor to obtain unauthorized access to GlobalProtect portals. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS scor…
Splunk has released security updates to address a critical security flaw in Splunk Enterprise that could be exploited to conduct unauthenticated file operations and even remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20253, is rated 9.8 on the C…
Anthropic said on Friday it will "abruptly disable" its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all users after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, whether inside or…
Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it land…
Google on Friday said it's pursuing legal action against a Chinese cybercrime network, accusing it of using its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) agent to send phishing text messages targeting Americans. The network is said to be behind the development and m…
Instead of hiding on the laptops and servers defenders watch most closely, a China-nexus group spent close to a decade hidden inside the Linux login system itself. Sygnia, which tracks the group as Velvet Ant, says it backdoored the PAM and OpenSSH components…
Domain of dark web money laundering platform AudiA6 seized and suspects arrested in joint operation by the FBI, Europol and others
NPM, part of GitHub, announced a new version of the npm package manager with several security improvements, including disabling install scripts
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 12, 2026 – Watch the YouTube Short During World War II, some of America’s most powerful weapons weren’t bombs or guns. They were women sitting in secret rooms breaking…
Cybersecurity researchers have described what they say is a new class of attack that can trick artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents into running arbitrary code on developer machines. Called Agentjacking by Tenet Security, the attack can be triggered by m…
For most of the past decade, managed detection and response was the answer to a real problem. Security teams couldn't staff around the clock, couldn't hire enough analysts, and needed someone else to handle the alert queue. MDR stepped in. It worked well enoug…
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off, a new Darktrace report warns that sports teams and bodies are a major target for cyber criminals
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three now-patched security flaws impacting LangGraph, including a critical vulnerability chain that could result in remote code execution. LangGraph is an open-source framework created by LangChain to build c…
An INTERPOL-led operation last month resulted in the disruption of Sniper Dz, a decade-long phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, Group-IB said Thursday. The effort, codenamed Operation Ramz, took place between October 2025 and February 2026, and saw authori…
Authorities in Europe have disrupted AudiA6, a cryptocurrency laundering service used by ransomware gangs and cybercriminal networks. Europol, in a statement issued Thursday, said the dismantling of AudiA6 cut off a "key financial pipeline used to wash hundred…
The ShinyHunters extortion crew exploited an unpatched flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to break into enterprise systems, steal data, and demand payment to keep it private. The campaign hit universities hardest. Google's Mandiant attributes it to the group it tracks…
Two security teams have shown, in separate research published this week, that OpenClaw, the popular self-hosted AI agent, can be driven to run attacker-controlled code or hand over sensitive data through ordinary-looking inputs. Imperva buried instructions ins…
Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse and MSNightmare) has released a new Windows BitLocker bypass dubbed GreatXML, a day after they published an exploit for Microsoft Defender. "This was an accidental discovery, it took a total of 4 hours…
A new analysis of The Gentlemen operation has revealed that the financially motivated threat group initially operated as an affiliate responsible for conducting double extortion attacks, while leveraging resources from various ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) sc…
New CISA directive tells federal agencies to patch by real-world risk, not CVSS severity scores
Fake AI guides hide a multi-stage chain that drops AsyncRAT, with signs of AI-assisted coding
Most good security work is invisible by design. Today is the exception. The 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards winners are announced across 95 subcategories in four main award categories. The reason is simple. Cybersecurity is full of work that deserves recogniti…
It's been one of those weeks. You expect the usual noise: recycled malware, sloppy attacks, another easy target getting hit. Instead, there's a supply chain attack kit in a public repo, a $5,000-a-month RAT that clones browsers, and research showing AI agents…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 11, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Media outlets and cybersecurity industry experts have been warning for the past several years about a persistent scheme that targets co…
Organizations are aware of the challenges that new technologies like AI bring: but cybersecurity staff struggle to make time for the required training during working hours
For thirty years, vulnerability management ran on a buffer: the months between when a vulnerability was found and when someone could figure out how to weaponize it. The solution was straightforward enough; triage by severity, schedule the fix, validate, and mo…
New revelations by Group-IB expose the full scale of the decade-old SniperDz phishing operation
Extortion-only attacks are increasing as data theft drives most ransomware claims, with many organizations unable to stop stolen data from being exposed
The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at…
Tenet Security researchers reveal how new “agentjacking” attacks could trick coding agents into executing arbitrary code
GitHub has announced what it said are "breaking changes" coming to npm version 12, one of which turns off install scripts by default to combat software supply chain threats. The changes aim to combat attack techniques that abuse the "npm install" command to tr…
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "resurgence and expansion" of JDY, a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. "The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 SOHO [small office and home office] and IoT devices and operates as a…
Threat actors push fake free-software tutorials on TikTok and Instagram to spread Vidar stealer
MaaS trojan SilabRAT uses HVNC and browser cloning to hijack sessions and steal crypto
Menlo Security research warns that as enterprise applications become increasingly browser based, traditional cybersecurity tools leave them vulnerable to cyber threats
Fortinet, Ivanti, and SAP have released security updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities that could result in arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. The security flaw patched by Fortinet relates to a command injection vulner…
A high-severity security flaw in Langflow, an open-source low-code platform to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-5027…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-202…
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that promises affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 10, 2026 – Read the book Cybersecurity for Accounting and Business, a new book co-authored by Nancy Bagranoff, Professor at University of Richmond, and Scott R. Boss, A…
Anthropic unveils Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5, a restricted-access frontier AI model and guardrailed version for everyone to use
Your pentest report looks clean. That might be the problem. Run automated pentesting long enough, and the new findings start to dry up. By the third or fourth run, fewer issues appear. The report looks stable. Leadership reads "stable" as "secure." It usually…
Nearly 26% of identity crime victims faced multiple incidents in the past year, as ITRC warns of a growing "multi-layered crisis"
Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for a record 206 security vulnerabilities impacting its software portfolio, including three flaws that have been publicly disclosed at the time of release. Of the 206 flaws, 39 are rated Critical, and 167 are rated Important…
Microsoft has patched 200 vulnerabilities including three zero-days
On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the most capable model it has ever made, generally available. It also did something unusual: it shipped one model as two products, split not by capability but by a layer of safety classifiers. Fable 5 goes to the p…
ServiceNow has warned about a security incident in which unknown threat actors exploited a flaw to obtain deeper unauthorized access to susceptible instances. "On June 5, 2026, ServiceNow applied a security update to hosted customer instances," the company rev…
The anonymous security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for yet another Microsoft Defender zero-day named RoguePlanet. "The exploit is a race condition, so it's a hit or miss," t…
Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software, a record number of fixes for the company's monthly Patch Tuesday cycle. Nearly three dozen of those bugs earned Microsoft's…
Checkmarx report warns that business pressure is among the reason security leaders let security compliance slip
Most dev teams use AI coding assistants but only 30% have full governance in place
Critical phpBB authentication bypass lets attackers hijack any account with one request
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 9, 2026 – Read the report The 2026 CISO Report from Cybersecurity Ventures in partnership with Sophos examines the latest compensation data for CISOs. According to Glas…
The flaw, CVE-2026-11645, can allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page
Check Point says a critical vulnerability in its Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access solutions has been exploited by Qilin
Speaking at Infosecurity Europe, Ashish Shrestha, former CISO at Jaguar Land Rover revealed why he wanted over 30,000 employees to change their passwords in the immediate aftermath of the incident
Meta’s WhatsApp demands contempt ruling after users report NSO Group-linked phishing
North Korean actor UNK_DeadDrop targeted developers with fake coding tasks to steal crypto
OpenAI brings Lockdown Mode and Active Sessions to ChatGPT to curb prompt injection data theft
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 8, 2026 – WireBadger production information USB technology was designed for convenience and universal compatibility. When a cable or device connects, computers and mobi…
At Infosecurity Europe 2026, OWASP’s Ariel Fogel warned that prompt injection remains an “unresolved problem” within generative AI architecture
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The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology details how a combination of hands-on human advice and technology systems keeps government agencies safe
Meta confirms an AI tool vulnerability led to unauthorized access to Instagram accounts after a failure in email verification during password reset
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 5, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Virginia is home to the second largest cybersecurity industry in the country, with around 88,000 cybersecurity workers, according to Cyb…
Lloyds Banking Group shared its approach for securing agentic AI workflows, with a mix of hands on experimentation and cross functional governance
The OWASP agentic AI security framework helps organizations assess governance maturity vs adoption and adjust governance as needed
Ox Security field CTO, Boaz Barzel, makes the case for vibe security to tackle AI agent coding risks
A perfect storm of legacy devices, hyper connectivity and human fatigue is bad news for the healthcare sector, warns Cyber Salus
Critical Everest Forms Pro RCE flaw exploited to create rogue WordPress admin accounts
Newly named Chinese-speaking actor TA4922 expands from East Asia into Europe and Africa
Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) details how it has uncovered malicious AI applications as cyber criminals manipulate organizations adopting AI tools
A Bugcrowd researcher has unveiled ExploitBench, an independent benchmark of AI models for vulnerability exploitation
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 4, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Popular radio host Kim Komando tells Mohammad Muzahir’s Story on the Komando.com blog. Muzahir grew up in Kashmir, India, the eighth of…
Proton uses machine learning models to detect abuse of its services – especially email addresses used by cybercriminals
Cybersecurity and business leaders with experience of dealing with major incidents from within the NCSC and at JLR detail what you need to prioritize if your organization is hit by a cyber-attack
Former Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, urges Infosecurity Europe attendees to fight the good fight
Forescout VP of security intelligence, Rik Ferguson, warns that Q-day is fast approaching
Inaugural Infosecurity Europe Cyber Startup Award Winner Impresses Panel with Ability Help Prioritize Vulnerabilities in AI era
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jun. 3, 2026 – Read the full story from Bright Defense Ransomware has existed for more than 35 years and remains the fastest-growing category of cybercrime, showing no signs…
Trump's executive order invites voluntary pre-release review of frontier AI models
Cybersecurity leaders major companies discuss how they got support from the board on cyber risk