Nigerians extradited to US for sextortion, deaths of two teens
Two Nigerian men extradited to the U.S.
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Infostealers Are Hijacking Claude Sessions and Draining Subscriptions
Infostealers can steal active Claude sessions, bypass 2FA and drain paid usage. Anthropic is revoking access and refunding unauthorized charges.
Android 17 Adds New Network Security Features to Block 2G SMS Blaster Attacks
Android 17 introduces a new set of network security controls to reduce cellular downgrade attacks, protect local networks, and limit metadata exposure during...
Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’
The ruling is part of Anthropic's legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. The po...
Magecart Hackers Abuse Ethereum Smart Contracts to Steal Card Data From 40+ Online Stores
A Magecart campaign dubbed HexMage has compromised more than 40 e-commerce storefronts across at least 15 countries, using Ethereum smart contracts as a resi...
China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs
A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Te...
Life as a CISO in Hollywood: Keeping New Films Leak-Free & 4 Black Hat Interviews - Dan Meacham, John Hultquist, Ronan Murphy, Ellen Boehm, Frank Vukovits - ESW #474
Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft
The Rhysida ransomware group has claimed the exfiltration of over 5TB of data, including personal information and credentials. The post Berlin Won’t Pay Exto...
Microsoft asks users to ignore 'Antivirus is turned off' errors
Microsoft asked customers this week to ignore incorrect alerts that Defender Antivirus has been turned off after installing the latest Defender updates. [.
Debian developers rejected an LLM ban and left disclosure voluntary
A maintainer reading a merge request can’t tell whether a person or a model wrote the diff, and nobody has to say. Debian developers voted on that through Au...
D-Link DIR-X1860Z Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Admin Password Reset and Wi-Fi Credential Theft
D-Link has released a security update for the DIR-X1860Z router after researchers discovered vulnerabilities that could enable an unauthenticated attacker on...
DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims
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Critical GiveWP Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands on WordPress Servers
A critical GiveWP flaw lets unauthenticated attackers execute server commands. Version 4.
New Gryxa Toolkit Uses AI-Built Persistence to Fight Back Against Security Teams
A financially motivated threat actor using a new Windows toolkit named Gryxa that combines remote monitoring and management abuse, AI-assisted development, b...
The OpenClaw 2.0 release moves your sessions into SQLite
OpenClaw is open source software that hands an AI model small standing jobs across your accounts, the kind of chore where it watches a mailbox for vendor adv...
Composer Path Traversal Flaw Lets Malicious Packages Expose Sensitive Files
Composer users are urged to update their software following the disclosure of a path-traversal vulnerability. This flaw could allow a malicious or compromise...
More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities
PaperCut has released a second emergency patch for the exploited vulnerabilities, which are now tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578. The post More D...
Critical Microsoft UFO MCP Flaw Lets Attackers Remotely Control Android Devices Without Authentication
A critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s open-source UFO Desktop AgentOS could allow remote attackers to access and control Android devices connected via the ...
TerminalFix Uses Fake CAPTCHA, DLL Sideloading and Steganography to Breach Networks
A sophisticated ClickFix variant dubbed TerminalFix that uses fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA prompts to trick users into executing attacker-controlled PowerShell co...
What vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree
In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Joye Purser, Global Field CISO at Cohesity, explains how to rank vulnerabilities when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS point in d...