‘Ghostjacking’ Attack Uses Poisoned Logs to Turn AI Agents Bad
An AI agent executes instructions that an attacker has planted in the log or alert that records a blocked request word for word. The post ‘Ghostjacking’ Atta...
general
20 articles
Member of The Com sent to prison for blackmail, sextortion
A member of "The Com," a loose-knit online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers, has been sentenced to two years in prison for blackmail...
Android Banking Droppers Surge as Malware Operators Change Packaging Tactics
Android banking malware operators are increasingly relying on dropper-based packaging to evade mobile app-store controls, shifting how threats are classified...
CISA Flags Progress LoadMaster Command Injection Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
The U.S.
New Zealand sanctions Russian hackers, propaganda groups over Ukraine war
New Zealand announced new sanctions on Russian hackers, technology companies and Kremlin-linked organizations over their roles in supporting Moscow’s war aga...
New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA
Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are design...
LexisNexis shuts down services after suspicious activity on servers
LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an un...
Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development
AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, prioritize f...
Valve notifies Steam hardware customers of a data breach
Video game publisher and digital distribution giant Valve is notifying Steam hardware customers in Europe that hackers stole their data after hacking its shi...
New Jersey, Alabama Join States Targeted in Water Cyberattacks
Hackers linked to Iran targeted industrial control systems (ICS) at water facilities in at least a dozen US states. The post New Jersey, Alabama Join States ...
N-able ships second N-central hotfix as attackers keep exploiting CVE-2026-18577
To help customers fend off ongoing attacks, N-able released a second security hotfix for N‑central, its monitoring and management (RMM) solution popular with...
TrueConf Server Flaws Exploited to Replace Client Installers with PhantomCore
The threat actor known as Head Mare has been observed weaponizing security flaws in unpatched TrueConf servers once again in attacks targeting Russian compan...
Play Ransomware Masquerades as PsExec to Blend Into Legitimate Windows Administration
Play ransomware is using a familiar Windows-administration disguise to reduce suspicion during intrusions: a custom service binary named PSexesvc.exe.
GitHub Expands Dependabot Malware Alerts to Detect Malicious Packages Across 8 Ecosystems
GitHub has expanded its Dependabot malware alerts beyond npm, enabling the detection of malicious dependencies across various package ecosystems, including P...
OpenAI Pauses Astra Model Over Critical Cybersecurity Risk Concerns
OpenAI paused work involving Astra after tests showed cybersecurity abilities that could approach its Critical risk threshold under the company’s framework. ...
Metabase Patches Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day
The security defect allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain administrative access to Metabase instances. The post Metabase Patches Vulnerability Exp...
Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
This is good: Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency, we implemen...
Fake Solidity Pro Extensions Turn Trusted Developer Tooling Into Credential-Stealing Malware
Malicious “Solidity Pro” extensions are abusing the trust developers place in VS Code and Open VSX tooling, evolving from delayed payload droppers into broad...
“Ghostjacking” Exploits AI Agents’ Trusted Access to Evade Firewall Controls
Tenet reported that half of Fortune 500 companies are vulnerable to the Ghostjacking technique, which involves tricking AI agents with fake reports
HP ThinPro TPM Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass Full Disk Encryption and Steal LUKS Keys
A security researcher has revealed a critical design flaw in HP ThinPro versions 8 and 9, which allows attackers with physical access to a thin client’s stor...