White House Mobilizes Security Firms for Operations Against Foreign Cybercrime Gangs
Contracts may require a $1 million bond, which will be forfeited if a company fails to comply with operational requirements. The post White House Mobilizes S...
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Akira Affiliate Crashes Ransomware After Attempting EDR Evasion
Huntress documents how a ransomware affiliate sabotaged its own attack with an anti-EDR effort
Critical VMware vCenter Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs
Tracked as CVE-2026–59310, the directory traversal bug allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. The post Critical VMware vCenter Vulnerability in A...
Nightmare Eclipse Drops Windows Zero-Day Exploit ‘ShieldBreak’
Dropped on Patch Tuesday, the exploit allows any user to spawn a shell with System privileges. The post Nightmare Eclipse Drops Windows Zero-Day Exploit ‘Shi...
SharePoint CVE-2026-55040 Comes Under Attack Following Public Exploit
Attackers are exploiting SharePoint flaw CVE-2026-55040 after a public PoC was released, allowing unauthenticated users to impersonate administrators. Attack...
Critical Adobe Commerce Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Escalate Privileges
Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Commerce, Adobe Commerce B2B, and Magento Open Source to address multiple critical vulnerabilities. One of the ...
ICO Reprimands Criminal Records Office After 2023 Breach
The ICO has issued a formal reprimand to ACRO after patching and security monitoring failures led to a breach
WhatsApp Introduces On-Device Scam Alert to Detect Fraud Messages
WhatsApp has initiated a limited beta rollout of a feature called Scam Alert, which utilises an on-device machine learning model to identify potentially scam...
Adobe ColdFusion Critical Vulnerabilities Enable Arbitrary Code Execution
Adobe has released critical security updates for ColdFusion 2025 and ColdFusion 2023, addressing 17 vulnerabilities that could enable arbitrary code executio...
Storm-1175 Replaces Medusa With New StormEncryptor Ransomware
Microsoft says China-linked Storm-1175 is using a new ransomware called StormEncryptor, replacing Medusa in its latest attacks. Microsoft says China-linked, ...
Akira Ransomware Reboots Windows Into Safe Mode to Disable EDR and Microsoft Defender
An Akira ransomware affiliate has been observed rebooting a compromised Windows host into Safe Mode with Networking to disable endpoint protection an anti-ED...
Cisco fixes vulnerability exploited to DoS its firewalls (CVE-2026-20349)
A high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-20349) is being leveraged by attackers to temporarily interrupt the operation of Cisco firewalls, the company has con...
Gunra Ransomware Uses Up to 100 ChaCha20 Threads to Rapidly Encrypt Linux Systems
Gunra ransomware has added a Linux encryptor to its arsenal, giving affiliates control over how they lock enterprise data. The command-line payload can launc...
North Korean Lazarus Group Uses Windows Zero-Day in Operation Dream Job
Lazarus targets defense professionals with fake Lockheed Martin jobs, exploiting a Windows zero-day to deploy backdoors and evade security controls. Check Po...
Kimwolf v7 Removes Exploitation Code and Leaves Infection to External Loaders
A newly identified Kimwolf v7 build shows the Android and IoT botnet shifting from an all-in-one compromise toolkit into a more specialized DDoS and proxy-re...
Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release
Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The vulnerab...
China-Linked Hackers Use Autonomous AI Agents to Breach Taiwan Government Systems
A China-linked threat actor has reportedly utilized a multi-agent artificial intelligence framework to conduct a nearly autonomous intrusion campaign targeti...
Phantom Stealer Uses PNG Steganography and PowerShell Injection to Steal Credentials
Phantom Stealer is a .NET-based credential-harvesting malware that combines PNG-backed payload concealment, PowerShell-driven process injection, and telemetr...
City-Forum Hackers Target Salesforce and ServiceNow Instances Worldwide for Data Theft
A sophisticated threat campaign, referred to as “City-Forum,” is targeting publicly accessible Salesforce Experience Cloud sites and ServiceNow Service Porta...
Palo Alto GlobalProtect Vulnerabilities Enable SYSTEM and Root-Level Access
Palo Alto Networks has released security advisories for multiple vulnerabilities in the GlobalProtect App that could allow a local attacker to elevate their ...