New Phishing Campaign Abuses Windows Mshta.exe to Steal Credentials and Secrets
A newly identified phishing campaign is abusing the legitimate Windows utility mshta.exe to execute malicious HTML Application (HTA) files, conduct system re...
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Max severity GitLab path traversal flaw under active reconnaissance
The flaw could enable sensitive files to be read with just an HTTP request.
Hackers Deploy New SloppyRAT via ClickFix to Enable Ransomware Lateral Movement
A new Windows remote-access trojan dubbed SloppyRAT, which appears to be positioned as an intrusion-enablement tool for ransomware operations. First observed...
Hackers Abuse Claude AI Agents to Automate Cyberattacks, Exploitation and Data Theft
Threat actors increasingly deploy AI agents as operational systems for cyberattacks, moving beyond simple chatbot assistants. These AI systems automate vario...
Critical Cisco FMC Flaws Actively Exploited to Gain Root Access and Deploy Malware
Cisco Talos has warned that threat actors are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. These vulner...
Hackers Use LLMs to Generate Exploit Scripts and Automate Post-Exploitation Across Latin America
Threat actors targeting organizations across Latin America are increasingly embedding commercial large language models (LLMs) into intrusion workflows, using...
Smashing Security podcast #484: How websites are tracking you with silence
When a chap called Matt noticed his Bluetooth headphones wouldn't switch to his phone, he was surprised to realise the reason was a single AliExpress webpage...
Passkey-themed social engineering leads to identity and cloud compromise
Passkey-themed social engineering is being used to compromise identities and enable broader cloud attacks. Learn how threat actors establish MFA persistence,...
Hackers Weaponize Agentic AI to Automate Reconnaissance, Exploitation and Post-Exploitation
Threat actors are increasingly operationalizing agentic artificial intelligence to compress cyberattack timelines, automating reconnaissance, vulnerability r...
New InjectEave Attack Lets Hackers Eavesdrop on Headphone Audio From 30 Meters Away
Security researchers have unveiled InjectEave, an electromagnetic side-channel attack that can turn ordinary headphones into unintended transmitters. By dire...
Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs
Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for developer-class PCs capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters...
Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S.
Hackers Compromise More Than 14,500 Dahua Security Cameras in Massive Campaign
A large-scale campaign dubbed Operation CameraSwarm compromised at least 14,530 Dahua IP cameras and related surveillance devices in just 35 days. Exposing h...
Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA tricks victims into opening a tunnel for attackers
Attackers are using fake CAPTCHA prompts to trick victims into running malicious PowerShell commands as part of a multi-stage intrusion campaign that can est...
AI AppSec tools agree on just 5% of security findings
Software vulnerabilities are turning into exploits within hours, and application security teams carry patch backlogs that go back years. Top types of viable ...
Attackers Exploit MCP RCE, Blind Prompt Injection and Memory Credential Theft Against AI Infrastructure
Attackers are increasingly treating AI infrastructure as a high-value cloud entry point, exploiting exposed Model Context Protocol (MCP) services, agent fram...
Threat Actors Abuse Cursor Agent AI to Assist Ransomware Operations
Aurora ransomware operators are abusing SpaceX’s Cursor Agent AI tool to conduct tasks such as reconnaissance and exploitation activities
AWS Security Teams Can Correlate CloudTrail, VPC and Route 53 Logs to Detect Attacks
AWS security teams can improve detection of multi-stage intrusions by correlating API activity in CloudTrail with network metadata in VPC Flow Logs and DNS a...
AI-assisted reconnaissance: Why everyone could be a viable target for fraud
It’s getting cheaper and easier for cybercriminals to research potential victims. Here’s what’s still in your control.
FBI disrupts proxy network enabling Chinese espionage operations
The FBI has disrupted infrastructure associated with a technical "quartermaster" that provided reconnaissance, proxy management, and operational routing capa...