Welcome to this week’s edition of the GBHackers cybersecurity newsletter — your weekly cybersecurity bulletin covering the 50 most important stories from Aug...
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A compact, custom-built Windows backdoor that impersonates Realtek software, persists through WMI, and conceals its command-and-control address inside what a...
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Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Durham University have found a way to knock down some of the toughest protections in Windows 11 without phy...
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A threat actor using the alias “TheHatman” is allegedly selling large corporate employee directories that were allegedly extracted from Microsoft Azure and E...
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Mustang Panda upgraded CoolClient with a signed kernel driver that hides processes, files and network activity, making the backdoor harder to detect. HoneyMy...
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Microsoft will make passkeys the default authentication experience in Entra ID beginning September 1, 2026, and will fully retire its native SMS and voice mu...
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A newly disclosed Windows attack technique, dubbed “Download More RAM,” can undermine Virtualization-Based Security (VBS), bypass Hypervisor-Protected Code I...
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Microsoft is reshaping its consumer and productivity AI strategy with a major update to its Copilot application, merging personal chat histories and generate...
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The vulnerabilities added to the KEV catalog include a heap inspection flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall (CVE-2026-20349), a use-after-free vulnerability in the ...
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The threat actor known as HoneyMyte (aka Mustang Panda) has been observed deploying an updated version of the CoolClient backdoor with a signed Windows kerne...
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Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a post-exploitation technique that enables the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) inside a running Google Chrome or Micro...
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Initial access is gained through fake job offers and PDF viewer downloads.
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Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a large-scale, global recruitment-themed phishing campaign that uses fake interview scheduling pages and Browser-in-...
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Akira ransomware affiliates were seen using a new technique to evade endpoint detection and response (EDR), where they rebooted a compromised Windows system ...
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Our experts discovered a new CoolClient backdoor variant with a kernel-mode rootkit driver that hides malicious processes, files, and network connections fro...
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Security researchers have introduced a new technique called “Bring Your Own EDR” (BYOEDR) that exploits legitimate SentinelOne components to bypass Windows P...
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Fortinet has released security updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities in FortiWeb and FortiClient for Windows. These vulnerabilities could allow un...
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AI’s potential as a security tool and the danger of autonomous AI agents as a new attack surface were key themes of the presentations and product announcemen...
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Microsoft has released security patches to address a Windows zero-day vulnerability known as "LegacyHive," disclosed after the July 2026 Patch Tuesday. [.
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