U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Fortinet Multiple Products and BeyondTrust Remote Support flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: This week, Palo Alto Netwoks researchers reported that PEERSTITCH malware exploited For…
Rank Math has disclosed that some copies of Rank Math SEO PRO version 3.0.123 contained malware. According to Rank Math, the affected version was downloaded or installed through an update between October 15, 2026 at 20:02 UTC and October 16, 2026 at 07:12 UTC. The post PSA: Malware Found in Some Rank Math SEO PRO 3.0.123 Downloads appeared first on Wordfence.
Artificial Intelligence technologies have made a huge impact on the security industry. But as with any public technology, adversaries have access to AI as well. They’re wasting no time incorporating AI into their malicious workflows and ransomware operators have been able to leverage it - unfortunately, this has led to some of their successes.Fortunately, there is plenty of potential for defenders to leverage similar…
IntroductionOn September 27, 2026, Citrix disclosed CVE-2026-88771, a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8 according to NVD and a CVSS v4.0 score of 9.5 according to the Citrix security bulletin CTX697096. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitr…
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and run a backdoor. Google Threat Intelligence Group, Mandiant, and ManageEngine's Threat Analysis
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: BofA adds 1,000 patching contractors, KGB RAT pairs data theft with jump scares, and Langflow flaw under attack. The post In Other News: ICS-Sniper Attack, Hacking XWorm Malware Operators, $250k Chrome Exploit appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Every Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign rests on four habits: Strong passwords, Multifactor authentication, Spotting phishing, and keeping software updated. All four assume a person is the one signing in, reading the message and clicking install. At a growing number of companies that person is now an AI agent, and AI agent security has no equivalent of the annual training. The National Cybersecurity Alliance's t…
Anne Arundel County, Maryland, said an intruder stole files from government systems, and investigators are working to assess how much data was exposed.
Some awards you're happy to receive, while others make you stop for a moment. Receiving the 2026 Péter Szőr Award this week at Virus Bulletin in Seville for our research, BPFdoor in Telecom Networks: Sleeper Cells in the Backbone, was of the latter kind.Virus Bulletin created the award to honor Péter's life and work, and it recognizes outstanding technical security research: the rigorous, the deep, and the useful – e…
New report warns that threats of violence against employees of organizations hit by ransomware are on the rise as attackers find new ways to guarantee payments
CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Public Service Announcement (PSA) warning election and campaign officials about cyber threats during the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. Malicious cyber actors may use phishing and smishing techniques to steal login credentials and other sensitive information or install malware on targeted devices. Election officials, candidates, and political organizations m…
This is a problem: Any open model whose weights have been edited can carry a backdoor, whether it’s a task-specific fine-tune, a merged adapter or an abliterated build. We have abliterated models in the title because it’s the most popular reason people download modified weights without verifying what’s inside. Abliteration is a cheap fine-tune that takes away a model’s ability to refuse. You find the direction in the…
Arch Linux users who mistyped yay or paru while installing the package helpers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) may have given a stranger root access to their machine. AUR is a popular community package source for Arch Linux and related distributions, hosting user-submitted build scripts for proprietary programs, beta builds and older software versions that the official repositories do not carry. Yay and paru, kno…
PEERSTITCH malware exploited FortiManager to expose 500+ firewalls, evade detection inside FortiOS memory, and maintain stealthy access. PEERSTITCH, a stealthy implant deployed during a prolonged intrusion, helped attackers maintain access to a telecom managed service provider after compromising its FortiManager appliance. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 documented the operation, which began in September 2024 and […]
Fresh research suggests recent panic over AI-generated malware may be overblown. Last month Anthropic detailed how Russia-linked cyberespionage group Midnight Blizzard used Claude to rebuild malware each time security tools flagged its backdoor as malign. “We observed GTG-20006 operate through customized AI-driven workflows that automated much of their operations from development, infrastructure acquisition, phishing…
Supermarket freezers that cooked their own stock overnight. Text messages about traffic fines that quietly steal payment PINs. North Korean IT workers paying Americans to keep remote jobs at U.S. companies. This weekly cybersecurity roundup brings together incidents that reached well beyond stolen data, causing spoiled food, store fires, disrupted grocery deliveries and drained bank accounts. Here are the stories tha…
A suspected advanced threat actor has been observed exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS to deliver a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 malware known as PEERSTITCH. The attack involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-61624 (CVSS score: 5.4), a path traversal flaw in the command line interpreter of FortiOS, FortiPAM, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager that could allow a
That ad you just scrolled past on your phone but barely spared a look or click? It could be tracking your movements and collecting your data, without you having to do a thing. This “zero-click mercenary spyware,” dubbed “AdFection,” is increasingly exploiting a sprawling online advertising ecosystem ripe for abuse, according to researchers at The Citizen Lab. One top actor in the space, Discover-Tech, runs the Contro…
Our analysis an AI-powered espionage campaign targeting government Linux infrastructure with custom malware, web shells, and advanced credential theft. The post AI-Powered Espionage Campaign Targets Government Linux Infrastructure appeared first on Unit 42.
Powerful zero-click spyware is infected devices worldwide through targeted ads, new research shows — an alarming development in the spread of surveillance technology.
Someone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that’s an actual feature. And somehow, it fits right in with this week's security stories. The rest gets interesting in different ways. A small permission can lead to a big theft. A trusted login can hide the wrong person. Old bugs are finding new victims, familiar tools are being put to strange uses, and
Silent Lynx, a group likely based in Kazakhstan, targets Russian energy and government entities in espionage campaigns across Central Asia. Researchers from Cisco Talos and Recorded Future published a detailed paper on a threat actor they call Silent Lynx (aka UAT-6275, TAG-193), a Kazakhstan nexus group conducting espionage across Central Asia. The targets include the […]
سامانه‌های انتقال فایل در سازمان‌ها برای جابه‌جایی اطلاعات میان کاربران، سرورها و شبکه‌های مختلف استفاده می‌شوند. بااین‌حال، اگر خود این سامانه‌ها دچار آسیب‌پذیری امنیتی باشند، ممکن است مسیر دسترسی غیرمجاز به فایل‌ها یا زیرساخت سازمان را فراهم کنند؛ حتی زمانی که فایل‌ها از نظر وجود بدافزار بررسی می‌شوند.
Citizen Lab has uncovered targeted advertising campaigns that infected devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru spyware without requiring users to click anything. The researchers call the technique “AdFection” and describe their findings as the first public technical confirmation of mercenary spyware delivered through targeted ads. The investigation identifies Israeli advertising company Discover-Tech as the intermediary ……
Candiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed no click or other action from the user, researchers at the Citizen Lab said Thursday. The hidden attack code ran the moment an ad loaded on the screen, and in some cases the ad loaded out of sight, in the background. The Citizen
