Key findings A disruption action targeting prominent players across the Chinese-speaking phishing and fraud ecosystem struck a blow to the most high-volume threats in Proofpoint data. Proofpoint supported Microsoft and other private and public partners in the civil lawsuit and takedown action. The highest-volume direct email threats in Proofpoint campaign data come from three phishing kits our researchers named CoGUI…
Cisco heeft een kwetsbaarheid verholpen in Cisco Secure Email Gateway, specifiek in de Advanced Malware Protection feature. De kwetsbaarheid bevindt zich in de wijze waarop de Advanced Malware Protection feature e-mailbijlagen verwerkt wanneer de file reputation service is ingeschakeld. Een niet-geauthenticeerde externe aanvaller kan hierdoor willekeurige bestanden schrijven naar het onderliggende besturingssysteem.…
Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance's operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday. The attacker sends an email with a crafted attachment through the gateway and, if it succeeds, could then run commands as root. The appliance filters an organization's email for spam, malware,
Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10. A web shell is a small file that executes any command an attacker sends via a web request, with the rights of the web server account. The flaw
Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who ordered the investigation, on Monday called the sprawling spyware operation spearheaded by the country’s previous ruling party “one of the biggest scandals in Polish history since the fall of communism.”
The threat landscape has shifted. Here's what cybersecurity leaders need to know about RMM abuse, AI-powered attacks, ransomware, and identity threats in 2026.
A vulnerability in the Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) feature of Cisco Secure Email Gateway could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to write arbitrary files on the underlying operating system. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of email attachments when the file reputation service is enabled. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending an email that contains a crafted attachment thr…
Explore the latest manufacturing cybersecurity trends, from ransomware to OT takeovers, and real-world risks to production. Learn how to secure your plant.
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping Russia circumvent existing financial restrictions.
Talos and Recorded Future identified UAT-6275 activity targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States. Recovered artifacts show additional interest in water resources and energy.
This Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs (CRIL) weekly vulnerability report covers two views of risk: what attackers tried against Cyble's global honeypot sensors, and what the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) disclosed for industrial control systems (ICS). The Cyble Global Sensor Intelligence (CGSI) network observed exploitation attempts against about 20 known vulnerabilities. They range from n…
OpenAI employee charged with planting hidden audio recorders to capture sensitive discussions about AI research and company strategy. On September 30, OpenAI staff found a small audio recording device jammed into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room in their San Francisco office. The device had been there […]
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app itself, marking a new escalation in financial fraud. Dutch mobile security company ThreatFabric said it identified replacements for eight Indonesian banking
I tested 25 of the most popular package managers to check whether they detect a compromised package repository injecting malicious code into legitimate packages. This code integrity problem could be solved using cryptographic hashes or signatures, but many package managers are still vulnerable to this threat. Of the 25 package managers reviewed1, fewer than half used lockfiles that checked for tampering by default, a…
More internet-connected refrigerators have joined the official list of those affected by a cyberattack that ruined stocks of chilled food at hundreds of French supermarkets over the weekend. The French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) advised supermarkets to disconnect any refrigeration control systems with a public IP address from the internet, and to reconnect them via a secure VPN only after verifying th…
In September, viewers of a Pennsylvania TV station received a text telling them to “verify your voter profile.” The station’s investigator could not find out who sent it, and the link was flagged as malware. When Check Point Exposure Management researchers followed the link, it led to a political fundraising page. That small episode sums up the main finding of our report on 2026 US midterm election threats. Voters ar…
ANY.RUN researchers tracked fake AI tool campaigns that impersonate Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and other AI brands to plant infostealers, take over browser sessions, and phish business accounts. Between April 15 and October 5, 2026, 1,258 public sandbox analyses were tied to these campaigns, and the USA was the second-largest source of submissions after […] The post Fake AI Tools Put US Companies at Ris…
Overview AI is being used for various tasks that were previously performed manually, such as research, document writing, and code analysis. A 2026 corporate survey also showed that the scope of AI adoption among organizations had expanded compared to the previous year. Recently, there has been a trend toward automating a significant portion of work […]
When I started writing regularly about cybersecurity management in 2015, the environment looked very different. Cloud computing was still reshaping enterprise technology. Ransomware had not become the industrialised threat it is today. Artificial intelligence was not driving boardroom discussions. Zero Trust had yet to enter mainstream technical vocabulary and quantum computing barely registered on the corporate risk…
A Ahold Delhaize cyber incident has disrupted parts of the grocery retailer's IT infrastructure, prompting the company to take some systems offline while its teams investigate and mitigate the issue. Although stores remain open, reports from the Netherlands and Belgium indicate that the incident is affecting distribution operations, customer service and some delivery-related activities. Ahold Delhaize confirmed the s…
Netskope tracks four XWorm versions in the wild, 46 plugins, and new tools for location, audio and live browser control, with detections up fourfold. Netskope Threat Labs has been following XWorm since September 2024, and its latest report shows the malware has changed a lot. Over the past year the team identified four distinct versions […]
Another month of patches equals another new record for Microsoft patches. It’s a good thing I survive Pwn2Own Ireland, because between these and the Adobe patches, there’s much to discuss. I’m also looking at different ways I can represent the bugs at this level of volume, so let me know if you have ideas. (Seriously – I’m out of ideas). If you’d rather watch the full video recap covering the entire release, you can…
Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic. The frontier AI lab said small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm botnets that are "challenging to shut down," since "there's no centralized point to shut off."
Anthropic researchers show how small AI models could autonomously replicate across IoT devices, raising concerns about adaptive, AI-powered botnets. Anthropic published a paper this week that should make anyone who manages IoT infrastructure sit down for a moment. The research shows that small AI models are approaching the capability to replicate themselves autonomously across networks […]
Expanded plugin count allows the malware to monitor users’ location, stream live audio, and interact with authenticated browser sessions. The post XWorm RAT Evolves Into Surveillance Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI is changing the game in ransomware. Read more to learn how this technology impacts cybersecurity and defense strategies today. The post AI Is Rewriting the Ransomware Playbook appeared first on DarkOwl, LLC.
