The September Microsoft Patch Tuesday release included 975 vulnerability advisories. This month, 1,415 vulnerabilities were just dropped. Compared to a pre-June average of 100 a month, that increase is staggering. Where did they come from? And what does the future look like?
LevelBlue SpiderLabs has been tracking multiple waves of Wazza, a newly observed multi-stage phishing kit that deploys device code phishing targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. In addition to recent reporting by The Hacker News, our analysis examines the kit's evolving techniques and infrastructure, highlighting key changes observed across analyzed variants.
You should also be wary of emails urging you to check the status of your retirement pension fund—a topic that might interest office workers. Recently, phishing emails have been identified that use retirement pension notifications as a pretext to steal email account information. Under the pretext of verifying a secure email, threat actors trick recipients […]
ASEC Blog publishes Ransom & Dark Web Issues Week 4, October 2026 The Seven Deadly Sins Claims Data Leaks from Seven Organizations Worldwide HYFLOCK Ransomware Attack on a Saudi ERP Software Company Qilin Ransomware Attack on a Japanese Investment Management Company
It is already well known that illegal software and cracked programs can be exploited for malware distribution. Recently, AhnLab identified a new type of information theft malware (Infostealer) disguised as an illegal program. This malware was first detected in mid-August and, after altering its execution method, began spreading widely in September. Notably, it not only […]
A Chinese-speaking attacker has compromised hundreds of websites across the globe, looting from big fish like John Deere, SharkNinja, and engine manufacturer Cummins.
Updated CVE to relect that this vulnerability is in the Windows Subsystem for Linux product. Microsoft recommends that customer using this product should install the latest version to be protected.
Part 1: The Ecosystem and the Actors By Jon DiMaggio, Cybersecurity Researcher The most dangerous thing about The Com isn’t any single group inside of it, but that the ecosystem replaces them faster than law enforcement can arrest the ones already operating. In 2025 and 2026, law enforcement handed down real sentences to real people […] The post Arachnophobia: How Fear, Branding, and Bad Attribution Distorted The Com…
On Saturday, October 17, at 20:06 UTC, Mozilla received a report that private keys associated with eight eMudhra intermediate certificates had been compromised. These keys could allow attackers to issue … Read more The post Protecting Firefox users following the compromise of eMudhra intermediate certificates appeared first on Mozilla Security Blog.
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Unified Intelligence Center could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a blind SQL injection attack against an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the web-based management interface. A successful exploit could…
“AI pentesting” now covers very different products. Some platforms plan and run attack chains on their own and return exploitation evidence for every finding. Others are vulnerability scanners with a language model summarizing the output. On a datasheet, or in a scripted demo against a vendor-prepared target, the two can look almost identical. The 30 […]
Horizon3 researchers analyze CVE-2026-106173, a critical Fortinet FortiSIEM vulnerability affecting an unauthenticated gRPC service. The deep-dive explains how path traversal and null-byte handling enable arbitrary file writes and remote code execution, along with indicators of compromise for defenders.
Japan is facing a dense wave of breach disclosures. Since late September, at least 20 major Japanese companies have reported breaches, including Times Car, Lawson, Yakiniku King, Sourcenext and Burger King Japan, and a ransomware attack on SoftBank’s IDC Frontier cloud took 495 customer organizations offline. Between September 25 and October 8 alone, at least […]
SOCRadar Threat Research Unit (STRU) has uncovered an AI-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC Ransomware and The Gentlemen Ransomware...
Justin.sh is reporting on a confidential Cellebrite document that has been leaked to him: Cellebrite calls it Advanced Unlocks (AU from here on), not to be confused with the “advanced unlocking services” they’ve marketed for years. A press release from earlier this year confirms AU is a new product for 2026. […] According to Cellebrite, AU: is a “next-generation AFU vector that is more resilient to Apple’s OS changes…
A data breach exposed AfD emails, while an anonymous site published AI summaries of 421,000 messages, raising questions about authenticity and privacy. Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) confirmed on October 19 that its hosting provider was hacked in September and that mailboxes were copied. By the time the confirmation reached Bild, a website called hexane.cc […]
A 28-year-old Russian man has been arrested by German police, suspected of being a key member of the Qilin ransomware gang. Detectives have linked the man to the attack against blood-testing firm Synnovis, that disrupted London hospitals, and resulted in the death of a patient. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Microsoft urges organizations to secure AI Agents as insider threats, using dynamic permissions, continuous risk monitoring and automated containment. Microsoft published a detailed blog post explaining how organizations should secure AI agents. Microsoft sees them as a growing insider threat, not just a possible risk in the future. AI agents are not dangerous by nature, […]