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Calling on Cyber Pros to Help Defend City Hall

Government agencies with smaller budgets need support — and here's how you can help.

New CUSTODY Framework Constrains AI Agents Inside the Network

Enterprise cybersecurity expert Jake Williams joins the Dark Reading News Desk to explain why he decided to release his new agentic AI framework in the wake of the OpenAI attacks on Hugging Face.

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within the U.S. These clusters include UNC6293, UNC7005, and UNC5976. "These clusters engage in persistent, adaptive…

What We Missed: Delta Flight Disrupted With Wi-Fi Hack

In this video, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, including some scary airplane security risks and the US government's newest "hack back" strategy.

Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware

Hackers compromised the maintainer account behind the widely used Rust crate arrayref to introduce malware that executed on developers' systems during compilation…

N-able Bug Exposes Password Vault Master Keys

The popular "Passportal" password manager, favored by MSPs and SMBs, remains risky even after its patch, thanks to its cloud-based design. Should these products stay away from the cloud entirely?

Money and Mindset: The Two Biggest Roadblocks to Cyber Policing

Law enforcement training is not keeping pace with the volume and rapid evolution of cybercrimes, though officers really only need to learn the basics, but focus and budgets hinder progress.

ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More

A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old bugs, odd hiding tricks, and AI-assisted exploit research keep lowering the effort needed to cause damage. Nothing here needs…

AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an "active threat" targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. That…

Pakistan's Transparent Tribe Refreshes Toolset for Afghan Cyberattacks

A nation-state threat actor is picking on immature organizations run by the Taliban, but failing against more prepared government agencies in India.

Critical Elementor Pro bug exposes WordPress sites to RCE attacks

A critical vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin could allow attackers to upload executable files for remote code execution on the server…

New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI's Grok chatbot to send a user's name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user asks it to summarize an ordinary web page. The AI security company, which has codenamed the technique "Cryptographic Context Injection," said the…

How MSPs can catch phishing attacks email filters miss

AI is making phishing attacks more personalized, convincing, and difficult for traditional email filters to detect. Kaseya explains how MSPs can monitor identity, email, and endpoint activity to detect and contain attacks that make it past the inbox…

Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE

Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers

Citrix has released updates to address two security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments, including a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability. According to the cloud computing and virtualization technology company, the issues affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including certain FIPS and NDcPP builds, as well as SecurAccess…

'Grandoreiro' Malware Resurfaces With Mexico Campaign

The banking Trojan, post-law enforcement takedown, is sprucing itself up with features that make detection and analysis harder.

Attackers Exploit Zimbra SNMP Flaw for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

A now-patched security flaw impacting Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), which refers to a case of command injection that can lead to remote code execution. "A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Zimbra…

Citrix urges admins to patch new NetScaler flaws as soon as possible

Citrix has warned customers to immediately secure their systems against two vulnerabilities affecting NetScaler Gateway secure remote access solutions and NetScaler ADC networking appliances…

Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale (POS) terminal reads over near-field communication (NFC), without breaking any of the card's cryptography. The attack, which the researchers named "Zombie Card," requires physical…

Why "Shady AI" is Security's Next Big Governance Problem

In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta triggered a “Sev 1” incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees who weren’t authorized to access it. The incident began when a Meta employee posted a technical question on an internal forum. An engineer used an approved AI agent to analyze it, but the agent posted its response publicly without approval. The employee…

CDN Tsunami Attack Abuses HTTP/3 Translation for Up to 350x DoS Amplification

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that exploit how major content delivery networks (CDNs) convert client-facing HTTP/3 traffic into HTTP/1.1 requests to the websites they front, amplifying a low-bandwidth request stream by up to 350x against the origin server. The attacks, collectively named "CDN Tsunami," were evaluated against Alibaba, Baidu…

Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices

A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as well as Russian and European financial institutions, global fintech and cryptocurrency services, and military-focused communications. "Manic sits at the intersection of Android banking malware and mobile spyware, combining financial-fraud…

CISA warns of hackers exploiting critical MLflow vulnerability

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies that threat actors are now exploiting a critical vulnerability in the MLflow open-source AI engineering platform…

NASA AIT-GUI Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Issue Spacecraft Commands

Security researchers at Cycode have disclosed a chain of flaws in AIT-GUI, the browser-based operator console for NASA/JPL's open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit, that allow an unauthenticated attacker to issue arbitrary commands to the software's spacecraft and instrument command bus. The chain, tracked as GHSA-p9r8-2q67-fp86 and rated 9.4 on the CVSS v3.1 scoring system, impacts AIT-GUI…

ToxicPanda 2.0 and GoldDigger Expand Android Banking Attacks with On-Device Fraud

New Manic Android malware can exfiltrate data through nearby devices

A new Android malware named Manic targeting users in multiple European countries has a fallback data exfiltration mechanism that uses nearby infected devices…

Critical Zimbra RCE flaw now actively exploited in attacks

CERT Polska, the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), warned that attackers have begun exploiting a critical vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS)…

40 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Web3 Products to Steal Wallet Secrets

A set of 40 Mozilla Firefox extensions has been found to engage in cryptocurrency wallet theft by masquerading as OKX, Rabby Wallet, TronLink, and other Web3 products. According to the Socket Threat Research team, the extensions are part of a broader set of 77 browser add-ons that share source code and infrastructure overlaps. The campaign, dubbed Offside Wallet Theft Factory, is believed to…

Microsoft says August Windows updates may cause gaming issues

Microsoft is investigating a potential issue with the August 2026 updates that may prevent some games from launching or cause them to crash on affected Windows 11 systems…

Elementor Pro Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Upload PHP and Execute Code

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32475, carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of unrestricted upload of a file with a dangerous type. "The flaw lives in the Forms module's File…

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down as logins and signups fail

ChatGPT is experiencing a major outage, and users are unable to sign in, create accounts, or load chats, including previous conversations…

Rogue ransomware affiliate poses as recovery firm to steal payments

A suspected ransomware affiliate is posing as a ransomware recovery service called "Ransom Busters," contacting the victims before the attacks become public and claiming to be able to provide decryption keys and delete stolen data for a fee…

Sakura Internet hack exposes data of up to 1.36 million accounts

Japanese cloud and data center service provider Sakura Internet disclosed that hackers accessed its sales management system, where customer contract and membership information is stored…

No-Filter 'Kriminal' AI Platform Raises Cybercrime Concerns

The AI company officially forbids illicit use, while offering guardrail-free social engineering, offensive cybercrime, and OSINT scanning to anyone with a bit of cryptocurrency.

Healthtech firm CareCloud data breach impacts 3.7 million patients

U.S. healthcare IT company CareCloud disclosed that the data breach incident it suffered earlier this year has impacted more than 3.7 million individuals…

Agentic AI Presents New Insider Threat Model for Orgs

Katie Moussouris of Luta Security talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about how enterprises will now need to monitor risks posed by their own agents in the wake of the recent Hugging Face attack.

Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021. The end-to-end experiment used an attacker Worker and a victim Worker controlled by the researchers…

Hackers compromise 14,500 Dahua web cameras in 35-day campaign

In a large-scale campaign that researchers dubbed CameraSwarm, hackers compromised more than 14,500 Dahua IP cameras mostly in Ukraine and Russia…

OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior

OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident. "As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company…

US warns of AI-powered attacks on Siemens PLCs in critical infrastructure

U.S. cybersecurity agencies warn that threat actors are using AI-generated scripts to exploit Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in U.S. critical infrastructure…

SilkParasite Threatens Central Asian Orgs With Flurry of RATs

A spear-phishing campaign by a China-nexus group linked to FamousSparrow provides insight into geopolitical, technical, and strategic global moves by the country's APTs.

US charges Iranian hackers over $3.4 billion intellectual property theft

The U.S. has charged 17 Iranians, alleged members of a hacking-for-hire company called Mabna Institute, involved in years-long operations that stole data from American organizations…

Password spraying attacks surge 155x as hackers exploit MFA gaps

Huntress observed a 155x increase in password spraying attacks in H1 2026, including a campaign that generated more than 81 million login attempts in two weeks. The attacks exploited legacy authentication and gaps in MFA policies that left some login flows unprotected…

SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targets Central Asian Governments with Five New RATs

A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, GoginRAT, and NodeEdgeRAT. SilkParasite, first discovered in late 2025, is assessed to be a…

Hackers Compromised 14,500+ Dahua Devices Using Credential Attacks, Auth Bypasses, and P2P

Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credential attacks, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer (P2P) relay technique. The activity, codenamed Operation CameraSwarm, was reconstructed from a 407 MB exposed working directory containing 2,616 files…

Phishing 3.0: The Fight Moves to Agent Versus Agent

Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the sender is no longer a person. From Bad Content to Bad Intent to AI on Both Sides Phishing 1.0 was bad…

StopAndProtect Uses Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites to Spread Malware and Steal Data

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the status of the activity. "The operation doesn't rely on a single piece of malware, but on a whole toolkit of criminal software…

Microsoft fixes known issue causing Windows Defender crashes

Microsoft has resolved a bug that caused Windows Defender to crash after a recent security update, resulting in 0xc0000005 access violation errors on some affected systems…

Critical macOS, SharePoint, vCenter, and Microsoft IKE Flaws Under Active Exploitation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating they are being exploited in the wild. The shortcomings added to the KEV catalog are listed below - CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper authentication vulnerability impacting Apple macOS that could allow an…

Critical RCE flaw in Windows IKE Extension now actively exploited

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are exploiting a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the Windows Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Service Extensions component…

Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro reach end of support in 2 months

Microsoft has reminded customers that systems running Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 24H2 will stop receiving updates in two months…

CISA: Medusa ransomware hit over 500 critical infrastructure orgs

The FBI said Tuesday that the Medusa ransomware gang has breached more than 500 critical infrastructure organizations in the United States since June 2021…

Microsoft Links 30+ Rotating Domains to MacSync Stealer Infrastructure

Microsoft Defender Experts have linked more than 30 web domains to MacSync Stealer, a macOS-focused information stealer, after correlating recurring endpoint and network behaviors across changing infrastructure, tracing the malware from payload retrieval through data collection, staging, and exfiltration. The tech giant said it required multiple endpoint and network behaviors to align before…

Clop-Linked Windchill Web Shell Decrypts Credentials and Maps Engineering Data

A JavaServer Pages (JSP) web shell deployed following the exploitation of a critical security flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM servers is specifically designed for the enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, according to new findings from ReliaQuest. The cybersecurity company characterized the web shell as a fully equipped extortion platform capable of mapping sensitive vault…

China-Linked Hacker Shows AI Capabilities in APAC Attack

In the first purported "near-autonomous" attack on a nation-state, a Chinese-language operator used a complex AI framework to target and compromise government agencies, likely in Taiwan.

Critical GitLab Zero-Click Flaw Poses Mitigation Challenges

A lack of technical details could make it hard for organizations running self-managed GitLab versions to detect potential exploitation of CVE-2026-19478.

'CoSnitch' Attack Tricked Copilot Into Mapping Out Architecture

Researchers discovered a "meta-hacking" technique that can manipulate the AI service into revealing its own security weaknesses.

Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector

Comcast is promoting WiFi-based motion detection as a part of its new Xfinity Shield home protection platform, allowing routers and wireless devices to detect people moving through a home without cameras or motion sensors…

The 'Industrial Accidents' Behind Rogue AI Agent Attacks — and the Sandbox Failures Exposed

Rich Mogull, chief analyst with the Cloud Security Alliance, joins the Dark Reading News Desk with what defenders need to take away from AI agents escaping their environments to launch attacks.

CISOs Break Their Silence in 'Declassified' Docuseries

Million-dollar heists, divorce, and career-ending burnout are all stories told in the latest docuseries revealing a behind-the-scenes look at the cybersecurity community.

Microsoft Copilot Personal Flaws Could Let One Click Exfiltrate Data From Connected Apps

Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim's Copilot session. The flaws, which the researchers collectively named CoSnitch, turn in part on an undocumented URL parameter that the assistant itself surfaced…