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'Sandworm' Chains Cisco Vulnerabilities to Deploy Cyclops Blink

The notorious Russian threat group is spreading an upgraded version of the botnet malware, which the FBI disrupted in 2022.

Microsoft releases emergency Windows updates to fix RDS failures

Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band Windows updates to fix Remote Desktop Services failures caused by this month's security updates, along with Hyper-V and USB audio problems on some Windows versions…

Japan's Digital Agency says VPN flaw exposed 246,000 personnel records

Japan's Digital Agency has discovered a data breach that may have exposed around 246,000 record rows containing personal information of government employees…

Maximum Severity GitLab Flaw Puts Supply Chains at Risk

CVE-2026-85706 is a path traversal vulnerability with a 10 out of 10 CVSS score, affecting both GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition instances.

Homebrew 7.0.0 gets built-in GUI, better security controls

Homebrew package manager version 7.0.0 has been released with a built-in vulnerability scanner, stronger security controls, and the full release of its native BrewUI graphical interface…

Twitch extension with 30K installs exposes users’ OAuth tokens

A browser extension called Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot, available in the official Chrome and Firefox stores, sends users' Twitch OAuth session tokens to a commercial bot service…

Hackers hijack HBO Max Reddit account to push malware in ClickFix ads

Hackers compromised HBO Max's official Reddit account and used it to push malicious ads that launched ClickFix attacks to infect Windows and macOS devices with information-stealing malware…

New DDRop Attack Breaks Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP Confidential Computing

Researchers have disclosed a new hardware attack, called DDRop, that breaks the memory protection in Intel and AMD confidential computing by silently dropping writes to a server's memory, so the processor keeps reading old encrypted data as if it were current. The attack requires an attacker who already controls the server's software and can briefly access the machine to insert a small circuit…

3BB Attacker Used MeshCentral Backdoor for Root Access, Targeted Subscriber Credentials

An attacker was operating inside the network of 3BB, one of Thailand's largest broadband providers, and maintained remote control of internal machines using a legitimate management tool called MeshCentral, threat intelligence firm Hunt.io said. The company uncovered the intrusion by examining a server the attacker had left open on the internet, which held the attacker's own tools and a list of…

Telegram Desktop Flaw Lets Hidden JavaScript Exfiltrate Messages From HTML Exports

A flaw in Telegram Desktop let a bot's message plant hidden JavaScript inside chats that users exported to HTML files, security researchers at ExPatch said in a writeup published on September 12. In Telegram, the message looked ordinary, with a link button, and the script ran only when someone opened the export file in a web browser. It could then copy every message in that file to…

Red Heron Exploits Gitea RCE to Compromise 13 Organizations Across Six Countries

A suspected Chinese threat actor tracked as Red Heron has been attributed to the rapid exploitation of a recently disclosed security vulnerability in Gitea to compromise internet-facing instances as part of a multi-national campaign. "Red Heron scanned 1,386 Gitea instances across seven countries and maintained a separate dataset of 477 Taiwan-based systems," Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU)…

Anthropic CEO: Time to Shift From Improving to Controlling AI

Dario Amodei says it's time to slow the pace of frontier AI improvements so that security and risk prevention efforts can catch up. What does this mean for enterprises?

Hackers target exposed Vite dev servers to steal AWS, Azure secrets

A mass-scanning campaign targeting internet-exposed Vite development servers is attempting to steal cloud credentials and configurations from AWS and Azure deployments…

WordPress Adds Automated Plugin Reviews to Block High-Risk Updates Before Distribution

WordPress has announced it's launching an automated security review for every release of a plugin before it's distributed through the WordPress.org update API so as to analyze it for potential security issues and ensure there are no risks involved. "New plugins are reviewed before they enter the directory, but updates ship continuously after that," David Perez, WordPress Official Plugin…

⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, WeChat Worm, PaperCut Attacks, AI Espionage, and Rootkits

AI keeps showing up in the wrong places. Attackers are using it to speed up exploits, test defenses, and automate more of the job. Some models are also crossing lines on their own. That is not a great combination. The rest of the week is more familiar: old bugs still working, fresh exploit chains, exposed systems, weak defaults, and simple paths that should have been harder to abuse. A few of…

Why Patch Automation Needs Brakes, Not Just an Accelerator

Patch automation can help IT teams keep pace with growing update volumes, but deploying faster also means bad updates can spread faster. Action1 explains how update rings, predefined success criteria, and human oversight can make automated patching faster without sacrificing control…

Webinar: How malicious OAuth apps can lead to Google Workspace breaches

Attackers can combine social engineering with malicious OAuth applications to gain access to Google Workspace data without relying solely on stolen passwords. This webinar examines two attacks to show how these breaches unfold and which security controls can help stop them…

AI Changed the Exposure Problem. Validation Needs to Change With It.

There's a lot of noise around AI and cybersecurity right now. What’s actually important is far simpler, if often lost in the hubbub. Vulnerability discovery is getting faster and happening at a much greater scale, while defenders still have to work out which findings actually deserve their action. In the first half of 2026, a whopping 35,853 CVEs were published, roughly 49% more than in the…

Microsoft: September updates cause RDS failures on Windows Server

Microsoft has confirmed reports that the September 2026 security updates cause Remote Desktop Services (RDS) failures on Windows Server systems…

Revolut discloses data breach exposing financial info, passports

Fintech company Revolut has disclosed a data breach after sharing data from an undisclosed number of customers with a threat actor impersonating a government agency…

Microsoft: September updates break audio on some Windows PCs

Microsoft has confirmed that USB audio devices may fail on some Windows systems after installing the KB5124008and KB5124012 September 2026 security updates…

Malicious Twitch Browser Extension Leaks OAuth Tokens From Nearly 31,000 Users

A malicious cross-store Twitch browser extension has leaked OAuth tokens associated with nearly 31,000 users to proxy servers operated by a Russian commercial bot service. The extension, named "Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot," lists HISHIMIRO/jeetbot.cc as its developer and has the following identifiers on the Google Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Firefox Add-Ons store - Chrome -…

CISA: Hackers now exploit max severity GitLab flaw in attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are now exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability in attacks…

Hackers exploit Tencent app flaw to deploy GrayRabbit malware

Threat actors linked to a China-aligned espionage group are exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-51990) in Tencent's Sogou Input Method for Windows to deploy the GrayRabbit backdoor…

Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data

Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, per the tech giant, involved sending over a million scam emails between August 3 and 5, 2026, by masquerading as chief executive officers…

CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws impacting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. Details of the vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-42016 (CVSS score: 8.1) - An incorrect authorization…

Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent

The Dutch Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) is warning of imminent exploitation of two critical flaws in Check Point VPN tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103…

When the Whole Company Adopts AI: What It Does to Your SOC

Over the past year, we watched a new class of alert appear in enterprise security operations centers and grow faster than anything else in the stream: alerts that were triggered by AI tools and agents. Not attacks against AI, but the ordinary, everyday footprint of an organization using it, from developers running coding agents and non-technical staff signing consumer AI tools into corporate…

OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers

The "major malicious attack" that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according to a new report published by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx. On May 12, Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for software supply chain security at Mend.io, disclosed details of a coordinated cyber attack that targeted the package manager for the…

Hackers abused Claude to extract secrets from 1.8M Android apps

Anthropic says multiple threat groups, including the financially motivated and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, tried to abuse its Claude AI model for malicious purposes…

Threat Actor Generates 1M Personalized Fraud Emails in 3 Days

Cybercriminals behind malicious email campaigns no longer have to compromise volume for credibility, or vice versa, thanks to AI.

Florida confirms DMV database breached via stolen police account

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach, saying the attackers gained access using credentials belonging to a police department employee…

CISA Calls for More Guidance, Less Spin, as Cyber Outages Escalate

A new joint government advisory signals a regulatory shift, pressing organizations to adopt more transparent breach notification and incident response protocols.

SpiderSilk Hunts External Threats With AI-Based Scanner

The Dubai-based threat detection startup uses artificial intelligence tools to scan billions of IP addresses to find exposed assets, leaked data, and zero-day vulnerabilities.

Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans

Fred Heiding of Menlo Park Intelligence talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his research on frontier models, and their ability to influence human behavior and create emotional dependency.

Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft

Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365 services…

AI Governance Can't Wait

Adversaries can manipulate AI defensive reasoning to silently compromise target networks.

GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure

GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API that could allow an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server under…

Artifactory flaws chained in attacks deploying backdoor malware

Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers…

Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers to a machine learning technique where a large, powerful AI model assumes the role of a "teacher" to…

Papercut AI Swarm Attack Heralds Changes for Cyber Kill Chain

From creating lab environments for staging and testing agentic attacks to reconnaissance to lateral movement and exfiltration, the most innovative attackers are widely incorporating AI.

Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims

Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generative Threat Groups (GTGs), span state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial…

Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection

Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve. The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006 (where "GTG" stands for Generative Threat Group), which aligns with broader reporting linking the cluster to Midnight…

How Threat Actors Are Turning Trusted AI Platforms Into an Attack Surface

Threat actors are abusing trusted AI platforms to host malicious content, poison search results, and trick users into installing malware. Huntress examines campaigns targeting AI users through weaponized Claude Artifacts, shared AI conversations, sponsored search results, and ClickFix-style lures…

Your Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk

Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path to compromise. A critical vulnerability may look alarming on a scanner report, but if it sits behind strong segmentation, identity controls, and other defenses that prevent an attacker…

GitLab urges users to patch max severity path traversal flaw

GitLab urged users on Thursday to patch their servers immediately against a maximum-severity path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85706…

Microsoft fixes Teams, Outlook launch failures on ARM Windows PCs

Microsoft has fixed a bug that prevented Teams and Outlook from launching on ARM-based Windows devices after installing updates released since the August 2026 Patch Tuesday…

Trezor: 347,000 users targeted in phishing attacks after Brevo breach

Trezor has revealed that phishing attacks against its customers earlier this week targeted 347,000 email addresses and affected 2,500 users who clicked an embedded malicious link…

Attackers Chain JFrog Artifactory Flaws to Gain Admin Control and Plant Backdoors

China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor

A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, to install a backdoor on victims' computers, security company Gen Digital said in research published Thursday. The attack started with a crafted link and ended with the attacker able to do anything the logged-in user could do. Tencent, which owns…

Conti ransomware gang member sentenced to 4 years in prison

A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022…

PaperCut Replaces Emergency Patches With Fixes for Two Actively Exploited Flaws

PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously published emergency patches that were pushed to address two security flaws that have come under active exploitation. The software development company said PaperCut NG/MF versions 26.0.5, 25.0.13 and 24.1.10 are now available for customers to download. "These are Regular Maintenance Releases (MR) that…

Cisco FMC Flaws Exploited to Steal Credentials and Deploy Qilin Ransomware

Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities. The attacks leverage CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score: 10.0), an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web interface of FMC software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass…

Indonesia Hit by Android Banking App-Cloning Campaign

The GoldFactory threat group exploits the Android Work Profile feature to deliver the Gigabud Trojan, while Mantax Otax spreads separately.