The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network. "Compromised business servers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia were quietly converted into SMTP…
Like Shai-Hulud, the campaign targets developers to steal credentials and reuses them to propagate across the software supply channel.
The Windows version of the Hola Browser has been compromised in a supply chain attack that delivered an undeclared executable identified by researchers as a cryptocurrency miner. [...]
One of the world's most diverse, least-focused cybercrime groups is enlarging its footprint beyond East Asia.
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Gartner analysts issued a call to action to bolster defenses against several emerging critical threats, such as deepfakes and prompt injections.
A new Magecart campaign is using Stripe's API infrastructure to host the credit card-stealing payload and the data exfiltrated from checkout pages. [...]
By targeting large numbers of users, attackers increased their chances of success.
Cisco has patched a bug in Unified Communications Manager that lets an unauthenticated attacker on the network write files to the box and, from there, climb to root. It is tracked as CVE-2026-20230, and proof-of-concept exploit code is already public. Cisco's PSIRT says it has n…
A new supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) index with infostealer malware called IronWorm. [...]
A security researcher found a flaw in Anthropic's Claude Code GitHub Action that let an attacker take over vulnerable public repositories running it, with nothing more than a single opened GitHub issue. Because Anthropic's own action repo used the same workflow, a working attack …
Threat actors are actively teaching newcomers how to find, exploit, and profit from vulnerable systems. Flare explores what a popular underground hacking tutorial reveals about modern attacker workflows. [...]
It got stupid again. The internet still feels held together with tape. Bad plugins, old bugs, fake tools, trusted apps doing shady things. Same mess, new wrapper. And now the weird stuff is normal. Forums go down and come back worse. Cheap hackers get better toys. AI starts brea…
North Korean Lazarus Group targets npm developers with brandjacking packages that mimic trusted tools, drop malware and put credentials at risk.
A new China-linked cybercrime group known as TA4922 has expanded its targeting focus to target European organizations in the U.K., Germany, Italy, and South Africa. These efforts have been complemented by a "rapid operational tempo" and a continually evolving malware arsenal com…
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a macOS malvertising campaign codenamed Operation FlutterBridge that spreads a new backdoor called FlutterShell. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the campaign is said to be the next stage of a previously reported activity clus…
Cisco has released security updates to patch a critical-severity Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) flaw that allows attackers to gain root privileges. [...]
Five Eyes warns that Chinese spies are using fake job ads on LinkedIn, Indeed, and Upwork to target military staff and steal sensitive data.
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a large-scale operation that impersonates open-source and freeware projects to funnel unsuspecting users through a Traffic Distribution System (TDS) and deliver malware families like Remus Stealer, AnimateClipper, and the SessionGate framewo…
Unknown attackers spent at least five months inside the Outlook mailbox of a senior executive at a major global stock exchange, copying the inbox out in small, repeated batches and routing it through Dropbox and OneDrive so the traffic blended into normal cloud activity. Symante…
