Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS score: 9.1), which refers to a critical security feature bypass that stems fro...
In this Help Net Security video, Christine Gadsby, VP and Chief Security Advisor at BlackBerry, explains why corporate investigations go wrong before the forensic team arrives. The first hours matter more than leaders assume. Access gets granted, conversations start, and decis...
DDoS attacks grew in scale during the first half of 2026, bringing larger traffic floods, shorter attack durations, and increasingly automated campaigns. Cloudflare’s H1 2026 DDoS Threat Report shows threat actors relying on multi-vector techniques and large-scale network-laye...
Slop or Not is an AI text and image detector for iPhone and Mac that runs entirely offline, with no account required. It uses on-device AI models powered by the Apple Neural Engine to detect AI-generated content. According to a recent survey, 85% of people say they struggle to...
Wireshark 4.6.8 fixes 28 security bugs in the protocol analyzer, and nine of them fire when someone opens a saved capture file. Those nine sit in file parsers, the code that reads a capture off disk before any dissection begins: pcapng, Endace ERF, Tektronix K12xx, BUSMASTER, ...
In the past few weeks, I have been using Gemma4 as a Large Language Model (LLM) to see how useful it can be to analyze some of the malware hashes uploaded to the DShield sensor over the past 30 days and figure out how its recommendation can be considered useful about the activ...
Would you like access to Anthropic's Claude at 90% off the normal price? All you have to do is redirect your traffic to a mysterious service called "Poison Claude". Only problem is that it's run by fraudsters... Meanwhile, a phishing-as-a-service platform called "Greatness" ha...
An ongoing data theft campaign uses custom tools to steal data exposed to anonymous users through Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow customer portals. [...]
A new Android NFC relay malware called WindRelay is being used alongside the SpyNote remote administration tool (RAT) to steal live card data and send it to attackers in real time. [...]
Attempts to exploit a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-71362) in Adobe's Commerce and Magento e-commerce platforms have been detected, potentially allowing attackers to hijack customer accounts. [...]
CEVA Logistics suffered a cyberattack disrupting European operations, with eight warehouses affected and shipments halted at impacted sites. CEVA Logistics suffered a cyberattack on July 29 that disrupted parts of its European operations. The incident impacted impacted eight w...
More than 737 browser extensions published on the Chrome Web Store impersonated well-known VPN and proxy services while routing users' traffic through SOCKS5 proxies operated by a single provider. [...]
China-linked hackers reportedly used eight AI agents to breach a government network, steal data and compromise accounts with minimal human oversight. Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream documented what looks like the first fully autonomous, end-to-end AI hacking operation against...
The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor targeting defense and aerospace companies across France, Germany, Brazil, ...
Leaked passwords, social engineering and spoofed social media sites are among the tools hackers are using to gather individuals' private content and sell it online, the FBI said.
Israeli cyber firm Dream said the framework adapted mid-operation, corrected its mistakes and expanded as it went along. The post Researchers observe first ‘near-autonomous’ AI attack on government target in Taiwan appeared first on CyberScoop.
Security researchers have disclosed new "Plug and Pwn" attacks that abuse the Windows Plug and Play feature to trigger Windows into installing vulnerable or insecure vendor software and gain SYSTEM privileges. [...]
North Korean hackers have been exploiting a Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-68820) to target defense-sector companies as part of the Operation Dream Job campaign. [...]
The vulnerability was patched by Microsoft in July and CISA warned that it could end up being exploited in the wild. The post SharePoint Vulnerability Exploited Shortly After PoC Release appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A couple of days ago, Xavier posted about Atuin to gain more insight into the command history. Atuin does a great job of better organizing what is usually handled by "bash&#;x26;#;x5f;history"&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;and collecting meaningful additional data. Our reader David...
The FBI warns that cybercriminals are targeting adults' and children's social media and other online accounts to steal sexually explicit images or videos. [...]
A massive set of 737 free VPN and proxy extensions have been found to mainly target Russian-speaking users seeking access to blocked services with an aim to intercept browser traffic and route them through a proxy infrastructure. The extensions, published across at least 40 Ch...
Fake remote workers can exploit gaps between hiring checks, device delivery, and account access to enter organizations under false identities. Specops Software explains how document verification and biometric liveness checks can help organizations confirm that the person recei...
Attackers continue to target critical infrastructure and government-linked organizations in the country, mirroring the increased activity across Latin America.
Most security stories start with something broken. This one starts with everything working as designed. Researchers at Reco have been tracking a campaign they call City-Forum, named after a domain registered in 2002, abandoned, and now resolving to a generic rented server from...
Signal has introduced a feature called automatic key verification, giving users a new way to confirm that nobody has secretly interfered with their encrypted chats. “Signal is always end-to-end encrypted, and automatic key verification provides an additional, streamlined way t...
ScienceLogic has announced Skylar AI 2.5, expanding secure deployment options for organizations with stringent security, sovereignty, and compliance requirements, while introducing enhancements that strengthen AI performance, operational intelligence, and enterprise integratio...
Deloitte has expanded AI Controls and Assurance services and solutions designed to help organizations confidently adopt, scale and govern AI across the enterprise. From early exploration to enterprise deployment, Deloitte’s enhanced services provide end-to-end support across t...
The cybersecurity startup will use the fresh investment to scale its product, engineering, sales, and marketing teams. The post Mindgard Raises $30 Million to Protect AI Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Signal has also made a security announcement: an automatic key verification feature to complement its safety number system. The post WhatsApp Unveils New Scam Alert Feature appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Unread antivirus alerts and an unpatched content management system exposed Britain's ACRO to three separate data breaches, according to a reprimand notice.
Researchers observed the novel campaign exploiting unauthenticated guest access to quietly enumerate and exfiltrate exposed data from both platforms. The post Stealthy ‘City-Forum’ Attacks Target Salesforce and ServiceNow With Custom Toolset appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This month’s update features about five times the volume of patches Microsoft was shipping in a typical month before AI-assisted vulnerability discovery took hold.
August 2026 Patch Tuesday: 421 Flaws, 3 Zero-Days Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday release addresses 421 vulnerabilities , including three zero-days . One zero-day was exploited in the wild, while two others were pu
Hackers have already begun using a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, published by cybersecurity company Rapid7 on Tuesday. [...]
View CSAF Summary Fortinet has published information on vulnerabilities in FortiOS. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products. Siemens recommends to contact customer support for additional information, and follow Fortinet advisory for workarounds and mitigati...
The North Korea-linked Lazarus group is using fake job offers, trojanized PDF software and a Windows zero-day in attacks aimed primarily at the defense sector, Check Point researchers have found. The activity is part of Operation Dream Job, a long-running campaign in which att...
A newly disclosed flaw in the way OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google carried hidden AI reasoning between API calls let researchers recover internal reasoning and secrets from session logs, including API keys and passwords. The weakness affected encrypted reasoning objects used by t...
SAP Commerce Cloud CVE-2026-58231 Requires Urgent Patching SAP has addressed CVE-2026-58231, a maximum-severity improper authorization vulnerability in the Data Hub Adapter for SAP Commerce Cloud. The flaw carries a CVSS
Enterprise defenses are tuned to catch the attacks that make noise. This year's data shows attackers winning by making none. According to Picus Labs' new Blue Report 2026, which measured more than 338 million real attack simulations across actual client production environments...
Affecting European contract logistics operations at eight Ceva warehouses, the incident caused shipment delays for multiple customers. The post Ceva Logistics Operations Disrupted by Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Signal has introduced Automatic Key Verification, a new security feature that gives users a new way to ensure their encrypted chats haven't been intercepted. [...]
Adobe has shipped updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting ColdFusion, Commerce, and Campaign Classic that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation. The most severe of the flaws are listed belo...
Intel has informed customers about several high-severity vulnerabilities that can lead to privilege escalation and even code execution. The post Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Intel, AMD Fix Over 80 Vulnerabilities Combined appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cisco ASA and FTD CVE-2026-20349 Exploited Cisco has confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-20349 , a High-severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability affecting the Remote Access SSL VPN service in Cisco Secure Fir
Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit named "ShieldBreak" after Microsoft released the August 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates. [...]
This seems to work: Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to shut down attacks from AI hacking agents. The prompt...
LiteLLM was compromised through the Trivy hack and abused to distribute information-stealing malware to its users. The post Over 2,500 Organizations Impacted by LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday delivered security fixes for 400+ vulnerabilities, including one that has been exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-68820) and three that were publicly disclosed prior to the release of the patches. Vulnerabilities of note CVE-2026-6882...
Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according to new findings from QUIRSO. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-59310 (CVSS score: 9.8), a directory-traversal vulnerability in the VMware vCente...
ConnectSecure has announced that Microsoft 365 Auto Remediation and AI-powered Training Assessments are now live on the ConnectSecure platform. The capabilities help managed service providers (MSPs) address supported M365 security findings, create and measure assessments, supp...
CBTS has launched Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS), combining autonomous penetration testing with security expertise to help organizations continuously identify exploitable risks, validate attack paths, and prioritize remediation as their environments evolve. Cloud env...
The bug allowed attackers to gain full control of the victims’ systems and deploy the ForestTiger backdoor. The post Fresh Windows Zero-Day Exploited in North Korean Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Crytica Security has developed a patented solution that delivers rapid, deterministic threat detection for operational technology (OT), protecting the embedded systems and connected devices that underpin critical infrastructure, national security, and healthcare without disrup...