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Google Chrome’s latest measures against abusive web push notifications include automatically revoking notification permissions for inactive and suspicious websites, helping reduce scams, phishing attempts, and other deceptive content. Abusive notifications (Source: Google) Chr...
Kimwolf v7: The Android TV Botnet That Now Hides Its Traffic Behind Chrome Fingerprints and Ethereum Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 discovered Kimwolf v7 on February 3, 2026, while hunting threats following public disclosures of the botnet’s earlier activity. The new version subst...
The vulnerabilities could be exploited to leak credentials for external SQL connections or crash an agent service. The post Ivanti EPM Update Patches Remotely Exploitable Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Chaotic Eclipse released a PoC for ShieldBreak, a Microsoft Defender zero-day that bypasses the CVE-2026-50656 patch and could enable SYSTEM-level code execution. Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare and Nightmare-Eclipse, released...
Two malicious LiteLLM releases sat on PyPI for about 40 minutes in March carrying credential-stealing code capable of harvesting cloud keys, SSH keys, Kubernetes tokens, database passwords, and other secrets from systems that installed them. Threat intelligence firm CloudSEK n...
CISA has also published several advisories describing vulnerabilities in ICS and other OT products. The post ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Fixed by Siemens, Schneider, Phoenix Contact appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Spanish police have arrested a man in Murcia accused of using deepfake software to trick a certificate provider’s video identity checks in an attempt to obtain digital signatures he could use for financial fraud. According to the police, the man made 38 attempts using this met...
SAP has released patches to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Commerce Cloud (Data Hub Adapter) that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-58231, is rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been ...
The security defects could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely and read sensitive data. The post SonicWall Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Discontinued GMS Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2026 fixes 398 CVEs, including an actively exploited zero-day and a wormable DNS flaw enabling remote code execution. Microsoft released its Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2026 on Tuesday, covering 398 new CVEs across Windows, Offi...
The security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a new Microsoft zero-day called ShieldBreak. The vulnerability, rooted in Microsoft Defender for Windows, demonstrat...
Cisco has warned that a new vulnerability impacting Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20349 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of in...
In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus, discusses what cryptographic inventories turn up in banks and hospitals, including default passwords and admin keys still held by former employees. He explains where post-quantum key sizes break old size a...
PentestGPT is an open-source penetration testing agent that points a large language model at a target and lets it work. In its default mode it runs recon, then exploit, then walkthrough, each stage feeding the next. Switch it to pentest mode and the stages become asset discove...
CVE-2026-20349 can be exploited remotely without authentication against Secure Firewall ASA and FTD devices. The post Cisco Patches Firewall Zero-Day Exploited for DoS Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
First, a bit of good news: Enterprise defenses are recovering. However, it’s a narrow recovery, with a twist. Today, organizations are better at stopping loud attacks but have barely moved the needle at all against the quiet ones. This data, and a lot more, comes straight from...
A seller on a cybercrime forum is offering a ready-made scam kit for $500, complete with an admin panel that tracks victims, checks their crypto wallets for value, and inflates fake balances to squeeze out more money, Malwarebytes found. Researchers discovered the scam project...
CISOs and CTOs expect AI deployments to increase their organizations’ attack surface by an average of 14% over the next year. Nearly all lack visibility into AI deployments, and 90% are concerned about employees using unapproved AI tools outside formal oversight, according to ...
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Google says Chrome's anti-abuse systems reduced unwanted notifications on Android by more than 7 billion per day during the first quarter of 2026. [...]
Months after police seized its servers and arrested an alleged operator, the Kimwolf botnet is running code that disguises attacks as Chrome traffic and fetches its orders from the Ethereum blockchain. The post Kimwolf botnet rebuilt to survive takedowns, researchers say appea...
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily reversed an earlier decision through the shadow docket. The post Federal judge issues second order blocking Trump mail-in voting directive appeared first on CyberScoop.
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for August 2026, which includes 421 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 62 that Microsoft marked as "critical."
The DeadLock ransomware operation is using a decentralized infrastructure that relies on blockchain-backed services to protect its communication with victims and data-leak activity. [...]
Security experts say prioritization should be the main focus for the August updates, not the massive CVE volume.
Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today.
The ransomware-as-a-service operation is finding success against critical infrastructure targets with leaked Conti code and old flaws in firewalls and VPN appliances.
Hackers associated with the Russian threat group Sandworm have been targeting system administrators and IT professionals through fake job offers since at least May. [...]
Microsoft released its monthly security updates on Tuesday, and one of the flaws it closed is already being used in attacks. The bug sits in a core Windows kernel driver that handles network socket operations. An attacker with code already running on a machine can use it to es...
Kerianne Tobitsch, who most recently served as a senior lawyer at the Homeland Security Department, is the NSA's new general counsel, sources told Recorded Future News.
Cisco is warning that a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in Secure Firewall ASA and Threat Defense (FTD) software is being actively exploited in attacks to remotely crash affected devices. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the Kimwolf/AISURU Android and Internet of Things (IoT) botnet that comes with significant improvements to improve its operational resilience and conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The new version, t...
The hackers claimed to have exfiltrated 6 terabytes of data, including highly sensitive health information like records related to sexual assault, mental health, abortions and sexual harassment incidents.
Anyone sharing their screen on a Zoom call could have taken over the computers of everyone watching, and anyone watching could have taken over the presenter's. The flaw sat in the annotation tool, the feature that lets participants draw and type on a shared screen, and it aske...
A use-after-free in the afd.sys Windows kernel-mode driver has been exploited to gain SYSTEM privileges. The post August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a new social engineering campaign orchestrated by Russian nation-state threat actors targeting IT workers in the country by masquerading as recruiters to trick them into installing malware. CERT...
Delta Air Lines is investigating an unauthorized Wi-Fi network that appeared aboard a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta carrying passengers who had attended the DEF CON hacker convention. [...]
Microsoft has released Windows 10 KB5120249 cumulative update for versions 22H2 and 21H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and bugs. [...]
Today is Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes security updates for a massive 400 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]
The airline deactivated the network after the crew realized someone was messing with the in-flight system. The feds are investigating. The post Delta investigates in-flight Wi-Fi spoofing on post-DEF CON flight from Las Vegas appeared first on CyberScoop.
This month we got patches for 418 vulnerabilities. Of these, 62 are critical, 1 is being exploited in the wild, and 2 were publicly disclosed as zero-days. Notable fixes include Windows privilege escalation, container tampering, and critical QUIC and DNS Server remote code exe...
Zoom patches a zero-click flaw that could let a meeting participant execute code on another user’s computer through the annotation feature. Zoom has patched four vulnerabilities, including a critical zero-click flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-53413, in its annotation feature. CVE-20...
Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5121003 and KB5120240 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities, bugs, and add new features. [...]
The security defects could be exploited for arbitrary code execution and denial-of-service. The post Adobe Urges Immediate Patching of Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Security researchers found a way to enter Microsoft SharePoint servers as any user, including an administrator, with no valid account. A significant part of the work that found it was done through an AI agent. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS 9.1), affects SharePoint ...
ExfilSquad targets 13 organizations, exploiting cloud portals for data theft and using torrents to spread stolen information and amplify damage. Resecurity is tracking the activity of ExfilSquad – the group announced new victims this week. ExfilSquad is a new cybercrime group ...
The ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience. "Its recovery ecosystem combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-b...
Iran-linked hackers targeted Water Infrastructure in New Jersey and Alabama, bringing confirmed attacks to at least 12 states, with limited disruption. The wave of cyberattacks targeting US water infrastructure has reached New Jersey and Alabama, bringing the confirmed count t...
AI pentesting can flood teams with findings they cannot validate. The real challenge is managing “validation debt” as discovery scales. AI pentesting has a ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ problem. Enchant a broom to fetch water, and it will fetch water, relentlessly, long after the wo...
Cisco warns that seven ClamAV flaws affect Secure Endpoint Connector products, with two having public PoCs that could enable remote DoS attacks. Cisco warned that seven ClamAV vulnerabilities affect its Secure Endpoint Connector on Windows, macOS and Linux. ClamAV is an open-s...
Global supply chain and distribution giant Wesco has confirmed in a statement for BleepingComputer that it is investigating a cybersecurity incident. [...]
When I give talks about AI genies, I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It’s happened. The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. And…. Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered a way to book Andrew into...
Impacting Zoom annotation, the bug could be exploited by a meeting participant to execute code on another participant’s machine. The post Zoom Patches Zero-Click Code Execution Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Operations at eight European warehouses belonging to France's CEVA Logistics have reportedly been disrupted by a cyberattack, and several other companies are feeling the effects.
NIST is seeking public input to modernize the National Vulnerability Database to keep pace with AI-driven cyber threats and machine-scale security data. The post NIST wants to overhaul its vulnerability database for the AI age appeared first on CyberScoop.
Organizations are rushing to implement AI without fully grasping where its legal protections begin and end. The post The AI Governance Gap Is a Leadership Problem: Waiting Won’t Close It appeared first on SecurityWeek.
SAP released 28 new and two updated security notes, including four notes dealing with critical-severity bugs. The post SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Water Watch Center launched at DEF CON aims to help under-resourced utilities protect their systems against hackers. The post US Water Systems Get Cyber Boost From New Senate Bill and ‘Water Watch Center’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Top 10 Phishing Kits Used by Cybercriminals Phishing kits have turned credential theft into a scalable service by packaging fake login pages, hosting, traffic filtering, victim management, and technical support into read
Mozilla announced today that it updated the GPG key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after it was accidentally exposed on GitHub. [...]