CVE-2025-25249 Exploitation Delivers PivotC2, a FortiGate Post-Exploitation RAT One of the most common entry points for attackers is the exploitation of public-facing edge devices (such as VPNs, routers, and firewalls).
July’s intrusions reached water controllers that sat on a cellular link no city network scan would find. Naming an owner and paying for the fix are decisions a utility can make this fiscal year, out of money it already applies for. The post In most cities, nobody owns the whol...
Adobe on Monday released security patches to address a maximum-severity flaw impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-75650 (CVSS score: 10.0), has been codenamed StyleSmugg...
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Actively exploitedCVE-2026-75650 · EPSS 2%
North Korea-linked hackers hid a backdoor inside HAProxy, masking C2 traffic and stealing data while keeping the load balancer working normally. North Korean-linked hackers found a genuinely clever hiding spot for their malware: inside the actual source code of HAProxy, the lo...
Mathspace has confirmed that attackers broke into its internal reporting system through an unpatched Metabase vulnerability and stole data belonging to more than a million students, parents, and school staff. The Sydney-based maths education company wrote in a blog post that t...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sprawling search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that paves the way for malware deployment and tech support scams. The campaign, discovered by the DFIR Report in March 2026, has been codenamed BengalSEO. It has...
Jellyfin shipped version 12.0 of its media server. Several of the security fixes in it block requests built to reach files outside the folders the server is supposed to hand out. The rest of the security work touches first-run setup, plugin installs, parental controls, and the...
Attackers bypass endpoint security by posing as IT staff, stealing Microsoft 365 sessions, draining SaaS data and demanding extortion. Forget installing malware because today’s extortionists just pick up the phone instead of writing code. A widespread threat cluster tracked as...
Exclusive: An exposed Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database held 220 million passenger and crew records containing names, passport numbers, dates of birth, nationalities, and flight details spanning 2017 to 2026. Researchers accessed the Vietnam-linked system th...
Online dating app Grindr has opted to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a lawsuit in the U.K. over allegations that it shared users' personal information, including their HIV status, with third-parties. Grindr, which is the largest LGBTQ+ dating app, was sued in April ...
In this Help Net Security video, Dave Ross, Senior Director of the Intelligence Fusion Team at Intel 471, explains what happens behind the scenes during ransomware negotiations. Ross walks through the tactics groups use once an attack begins, from research on a victim’s revenu...
Every engineering team has spent years trying to keep credentials out of source code. Then AI agents moved the problem. Coding agents review code, agents run workflows, and MCP servers broker access to databases, cloud providers, and internal APIs on a developer’s behalf. For ...
Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for developer-class PCs capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally without relying on metered cloud tokens. Designed for systems with at least 64 GB of unified memory and 250 GB/...
CISO AudioCodes | Israel | Hybrid – View job details As a CISO, you will lead security strategy, governance, and risk management across SaaS, managed services, and customer-hosted environments. You will oversee security controls, incident response, Secure SDLC, customer securi...
Condé Nast user data from 32.8 million accounts is reportedly for sale, raising risks of targeted phishing, fraud and scams. A database said to contain 32.8 million Condé Nast user records is being offered for $15,000 on a Russian-language cybercrime forum. Ransomnews reviewed...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser. "Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension direc...
StyleSmuggler Magento zero-day is under active attack, letting unauthenticated attackers execute code and install backdoors on stores that may already be patched. A new zero-day flaw, dubbed StyleSmuggler, in Magento and Adobe Commerce is under active attack, giving unauthenti...
A zero-day vulnerability dubbed "StyleSmuggler" affecting all versions of Magento and Adobe Commerce is being exploited in attacks to deploy a backdoor. [...]
Threat hunters have disclosed details of a widespread data theft and extortion threat cluster that's targeting Microsoft 365 and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings through information technology (IT) help desk vishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) token theft, and ...
A phishing-as-a-service framework called BigBear 2.0 has been used to bypass multi-factor authentication at 258 organizations and steal more than 5,000 Microsoft 365 credentials. [...]
Turning off email images should at least stop the pictures. This week, attackers had a workaround: a scannable QR code built out of text. It still appears, even with images blocked. A small detail, but an annoying one if that was a precaution you were counting on. Elsewhere, a...
Attackers are exploiting a chain of RouterOS vulnerabilities to hijack MikroTik devices with SSH open to the internet, CERT Polska found. CERT Polska, Poland’s national CSIRT team, have discovered six vulnerabilities in RouterOS and coordinated their disclosure with MikroTik. ...
Chaotic Eclipse released GreenSection, a PoC exploit for an Nvidia GreenSection Memory Corruption Zero-Day Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare and Nightmare-Eclipse, released a new zero-day exploit targeting Nvidia. The researcher...
Chaotic Eclipse released GreenSection, a PoC exploit for an Nvidia Memory Corruption Zero-Day Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare and Nightmare-Eclipse, released a new zero-day exploit targeting Nvidia. The researcher named the ex...
Online maths learning platform Mathspace disclosed over the weekend that attackers stole data from more than 1 million students, staff, and parents after breaching its Metabase internal reporting system. [...]
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Trezor says an August data breach at its shipping and logistics provider, ShipMonk, affects an additional 67,000 U.S. customers. [...]
The proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits lead to privilege escalation, spawning a shell with System privileges. The post Nightmare Eclipse Drops CrowdStrike, Nvidia, Avast Zero-Day Exploits appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The stealthy toolkit embeds a backdoor in HAProxy and targets automotive and media organizations in South Korea for long-term surveillance. The post North Korean Hackers Deploy New Linux Espionage Toolkit appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI agents made 15,000–18,000 autonomous edits to a German wiki over three months, evading moderation and echoing tactics seen in the Hugging Face breach. The post OpenAI Agents Hijack Another Victim Website appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The StyleSmuggler zero-day allows attackers to execute code and deploy a stealthy backdoor on Adobe Commerce and Magento stores. The post Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores appeared first on SecurityWeek.
N-able released an emergency hotfix for CVE-2026-86218, a remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting N-central, its remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution popular with managed service providers (MSPs). In its release notes, N-able described CVE-2026-86218 as a “critic...
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Actively exploitedCVE-2026-86218 · EPSS <1%
Another trove of data from Berlin's government has appeared online, authorities said. Germany's information security agency separately warned about the Rhysida cybercrime group.
The attacks rely on backdoored ScreenConnect instances to transfer and execute payloads to newly connected clients. The post Modified ScreenConnect Clients Used in Worm-Like Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
If managing security across multiple cloud providers wasn't hard enough, each one fails in a different way. For the 2026 Cloud Security Index, Intruder analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and found that risk profiles acro...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of worm-like activity that abuses ConnectWise ScreenConnect to distribute a malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) payload to newly connected systems. According to Huntress, three unrelated incidents have been found to use div...
StyleSmuggler: Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited Attackers are actively exploiting an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that allows unauthenticated remote co
A TantoSec proof-of-concept turns an AES-CBC "padding oracle" in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX into unauthenticated remote code execution — but only against applications in a specific non-default configuration, and Progress patched the chain in July. There are no confirmed repor...
OpenAI appears to be testing a new "Writing Style" feature for ChatGPT that can learn how you write by looking at examples from your connected apps. [...]
Hackers are exploiting a chain of two recently disclosed vulnerabilities in MikroTik routers to take control of devices with SSH services exposed to the internet. [...]
If you ever linked your Dropbox account to a Lenovo ID - perhaps to make life easier when logging in via a Lenovo laptop - you might want to take heed. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Bring Licensed Threat Intelligence into Every Conversation with SOCRadar and ChatGPT The SOCRadar Threat Intelligence MCP app connects ChatGPT to the SOCRadar MCP server over OAuth, exposing your licensed intelligence mo
JSCeal hides crypto-stealing malware in V8 bytecode, but researchers built a tool to decompile it and expose its advanced theft capabilities. JSCeal is a cryptocurrency stealer that Check Point Research has tracked since early 2025. Unlike most malware, it hides its code in a ...
E-Commerce Access, Vedicline Data, Langflow RCE, ASUS Claim, and Energy Shell Access SOCRadar Dark Web Team identified several new underground posts, including an alleged Bangladeshi e-commerce customer database, and a s
A file transfer flaw in ScreenConnect Remote Access Support and Access sessions affects both Cloud and On-Premise deployments, ConnectWise confirmed. “A CVE identifier and an official fix will be issued within the week,” the company wrote in its September 3 advisory. ScreenCon...
OpenAI has announced that it has reached a goal set last fall of having an automated research intern by September 2026. The milestone means a system can carry out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including work that would take a skilled researcher several day...
Autonomous AI agents escaped a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face via reward hacking, exposing serious architectural control and isolation flaws. The recent case involving OpenAI test agents and Hugging Face should concern security teams, but not for the reason implied by headl...
Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.1.14 — including servers updated to Hotfix 3 a day earlier — needs Hotfix 4. N-able's incident notice says the flaw has been exploited in the wild; its release notes say that is unconfirmed. N-able has released its fourth hotfix i...
Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities. "The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniques including RC4...
N-able N-central HF4 Fixes Critical RCE After Series of Authentication Flaws N-able has released N-central 2026.3 Hotfix 4 (build 2026.3.1.14) to fix CVE-2026-86218, a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vu
Berlin refused a 30 Bitcoin ransom, leading hackers to leak 6TB of sensitive state administration and national defense data on the dark web. When a ransomware gang dumps nearly six terabytes of state administration files onto the dark web, ignoring them does not make the probl...
N-able has released an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. [...]
ToolHive is an open-source platform that runs Model Context Protocol servers inside containers. An MCP server is the connector that lets an AI client like Cursor or Claude Code reach an outside tool, and Stacklok ships ToolHive under Apache 2.0, so the runtime, the Kubernetes ...
In this interview, Chris Webber, VP, Product Marketing at Teleport, explains why zero trust principles need to change for AI agents. He covers how agents act fast, unpredictably, and continuously, and why old ideas like least privilege and point-in-time verification fall short...
ETSI has published TR 104 180, a technical report that defines 18 metrics for measuring data quality, giving companies a way to check whether their data is good enough for AI before they use it. The report defines each metric and includes the formulas needed to calculate it. T...
OpenAI is now rolling out ChatGPT Astra, its most powerful model to date, to those with a $20 Plus subscription, but there's no word on when free users will get access.. [...]
Mikrotik released a patch late last week for an already-exploited vulnerability. The vulnerability allows an SSH authentication bypass and is already being exploited. At this point, assume compromise. Attackers have been adding new accounts to affected devices to maintain acce...
Threat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, using invisible Unicode characters to evade email security filters. [...]