Read recent coverage from BleepingComputer, Dark Reading, SecurityWeek, and The Hacker News, plus original research from SecurityAlert.
Each report separates confirmed facts from our analysis, lists the sources we reviewed, and ends with specific defensive actions.
New reporting connects passkey lures, stolen tokens and unauthorized MFA enrollment to cloud data theft. UNC6671 provides a broader tracking reference than any single extortion brand.
Similarity scores are useful for discovery. They are not enough to decide whether a domain is dangerous.
A stale record can outlive the service it once pointed to and quietly transfer trust to infrastructure a third party controls.
Search current headlines and short excerpts. Every item names the publisher and links to the original article.
SecurityAlert keeps the publisher's headline, a short feed excerpt, the publication date when available, and detected security signals. The linked article remains the source.
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: ...
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. [...]
Multiple espionage-motivated threat actors have adopted BlueMoon in opportunistic, rushed deployments. The post BlueMoon Exploit Kit Chains Recent Chrome, Windows Zero-Days appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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 sig...
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...
Anthropic said the users did not succeed in “fielding an operational device” but did carry out a failed test of a guided rocket. The post Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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. [...]
Cybercriminals behind malicious email campaigns no longer have to compromise volume for credibility, or vice versa, thanks to AI.
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. [...]
A new joint government advisory signals a regulatory shift, pressing organizations to adopt more transparent breach notification and incident response protocols.
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.
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. [...]
Analysis of 2.47 million simulated attacks shows why organizations should measure credential leaks and reporting, not just clicks. The post Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Adversaries can manipulate AI defensive reasoning to silently compromise target networks.
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 arbitra...
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 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 mode...
The critical-severity path traversal flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server. The post GitLab Vulnerability Exploited One Day After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
An article can point you toward something worth investigating, but it cannot tell you whether a product is installed in your environment or whether an attack affects your organization.
Read the linked article, check any named CVE or vendor advisory, and use Pulse to compare the story with the technologies and threats you monitor.