AI is officially mainstream in security operations. According to Prophet Security's State of AI in Security Operations 2026 report (produced from ViB’s survey of 250+ cybersecurity pros), 40% of security teams now use AI daily. Another 56% are currently testing it out, and only 4% have no plans to adopt it. For the teams already using AI, what is actually...
EU governments are trying to move away from popular messaging apps as nation-state threat groups shift their focus from email to Signal and WhatsApp.
SecurityWeek talks to Chris Wheeler, CISO at Resilience, about his journey from the Navy to becoming a cybersecurity leader. The post CISO Conversations: Chris Wheeler - Trust Is the Job, From the Navy to the C-Suite appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The ShinyHunters extortion group has published sensitive data from nearly 13 million accounts stolen from clothing retailer giant Carhartt earlier this month, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. [...]
Data breach
Individuals and organizations in Cambodia have emerged as the target of a new campaign that delivers an open-source remote access trojan (RAT) called Spark RAT. "The samples employ diverse lure themes, suggesting an effort to appeal to a broad range of potential victims. These include government notices, public health materials, real estate-related conten...
Malware
The cybersecurity incident has disrupted Boston Scientific’s ability to process and ship customer orders. The post Cyberattack Causes Global Disruption at Boston Scientific appeared first on SecurityWeek.
For twenty-five years, "data" in security meant logs and events. But logs are a lossy representation of reality. The post The Future of AI-Driven Security Depends on Complete Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Threat actors linked by Arctic Wolf to Dark Caracal with medium confidence deployed a previously undocumented Go-based malware framework, GoCaracal, during a June 2026 intrusion at an unnamed communications organization in Venezuela. GoCaracal provides operators with remote shell access and payload execution, while the extended profile adds browser data t...
Malware
CISA has ordered U.S. government agencies to patch their Citrix NetScaler appliances against an actively exploited remote code execution vulnerability by Saturday. [...]
Active exploitation
The operation focused on a group named QTFY, which offers hacking services to the Chinese government and others. The post US Disrupts Chinese Hacking Platform Used in Military and Critical Infrastructure Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Critical
ATF, the regulatory agency that enforces federal laws governing firearms and explosives in the United States, has confirmed that one of its systems was compromised after breach claims made by the Qilin ransomware gang. [...]
Ransomware
Academic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes (ECC), the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowhammer, and enables denial-of-service (DoS) and privilege escalation to a root shell. Dubbed GPUThor, the attack was developed by researchers at the University...
The pro-Russian hacker group Server Killers claimed responsibility for the attack. The post Pro-Russian Hackers Claim Responsibility for Major Cyberattack on Norway’s Public Digital Services appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a high-severity security vulnerability impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2019-1068 - A remote co...
CISA is urging government agencies to immediately patch the Citrix NetScaler vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-8452. The post Recent Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A critical vulnerability chain in the popular Avada theme for WordPress can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server. [...]
Critical
GoCaracal is a new modular malware framework that broadens Dark Caracal's capabilities to steal data and maintain access to victims.
Malware
James Kettle of PortSwigger talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his AI-powered open source tool, which found new HTTP request-smuggling techniques.