Red Flags That Expose Fake North Korean IT Workers
North Korean operatives posing as IT workers are improving their tactics, but researchers say there are still ways to spot them before they do damage.
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New GPUThor attack defeats NVIDIA ECC protection for root access
A newly disclosed Rowhammer attack called GPUThor can bypass error-correcting code (ECC) protections on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling denial-of-service (DoS) and root-level privilege escalation. [...]
Android Malware Hijacks Update System for Car Head Units
Threat actors behind a notorious click-fraud botnet have set their sights on vehicle infotainment modules and are abusing legitimate functionality to spread infections.
FBI Disrupts China-Linked QTFY Infrastructure Used to Steal Data From U.S. Organizations
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Networ...
Meta agrees to $18 billion settlement over teen social media harms
Meta has reached a proposed settlement worth up to approximately $18 billion with a bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys generals over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were deliberately designed to encourage compulsive use by children and teenagers. [...]
Nimbus Manticore Expands Toolset With TWOSTROKE-Like Backdoor and SSH Tunneler
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered additional infrastructure and previously undocumented malware associated with Nimbus Manticore, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Group-IB, in a new analysis published today, described the cyber espionage actor as among the most active Iranian AP...
AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 analyzed 405 AI-linked malware samples and found only 12 reached production endpoints. The post AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Boston Scientific says cyberattack disrupted operations globally
Medical technology company Boston Scientific has been targeted in a cyberattack that disrupted some of its IT systems, causing operational disruptions globally. [...]
Hackers target Microsoft SharePoint RCE chain with PoC exploit
Attackers are now targeting a chain of two Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities that can allow them to execute arbitrary code on unpatched servers, according to threat intelligence company Defused. [...]
FBI disrupts proxy network enabling Chinese espionage operations
The FBI has disrupted infrastructure associated with a technical "quartermaster" that provided reconnaissance, proxy management, and operational routing capabilities for Chinese cyber espionage activities. [...]
Snowflake ends service-account passwords. Now comes the hard part
Snowflake is ending password authentication for legacy service accounts, forcing organizations to migrate them to passwordless methods. Token Security explains why the harder challenge is identifying what uses each account, who owns it, and how much access it still needs. [...]
NovaCookies Campaigns Abuse Genuine Docusign Notifications to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that's used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process. In a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, Island characterized the $320/month service as a subscri...
Ubiquiti patches three max severity security vulnerabilities
Ubiquiti has released security patches for three new maximum-severity vulnerabilities that threat actors can exploit remotely without privileges. [...]
CISA Red Team Compromised Two Critical Infrastructure Orgs, One Detected Nothing
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradecraft while recording sharply different defensive outcomes. Both organizations were fully compromised at the domain lev...
Adobe and Nvidia Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities
Adobe and Nvidia each published several advisories, including ones that address critical vulnerabilities in their products. The post Adobe and Nvidia Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft tests new privacy controls for Windows 11 desktop apps
Microsoft has begun testing new privacy controls that will let Windows 11 users choose which desktop applications can access their camera, microphone, and precise location. [...]
Unpatched Kaltura mwEmbed Flaws Could Let Remote Attackers Read Files and Run Code
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has disclosed two unpatched vulnerabilities in Kaltura's HTML5 video player library that allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a server and execute code on it. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-19913 and CVE-2026-19912, both stem from the same unsafe deserialization in the mwEmbedLoader.p...
Imagine the SOC Without a Queue: From Alert Backlog to AI Hypothesis Engine
The SOC we've always known was built around a model that guarantees most of the alert queue will never receive analyst review. There's never time. In a traditional SOC, the typical progression follows a well-known pattern: an alert arrives; a detection engine assigns a severity score. The issue then waits for a human to decide if it should escalate to an ...
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