Hackers build AI frameworks for widescale credential theft
Threat actors are increasingly switching from AI-powered coding assistants to multi-agent frameworks that automate every stage of an attack. [...]
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Threat actors are increasingly switching from AI-powered coding assistants to multi-agent frameworks that automate every stage of an attack. [...]
A Chinese-language group is compromising government and education sites to create a reverse-proxy network with gambling-themed sites.
Microsoft warned customers last week that they may experience application crashes on some Windows Server 2025 due to recent memory management changes. [...]
Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three test phones. The person being called does not have to answer or touch their phone for it to work, but the caller must already be one of their WeChat contacts. Calif reported the flaw to Tencent in July an...
In the last six months, Chainguard doubled its output from 500 million to more than 1 billion container build manifests. We also surpassed 3,000 unique container images and 675,000 image versions in our catalog. Those are the headline numbers, but I want to share what's actually behind them. The number itself is less interesting than the system that produ...
A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators group, Red Hat says. FreeIPA is the system that determines who may log in across a Linux domain and maintains all identities in a 389 Directory Server database accessed via LDAP. The attack needs a secon...
Dubbed MikroTrick, the bugs allow attackers to bypass authentication, overwrite configuration files, and take over devices. The post MikroTik Patches Critical Flaws Chained to Hack Routers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hackers stole the information of students, teachers, staff, and parents/guardians from a self-hosted Metabase instance. The post Mathspace Data Breach Exposes Over 1 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Administrators are advised to check their deployments for newly created user accounts they don’t recognize. The post N-able Patches Critical Zero-Day in N-central appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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 StyleSmuggler by Sansec, which discovered zero-day exploitation starting September 4, 2026...
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 operated out of the Indian state of Rajasthan since at least 2015, driven by tw...
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 through a cloud-based path using default credentials. [...]
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 2024, accusing it of violating U.K. privacy laws by sharing sensitive data for c...
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 directly into Chrome/Edge profiles, bypassing Web Store checks and user prompts by fo...
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 residential-proxy sign-ins. The activity, which mainly singles out directors, vi...
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 trusted software source delivered code that stole credentials, and a protocol d...
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