Tag: attack
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ShinyHunters Extorts Universities in New Instructure Canvas Hack
A ShinyHunters-linked attack disrupted hundreds of Instructure Canvas portals during finals week. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/shinyhunters-extorts-universities-in-new-instructure-canvas-hack/
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WatchGuard Strengthens Cloud Detection With Perimeters Buy
WatchGuard Aims to Reduce Alert Fatigue Through Telemetry Correlation. WatchGuard acquired SaaS security startup Perimeters to strengthen cloud detection and response capabilities spanning identity threat detection, cloud posture management and shadow IT discovery as enterprises face escalating attacks targeting cloud applications and distributed environments. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/watchguard-strengthens-cloud-detection-perimeters-buy-a-31630
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Breach Roundup: Microsoft Edge Turns Passwords Into Targets
Tags: attack, breach, data, data-breach, ddos, government, ivanti, microsoft, north-korea, password, scamAlso, Taiwan Rail Hack, Massive DDoS Attack and Karakurt Jail Sentence. This week, Microsoft Edge exposed passwords, Taiwan police make arrests in high-speed rail hack and a 2.45 billion-request DDoS attack. A Karakurt negotiator jailed, North Korean IT worker scams led to prison terms and France detained a teen over a government data breach. Another…
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Ivanti EPMM CVE-2026-6973 RCE Under Active Exploitation Grants Admin-Level Access
Ivanti is warning that a new security flaw impacting Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) has been explored in limited attacks in the wild.The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-6973 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a case of improper input validation affecting EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1.It allows “a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code…
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Deepfakes Are Exposing Gaps in Cyber Insurance Policies
Deepfake attacks are exposing gaps in cyber insurance policies and traditional security controls. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/deepfakes-are-exposing-gaps-in-cyber-insurance-policies/
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The British public need to be better prepared for emergencies | Letter
Tags: attack, china, cyber, data-breach, disinformation, iran, resilience, russia, supply-chain, threat, warfare<strong>Jean Coussins</strong> says a cross-party Lords committee has been tasked with coming up with a plan to normalise resilience in our everyday livesYour editorial (<a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/01/the-guardian-view-on-britains-fragile-systems-when-global-shocks-hit-your-shopping-bill”>Britain’s fragile systems: when global shocks hit your shopping bill, 1 May) makes clear that the public need to be more fully informed about global threats and actively engaged in…
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Businesses hide vast majority of ransomware attacks, report finds
The security firm BlackFog said the number of disclosed incidents it tracked in Q1 was roughly one-tenth of the number of undisclosed incidents. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ransomware-undisclosed-attacks-blackfog/819595/
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Financial stability risks are rising as AI fuels cyber-attacks, IMF warns; oil below $100 on Iran peace hopes as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/07/climate-campaigners-attack-shell-over-windfall-profits-from-iran-war”>Climate campaigners attack Shell over ‘windfall’ profits from Iran war</li></ul>The Danish shipping giant <strong>Maersk</strong> has maintained its profit guidance for the year, even as it reported a spike in fuel costs and warned that traffic through the strait of Hormuz “remains at a near standstill”.The company,…
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Cisco patches high-severity flaws enabling SSRF, code execution attacks
Cisco fixed several high”‘severity flaws in its enterprise products, including SSRF bugs in Unity Connection that could enable code execution or service disruption. Cisco released patches for multiple high”‘severity vulnerabilities affecting its enterprise products. Successful exploitation could allow code execution, server”‘side request forgery (SSRF), or denial”‘of”‘service attacks. Two notable flaws, CVE”‘2026″‘20034 and CVE”‘2026″‘20035, impact Cisco…
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Ivanti warns of new EPMM flaw exploited in zero-day attacks
Tags: attack, endpoint, exploit, flaw, ivanti, mobile, remote-code-execution, update, vulnerability, zero-dayIvanti warned customers today to patch a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability in Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) exploited in zero-day attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ivanti-warns-of-new-epmm-flaw-exploited-in-zero-day-attacks/
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OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs Used in Critical Infrastructure Cyber-Attack, Warns Dragos
Commercial AI models were used to help plan and conduct cyber-attack against operational technology of a water and drainage facility, say researchers First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/llm-critical-infrastructure/
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Financial stability risks are rising as AI fuels cyber-attacks, IMF warns; oil below $100 on Iran peace hopes business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news<ul><li><a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/07/climate-campaigners-attack-shell-over-windfall-profits-from-iran-war”>Climate campaigners attack Shell over ‘windfall’ profits from Iran war</li></ul>The Danish shipping giant <strong>Maersk</strong> has maintained its profit guidance for the year, even as it reported a spike in fuel costs and warned that traffic through the strait of Hormuz “remains at a near standstill”.The company,…
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Bots in translation: Can AI really fix SIEM rule sprawl across vendors?
Not everyone agrees that the problem requires AI: Some practitioners argue that much of the challenge can still be solved through deterministic engineering approaches rather than AI.”With a good understanding of both schemas, it’s just a body of work,” said Rahul Yadav, founder of cybersecurity firm CyberEvolve.Xu disagreed that rule translation can be reduced to…
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State-sponsored hackers likely behind zero-day attacks on Palo Alto firewalls
Palo Alto Networks believes the in-the-wild exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-0300) in its firewalls is likely the work of state-sponsored threat actors. A … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/07/state-sponsored-hackers-zero-day-attacks-palo-alto-firewalls/
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Webinar: Why modern attacks require both security and recovery
Tags: attackModern attacks don’t stop at initial compromise. This webinar explores why security and recovery must work together to reduce downtime and improve resilience. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/webinar-why-modern-attacks-require-both-security-and-recovery/
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Hackers Weaponize Claude AI in Attacks on Water and Drainage Utilities
Hackers have abused commercial Claude AI models to help compromise a Mexican water and drainage utility’s IT network and probe systems connected to critical infrastructure. The attackers used Claude as an operational “copilot” to discover industrial systems, build custom tools, and plan attacks against an internal SCADA/IIoT platform managing water and drainage processes. The investigation…
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Edge Plaintext Passwords, ICS 0-Days, Patch-or-Die Alerts and 25+ New Stories
Bad week.Turns out the easiest way to get hacked in 2026 is still the same old garbage: shady packages, fake apps, forgotten DNS junk, scam ads, and stolen logins getting dumped into Discord channels like it’s normal. Some of these attack chains don’t even feel sophisticated anymore. More like some tired guy with a Telegram…
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Critical Palo Alto Networks software bug hits exposed firewalls
Tags: access, attack, authentication, data-breach, firewall, mitigation, network, software, threat, updateMitigations first, patches shortly after: While Palo Alto Networks has announced fixes for affected PAN-OS branches, the company is urging customers to immediately reduce exposure rather than wait for patch windows. The vendor said the most important mitigation is restricting access to the User-Id Authentication Portal so it is reachable only from trusted internal IP…
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From Android TVs to routers: the xlabs_v1 Mirai-based botnet built for DDoS attacks
A new Mirai”‘based botnet, xlabs_v1, hijacks ADB”‘exposed IoT devices for powerful DDoS attacks, with 21 flooding methods and DDoS”‘for”‘hire use. A new Mirai”‘derived botnet called xlabs_v1 is hijacking internet”‘exposed devices running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and using them for large”‘scale DDoS attacks. Hunt.io discovered the bot on an unsecured server, it includes 21 flood techniques…
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Scammers Exploit Disposable VoIP Numbers to Bypass Reputation Blocking
New tactics used by threat actors who embed phone numbers in scam emails as a key indicator of compromise (IOC), revealing how attackers exploit VoIP infrastructure to evade detection and scale fraud operations. Telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD) remains a dominant phishing technique, in which victims are lured to call attacker-controlled numbers rather than clicking malicious…
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Security Lost The Speed War: Context Is How We Win
AI-Driven Attacks Compress Breakout Times, Forcing Defenders to Rely on Context Now AI has lowered the cost and speed of cyberattacks, enabling adversaries to exploit vulnerabilities within minutes. As breakout times collapse, security teams must respond faster by using context-driven intelligence and automation to detect, prioritize and stop threats in real time. First seen on…
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Critical vm2 Node.js Library Flaws Enable Arbitrary Code Execution Attacks
Multiple critical sandbox-escape vulnerabilities have been disclosed in vm2, one of the most widely used Node.js sandboxing libraries, allowing attackers to escape the isolated execution environment and run arbitrary commands directly on the host system. Eleven advisories were published by maintainer patriksimek within days, covering affected versions up to 3.11.1, with patches available in VM2…
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The Winter Games effect: When gold meets DDoS
Tags: attack, botnet, cctv, ddos, defense, detection, dns, government, group, infrastructure, international, Internet, iot, jobs, lockbit, network, penetration-testing, ransomware, router, service, strategy, threat, windowsAttack volumes 610x historical levels during the Winter Games period (February 623, 2026)Peak attack count reached more than 2,200 attacks on February 23NoName057(16) dominated public DDoS hacktivist claims with 47, although ransomware groups (Qilin, LockBit 5.0) also claimed success in various attacksTactical shift from pre-Winter Games high-bandwidth attacks (412.89Gbps peak) to Winter Games-period high-throughput attacksGeographic…
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Palo Alto warns of critical software bug used in firewall attacks
A patch for the bug, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, has not been published yet and Palo Alto Networks said it will be included in releases over the next two weeks. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/palo-alto-warns-of-critical-software-bug-firewalls
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Instructure Breach Exposes Schools’ Vendor Dependence
ShinyHunters’ attack on Instructure, which owns the widely used Canvas learning management system (LMS), carries big questions about the trust educational institutions put into their vendors. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/instructure-breach-exposes-schools-vendor-dependence
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Mirai-Based xlabs_v1 Botnet Exploits ADB to Hijack IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new Mirai-derived botnet that self-identifies as xlabs_v1 and targets internet-exposed devices running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to enlist them in a network capable of carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.Hunt.io, which detailed the malware, said it made the discovery after identifying an exposed directory on a Netherlands-hosted First seen on…
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DAEMON Tools devs confirm breach, release malware-free version
Disc Soft Limited, the maker of DAEMON Tools Lite, confirmed that the software had been trojanized in a supply chain attack and released a new, malware-free version. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/daemon-tools-devs-confirm-breach-release-malware-free-version/