Tag: attack
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Chinese Hackers Deploy Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Chain
Chinese hackers launch Chrome zero-day exploit chain attacks against NGOs. Learn how this Chrome zero-day exploit chain exploits patch gaps. First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/chrome-zero-day-exploit-chain/
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Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries says DDoS attack delayed payments to sellers
Wildberries told several Russian media outlets earlier this week that payments to some sellers were delayed by security measures introduced after a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeted systems used to track and withdraw their earnings. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russian-e-commerce-giant-wildberries-says-payments-disrupted
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NSA, FBI, CISA Warn of Industrial-Scale AI Model Distillation Attacks
US agencies say six China-based AI firms used large-scale distillation campaigns to extract capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok models. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/news/news-ai-model-distillation-attacks/
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NSA, FBI, CISA Warn of Industrial-Scale AI Model Distillation Attacks
US agencies say six China-based AI firms used large-scale distillation campaigns to extract capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok models. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/news/news-ai-model-distillation-attacks/
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NSA, FBI, CISA Warn of Industrial-Scale AI Model Distillation Attacks
US agencies say six China-based AI firms used large-scale distillation campaigns to extract capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok models. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/news/news-ai-model-distillation-attacks/
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NSA, FBI, CISA Warn of Industrial-Scale AI Model Distillation Attacks
US agencies say six China-based AI firms used large-scale distillation campaigns to extract capabilities from Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok models. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/news/news-ai-model-distillation-attacks/
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Chinese Hackers Deploy Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Chain
Chinese hackers launch Chrome zero-day exploit chain attacks against NGOs. Learn how this Chrome zero-day exploit chain exploits patch gaps. First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/chrome-zero-day-exploit-chain/
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Hackers Steal Active Directory Password Hashes Without Attacking Domain Controllers Directly
Threat actors are increasingly exploiting Active Directory replication mechanisms to steal password hashes without directly compromising a domain controller. This technique, known as DCSync, allows attackers with privileged domain credentials to impersonate a legitimate domain controller and request sensitive directory replication data. Unlike noisy attacks that use malware on servers or attempt to extract credentials…
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New Phishing Attack Uses Blob URLs to Hide Malicious Pages From Security Scanners
A phishing campaign that moves the credential-harvesting page out of attacker-controlled web infrastructure and into the victim’s browser. Unlike ordinary phishing kits, which host cloned login portals on domains that can eventually be detected and disrupted, this campaign delivers malicious content assembled only after a user follows the attack chain. A blob URL is a…
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WatchGuard RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks
Tags: attack, cisa, cybersecurity, exploit, firewall, flaw, infrastructure, ransomware, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a critical WatchGuard Firebox firewall vulnerability, which it flagged as actively exploited in December. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-watchguard-rce-flaw-now-exploited-in-ransomware-attacks/
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Trezor warns users of email provider breach, phishing attacks
Trezor warned customers on Wednesday that threat actors who breached its third-party email provider are targeting them in phishing attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trezor-warns-users-of-email-provider-breach-phishing-attacks/
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New AI Workflow Identity Hijacking Attack Lets Hackers Exfiltrate Sensitive Data
Security researchers have recently disclosed a new enterprise AI attack technique known as Workflow Identity Hijacking. This method enables external attackers to exfiltrate sensitive corporate information by submitting seemingly harmless requests to AI-powered automations. Research published by Noma Labs researcher Sasi Levi reveals that this attack does not rely on prompt injection, stolen credentials, or…
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China-Linked Hackers Exploit Chrome and Windows Zero-Days in BlueMoon Attacks
Researcher has discovered a rapidly spreading exploit kit called BlueMoon, which combines vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser with a Windows kernel privilege-escalation flaw to compromise targets in espionage campaigns. This activity was first observed on August 28, 2026, and at least four threat clusters have adopted it, most of which are suspected to have ties…
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Watchdog Finds Critical Access Control Gaps at CBP
DHS Inspector General Finds CBP Left Privileged Account Open to All Network Users. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection service account with elevated privileges was reachable by the agency’s entire workforce of more than 76,000 users, and auditors mapped more than 100 attack paths through the network, according to a new Department of Homeland Security…
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Cisco confirms CVE-2026-20079 Secure FMC flaw exploited in attacks
Cisco has confirmed that a maximum-severity authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20079 in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software is being actively exploited in attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-confirms-cve-2026-20079-secure-fmc-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/
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Google Warns Hackers Are Turning AI Agents Into Attack Tools
Google warns that hackers are using AI agents to automate attack stages, harvest credentials, and accelerate cyberattacks with less human direction. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/cybersecurity/news-google-hackers-ai-agents-attack-tools/
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US says Chinese firms extracted billions of tokens from frontier AI models
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies say that six Chinese AI companies conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks on American frontier AI models since at least late 2024. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-says-chinese-firms-extracted-billions-of-tokens-from-frontier-ai-models/
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UK government proposes AI first responders for cyber attacks
The UK government will use money set aside for defensive investments to build an agentic cyber incident response capability, ministers say First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366650021/UK-government-proposes-AI-first-responders-for-cyber-attacks
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Slim Spider Steals Crypto Custody Secrets From Brazilian Financial Institution
A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026.Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider.”The adversary demonstrates deep operational knowledge of Brazilian financial infrastructure, including the instant payment First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/09/slim-spider-steals-crypto-custody.html
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Don’t let AI distract from cybersecurity basics, officials and executives warn
Simple attacks remain far more consequential than anything AI is doing, government and industry leaders said. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-cybersecurity-basics-billington/829777/
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Autonomous AI Agents Compromise Thousands of Credentials in Under Six Hours
Threat actors are continuing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their operations, with one financially motivated hacking group employing an autonomous, multi-agent attack framework to carry out a large-scale credential harvesting campaign within six hours.Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said it has observed attackers with diverse motivations targeting proprietary AI First seen on thehackernews.com…
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France Establishes New Government-Focused Cyber Incident Response Unit
After a major cyber-attack targeted France’s national tax authority, the Prime Minister called for the establishment of a new dedicated cyber incident response capability First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/france-new-government-cyber/
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Daily OT Security News: September 08, 2026
Daily OT Security News, September 08, 2026. Concise operational summaries of the latest OT/ICS cybersecurity developments. MikroTik patches actively exploited RouterOS attack chain MikroTik released fixes for six RouterOS vulnerabilities after CERT Poland confirmed two flaws, collectively dubbed MikroTrick,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/daily-ot-security-news-september-08-2026-2/
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Reflectiz Launches Agentic Pentesting for Websites: Up to 10x Coverage vs Conventional Pentests
Boston, MA, USA, September 8th, 2026, CyberNewswire Specialized team of AI agents that discover, attack, and validate web vulnerabilities, leveraging pre-existing site context to eliminate noise and speed remediation. Reflectiz, the continuous web exposure management company, today launched a multi-agent penetration testing platform for websites. Multiple specialized AI agents discover, attack, and validate vulnerabilities across…
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Attack Chaining: When Low-Severity Vulnerabilities Combine into High-Risk Attack Paths
Your backlog is full of low- and medium-severity vulnerabilities nobody is planning to fix. A profile page leaking information. A reset endpoint with no rate limit. A form missing a CSRF check. These are all medium-severity issues which are reasonable… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/attack-chaining-when-low-severity-vulnerabilities-combine-into-high-risk-attack-paths/
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Trezor customers hit with phishing calls and letters after shipping-partner breach
Roughly 67,000 more customers of SatoshiLabs, the maker of hardware crypto-wallet Trezor, are at heightened risk of phishing attacks after their names, email addresses, phone … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/08/trezor-shipping-partner-breach-phishing-attacks/
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FreeIPA Flaw Chain Lets Anonymous Clients Create Reusable Administrator Credentials
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…
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ClearFake WebDAV infection chain delivers Amatera stealer, ZigCryptoStealer, and NetSupport Manager
We assess with moderate confidence that the attacks are not targeted at a particular organization, but are a part of a cryptocurrency and credentials-stealing operation using the Amatera stealer as the primary payload. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/clearfake-webdav-infection-chain/