Tag: attack
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SmartLoader Attack Uses Trojanized Oura MCP Server to Deploy StealC Infostealer
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new SmartLoader campaign that involves distributing a trojanized version of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server associated with Oura Health to deliver an information stealer known as StealC.”The threat actors cloned a legitimate Oura MCP Server a tool that connects AI assistants to Oura Ring health data and…
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Significant Rise in Ransomware Attacks Targeting Industrial Operations
Dragos annual report warns of a surge in ransomware attacks causing increased operational disruption in industrial environments First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/rise-in-ransomware-targeting/
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South Korea slaps $25M fine on Dior, Louis Vuitton, Tiffany over Salesforce breach
South Korea fined Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Tiffany $25M after hackers breached their Salesforce systems, exposing customer data. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission fined luxury brands including Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Tiffany & Co. a total of 36 billion Korean won ($25 million) after hackers compromised their Salesforce systems. The attack, linked to Scattered…
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Webinar: How Modern SOC Teams Use AI and Context to Investigate Cloud Breaches Faster
Cloud attacks move fast, faster than most incident response teams.In data centers, investigations had time. Teams could collect disk images, review logs, and build timelines over days. In the cloud, infrastructure is short-lived. A compromised instance can disappear in minutes. Identities rotate. Logs expire. Evidence can vanish before analysis even begins.Cloud forensics is fundamentally First…
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Unit 42: Nearly two-thirds of breaches now start with identity abuse
Palo Alto Network’s incident response firm said identity-based attacks are exploding as poor security controls stretch across a widening mosaic of integrated tools and systems. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/attackers-abuse-identity-unit42-palo-alto-networks-incident-response-report/
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Apache NiFi Vulnerabilities Expose Systems to Authorization Bypass Attacks
Apache NiFi users are being urged to upgrade after the project disclosed a high-severity authorization flaw tracked as CVE-2026-25903. The issue, published on 2026-02-16, can allow a less-privileged authenticated user to modify configuration properties on certain “restricted” extension components that were previously added to a flow by a more privileged user, potentially weakening security controls…
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QR Codes Exploited for Phishing Attacks and Malware Spread on Mobile Devices
QR code abuse has become a significant mobile threat vector, with attackers using it to deliver phishing pages, trigger in”‘app account takeovers, and distribute malicious applications outside official app stores. Because people routinely scan QR codes for payments, menus and app downloads, these attacks often bypass enterprise protections by shifting the interaction onto less”‘protected personal…
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CISO Julie Chatman offers insights for you to take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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CISO Julie Chatman offers insights for you to take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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Washington Hotel in Japan discloses ransomware infection incident
The Washington Hotel brand in Japan has announced that that its servers were compromised in a ransomware attack, exposing various business data. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/washington-hotel-in-japan-discloses-ransomware-infection-incident/
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NDSS 2025 SiGuard: Guarding Secure Inference With Post Data Privacy
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: Xinqian Wang (RMIT University), Xiaoning Liu (RMIT University), Shangqi Lai (CSIRO Data61), Xun Yi (RMIT University), Xingliang Yuan (University of Melbourne) PAPER SIGuard: Guarding Secure Inference with Post Data Privacy Secure inference is designed to enable encrypted machine learning model prediction over encrypted data. It will ease…
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Study Uncovers 25 Password Recovery Attacks in Major Cloud Password Managers
A new study has found that multiple cloud-based password managers, including Bitwarden, Dashlane, and LastPass, are susceptible to password recovery attacks under certain conditions.”The attacks range in severity from integrity violations to the complete compromise of all vaults in an organization,” researchers Matteo Scarlata, Giovanni Torrisi, Matilda Backendal, and Kenneth G. Paterson said. First seen…
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NDSS 2025 A Method To Facilitate Membership Inference Attacks In Deep Learning Models
Session 12C: Membership Inference Authors, Creators & Presenters: Zitao Chen (University of British Columbia), Karthik Pattabiraman (University of British Columbia) PAPER A Method to Facilitate Membership Inference Attacks in Deep Learning Models Modern machine learning (ML) ecosystems offer a surging number of ML frameworks and code repositories that can greatly facilitate the development of ML…
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SMEs Wrong to Assume They Won’t Be Hit by Cyber-Attacks, NCSC Boss Warns
ge-item”> SMEs Wrong to Assume They Won’t Be Hit by Cyber-Attacks, NCSC Boss Warns First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/sme-cyber-attack-threat-ncsc/
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The Promptware Kill Chain
Attacks against modern generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) pose a real threat. Yet discussions around these attacks and their potential defenses are dangerously myopic. The dominant narrative focuses on “prompt injection,” a set of techniques to embed instructions into inputs to LLM intended to perform malicious activity. This term suggests a simple,…
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Joomla Vulnerabilities in Novarain/Tassos Framework Expose SQL Injection Risks
Joomla site owners using extensions that bundle the Novarain/Tassos Framework are being warned after a source code review identified multiple attack primitives that can be chained together to achieve administrator takeover and reliable remote code execution (RCE) on unpatched instances. The issues affect extensions that ship the same system plugin, historically called Novarain Framework and…
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Cybersecurity Alert: Fake Shops Target Winter Olympics 2026 Fans for Attacks
The excitement surrounding the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics has given cybercriminals a new opportunity to trick fans. The adorable stoat mascots, Tina and Milo, have become international sensations especially their official 27 cm plush version, which quickly sold out on the official Olympic web store. Unfortunately, this surge in demand has attracted scammers exploiting the…
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Top Security Incidents of 2025: Lazarus Group’s Cryptocurrency Heist
Tags: apt, attack, breach, crypto, cyber, data-breach, group, korea, lazarus, network, north-korea, security-incident, supply-chainEvent Summary In February 2025, the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus launched a highly sophisticated supply chain attack against the prominent cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, successfully stealing over 400,000 ETH and stETH”, valued at approximately $1.5 billion. This incident marks the largest single security breach in the global cryptocurrency sector to date. The attack exposed critical…
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ChatGPT gets new security feature to fight prompt injection attacks
OpenAI has introduced Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help users and organizations reduce the risk of prompt injection attacks and other advanced security … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/16/chatgpt-lockdown-mode-elevated-risk/
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Hackers Exploit ‘Summarize with AI’ Feature to Inject Malicious Prompts into AI Recommendations
Hackers and marketers are increasingly abusing “Summarize with AI” buttons and AI-share links to quietly plant persistent instructions in AI assistants’ memory, a growing attack trend Microsoft calls AI Recommendation Poisoning. By silently biasing what assistants “remember” as trusted or preferred sources, these attacks can warp recommendations on high”‘impact topics like health, finance, and security without…
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Critical Airleader Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Exploitable Remote Attacks
Tags: attack, cisa, control, cve, cvss, cyber, flaw, infrastructure, remote-code-execution, risk, software, vulnerabilityA critical security vulnerability in Airleader Master software has been disclosed by CISA, exposing industrial control systems across multiple critical infrastructure sectors to potential remote code execution attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-1358, affects versions up to and including 6.381 and carries a maximum CVSS score of 9.8, indicating severe risk to affected systems. The…
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CISO Julie Chatman wants to help you take control of your security leadership role
Tags: access, ai, attack, awareness, breach, business, ciso, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, deep-fake, email, finance, firewall, government, healthcare, infrastructure, law, military, office, phishing, risk, service, skills, supply-chain, technology, threat, training, updateFirst, the hopes-and-dreams budget: What would it take to close all the known gaps and operate proactively?Second, the could-live-with-this budget: What’s realistic and gets you to acceptable risk levels?Third, the I-think-I’m-going-to-resign budget: Because you can see a breach coming and you don’t want your name attached to it.You probably won’t end up at that last…
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Google patches first Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year
Google has released emergency updates to fix a high-severity Chrome vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks, marking the first such security flaw patched since the start of the year. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-patches-first-chrome-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks-this-year/
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10 years later, Bangladesh Bank cyberheist still offers cyber-resiliency lessons
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, automation, backdoor, banking, ceo, cisco, ciso, compliance, control, credentials, crypto, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, detection, endpoint, exploit, finance, fintech, firewall, framework, infrastructure, intelligence, international, malware, monitoring, network, north-korea, oracle, password, risk, service, software, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilitySecurity shortcomings: Adrian Cheek, senior cybercrime researcher at threat exposure management firm Flare, said the Bangladesh Bank heist was possible because of a number of security shortcomings, including a failure to air gap critical infrastructure.”The Bank of Bangladesh had four servers and the same number of desktops connected to SWIFT,” Cheek says. “This infrastructure, however,…
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New Chrome Zero-Day (CVE-2026-2441) Under Active Attack, Patch Released
Google on Friday released security updates for its Chrome browser to address a security flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild.The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2441 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in CSS. Security researcher Shaheen Fazim has been credited with discovering and reporting the shortcoming on…