Tag: attack
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US sanctions VPN, malware providers for enabling ransomware attacks
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and one entity for enabling ransomware attacks against U.S. organizations. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-sanctions-vpn-malware-providers-linked-to-ransomware-gangs/
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U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors’ and other cybercriminals’ malicious activities, including ransomware attacks against Americans.The VPN, named First VPN Service (1VPNS), has been accused of offering its tools to ransomware groups, along with its 45-year-old Ukrainian First…
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Microsoft Maps Three Salesforce Attack Paths Tied to a Year of ShinyHunters Activity
Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform.The way in has been the trust the organization had already extended, usually through the OAuth connections that tie Salesforce to the apps and third-party vendors around it.In…
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The ransomware negotiator who was working for the other side
When a company falls victim to a ransomware attack, it is not uncommon for it to turn to experts for help. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/ransomware-negotiator-working-other-side
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The best defense against AI attacks turns out to be a skeptical human
Analysts across the security industry now run generative AI through their daily work, from log triage to incident write-ups. Active use in cybersecurity strategy reached 78% … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/14/ai-attacks-skeptical-human/
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The best defense against AI attacks turns out to be a skeptical human
Analysts across the security industry now run generative AI through their daily work, from log triage to incident write-ups. Active use in cybersecurity strategy reached 78% … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/14/ai-attacks-skeptical-human/
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The best defense against AI attacks turns out to be a skeptical human
Analysts across the security industry now run generative AI through their daily work, from log triage to incident write-ups. Active use in cybersecurity strategy reached 78% … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/14/ai-attacks-skeptical-human/
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Pro-Iran Hacktivist Groups Launch DDoS and Hack-and-Leak Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure
Tags: attack, credentials, cyber, data, ddos, government, group, infrastructure, iran, leak, network, service, technologyA decentralized network of pro-Iran hacktivist groups is intensifying cyber operations against critical infrastructure, government entities, technology providers, and organizations perceived as aligned with U.S., Israeli, or Western interests. The activity is dominated by distributed denial-of-service attacks, defacements, credential-focused operations, data-leak claims, and propaganda designed to convert limited technical disruption into outsized psychological and reputational…
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Pro-Iran Hacktivist Groups Launch DDoS and Hack-and-Leak Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure
Tags: attack, credentials, cyber, data, ddos, government, group, infrastructure, iran, leak, network, service, technologyA decentralized network of pro-Iran hacktivist groups is intensifying cyber operations against critical infrastructure, government entities, technology providers, and organizations perceived as aligned with U.S., Israeli, or Western interests. The activity is dominated by distributed denial-of-service attacks, defacements, credential-focused operations, data-leak claims, and propaganda designed to convert limited technical disruption into outsized psychological and reputational…
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AI Security Report 2026
or years, the cyber”¯security industry tracked AI as a force multiplier: something that made existing attack techniques faster, cheaper, and more accessible. That framing was”¯accurate.”¯But the”¯Annual”¯AI Security Report 2026 from Check Point Research documents a transition that goes further.”¯AI has crossed from assistant to operator. Where it once helped attackers prepare, it now runs the…
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Lidl Notified Online Shop Customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands of a Data Breach
Lidl disclosed a third-party data breach affecting online shop customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Payment data was not exposed. Lidl contacted customers of its online shop in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands last week to inform them that their personal data had been stolen in an attack on an external IT service provider.…
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ThreatLocker CEO: ‘Fighting AI With AI’ Is Not A Winning Security Strategy
The idea of ‘fighting AI with AI’ is fundamentally the wrong approach for protecting against intensifying LLM-powered attacks, ThreatLocker CEO Danny Jenkins says in the inaugural episode of CRN’s new Security or Else! video series. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/threatlocker-ceo-fighting-ai-with-ai-is-not-a-winning-security-strategy
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‘Yellow Teams’ Are Defining the Future of AI Security
In some companies, engineers are building defense and attack tools to test the potential of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity, and its threat. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/yellow-teams-defining-future-ai-security
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Europe strikes out against Russia’s Turla over espionage, ‘destructive attacks’
The EU, its members and the U.K. took action against Russian government officials and others while attributing the winter cyberattacks against Poland’s energy grid to the FSB. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/eu-uk-russian-cyberespionage-sanctions/
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The AI Supply Chain Is Your Latest Unguarded Attack Surface
When You Consume AI, You Inherit Every Upstream Risk You Can’t See Most enterprises don’t build AI, they consume it through APIs, open-source models and orchestration frameworks. Each layer inherits upstream risk with little visibility. This piece maps the four-layer AI supply chain and the existing security disciplines that bring it under control. First seen…
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UK and EU impose sanctions on hacking groups linked to Kremlin
Tags: attack, credentials, group, hacker, hacking, infrastructure, intelligence, router, russia, theft, vulnerabilityHackers linked to Russian intelligence behind attack on Poland’s energy infrastructure, theft of credentials and using vulnerable routers to attack critical national infrastructure First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366645662/UK-and-EU-impose-sanctions-on-hacking-groups-linked-to-Kremlin
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Torq and Criminal IP Partner to Deliver Decision-Ready Threat Intelligence for Autonomous SOC Operations
Torrance, California, USA, July 13th, 2026, CyberNewswire Criminal IP, the cyber threat intelligence search engine and attack surface management platform, today announced a new partnership and integration with Torq, the established agentic security operations leader. The partnership integrates Criminal IP’s decision-ready threat intelligence with the Torq AI SOC Platform that helps security teams triage, investigate,…
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GigaWiper Lets Threat Actors Choose Their Own Destructive Attack
A modular implant borrows from various malware families to combine both backdoor and wiper activities to maximize impact and minimize operational output. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/gigawiper-threat-actors-choose-their-own-destructive-attack
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: ShareFile Threat, Citrix Bleed 2 Ransomware, AI Coding Attacks, and More
Somewhere right now, a security tool is quietly finding bugs faster than any human can fix them. That’s supposed to be the good news. The catch is that the attackers have the same tools, pointed the other way, and they don’t file tickets.That’s the shape of this week. Trusted code turns on the people who…
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Fake Bank Apps Let Scammers Control Android Phones in Southeast Asia
RedHook malware uses fake banking and government apps to steal data and control Android phones, with attacks confirmed in Vietnam and Indonesia so far. The post Fake Bank Apps Let Scammers Control Android Phones in Southeast Asia appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-android-malware-apac-southeast-asia/
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New MemGhost Attack Plants Persistent False Memories in AI Agents Through One Email
Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false “fact” about the user, hide the change, and quietly steer its answers in later sessions.When it works,…
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Russia’s FSB blamed for Poland grid attack as UK and EU impose first joint cyber sanctions
The allies blamed Center 16, the FSB’s signals intelligence arm, for acts of attempted cyber sabotage targeting Poland’s energy sector and water treatment facilities, alongside “a wide range of malicious cyber activities with growing severity.” First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-blamed-for-poland-grid-cyberattack-in-joint-uk-eu-sanctions-package
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Breach at the Beach: Play the Ultimate Entra ID CTF
Learn how attackers abuse Entra ID through a free hands-on Capture the Flag. Varonis created the Breach at the Beach CTF to teach defenders how to investigate Entra ID attack techniques using realistic scenarios. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/breach-at-the-beach-play-the-ultimate-entra-id-ctf/
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Forg365 PhaaS Targets Microsoft 365 with Device Code and AitM Session Theft
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called Forg365 is using a combination of device code phishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) tactics, antibot evasion, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted lure creation, and post-compromise mailbox operations targeting Microsoft 365 accounts.Distributed via Telegram and costing $400 a month (or $3,800 per year), attack chains leverage phishing First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article:…
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MSPs ideally placed to improve supply chain resilience
Research from Proxima indicates more CEOs are worried about their ability to defend from attacks originating outside the organisation First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/366645762/MSPs-ideally-placed-to-improve-supply-chain-resilience
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Adaptive Malware Could Evade Signature Detection by Regenerating Its Attack Capabilities
Adaptive, AI-driven malware could challenge a foundational assumption in enterprise defense: that a malicious program’s exploitation logic remains fixed after deployment. New research on adaptive computer worms argues that a self-replicating agent paired with an onboard reasoning loop could assess different environments, select target-specific attack paths, and regenerate capabilities as older methods become less effective.…
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EU sanctions Russian GRU military hackers over cyberattacks
The European Union and the United Kingdom jointly sanctioned dozens of Russian individuals and entities and accused Russia of coordinating a network of hacking groups responsible for attacks across Europe. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/eu-and-uk-hit-russia-with-first-joint-cyber-sanctions-package/
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Dutch Nationals Suspected in Odido Hack That Exposed Six Million Customers
Dutch police suspect local hackers behind the Odido breach that exposed 6M customers after a phishing attack and seek public help identifying them. Dutch police have identified strong indications that Dutch nationals were involved in the February 2026 cyberattack on telecom provider Odido, which resulted in data from more than six million customers being stolen…
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US and allies warn of Russian critical infrastructure attacks
Cybersecurity agencies from the United States and eight other countries have issued a joint warning that Russian state hackers are targeting vulnerable and poorly configured routers to infiltrate critical infrastructure networks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-and-allies-share-defense-tips-against-russian-hackers-targeting-critical-infrastructure/