Tag: credentials
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Iranian cyber espionage disguised as a Chaos Ransomware attack
Iran-linked APT MuddyWater used ransomware-style tactics to mask espionage, combining phishing, credential theft, data exfiltration, and extortion without encryption. A newly discovered cyber intrusion attributed to the Iran-linked APT MuddyWater (aka SeedWorm, TEMP.Zagros, Mango Sandstorm, TA450, and Static Kitten) reveals how state-sponsored attackers are increasingly leveraging ransomware tactics to disguise espionage operations. The campaign, uncovered by security researchers at Rapid7, blended…
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Phishing Attack Weaponizes Calendar Invites to Steal Login Credentials
A new large-scale phishing campaign is abusing fake event invitations to compromise U.S. organizations, combining credential theft, OTP interception, and the deployment of remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools in a single operation. The campaign stands out because it blends familiar user workflows with legitimate-looking infrastructure, making it harder for security teams to spot and…
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New malware turns Linux systems into P2P attack networks
Persistence through rootkits and PAM backdoors: The researchers also wrote of QLNX’s use of rootkits and Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to establish long term persistence. According to Trend Micro, the malware leverages rootkit functionality to conceal malicious activity, processes, and components from administrative tools and security monitoring systems.The malware was also observed tampering with…
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Windows Phone Link Exploited by CloudZ RAT to Steal Credentials and OTPs
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an intrusion that involved the use of a CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) and a previous undocumented plugin dubbed Pheno with the aim of facilitating credential theft.”According to the functionalities of the CloudZ RAT and Pheno plugin, this was with the intention of stealing victims’ credentials and potentially one-time…
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Train like you fight: Why cyber operations teams need no-notice drills
Tags: breach, business, cloud, communications, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, detection, framework, healthcare, injection, login, military, psychology, ransomware, risk, skills, soc, threat, training, updateThe Yerkes-Dodson inverted-U curve: Performance rises with arousal to an optimal point, then falls sharply.Wikimedia Commons, CC-ZeroWhat repeated no-notice drills do is shift a team’s position on that curve. By building familiarity with threat-level arousal, they raise the threshold at which stress becomes performance-impairing. The stimulus is no longer novel. The cascade is shorter. Executive…
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One in Eight Workers Has Sold Their Corporate Logins
Cifas says that 13% of employees admit selling company credentials to a former colleague First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/one-eight-workers-sold-corporate/
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Malicious PyTorch Lightning update hits AI supply chain security
A malicious PyTorch Lightning update (v2.6.3) on PyPI spread briefly, stealing credentials and raising major concerns about AI supply chain security. A malicious update of the PyTorch Lightning library exposed developers to credential theft and remote compromise. Attackers uploaded version 2.6.3 to the Python Package Index (PyPI), where it spread among developers before maintainers removed…
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QLNX Targets Developers in Supply Chain Credential Theft Campaign
QLNX is a newly documented Linux remote access trojan (RAT) that targets the theft on developers’ and DevOps credentials to hijack software supply chains. Recent attacks against popular projects like LiteLLM on PyPI and the Axios npm package have shown how a single compromised maintainer account can be used to push backdoored releases to millions…
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Ransomware Gangs Escalate Attacks on Aviation and Aerospace Sector
Ransomware and data extortion groups are increasingly targeting the aviation and aerospace sector, exploiting interconnected systems, shared platforms, and identity-based access models to cause operational disruption and data compromise. Cyber risk across aviation has shifted beyond traditional IT incidents toward ransomware attacks, credential theft, and platform-level compromise. The aviation ecosystem relies heavily on shared IT…
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New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers
A previously undocumented Linux implant named Quasar Linux (QLNX) is targeting developers’ systems with a mix of rootkit, backdoor, and credential-stealing capabilities. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-stealthy-quasar-linux-malware-targets-software-developers/
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Microsoft Flags Mass Phishing Campaign Using Fake Compliance Emails
Microsoft researchers warn of a large-scale phishing campaign using fake compliance emails to steal credentials, targeting 35,000 users across 13,000 organizations worldwide First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-phishing-fake-compliance/
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AI finds 20-year-old bugs in PostgreSQL and MariaDB
Tags: ai, breach, credentials, cve, exploit, flaw, github, injection, nist, rce, remote-code-execution, sql, vulnerabilityInadequate JSON parsing allowed RCE on the MariaDB server: In MariaDB, a buffer overflow bug, tracked as CVE-2026-32710, was found in the JSON_SCHEMA_VALID() function using Xint Code. The vulnerability allows an authenticated user to trigger a crash, which, under controlled conditions, could be escalated into remote code execution.Compared to the PostgreSQL flaws, exploitation here is…
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Stealthy malware abuses Microsoft Phone Link to siphon SMS OTPs from enterprise PCs
Multi-stage infection chain: The intrusion begins with an unknown initial access vector, followed by the execution of a malicious file disguised as a ScreenConnect update, Talos said.The initial payload is a Rust-compiled loader using filenames such as “systemupdates.exe,” which drops a .NET loader disguised as a text file in a system directory, the post said.Persistence…
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Microsoft Details Phishing Campaign Targeting 35,000 Users Across 26 Countries
Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale credential theft campaign that has leveraged a combination of code of conduct-themed lures and legitimate email services to direct users to attacker-controlled domains and steal authentication tokens.The multi-stage campaign, observed between April 14 and 16, 2026, targeted more than 35,000 users across over 13,000 organizations in 26 countries,…
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Active Directory Exploitation with Metasploit
The walkthrough covers thirteen distinct attack phases: AD CS template reconnaissance, LDAP enumeration, Kerberos weakness discovery, credential extraction, SAMR account manipulation, Resource-Based Constrained Delegation abuse, First seen on hackingarticles.in Jump to article: www.hackingarticles.in/active-directory-exploitation-with-metasploit/
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Feds Indict Ex-Hospital Pharmacist for Spying on Co-Workers
Defendant Is Also at Center of a Civil Class Action Against His Former Employer. A federal grand jury has indicted a former Maryland hospital pharmacist, alleging he weaponized tech tools – including keylogging – to steal credentials and spy on nearly 200 co-workers and other individuals over an eight-year period. The defendant is also the…
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Backdoored PyTorch Lightning package drops credential stealer
A malicious version of the PyTorch Lightning package published on the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivers a credential-stealing payload targeting browsers, environment files, and cloud services. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/backdoored-pytorch-lightning-package-drops-credential-stealer/
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Expertenstatements von Absolute Security, Bitdefender, Commvault und Semperis zum WorldDay
Am Welt-Passwort-Tag am 7. Mai denken viele Nutzer vielleicht an neue Sonderzeichen oder an ihren Hochzeitstag. Schon damit sollte der Tag seinen Zweck erfüllt haben. Passwörter stehen aber in der Diskussion. Sicher haben sie weiterhin eine Funktion für die Identitätssicherheit. Passwörter müssen aber immer ein Teil einer Gesamtstrategie zur Cybersicherheit sein. Ob und wie Credentials noch der…
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Expertenstatements von Absolute Security, Bitdefender, Commvault und Semperis
Am Welt-Passwort-Tag am 7. Mai denken viele Nutzer vielleicht an neue Sonderzeichen oder an ihren Hochzeitstag. Schon damit sollte der Tag seinen Zweck erfüllt haben. Passwörter stehen aber in der Diskussion. Sicher haben sie weiterhin eine Funktion für die Identitätssicherheit. Passwörter müssen aber immer ein Teil einer Gesamtstrategie zur Cybersicherheit sein. Ob und wie Credentials noch der…
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The fake IT worker problem CISOs can’t ignore
Tags: access, ai, breach, business, captcha, cio, ciso, compliance, computer, control, credentials, crowdstrike, data, detection, edr, endpoint, fedramp, fraud, gartner, iam, identity, jobs, linkedin, mitigation, monitoring, network, north-korea, office, phone, risk, skills, tool, training, zero-trustWhat to do if you suspect a fake IT worker: When a CIO suspects a fake IT worker, next steps are important as the issue shifts from recruitment to insider risk management.During his time at MongoDB, George Gerchow, IANS faculty advisor and Bedrock Data CSO, oversaw the investigation after the company detected it had unknowingly…
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Attackers Hijack SAP npm Packages to Steal Dev Secrets
A sophisticated supply chain attack hit the SAP developer ecosystem on April 29, 2026, compromising four widely-used npm packages with credential-stealing malware. The attackers modified package installation scripts to download the Bun JavaScript runtime a legitimate alternative to Node.js during the npm install process. This technique bypasses Node.js-based security monitoring by executing an 11.6 MB…
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AI agents can bypass guardrails and put credentials at risk, Okta study finds
Phishing the agent: Why AI guardrails aren’t enough, a report on tests conducted by cloud identity and access management (IAM) company Okta Threat Intelligence, which uncovered all of the problems cited above, and more.Their research focused on OpenClaw, a model-agnostic multi-channel AI assistant which has seen explosive growth inside enterprises since appearing in late 2025.…
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AI agents can bypass guardrails and put credentials at risk, Okta study finds
Phishing the agent: Why AI guardrails aren’t enough, a report on tests conducted by cloud identity and access management (IAM) company Okta Threat Intelligence, which uncovered all of the problems cited above, and more.Their research focused on OpenClaw, a model-agnostic multi-channel AI assistant which has seen explosive growth inside enterprises since appearing in late 2025.…
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AI agents can bypass guardrails and put credentials at risk, Okta study finds
Phishing the agent: Why AI guardrails aren’t enough, a report on tests conducted by cloud identity and access management (IAM) company Okta Threat Intelligence, which uncovered all of the problems cited above, and more.Their research focused on OpenClaw, a model-agnostic multi-channel AI assistant which has seen explosive growth inside enterprises since appearing in late 2025.…
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A Guide to Agentic Sprawl: How to Govern Your Program
Key Takeaways Agent user identities now outnumber human identities at an astounding rate. Each new autonomous agent introduces a new identity, a new credential path, and a new surface area for attackers to exploit. Agent sprawl compounds classic identity security failures: over-provisioned OAuth scopes, reused service accounts, and long-lived tokens. Traditional IAM tooling was never……
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New Global Scam Uses Fake Meeting Links to Run PowerShell Malware
BlueNoroff hackers used fake Zoom calls, ClickFix prompts, and fileless PowerShell malware to steal credentials from Web3 and crypto targets. The post New Global Scam Uses Fake Meeting Links to Run PowerShell Malware appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-lazarus-bluenoroff-fake-video-call-malware/
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CAPTCHA and ClickFix Abuse Fuels Credential Theft Surge
Attackers are increasingly combining QR codes, fake CAPTCHA gates, and ClickFix-style tricks to steal credentials at scale, even as major phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms face disruption. These tactics shift risk from traditional malware attachments to highly convincing, hosted phishing flows that are harder for both users and email filters to spot. Across this volume, 78% of…