Tag: credentials
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GlassWorm Uses Blockchain-Based C2 and Invisible Unicode to Steal Developer Secrets
A trio of coordinated campaigns a JetBrains fake AI assistant campaign, the GlassWorm self”‘propagating worm, and the compromised Nx Console Visual Studio Code extension made clear that IDE plugin ecosystems are now a primary attack surface for AI credential theft. Attackers have shifted from opportunistic phishing to targeted supply”‘chain techniques that exploit the broad privileges…
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Fortinet Warns of Active FortiBleed Credential Theft Attacks on FortiGate Devices
Tags: advisory, attack, authentication, credentials, cyber, data-breach, exploit, fortinet, theft, threatFortinet has issued a security warning about ongoing credential-harvesting attacks targeting FortiGate devices in a campaign known as “FortiBleed.” Threat actors are exploiting weak authentication practices rather than any newly disclosed vulnerabilities. A PSIRT advisory released on June 19, 2026, by Carl Windsor indicates that the attackers are reusing previously exposed credentials from earlier incidents,…
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Hundreds of AI-powered iOS apps found exposing credentials
Mobile app developers are packing AI features into everything from writing assistants to productivity tools and lifestyle apps. New research shows that securing access to … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/22/llm-api-credential-leakage-ios-apps/
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 582 by Pierluigi Paganini INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Inside GentleKiller: The EDR-Killer Powering The Gentlemen FortiBleed Exposes Global Credential-Spraying Operation CISA Warns of Active…
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Week in review: 74k Fortinet firewall credentials stolen, Splunk Enterprise RCE under active attack
Tags: attack, backdoor, breach, credentials, firewall, fortinet, Hardware, network, rce, remote-code-execution, WeeklyReviewHere’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight Deep learning … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/21/week-in-review-74k-fortinet-firewall-credentials-stolen-splunk-enterprise-rce-under-active-attack/
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FortiBleed Exposes Global Credential-Spraying Operation
FortiBleed exposed a massive campaign that made billions of login attempts against Fortinet VPNs, compromising organizations worldwide. FortiBleed wasn’t a targeted hack. It was a factory. A multi-operator crew ran an industrial-scale attack against Fortinet FortiGate SSL VPN devices worldwide, and security researcher Volodymyr >>Bob<< Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com caught them only because they left their…
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FortiBleed Exposes Global Credential-Spraying Operation
FortiBleed exposed a massive campaign that made billions of login attempts against Fortinet VPNs, compromising organizations worldwide. FortiBleed wasn’t a targeted hack. It was a factory. A multi-operator crew ran an industrial-scale attack against Fortinet FortiGate SSL VPN devices worldwide, and security researcher Volodymyr >>Bob<< Diachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com caught them only because they left their…
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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation Following FortiBleed Leak
FortiBleed exposed credentials for 74,000 Fortinet devices, with attackers actively exploiting the leak to target systems worldwide. On June 18, CISA issued an emergency alert after reports surfaced that credentials for approximately 74,000 Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways had been leaked in what researchers are calling FortiBleed. The agency confirmed that threat actors were actively…
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24 Billion Stolen Credentials Exposed in Massive Data Leak
24 Billion Records Left Open Online: Passwords, Emails, and Everything Else Exposed database with 24 Billion records revealed stolen credentials from infostealers, Telegram channels, and breach collections, risking account takeovers. Cybernews researchers found an exposed Elasticsearch cluster on June 12th containing 24 billion records and more than 8.3 terabytes of data. They triple-checked the numbers.…
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Klue Confirms OAuth Token Theft Led to Salesforce Data Heist
‘Compromised Legacy Credential’ Wielded by Extortion Group Calling Itself Icarus. Marketing intelligence platform Klue confirmed an attacker breached its infrastructure, saying they used a compromised legacy credential to obtain OAuth access tokens for integrated services and stole data directly from Klue customers’ Salesforce and Gong instances. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/klue-confirms-oauth-token-theft-led-to-salesforce-data-heist-a-32024
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24B Records Exposed in Massive Leak of Emails, Passwords, and Login Data
Cybernews researchers found an exposed database with 24 billion credential records, raising fresh risks from password reuse and credential stuffing. The post 24B Records Exposed in Massive Leak of Emails, Passwords, and Login Data appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-24-billion-credential-records-exposed-database/
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CISA warns Fortinet users to secure devices after FortiBleed leak
Tags: cisa, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, firewall, fortinet, infrastructure, leak, vpnThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged Fortinet customers to secure their devices after nearly 74,000 firewall and VPN credentials were exposed in a data leak dubbed “FortiBleed.” First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-fortinet-users-to-secure-devices-after-fortibleed-leak/
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AutoJack Attack Lets One Web Page Hijack AI Agent for Host Code Execution
Microsoft researchers have detailed an exploit chain, named AutoJack, that turns an AI browsing agent into a delivery vehicle for remote code execution.Steer the agent to load an attacker’s web page, and that page’s JavaScript can reach a privileged local service on the same machine and spawn a process on the host.No credentials, no sign-in…
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Microsoft warnt Kunden vor gestohlenen GitHub Miasma-Wurm befällt 73 Microsoft-Repositories und stiehlt KI-Logindaten
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/miasma-wurm-microsoft-github-repositories-ki-zugangsdaten-a-c09832938b8e85e4c3326613248fc3b8/
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Crime Gang Sells Access to 74,000 Fortinet Firewall Devices
Ongoing Campaign May Be Grabbing Legacy Passwords From Fortinet FortiGate Devices. Cybercriminals are selling access to 75,000 Fortinet FortiGate devices with VPN and web management interfaces, and the admin credentials appear to be legitimate and recently harvested as part of a still-live campaign, security experts warned. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/crime-gang-sells-access-to-74000-fortinet-firewall-devices-a-32015
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Cisco fixed a critical ISE vulnerability that lets attackers to gain root access
Cisco addressed CVE-2026-20181, a critical ISE vulnerability that lets authenticated admins execute commands and gain root access. Cisco addressed a critical command execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20181 (CVSS score of 9.1), affecting Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE-PIC. The flaw stems from improper validation of user-supplied input, allowing an authenticated attacker with administrative credentials to…
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Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
The affected include Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, a NATO contractor, and Fortinet. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/massive-breach-spills-credentials-for-thousands-of-sensitive-networks/
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Massive database with 24 billion credentials found exposed online
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/massive-database-with-24-billion-credentials-found-exposed-online
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FortiBleed Exposes Admin Passwords for 75,000 Fortinet Firewalls
FortiBleed: Admin Passwords for 75,000 Fortinet Firewalls Are Out in the Wild. Half the Internet-Facing Fortinets on the Planet. Security researcher Bob Diachenko found a server sitting open on the internet containing what appeared to be valid Fortinet VPN credentials, including usernames, email addresses, and plaintext passwords for tens of thousands of organizations. He posted…
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74,000 Fortinet firewall credentials exposed in FortiBleed data leak
Tags: breach, credentials, cybercrime, data, data-breach, firewall, fortinet, group, leak, russia, vpnA Russian-speaking cybercriminal group has stolen credentials contained in the configuration files of nearly 74,000 Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways around the world. The … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/18/fortinet-fortibleed-data-leak/
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How security teams are getting credential visibility into developer endpoints
As we noted in our earlier analysis, attackers already know secrets are on your developers’ machines, the only question is whether security teams do. The supply chain … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/18/gitguardian-developer-endpoint-protection/
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Modified OpenSSH Binaries Let Velvet Ant Steal Passwords, Log Commands, and Hide Activity
A long-running, stealthy campaign attributed to the China-nexus actor tracked as Velvet Ant has been found to include deeply engineered backdoors in the authentication stack: modified OpenSSH binaries and tampered PAM modules that exfiltrate credentials, record every executed command, and conceal attacker activity. The discovery, part of Sygnia’s Operation Highland investigation, reveals nearly a decade…
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FortiBleed Attack Exposes Fortinet Firewall Credentials in 194 Countries
Researchers say FortiBleed used stolen and tested credentials to access exposed Fortinet firewalls, putting major organizations and public agencies at risk now. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fortibleed-attack-fortinet-firewalls-credentials/
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Sweeping Credential-Harvesting Heist Compromises 30K+ Fortinet Devices
Attackers are actively targeting various sectors across nearly 200 countries and already have compiled a list of working credentials for tens of thousands of compromised devices. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/sweeping-credential-harvesting-heist-compromises-30k-fortinet-devices
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FortiBleed leak exposes Fortinet VPN credentials for 73,000 devices.
A newly discovered data leak dubbed “FortiBleed” has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs at organizations worldwide. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortibleed-leak-exposes-fortinet-vpn-credentials-for-73-000-devices/
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Serverless Phishing Kit on GitHub Targets Mexican Banks
GitBait phishing kit abuses GitHub Pages and the SheetBest API to steal Mexican banking credentials First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/gitbait-github-pages-sheetbest/
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Modular Phishing Kit Uses GitHub Pages to Steal Payment Card Details and Passwords
A sophisticated, long-running phishing operation has evolved into a serverless, modular campaign that weaponizes GitHub Pages to harvest payment card data, credentials, and customer identifiers from banking customers in Mexico. The campaign’s architecture centers on a phishing kit containing a selector panel that operators use to generate institution-specific landing pages. Those landing pages impersonate at…
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Sweeping Credential-Harvesting Heist Compromises +30K Fortinet Devices
Attackers actively are targeting various sectors across nearly 200 countries and have already compiled a list of working credentials for tens of thousands of compromised devices First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/sweeping-credential-harvesting-heist-compromises-30k-fortinet-devices
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The Top 10 Attack Surface Exposures in 2026
Breaches don’t always start with a zero-day. An exposed admin panel can get brute-forced, or credentials reused from a previous attack. But when a vulnerability does drop, like MongoBleed earlier this year, which let attackers pull credentials and session tokens from server memory without authentication, anything internet-facing is immediately at risk.With time-to-exploit now down to…
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The Top 10 Attack Surface Exposures in 2026
Breaches don’t always start with a zero-day. An exposed admin panel can get brute-forced, or credentials reused from a previous attack. But when a vulnerability does drop, like MongoBleed earlier this year, which let attackers pull credentials and session tokens from server memory without authentication, anything internet-facing is immediately at risk.With time-to-exploit now down to…