Tag: cyber
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Darkhub HackingHire Portal Promotes Crypto Fraud and Spyware Services
A newly identified dark web platform, Darkhub, is advertising a wide range of hacking-for-hire services, including account compromise, surveillance, and financial manipulation. The service, accessible via the Tor network, presents itself as a centralized hub for offensive cyber capabilities targeting both individuals and organizations. Many similar services historically function as advance-fee scams rather than delivering…
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CISA Urges Critical Infrastructure Providers to Make Plans to Remain Operational if hit by Cyber-Attack
CISA’s CI Fortify initiative aim for critical infrastructure operators to build isolation & recovery First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisa-ci-fortify-isolation-recovery/
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Microsoft Teams on Android Now Lets Users Join External Meetings Through SIP
Microsoft is set to bridge the gap in enterprise unified communications with a highly anticipated update to its conference room hardware. Starting in June 2026, Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android will officially support joining third-party external meetings through Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). This strategic development aims to deliver seamless cross-platform interoperability for organizations relying on…
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From Stuxnet to ChatGPT: 20 News Events That Shaped Cyber
As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, Dark Reading looks back on 20 of the biggest newmaking events from the past two decades that influenced the risk landscape for today’s cybersecurity teams. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/stuxnet-chatgpt-20-news-events-cyber
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Taiwan High Speed Rail Hit by Spoofing Attack That Stops Three Trains
During the recent Qingming Festival holiday, the Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) experienced a severe cybersecurity incident that disrupted major transit operations. Three trains were suddenly forced into emergency stops, causing a 48-minute delay for passengers. Authorities have now determined that the disruption was not a mechanical failure but a targeted radio signal spoofing attack…
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CloudZ RAT Exploits Microsoft Phone Link to Steal SMS OTPs
CloudZ is a new modular remote access trojan that abuses Microsoft’s built”‘in Phone Link feature to steal SMS one”‘time passwords (OTPs) and other mobile notifications directly from Windows PCs, without infecting the phone itself. Microsoft Phone Link (formerly “Your Phone”) is integrated into Windows 10 and 11 to mirror smartphone SMS messages, application notifications, call…
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CyberSoftware Schutz in Schichten denken
Mehrstufige Sicherheit als Unternehmensstrategie Die Infografik »Cyber Security Software« zeigt, dass IT”‘Sicherheit heute aus einem mehrschichtigen System besteht. Kein einzelnes Tool kann alle Risiken abdecken entscheidend ist das Zusammenspiel spezialisierter Lösungen entlang der gesamten IT”‘Infrastruktur. Prävention und Zugriffsschutz Firewalls, Antivirensoftware und Endpoint”‘Protection bilden die erste Verteidigungslinie. Sie verhindern, dass Schadsoftware oder unautorisierte Zugriffe überhaupt… First…
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Vulnerability Exposes Email Data Risk
Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) recently patched a cluster of high”‘impact vulnerabilities that could have allowed attackers to read and enumerate marketing emails and subscriber data across tenants, including Fortune 500 organizations. Modern enterprises rely on centralised marketing clouds to deliver branded, trackable campaigns at massive scale. SFMC (formerly ExactTarget) is one of the dominant platforms, powering dynamic…
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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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Argo CD ServerSideDiff Flaw Allows Attackers to Extract Kubernetes Secrets
A critical vulnerability has been identified in Argo CD that could allow attackers with minimal privileges to extract highly sensitive Kubernetes Secrets directly from etcd clusters. Tracked as CVE-2026-42880 and rated 9.6, this severe security flaw exposes a missing authorisation and data-masking gap within the platform. According to the disclosure, this exposure primarily affects environments…
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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 Gang Member Linked to Russian Cybercrime Group Sentenced to Prison
A Latvian national operating from Moscow has been sentenced to 102 months in federal prison for his role as a key negotiator within a prolific Russian ransomware network. Deniss Zolotarjovs, 35, participated in a cybercrime syndicate that orchestrated data theft and extortion campaigns against over 54 organizations worldwide between June 2021 and August 2023. The…
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Iran-Linked Hackers Target Oman Ministries in Webshell and Data Theft Campaign
Iran-linked operators have mounted a broad espionage operation against multiple Omani ministries, abusing exposed webshells, SQL escalation scripts, and a poorly secured C2 server to steal judicial and identity data at scale. Attacker’s own open directory strongly suggests a Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) nexus compromised a mailbox , but there are not enough unique…
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Zero-Auth Vulnerability Enables Cross-Tenant Access at DoD Contractor
A severe authorization vulnerability was recently discovered in Schemata, an AI-powered virtual training platform serving the United States Department of Defense. Security researcher Alex Schapiro, utilizing the open-source AI hacking agent Strix, identified a critical lack of API authorization. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Schemata holds active government contracts to provide immersive 3D simulations for various…
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Malicious OpenClaw Skill Targets Agentic AI Workflows to Deploy RATs and Stealers
OpenClaw’s agent “skill” ecosystem to deliver both Remcos RAT and a cross”‘platform stealer called GhostLoader by hiding malware inside a deceptive DeepSeek integration called “DeepSeek”‘Claw.” The campaign shows how agentic AI workflows with high local privileges can be quietly hijacked through manipulated installation instructions rather than classic exploit chains. OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot and…
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Vimeo Confirms Breach Exposing 119,000 Unique User Email Addresses
Video hosting platform Vimeo has confirmed a data breach that exposed approximately 119,000 unique user email addresses, attributing the incident to a security compromise at Anodot, a third-party analytics vendor integrated with its systems. The breach came to light after the ShinyHunters extortion group listed Vimeo on its >>pay or leak<< portal in April 2026,…
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Remus Infostealer Adopts Lumma-Style Browser Key Theft to Bypass App-Bound Encryption
Remus is a newly observed 64-bit infostealer that closely tracks the Lumma Stealer codebase while adding EtherHiding-based C2 resolution and a refined Application”‘Bound Encryption (ABE) bypass for Chromium browsers. The first Remus activity dates back to early 2026, shortly after Lumma’s core operators were doxxed between August and October 2025, suggesting either a rebrand or…
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Attackers Bypass Azure AD Conditional Access Using Phantom Device Registration
A recent authorized red team operation by Howler Cell has demonstrated a critical attack path that completely bypasses Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Conditional Access. Azure Conditional Access acts as the primary gatekeeper for cloud identity security, enforcing access rules based on user location, device compliance, and calculated risk scores. However, by starting with a…
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Middle East Cyber Battle Field Broadens, Especially in UAE
As the war with Iran continues, breach attempts targeting the United Arab Emirates tripled in a few weeks, many targeting critical infrastructure. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/middle-east-cyber-battle-field-broadens-uae
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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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Critical Palo Alto Firewall Vulnerability Enables Attackers to Gain Root Privileges
Palo Alto Networks has issued an urgent security advisory concerning a critical vulnerability affecting its PAN-OS software. Tracked as CVE-2026-0300, this high-severity security flaw carries a CVSS 4.0 base score of 9.3 and is currently experiencing limited active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with full root…
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India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree
Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/05/06/india_seb_mythos_infosec_advice/
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Proof of Concept: Anatomy of a Breach – Cyber Readiness
Security Leaders From Equifax, Rapid7 on Identity Security and Visibility Failures. In part one of the Anatomy of a Breach series, Equifax’s Jeremy Koppen and Rapid7’s Christiaan Beek examine why familiar security gaps still lead to breaches. Experts discuss ways to improve readiness in the face of identity-driven attacks, visibility failures and governance weaknesses. First…
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Proof of Concept: Anatomy of a Breach – Cyber Readiness
Security Leaders From Equifax, Rapid7 on Identity Security and Visibility Failures. In part one of the Anatomy of a Breach series, Equifax’s Jeremy Koppen and Rapid7’s Christiaan Beek examine why familiar security gaps still lead to breaches. Experts discuss ways to improve readiness in the face of identity-driven attacks, visibility failures and governance weaknesses. First…
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GPT-5.5, Mythos Reach Hacking Parity, But Reasoning Falters
Benchmarks Shows Matched Capability, Brittle Reasoning. Two artificial intelligence models from competing labs have essentially the same offensive cyber capability level, with consistent reasoning failures that the cyber scores alone do not capture. OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 and Anthropic’s Mythos Preview now deliver near-identical offensive cyber performance. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/gpt-55-mythos-reach-hacking-parity-but-reasoning-falters-a-31594
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CISA pushes critical infrastructure operators to prepare to work in isolation
Tags: access, attack, backup, business, ceo, cisa, control, cyber, cybersecurity, endpoint, exploit, government, incident response, infrastructure, iran, network, resilience, service, technology, threat, vpnA familiar playbook under a new name: While the framing of CI Fortify is new, the underlying concepts are not. Several experts say the initiative largely repackages long-standing practices around disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response, areas where many organizations have historically underinvested.”It looks to me like traditional business continuity planning, disaster recovery, and…
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GPT-5.4-Cyber & Mythos: Wie KI die Schwachstellenerkennung radikal beschleunigt
Der Wettbewerbsvorteil verschiebt sich: Nicht wer Schwachstellen zuerst entdeckt, gewinnt sondern wer ihre Behebung lückenlos nachweisen kann. Angriffe operieren in Maschinen-Geschwindigkeit. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/gpt-5-4-cyber-mythos-wie-ki-die-schwachstellenerkennung-radikal-beschleunigt/a44991/
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CISA urges critical infrastructure firms to ‘fortify’ before it’s too late
As concerns mount about potential cyber sabotage by the Chinese government, the U.S. is warning operators to practice maintaining services in a degraded state. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ci-fortify-isolation-recovery-guidance/819317/
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CISA urges critical infrastructure firms to ‘fortify’ now before it’s too late
As concerns mount about potential cyber sabotage by the Chinese government, the U.S. is warning infrastructure operators to practice maintaining services in a degraded state. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ci-fortify-isolation-recovery-guidance/819317/