Tag: cyber
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Malicious NuGet Packages Target ASP.NET Developers to Steal Login Credentials
Malicious NuGet packages posing as legitimate developer utilities are targeting ASP.NET projects to steal identity credentials and silently backdoor applications through a localhost proxy. All four were published between August 1221, 2024, by a NuGet user named “hamzazaheer” and have collectively amassed a little over 4,500 downloads before takedown requests were submitted. The campaign’s core…
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Chinese AI Labs Launch Massive Distillation Attacks on Anthropic Claude, Tracking 13M Exchanges
Anthropic has identified and exposed industrial-scale data extraction campaigns orchestrated by three major Chinese AI laboratories: DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax. These organizations utilized approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to generate over 16 million exchanges with Anthropic’s Claude models. The primary objective of these campaigns was >>distillation,<< a technique where a less capable AI model is trained…
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AI-powered Cyber-Attacks Up Significantly in the Last Year, Warns CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike Global Threat Report warns how adversaries are leveraging AI to make campaigns more efficient and more effective First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-powered-cyberattacks-up/
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Cyber Resilience Act und IoT-Sicherheit: Was Hersteller jetzt wissen müssen
Der neue CRA, er verbietet nicht nur schwache Passwörter. Er verbietet gemeinsam genutzte und fest codierte Anmeldedaten in der IoT-Geräteflotte. Das in der Firmware eingebettete Client-Geheimnis? Es ist nicht mehr Compliance-konform. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/cyber-resilience-act-und-iot-sicherheit-was-hersteller-jetzt-wissen-muessen/a43805/
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ZeroDayRAT Targets Android and iOS Devices for Surveillance and Financial Data Theft
ZeroDayRAT targets Android and iOS devices, combining real-time surveillance with direct financial theft within a single browser panel. The Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) ecosystem is entering a new phase, blending mobile surveillance and financial crime into one seamless platform. Active promotions for this RAT (Remote Access Trojan) began on Telegram channels on February 2, 2026, highlighting its dual purpose: real-time spying and direct financial…
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Deserialization Flaw in Ruby Workers That Could Enable Full Compromise
A severe Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability has been identified in RubitMQ job workers, stemming from unsafe JSON deserialization practices. The issue arises not from memory corruption or complex undefined behavior, but from design-level trust assumptions regarding how data is processed in Ruby background systems. Security researcher NullSecurityX has demonstrated that this flaw allows attackers…
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LUKS Encryption Compromised on Linux ICS Devices via TPM Bus Sniffing Exploit
Security researchers Per Idenfeldt Okuyama and Sam Eizad have uncovered a critical physical attack vulnerability in the Moxa UC-1222A Secure Edition industrial computer, demonstrating that its LUKS full-disk encryption can be fully defeated by passively sniffing the SPI bus between the processor and the discrete TPM 2.0 chip during system boot. The flaw, tracked as…
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Hackers Use Steganographic Images to Bypass Anti-Malware and Deploy Malware
Hackers are abusing steganography in PNG images to smuggle a Pulsar Remote Access Trojan (RAT) into Windows systems through a malicious NPM package named buildrunner”‘dev. The attack starts with a typosquatted NPM package, buildrunner”‘dev, which impersonates the abandoned “buildrunner”/”build-runner” tools to catch developers who mistype or assume it is a maintained fork. Its package.json looks harmless but defines a postinstall hook…
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So You Think You Have Cyber Insurance? The Breach is Only the First Incident. The Claim is the Second.
Explore the complexities of cyber insurance, including common claim denials, coverage disputes, and evolving risks like ransomware, AI fraud, and BEC. Learn how to navigate insurance ecosystems to secure reliable coverage that stands firm in loss situations. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/so-you-think-you-have-cyber-insurance-the-breach-is-only-the-first-incident-the-claim-is-the-second/
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Model Inversion Attacks: Growing AI Business Risk
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are driving unprecedented innovation and efficiency, a new class of cyber threats has emerged that puts sensitive data and entire business operations at serious risk. Among these threats, model inversion attacks have become particularly concerning for organizations that rely on machine learning models trained……
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It’s time to rethink CISO reporting lines
Tags: ai, business, ceo, cio, ciso, control, cyber, data, governance, infrastructure, jobs, risk, threat, vulnerabilityWhat’s in a reporting line?: Aaron Painter, CEO of security vendor Nametag, contends that reporting structures often mean less than the respect the CISO is granted.Painter is “less dogmatic about where the CISO reports and more focused on whether they actually have a seat at the table,” he says.”Org charts matter far less than influence,”…
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Fake Huorong Site Delivers ValleyRAT Backdoor in Targeted Malware Campaign
A typosquatted copy of the popular Huorong Security antivirus site is being used to deliver ValleyRAT, a modular remote access trojan (RAT) built on the Winos4.0 framework, to users who believe they are downloading legitimate protection software. The attackers registered huoronga[.]com adding a single “a” to the legitimate huorong.cn domain as part of a typosquatting strategy designed…
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Anthropic’s Claude Code Security rollout is an industry wakeup call
Anchors security posture to the model: However, those assurances didn’t make all concerns evaporate. “The moment those vibe coders plug a foundation model into their CI pipeline, their entire security posture is no longer anchored only to the company’s code,” I-Gentic AI CEO Zahra Timsah pointed out.”It is anchored to the current behavior of that model.…
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Anthropic Facing Allegations from Musk Over Large”‘Scale Data Misuse
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has publicly condemned the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, accusing the company of massive data theft and hypocrisy. This confrontation follows Anthropic’s recent claims that competing Chinese artificial intelligence models unlawfully extracted training data from its flagship Claude model. The Distillation Controversy Earlier this week, Anthropic published a report accusing Chinese AI…
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Odido Faces Alleged Data Breach as ShinyHunters Claims 21M Records Exposed
A notorious cybercriminal group, ShinyHunters, has claimed responsibility for a massive data breach involving Odido and BEN, exposing millions of customer records. The group asserts that Odido, a Dutch telecommunications provider, was not truthful in its initial disclosure of the incident. This development suggests the breach may be significantly larger and more severe than initially…
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ClickFix Infostealer Spreads via Fake CAPTCHA Traps, Targeting Unsuspecting Users
A new wave of the ClickFix Infostealer campaign that abuses fake CAPTCHA pages to deliver credential-stealing malware. Initially detected through late-stage Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) alerts, the campaign shows strong similarities to the ClickFix operation targeting restaurant reservation systems in July 2025, as highlighted in BlueVoyant’s earlier research. Further correlation with recent threat telemetry suggests that this campaign…
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Hackers Exploit DeepSeek and Claude AI to Launch Global Attacks on FortiGate Devices
Hackers are using commercial AI models DeepSeek and Claude to automate attacks against FortiGate firewalls worldwide, turning basic misconfigurations into a high”‘volume intrusion campaign. In early February 2026, a misconfigured SimpleHTTP server running on 212.11.64[.]250:9999 was found exposing more than 1,400 files and 139 subdirectories, including stolen FortiGate configurations, Active Directory maps, credential dumps, exploit…
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Google Releases Emergency Chrome Patch Addressing Three Major Security Flaws
Google has rolled out an emergency security update for its Chrome browser, addressing three high-severity vulnerabilities. This update targets users on Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms, aiming to patch critical flaws that could compromise system security and user data. The rapid deployment of these fixes highlights the ongoing challenges in securing widely used web browsers…
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Data Breaches in 2026: What’s old, what’s new?
Data breaches in 2026 explained, new cyber threats, AI driven attacks, common breach causes, and practical security strategies for individuals and businesses First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/data-breaches-2026-whats-old-whats-new/
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Arctic Wolf Doubles Down On Exposure Management With Sevco Acquisition
Arctic Wolf announced Monday that it has acquired a startup focused on exposure management, Sevco Security, in a move to expand the security operations platform vendor’s capabilities around proactive cyber defense. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/arctic-wolf-doubles-down-on-exposure-management-with-sevco-acquisition
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Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of trying to illicitly take Claude’s capabilities
It poses a national security threat, the AI startup said, such as by possibly enabling offensive cyber operations. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/anthropic-accuses-chinese-labs-ai-distillation-cyber-risk/
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Enigma Cipher Device Still Holds Secrets for Cyber Pros
The Nazi relic’s history is riddled with resilience errors, and those lessons still apply to defending against modern cyber threats. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/enigma-cipher-device-secrets-cyber-pros
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NDSS 2025 Generating API Specifications For Bug Detection Via Specification Propagation Analysis
Session 13B: API Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Miaoqian Lin (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Kai Chen (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yi…
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The Danger of IT, OT, Medical Device Cyber Turf Wars
What often appears to be turf wars between healthcare technology management, facilities OT staff, IT departments and security teams are often the result of unclear ownership and accountability for device security. And that presents safety risks to patients, says Mohamed Waqas, CTO of Armis. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/interviews/danger-it-ot-medical-device-cyber-turf-wars-i-5526
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Innovate UK cyber startup programme gets £10m funding booster
Graduates of DSIT and Innovate UK’s CyberASAP scheme to commercialise cutting-edge cyber research projects have raised nearly £50m in the past decade. First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366639131/Innovate-UK-cyber-startup-programme-gets-10m-funding-booster
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Over 200K Australian Driver’s Licences Exposed in youX Cyber Breach
A youX breach exposed sensitive borrower data in Australia, including over 200,000 driver’s licence numbers, raising fraud and phishing risks. The post Over 200K Australian Driver’s Licences Exposed in youX Cyber Breach appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-youx-data-breach-australia-drivers-licence-exposure/