Tag: cyber
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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/
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LuxSci Launches Enterprise-Grade HIPAA-Compliant Email Security for Mid-Sized Healthcare Organizations
Cambridge, MA, May 5th, 2026, CyberNewswire New right-sized offering brings advanced encryption, easy API integration, and HITRUST-certified compliance to the most underserved segment in healthcare email, with pricing starting at $99/month LuxSci, a leading provider of HIPAA compliant secure healthcare communications, today announced the launch of LuxSci Secure High Volume Email for mid-sized healthcare […]…
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Hackers Abuse DAEMON Tools Distribution Channel to Deliver Malicious Payloads
A sophisticated supply-chain attack has compromised the official distribution channel for DAEMON Tools, delivering multi-stage malware to users worldwide. Since April 8, 2026, threat actors have distributed trojanized installers signed with legitimate digital certificates to conduct highly targeted cyberespionage operations. Attackers successfully breached the development pipeline of AVB Disc Soft, the creators of the widely…
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ScarCruft Targets Gaming Platform With Windows, Android Backdoors
A sophisticated multiplatform supply-chain attack orchestrated by the North Korea-aligned APT group ScarCruft, targeting ethnic Koreans in China’s Yanbian region through a compromised gaming platform. The attack, believed to have been ongoing since late 2024, weaponized both Windows and Android components of sqgame[.]net, a video game platform that hosts traditional Yanbian-themed card and board games.…
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Australia launches cyber review board modeled on version disbanded in US
The Cyber Incident Review Board will carry out no-fault, post-incident reviews of significant cyberattacks on Australian government and industry, focusing on systemic lessons rather than individual or corporate culpability. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/australia-launches-cyber-review-board
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Educational company Instructure reports cyber incident
By Saturday, Infrastructure’s chief information security officer Steve Proud confirmed that the hackers gained access to information about users at some educational institutions, including names, email addresses, student ID numbers and messages between users. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/infrastructure-education-company-canvas-incident
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Silver Fox Uses Fake Tax Notices to Drop ValleyRAT and ABCDoor Backdoor
Silver Fox is running a tax”‘themed phishing campaign that abuses fake notices from Indian and Russian tax authorities to drop ValleyRAT and a new Python backdoor dubbed ABCDoor, using a customized RustSL loader to evade detection and enforce strict geofencing controls. The campaign shows how the group is steadily evolving from commodity RAT delivery to…
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Critical Weaver E-cology RCE Exploit Raises Alarm for Enterprise Systems
Tags: automation, cve, cvss, cyber, exploit, flaw, office, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Weaver (Fanwei) E-cology is being actively exploited in the wild, with real-world intrusion activity traced back to mid-March 2026, weeks before public awareness. Tracked as CVE-2026-22679 with a CVSS score of 9.8, this flaw exposes enterprise office automation systems to full OS-level compromise without requiring any authentication. Vulnerability Overview CVE-2026-22679…
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Cisco Acquisition of Astrix Security Signals to Strengthen on Non-Human Identity Security
Networking and security leader Cisco has announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a pioneer in Non-Human Identity (NHI) management. Announced in May 2026, this acquisition is designed to help enterprises secure the rapidly expanding >>agentic workforce<<, the growing ecosystem of autonomous AI agents that operate alongside human employees. As organizations integrate AI into their…
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Cerberus Stalkerware Hits Google Play, Abuses Accessibility and Firebase for Remote Control
Cerberus Anti-theft, a long-running Android “security” app, is operating as full-featured stalkerware on Google Play, abusing accessibility services and Google Firebase to give abusers near-total remote control over victims’ phones. Once installed, Cerberus lets an abuser push a custom lock”‘screen notification to the victim’s device from a web dashboard at cerberusapp.com or a paired smartwatch.…
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WhatsApp Security Flaw Enables Malicious URL Execution Through Instagram Reels
WhatsApp has recently patched two notable security vulnerabilities that could have allowed attackers to execute malicious links and disguise dangerous files. The most alarming discovery involves a flaw in how WhatsApp processes Instagram Reels. This vulnerability allows remote threat actors to trigger arbitrary URLs on a victim’s device by exploiting unvalidated message elements. Meta’s latest…
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Education Sector Hit by Espionage, Phishing, and Supply Chain Attacks
Educational institutions are now facing a coordinated mix of state espionage, spear”‘phishing, and supply chain intrusions, even as classic ransomware and vulnerability volumes show signs of easing. Every attributed campaign was linked to state actors, with no financially motivated groups observed. China-aligned clusters led by MISSION2074 dominate, with additional activity from Stone Panda, Hafnium, Lotus…
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AI Adoption Outpaces Safety Policies, Leaving Organizations Exposed to Cyber Risk
ISACA report warns that while AI has become the norm, many organizations are yet to formally apply safety or security policies around its use First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-adoption-outpaces-safety-policy/
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NCSC Warns of an AI-Fuelled “Vulnerability Patch Wave”
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is urging organizations to prepare for glut of new software updates First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ncsc-warns-aifuelled-vulnerability/
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CSA: Take AI cyber threats to the boardroom
Current cyber risk assumptions may no longer be valid given the speed of advanced AI, warns the chief executive of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366642800/CSA-Take-AI-cyber-threats-to-the-boardroom
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Qualcomm Chipset Vulnerabilities Raise Alarm Over Remote Code Execution Risk
Tags: cyber, exploit, Internet, open-source, remote-code-execution, risk, software, threat, vulnerabilityQualcomm Technologies has released its May 2026 security bulletin, addressing a sweeping array of vulnerabilities across its proprietary and open-source software ecosystems. Threat actors could exploit these security gaps to compromise smartphones, automotive systems, and industrial Internet of Things devices without requiring user interaction. The semiconductor giant is strongly urging original equipment manufacturers to deploy…
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Attackers Exploit Amazon SES to Send Authenticated Phishing Emails
Attackers are increasingly abusing Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to deliver highly convincing phishing emails that bypass traditional security controls, marking a growing trend in email-based threats. The primary goal of any phishing campaign is to evade detection while tricking victims into revealing sensitive data. To achieve this, threat actors continuously refine their techniques, using…