Tag: cyber
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Cyber field doubts promise of Cyber Shield
The NCSC has shared more details of its national AI Cyber Shield initiative, but experts say the project faces serious delivery challenges First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366645655/Cyber-field-doubts-promise-of-Cyber-Shield
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Attackers Exploit WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities for Remote Code Execution and Webshell Access
A large-scale exploitation campaign is actively weaponising known vulnerabilities across multiple content management systems, with WordPress plugins forming the primary attack surface. Cyber actors are scanning the internet for vulnerable sites and chaining unauthenticated file upload, remote code execution (RCE), server-side request forgery (SSRF) and deserialization vulnerabilities to deploy webshells that grant persistent remote access.…
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75% CISOs Fear Executives Don’t Understand Cybersecurity Risks Employees Face
Survey of cybersecurity leaders by MetaCompliance finds that many feel boards are uninterested in ever-evolving cyber risks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisos-fear-execs-dont-understand/
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HP Linux Imaging and Printing Software Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation Attacks
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in HP Linux Imaging and Printing Software (HPLIP), which exposes Linux systems to potential privilege escalation and remote code execution attacks. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-14544, has a CVSS v3 score of 9.8, indicating maximum severity due to its potential for network exploitation, low attack complexity, and lack of…
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AssuranceAmerica Confirms Massive Data Breach Exposing Driver’s License and Insurance Data
AssuranceAmerica, a U.S. provider of auto and renters insurance, has confirmed a significant data breach that exposed the personal information and driver’s license data of approximately 6.99 million people. This incident marks the largest known leak of Americans’ driver’s license information this year. Founded in 1998, the Atlanta-based insurer operates in more than a dozen…
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RedHook Abuses Accessibility Service to Enable Developer Options and Wireless Debugging
RedHook, an Android Remote Access Trojan (RAT) first profiled in July 2025, has resurfaced with a markedly more dangerous capability: autonomous abuse of Android’s ADB Wireless Debugging to acquire shell-level privileges (uid 2000). While its baseline toolkit screen streaming, keylogging, Accessibility-driven UI manipulation and credential theft remains intact, the latest RedHook builds demonstrate a deliberate…
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RedHook Abuses Accessibility Service to Enable Developer Options and Wireless Debugging
RedHook, an Android Remote Access Trojan (RAT) first profiled in July 2025, has resurfaced with a markedly more dangerous capability: autonomous abuse of Android’s ADB Wireless Debugging to acquire shell-level privileges (uid 2000). While its baseline toolkit screen streaming, keylogging, Accessibility-driven UI manipulation and credential theft remains intact, the latest RedHook builds demonstrate a deliberate…
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GhostApproval Attack Impacts Amazon Q, Claude Code, Cursor, Google Antigravity, and Windsurf
A newly disclosed vulnerability pattern known as >>GhostApproval<< is exposing significant flaws in the trust boundary of leading AI coding assistants, including Amazon Q Developer, Anthropic Claude Code, Cursor, Google Antigravity, Augment, and Windsurf. This issue demonstrates how attackers can exploit symbolic links (symlinks) to bypass workspace isolation and manipulate Human-in-the-Loop safeguards, potentially resulting in…
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Foxit Patches Multiple UseFree Flaws Leading to Remote Code Execution
Foxit has released critical security updates to address multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) in its widely used PDF Reader and PDF Editor products. The vulnerabilities, disclosed in Foxit’s July 8, 2026 security bulletin, affect Windows versions of Foxit PDF Reader and Foxit PDF Editor across multiple release branches, highlighting…
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Nike Alleged Breach: Threat Actors Claim Leak of Millions of Customer Records
A threat actor on a prominent cybercrime forum has claimed responsibility for leaking data allegedly belonging to Nike and Alcon, posting the purported datasets for download. The claims, currently unverified, suggest a significant breach affecting millions of records across both organizations. Nike Alleged Breach According to the forum post, the threat actor alleges the Nike-related…
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GitLab Patches 8 Vulnerabilities Affecting CE and EE Installations
GitLab has released critical security updates to address eight vulnerabilities in its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). Administrators are urged to upgrade immediately to versions 19.1.2, 19.0.4, or 18.11.7. The patch rollout on July 8, 2026, includes fixes for high-, medium-, and low-severity flaws affecting core functionalities such as wiki rendering, repository mirroring,…
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Google Chrome Update Patches 27 Security Vulnerabilities Including Critical UseFree Flaws
Google has released a critical security update for Chrome, upgrading the Stable channel to version 150.0.7871.114/.115 on Windows and macOS, and to version 150.0.7871.114 on Linux. This update addresses 27 vulnerabilities, including several critical use-after-free flaws that could potentially enable remote code execution. The update will roll out gradually over the coming days and weeks,…
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HalluSquatting Attack Lets Hackers Turn AI Coding Assistants Into Botnet Installers
A newly disclosed attack technique called “HalluSquatting” is raising serious concerns in the AI security landscape. This technique demonstrates how attackers can exploit large language model (LLM) hallucinations to covertly compromise systems and potentially create botnets on a large scale. The research introduces “adversarial hallucination squatting,” a novel method that exploits AI models that generate…
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GitHub Copilot IDE Coding Agents Vulnerable to Workflow-Level Jailbreak Attacks
GitHub Copilot’s new coding agents, which are integrated into IDEs, are susceptible to a specific type of >>workflow-level<< jailbreak attacks. These attacks can bypass chat refusals, allowing agents to generate harmful code while performing standard software development tasks unwittingly. According to Arxiv, researchers who studied Copilot in Visual Studio Code discovered that models that successfully…
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New AI Security Charter Backed by Over 70 Cyber Firms
Over 70 cybersecurity organizations have signed the CREST AI Charter detailing responsible use of AI for security First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/crest-ai-security-charter-cyber/
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npm and PyPI Malware Campaign Exfiltrates CI/CD Secrets Through Fake Payment SDKs
A coordinated supply-chain campaign that pushed 17 malicious packages across npm and PyPI, masquerading as SDKs for well-known payment services including PaySafe, Skrill and Neteller. The campaign’s packages 17 npm modules published with four rapid versions each and four PyPI packages access with single malicious releases presented as convenient payment SDK facades but contained logic…
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Cybercriminals Plant Malicious AI Agents in Open Source Tool Repositories
Cybersecurity researchers at ESET identify big rise in suspicious and malicious toolsets which put users at risk from cyber-attacks First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cybercriminals-plant-ai-agents/
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G DATA-Studie: Notfallpläne sind vorhanden, doch vielen Unternehmen fehlt die Übung für den Cyber-Ernstfall
Im Cyber-Ernstfall zählt nicht, ob ein Dokument existiert. Entscheidend ist, ob alle Beteiligten wissen, was zu tun ist und ob Technik, Prozesse und Partner schnell genug zusammenspielen. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/g-data-studie-notfallplaene-sind-vorhanden-doch-vielen-unternehmen-fehlt-die-uebung-fuer-den-cyber-ernstfall/a45710/
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SNOW Malware Ecosystem Uses Teams Phishing, WebSocket Tunnels, and Browser Extensions
Threat actors are increasingly chaining classic phishing with collaboration platforms and covert tunneling to create highly believable intrusion paths. A recent multi-stage campaign attributed to UNC6692 exposes how adversaries combine email bombardment, Microsoft Teams impersonation, malicious browser extensions, WebSocket tunnels, and Python backdoors into a single, resilient ecosystem known as SNOW. The campaign began with…
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SNOW Malware Ecosystem Uses Teams Phishing, WebSocket Tunnels, and Browser Extensions
Threat actors are increasingly chaining classic phishing with collaboration platforms and covert tunneling to create highly believable intrusion paths. A recent multi-stage campaign attributed to UNC6692 exposes how adversaries combine email bombardment, Microsoft Teams impersonation, malicious browser extensions, WebSocket tunnels, and Python backdoors into a single, resilient ecosystem known as SNOW. The campaign began with…
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UK’s largest businesses dangerously exposed to cloud outages
British businesses, particularly those in the FTSE 100, are dangerously dependent on large cloud providers, with hypothetical large-scale outages at AWS or Azure regions likely to cause major economic damage, according to the Cyber Monitoring Centre First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366645540/UKs-largest-businesses-dangerously-exposed-to-cloud-outages
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Everest Ransomware Encryptor Uses ConfuserEx-Protected .NET Binary With Wake-on-LAN Capability
A recent technical analysis of an Everest ransomware encryptor reveals a purpose-built, ConfuserEx-protected .NET 4.0 binary that combines heavy obfuscation, misleading cryptographic declarations, and uncommon network tactics to maximize impact and impede response. The analyzed sample (hlntqyun.exe, SHA-256 1df92b…) is a 114 KB C# assembly compiled for .NET Framework 4.0 and protected with ConfuserEx anti-tamper,…
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New Helix Extortion Group Targets Enterprises With MFA Abuse and SharePoint Exfiltration
A previously unreported data extortion operation dubbed “Helix” that targets enterprises using identity-focused entry techniques and automated SharePoint exfiltration. The group’s playbook combines voice phishing (vishing), device-code phishing to capture session tokens and bypass Conditional Access controls, rapid MFA registration for persistence, and scripted enumeration and bulk download of SharePoint content all staged from shared…
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New Helix Extortion Group Targets Enterprises With MFA Abuse and SharePoint Exfiltration
A previously unreported data extortion operation dubbed “Helix” that targets enterprises using identity-focused entry techniques and automated SharePoint exfiltration. The group’s playbook combines voice phishing (vishing), device-code phishing to capture session tokens and bypass Conditional Access controls, rapid MFA registration for persistence, and scripted enumeration and bulk download of SharePoint content all staged from shared…
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Claude AI Prompt Injection Attack Turns Chatbot Into Stealthy C2 Agent to Achieve Remote Code Execution
Claude Desktop’s synced Personal Preferences feature can be exploited as a covert prompt-injection vector, transforming the AI assistant into a de facto command-and-control (C2) agent. This method allows for remote code execution on a compromised user workstation without the need for phishing emails or traditional malware delivery. In this attack chain, the initial access is…
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DuckDuckGo Browser Blocks YouTube Ads Using uBlock Origin Filter Lists
DuckDuckGo has quietly expanded its privacy-first browser capabilities by introducing a YouTube ad-blocking feature. This feature uses community-driven uBlock Origin filter lists to detect and remove video ads. From a security and privacy standpoint, this approach is significant because it relies on open-source filtering rules maintained by an active community, rather than proprietary, closed heuristics.…
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Mexico’s New Cyber Plan Faces Its First Real Test
The Latin American nation’s cybersecurity plan, still in the expansion phase, has to survive its own knockout round during the FIFA World Cup. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/mexicos-cyber-plan-first-real-test
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French nonprofit starts global intelligence and research hub for AI cyber threats
One of the project’s top goals is stitching together an international, quick response coalition of governments, businesses and civil experts for AI-related threats. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/paris-peace-forum-intaic-ai-cyber-threats/