Tag: cyber
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Hackers Exploit Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws in Active Attacks
Security researchers have reported active exploitation attempts targeting multiple critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox appliances, raising concerns about potential compromises in enterprise security infrastructure. According to threat intelligence shared by Defused Cyber, attackers have started leveraging newly disclosed flaws, including CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, and CVE-2026-25089, within the last 24 hours. Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws FortiSandbox is…
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Microsoft Teams Relay Abused by Hackers to Hide Malicious Traffic
Tags: communications, control, cyber, exploit, hacker, infrastructure, malicious, microsoft, ransomware, threatMicrosoft Teams’ trusted infrastructure has been exploited by threat actors to secretly route malicious traffic, leading to a highly stealthy ransomware campaign attributed to the DragonForce group. Security researchers have discovered a novel technique in which attackers exploit Microsoft Teams’ TURN (Traversal Using Relays around NAT) servers to conceal command-and-control (C2) communications, making malicious activity…
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Microsoft Teams Relay Abused by Hackers to Hide Malicious Traffic
Tags: communications, control, cyber, exploit, hacker, infrastructure, malicious, microsoft, ransomware, threatMicrosoft Teams’ trusted infrastructure has been exploited by threat actors to secretly route malicious traffic, leading to a highly stealthy ransomware campaign attributed to the DragonForce group. Security researchers have discovered a novel technique in which attackers exploit Microsoft Teams’ TURN (Traversal Using Relays around NAT) servers to conceal command-and-control (C2) communications, making malicious activity…
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Hackers Use OnionDrop Loader With DLL Sideloading to Deploy Multiple Infostealers
A professionally engineered loader called OnionDrop is being used in high-tempo campaigns to deliver multiple infostealers at scale. Between February 28 and May 20, 2026, YARA retro-hunting uncovered more than 645 unique OnionDrop DLL samples, and deliveries remained active at the time of publication. The campaign’s operational footprint and evasion techniques place OnionDrop well above…
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Over Two-Thirds of Security Pros Say Cyber Is Getting Harder
Tags: cyberISSA study finds most security professionals feel challenged by colleagues’ involvement in cyber First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/security-pros-cyber-cyber-harder/
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Infinite Campus Breach Leaks Personal Information of 137,000 Users
A data breach affecting the widely used K12 student information system, Infinite Campus, has exposed the personal information of approximately 137,000 users. This incident is linked to an extortion campaign that occurred in March 2026 and has been attributed to the ShinyHunters threat group. It was officially recorded on Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). This…
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Hackers Abuse Compromised WordPress Sites to Deliver GULoader Through EtherHiding Chain
In April 2026, incident responders traced a sophisticated intrusion that abused compromised WordPress sites to deliver GULoader via an EtherHiding → ClickFix → UNC-chain. The real-world ClickFix incident produced convergent evidence from an ANY.RUN sandbox detonation and live EDR telemetry, revealing a complete, user-initiated attack path from a WordPress mu-plugin backdoor to a blocked rundll32.exe…
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Ghostwriter APT Uses Fake Gmail Login Panels to Steal Passwords and 2FA Codes
Ghostwriter (UNC1151) has escalated its long-standing phishing operations by deploying convincing fake Gmail login panels that harvest both passwords and two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, CERT Polska reports. The group historically focused on Polish email providers such as Onet, Wirtualna Polska and Interia shifted in March 2026 to high-volume Gmail-targeted campaigns. Attackers send professionally worded Polish-language…
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Software supply chains are heading for a transparency test
Software supply chain visibility is becoming part of product security work as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) moves toward application in December 2027. ENISA’s SBOM … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/16/enisa-software-supply-chain-transparency/
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Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox flaws now exploited in attacks
Attackers are now exploiting several critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s FortiSandbox cyber threat detection platform, according to threat intelligence company Defused. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-fortinet-fortisandbox-flaws-now-exploited-in-attacks/
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Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox flaws now exploited in attacks
Attackers are now exploiting several critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s FortiSandbox cyber threat detection platform, according to threat intelligence company Defused. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-fortinet-fortisandbox-flaws-now-exploited-in-attacks/
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Hackers Abuse Microsoft OAuth Device Code Flow to Take Over Microsoft 365 Accounts
An active campaign in which attackers are abusing Microsoft’s OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant (device code) flow to take over Microsoft 365 accounts. Rather than capturing credentials with a fake login page, the threat actors persuade victims to complete a genuine Microsoft authentication process that, unbeknownst to them, authorizes an attacker-controlled “device.” The result: fully…
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OptinMonster Plugin Vulnerability Exposes 1.2 Million WordPress Sites to Cyberattacks
A large-scale supply chain attack targeting the popular OptinMonster WordPress plugin has exposed more than 1.2 million websites to active compromise. The campaign also affects the TrustPulse and PushEngage plugins, both developed by Awesome Motive, significantly amplifying the attack surface across millions of WordPress deployments. The attackers tampered with legitimate JavaScript files delivered via Awesome…
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Rhysida and Interlock Ransomware Groups Linked to Initial Access Brokers and Crypter Ecosystem
Rhysida and Interlock sit inside the same ransomware supply chain, but their latest observed behavior shows a more nuanced relationship than simple code reuse. IBM X-Force’s long-term analysis ties both groups to initial access brokers, private crypters, downloaders, and backdoors that help them stage intrusion chains before encryption. The core finding is that both operations…
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Russian and Chinese Actors Use AI Translation and Visual Content in Malign Influence Operations
AI is reshaping foreign malign influence operations in subtle but consequential ways. Our analysis of pro-Russia and pro-China inauthentic accounts on X across 20242026 shows actors are not leveraging AI primarily to flood platforms with volume. Instead, they are using AI to refine content quality, create more believable personas, and broaden linguistic and visual reach…
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The Gentlemen RaaS Scales to 166 Victims as Ransomware Groups Compete for Affiliates
Two new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) entrants publicly recruited affiliates, underscoring a rapid reconsolidation of the ransomware market and a sharpening competition for skilled operators. An actor using the handle hyflock123 posted a recruitment thread on Duty-Free on May 14 claiming prior work with LockBit and Qilin and launching “Hyflock.” The next day hastalamuerte, founder and administrator…
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Hackers Use The Quarry PhaaS Ecosystem to Target U.S. Victims With IRS Phishing
A single developer-known online as RockyBelling has assembled a highly modular PhaaS/MaaS ecosystem that affiliates worldwide use to launch highly targeted IRS and SSA-themed phishing campaigns that predominantly hit U.S. victims. SOCRadar research spanning April 2025April 2026 ties almost 200 affiliates to a commercial toolkit that combines sophisticated cloaking, flexible payload options, real-time victim telemetry…
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PRC-Nexus Hackers Abuse REDCap Servers to Monitor US Medical Research Organizations
A sophisticated, long-running cyberespionage campaign attributed to UNC6508, a People’s Republic of China (PRC)-nexus threat actor, that systematically targets North American academic, medical, and military research institutions. The campaign, active since at least September 2023, remained undetected for over a year while the threat actor silently harvested credentials, exfiltrated sensitive communications, and maintained persistent access across victim…
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Microsoft Website Displays Security Warning After Certificate Expiry
Microsoft has triggered widespread browser security warnings after allowing the TLS certificate for a critical Microsoft 365 connectivity testing domain to expire, raising concerns over certificate lifecycle management practices. The affected domain, connectivity.office.com, widely used by system administrators and enterprise IT teams to validate network access to Microsoft 365 services, began returning NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID errors in…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Vulnerability Exposes Sensitive Data Through One-Click Attack
Microsoft 365 Copilot has been found vulnerable to a critical one-click data exfiltration attack chain dubbed “SearchLeak,” exposing sensitive enterprise data through a combination of AI-specific and traditional web vulnerabilities. Discovered by Varonis Threat Labs, the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-42824 and rated critical, demonstrates how modern AI integrations can unintentionally expand attack surfaces by linking…
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Cyber insurance readiness is the MSSP service clients don’t know they need
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/cyber-insurance-readiness-is-an-mssp-service-opportunity-1
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Mythos Shutdown Contains a Message: Don’t Wait for Mythos
OT Operators Shouldn’t Wait for Mythos Access to Probe Codebases. The abrupt, government-ordered cut-off of access to Mythos 5, the most cyber-capable of Anthropic’s large language models, has underlined a message security experts have been trying to get out to the operational technology community: You don’t need Mythos. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Australian Sugar Producer Mackay Sugar Reports Cyber Incident
Mackay Sugar, Australia’s second-largest sugar producer, disclosed a cyberattack on June 10, potentially affecting key processing operations. Mackay Sugar is one of Australia’s largest sugar producers and the country’s second-largest sugar manufacturer. The company is based in the Mackay region of tropical North Queensland and has more than 140 years of history in sugar cane…
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GovSec Summit USA 2026: Cyber Resilience Amid Fiscal Reality
AI Governance, Compliance and Workforce Challenges Top GovSec Agenda. GovSec Summit USA 2026 explored how federal agencies are balancing AI adoption, regulatory complexity and national security priorities. Discussions centered on cyber resilience, AI governance, workforce challenges and public-private collaboration as critical pillars of modern government defense. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/govsec-summit-usa-2026-cyber-resilience-amid-fiscal-reality-a-31970
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Chinese hackers breached North American research institutions via REDCap servers
A China-linked cyber espionage operation targeted North American medical research institutions through compromised REDCap servers, using custom malware to gain persistent … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/15/chinese-hackers-redcap-medical-research-institutions-breach/
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North Korean Hackers Are Turning Developer Tools Into Malware Delivery Channels
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious cyber campaigns that exhibit similarities with a persistent North Korean threat cluster known as Contagious Interview (aka Famous Chollima, HexagonalRodent, and Void Dokkaebi).According to a report published by Proofpoint, the threat actor has been found orchestrating phishing campaigns using developer role recruitment or code review themes First seen on…
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Adriatic Port Cyber-Attack by Anubis Sparks Warning Over Maritime Security Risks
How the Anubis ransomware group stole and leaked an Italian Adriatic port authority’s data First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/anubis-ransomware-adriatic-port/