Tag: data-breach
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Hackers exploit a critical Flowise flaw affecting thousands of AI workflows
Tags: access, ai, authentication, container, cve, data, data-breach, docker, exploit, flaw, hacker, injection, intelligence, linkedin, network, update, vulnerabilityHackers exploit unpatched instances: While a patch has been available for months, a recent VulnCheck finding places the first in-the-wild exploitation on April 6. Caitlin Condon, VP of Security Research at the vulnerability intelligence company, warned of the abuse through a LinkedIn post.”Early this morning, VulnCheck’s Canary network began detecting first-time exploitation of CVE-2025-59528, an…
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The zero-day timeline just collapsed. Here’s what security leaders do next
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, breach, cio, ciso, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, endpoint, exploit, google, Internet, Intruder, leak, least-privilege, open-source, penetration-testing, resilience, service, strategy, tactics, update, vulnerability, zero-dayScaling vulnerability discovery to machine speed: Agentic AI is AI that can act, not just advise. Give it an objective, and it will plan steps, run them, learn from what happens and adjust until it succeeds or hits a hard stop. In cybersecurity, that looks like an automated operator. It can probe an application, test…
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Masjesu Botnet Targets Routers in Commercial DDoS Attacks
Hackers are abusing the Masjesu botnet to run high-volume DDoS-for-hire attacks against routers, gateways, and other exposed IoT infrastructure, turning everyday network hardware into commercial attack firepower. Operating quietly since early 2023 and still active in 2026, Masjesu (also known as XorBot) shows how mature, stealth-focused botnets are reshaping the DDoS marketplace. Masjesu is a commercially run…
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The tabletop exercise grows up
would do. They do not do it.Every experienced facilitator knows the moment: someone in the room challenges the premise and the facilitator asks participants to “suspend disbelief.” That phrase should give us pause. If the scenario requires suspension of disbelief, it is not building preparedness. It is building familiarity with a document.The gap between documentation…
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Docker Authorization Bypass Flaw Exposed Hosts to Potential Attackers
A high-severity security vulnerability has been discovered in Docker Engine, exposing hosts to potential authorization bypass attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-34040, the flaw allows attackers to evade authorization plugins (AuthZ) by manipulating API request bodies. While the base likelihood of exploitation remains low, the vulnerability carries a >>High<< severity rating. It specifically impacts environments relying on…
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U.S. agencies alert: Iran-linked actors target critical infrastructure PLCs
U.S. agencies warn Iran-linked threat actors are targeting internet-exposed PLCs used in critical infrastructure networks. U.S. agencies, including the FBI and CISA, warn that Iran-linked hackers are targeting internet-exposed Rockwell/Allen-Bradley PLCs used in critical infrastructure. The agencies published a joint advisory involving multiple federal organizations. >>Iran-affiliated advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are conducting exploitation activity…
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Russian Threat Actors Abuse Home Routers in Expanding DNS Hijacking Wave
Russian military-linked hackers are actively compromising poorly secured home and small-office routers to hijack internet traffic and spy on organizations worldwide. Microsoft Threat Intelligence recently exposed this massive global campaign by a group known as Forest Blizzard, which has already impacted over 200 organisations and 5,000 consumer devices. Forest Blizzard is a sophisticated state-sponsored threat…
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ComfyUI Servers Hijacked for Cryptomining, Proxy Botnet Ops
Hackers are aggressively hijacking Internet-exposed ComfyUI servers and converting them into high”‘value cryptomining rigs and proxy botnet nodes, abusing weakly secured AI image-generation setups for long”‘term monetization. More than 1,000 ComfyUI servers are currently reachable on the public Internet, even after filtering out honeypots, giving attackers a small but lucrative attack surface concentrated on GPU”‘rich…
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Iran-Linked Hackers Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Targeting Internet-Exposed PLCs
Tags: attack, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, iran, technologyIran-affiliated cyber actors are targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices across critical infrastructures in the U.S., including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned Tuesday.”These attacks have led to diminished PLC functionality, manipulation of display data and, in some cases, operational disruption and financial First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/04/iran-linked-hackers-disrupt-us-critical.html
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Grafana Patches AI Bug That Could Have Leaked User Data
By hiding malicious instructions on an attacker-controlled Web page, AI could ingest orders as benign and return sensitive data to the attacker’s server. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/grafana-patches-ai-bug-leaked-user-data
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US warns of Iranian hackers targeting critical infrastructure
Iranian-linked hackers are targeting Internet-exposed Rockwell/Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers (PLCs) on the networks of U.S. critical infrastructure organizations. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-warns-of-iranian-hackers-targeting-critical-infrastructure/
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UK exposes Russian cyber unit hacking home routers to hijack internet traffic
Officials said the activity centers on compromising small office and home office routers and similar network devices exposed to the internet, often because of weak security settings or outdated software. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/uk-exposes-russian-cyber-unit-hacking-home-routers
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Fast-moving Storm-1175 uses new exploits to breach networks and drop Medusa
Tags: access, attack, breach, china, data, data-breach, exploit, flaw, group, network, ransomware, theft, update, vulnerabilityChina-based actor Storm-1175 runs fast ransomware attacks, exploiting new flaws to breach systems and quickly deploy Medusa ransomware. China-based actor Storm-1175 carries out fast, financially driven ransomware attacks by exploiting newly disclosed vulnerabilities before organizations patch them. The group targets exposed systems and quickly moves from initial access to data theft and Medusa ransomware deployment,…
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Over 1,000 Exposed ComfyUI Instances Targeted in Cryptomining Botnet Campaign
An active campaign has been observed targeting internet-exposed instances running ComfyUI, a popular stable diffusion platform, to enlist them into a cryptocurrency mining and proxy botnet.”A purpose-built Python scanner continuously sweeps major cloud IP ranges for vulnerable targets, automatically installing malicious nodes via ComfyUI-Manager if no exploitable node is already First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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The Hidden Cost of Recurring Credential Incidents
When talking about credential security, the focus usually lands on breach prevention. This makes sense when IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report puts the average cost of a breach at $4.4 million. Avoiding even one major incident is enough to justify most security investments, but that headline figure obscures the more persistent problems…
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Experts published unpatched Windows zero-day BlueHammer
A researcher leaked the unpatched Windows zero-day “BlueHammer,” letting attackers gain SYSTEM rights; no patch exists yet. A disgruntled researcher released the BlueHammer Windows zero-day, a privilege escalation flaw that allows attackers to gain SYSTEM or admin rights, Bleeping Computer reports. The researcher privately reported the vulnerability to Microsoft but criticized the waythe Microsoft’s Security…
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Attackers Exploit Flowise Injection Vulnerability as 15,000+ Instances Remain Exposed
Tags: ai, control, cve, cvss, cyber, data-breach, exploit, flaw, injection, malicious, open-source, vulnerabilityA critical security flaw in Flowise, a popular open-source AI development platform, is currently being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2025-59528, this code injection vulnerability carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0. It allows remote attackers to execute malicious code and take complete control of affected servers. Security researchers warn that up to 15,000…
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China-Linked Storm-1175 Exploits Zero-Days to Rapidly Deploy Medusa Ransomware
A China-based threat actor known for deploying Medusa ransomware has been linked to the weaponization of a combination of zero-day and N-day vulnerabilities to orchestrate “high-velocity” attacks and break into susceptible internet-facing systems.”The threat actor’s high operational tempo and proficiency in identifying exposed perimeter assets have proven successful, with recent First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Flowise AI Agent Builder Under Active CVSS 10.0 RCE Exploitation; 12,000+ Instances Exposed
Tags: ai, cve, cvss, data-breach, exploit, flaw, injection, intelligence, open-source, rce, remote-code-execution, threat, vulnerabilityThreat actors are exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw in Flowise, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, according to new findings from VulnCheck.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score: 10.0), a code injection vulnerability that could result in remote code execution.”The CustomMCP node allows users to input configuration settings for connecting First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Flowise AI Agent Builder Under Active CVSS 10.0 RCE Exploitation; 12,000+ Instances Exposed
Tags: ai, cve, cvss, data-breach, exploit, flaw, injection, intelligence, open-source, rce, remote-code-execution, threat, vulnerabilityThreat actors are exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw in Flowise, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, according to new findings from VulnCheck.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score: 10.0), a code injection vulnerability that could result in remote code execution.”The CustomMCP node allows users to input configuration settings for connecting First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Flowise AI Agent Builder Under Active CVSS 10.0 RCE Exploitation; 12,000+ Instances Exposed
Tags: ai, cve, cvss, data-breach, exploit, flaw, injection, intelligence, open-source, rce, remote-code-execution, threat, vulnerabilityThreat actors are exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw in Flowise, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, according to new findings from VulnCheck.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score: 10.0), a code injection vulnerability that could result in remote code execution.”The CustomMCP node allows users to input configuration settings for connecting First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Windows Defender 0-Day Published Online, Giving Attackers Potential Full Access
A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability, dubbed >>BlueHammer,<< has been publicly disclosed. The flaw, which has been linked to Windows Defender, allows attackers to achieve Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) and potentially gain full administrative access to compromised systems. Because a patch is not yet available from Microsoft, this public release leaves Windows users temporarily exposed to…
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Automated Credential Harvesting Campaign Exploits React2Shell Flaw
An emerging threat cluster tracked as UAT-10608 is exploiting vulnerable Web-exposed Next.js apps and using an automated tool to exfiltrate credentials, secrets, and other system data. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/automated-credential-harvesting-campaign-react2shell
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Attackers Exploit RCE Flaw as 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM Instances Remain Exposed
Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances remain exposed online, as attackers actively exploit a critical remote code execution flaw CVE-2025-53521. Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances remain exposed online, with attackers actively exploiting the critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2025-53521 (CVSS ver. 3.1 score of 9.8), the nonprofit security organization Shadowserver warns. The vulnerability in BIG-IP…
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6th April Threat Intelligence Report
The European Commission, the European Union’s executive body, has confirmed a data breach after its Europa.eu platform was compromised through a third-party exchange linked to the Trivy supply chain attack. The incident […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/6th-march-threat-intelligence-report-2/
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Critical Dgraph Database Flaw Allowed Attackers to Bypass Authentication
A newly discovered critical vulnerability in the open-source Dgraph database system leaves servers exposed to complete system takeovers. Tracked as CVE-2026-34976 and carrying a maximum CVSS score of 10.0, this missing authorization flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to overwrite databases, read sensitive server files, and launch Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks. Currently, all Dgraph versions…