Tag: exploit
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As the NVD scales back CVE enrichment, here’s what Tenable customers need to know
Tags: access, ai, cisa, cloud, cve, cvss, data, data-breach, exploit, infrastructure, intelligence, kev, metric, mitre, nist, nvd, ransomware, risk, software, strategy, technology, threat, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-dayNIST’s shift toward selective CVE enrichment creates significant visibility gaps for teams relying solely on the National Vulnerability Database. As AI accelerates vulnerability disclosure rates, organizations need independent, high-fidelity intelligence to prioritize risks that the NVD may now overlook. Key takeaways NIST is pivoting to a prioritized enrichment model, focusing only on specific criteria like…
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US, UK authorities warn that Firestarter backdoor malware survives patching
A federal agency was impacted by a hacking campaign that exploited flaws in Cisco devices. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/us-uk-authorities-firestarter-backdoor-malware-patching/818531/
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Supply-Chain-Angriffe auf Entwickler-Tools: Checkmarx und Bitwarden im Fokus
Im Kern der Angriffe steht die Manipulation von Build- und Distributionsprozessen. Angreifer konnten Schadcode in legitime Entwickler-Tools einschleusen First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/supply-chain-angriffe-auf-entwickler-tools-checkmarx-und-bitwarden-im-fokus/a44790/
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UNC6692 Hackers Exploit Microsoft Teams to Deploy SNOW Malware
UNC6692 hackers exploit Microsoft Teams with fake IT alerts to deploy SNOW malware, steal credentials, and breach corporate networks in advanced attacks. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/unc6692-hackers-microsoft-teams-snow-malware/
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Fake Income Tax Notices Used to Spread Malware
Cybercriminals are exploiting India’s tax season by launching sophisticated phishing campaigns that impersonate the Income Tax Department to deliver dangerous malware to unsuspecting taxpayers. The malicious operation uses fake assessment notices and tax compliance warnings to trick victims into downloading malware-laden files that grant attackers persistent access to compromised systems. The phishing campaign, which has…
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PhantomCore Exploits TrueConf Vulnerabilities to Breach Russian Networks
A pro-Ukrainian hacktivist group called PhantomCore has been attributed to attacks actively targeting servers running TrueConf video conferencing software in Russia since September 2025.That’s according to a report published by Positive Technologies, which found the threat actors to be leveraging an exploit chain comprising three vulnerabilities to execute commands remotely on susceptible First seen on…
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AI is reshaping DevSecOps to bring security closer to the code
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, breach, business, cloud, communications, compliance, container, control, data, data-breach, detection, exploit, governance, infrastructure, injection, least-privilege, risk, service, skills, software, sql, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityExplicit security requirements elevate AI benefits: While deploying AI with DevSecOps is helping to shift the emphasis on security to earlier in the development lifecycle, this requires “explicit instruction to do it right,” says Noe Ramos, vice president of AI operations at business software provider Agiloft.”AI coding assistants accelerate development meaningfully, but they optimize for…
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Metabase Enterprise RCE Flaw Now Has Public ProofConcept Exploit
Security researchers have published a working Proof of Concept (PoC) exploit for a critical vulnerability in Metabase Enterprise. Tracked as CVE-2026-33725, this security flaw allows attackers to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) and read arbitrary files on targeted systems. The availability of a public exploit script significantly increases the risk for organizations running unpatched instances…
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Attackers Chain CODESYS Vulnerabilities to Backdoor Applications
Nozomi Networks Labs published critical research detailing three new vulnerabilities in the CODESYS Control runtime. When chained together, these security flaws allow an authenticated attacker with low-level privileges to replace a legitimate industrial control application with a backdoored version. Ultimately, this exploit path leads to complete administrative control over the target device and its host…
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Attackers Chain CODESYS Vulnerabilities to Backdoor Applications
Nozomi Networks Labs published critical research detailing three new vulnerabilities in the CODESYS Control runtime. When chained together, these security flaws allow an authenticated attacker with low-level privileges to replace a legitimate industrial control application with a backdoored version. Ultimately, this exploit path leads to complete administrative control over the target device and its host…
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Attackers Chain CODESYS Vulnerabilities to Backdoor Applications
Nozomi Networks Labs published critical research detailing three new vulnerabilities in the CODESYS Control runtime. When chained together, these security flaws allow an authenticated attacker with low-level privileges to replace a legitimate industrial control application with a backdoored version. Ultimately, this exploit path leads to complete administrative control over the target device and its host…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 574 by Pierluigi Paganini INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. U.S. CISA adds SimpleHelp, Samsung, and D-Link flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Over 400,000…
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U.S. CISA adds SimpleHelp, Samsung, and D-Link flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SimpleHelp, Samsung, and D-Link flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SimpleHelp, Samsung, and D-Link flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: The vulnerability CVE-2024-7399 (CVSS score of 8.8) is…
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U.S. CISA adds SimpleHelp, Samsung, and D-Link flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SimpleHelp, Samsung, and D-Link flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SimpleHelp, Samsung, and D-Link flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: The vulnerability CVE-2024-7399 (CVSS score of 8.8) is…
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Over 400,000 sites at risk as hackers exploit Breeze Cache plugin flaw (CVE-2026-3844)
Attackers exploit a Breeze Cache flaw (CVE-2026-3844) to upload files without login. Wordfence researchers detected over 170 attacks. Threat actors are exploiting a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-3844 (CVSS score of 9.8), in the Breeze Cache WordPress plugin, allowing them to upload files to a server without authentication. The vulnerability has already been used in…
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CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026 Federal Deadline
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added four vulnerabilities impacting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server, and D-Link DIR-823X series routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.The list of vulnerabilities is below -CVE-2024-57726 (CVSS score: 9.9) – A missing authorization vulnerability in First seen on thehackernews.com…
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New ‘Pack2TheRoot’ flaw gives hackers root Linux access
A new vulnerability dubbed Pack2TheRoot could be exploited in the PackageKit daemon to allow local Linux users to install or remove system packages and gain root permissions. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-pack2theroot-flaw-gives-hackers-root-linux-access/
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Over 10,000 Zimbra servers vulnerable to ongoing XSS attacks
Over 10,000 Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) instances exposed online are vulnerable to ongoing attacks exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) security flaw. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-says-zimbra-flaw-now-exploited-over-10k-servers-vulnerable/
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Hackers Exploit Agent ID Administrator Role to Hijack Service Principals
A severe scoping vulnerability was recently discovered in Microsoft Entra ID’s new Agent Identity Platform. The security flaw allowed users assigned the Agent ID Administrator role to hijack arbitrary service principals across an organization’s tenant, leading to potential privilege escalation. Although the administrative role was designed strictly to manage AI agent identities, a boundary breakdown…
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Supply-Chain-Angriff auf Passwortmanager: NPM-Paket von Bitwarden kompromittiert
Angreifer haben erfolgreich Schadcode in das NPM-Paket des Bitwarden-CLI eingeschleust. Dahinter steckt eine größere Angriffskampagne. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/supply-chain-angriff-auf-passwortmanager-npm-paket-von-bitwarden-kompromittiert-2604-207974.html
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Hackers Exploit Pastebin PowerShell Script to Hijack Telegram Sessions
Hackers are experimenting with a new Telegram”‘focused session stealer that hides in a Pastebin”‘hosted PowerShell script posing as a Windows telemetry update, giving defenders a rare view into how such tools are built and tested. The script does not attempt to grab passwords or browser credentials; instead, it focuses entirely on Telegram’s desktop client data…
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Tropic Trooper Uses Trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub to Deploy AdaptixC2
Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) tunnels for remote access.Zscaler ThreatLabz, which discovered the campaign last month, has attributed it with high confidence to Tropic…
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Tropic Trooper Uses Trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub to Deploy AdaptixC2
Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) tunnels for remote access.Zscaler ThreatLabz, which discovered the campaign last month, has attributed it with high confidence to Tropic…
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LMDeploy CVE-2026-33626 Flaw Exploited Within 13 Hours of Disclosure
A high-severity security flaw in LMDeploy, an open-source toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLMs, has come under active exploitation in the wild less than 13 hours after its public disclosure.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33626 (CVSS score: 7.5), relates to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that could be exploited to access sensitive data.”A server-side…
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Hackers Exploit Ollama Model Uploads to Leak Server Data
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a severe, unpatched vulnerability in Ollama, a popular open-source platform used for running large language models locally. Tracked as CVE-2026-5757, this critical flaw exists in Ollama’s model quantization engine. If exploited, it allows an unauthenticated attacker to steal sensitive server data by simply uploading a maliciously crafted AI model file. How…
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Hackers Exploit Ollama Model Uploads to Leak Server Data
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a severe, unpatched vulnerability in Ollama, a popular open-source platform used for running large language models locally. Tracked as CVE-2026-5757, this critical flaw exists in Ollama’s model quantization engine. If exploited, it allows an unauthenticated attacker to steal sensitive server data by simply uploading a maliciously crafted AI model file. How…
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Hackers Track 900+ React2Shell Exploits via Telegram Bots
Hackers are using Telegram bots and AI tooling to run a structured, at-scale exploitation campaign abusing the critical React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182), with evidence of 900+ confirmed compromises. Investigators found an exposed server tied to the Bissa scanner platform, used for multi-victim exploitation, staging, and validation rather than simple data dumping. Logs and project artifacts show…
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Hackers Exploit SS7 and Diameter Flaws to Track Mobile Users Globally
A recent investigation by Citizen Lab has uncovered sophisticated, multi-year surveillance campaigns exploiting foundational vulnerabilities in global mobile networks. The report, titled >>Bad Connection,<< reveals how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) weaponize the SS7 and Diameter signaling protocols to covertly track high-profile individuals across the globe without interacting directly with their devices. These findings underscore…
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Runtime Analytics Cuts Millions of Alerts to What Matters
<div cla TL;DR Research from Contrast Security’s Software Under Siege 2025 report reveals that applications face an average of 81 viable attacks per month that reach actual vulnerabilities, while perimeter-based detection tools generate overwhelming alert volumes with minimal correlation to real-world exploits. Runtime analytics powered by the Contrast Graph detects attacks during code execution and…