Tag: exploit
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Threat groups use AI to speed up and scale cyberattacks
A report from Palo Alto Networks finds hackers are increasingly using stolen identities and exploiting critical vulnerabilities within minutes of disclosure. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/threat-groups-ai-speed-scale-cyberattacks/812439/
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PromptSpy Android malware may exploit Gemini AI
A newly-uncovered malware targeting the Android operating system seems to exploit Google’s Gemini GenAI tool to help it maintain persistence. First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366639201/PromptSpy-Android-malware-may-exploit-Gemini-AI
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China-Linked Hackers Use Dell RecoverPoint Flaw to Drop GrimBolt Malware
Dell warns of a critical security hole in its RecoverPoint software exploited by hackers. Learn how to protect your data from the CVE-2026-22769 vulnerability and the new GrimBolt malware. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/china-hackers-dell-recoverpoint-flaw-grimbolt-malware/
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U.S. CISA adds Dell RecoverPoint and GitLab flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Dell RecoverPoint and GitLab flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Dell RecoverPoint and GitLab flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: The first vulnerability added to the catalog is…
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Ivanti EPMM Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited in the Wild
Ivanti EPMM flaws are being exploited to enable unauthenticated remote code execution on exposed MDM systems. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/ivanti-epmm-vulnerabilities-actively-exploited-in-the-wild/
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CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Dell flaw within 3 days
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch their systems within three days against a maximum-severity Dell vulnerability that has been under active exploitation since mid-2024. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-patch-actively-exploited-dell-flaw-within-3-days/
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Industrial-Scale Fake Coretax Apps Drive $2m Fraud in Indonesia
Fraud campaign exploiting Indonesia’s Coretax resulted in $1.5m to $2m in losses via malicious apps First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fake-coretax-apps-fraud-indonesia/
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Texas sues TP-Link over Chinese hacking risks, user deception
Texas sued networking giant TP-Link Systems, accusing the company of deceptively marketing its routers as secure while allowing Chinese state-backed hackers to exploit firmware vulnerabilities and access users’ devices. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/texas-sues-tp-link-over-chinese-hacking-risks-user-deception/
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From Exposure to Exploitation: How AI Collapses Your Response Window
We’ve all seen this before: a developer deploys a new cloud workload and grants overly broad permissions just to keep the sprint moving. An engineer generates a “temporary” API key for testing and forgets to revoke it. In the past, these were minor operational risks, debts you’d eventually pay down during a slower cycle.In 2026,…
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CredShields Leads OWASP Smart Contract Top 10 2026 as Governance and Access Failures Drive Onchain Risk
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Threat Actors Using Fake Google Forms Site to Harvest Google Logins
A new phishing campaign in which threat actors are using a convincing fake version of Google Forms to steal Google account credentials. Cybercriminals are once again exploiting a trusted brand Google to trick job seekers and steal their credentials. The campaign’s malicious URLs all followed a similar structure: forms.google.ss-o[.]com/forms/d/e/{unique_id}/viewform?form=opportunitysecpromo= At first glance, these links appear…
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Open-source benchmark EVMbench tests how well AI agents handle smart contract exploits
Smart contract exploits continue to drain funds from blockchain projects, even as auditing tools and bug bounty programs grow. The problem is tied to how Ethereum Virtual … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/19/evmbench-open-source-benchmark-ai-agents/
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Hackers Hide Malware in Emoji-Based Code to Bypass Security Defenses
Hackers are increasingly abusing emoji and other Unicode tricks to hide malicious code, bypass filters, and evade modern security controls, including AI-powered defenses. This emerging technique, known as emoji or Unicode smuggling, turns harmless-looking characters into stealth carriers for commands, data, and exploit payloads. Emoji smuggling is an obfuscation technique in which attackers encode malicious content using…
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Hackers Hide Malware in Emoji-Based Code to Bypass Security Defenses
Hackers are increasingly abusing emoji and other Unicode tricks to hide malicious code, bypass filters, and evade modern security controls, including AI-powered defenses. This emerging technique, known as emoji or Unicode smuggling, turns harmless-looking characters into stealth carriers for commands, data, and exploit payloads. Emoji smuggling is an obfuscation technique in which attackers encode malicious content using…
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OpenAI Launches EVMbench: A New Framework to Detect and Exploit Blockchain Vulnerabilities
Tags: ai, blockchain, crypto, cyber, exploit, framework, intelligence, open-source, openai, vulnerabilityOpenAI has collaborated with crypto investment firm Paradigm to release EVMbench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate how artificial intelligence agents interact with smart contract security. As smart contracts currently secure over $100 billion in open-source crypto assets, the ability of AI to successfully read, write, and audit code is becoming a critical component of…
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OpenAI Launches EVMbench: A New Framework to Detect and Exploit Blockchain Vulnerabilities
Tags: ai, blockchain, crypto, cyber, exploit, framework, intelligence, open-source, openai, vulnerabilityOpenAI has collaborated with crypto investment firm Paradigm to release EVMbench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate how artificial intelligence agents interact with smart contract security. As smart contracts currently secure over $100 billion in open-source crypto assets, the ability of AI to successfully read, write, and audit code is becoming a critical component of…
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Notepad++ author says fixes make update mechanism ‘effectively unexploitable’
Tags: access, attack, backdoor, china, control, credentials, dns, espionage, exploit, group, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, monitoring, network, risk, risk-management, service, software, supply-chain, threat, ukraine, update, vulnerabilityCSOonline, Ho said that no system can ever be declared absolutely unbreakable, “but the new design dramatically raises the bar.”An attacker must now compromise both the hosting infrastructure and the signing keys, he explained, adding that the updater now validates both the manifest and the installer, each with independent cryptographic signatures. And any mismatch, missing…
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Chinese hackers exploited zero-day Dell RecoverPoint flaw for 1.5 years
Pivot techniques: In addition to the payloads themselves, the investigation also revealed new techniques. For example, the legitimate shell script convert_hosts.sh that exists on these appliances has been modified to include the path of the backdoors to achieve persistence.The SLAYSTYLE web shell, which is designed to receive commands over HTTP and execute them on the…
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Fed agencies ordered to patch Dell bug by Saturday after exploitation warning
Dell and Google released notices on Tuesday about CVE-2026-22769, warning that a sophisticated Chinese actor has been targeting the bug since at least mid-2024. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/fed-agencies-ordered-to-patch-dell-bug-after-exploitation-warning
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Dell’s Hard-Coded Flaw: A Nation-State Goldmine
A China-related attacker has exploited the vendor flaw since mid-2024, allowing it to move laterally, maintain persistent access, and deploy malware. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/dells-hard-coded-flaw-a-nation-state-goldmine
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Hidden Commands Found in AI Summarize Buttons
Commands Push Lasting Preferences Into AI Assistants. Microsoft researchers found companies embedding hidden commands in summarize with AI buttons to plant lasting brand preferences in assistants’ memory. The tactic, dubbed AI recommendation poisoning, exploits persistent memory features to bias future responses. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/hidden-commands-found-in-ai-summarize-buttons-a-30784
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Zero-Day in Dell RecoverPoint Enables GRIMBOLT Backdoor
A Dell RecoverPoint zero-day has been exploited to deploy GRIMBOLT malware and pivot into VMware environments. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/zero-day-in-dell-recoverpoint-enables-grimbolt-backdoor/
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Cybercrime Goes Corporate: Huntress Report Reveals Rise of Scalable, Stealth-First Attacks
Cybercriminals are no longer lone hackers exploiting flashy zero-days; they are running streamlined, profit-driven operations that mirror legitimate businesses. That’s the key takeaway from the newly released Huntress 2026 Cyber Threat Report, which exposes how organised cybercrime groups are standardising their playbooks to maximise efficiency and revenue. Drawing on telemetry from more than 4.6 million…
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Hackers Increasingly Prefer Fast and Low-Complexity Attacks
Incident Responders Detail Top Ransomware and Business Email Compromise Tactics. There’s no need to invest into sophisticated hacking operations when moving fast and exploiting well-trod techniques gives threat actors all the access they want. Threat actors are prioritizing low-complexity entry points, rather than investing in sophisticated exploits, say incident responders. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Cryptojacking Campaign Exploits Driver to Boost Monero Mining
Cryptojacking campaign used pirated software to deploy a persistent XMRig miner with stealth tactics First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cryptojacking-driver-boost-monero/
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Threat groups using AI to speed up and scale cyberattacks
A report from Palo Alto Networks finds hackers are increasingly using stolen identities and exploiting critical vulnerabilities within minutes of disclosure. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/threat-groups-ai-speed-scale-cyberattacks/812439/
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Telegram channels expose rapid weaponization of SmarterMail flaws
Underground Telegram channels shared SmarterMail exploit PoCs and stolen admin credentials within days of disclosure. Flare explains how monitoring these communities reveals rapid weaponization of CVE-2026-24423 and CVE-2026-23760 tied to ransomware activity. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/telegram-channels-expose-rapid-weaponization-of-smartermail-flaws/
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China-linked hackers exploited Dell zero-day since 2024 (CVE-2026-22769)
A suspected China-linked cyberespionage group has been covertly exploiting a critical zero-day flaw (CVE-2026-22769) in Dell’s RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines software since … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/18/exploited-dell-zero-day-cve-2026-22769-brickstorm-grimbolt/
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AI Assistants Used as Covert CommandControl Relays
AIs like Grok and Microsoft Copilot can be exploited as covert C2 channels for malware communication First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-assistants-covert-c2-relays/
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Scammers exploit trust in Atlassian Jira to target organizations
Threat actors have leveraged legitimate email notification feature of Atlassian Jira to deliver localized scam emails at scale. The emails From late December 2025 through late … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/18/atlassian-jira-scam-emails/