Tag: Internet
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Microsoft’s Retired IE Tool MSHTA Now Being Used in Fileless Malware Attacks
Despite Internet Explorer’s retirement, hackers are abusing the legacy MSHTA utility in stealthy fileless malware attacks targeting Windows users. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/microsoft-retired-ie-tool-mshta-fileless-malware-attack/
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Smashing Security podcast #468: High-speed train hacks and homicidal lawnmowers
Tags: InternetA 23-year-old radio enthusiast spent £300 on a piece of kit from the internet, and used it to bring four packed high-speed trains to a screeching halt. His defence in court? Possibly the most creative excuse we’ve heard all year. First seen on grahamcluley.com Jump to article: grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-468/
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Critical flaw in software powering a third of the internet is already being exploited free checker now available
A critical security vulnerability in NGINX, the web server software underpinning more than 30% of all websites globally, has been confirmed as actively exploited in the wild, less than a week after its public disclosure. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 and dubbed ‘NGINX Rift’, carries a severity score of 9.8 out of 10. It affects…
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Hackers Exploit MSHTA to Deploy LummaStealer and Amatera Malware
Hackers are increasingly abusing the legacy Microsoft HTML Application Host (MSHTA) utility to deliver commodity malware such as LummaStealer and Amatera. Despite being tied to Internet Explorer, which was retired in 2022, MSHTA remains default in Windows, making it an attractive Living-off-the-Land binary (LOLBIN) for stealthy attacks. MSHTA allows execution of VBScript and JavaScript from…
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Hackers Exploit MSHTA to Deploy LummaStealer and Amatera Malware
Hackers are increasingly abusing the legacy Microsoft HTML Application Host (MSHTA) utility to deliver commodity malware such as LummaStealer and Amatera. Despite being tied to Internet Explorer, which was retired in 2022, MSHTA remains default in Windows, making it an attractive Living-off-the-Land binary (LOLBIN) for stealthy attacks. MSHTA allows execution of VBScript and JavaScript from…
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Malware-Kampagnen in Windows über das Legacy-Internet-Tool MSHTA von Microsoft
Cyberkriminelle nutzen legitime und mit Vorliebe veraltete Betriebssystemtools, um sie für ihre Zwecke zu missbrauchen und Angriffe zu tarnen. Je vertrauenswürdiger ein Dienstprogramm, umso besser. So beobachten die Bitdefender Labs den kontinuierlichen Exploit des Microsoft-HTML-Application-Host (MSHTA) und verzeichneten in den letzten Monaten eine höhere Frequenz von Angriffsketten, in denen die ausführbare Datei mshta.exe eine Rolle…
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You Can Get Some of Your Nudes Removed From the Internet Under a New Law
Starting May 19, tech platforms in the US will have to comply with the Take It Down Act. Here’s how more than a dozen major platforms are handling takedown demands for your nonconsensual nudes. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/how-to-remove-nudes-take-it-down-act/
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Internet Explorer may be dead, but its ghost still runs malware
A legacy Windows tool that refuses to die: Bitdefender’s findings suggest MSHTA remains attractive because it checks several boxes attackers like. These include it being Microsoft-signed, preinstalled on Windows, capable of in-memory execution, and still implicitly trusted in many environments.Other sophisticated campaigns picked it up too. Bitdefender detailed PurpleFox using MSHTA to launch ‘msiexec’ commands…
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Critical NGINX Vulnerability CVE-2026-42945 Now Under Active Attack
Cybersecurity researchers are warning that attackers have already started exploiting a newly disclosed NGINX vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945, just days after technical details and proof-of-concept code became public. The flaw, also referred to as NGINX Rift, affects millions of potentially exposed servers and has raised concerns across the security community due to its potential impact on core internet…
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Fuel Tank Breaches Expand Scope of Iran’s Cyber Offensive
Security experts have long warned that insecure automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems exposed on the Internet can be tampered with by threat actors. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/fuel-tank-breaches-expand-scope-irans-cyber-offensive
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SecurityScorecard Buys Driftnet for More Internet Visibility
Driftnet Acquisition Adds Real-Time Visibility Into Exposed Assets and AI Risks. SecurityScorecard acquired internet reconnaissance startup Driftnet to expand real-time visibility into hidden infrastructure, exposed assets and AI-driven third-party risks while strengthening threat hunting, attribution and internet-scale intelligence capabilities. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/securityscorecard-buys-driftnet-for-more-internet-visibility-a-31707
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EU’s Cyber Resiliency Act will put IT leaders to the test
Tags: access, attack, cio, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, exploit, firewall, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, kubernetes, law, malicious, mitigation, open-source, password, programming, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, router, sbom, software, supply-chain, tool, update, vpn, vulnerabilityProduct safety: The CRA says digital products have to be secure by design and default, and can’t ship with known vulnerabilities like obvious default passwords that can be exploited. They also must be updatable if such vulnerabilities are found later, as well as minimize their impact by limiting the attack surface and protecting confidentiality and…
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EU’s Cyber Resiliency Act will put IT leaders to the test
Tags: access, attack, cio, cyber, cybersecurity, data, encryption, exploit, firewall, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, kubernetes, law, malicious, mitigation, open-source, password, programming, regulation, risk, risk-assessment, router, sbom, software, supply-chain, tool, update, vpn, vulnerabilityProduct safety: The CRA says digital products have to be secure by design and default, and can’t ship with known vulnerabilities like obvious default passwords that can be exploited. They also must be updatable if such vulnerabilities are found later, as well as minimize their impact by limiting the attack surface and protecting confidentiality and…
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Critical Exim Mailer Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution Attacks
Tags: attack, cve, cyber, email, flaw, infrastructure, Internet, linux, mail, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA newly disclosed vulnerability in the widely used Exim mail transfer agent exposes thousands of internet-facing mail servers to unauthenticated remote code execution, threatening core email infrastructure across Linux and Unix-like systems. Tracked as CVE-2026-45185 and nicknamed “Dead.Letter,” the bug resides in Exim’s handling of TLS-encrypted SMTP traffic, and BDAT chunked message bodies when compiled…
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New Exim BDAT GnuTLS Vulnerability Enables Code Execution Attacks
A critical, stealthy vulnerability is lurking deep within Exim, the software powering a massive share of the world’s email infrastructure. Sitting exposed on the internet’s front lines, these message transfer agents are highly lucrative targets for ruthless threat actors. This newly unmasked memory corruption flaw arms attackers with the terrifying ability to remotely execute malicious…
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Lyrie.ai Joins First Batch of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program
Tags: ai, attack, ceo, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, framework, github, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, penetration-testing, RedTeam, risk, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-dayIdentity, who the AI agent is.Scope, what it is authorized to do.Attestation, whether it or its instructions have been tampered with.Delegation, who delegated authority.Revocation, whether that authority has been revoked.”Every AI agent on the internet today is a stranger. You don’t know who it is, what it’s authorized to do, or whether it’s been tampered…
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1,800+ MCP servers exposed without authentication: How zero trust can secure the AI agent revolution
Tags: ai, attack, authentication, breach, cloud, control, credentials, data, data-breach, defense, exploit, framework, governance, identity, infrastructure, Internet, LLM, malicious, monitoring, network, risk, service, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustThe epistemological chasm: What renders MCP vulnerabilities particularly vexatious is the fundamental asymmetry they exploit between machine cognition and human oversight.Tool poisoning attacks insert malevolent instructions into tool metadata that LLMs process with complete fidelity but that remain utterly invisible to human operators. The machine perceives everything; its ostensible supervisors perceive nothing. We have unwittingly…
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Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android
NetGuard is a free, open-source firewall for Android phones and tablets that provides users with a simple way to block internet access. Android does not allow VPN services to … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/08/product-showcase-netguard-open-source-firewall-android/
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Ollama vulnerability highlights danger of AI frameworks with unrestricted access
Tags: access, ai, api, authentication, credentials, framework, Internet, mitigation, network, tool, update, vulnerabilityMitigation: Users should update to Ollama version 0.17.1, which includes a patch for this vulnerability. More generally, they should deploy an authentication proxy or API gateway in front of all Ollama instances and never expose them to the internet without IP access filters and firewalls.”If your Ollama server was internet-accessible, assume environment variables and secrets…
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The Winter Games effect: When gold meets DDoS
Tags: attack, botnet, cctv, ddos, defense, detection, dns, government, group, infrastructure, international, Internet, iot, jobs, lockbit, network, penetration-testing, ransomware, router, service, strategy, threat, windowsAttack volumes 610x historical levels during the Winter Games period (February 623, 2026)Peak attack count reached more than 2,200 attacks on February 23NoName057(16) dominated public DDoS hacktivist claims with 47, although ransomware groups (Qilin, LockBit 5.0) also claimed success in various attacksTactical shift from pre-Winter Games high-bandwidth attacks (412.89Gbps peak) to Winter Games-period high-throughput attacksGeographic…
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Mirai-Based xlabs_v1 Botnet Exploits ADB to Hijack IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new Mirai-derived botnet that self-identifies as xlabs_v1 and targets internet-exposed devices running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to enlist them in a network capable of carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.Hunt.io, which detailed the malware, said it made the discovery after identifying an exposed directory on a Netherlands-hosted First seen on…
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Massive DDoS Attack Generates 2.45 Billion Requests Using 1.2 Million IP Addresses
A distributed denial-of-service attack targeted a major user-generated content platform, generating an astonishing 2.45 billion malicious requests in just 5 hours. Security provider DataDome successfully intercepted the assault in real time, ensuring legitimate users experienced no disruption. Threat researchers analyzing the incident discovered that the operation relied on 1.2 million unique Internet Protocol addresses. Instead…
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AIMap: Open-source tool finds and tests exposed AI endpoints
Public-facing Ollama servers, MCP endpoints, and inference proxies have multiplied across the internet over the past year, often deployed without authentication or rate … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/06/aimap-ai-attack-surface-discovery/
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Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables Remote Code Execution
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, cve, cvss, exploit, flaw, Internet, network, remote-code-execution, software, vulnerabilityPalo Alto Networks has released an advisory warning that a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in its PAN-OS software has been exploited in the wild.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, has been described as a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. It carries a CVSS score of 9.3 if the User-ID Authentication Portal is configured to enable…
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.de-Domains nicht erreichbar Update 3 Probleme bei der DENIC legten deutsche Internetseiten lahm
Höchstwahrscheinlich Probleme bei der DENIC legen zur Stunde deutsche Internet-Domains (.de) lahm. Nur DNS-Auflösungen im Cache helfen. First seen on computerbase.de Jump to article: www.computerbase.de/news/internet/de-domains-nicht-erreichbar-probleme-bei-der-denic-legen-deutsche-internetseiten-lahm.97210
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.de-Domains nicht erreichbar Update 2 Probleme bei der DENIC legen deutsche Internetseiten lahm
Höchstwahrscheinlich Probleme bei der DENIC legen zur Stunde deutsche Internet-Domains (.de) lahm. Nur DNS-Auflösungen im Cache helfen. First seen on computerbase.de Jump to article: www.computerbase.de/news/internet/de-domains-nicht-erreichbar-probleme-bei-der-denic-legen-deutsche-internetseiten-lahm.97210
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German officials advance legislation that would expand law enforcement use of surveillance technology
The bills would legalize the use of automated data analysis and artificial intelligence tools that let police upload a photo of a face and scour the internet for more images depicting the same person. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/german-officials-advance-laws-surveillance
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German officials advance legislation that would expand law enforcement use of surveillance technology
The bills would legalize the use of automated data analysis and artificial intelligence tools that let police upload a photo of a face and scour the internet for more images depicting the same person. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/german-officials-advance-laws-surveillance
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Download: Secure Foundations for AI Workloads on AWS
Center for Internet Security helps organizations deploy AI and high-performance compute environments from a trusted, hardened operating system baseline. CIS Hardened Images … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/05/cis-download-secure-foundations-for-ai-workloads-on-aws/
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Qualcomm Chipset Vulnerabilities Raise Alarm Over Remote Code Execution Risk
Tags: cyber, exploit, Internet, open-source, remote-code-execution, risk, software, threat, vulnerabilityQualcomm Technologies has released its May 2026 security bulletin, addressing a sweeping array of vulnerabilities across its proprietary and open-source software ecosystems. Threat actors could exploit these security gaps to compromise smartphones, automotive systems, and industrial Internet of Things devices without requiring user interaction. The semiconductor giant is strongly urging original equipment manufacturers to deploy…