Tag: service
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‘MessiahGPT’ AI Service Promises Ransomware, Phishing Kits, and Malware
Trellix says MessiahGPT is marketed to cybercriminals as an uncensored AI service for ransomware, phishing kits, malware, and breach exploitation. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/artificial-intelligence/news-messiahgpt-malware-phishing-ai/
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Azure Breach Campaign Claims McDonald’s, Vodafone as Victims
Darknet Forums List Employee and Service Records Allegedly Stolen From Major Firms. Forums selling stolen data are featuring advertisements for massive quantities of employee and service information exfiltrated from major organizations’ Microsoft Azure environments through their Entra ID portals. Listed victims include McDonald’s, Tata Consultancy Services, Vodafone and others. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt
Tags: blockchain, communications, data, extortion, group, infrastructure, leak, microsoft, network, ransomware, service, threatThe ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience.”Its recovery ecosystem combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-backed services that store and deliver resources used throughout the extortion process,” the Microsoft Threat First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Local governments in four states dealing with cyberattacks that have shut down services
Municipalities in California, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Texas are all recovering from disruptive cyberattacks that have affected government operations. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cyberattacks-ransomware-local-governments
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DDoS attacks over 1 Tbps surged fivefold in the second quarter
Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ddos-attacks-over-1-tbps-surged-fivefold-in-the-second-quarter/
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Cisco warns of high-severity ClamAV flaws with public exploits
Cisco warned of two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Secure Endpoint Connector that allow threat actors to crash the ClamAV scanning process in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-warns-of-high-severity-clamav-flaws-with-public-exploits/
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ErrTraffic Combines WordPress Hacks, Blockchain C2 and Rotating Malware Domains in One Delivery Network
An active ErrTraffic malware-as-a-service campaign that combines compromised WordPress sites, ClickFix lures, Polygon blockchain smart contracts and rapidly rotating payload domains to distribute a broad set of Windows malware. ErrTraffic is marketed as a MaaS framework by a forum user known as “LenAI.” Its core feature is a traffic distribution system that routes victims to…
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Gunra Ransomware Exploits Fortinet and Schneider Electric Flaws to Breach Networks
Tags: attack, breach, cybersecurity, exploit, finance, flaw, fortinet, government, healthcare, infrastructure, intelligence, korea, network, ransomware, serviceCybersecurity and intelligence agencies from South Korea and the U.S. warned of Gunra ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors and organizations across the world.Targets of these attacks include healthcare and public health, financial services, government services and facilities, and professional and nonprofit services.”Gunra is another variant in the ongoing trend of First seen on thehackernews.com…
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CISA Urges Organizations to Patch Exposed VPNs and Segment Networks Against Gunra Ransomware
Tags: advisory, breach, cisa, credentials, cyber, data, data-breach, encryption, exploit, firewall, infrastructure, international, law, network, organized, ransomware, service, theft, update, vpnCISA and international law-enforcement partners have issued a joint #StopRansomware advisory warning that Gunra ransomware affiliates are exploiting exposed edge infrastructure, including VPN gateways, firewall appliances and RDP-accessible systems, to breach enterprise networks. The advisory positions Gunra as an increasingly organized ransomware-as-a-service operation whose affiliates combine data theft, credential compromise and rapid encryption to pressure…
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U.S., South Korean government agencies caution to be on lookout for Gunra ransomware gang
The ransomware-as-a-service outfit has gone after a range of critical infrastructure sectors across the globe. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/us-south-korea-gunra-ransomware-warning/
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Frontier AI Is Driving Urgency for Application Resilience and Security
Frontier AI models are challenging organizations to respond to AI-fueled attacks at unprecedented speed. At the same time, the rapid deployment of AI-powered services, automated processes, and real-time decision systems leveraging Kubernetes-based environments puts new pressures on digital infrastructure. The urgency has never been greater, and application delivery and security must keep pace. Traffic patterns..…
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Margarita Howard’s HX5 Operationalizes CMMC Compliance Before AI Rules Arrive
Margarita Howard has spent two decades running a company in a government contracting market where the rules rarely hold still. HX5, the defense and aerospace services firm she founded in 2004 and still leads, supports Department of Defense and NASA missions and has employed over 1,000 people across 34 states and 90 government locations over…
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LexisNexis shuts down services after suspicious activity on servers
LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendor. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lexisnexis-shuts-down-services-after-suspicious-activity-on-servers/
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N-able ships second N-central hotfix as attackers keep exploiting CVE-2026-18577
To help customers fend off ongoing attacks, N-able released a second security hotfix for N”‘central, its monitoring and management (RMM) solution popular with managed service … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/10/cve-2026-18577-n-central-hotfix-2-msps/
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Play Ransomware Masquerades as PsExec to Blend Into Legitimate Windows Administration
Play ransomware is using a familiar Windows-administration disguise to reduce suspicion during intrusions: a custom service binary named PSexesvc.exe. The group’s use of a custom service binary named PSexesvc.exe, mimicking Microsoft Sysinternals PsExec, illustrates how attackers can turn routine Windows administration into cover for lateral movement and payload execution. The binary has been observed alongside…
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New CSS Bomb Attacks Let Hackers Steal Passwords and Tokens From Webmail Users
Security researcher Gareth Heyes has revealed techniques for webmail attacks that exploit HTML and CSS, the technologies used to format emails, to manipulate user interfaces, leak authentication data, and in some cases, capture passwords. Webmail services need to display HTML controlled by the sender without compromising the security of the mailbox application. To achieve this,…
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Webmail CSS Attacks Expose a New Risk for AI-Powered Email Tools
CSS attacks on major webmail services can steal credentials, hijack sessions and manipulate AI tools connected to users’ inboxes. PortSwigger researcher Gareth Heyes demonstrated something that should make every webmail team a little nervous: plain CSS, the styling language that’s supposed to just make text look nice, can be weaponized to steal passwords, hijack sessions, and…
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How AI Agents Widen the Enterprise Blast Radius
AWS’s Matt Girdharry and Varonis’ Matt Radolec on Data Security, Machine-Speed Risk. Agentic AI can act at machine speed across data, APIs and cloud services, expanding enterprise risk beyond traditional controls. AWS’ Matt Girdharry and Varonis’ Matt Radolec explain why AI governance, least privilege and runtime visibility now matter more than ever for security teams.…
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Financial Services Under Fire From Rebranded Extortionists
What’s in a Name? Vishing-Savvy BlackFile Rebrands as Redact, Pink, Helix, Falcon. Data theft extortion group BlackFile claimed retire in May. Threat researchers at Google said telemetry and attack infrastructure shows that the group has carried on using a variety of new brand names and shifted its focus to targeting financial services. First seen on…
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UNC6671 Vishing Attacks Target Personal Phones to Steal SaaS Data
A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services is attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671.”UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via their…
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Beware cut-price AI services that read your every word
f someone offered you 90% off the official price to access Claude, the powerful AI model from Anthropic, would you be tempted? It turns out that around 900 people were, and they may be regretting their decision. First seen on fortra.com Jump to article: www.fortra.com/blog/beware-cut-price-ai-services-read-your-every-word
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The Cyber Express Weekly Roundup: Ransomware Surge, Government Data Breaches, Logistics Disruptions, and Third-Party Security Risks
This weekly roundup highlights the growing cybersecurity risks affecting businesses, government agencies, and critical service providers. From the continued dominance of ransomware operations to government database breaches and third-party supply chain incidents, recent events demonstrate how attackers are increasingly targeting trusted systems and external service providers to maximize disruption and data exposure. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump…
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Windows Hello Key Abuse Lets Attackers Access Microsoft Entra ID Accounts
Security researcher has disclosed a technique involving Windows Hello for Business (WHFB) that could allow attackers with access to an active Windows user session to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID services without needing the victim’s PIN, biometric verification, or password. Mollema’s research demonstrates how attackers can effectively “borrow” the cryptographic key that underlies Windows Hello…
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Sophos, OpenAI Partner to Bring Frontier Models to Managed Service Providers
Sophos said it is partnering with OpenAI to bring OpenAI frontier models to managed service providers through Sophos Fusion, the company’s connected cyber defense system. Announced Aug. 6 during Black Hat USA 2026, the partnership is intended to give MSPs a way to deliver AI security services and build offerings around detection, investigation and response……
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Claude in Chrome Exploit Lets Attackers Steal Gmail Codes and Take Over Slack, X, and Claude.ai Accounts
Security researchers have demonstrated an indirect prompt-injection chain affecting Claude in Chrome that can transform a standard request, such as summarizing recent emails, into a cross-account takeover scenario. The research reveals how untrusted content viewed by an AI browser agent can exploit authenticated browser sessions to steal email-delivered verification secrets and compromise accounts on services…