Tag: threat
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Ransomware Hackers Can Go From Network Access to Encryption in Less Than 24 Hours
Tags: access, breach, business, credentials, cyber, data-breach, encryption, hacker, infrastructure, network, ransomware, service, threatThe Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service operation can move from confirmed access inside a victim network to encryption in under 24 hours. Demonstrating how rapidly modern affiliates can turn stolen credentials or exposed infrastructure into a full-scale business disruption. Counter Threat Unit researchers tracking the operation as GOLD SHERWOOD found that the Gentlemen affiliates follow a repeatable post-compromise…
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Earth Berberoka-Linked Hackers Target Brazil With Linux Malware and SEO Poisoning
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster linked to the Earth Berberoka threat actor has compromised Brazilian government and educational web servers to conduct large-scale SEO poisoning and online-gambling fraud. The operation has been active since mid-2025 and represents a notable shift in Brazil’s threat landscape. Rather than deploying the country’s more familiar banking malware, the attackers are…
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Your threat feed is someone else’s database: What ingesting malware intel at scale takes
The advice is to consume shared threat intelligence. Join the ISAC. Wire the community feeds into your pipeline. This looks like a fine advice and I agree to it. What nobody … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/03/github-threat-intelligence-feed-ingestion/
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Diversity in cybersecurity is crucial as AI threats evolve
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/diversity-in-cybersecurity-is-crucial-as-ai-threats-evolve
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Breeze Comet threat actor targets Brazilian financial sector with sophisticated attacks
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/breeze-comet-threat-actor-targets-brazilian-financial-sector-with-sophisticated-attacks
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AI Gives Cybercriminals a Dangerous Time Advantage
Former cybercriminal Brett Johnson provides a look inside the mind of a threat actor and discusses where AI provides the most value for attackers. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ai-gives-cybercriminals-dangerous-time-advantage
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How Attackers Game Legacy Threat Feeds Aged Domains
Take a tour through almost any SOC. You’ll find dashboards filled with rules designed to block newly registered domains (NRDs). On paper, the logic feels bulletproof. When threat syndicates spin up infrastructure for a massive phishing wave or credential-harvesting campaign, they need digital… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/how-attackers-game-legacy-threat-feeds-aged-domains/
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Hackers Abuse Legitimate IT Management Tool to Sneak Into Business Networks
Cybersecurity researchers at Huntress have uncovered a phishing campaign that abuses Faronics Deploy, a legitimate endpoint management platform used by businesses, schools, and government offices to remotely install software and run scripts across their networks. According to the security firm, threat actors sent victims phishing emails disguised as invoices, tax documents, financial records, and event…
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Hackers Abuse Legitimate IT Management Tool to Sneak Into Business Networks
Cybersecurity researchers at Huntress have uncovered a phishing campaign that abuses Faronics Deploy, a legitimate endpoint management platform used by businesses, schools, and government offices to remotely install software and run scripts across their networks. According to the security firm, threat actors sent victims phishing emails disguised as invoices, tax documents, financial records, and event…
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Threat Intelligence: Definition, Benefits, and Use Cases
Security teams rarely struggle because they lack data. More often, the challenge is deciding which signals actually deserve attention. Modern security environments generate information about suspicious IP addresses, malicious domains, malware samples, phishing infrastructure, ransomware activity, attacker behavior, and thousands of other indicators. Without context, that volume can quickly become another source of noise. Threat…
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Threat Gang ‘Springs’ Vishing Attacks on Microsoft Teams Users
The Spring Ring operation aims to compromise users of the collaboration suite to remotely access their sessions, spread malware, and even take over infrastructure. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/threat-gang-springs-vishing-attacks-microsoft-teams-users
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OpenAI Reveals Astra, Its First AI Model to Reach ‘Critical’ Cybersecurity Risk Threshold
OpenAI announced Tuesday that its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model, codenamed Astra, is the company’s first to reach the highest threat level under its internal risk framework, triggering an initial development pause to implement stricter safeguards before its public rollout. Astra attained a >>critical<< designation for cybersecurity capabilities after internal evaluations revealed it could independently..…
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PaperCut Zero-Day Exploitation Escalates to Active Intrusions
Enterprise print management systems are often treated as routine infrastructure, but attackers continue to demonstrate that any connected application can become an entry point into a corporate environment. According to SecurityWeek report, threat actors are actively exploiting two recently disclosed… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/papercut-zero-day-exploitation-escalates-to-active-intrusions/
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Exploitation of Sangoma Switchvox flaw is underway (CVE-2026-9586)
A threat actor is actively targeting internet-exposed Sangoma Switchvox instance through a recently patched SQL injection flaw (CVE-2026-9586), and organizations running them … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/02/exploitation-of-sangoma-switchvox-flaw-underway-cve-2026-9586/
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Critical Langflow Vulnerability Exploited as Attacks on AI Platform Rise
The attacks targeting CVE-2026-0768 are the latest threat against the low-code AI development platform, which is receiving more attention from adversaries this year. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/critical-langflow-flaw-exploited-attacks-rise
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Hackers Breach Brazilian Financial Firms and Execute Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as BREEZE COMET has breached Brazilian financial, retail, and eCommerce organizations, using privileged access to payment platforms to execute hundreds of fraudulent transactions in tightly timed waves. The activity overlaps with clusters publicly identified as Plump Spider and SHADOW-AETHER-064, although GTIG’s reporting frames this as operational overlap rather than…
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Palo Alto: Security Debt Exposes Firms to AI-Powered Attacks
CEO Nikesh Arora Says Years of Deferred Upgrades Could Enable Major Breaches. Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warned that roughly $1 trillion in accumulated cybersecurity technical debt could leave enterprises vulnerable to AI-enabled threats as model proliferation expands attack surfaces faster than companies can modernize defenses. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/palo-alto-security-debt-exposes-firms-to-ai-powered-attacks-a-32719
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Hackers Hide Reverse Shell Traffic Behind Signed Apps and AWS API Gateway
Threat actors are using a layered fake IT-support campaign to obtain remote access, deploy a malicious MSI package and conceal hands-on-keyboard activity behind legitimate signed applications and AWS API Gateway infrastructure. The operation demonstrates how attackers can divide execution, command-and-control and interactive shell functions across multiple processes to frustrate conventional endpoint and network detections. Once…
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Attackers Exploit Critical Switchvox Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shells Without Credentials
Threat actors are exploiting a severe security vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox, an enterprise VoIP platform, that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-9586 (CVSS score: 9.3), a critical unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox SMB Edition 8.3 (104997) that can allow attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code as First seen…
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FulcrumSec Claims Responsibility for Manchester Airport Group Breach
Threat group FulcrumSec claims MAG breach and leaks 550GB of data online First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fulcrumsec-manchester-airport/
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FulcrumSec Claims Responsibility for Manchester Airport Group Breach
Threat group FulcrumSec claims MAG breach and leaks 550GB of data online First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/fulcrumsec-manchester-airport/
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SonicWall warns of actively exploited SMA1000 zero-day flaws
SonicWall warned customers that threat actors are chaining two new SMA1000 zero-day vulnerabilities in remote code execution attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sonicwall-warns-of-actively-exploited-sma1000-zero-day-flaws/
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SonicWall warns of actively exploited SMA1000 zero-day flaws
SonicWall warned customers that threat actors are chaining two new SMA1000 zero-day vulnerabilities in remote code execution attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sonicwall-warns-of-actively-exploited-sma1000-zero-day-flaws/
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SonicWall warns of actively exploited SMA1000 zero-day flaws
SonicWall warned customers that threat actors are chaining two new SMA1000 zero-day vulnerabilities in remote code execution attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sonicwall-warns-of-actively-exploited-sma1000-zero-day-flaws/
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SonicWall warns of actively exploited SMA1000 zero-day flaws
SonicWall warned customers that threat actors are chaining two new SMA1000 zero-day vulnerabilities in remote code execution attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sonicwall-warns-of-actively-exploited-sma1000-zero-day-flaws/
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George Kurtz’s 5 Boldest AI Statements At CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2026
Amid the unprecedented threat of hacking by autonomous agents, it’s increasingly pivotal to bring frontier AI capabilities to cyber defense teams”, something CrowdStrike is now seeking to do for the first time in the industry, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said during his Fal.Con 2026 keynote. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/george-kurtz-s-5-boldest-ai-statements-at-crowdstrike-fal-con-2026
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31th August Threat Intelligence Report
Manchester Airports Group, the UK operator of Manchester, London Stansted, and East Midlands airports, has disclosed a cyberattack that exposed data belonging to about 8.7 million customers. The compromised information includes contact details, […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/31th-august-threat-intelligence-report/
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How to Build a Hypothesis-Driven Threat Hunting Program
Tags: threatFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/implementation-guides/how-to-build-a-hypothesis-driven-threat-hunting-program
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Old, Unpatched Flaws Give Attackers Access to Philippines Nuclear Agency
Threat actors exploited commodity in ownCloud to gain initial access, resulting in stolen reactor databases, personnel records, and credential stores. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/old-unpatched-flaws-attackers-philippines-nuclear-agency