Tag: threat
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State-sponsored hackers likely behind zero-day attacks on Palo Alto firewalls
Palo Alto Networks believes the in-the-wild exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-0300) in its firewalls is likely the work of state-sponsored threat actors. A … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/07/state-sponsored-hackers-zero-day-attacks-palo-alto-firewalls/
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Einschätzung von Googles VP Threat Intelligence – Diese enorme Gefahr geht von Anthropics neuem KI-Modell aus
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/claude-mythos-preview-anthropic-cybersicherheit-glasswing-a-301c40289d5988909288659b43f1d7f0/
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Critical Palo Alto Networks software bug hits exposed firewalls
Tags: access, attack, authentication, data-breach, firewall, mitigation, network, software, threat, updateMitigations first, patches shortly after: While Palo Alto Networks has announced fixes for affected PAN-OS branches, the company is urging customers to immediately reduce exposure rather than wait for patch windows. The vendor said the most important mitigation is restricting access to the User-Id Authentication Portal so it is reachable only from trusted internal IP…
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Security Lost The Speed War: Context Is How We Win
AI-Driven Attacks Compress Breakout Times, Forcing Defenders to Rely on Context Now AI has lowered the cost and speed of cyberattacks, enabling adversaries to exploit vulnerabilities within minutes. As breakout times collapse, security teams must respond faster by using context-driven intelligence and automation to detect, prioritize and stop threats in real time. First seen on…
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Scammers Exploit Disposable VoIP Numbers to Bypass Reputation Blocking
New tactics used by threat actors who embed phone numbers in scam emails as a key indicator of compromise (IOC), revealing how attackers exploit VoIP infrastructure to evade detection and scale fraud operations. Telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD) remains a dominant phishing technique, in which victims are lured to call attacker-controlled numbers rather than clicking malicious…
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Daemon Tools Developer Confirms Software Was Trojanized
A China-linked threat actor backdoored a version of Daemon Tools to infect thousands First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/daemon-tools-confirms-software/
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CISOs: Align cyber risk communication with boardroom psychology
Tags: breach, business, ciso, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, finance, governance, psychology, resilience, risk, threat, updateStop reporting risk as a technical status update: Executives do not need a master class in threat modeling. They need to know what the business stands to lose.Risk has to be framed in terms boards already use to weigh other enterprise decisions: financial exposure, operational disruption, compliance consequences, legal risk and the cost of delay.…
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Operation Epic Fury Exposes Critical OT Security Gaps in U.S. Oil and Gas Sector
The cybersecurity posture of the U.S. oil and gas sector has come under renewed scrutiny following Operation Epic Fury, with a new independent survey revealing a disconnect between operator confidence and actual operational technology (OT) security capabilities. While companies across the upstream and midstream energy segments have accelerated cybersecurity investments since the February 28 launch…
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Cisco Network Flaw Exposes Devices to Remote DenialService Exploits
Cisco has issued a high-severity security advisory detailing a critical connection exhaustion vulnerability affecting its network management software. Tracked as CVE-2026-20188, this flaw carries a CVSS base score of 7.5. It directly impacts both the Cisco Crosswork Network Controller (CNC) and the Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), potentially allowing threat actors to disrupt core network…
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Cybercriminals Exploit Microsoft Teams to Phish Login Credentials and Bypass MFA
Tags: authentication, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, espionage, exploit, iran, login, mfa, microsoft, phishing, ransomware, threatIranian state-sponsored threat actors linked to MuddyWater (Seedworm) have been caught hiding behind the Chaos ransomware brand to conduct sophisticated espionage operations, using Microsoft Teams as a phishing vector to steal credentials and manipulate multi-factor authentication (MFA). Rapid7 researchers uncovered the intrusion in early 2026, revealing a calculated false flag operation designed to mimic financially…
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WatchGuard Agent Flaws Allow Attackers to Gain Full SYSTEM Privileges on Windows
Multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the WatchGuard Agent for Windows could allow malicious actors to elevate their privileges to the highest system level or disrupt critical security services. With CVSS scores up to 8.5, these vulnerabilities pose a significant risk to organizations that rely on WatchGuard for endpoint security and threat protection. WatchGuard Agent Flaws Chained…
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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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How orphaned applications are quietly fueling your shadow IT problem
Tags: access, ai, api, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, data, finance, framework, governance, infrastructure, monitoring, risk, security-incident, service, threat, tool, updateOperational and financial overhead: Orphaned applications continue consuming licenses and infrastructure while cluttering configuration management databases (CMDBs). They introduce undocumented dependencies that skew asset management and complicate troubleshooting.Security exposure: Applications without active ownership are rarely reviewed. This means updates are missed, underlying components are no longer maintained, and access paths remain open far longer than intended.Hidden data…
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How orphaned applications are quietly fueling your shadow IT problem
Tags: access, ai, api, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, data, finance, framework, governance, infrastructure, monitoring, risk, security-incident, service, threat, tool, updateOperational and financial overhead: Orphaned applications continue consuming licenses and infrastructure while cluttering configuration management databases (CMDBs). They introduce undocumented dependencies that skew asset management and complicate troubleshooting.Security exposure: Applications without active ownership are rarely reviewed. This means updates are missed, underlying components are no longer maintained, and access paths remain open far longer than intended.Hidden data…
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How orphaned applications are quietly fueling your shadow IT problem
Tags: access, ai, api, awareness, business, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, data, finance, framework, governance, infrastructure, monitoring, risk, security-incident, service, threat, tool, updateOperational and financial overhead: Orphaned applications continue consuming licenses and infrastructure while cluttering configuration management databases (CMDBs). They introduce undocumented dependencies that skew asset management and complicate troubleshooting.Security exposure: Applications without active ownership are rarely reviewed. This means updates are missed, underlying components are no longer maintained, and access paths remain open far longer than intended.Hidden data…
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Best OSINT Tools for Investigations and Threat Intelligence in 2026
Explore the best OSINT tools for your digital investigations, threat intelligence, reconnaissance, and tracking online activity in 2026. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/best-osint-tools-investigate-threat-intelligence-2026/
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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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The Hacker News Launches ‘Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026’, Submissions Now Open
For nearly 20 years, we at The Hacker News have mostly told scary stories about cyberspace, big hacks, broken systems, and new threats.But behind every headline, there’s a quieter, better story.It’s the story of leaders making tough calls under pressure, teams building smarter defenses, and security products that keep hunting threats 24/7, even when it’s…
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Poisoned truth: The quiet security threat inside enterprise AI
It takes surprisingly little poison to corrupt: Bad internal data is the immediate problem. But the external supply chain may be even harder to control.Research by Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute discovered that as few as 250 maliciously crafted documents can poison LLMs of any size.That creates a massive…
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Train like you fight: Why cyber operations teams need no-notice drills
Tags: breach, business, cloud, communications, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, detection, framework, healthcare, injection, login, military, psychology, ransomware, risk, skills, soc, threat, training, updateThe Yerkes-Dodson inverted-U curve: Performance rises with arousal to an optimal point, then falls sharply.Wikimedia Commons, CC-ZeroWhat repeated no-notice drills do is shift a team’s position on that curve. By building familiarity with threat-level arousal, they raise the threshold at which stress becomes performance-impairing. The stimulus is no longer novel. The cascade is shorter. Executive…
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CISA boasts AI automation improvements to threat analysis, mission support
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials said it’s proven a boon in numerous areas, but there are some hurdles to adoption, still. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cisa-ai-automation-security-operations-efficiency-uipath-fusion-event/
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Trellix Source Code Breach Highlights Growing Supply Chain Threats
Info is scant, but such breaches can reveal where a security product’s controls are located and how detections are designed, giving attackers a leg up. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/trellix-source-code-breach-supply-chain-threats
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CISA boasts AI automation improvements to threat analysis, mission support
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials said it’s proven a boon in numerous areas, but there are some hurdles to adoption, still. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cisa-ai-automation-security-operations-efficiency-uipath-fusion-event/
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Masterclass Quantum: Hybrid Crypto Gains Ground for Security
Applied Quantum’s Kawin Boonyapredee, SpeQtral’s Cyril Tan on Hybrid Security. Hybrid cryptography is emerging as a practical path to quantum safety. Kawin Boonyapredee from Applied Quantum and Cyril Tan from SpeQtral said combining QKD and PQC builds resilience against future threats while balancing performance and security needs. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/masterclass-quantum-hybrid-crypto-gains-ground-for-security-a-31595
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CISA boasts AI automation improvements to threat analysis, mission support
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency officials said it’s proven a boon in numerous areas, but there are some hurdles to adoption, still. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cisa-ai-automation-security-operations-efficiency-uipath-fusion-event/
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CISA pushes critical infrastructure operators to prepare to work in isolation
Tags: access, attack, backup, business, ceo, cisa, control, cyber, cybersecurity, endpoint, exploit, government, incident response, infrastructure, iran, network, resilience, service, technology, threat, vpnA familiar playbook under a new name: While the framing of CI Fortify is new, the underlying concepts are not. Several experts say the initiative largely repackages long-standing practices around disaster recovery, business continuity, and incident response, areas where many organizations have historically underinvested.”It looks to me like traditional business continuity planning, disaster recovery, and…
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China-Linked UAT-8302 Targets Governments Using Shared APT Malware Across Regions
A sophisticated China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to attacks targeting government entities in South America since at least late 2024 and government agencies in southeastern Europe in 2025.The activity is being tracked by Cisco Talos under the moniker UAT-8302, with post-exploitation involving the deployment of custom-made malware families that have been…
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Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking
Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/05/05/cushman_wakefield/