Tag: threat
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Android Banking Droppers Surge as Malware Operators Change Packaging Tactics
Android banking malware operators are increasingly relying on dropper-based packaging to evade mobile app-store controls, shifting how threats are classified and delivered rather than simply expanding their overall distribution. Kaspersky telemetry for the second quarter of 2026 recorded 1,996,823 blocked attacks involving malware, adware, and potentially unwanted mobile software, down from 2,676,328 in Q1. Yet…
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Android Banking Droppers Surge as Malware Operators Change Packaging Tactics
Android banking malware operators are increasingly relying on dropper-based packaging to evade mobile app-store controls, shifting how threats are classified and delivered rather than simply expanding their overall distribution. Kaspersky telemetry for the second quarter of 2026 recorded 1,996,823 blocked attacks involving malware, adware, and potentially unwanted mobile software, down from 2,676,328 in Q1. Yet…
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TrueConf Server Flaws Exploited to Replace Client Installers with PhantomCore
Tags: attack, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, kaspersky, programming, russia, software, threat, vulnerabilityThe threat actor known as Head Mare has been observed weaponizing security flaws in unpatched TrueConf servers once again in attacks targeting Russian companies spanning instrumentation, electronics, transport, energy, IT, and software development sectors.Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said it detected the attacks in July 2026.The activity involves exploiting a vulnerability chain First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Atlassian Rovo AI Vulnerability Lets Attackers Steal Enterprise Data With a Single Click
RovoBlast is a recently disclosed vulnerability affecting Atlassian’s Rovo AI assistant that allows attackers to expose sensitive enterprise data through a single malicious link. According to Varonis Threat Labs, the vulnerability exploits Rovo’s handling of URL-supplied prompts, enabling attackers to inject malicious instructions into an authenticated user’s AI session. The attack does not require traditional…
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Suisun City Declares Emergency After Cyberattack Disrupts Systems
The Suisun City emergency declared by local officials followed a cyberattack that forced the Northern California municipality to shut down its information technology network, disrupting some communications used by public safety agencies. The incident has placed the California city of roughly 30,000 residents among communities confronting the growing threat of cyberattacks against essential local services. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to…
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UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year
Big companies describe being under constant threat but only half have a plan in place to respond to an attackNearly a third of British manufacturers have been hit by a cyber-attack on them or a company in their supply chain, according to a survey that highlighted the growing hacking risk to companies.The findings come almost…
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Urlaubszeit Sommerzeit Vorfallzeit: Sechs Ratschläge für Zeiten mit geringer Personalstärke
Management Summary Urlaubszeit ist Risikobetrieb: Reduzierte Personalstärke, höhere Abhängigkeit von IT-Systemen und wachsende Angriffsflächen machen die Sommermonate zu einer Phase mit erhöhtem Kontrollbedarf. KI verändert das Schwachstellenmanagement: Frontier-KI-Modelle beschleunigen die Entdeckung und Veröffentlichung von Verwundbarkeiten; Patch-, CERT- und Threat-Feed-Prozesse müssen deshalb auch in Ferienzeiten aktiv bleiben. Klare Rollen verhindern Wissensmonopole: Ein offiziell definierter Reduced Staff……
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N-able Issues N-central Hotfix 2 as Attackers Reach Managed Systems and Persist
N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N”‘central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product.”We are proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actors as they evolve their attack techniques,” the company said.”This is not…
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Russian Hackers Use AI Slopsquatting to Publish 700+ Malicious npm Packages
A large-scale supply chain attack has hit the npm registry, with a suspected Russian threat actor publishing more than 700 malicious packages in just 48 hours. Researcher Paul McCarty documented the campaign, tracked as WEL1DROPPER, and the package count has since grown past 1,000. WEL1DROPPER marks an evolution in AI slopsquatting, where attackers register randomly…
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Storm-1175 Launches StormEncryptor Ransomware Attacks Using N-able Security Flaw
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new ransomware campaign attributed to the financially motivated threat actor Storm-1175 that began deploying a previously undocumented ransomware strain, StormEncryptor, on August 2, 2026. The activity represents Storm-1175’s first observed operation since April 2026 and signals a notable shift in its ransomware tooling. The group was previously associated with…
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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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Water utilities group partners with DEF CON offshoot for Water Watch Center
The National Rural Water Association and a group of cybersecurity experts have formed a program to help cash-strapped utilities face the increase in threats to their systems. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/water-watch-center-utilities-def-con-franklin-nrwa
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ThreatLabz 2026 Report: Frontier AI and Enterprise Readiness
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cisa, ciso, control, credentials, cyberattack, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, governance, identity, Internet, kev, login, malicious, privacy, radius, resilience, strategy, switch, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-trustThe BreachIt was 9:14 AM when the CISO’s VPN connection momentarily dropped, something that normally wouldn’t cause any concern. What he couldn’t see was that attackers had already exploited a pre-authentication flaw in the VPN appliance itself, gaining access before any login ever occurred. From there, they extracted stored credentials, forged an identity as his…
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ThreatLabz 2026 Report: Frontier AI and Enterprise Readiness
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cisa, ciso, control, credentials, cyberattack, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, governance, identity, Internet, kev, login, malicious, privacy, radius, resilience, strategy, switch, threat, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-trustThe BreachIt was 9:14 AM when the CISO’s VPN connection momentarily dropped, something that normally wouldn’t cause any concern. What he couldn’t see was that attackers had already exploited a pre-authentication flaw in the VPN appliance itself, gaining access before any login ever occurred. From there, they extracted stored credentials, forged an identity as his…
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Real emails, hijacked payments: Two H1 2026 attack chains
Gen’s H1 2026 Threat Report examines two separate attack chains. One used compromised business inboxes and browser manipulation in a banking-malware campaign, while the other used clipboard hijacking to redirect cryptocurrency payments. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/real-emails-hijacked-payments-two-h1-2026-attack-chains/
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Agentic AI for Cyber Defenders: What Security Teams Built at Black Hat USA 2026
Tags: ai, automation, conference, control, credentials, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, exploit, flaw, group, iam, intelligence, ISO-27001, mitigation, network, nvidia, offense, open-source, RedTeam, risk, skills, soc, technology, threat, tool, usa, vulnerabilityAgentic AI armed attackers first, but it also put real building power in defenders’ hands. Here’s what security practitioners built in two days at Black Hat USA 2026, and how the CyberAgents Exchange keeps that work compounding long after the event. Key takeaways Building defensive cybersecurity tooling no longer requires a developer. Agentic tooling drove…
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Beyond Cyber: How CTI Teams Are Solving Converged Threat Use Cases
In this post we explain how cyber threat intelligence teams are being expected to take on physical risk, how tradecraft overlaps, and how Flashpoint bridges the gap. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/beyond-cyber-how-cti-teams-are-solving-converged-threat-use-cases/
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What Is Cyber Security Risk Assessment? A Complete Guide (2026)
A cyber security risk assessment is a structured process for identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing the risks to an organization’s information systems, data, and operations. It works by pairing each threat and vulnerability with the likelihood it will be exploited and the business impact if it is”, so leaders can decide which risks to fix, transfer,…
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TeamPCP Linked To Redis Attacks Dating Back To 2020 And Later Supply Chain Campaign
Tags: attack, cybercrime, group, infrastructure, Internet, malware, software, supply-chain, threat, trainingA new analysis has uncovered that the threat actor tracked as TeamPCP has been active on the cybercrime scene as far back as 2020, indicating the group has been compromising internet-facing infrastructure for years before training their sights on the software supply chain.”The connection is supported by overlapping domains, malware deployment paths, staging techniques, backend…
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Google’s John Hultquist on outpacing the adversary with AI threat defense
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/resource/googles-john-hultquist-on-outpacing-the-adversary-with-ai-threat-defense
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Prompt injection remains top LLM threat, OWASP report finds
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/prompt-injection-remains-top-llm-threat-owasp-report-finds
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The Coordination Gap: How Attackers Are Outpacing Law Enforcement
The fight against cybercrime continues because threat actors have adapted their strategies to avoid deterrents, but law enforcement still operates in silos. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/coordination-gap-attackers-outpacing-law-enforcement
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Cyber Risk Now Needs a Business Translator
Dataminr’s Balaji Yelamanchili on Risk Prioritization, AI and Cyber Resilience. Security teams face more signals than they can act on, and boards now demand answers in business terms, not technical ones. Balaji Yelamanchili of Dataminr explains how combining threat intelligence with risk quantification helps organizations prioritize what actually matters. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic
A new mobile ad fraud scheme, dubbed Papyrus, is using a cluster of novel-reading apps to generate hidden browser traffic, according to IAS Threat Lab. Sample novel-reading … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/06/papyrus-mobile-ad-fraud-scheme/
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AI code security with Claude Mythos Preview: Inside Tenable’s 500+ hours of testing for Project Glasswing
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, flaw, reverse-engineering, risk, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityWe spent 500+ hours and 40 billion tokens testing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview for Project Glasswing. The takeaway: frontier AI won’t run your code security program, but used well, it can make one even stronger. Key takeaways Frontier AI dramatically scales security testing. In one month, Tenable dedicated 11 security experts and more than 40…
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Fake Xeno Roblox Executor Delivers Powercat Java Stealer Through Discord
The fake “undetected” Xeno Roblox executor currently circulating on gaming forums and Discord is a weaponized loader for the Powercat Java stealer, a multi”‘stage RAT and infostealer that targets Discord, Roblox, Minecraft, crypto wallets and payment tokens while enabling full remote control of infected Windows systems. Threat actors are promoting trojanized Xeno executors through Roblox”‘focused…
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Mac Malware Found Draining Crypto Wallets After Fake CAPTCHA Trick
Researchers at Huntress have uncovered a strain of macOS malware that can gradually siphon funds out of victims’ cryptocurrency wallets, after tracing an infection back to a fake CAPTCHA scam known as ClickFix. The incident came to light during a retrospective threat hunt in June 2026, when a Huntress analyst discovered remnants of a Mac-specific…
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Defending Water OT with AZT PROTECT – ARIA Cybersecurity
<div cla The threat landscape for municipal water systems has never been more perilous, and the regulatory spotlight has never been brighter. A flurry of attacks has taken over the news: in some cases, ransomware-based attacks cripple water production and in other cases controls on individual unprotected PLCs are being suddenly accessed by bad actors…