Tag: threat
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Webinar: Why account takeovers remain one of the hardest threats to stop
Account takeover attacks continue to challenge security teams because attackers often operate through legitimate accounts and trusted services. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations identify compromised accounts faster and automate response workflows. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/webinar-why-account-takeovers-remain-one-of-the-hardest-threats-to-stop/
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New Mistic Backdoor Linked to KongTuke in ClickFix and ModeloRAT Campaigns
A new, stealthy backdoor named Mistic has been deployed as part of suspected financially motivated attacks aimed at multiple organizations spanning insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors since April 2026.According to Symantec and Carbon Black’s Threat Hunter Team, the backdoor, also tracked as MLTBackdoor, is said to be linked to an initial access broker…
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited to Gain Root Access
An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned Mandiant.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score: 7.8), allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges First seen…
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Most security pros say their culture is ‘just average’
‘The Life and Times of Cybersecurity Professionals’ survey assessed how workers feel about defending against constant threats, as well as what’s getting better and what is not. First seen on techtarget.com Jump to article: www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/366644992/Most-security-pros-say-their-culture-is-just-average
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Trump Sets Post-Quantum Security Deadlines as White House Warns of Advanced Cryptographic Threats
The White House has unveiled a major new cybersecurity initiative aimed at protecting U.S. government systems and critical infrastructure from the emerging threat posed by quantum computing, setting firm deadlines for the migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). President Donald Trump this week signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum and related executive actions designed to accelerate…
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He Thought He Was Secure; His Phone Number Was Stolen Anyway
Threat actors can easily steal one-time passwords sent by text when they conduct a SIM swap attack. This can lead to account takeovers, so users must layer up their security measures. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/how-a-sim-swap-attack-led-to-a-near-account-takeover
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Cisco Unified CM Flaw Exploited After PoC Reveals File-Write Path to Root
Threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME).The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20230 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of improper input validation for specific HTTP requests that could allow an unauthenticated, remote First seen…
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Bajaj Auto Discloses Ransomware Cyberattack Impacting Company and Technology Unit
Bajaj Auto has reported a ransomware attack that affected its internal systems and those of its wholly owned subsidiary, Bajaj Auto Technology Ltd (BATL). This incident highlights the growing threat of cyberattacks targeting major manufacturing and automotive organizations. The attack occurred around 8:00 AM IST on June 23 and was formally disclosed in a regulatory…
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Canada’s spy agency uses threat reduction powers to neutralize foreign botnets
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/canadas-spy-agency-uses-threat-reduction-powers-to-neutralize-foreign-botnets
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FortiBleed Is ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ of Edge Device Targeting
Threat Actor Harvesting Other Credentials; Experts See Many More Scans for SSL-VPNs. Discovery of the Fortinet credential-harvesting campaign tracked as FortiBleed appears to be the tip of the iceberg of edge device targeting, with honeypot telemetry revealing VPN and edge devices from Check Point, Cisco, Ivanti/Pulse, Palo Alto, OpenVPN and SonicWall also being top targets.…
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Colonial Pipeline: 2021 Hindsight and 2026 Insights
Five years after Colonial Pipeline, critical infrastructure still faces ransomware threats and OT security gaps. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/colonial-pipeline-2021-hindsight-and-2026-insights/
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Five Eyes agencies sound alarm about AI’s threat to cybersecurity
“The timeline is not years, it is months,” the nations of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance said in a joint alert about the cybersecurity concerns of artificial intelligence. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/five-eyes-alert-artificial-intelligence
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Trump directs federal agencies to protect US data from quantum threats
An executive order signed Monday aims to accelerate the government’s transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), a new generation of encryption designed to protect data from the powerful quantum computers expected in the future. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/trump-directs-federal-agencies-quantum-cryptography
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Trump Order Sets 2030 Deadline for Federal Post-Quantum Crypto Migration
President Trump signed an executive order on June 22 setting hard deadlines for federal agencies to move high-value assets and high-impact systems to post-quantum cryptography.Key establishment must move by December 31, 2030; digital signatures by December 31, 2031. EO 14409 leaves national security systems on a separate track.The deadlines matter because of a threat that…
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Trump Order Sets 2030 Deadline for Federal Post-Quantum Crypto Migration
President Trump signed an executive order on June 22 setting hard deadlines for federal agencies to move high-value assets and high-impact systems to post-quantum cryptography.Key establishment must move by December 31, 2030; digital signatures by December 31, 2031. EO 14409 leaves national security systems on a separate track.The deadlines matter because of a threat that…
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Looming AI-fueled threats require urgent cybersecurity improvements, Five Eyes members say
The intelligence-sharing alliance said advanced AI models will surpass expectations in a matter of months. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/ai-cyberattacks-five-eyes-frontier-models-warning/823526/
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SocGholish Takedown Highlights Malicious TDS Threats
SocGholish uses traffic distribution systems (TDSs) to provide initial access into victims’ networks for cybercrime groups such as the notorious Evil Corp. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/socgholish-takedown-malicious-tds-threats
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He Thought He Was Secure; His Phone Number Got Stolen Anyway
Threat actors can easily steal one-time passwords sent by text when they conduct a SIM swap attack. This can lead to account takeovers, so users must layer up their security measures. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/how-a-sim-swap-attack-led-to-a-near-account-takeover
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Five Eyes Agencies Warn AI Is Accelerating Cyber Threats and Zero-Day Exploitation
The Five Eyes cyber security agencies have issued a joint warning that artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating cyber threats, including the exploitation of zero day vulnerabilities, and urged organizations to act immediately. In a statement released on June 22, 2026, senior leaders from agencies across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand…
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FortiBleed Attackers Turn Firewalls Into Credential Stealers as Heists Persist
The threat actors engineered a Golang-based sniffer to target 430,000 FortiGate firewalls and identify 110 million credentials in the ongoing global campaign. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/fortibleed-attackers-firewalls-credentials-stealers
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The Evolution of iGaming Fraud: What Security Teams Should Expect in 2027
Learn how AI, deepfakes, synthetic identities and fraud-as-a-service may reshape iGaming risk, and what security teams can do to detect future threats in 2027. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/igaming-fraud-security-teams-expect-in-2027/
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Tata Electronics Data Breach Exposes 200,000+ Files Linked to Apple and Tesla, Hackers Claim
Tags: apple, breach, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, group, hacker, ransomware, threatTata Electronics has reported a cybersecurity incident following claims from a ransomware-linked threat group that it has exfiltrated and published over 200,000 files related to Apple and Tesla’s manufacturing operations. The leaked data, which is said to amount to more than 630 GB, has appeared on a dark web portal operated by the >>World Leaks<<…
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Tata Electronics Data Breach Exposes 200,000+ Files Linked to Apple and Tesla, Hackers Claim
Tags: apple, breach, cyber, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, group, hacker, ransomware, threatTata Electronics has reported a cybersecurity incident following claims from a ransomware-linked threat group that it has exfiltrated and published over 200,000 files related to Apple and Tesla’s manufacturing operations. The leaked data, which is said to amount to more than 630 GB, has appeared on a dark web portal operated by the >>World Leaks<<…
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Microsoft Uncovers Parallel Threat Activity From Two Cyberattackers in Single Intrusion
Microsoft’s latest incident write-up shows that a single intrusion can mask two parallel threat activity streams, one tied to Storm-2603 and another to an unknown actor, making the attack far more complex than a conventional ransomware case. The incident began with activity against on-premises SharePoint servers and an attempt to establish internal footholds through exposed…
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Five Eyes Group Issues Urgent Call to Tackle Frontier AI Threats
The Five Eyes Alliance has published a rare call to action for organizations facing AI threats First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/five-eyes-issues-urgent-call/
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FortiBleed Campaign Uses FortigateSniffer to Harvest 110 Million Credentials From Fortinet Firewalls
A large-scale credential harvesting campaign called “FortiBleed” has been uncovered, revealing how threat actors are exploiting Fortinet FortiGate firewalls to capture authentication data on an unprecedented scale. Research from the SOCRadar Threat Research Unit (STRU) indicates that this operation has already compromised over 110 million credentials by targeting misconfigured or weakly secured devices, turning them…
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CalPhishing Campaigns Use Outlook Calendar Invites to Deliver Persistent Phishing Lures
A growing trend in which attackers weaponize Microsoft 365 collaboration features to deliver persistent phishing lures via Outlook calendar invites. By abusing Microsoft 365 Groups and Outlook calendar functionality, threat actors move malicious intent out of a single suspicious message and into routine productivity workflows, increasing the chance that targets will treat the interaction as…
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CalPhishing Campaigns Use Outlook Calendar Invites to Deliver Persistent Phishing Lures
A growing trend in which attackers weaponize Microsoft 365 collaboration features to deliver persistent phishing lures via Outlook calendar invites. By abusing Microsoft 365 Groups and Outlook calendar functionality, threat actors move malicious intent out of a single suspicious message and into routine productivity workflows, increasing the chance that targets will treat the interaction as…