Tag: threat
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OpenClaw integrates VirusTotal malware scanning as security firms flag enterprise risks
Tags: access, ai, api, control, crowdstrike, crypto, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, email, exploit, gartner, github, governance, injection, macOS, malicious, malware, marketplace, network, risk, security-incident, skills, software, threat, tool, virus, vulnerabilityWhat prompted the response: The scanning initiative follows a series of security incidents documented by multiple firms over the past two weeks. Koi Security’s February 1 audit of all 2,857 ClawHub skills discovered 341 malicious ones in a campaign dubbed “ClawHavoc.”The professional-looking skills for cryptocurrency tools and YouTube utilities contained fake prerequisites that installed keyloggers…
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DKnife targets network gateways in long running AitM campaign
Indicators point to China-Nexus development and targeting: Several aspects of DKnife’s design and operation suggested ties to China-aligned threat actors. Talos identified configuration data and code comments written in Simplified Chinese, as well as handling logic tailored for Chinese-language email providers and mobile applications.The framework was also found to enable credential collection from services used…
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DKnife targets network gateways in long running AitM campaign
Indicators point to China-Nexus development and targeting: Several aspects of DKnife’s design and operation suggested ties to China-aligned threat actors. Talos identified configuration data and code comments written in Simplified Chinese, as well as handling logic tailored for Chinese-language email providers and mobile applications.The framework was also found to enable credential collection from services used…
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Active Exploitation of SolarWinds Web Help Desk RCE Used to Drop Custom Malware
Threat actors are actively exploiting critical vulnerabilities in SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) to deploy custom malware and establish persistent remote control. Security researchers observed these attacks starting on February 7, 2026, targeting organizations that had not yet applied the latest security patches. SolarWinds Web Help Desk RCE The intrusion leverages recently disclosed Remote Code…
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ScarCruft Exploits Trusted Cloud Services and OLE Documents to Deliver Malware
The North Korean-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as ScarCruft has significantly evolved its attack techniques. In a departure from their established methods, the group is now using a sophisticated OLE-based dropper to distribute its signature malware, ROKRAT. This new campaign highlights the group’s ability to abuse legitimate cloud services like pCloud and Yandex…
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How Top CISOs Solve Burnout and Speed up MTTR without Extra Hiring
Why do SOC teams keep burning out and missing SLAs even after spending big on security tools? Routine triage piles up, senior specialists get dragged into basic validation, and MTTR climbs, while stealthy threats still find room to slip through. Top CISOs have realized the solution isn’t hiring more people or stacking yet another tool…
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Never settle: How CISOs can go beyond compliance standards to better protect their organizations
Tags: ai, awareness, breach, ciso, compliance, computing, control, cybersecurity, finance, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, software, strategy, threat, training, vulnerabilityThe new North Star for CISOs: Accounting for emerging risk: We’ve established that it’s no longer good enough to overfit into a compliance standard, but you can still use compliance to your advantage.Most compliance programs mandate an information security risk assessment and, at a larger company, you may already have a dedicated enterprise risk management…
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As space gets crowded, cyber threats from jamming to stalker satellites loom large
Experts at the inaugural CYSAT Asia in Singapore warn of the urgency of securing space assets amid growing geopolitical tensions and supply chain vulnerabilities First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366638806/As-space-gets-crowded-cyber-threats-from-jamming-to-stalker-satellites-loom-large
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Bloody Wolf Targets Uzbekistan, Russia Using NetSupport RAT in Spear-Phishing Campaign
The threat actor known as Bloody Wolf has been linked to a campaign targeting Uzbekistan and Russia to infect systems with a remote access trojan known as NetSupport RAT.Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky is tracking the activity under the moniker Stan Ghouls. The threat actor is known to be active since at least 2023, orchestrating spear-phishing attacks…
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Schrödinger’s cat and the enterprise security paradox
Tags: control, cybersecurity, detection, exploit, framework, identity, intelligence, jobs, metric, penetration-testing, RedTeam, resilience, risk, siem, strategy, threat, tooland compromised. The dashboards might be green and the audit reports reassuring, but the uncomfortable reality is that you do not know your actual state until you observe it directly and often. Many readers will have heard of Schrödinger’s cat in passing, but the details blur over time, so it is worth revisiting what the…
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Schrödinger’s cat and the enterprise security paradox
Tags: control, cybersecurity, detection, exploit, framework, identity, intelligence, jobs, metric, penetration-testing, RedTeam, resilience, risk, siem, strategy, threat, tooland compromised. The dashboards might be green and the audit reports reassuring, but the uncomfortable reality is that you do not know your actual state until you observe it directly and often. Many readers will have heard of Schrödinger’s cat in passing, but the details blur over time, so it is worth revisiting what the…
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NIS2: Supply chains as a risk factor
Why supply chains are particularly vulnerable: The supply chain is an attractive target for attackers for several reasons. External partners often have privileged access, work with sensitive data, or are deeply integrated into operational processes. At the same time, they are often not subject to the same security standards as large organizations.Furthermore, there is a structural lack…
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Vortex Werewolf Targets Organizations With Tor-Enabled RDP, SMB, SFTP, and SSH Backdoors
A threat cluster tracked as >>Vortex Werewolf<< (also known as SkyCloak) has been observed targeting Russian government and defense organizations. The attack begins not with a typical malicious attachment, but with a highly credible phishing link. Vortex Werewolf distributes URLs that masquerade as legitimate Telegram file-sharing resources. These links, often hosted on domains designed to…
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Allama: Open-source AI security automation
Allama is an open-source security automation platform that lets teams build visual workflows for threat detection and response. It includes integrations with 80+ types of … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/09/allama-open-source-ai-security-automation-platform/
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OpenClaw Taps VirusTotal to Safeguard AI Agent Skill Ecosystem
As AI agents move from experimental chatbots to powerful tools capable of managing our finances and smart homes, security has become the top priority. Today, OpenClaw announced a major partnership with VirusTotal to bring advanced threat detection to ClawHub, its marketplace for AI skills. Why AI Agents Need Special Protection Traditional software is rigid; it…
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DKnife toolkit abuses routers to spy and deliver malware since 2019
DKnife is a Linux toolkit used since 2019 to hijack router traffic and deliver malware in cyber-espionage attacks. Cisco Talos found DKnife, a powerful Linux toolkit that threat actors use to spy on and control network traffic through routers and edge devices. It inspects and alters data in transit and installs malware on PCs, phones,…
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Week in review: Notepad++ supply chain attack details and targets, Patch Tuesday forecast
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Global Threat Map: Open-source real-time situational awareness platform … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/08/week-in-review-notepad-supply-chain-attack-details-and-targets-patch-tuesday-forecast/
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OpenClaw Integrates VirusTotal Scanning to Detect Malicious ClawHub Skills
OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot) has announced that it’s partnering with Google-owned VirusTotal to scan skills that are being uploaded to ClawHub, its skill marketplace, as part of broader efforts to bolster the security of the agentic ecosystem.”All skills published to ClawHub are now scanned using VirusTotal’s threat intelligence, including their new Code Insight capability,”…
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State actor targets 155 countries in ‘Shadow Campaigns’ espionage op
A new state-aligned cyberespionage threat group tracked as TGR-STA-1030/UNC6619, has conducted a global-scale operation dubbed the “Shadow Campaigns,” where it targeted government infrastructure in 155 countries. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/state-actor-targets-155-countries-in-shadow-campaigns-espionage-op/
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German Agencies Warn of Signal Phishing Targeting Politicians, Military, Journalists
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (aka Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz or BfV) and Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) have issued a joint advisory warning of a malicious cyber campaign undertaken by a likely state-sponsored threat actor that involves carrying out phishing attacks over the Signal messaging app.”The focus is on high-ranking…
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Germany warns of Signal account hijacking targeting senior figures
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is warning of suspected state-sponsored threat actors targeting high-ranking individuals in phishing attacks via messaging apps like Signal. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/germany-warns-of-signal-account-hijacking-targeting-senior-figures/
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Attackers Used AI to Breach an AWS Environment in 8 Minutes
Threat actors using LLMs needed only eight minutes to move from initial access to full admin privileges in an attack on a company’s AWS cloud environment in the latest example of cybercriminals expanding their use of AI in their operations, Sysdig researchers said. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/attackers-used-ai-to-breach-an-aws-environment-in-8-minutes/
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AI Threats, Botnets, and Cloud Exploits Define This Week’s Cyber Risks
Weekly summary of Cybersecurity Insider newsletters First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/weekly-roundup/ai-threats-botnets-and-cloud-exploits-define-this-weeks-cyber-risks/
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China-Linked DKnife AitM Framework Targets Routers for Traffic Hijacking, Malware Delivery
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a gateway-monitoring and adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) framework dubbed DKnife that’s operated by China-nexus threat actors since at least 2019.The framework comprises seven Linux-based implants that are designed to perform deep packet inspection, manipulate traffic, and deliver malware via routers and edge devices. Its primary targets seem to First seen…
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Transparent Tribe Hacker Group Targets India’s Startup Ecosystem in Cyber Attack
A worrying shift in the tactics of >>Transparent Tribe,<< a notorious threat group also known as APT36. Historically focused on Indian government, defense, and educational sectors, the group has now expanded its scope to target India's growing startup ecosystem. This new campaign uses sophisticated lures themed around real startup founders to infect victims with the…
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CISA gives federal agencies 18 months to purge unsupported edge devices
Tags: authentication, cisa, cyber, data, exploit, firmware, Hardware, infrastructure, monitoring, network, risk, risk-assessment, service, software, technology, threat, updateImplementation hurdles: Sunil Varkey, advisor at Beagle Security, warns of implementation complexities. “The operational reality of removing legacy systems is not straightforward,” Varkey said. “Legacy devices continue to exist not by design, but by necessity.”He pointed to orphaned systems that remain live and embedded in workflows but lack clear ownership, and operational technology environments where…