Tag: threat
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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation Following FortiBleed Leak
FortiBleed exposed credentials for 74,000 Fortinet devices, with attackers actively exploiting the leak to target systems worldwide. On June 18, CISA issued an emergency alert after reports surfaced that credentials for approximately 74,000 Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways had been leaked in what researchers are calling FortiBleed. The agency confirmed that threat actors were actively…
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Vidar Infostealer Bypasses Google Chrome’s ABE Encryption via APC Injection
A sophisticated evasion technique developed by Vidar infostealer operators successfully bypasses Google Chrome’s Application-Bound Encryption (ABE). Introduced in 2024, ABE was designed to protect browser-stored cookies and sensitive credentials. According to recent findings by Gen Threat Labs, the latest iterations of Vidar are now dropping weekly updates that utilize a complex chain of process forking,…
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Vidar Infostealer Bypasses Google Chrome’s ABE Encryption via APC Injection
A sophisticated evasion technique developed by Vidar infostealer operators successfully bypasses Google Chrome’s Application-Bound Encryption (ABE). Introduced in 2024, ABE was designed to protect browser-stored cookies and sensitive credentials. According to recent findings by Gen Threat Labs, the latest iterations of Vidar are now dropping weekly updates that utilize a complex chain of process forking,…
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Klue OAuth breach victim list grows as Icarus hackers claim attack
Market intelligence platform Klue has publicly confirmed a recent security incident that allowed threat actors to steal OAuth tokens used to connect to customers’ Salesforce environments, as the new “Icarus” extortion group publicly claims the attack. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/klue-oauth-breach-victim-list-grows-as-icarus-hackers-claim-attack/
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Hackers exploit info disclosure bug in Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin
Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Gravity SMTP, active on 100,000 sites. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-info-disclosure-bug-in-gravity-smtp-wordpress-plugin/
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Stressors, AI Forcing Changes to Cybersecurity Teams
As threats proliferate and AI complicates cybersecurity, CISOs say the job is getting harder, but more companies still want cybersecurity expertise, if even on a part-time basis. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/stressors-ai-changes-cybersecurity-teams
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CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices.The sweeping campaign, believed to be the work of Russian-speaking threat actors, has been codenamed FortiBleed. The number of compromised devices stands at First seen…
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CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices.The sweeping campaign, believed to be the work of Russian-speaking threat actors, has been codenamed FortiBleed. The number of compromised devices stands at First seen…
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CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices.The sweeping campaign, believed to be the work of Russian-speaking threat actors, has been codenamed FortiBleed. The number of compromised devices stands at First seen…
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From Assistive to Agentic: The AI Shift That’s Redefining Threat Management
IntroductionThe average enterprise security team has 40 or more security tools, giving a lot of visibility into internal telemetry and asset data. But often, these tools are working in siloes, generating (overlapping) alerts and data. And yet, breach dwell times remain stubbornly long (~43 days), response windows keep closing before teams can act, and analysts…
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Forget Data Leakage: Shadow AI’s Real Threat Is Access Control
The first wave of enterprise AI concern was straightforward. It was simply employees pasting sensitive data into public AI tools. Security teams responded with usage policies, domain blocks, and data loss prevention rules. That response made sense at the time.It doesn’t fit the problem anymore.Shadow AI has shifted from a data leakage concern to an…
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Confidence Lacks in Threat Detection Across Non-Email Channels like Slack and Teams
Half of cybersecurity leaders lack confidence in detecting threats on Slack, Teams and other non-email platforms, despite growing attacker focus First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/threat-detection-across-nonemail/
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Confidence Lacks in Threat Detection Across Non-Email Channels like Slack and Teams
Half of cybersecurity leaders lack confidence in detecting threats on Slack, Teams and other non-email platforms, despite growing attacker focus First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/threat-detection-across-nonemail/
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The Cyber Express Weekly Roundup: Cybersecurity Weekly Round on Emerging Threats, Data Breaches, and Global Policy Shifts
This week’s weekly roundup of cybersecurity developments highlights an expanding intersection of cyber risk, regulatory action, and enterprise vulnerability. Across healthcare, technology platforms, gaming companies, and government policy, organizations continue to confront a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape where data exposure, advanced intrusion tactics, and platform security failures are interconnected. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/tce-weekly-roundup-global-threats/
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Nintendo Confirms Employee Data Exposed in TinyPulse Cyberattack
Nintendo of America has confirmed that employee survey data was exposed in the recent TinyPulse cyberattack, although the company emphasized that its own systems were not breached and that no customer or financial information was accessed. The disclosure follows claims by the threat actor Shadowbyt3$, which alleged it had stolen sensitive information linked to Nintendo employees. First…
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10 Irrtümer der CyberIntelligence
Warum selbst fortgeschrittene Cyber-Threat-Intelligence-Programme immer wieder in dieselben Fallen tappen und wie man es besser machen könnte. Cyber-Threat-Intelligence (CTI) ist ein Feld voller hartnäckiger Halbwahrheiten, die auf den ersten Blick einleuchten, doch unhinterfragt durchaus Schaden anrichten können. Das mag daran liegen, dass sich CTI in den letzten Jahren vom Nischenthema zum Kernaspekt vieler Sicherheitsstrategien entwickelt…
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Phishing erkennen trotz künstlicher Intelligenz
KI-gestützte Phishing-Angriffe wirken professioneller denn je, hinterlassen jedoch erkennbare Spuren in E-Mails, auf Phishing-Webseiten und sogar in versteckten Inhalten. Das KnowBe4-Threat-Lab-Team hat neue Erkenntnisse zu KI-gestützten Phishing-Kampagnen veröffentlicht. Laut dem aktuellen Phishing-Trends-Report von KnowBe4 enthielten 86 Prozent der in den vergangenen sechs Monaten beobachteten Phishing-Angriffe ein gewisses Maß an KI-Unterstützung. Die Folge: Phishing-Mails sind heute…
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Chilling effects of surveillance threaten democracy, UN finds
Tags: threatUnited Nations study finds the chilling effects of pervasive digital surveillance in modern life undermines an entire web of interconnected and interdependent human rights, representing a systemic threat to democratic norms and political participation First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366644885/Chilling-effects-of-surveillance-threaten-democracy-UN-finds
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SmartApeSG Hackers Abuse Okendo Reviews Widget in E-Commerce Supply Chain Attack
A supply-chain style compromise in the Okendo Reviews widget that enabled the SmartApeSG threat actor to deliver staged JavaScript loaders across a wide e-commerce surface. Okendo’s client-facing review widget is deployed by more than 18,000 brands and commonly appears on high-visibility pages homepages, product pages, and review submission screens so the injected code produced downstream…
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Icarus threat actors exploit Klue OAuth breach to steal Salesforce data
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/icarus-threat-actors-exploit-klue-oauth-breach-to-steal-salesforce-data
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AI-Driven Threats, Zero-Days, and Data Breaches Define This Week in Cybersecurity for June 2026
Weekly summary of Cybersecurity Insider newsletters First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/weekly-roundup/ai-driven-threats-zero-days-and-data-breaches-define-this-week-in-cybersecurity-for-june-2026/
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Accenture Buys Majority Stake in Dragos in $4.2B Deal
Deal Combines Dragos OT Threat Detection With runZero, NetRise. Accenture is acquiring a majority stake in Dragos and full ownership of runZero and NetRise in a $4.2 billion deal to build an end-to-end OT cybersecurity platform for power grids, water systems, manufacturing plants and other critical infrastructure operators. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Accenture Buys Majority Stake in Dragos in $4.175B Deal
Deal Combines Dragos OT Threat Detection With runZero, NetRise. Accenture is acquiring a majority stake in Dragos and full ownership of runZero and NetRise in a $4.2 billion deal to build an end-to-end OT cybersecurity platform for power grids, water systems, manufacturing plants and other critical infrastructure operators. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Operation Escaneo Signals Shift in LatAm Threat Landscape
The threat group’s curious business model may combine opportunistic monetization alongside intel collection, without much coordination between the two. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/operation-escaneo-signals-shift-latam-threat-landscape
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Tor-Based Clipper Malware Targets Wallet Seed Phrases
USB .lnk malware steals crypto via clipboard hijack, replaces wallet addresses, steals seed phrases, and screenshots. Microsoft Threat Intelligence has been tracking a clipboard-stealing malware (Clipper) campaign since February 2026 that targets cryptocurrency wallets. A clipper is a type of malicious software that monitors and manipulates your clipboard, the temporary memory where data is stored…
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Nintendo confirms data stolen in WebMD subsidiary cyberattack
Nintendo of America has confirmed to BleepingComputer that threat actors stole survey data from the third-party TinyPulse service used internally, but its systems were not compromised. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nintendo-confirms-data-stolen-in-webmd-subsidiary-cyberattack/
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Close Encounters of the Human Kind
In the latest Threat Source, Hazel channels her inner Spielberg to explore why humans are delightfully irrational, reminding us that while security best practices are simple in theory, they’re a lot harder to pull off when you’re busy dealing with real life. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/close-encounters-of-the-human-kind/
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USB worm spreads crypto-stealing malware via Windows shortcut files
Threat actors targeting cryptocurrency wallets have been distributing clipboard-stealing malware with self-spreading capabilities and using the Tor network to conceal communication. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/usb-worm-spreads-crypto-stealing-malware-via-windows-shortcut-files/
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USB worm spreads crypto-stealing malware via Windows shortcut files
Threat actors targeting cryptocurrency wallets have been distributing clipboard-stealing malware with self-spreading capabilities and using the Tor network to conceal communication. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/usb-worm-spreads-crypto-stealing-malware-via-windows-shortcut-files/
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USB worm spreads crypto-stealing malware via Windows shortcut files
Threat actors targeting cryptocurrency wallets have been distributing clipboard-stealing malware with self-spreading capabilities and using the Tor network to conceal communication. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/usb-worm-spreads-crypto-stealing-malware-via-windows-shortcut-files/