Tag: unauthorized
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Malicious Chrome Extension Steals Wallet Credentials, Enables Automated Trading Abuse
A sophisticated malware campaign targeting cryptocurrency traders has been uncovered by Socket’s Threat Research Team, revealing a malicious Chrome extension designed to steal MEXC exchange API credentials and enable unauthorized account control. The malicious extension operates by programmatically creating new MEXC API keys, enabling withdrawal permissions without user knowledge, and exfiltrating the resulting credentials to…
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CISOs’ top 10 cybersecurity priorities for 2026
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, defense, gartner, google, hacker, identity, intelligence, international, leak, monitoring, network, office, passkey, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, unauthorized, zero-trustPrepping for AI-enabled attacks: Although conventional tasks dominate the CISO priorities in the Foundry survey, interviews and other research show that AI-related issues are also high on the CISO priority list.For example, 53% of security leaders ranked AI-enabled cyber threats as a top-three organizational risk in a global survey conducted by Boston Consulting Group. BCG…
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CISOs’ top 10 cybersecurity priorities for 2026
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, deep-fake, defense, gartner, google, hacker, identity, intelligence, international, leak, monitoring, network, office, passkey, resilience, risk, risk-management, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, unauthorized, zero-trustPrepping for AI-enabled attacks: Although conventional tasks dominate the CISO priorities in the Foundry survey, interviews and other research show that AI-related issues are also high on the CISO priority list.For example, 53% of security leaders ranked AI-enabled cyber threats as a top-three organizational risk in a global survey conducted by Boston Consulting Group. BCG…
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New “Ghost Tap” Attack Hijacks Android Phones to Drain Bank Accounts
Tags: android, attack, china, cyber, cybercrime, finance, group, malware, nfc, phone, technology, threat, unauthorizedChinese threat actors are weaponizing NFC technology to steal funds from victims’ bank remotely accounts through sophisticated Android malware campaigns, with security researchers identifying at least $355,000 in fraudulent transactions from a single operation. Group-IB researchers have uncovered a sprawling cybercrime ecosystem centered around NFC-enabled Android applications that enable criminals to conduct unauthorized tap-to-pay transactions…
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Cybersecurity at the edge: Securing rugged IoT in mission-critical environments
Tags: 5G, access, attack, authentication, breach, business, cio, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, firmware, framework, gartner, Hardware, HIPAA, identity, infrastructure, iot, leak, least-privilege, mitigation, monitoring, network, nist, password, risk, strategy, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, unauthorized, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-trustDefense: Compromised devices can leak mission-critical data or disrupt tactical communications.Utilities: Operational paralysis halts power distribution or water treatment, impacting millions.Public safety: Emergency response systems fail during crises, endangering lives.According to Gartner, in 2023, IoT-related incidents in critical infrastructure surged 400% over the previous three years and the average cost of an OT breach exceeded…
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Cybersecurity at the edge: Securing rugged IoT in mission-critical environments
Tags: 5G, access, attack, authentication, breach, business, cio, compliance, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, firmware, framework, gartner, Hardware, HIPAA, identity, infrastructure, iot, leak, least-privilege, mitigation, monitoring, network, nist, password, risk, strategy, supply-chain, technology, theft, threat, unauthorized, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-trustDefense: Compromised devices can leak mission-critical data or disrupt tactical communications.Utilities: Operational paralysis halts power distribution or water treatment, impacting millions.Public safety: Emergency response systems fail during crises, endangering lives.According to Gartner, in 2023, IoT-related incidents in critical infrastructure surged 400% over the previous three years and the average cost of an OT breach exceeded…
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Top cyber threats to your AI systems and infrastructure
Tags: ai, api, attack, best-practice, business, chatgpt, ciso, cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, exploit, framework, governance, hacker, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, LLM, malicious, mitre, monitoring, open-source, RedTeam, risk, sans, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, tactics, theft, threat, tool, training, unauthorized, usa, vulnerabilityData poisoning Data poisoning is a type of attack in which bad actorsmanipulate, tamper with, and pollute the data used to develop or train AI systems, including machine learning models. By corrupting the data or introducing faulty data, attackers can alter, bias, or otherwise render inaccurate a model’s performance.Imagine an attack that tells a model…
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Australian Insurer Prosura Confirms Cyber Incident, Takes Online Services Offline Amid Investigation
Australian insurance provider Prosura is investigating a cyber incident after detecting unauthorized access to parts of its internal systems, which has resulted in fraudulent emails being sent to some customers. The Prosura cyberattack, identified in early January, led the insurer to temporarily shut down key online services while it works to secure its systems and…
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Poison Pill Defense Protects Proprietary AI Data From Theft
Researchers Weaponize False Data to Wreck Stolen AI Systems. Chinese and Singaporean researchers have developed a defense mechanism that poisons proprietary knowledge graph data, making such stolen information worthless to thieves who attempt to deploy it in unauthorized artificial intelligence systems. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/poison-pill-defense-protects-proprietary-ai-data-from-theft-a-30461
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Ghost Tap Malware Fuels Surge in Remote NFC Payment Fraud
New Android malware enables unauthorized tap-to-pay transactions without physical access to bank cards First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ghost-tap-malware-remote-nfc-fraud/
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Sedgwick Acknowledges Data Breach After TridentLocker Ransomware Claim
Tags: access, breach, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, government, ransomware, risk, unauthorizedSedgwick has confirmed a cybersecurity incident at its government-focused subsidiary after the TridentLocker ransomware gang claimed responsibility for stealing 3.4 gigabytes of data. The breach highlights ongoing risks to federal contractors handling sensitive U.S. agency data. Federal Contractor Confirms Unauthorized Access Claims administration giant Sedgwick acknowledged on January 4, 2026, that Sedgwick Government Solutions (SGS)…
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The Silent Threat to the Agentic Enterprise: Why BOLA is the #1 Risk for AI Agents
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, cloud, control, data, data-breach, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, jobs, LLM, risk, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, unauthorized, vulnerability, wafIn the race to deploy autonomous AI agents, organizations are inadvertently building on a foundation of shifting sand. While security teams have spent the last year focused on “Prompt Injection” and “Model Poisoning,” a much older, more dangerous adversary has quietly become the primary attack vector for the agentic era: Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA).…
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The Silent Threat to the Agentic Enterprise: Why BOLA is the #1 Risk for AI Agents
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, cloud, control, data, data-breach, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, jobs, LLM, risk, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, unauthorized, vulnerability, wafIn the race to deploy autonomous AI agents, organizations are inadvertently building on a foundation of shifting sand. While security teams have spent the last year focused on “Prompt Injection” and “Model Poisoning,” a much older, more dangerous adversary has quietly become the primary attack vector for the agentic era: Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA).…
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macOS Flaw Allows TCC Bypass, Exposing Sensitive User Information
Apple’s accessibility framework has been found vulnerable to a critical Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) bypass that exposes sensitive user data and enables arbitrary AppleScript execution. Researchers have disclosed CVE-2025-43530, a vulnerability in the ScreenReader.The framework’s MIG service permits attackers to execute unauthorized AppleScript commands and send AppleEvents to protected processes without user consent. The…
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Handala Hackers Breach Telegram Accounts Linked to Israeli Officials
In December 2025, the Iran-linked hacking group known as Handala escalated its influence operations against Israel’s political establishment by publishing material it claimed was pulled from the fully “compromised” mobile devices of two high-profile officials. A technical review by threat intelligence firm KELA, however, indicates the intrusions were far narrower in scope centered on unauthorized…
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IBM Patches Critical API Connect Bug Enabling Authentication Bypass
IBM has patched a critical API Connect flaw that could let attackers bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/news-ibm-api-connect-bug/
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Hackers drain $3.9M from Unleash Protocol after multisig hijack
The decentralized intellectual property platform Unleash Protocol has lost around $3.9 million worth of cryptocurrency after someone executed an unauthorized contract upgrade that allowed asset withdrawals. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-drain-39m-from-unleash-protocol-after-multisig-hijack/
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Are NHIs safe from unauthorized access in cloud environments
How Secure Are Non-Human Identities in Cloud Environments? Have you ever pondered the safety of machine identities within your organization’s cloud infrastructure? While we integrate more technology into our systems, managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) becomes critical. These machine identities play an essential role in cybersecurity by securely interfacing between various digital environments, especially those based……
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Traditional Security Frameworks Leave Organizations Exposed to AI-Specific Attack Vectors
Tags: ai, attack, chatgpt, cloud, crypto, data, data-breach, framework, github, malicious, unauthorized, vulnerabilityIn December 2024, the popular Ultralytics AI library was compromised, installing malicious code that hijacked system resources for cryptocurrency mining. In August 2025, malicious Nx packages leaked 2,349 GitHub, cloud, and AI credentials. Throughout 2024, ChatGPT vulnerabilities allowed unauthorized extraction of user data from AI memory.The result: 23.77 million secrets were leaked through AI First…
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M-Files Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Steal Active User Session Tokens
A critical security vulnerability in M-Files Server could allow authenticated attackers to capture active user session tokens via the M-Files Web interface, enabling identity impersonation and unauthorized access to sensitive information. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-13008, was disclosed on December 19, 2025, and affects multiple M-Files Server versions deployed across enterprise environments. Field Details CVE…
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Spotify Music Library Targeted as Hacktivists Scrape 86 Million Files
Anna’s Archive, a prominent digital preservation platform, has announced the largest unauthorized extraction of Spotify music data ever recorded. The hacktivist group scraped approximately 86 million songs from the streaming service, representing nearly 99.6% of all user listening activity on the platform. The collection, totaling just under 300TB, includes metadata for an estimated 99.9% of…
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University of Phoenix Data Breach Impacts Over 3.5 Million Individuals
University of Phoenix, Inc. disclosed a significant data breach affecting approximately 3.5 million individuals following an external system compromise discovered in November 2025. The unauthorized access occurred on August 13, 2025, but remained undetected until November 21, 2025, creating a three-month window of exposure. Breach Overview The incident resulted from an external hacking attack targeting…
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South Korean firm hit with US investor lawsuit over data breach disclosure failures
Authentication keys left unrevoked after employee departure: Investigators traced the breach to a former employee who retained valid authentication credentials after leaving the company in 2024, according to statements by South Korean lawmaker Choi Min-hee. The individual, a 43-year-old Chinese national, had worked on authentication management systems and joined Coupang in November 2022.Rep. Choi Min-hee,…
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Coupang breach affecting 33.7 million users raises data protection questions
Coupang disclosed a data breach affecting 33.7 million customers after unauthorized access to personal data went undetected for nearly five months. Penta Security explains how the incident highlights insider credential abuse risks and why encrypting customer data beyond legal requirements can reduce exposure and limit damage. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coupang-breach-affecting-337-million-users-raises-data-protection-questions/
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Nissan Discloses Data Breach Linked to Compromised Red Hat Infrastructure
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has disclosed a significant data breach affecting approximately 21,000 customers of Nissan Fukuoka Sales Co., Ltd. following unauthorized access to a Red Hat-managed server used for developing the company’s dealership customer management system. Red Hat, a software company contracted by Nissan to develop its customer management infrastructure, detected the unauthorized access…
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Hackers exploit Microsoft OAuth device codes to hijack enterprise accounts
Tags: access, attack, automation, awareness, breach, china, conference, credentials, cybercrime, data, email, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, hacker, hacking, linkedin, malicious, microsoft, military, phishing, qr, russia, tactics, threat, tool, unauthorizedTools of the trade: What’s driving the surge is the availability of tools that make these attacks easy to execute. Proofpoint identified two primary kits: SquarePhish2 and Graphish.SquarePhish2 is an updated version of a tool originally published by Dell Secureworks in 2022. It automates the OAuth Device Grant Authorization flow and integrates QR code functionality.The…
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Hackers exploit Microsoft OAuth device codes to hijack enterprise accounts
Tags: access, attack, automation, awareness, breach, china, conference, credentials, cybercrime, data, email, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, hacker, hacking, linkedin, malicious, microsoft, military, phishing, qr, russia, tactics, threat, tool, unauthorizedTools of the trade: What’s driving the surge is the availability of tools that make these attacks easy to execute. Proofpoint identified two primary kits: SquarePhish2 and Graphish.SquarePhish2 is an updated version of a tool originally published by Dell Secureworks in 2022. It automates the OAuth Device Grant Authorization flow and integrates QR code functionality.The…
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New Flaw in Somalia’s E-Visa System Exposes Travelers’ Passport Data
A newly identified security flaw in Somalia’s electronic visa platform has raised serious concerns about the safety of personal data belonging to thousands of travelers, only weeks after the country acknowledged a major breach affecting tens of thousands of applicants. Investigations show that the Somalia e-visa system lacks essential protection methods, making it possible for unauthorized…
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“‹”‹Marquis Data Breach Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of Bank Customers
Tags: breach, cyberattack, data, data-breach, exploit, finance, firewall, service, unauthorized, vulnerabilityNew regulatory disclosures have confirmed that a cyberattack on financial services vendor Marquis exposed sensitive personal and financial information belonging to more than 400,000 bank and credit union customers across the United States. According to filings submitted to state authorities, attackers accessed Marquis systems by exploiting a known but unpatched firewall vulnerability, allowing unauthorized access……
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Rockrose Development suffers security breach affecting 47,000 people
The New York City-based firm recently found that unauthorized individuals hacked its systems and claimed to have acquired confidential information. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/security-breach-hack-rockrose-development/808362/