Webinar: How to Automate Exposure Validation to Match the Speed of AI Attacks

In February 2026, researchers uncovered a shift that completely changed the game: threat actors are now using custom AI setups to automate attacks directly into the kill chain. We aren't just talking about AI writing better phishing emails anymore. We’re talking about autonomous agents mapping...

What to Look for in an Exposure Management Platform (And What Most of Them Get Wrong)

Every security team has a version of the same story. The quarter ends with hundreds of vulnerabilities closed. The dashboards are bursting with green. Then someone in a leadership meeting asks: "So, are we actually safer now?" Crickets. The room goes quiet because an honest answer requires contex...

Critical cPanel Authentication Vulnerability Identified — Update Your Server Immediately

cPanel has released security updates to address a security issue impacting various authentication paths that could allow an attacker to obtain access to the control panel software. The problem affects all currently supported versions of cPanel and WebHost Manager WHM, according to an alert...

CISA Adds Actively Exploited ConnectWise and Windows Flaws to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting ConnectWise ScreenConnect and Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below -...

LiteLLM CVE-2026-42208 SQL Injection Exploited within 36 Hours of Disclosure

In yet another instance of threat actors quickly jumping on the exploitation bandwagon, a newly disclosed critical security flaw in BerriAI's LiteLLM Python package has come under active exploitation in the wild within 36 hours of the bug becoming public knowledge. The vulnerability, tracked as...

Researchers Discover Critical GitHub CVE-2026-3854 RCE Flaw Exploitable via Single Git Push

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security vulnerability impacting GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Server that could allow an authenticated user to obtain remote code execution with a single "git push" command. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-3854 CVSS score: 8.7, is a...

Brazilian LofyGang Resurfaces After Three Years With Minecraft LofyStealer Campaign

A cybercrime group of Brazilian origin has resurfaced after more than three years to orchestrate a campaign that targets Minecraft players with a new stealer called LofyStealer aka GrabBot. "The malware disguises itself as a Minecraft hack called 'Slinky,'" Brazil-based cybersecurity company Zeno...

VECT 2.0 Ransomware Irreversibly Destroys Files Over 131KB on Windows, Linux, ESXi

Threat hunters are warning that the cybercriminal operation known as VECT 2.0 acts more like a wiper than a ransomware due to a critical flaw in its encryption implementation across Windows, Linux, and ESXi variants that renders recovery impossible even for the threat actors. The fact that VECT's...

Why Secure Data Movement Is the Zero Trust Bottleneck Nobody Talks About

Every security program is betting on the same assumption: once a system is connected, the problem is solved. Open a ticket, stand up a gateway, push the data through. Done. That assumption is wrong. It is also a major reason Zero Trust programs stall. New research my team just published puts...

Critical Unpatched Flaw Leaves Hugging Face LeRobot Open to Unauthenticated RCE

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw impacting LeRobot, Hugging Face's open-source robotics platform with nearly 24,000 GitHub stars, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-25874 CVSS score: 9.3,...

After Mythos: New Playbooks For a Zero-Window Era

When patching isn’t fast enough, NDR helps contain the next era of threats. If you’ve been tracking advancements in AI, you know the exploit window, the short buffer that organizations relied on to patch and protect after a vulnerability disclosure, is closing fast. Anthropic’s new model, Claude...

Chinese Silk Typhoon Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over COVID Research Cyberattacks

A Chinese national accused of being a member of the Silk Typhoon hacking group has been extradited to the U.S. from Italy. Xu Zewei, 34, was arrested in July 2025 by Italian authorities for his alleged links to the Chinese state-sponsored threat group and for orchestrating cyber attacks against...

Microsoft Patches Entra ID Role Flaw That Enabled Service Principal Takeover

An administrative role meant for artificial intelligence AI agents within Microsoft Entra ID could enable privilege escalation and identity takeover attacks, according to new findings from Silverfort. Agent ID Administrator is a privileged built-in role introduced by Microsoft as part of its agen...

Microsoft Confirms Active Exploitation of Windows Shell CVE-2026-32202

Microsoft on Monday revised its advisory for a now-patched, high-severity security flaw impacting Windows Shell to acknowledge that it has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-32202 CVSS score: 4.3, a spoofing vulnerability that could allow an attacker to...

Checkmarx Confirms GitHub Repository Data Posted on Dark Web After March 23 Attack

Checkmarx has disclosed that its ongoing investigation tied to the supply chain security incident has revealed that a cybercriminal group published data related to the company on the dark web. "Based on current evidence, we believe this data originated from Checkmarx's GitHub repository, and that...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Fast16 Malware, XChat Launch, Federal Backdoor, AI Employee Tracking & More

Everything is dumb again. This week feels broken in a very familiar way. Old tricks are back. New tools are doing shady crap. Supply chains got hit. Fake help desks worked. Weird research showed how easy some attacks still are. Most of it feels like stuff we should have fixed years ago. Bad...

Mythos Changed the Math on Vulnerability Discovery. Most Teams Aren't Ready for the Remediation Side

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has dominated security discussions since its April 7 announcement. Early reporting describes a powerful cybersecurity-focused AI system capable of identifying vulnerabilities at scale and raising serious questions about how quickly organizations can validate,...

PhantomCore Exploits TrueConf Vulnerabilities to Breach Russian Networks

A pro-Ukrainian hacktivist group called PhantomCore has been attributed to attacks actively targeting servers running TrueConf video conferencing software in Russia since September 2025. That's according to a report published by Positive Technologies, which found the threat actors to be leveragin...

Researchers Uncover 73 Fake VS Code Extensions Delivering GlassWorm v2 Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged dozens of Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code extensions on the Open VSX repository that are linked to a persistent information-stealing campaign dubbed GlassWorm. The cluster of 73 extensions has been identified as cloned versions of their legitimate...

Fake CAPTCHA IRSF Scam and 120 Keitaro Campaigns Drive Global SMS, Crypto Fraud

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a telecommunications fraud campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA verification tricks to dupe unsuspecting users into sending international text messages that incur charges on their mobile bills, generating illicit revenue for the threat actors who lea...

Researchers Uncover Pre-Stuxnet ‘fast16’ Malware Targeting Engineering Software

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Lua-based malware created years before the notorious Stuxnet worm that aimed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program by destroying uranium enrichment centrifuges. According to a new report published by SentinelOne, the previously undocumented cyber...

CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026 Federal Deadline

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Friday added four vulnerabilities impacting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server, and D-Link DIR-823X series routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of...

FIRESTARTER Backdoor Hit Federal Cisco Firepower Device, Survives Security Patches

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency's Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance ASA software was compromised in September 2025 with a new malware called FIRESTARTER. FIRESTARTER, per CISA and the U.K....

NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software

The Office of Inspector General OIG of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities,...

Bridging the AI Agent Authority Gap: Continuous Observability as the Decision Engine

The AI Agent Authority Gap - From Ungoverned to Delegation As discussed in our previous article, AI agents are exposing a structural gap in enterprise security, but the problem is often framed too narrowly. The issue is not simply that agents are new actors. It is that agents are delegated actors...

26 FakeWallet Apps Found on Apple App Store Targeting Crypto Seed Phrases

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious apps on the Apple App Store that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets in an attempt to steal recovery phrases and private keys since at least fall 2025. "Once launched, these apps redirect users to browser pages designed to look...

Tropic Trooper Uses Trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub to Deploy AdaptixC2

Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code tunnels for remote access. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which...

LMDeploy CVE-2026-33626 Flaw Exploited Within 13 Hours of Disclosure

A high-severity security flaw in LMDeploy, an open-source toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving large language models LLMs, has come under active exploitation in the wild less than 13 hours after its public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33626 CVSS score: 7.5, relate...

UNC6692 Impersonates IT Help Desk via Microsoft Teams to Deploy SNOW Malware

A previously undocumented threat activity cluster known as UNC6692 has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics via Microsoft Teams to deploy a custom malware suite on compromised hosts. "As with many other intrusions in recent years, UNC6692 relied heavily on impersonating IT help des...

Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign

Bitwarden CLI, the command-line interface for the password manager Bitwarden, has reportedly been compromised as part of a newly discovered and ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign, according to findings from JFrog and Socket. "The affected package version appears to be @bitwarden/[email protected]...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: $290M DeFi Hack, macOS LotL Abuse, ProxySmart SIM Farms +25 New Stories

You scroll past one incident and see another that feels familiar, like it should have been fixed years ago, but it still works with small changes. Same bugs. Same mistakes. The supply chain is messy. Packages you did not check are stealing data, adding backdoors, and spreading. Attacking the...

[Webinar] Mythos Reality Check: Beating Automated Exploitation at AI Speed

Imagine a world where hackers don't sleep, don't take breaks, and find weak spots in your systems instantly. Well, that world is already here. Thanks to AI, attackers are now launching automated, large-scale exploits faster than ever before. The time you have to fix a vulnerability before it gets...

Project Glasswing Proved AI Can Find the Bugs. Who's Going to Fix Them?

Last week, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, an AI model so effective at discovering software vulnerabilities that they took the extraordinary step of postponing its public release. Instead, the company has given access to Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and a coalition of others to find a...

China-Linked GopherWhisper Infects 12 Mongolian Government Systems with Go Backdoors

Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat APT group tracked as GopherWhisper. "The group wields a wide array of tools mostly written in Go, using injectors and loaders to deploy and execute various backdoor...

Vercel Finds More Compromised Accounts in Context.ai-Linked Breach

Vercel on Wednesday revealed that it has identified an additional set of customer accounts that were compromised as part of a security incident that enabled unauthorized access to its internal systems. The company said it made the discovery after expanding its investigation to include an extra se...

Apple Fixes iOS Flaw That Let FBI Recover Deleted Signal Messages

Apple has rolled out a software fix for iOS and iPadOS to address a Notification Services flaw that stored notifications marked for deletion on the device. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28950 CVSS score: N/A, has been described as a logging issue that has been addressed with improved dat...

Malicious KICS Docker Images and VS Code Extensions Hit Checkmarx Supply Chain

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of malicious images pushed to the official "checkmarx/kics" Docker Hub repository. In an alert published today, software supply chain security company Socket revealed that unknown threat actors managed to have overwritten existing tags, including v2.1.20 and...

Self-Propagating Supply Chain Worm Hijacks npm Packages to Steal Developer Tokens

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh set of packages that have been compromised by bad actors to deliver a self-propagating worm that spreads through stolen developer npm tokens. The supply chain worm has been detected by both Socket and StepSecurity, with the companies tracking the...

Harvester Deploys Linux GoGra Backdoor in South Asia Using Microsoft Graph API

The threat actor known as Harvester has been attributed to a new Linux version of its GoGra backdoor deployed as part of attacks likely targeting entities in South Asia. "The malware uses the legitimate Microsoft Graph API and Outlook mailboxes as a covert command-and-control C2 channel, allowing...

Lotus Wiper Malware Targets Venezuelan Energy Systems in Destructive Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented data wiper that has been used in attacks targeting Venezuela at the end of last year and the start of 2026. Dubbed Lotus Wiper , the novel file wiper has been used in a destructive campaign targeting the energy and utilities sect...

Toxic Combinations: When Cross-App Permissions Stack into Risk

On January 31, 2026, researchers disclosed that Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, had left its database wide open, exposing 35,000 email addresses and 1.5 million agent API tokens across 770,000 active agents. The more worrying part sat inside the private messages. Some of those...

Microsoft Patches Critical ASP.NET Core CVE-2026-40372 Privilege Escalation Bug

Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address a security vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372 , carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. It's rated Important in severity. An anonymous researcher has...

Mustang Panda’s New LOTUSLITE Variant Targets India Banks, South Korea Policy Circles

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of a known malware called LOTUSLITE that's distributed via a theme related to India's banking sector. "The backdoor communicates with a dynamic DNS-based command-and-control server over HTTPS and supports remote shell access, file operations...

Cohere AI Terrarium Sandbox Flaw Enables Root Code Execution, Container Escape

A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in a Python-based sandbox called Terrarium that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5752 , is rated 9.3 on the CVSS scoring system. "Sandbox escape vulnerability in Terrarium allows arbitrary code...

SystemBC C2 Server Reveals 1,570+ Victims in The Gentlemen Ransomware Operation

Threat actors associated with The Gentlemen ransomware‑as‑a‑service RaaS operation have been observed attempting to deploy a known proxy malware called SystemBC. According to new research published by Check Point, the command-and-control C2 or C&C server linked to SystemBC has led to the discover...

22 BRIDGE:BREAK Flaws Expose Thousands of Lantronix and Silex Serial-to-IP Converters

Cybersecurity researchers have identified 22 new vulnerabilities in popular models of serial-to-IP converters from Lantronix and Silex that could be exploited to hijack susceptible devices and tamper with data exchanged by them. The vulnerabilities have been collectively codenamed BRIDGE:BREAK by...

Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Aiding BlackCat Attacks in 2023

A third individual who was employed as a ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to conducting ransomware attacks against U.S. companies in 2023. Angelo Martino , 41, of Land O'Lakes, Florida, teamed up with the operators of the BlackCat ransomware starting in April 2023 to assist the e-crime ga...

5 Places where Mature SOCs Keep MTTR Fast and Others Waste Time

Security teams often present MTTR as an internal KPI. Leadership sees it differently: every hour a threat dwells inside the environment is an hour of potential data exfiltration, service disruption, regulatory exposure, and brand damage. The root cause of slow MTTR is almost never "not enough...

NGate Campaign Targets Brazil, Trojanizes HandyPay to Steal NFC Data and PINs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new iteration of an Android malware family called NGate that has been found to abuse a legitimate application called HandyPay instead of NFCGate. "The threat actors took the app, which is used to relay NFC data, and patched it with malicious code that...

No Exploit Needed: How Attackers Walk Through the Front Door via Identity-Based Attacks

The cybersecurity industry has spent the last several years chasing sophisticated threats like zero-days, supply chain compromises, and AI-generated exploits. However, the most reliable entry point for attackers still hasn't changed: stolen credentials. Identity-based attacks remain a dominant...