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Cloudflare Fixes ACME Validation Bug Allowing WAF Bypass to Origin Servers
Cloudflare has addressed a security vulnerability impacting its Automatic Certificate Management Environment ACME validation logic that made it possible to bypass security controls and access origin servers. "The vulnerability was rooted in how our edge network processed requests destined for the...
Why Secrets in JavaScript Bundles are Still Being Missed
Leaked API keys are no longer unusual, nor are the breaches that follow. So why are sensitive tokens still being so easily exposed? To find out, Intruder's research team looked at what traditional vulnerability scanners actually cover and built a new secrets detection method to address gaps in...
Tudou Guarantee Marketplace Halts Telegram Transactions After Processing Over $12 Billion
A Telegram-based guarantee marketplace known for advertising a broad range of illicit services appears to be winding down its operations, according to new findings from Elliptic. The blockchain intelligence company said Tudou Guarantee has effectively ceased transactions through its public Telegr...
Google Gemini Prompt Injection Flaw Exposed Private Calendar Data via Malicious Invites
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a security flaw that leverages indirect prompt injection targeting Google Gemini as a way to bypass authorization guardrails and use Google Calendar as a data extraction mechanism. The vulnerability, Miggo Security's Head of Research, Liad...
⚡ Weekly Recap: Fortinet Exploits, RedLine Clipjack, NTLM Crack, Copilot Attack & More
In cybersecurity, the line between a normal update and a serious incident keeps getting thinner. Systems that once felt reliable are now under pressure from constant change. New AI tools, connected devices, and automated systems quietly create more ways in, often faster than security teams can...
DevOps & SaaS Downtime: The High (and Hidden) Costs for Cloud-First Businesses
Just a few years ago, the cloud was touted as the "magic pill" for any cyber threat or performance issue. Many were lured by the "always-on" dream, trading granular control for the convenience of managed services. In recent years, many of us have learned often the hard way that public cloud servi...
New StackWarp Hardware Flaw Breaks AMD SEV-SNP Protections on Zen 1–5 CPUs
A team of academics from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany has disclosed the details of a new hardware vulnerability affecting AMD processors. The security flaw, codenamed StackWarp , can allow bad actors with privileged control over a host server to run malicious cod...
CrashFix Chrome Extension Delivers ModeloRAT Using ClickFix-Style Browser Crash Lures
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing campaign dubbed KongTuke that used a malicious Google Chrome extension masquerading as an ad blocker to deliberately crash the web browser and trick victims into running arbitrary commands using ClickFix-like lures to deliver a...
Security Bug in StealC Malware Panel Let Researchers Spy on Threat Actor Operations
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the web-based control panel used by operators of the StealC information stealer, allowing them to gather crucial insights on one of the threat actors using the malware in their operations. "By exploiting it, we...
Black Basta Ransomware Leader Added to EU Most Wanted and INTERPOL Red Notice
Ukrainian and German law enforcement authorities have identified two Ukrainians suspected of working for the Russia-linked ransomware-as-a-service RaaS group Black Basta. In addition, the group's alleged leader, a 35-year-old Russian national named Oleg Evgenievich Nefedov Нефедов Олег Евгеньевич...
OpenAI to Show Ads in ChatGPT for Logged-In U.S. Adults on Free and Go Plans
OpenAI on Friday said it would start showing ads in ChatGPT to logged-in adult U.S. users in both the free and ChatGPT Go tiers in the coming weeks, as the artificial intelligence AI company expanded access to its low-cost subscription globally. "You need to know that your data and conversations...
GootLoader Malware Uses 500–1,000 Concatenated ZIP Archives to Evade Detection
The JavaScript aka JScript malware loader called GootLoader has been observed using a malformed ZIP archive that's designed to sidestep detection efforts by concatenating anywhere from 500 to 1,000 archives. "The actor creates a malformed archive as an anti-analysis technique," Expel security...
Five Malicious Chrome Extensions Impersonate Workday and NetSuite to Hijack Accounts
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five new malicious Google Chrome web browser extensions that masquerade as human resources HR and enterprise resource planning ERP platforms like Workday, NetSuite, and SuccessFactors to take control of victim accounts. "The extensions work in concert to...
Your Digital Footprint Can Lead Right to Your Front Door
You lock your doors at night. You avoid sketchy phone calls. You're careful about what you post on social media. But what about the information about you that's already out there—without your permission? Your name. Home address. Phone number. Past jobs. Family members. Old usernames. It's all sti...
LOTUSLITE Backdoor Targets U.S. Policy Entities Using Venezuela-Themed Spear Phishing
Security experts have disclosed details of a new campaign that has targeted U.S. government and policy entities using politically themed lures to deliver a backdoor known as LOTUSLITE. The targeted malware campaign leverages decoys related to the recent geopolitical developments between the U.S...
China-Linked APT Exploited Sitecore Zero-Day in Critical Infrastructure Intrusion
A threat actor likely aligned with China has been observed targeting critical infrastructure sectors in North America since at least last year. Cisco Talos, which is tracking the activity under the name UAT-8837 , assessed it to be a China-nexus advanced persistent threat APT actor with medium...
Cisco Patches Zero-Day RCE Exploited by China-Linked APT in Secure Email Gateways
Cisco on Thursday released security updates for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager, nearly a month after the company disclosed that it had been exploited as a zero-day by a China-nexus advanced...
AWS CodeBuild Misconfiguration Exposed GitHub Repos to Potential Supply Chain Attacks
A critical misconfiguration in Amazon Web Services AWS CodeBuild could have allowed complete takeover of the cloud service provider's own GitHub repositories, including its AWS JavaScript SDK, putting every AWS environment at risk. The vulnerability has been codenamed CodeBreach by cloud security...
Critical WordPress Modular DS Plugin Flaw Actively Exploited to Gain Admin Access
A maximum-severity security flaw in a WordPress plugin called Modular DS has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23550 CVSS score: 10.0, has been described as a case of unauthenticated privilege escalation impacting all...
Researchers Reveal Reprompt Attack Allowing Single-Click Data Exfiltration From Microsoft Copilot
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new attack method dubbed Reprompt that could allow bad actors to exfiltrate sensitive data from artificial intelligence AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot in a single click, while bypassing enterprise security controls entirely. "Only a single...
ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Voice Cloning Exploit, Wi-Fi Kill Switch, PLC Vulns, and 14 More Stories
The internet never stays quiet. Every week, new hacks, scams, and security problems show up somewhere. This week's stories show how fast attackers change their tricks, how small mistakes turn into big risks, and how the same old tools keep finding new ways to break in. Read on to catch up before...
Model Security Is the Wrong Frame – The Real Risk Is Workflow Security
As AI copilots and assistants become embedded in daily work, security teams are still focused on protecting the models themselves. But recent incidents suggest the bigger risk lies elsewhere: in the workflows that surround those models. Two Chrome extensions posing as AI helpers were recently...
4 Outdated Habits Destroying Your SOC's MTTR in 2026
It's 2026, yet many SOCs are still operating the way they did years ago, using tools and processes designed for a very different threat landscape. Given the growth in volumes and complexity of cyber threats, outdated practices no longer fully support analysts' needs, staggering investigations and...
Microsoft Legal Action Disrupts RedVDS Cybercrime Infrastructure Used for Online Fraud
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has taken a "coordinated legal action" in the U.S. and the U.K. to disrupt a cybercrime subscription service called RedVDS that has allegedly fueled millions in fraud losses. The effort, per the tech giant, is part of a broader law enforcement effort in...
Palo Alto Fixes GlobalProtect DoS Flaw That Can Crash Firewalls Without Login
Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw impacting GlobalProtect Gateway and Portal, for which it said there exists a proof-of-concept PoC exploit. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0227 CVSS score: 7.7, has been described as a denial-of-service DoS...
Researchers Null-Route Over 550 Kimwolf and Aisuru Botnet Command Servers
The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies said it null-routed traffic to more than 550 command-and-control C2 nodes associated with the AISURU/Kimwolf botnet since early October 2025. AISURU and its Android counterpart, Kimwolf, have emerged as some of the biggest botnets in recent times,...
AI Agents Are Becoming Authorization Bypass Paths
Not long ago, AI agents were harmless. They wrote snippets of code. They answered questions. They helped individuals move a little faster. Then organizations got ambitious. Instead of personal copilots, companies started deploying shared organizational AI agents - agents embedded into HR, IT,...
Hackers Exploit c-ares DLL Side-Loading to Bypass Security and Deploy Malware
Security experts have disclosed details of an active malware campaign that's exploiting a DLL side-loading vulnerability in a legitimate binary associated with the open-source c-ares library to bypass security controls and deliver a wide range of commodity trojans and stealers. "Attackers achieve...
Fortinet Fixes Critical FortiSIEM Flaw Allowing Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Fortinet has released updates to fix a critical security flaw impacting FortiSIEM that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to achieve code execution on susceptible instances. The operating system OS injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-64155 , is rated 9.4 out of 10.0 on the CVSS...
New Research: 64% of 3rd-Party Applications Access Sensitive Data Without Justification
Research analyzing 4,700 leading websites reveals that 64% of third-party applications now access sensitive data without business justification, up from 51% in 2024. Government sector malicious activity spiked from 2% to 12.9%, while 1 in 7 Education sites show active compromise. Specific...
Microsoft Fixes 114 Windows Flaws in January 2026 Patch, One Actively Exploited
Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its first security update for 2026, addressing 114 security flaws, including one vulnerability that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 114 flaws, eight are rated Critical, and 106 are rated Important in severity. As many as 58 vulnerabilities...
Critical Node.js Vulnerability Can Cause Server Crashes via async_hooks Stack Overflow
Node.js has released updates to fix what it described as a critical security issue impacting "virtually every production Node.js app" that, if successfully exploited, could trigger a denial-of-service DoS condition. "Node.js/V8 makes a best-effort attempt to recover from stack space exhaustion wi...
PLUGGYAPE Malware Uses Signal and WhatsApp to Target Ukrainian Defense Forces
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has disclosed details of new cyber attacks targeting its defense forces with malware known as PLUGGYAPE between October and December 2025. The activity has been attributed with medium confidence to a Russian hacking group tracked as Void...
Long-Running Web Skimming Campaign Steals Credit Cards From Online Checkout Pages
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a major web skimming campaign that has been active since January 2022, targeting several major payment networks like American Express, Diners Club, Discover, JCB Co., Ltd., Mastercard, and UnionPay. "Enterprise organizations that are clients of these...
Malicious Chrome Extension Steals MEXC API Keys by Masquerading as Trading Tool
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious Google Chrome extension that's capable of stealing API keys associated with MEXC, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange CEX available in over 170 countries, while masquerading as a tool to automate trading on the platform. The...
[Webinar] Securing Agentic AI: From MCPs and Tool Access to Shadow API Key Sprawl
AI agents are no longer just writing code. They are executing it. Tools like Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex can now build, test, and deploy software end-to-end in minutes. That speed is reshaping engineering—but it's also creating a security gap most teams don't see until something breaks. Behin...
New Advanced Linux VoidLink Malware Targets Cloud and container Environments
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented and feature-rich malware framework codenamed VoidLink that's specifically designed for long-term, stealthy access to Linux-based cloud environments According to a new report from Check Point Research, the cloud-native...
What Should We Learn From How Attackers Leveraged AI in 2025?
Old Playbook, New Scale:While defenders are chasing trends, attackers are optimizing the basics The security industry loves talking about "new" threats. AI-powered attacks. Quantum-resistant encryption. Zero-trust architectures. But looking around, it seems like the most effective attacks in 2025...
ServiceNow Patches Critical AI Platform Flaw Allowing Unauthenticated User Impersonation
ServiceNow has disclosed details of a now-patched critical security flaw impacting its ServiceNow artificial intelligence AI Platform that could enable an unauthenticated user to impersonate another user and perform arbitrary actions as that user. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-12420 ,...
New Malware Campaign Delivers Remcos RAT Through Multi-Stage Windows Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed SHADOWREACTOR that employs an evasive multi-stage attack chain to deliver a commercially available remote administration tool called Remcos RAT and establish persistent, covert remote access. "The infection chain follows a...
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Gogs Vulnerability Enabling Code Execution
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has warned of active exploitation of a high-severity security flaw impacting Gogs by adding it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-8110 CVSS score: 8.7, relates to a case of path...
n8n Supply Chain Attack Abuses Community Nodes to Steal OAuth Tokens
Threat actors have been observed uploading a set of eight packages on the npm registry that masqueraded as integrations targeting the n8n workflow automation platform to steal developers' OAuth credentials. One such package, named "n8n-nodes-hfgjf-irtuinvcm-lasdqewriit," mimics a Google Ads...
⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Automation Exploits, Telecom Espionage, Prompt Poaching & More
This week made one thing clear: small oversights can spiral fast. Tools meant to save time and reduce friction turned into easy entry points once basic safeguards were ignored. Attackers didn't need novel tricks. They used what was already exposed and moved in without resistance. Scale amplified...
GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets Crypto Project Databases by Exploiting Weak Credentials
A new wave of GoBruteforcer attacks has targeted databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects to co-opt them into a botnet that's capable of brute-forcing user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers. "The current wave of campaigns is driven b...
Anthropic Launches Claude AI for Healthcare with Secure Health Record Access
Anthropic has become the latest Artificial intelligence AI company to announce a new suite of features that allows users of its Claude platform to better understand their health information. Under an initiative called Claude for Healthcare , the company said U.S. subscribers of Claude Pro and Max...
Researchers Uncover Service Providers Fueling Industrial-Scale Pig Butchering Fraud
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on two service providers that supply online criminal networks with the necessary tools and infrastructure to fuel the pig butchering-as-a-service PBaaS economy. At least since 2016, Chinese-speaking criminal groups have erected industrial-scale scam cente...
MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors
The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom entities in the Middle East with a Rust-based implant codenamed RustyWater. "The campaign uses icon spoofing and malicious Word documents to deliver...
Europol Arrests 34 Black Axe Members in Spain Over €5.9M Fraud and Organized Crime
Europol on Friday announced the arrest of 34 individuals in Spain who are alleged to be part of an international criminal organization called Black Axe. As part of an operation conducted by the Spanish National Police, in coordination with the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office and Europol, 28...
China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines
Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit that may have been developed as far back as February 2024. Cybersecurity firm Huntress, which observed the activity in December 2025 and...
Russian APT28 Runs Credential-Stealing Campaign Targeting Energy and Policy Organizations
Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been linked to a fresh set of credential harvesting attacks targeting individuals associated with a Turkish energy and nuclear research agency, as well as staff affiliated with a European think tank and organizations in North Macedonia and Uzbekistan. Th...