BraZetsu Malware Turns Compromised Windows Hosts Into Criminal Marketplace Inventory

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sophisticated Python-based Windows malware framework called BraZetsu that fuels an underground marketplace commercializing access to compromised hosts. "Unlike the standard infostealer model, BraZetsu is a comprehensive master toolkit that...

Thomson Reuters Court Software Breach May Have Exposed SSNs and Sealed Data

Thomson Reuters disclosed on Wednesday that an unauthorized party obtained files from C-Track , the court case management platform sold by its West Publishing Corporation unit, in March 2026, affecting courts in 11 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Ontario, Canada. West Publishing said it...

US Becomes Top Target in RMM Phishing Campaign Spanning 46 Countries

An RMM phishing campaign initially associated with Canadian targeting due to its use of Canada Revenue Agency CRA tax forms as lures has turned out to be part of a broader campaign spanning 46 countries. Around 45% of observed activity was associated with the United States , making it the...

Attackers Turn Trusted Node.js Runtime Into Malware Delivery Tool in Targeted Attacks

Threat actors are leveraging the trusted Node.js JavaScript runtime in multiple cyber attacks as a way to deploy malicious payloads. According to a new report published by the Symantec Threat Hunter Team today, the attack method has been put to use in attacks targeting government departments,...

Shai-Hulud's Reach Just Grew to 469 Credential Locations. Here's What That Means

In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environments, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment CI/CD tooling, cloud configurations, and even AI tool configs...

Pegasus Zero-Click Spyware Exploit Infects Serbian Student Movement Member's iPhone

The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia's student protest movement was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation. "Our analysis confirmed that an iMessage zero-click exploit was used to infect the device...

Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon

The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse has dropped a new zero-day dubbed FalconFlank , a proof-of-concept PoC for a privilege escalation flaw impacting Crowdstrike Falcon. "FalconFlank is a 0-day privilege escalation that abuses...

CISA Adds Seven Exploited Flaws as Attackers Deploy Reverse Shells and Crypto Miners

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog after they landed in attackers' crosshairs. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-83548 CVSS score: 10.0 - A server-side request forger...

Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI Unveil Cyber AI Models, Safeguards, and Access Programs

Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trusted defenders via a new initiative called the Fairwind Program. "The Fairwind Program gives high-priority defenders like governments,...

Fake Software Installers Disable Windows Update and Weaken Microsoft Defender

An active malware campaign is using bogus software-download websites to impersonate trusted vendors and distribute malicious installers. "The campaign has targeted users looking to download popular software and has resulted in compromises across multiple organizations and industries, primarily...

Malicious .git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Other AI Agents Run Attacker Code

Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer's machine, four of them still unpatched at publication. The command executes as the user, outside the...

Malicious Apache Modules Hijack Brazilian Government Site Traffic to Push Betting Pages

A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions, and using them to divert visitors to attacker-controlled pages promoting online gambling and...

BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access

Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol BGP hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some installations. A hosting-provider account separately said 5 of its 34 checked Virtualizor...

Meta Ads Push StreamRat Android Trojan That Can Gain Near-Complete Device Control

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and can give operators near-complete control of infected devices. ThreatFabric said the campaign's...

How to Secure Enterprise AI: From Adoption to Incident Readiness

The debate about whether AI delivers business value is over. The challenge now is implementing it at scale and securely across every function while meeting board-level pressure to move fast. Organizations must focus on adopting AI at business speed without losing control of cyber risk.Download th...

Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain

SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access SMA 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerabilities, discovered internally by SonicWall's William Perry and Adam Babis, are listed below -...

GeoNetwork Fixes Unauthenticated RCE Chain Affecting Government Geoportal Backends

Two vulnerabilities in GeoNetwork can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution RCE on the open-source geospatial metadata catalog, which sits behind many government and agency geoportals. The project shipped fixes in versions 4.4.12 and 4.2.17 on July 8, 2026, and published the...

Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attachments to about 80,000 of its users in 2016 and 2017. Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev , 40, was...

Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another

Forescout Research - Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic's Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution RCE exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller PLC to another, executing attacker-supplied ARM shellcode on live hardware. The exploit targetsCVE-2021-31886 , a...

Attackers Exploit Critical Switchvox Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shells Without Credentials

Threat actors are exploiting a severe security vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox, an enterprise VoIP platform, that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-9586 CVSS score: 9.3, a critical unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Sangoma...

Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer P2P botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation. The effort was undertaken on August 31, 2026, by authorities from the U.S., Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, in...

Attackers Exploit Critical JFrog Artifactory Flaw to Mint Admin Tokens Days After Disclosure

Threat actors are exploiting a newly patched critical security flaw impacting JFrog Artifactory merely days after public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-82329 CVSS score: 9.8, a case of authentication bypass that could lead to administrative access in...

Breeze Comet Executes Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions via Brazilian Payment Systems

Brazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated threat actor dubbed Breeze Comet formerly UNC5669 since 2024. Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG and Mandiant teams described the threat actor as "specializing in manipulating...

13 Malicious Packagist Packages Target Unpatched iPhones to Steal Crypto Wallet Seeds

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a set of 13 malicious Composer theme packages on Packagist that are designed to inject JavaScript into Vietnamese movie and comic streaming sites that install those libraries and initiate the deployment of spyware aimed at unpatched iOS devices. "The...

Iranian Hackers Pose as Recruiters to Deliver Cross-Platform RATs Through Coding Tests

The Iranian Nimbus Manticore hacking group has been attributed to two previously undocumented malware families that highlight the continued evolution of its toolset and likely expand its targeting footprint to infect Linux and Apple macOS systems using cross-platform remote access trojans RATs...

Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones

The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. Then it talks them through opening a terminal and pasting it in. The technique is called ClickFix,...

Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000

METR short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter", a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence AI models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered "two notable security incidents" where external actors...

Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that's been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to interfere with artificial intelligence AI-assisted analysis. The idea, ESET said in a series of posts o...

Attackers Exploit Critical Langflow and Rails Flaws in Credential-Probing and C2 Activity

Threat actors are exploiting two critical flaws impacting Langflow and Ruby on Rails, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2026-0768 CVSS score: 9.8 - A lack of proper validation of a user-supplied input vulnerability that could be...

North Korean Job Fraud Expands Beyond IT Into Healthcare and Sales

Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea aka DPRK or North Korea have been observed seeking job opportunities beyond the information technology IT sector, with recent investigations identifying suspected workers employed in sales and marketing and the medical professio...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More

The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then cleaned the logs. Old bugs formed new attack chains. Even an AI agent decided its assigned task was optional...

ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky...

Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

Threat actors associated with Aurora aka Aur0ra ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence AI-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed...

Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance

Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest view yet into that activity. They also expose a larger problem: activity logs alone...

China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs

A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked asFire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System TACACS servers, and Linux management hosts used to route, authenticate, and manage high-value...

DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now pointing out that they were among those targeted. Last week, the DoJ said the National Aeronautics and...

TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to Deploy Reverse-Tunnel Backdoor

Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix , that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. "While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, TerminalFix campaigns apply the same techniq...

Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE

Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and...

Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City's State Network

Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' demands. The same statement disclosed that forensic work had found further data outflows i...

Cosmos EVM Flaw Exploited After Cosmos Labs Knew Every Blockchain Running It Was Vulnerable

Cosmos Labs has warned that a critical balance-handling flaw in the shared Cosmos EVM module was exploited to drain funds from six blockchains between August 20 and August 25, 2026. The vulnerability, designated GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2 , is rated Critical by Cosmos Labs and was published without a CV...

Attackers Chain Two PaperCut Flaws to Execute Code Without Authentication

Malicious actors are exploiting a newly patched security flaw in PaperCut NG and MF to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances, as the company released a fresh emergency fix with additional hardening. "This vulnerability gives an unauthenticated attacker remote control over PaperCut's...

Android 17 Adds OS-Wide ECH to Hide Website Visits From Network Providers

Google on Thursday announced new network security protections in Android 17 to bolster connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and safeguard the privacy of users' home networks. Topping the list is support for Encrypted Client Hello ECH, a privacy standard that prevents networks fro...

ownCloud Flaw Exploited to Steal Nuclear Records From Philippine Research Body

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting ownCloud to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog following reports that a Chinese-speaking threat actor weaponized the vulnerability to target a nuclear research body in...

19 Chrome and Edge Extensions Found With Wallet-Stealing and Crypto-Draining Code

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 18 Google Chrome and one Microsoft Edge extensions that were published over the last six months and harbored wallet secret stealing and cryptocurrency draining capabilities. The extensions, per Socket security researcher Karlo Zanki, share...

Two Unitree G1 EDU Humanoid Robot Flaws Enable Root RCE, One Starts Over Bluetooth

Security researcher Olivier Laflamme has disclosed two independent root remote code execution RCE chains affecting the Unitree G1 EDU , including a Bluetooth Low Energy BLE path that can reach root on the robot's Locomotion PC. The flaws are tracked asCVE-2026-76639 and CVE-2026-76640 , with the...

Key Reasons Why Identity Fabric Matters in 2026

An Identity Fabric knits fragmented identity systems into a coherent layer that observes how identities behave across applications, APIs, and infrastructure. As enterprise access spans more cloud services and automated workloads, identity security depends less on static configuration and more on...

Three CVSS 10.0 ServiceNow Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code and SQL

ServiceNow has released patches for four security flaws impacting the ServiceNow AI Platform, three of them rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system and exploitable, in certain circumstances, by an unauthenticated attacker. The company said it deployed a security update to hosted instances and...

China-Made ZBT Routers Ship With Two Implants Giving Unauthenticated Attackers Root Access

VulnCheck has disclosed two previously undocumented factory implants in firmware for routers built by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics ZBT, each of which gives an unauthenticated remote attacker the ability to run commands as root on affected devices. The implants, named SPEAKINGSTONE and DARKLANTE...

Critical cPanel Flaw Could Let One Hosting Customer Take Root Control of a Whole Server

cPanel has released patches for a security flaw affecting domain parking and addon domain functionality in cPanel and WebHost Manager WHM, which could allow code execution as the root user. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-65643 , impacts all supported versions of cPanel &...

PaperCut Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks, Affecting All NG and MF Versions

PaperCut has alerted customers that bad actors are actively exploiting a vulnerability impacting all versions of its PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF print management software in zero-day attacks. The company has released an emergency patch for v25 and v26 to address the issue. It said it's "aware of...