Category: Attack Feeds

For the past decade, cybersecurity experts in the federal government have argued that trust, or a lack of it, was key to developing effective security policies for agency systems and data. But today, cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers are using artificial intelligence to develop and launch cyberattacks more quickly and efficiently. Governments and businesses are facing … Read More “Can Zero Trust survive the AI era?  – CyberScoop” »

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware dubbed Speagle that hijacks the functionality and infrastructure of a legitimate program called Cobra DocGuard. “Speagle is designed to surreptitiously harvest sensitive information from infected computers and transmit it to a Cobra DocGuard server that has been compromised by the attackers, masking the data exfiltration process as legitimate  … Read More “Speagle Malware Hijacks Cobra DocGuard to Steal Data via Compromised Servers  – The Hacker News” »

A new analysis of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers has revealed that 54 of them leverage a technique known as bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) by abusing a total of 34 vulnerable drivers. EDR killer programs have been a common presence in ransomware intrusions as they offer a way for affiliates to neutralize … Read More “54 EDR Killers Use BYOVD to Exploit 34 Signed Vulnerable Drivers and Disable Security  – The Hacker News” »

Federal cyber officials aren’t seeing a significant change in attacks tied to Iran since the conflict there began, at least not yet, but they are on the lookout for any uptick and are focusing on the Stryker attack in particular. Terry Kalka — director of the Defense Industrial Base Collaborative Information Sharing Environment at The … Read More “Feds keep eyes peeled for Iran cyberattacks, respond to Stryker breach  – CyberScoop” »

Austin, TX, USA, 19th March 2026, CyberNewswire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Austin, United States, 19th March 2026, CyberNewswire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

ThreatsDay Bulletin is back on The Hacker News, and this week feels off in a familiar way. Nothing loud, nothing breaking everything at once. Just a lot of small things that shouldn’t work anymore but still do. Some of it looks simple, almost sloppy, until you see how well it lands. Other bits feel a … Read More “ThreatsDay Bulletin: FortiGate RaaS, Citrix Exploits, MCP Abuse, LiveChat Phish & More  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new Android malware family called Perseus that’s being actively distributed in the wild with an aim to conduct device takeover (DTO) and financial fraud. Perseus is built upon the foundations of Cerberus and Phoenix, at the same time evolving into a “more flexible and capable platform” for compromising Android devices … Read More “New Perseus Android Banking Malware Monitors Notes Apps to Extract Sensitive Data  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers at Bitdefender have discovered a malicious Windsurf IDE extension using the Solana blockchain to steal developer credentials.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Security teams have spent years building identity and access controls for human users and service accounts. But a new category of actor has quietly entered most enterprise environments, and it operates entirely outside those controls. Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent, is now running across engineering organizations at scale. It reads files, executes shell commands, … Read More “How Ceros Gives Security Teams Visibility and Control in Claude Code  – The Hacker News” »

A new exploit kit for Apple iOS devices designed to steal sensitive data from is being wielded by multiple threat actors since at least November 2025, according to reports from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), iVerify, and Lookout. According to GTIG, multiple commercial surveillance vendors and suspected state-sponsored actors have utilized the full-chain exploit kit, … Read More “DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Uses 6 Flaws, 3 Zero-Days for Full Device Takeover  – The Hacker News” »

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged government agencies to apply patches for two security flaws impacting Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint, stating they have been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are as follows – CVE-2025-66376 (CVSS score: 7.2) – A stored cross-site scripting  … Read More “CISA Warns of Zimbra, SharePoint Flaw Exploits; Cisco Zero-Day Hit in Ransomware Attacks  – The Hacker News” »

Computer vision frameworks explained, features, types, and future trends. Learn how AI tools process images, train models, and…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Cisco customers have confronted a flood of actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting the vendor’s network edge software since late February, and researchers say that five of the nine vulnerabilities Cisco disclosed in its firewalls and SD-WAN systems over the past three weeks have already been exploited in the wild.  Attackers exploited a pair of these defects … Read More “Cisco’s latest vulnerability spree has a more troubling pattern underneath  – CyberScoop” »

Executives at top U.S. robotics companies asked Congress for federal dollars, new legislation and a simpler regulatory field, arguing the support is necessary to adapt to the AI era and compete with their well-oiled, state-funded Chinese competitors. The U.S. robotics sector, estimated at $50 billion in value, includes world famous companies like Boston Dynamics. The … Read More “U.S. robotics companies want federal help to keep Chinese robots out of America’s networks  – CyberScoop” »

Researchers detail “Claudy Day” flaws in Claude AI that could enable data theft using fake Google Ads, hidden…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) worker scheme with an aim to defraud U.S. businesses and generate illicit revenue for the regime to fund its weapons of mass … Read More “OFAC Sanctions DPRK IT Worker Network Funding WMD Programs Through Fake Remote Jobs  – The Hacker News” »

Amazon Threat Intelligence is warning of an active Interlock ransomware campaign that’s exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20131 (CVSS score: 10.0), a case of insecure deserialization of user-supplied Java byte stream, which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to  – … Read More “Interlock Ransomware Exploits Cisco FMC Zero-Day CVE-2026-20131 for Root Access  – The Hacker News” »

Researchers at Howler Cell have discovered a new .NET AOT malware campaign that uses a clever scoring system…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Researchers have discovered a second instance of suspected Russian hackers repurposing iOS exploits believed to originally be made on behalf of the U.S. government, pointing to what they say are several foreboding trends. iVerify, Lookout and Google collaborated on the research published Wednesday, a follow-up to earlier revelations about a similar exploit kit, Coruna. While … Read More “Second iOS exploit kit emerges from suspected Russian hackers using possible U.S. government-developed tools  – CyberScoop” »

Cybersecurity researchers have warned about the risks posed by low-cost IP KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse over Internet Protocol) devices, which can grant attackers extensive control over compromised hosts. The nine vulnerabilities, discovered by Eclypsium, span four different products from GL-iNet Comet RM-1, Angeet/Yeeso ES3 KVM, Sipeed NanoKVM, and JetKVM. The most severe of them allow  … Read More “9 Critical IP KVM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Root Access Across Four Vendors  – The Hacker News” »

When a Magecart payload hides inside the EXIF data of a dynamically loaded third-party favicon, no repository scanner will catch it – because the malicious code never actually touches your repo. As teams adopt Claude Code Security for static analysis, this is the exact technical boundary where AI code scanning stops and client-side runtime execution … Read More “Claude Code Security and Magecart: Getting the Threat Model Right  – The Hacker News” »

A new ClickFix scam tricks Windows users into running hidden commands that map hacker-controlled drives and load malware…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Security teams today are not short on tools or data. They are overwhelmed by both.  Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to understand context:  Q: Which exposures, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities chain together to create viable attack paths to crown jewels? Even the most mature security teams can’t … Read More “Product Walkthrough: How Mesh CSMA Reveals and Breaks Attack Paths to Crown Jewels  – The Hacker News” »

A high-severity security flaw affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop versions 24.04 and later could be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level. Tracked as CVE-2026-3888 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue could allow an attacker to seize control of a susceptible system. “This flaw (CVE-2026-3888) allows an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges to … Read More “Ubuntu CVE-2026-3888 Bug Lets Attackers Gain Root via systemd Cleanup Timing Exploit  – The Hacker News” »

Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a cross-origin issue in WebKit’s Navigation API that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy when processing maliciously … Read More “Apple Fixes WebKit Vulnerability Enabling Same-Origin Policy Bypass on iOS and macOS  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32746, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of out-of-bounds write … Read More “Critical Unpatched Telnetd Flaw (CVE-2026-32746) Enables Unauthenticated Root RCE via Port 23  – The Hacker News” »

In mid-January 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts identified a devious way that cybercriminals are tricking people into giving away…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

The U.S. government shouldn’t rigidly stick to traditional designations about which agency takes the lead on engaging with critical infrastructure sectors, the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Tuesday. Sector risk management agency designations have long governed which agency is at the forefront of government efforts to protect each of the … Read More “CISA official advises agencies not to get too hung up on who takes lead in critical infrastructure sectors  – CyberScoop” »

A federal appeals court has temporarily put on hold a California judge’s order that would have blocked Perplexity AI from using an AI-powered shopping agent on Amazon, as the case moves forward in a dispute over who controls automated activity inside customer accounts. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday granted Perplexity an … Read More “Appeals court temporarily pauses order blocking Perplexity’s AI shopping agent on Amazon  – CyberScoop” »

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said Tuesday that the Trump administration isn’t aspiring to enlist the private sector to conduct offensive cyber operations, but instead to help the government by keeping them abreast of the threats they’re facing. The recently-released national cyber strategy talks about incentivizing companies to disrupt the networks of adversaries. “I’m not … Read More “Trump administration isn’t pushing companies to conduct cyber offense, national cyber director says  – CyberScoop” »

Cybersecurity researchers at 7AI have revealed a new Claude Fraud campaign in which hackers use fake AI extensions and Google ads to steal data from tech professionals.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new method for exfiltrating sensitive data from artificial intelligence (AI) code execution environments using domain name system (DNS) queries. In a report published Monday, BeyondTrust revealed that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter’s sandbox mode permits outbound DNS queries that an attacker can exploit to enable interactive shells  – … Read More “AI Flaws in Amazon Bedrock, LangSmith, and SGLang Enable Data Exfiltration and RCE  – The Hacker News” »

New York, United States, 17th March 2026, CyberNewswire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Enterprise Cloud Network Solutions secure multi-cloud environments with Zero Trust, visibility, and threat prevention across users, apps, and distributed data systems.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

The ransomware operation known as LeakNet has adopted the ClickFix social engineering tactic delivered through compromised websites as an initial access method. The use of ClickFix, where users are tricked into manually running malicious commands to address non-existent errors, is a departure from relying on traditional methods for obtaining initial access, such as through stolen … Read More “LeakNet Ransomware Uses ClickFix via Hacked Sites, Deploys Deno In-Memory Loader  – The Hacker News” »

The new infostealer campaign spreads Vidar 2.0 via fake game cheats on GitHub and Reddit, stealing crypto, login tokens, and files while targeting young gamers ignoring security warnings  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

New York, NY, 17th March 2026, CyberNewswire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

A majority of security leaders are struggling to defend AI systems with tools and skills that are not fit for the challenge, according to the AI and Adversarial Testing Benchmark Report 2026 from Pentera. The report, based on a survey of 300 US CISOs and senior security leaders, examines how organizations are securing AI infrastructure … Read More “AI is Everywhere, But CISOs are Still Securing It with Yesterday’s Skills and Tools, Study Finds  – The Hacker News” »

Drivers in the Russian city of Perm have been enjoying an unexpected bonus this week: free parking. Not because the city council suddenly decided to embrace generosity – but rather because hackers succeeded in knocking the city’s payment system offline. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.  – Read More  – … Read More “Free parking in Russia after Distributed Denial-of-Service attack knocks city’s parking system offline  – GRAHAM CLULEY” »

North Korean threat actors have been observed sending phishing to compromise targets and obtain access to a victim’s KakaoTalk desktop application to distribute malicious payloads to certain contacts. The activity has been attributed by South Korean threat intelligence firm Genians to a hacking group referred to as Konni. “Initial access was achieved through a spear-phishing … Read More “Konni Deploys EndRAT Through Phishing, Uses KakaoTalk to Propagate Malware  – The Hacker News” »

After decades of development, quantum computing is now becoming increasingly available for advanced scientific and commercial use. The potential marvels range from accelerating drug discovery and materials science, to optimizing complex logistics and financial modeling. But there’s a paradox to this trend: Quantum computing also poses a growing threat to data security. The risk is … Read More “It’s time to get serious about post-quantum security. Here’s where to start.  – CyberScoop” »

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Wing FTP to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-47813 (CVSS score: 4.3), is an information disclosure vulnerability that leaks the installation path of the application under certain conditions  – Read More  … Read More “CISA Flags Actively Exploited Wing FTP Vulnerability Leaking Server Paths  – The Hacker News” »

AWS Bedrock AI tool flaw allows data leaks via DNS queries in AgentCore Code Interpreter sandbox, exposing sensitive cloud data, researchers warn.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

FBI warns gamers after malware hidden in several Steam games stole browser data and drained cryptocurrency wallets between May 2024 and January 2026.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Professional NBA and NFL athletes were allegedly deceived and victimized by a 34-year-old Georgia man’s sneaky social-engineering scheme that he ran while impersonating a well-known adult film star, the Justice Department said Monday. Kwamaine Jerell Ford allegedly initiated and committed some of the crimes while incarcerated in federal prison for a similar, widespread phishing scam … Read More “Zero lessons learned: Convicted scammer allegedly ran another athlete-focused phishing scam from federal prison  – CyberScoop” »

Cofense researchers warn of a phishing scam where attackers use LiveChat to impersonate Amazon and PayPal agents and steal credit card and MFA codes.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

The GlassWorm malware campaign is being used to fuel an ongoing attack that leverages the stolen GitHub tokens to inject malware into hundreds of Python repositories. “The attack targets Python projects — including Django apps, ML research code, Streamlit dashboards, and PyPI packages — by appending obfuscated code to files like setup.py, main.py, and app.py,” … Read More “GlassWorm Attack Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Force-Push Malware Into Python Repos  – The Hacker News” »

Companies House fixed a WebFiling flaw that allowed users to view director details and alter company records before the service was taken offline and restored.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More