Cybersecurity News from Across the Internet
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
The Justice Department says Adobe buried the real cost of cancelling a subscription where most customers would never think to look. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
Some weeks in security feel normal. Then you read a few tabs and get that immediate “ah, great, we’re doing this now” feeling. This week has that energy. Fresh messes, old problems getting sharper, and research that stops feeling theoretical real fast. A few bits hit a little too close to real life, too. There’s … Read More “⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Days, Router Botnets, AWS Breach, Rogue AI Agents & More – The Hacker News” »
Three different ClickFix campaigns have been found to act as a delivery vector for the deployment of a macOS information stealer called MacSync. “Unlike traditional exploit-based attacks, this method relies entirely on user interaction – usually in the form of copying and executing commands – making it particularly effective against users who may not appreciate … Read More “ClickFix Campaigns Spread MacSync macOS Infostealer via Fake AI Tool Installers – The Hacker News” »
If you run security at any reasonably complex organization, your validation stack probably looks something like this: a BAS tool in one corner. A pentest engagement, or maybe an automated pentesting product, in another. A vulnerability scanner feeding an attack surface management platform somewhere else. Each tool gives you a slice of the picture. None … Read More “Why Security Validation Is Becoming Agentic – The Hacker News” »
Kyiv, Ukraine, 16th March 2026, CyberNewswire – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
New XWorm 7.1 and Remcos RAT campaigns abuse trusted Windows tools to evade detection. The attacks exploit a WinRAR flaw and use process hollowing to spy on victims. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
Ukrainian entities have emerged as the target of a new campaign likely orchestrated by threat actors linked to Russia, according to a report from S2 Grupo’s LAB52 threat intelligence team. The campaign, observed in February 2026, has been assessed to share overlaps with a prior campaign mounted by Laundry Bear (aka UAC-0190 or Void Blizzard) … Read More “DRILLAPP Backdoor Targets Ukraine, Abuses Microsoft Edge Debugging for Stealth Espionage – The Hacker News” »
Cybersecurity is entering “a new phase” as artificial intelligence tools have matured and given IT defenders significantly less time to respond to cyberattacks and other threats, according to a new report released Monday. The report, authored by federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, concludes that threat actors have adopted AI more quickly than governments and private … Read More “Attackers are exploiting AI faster than defenders can keep up, new report warns – CyberScoop” »
Ransomware remains a scourge that shows some signs of relenting, but incident responders and threat hunters are busier than ever as more financially-motivated attackers lean exclusively on data theft for extortion. Attacks that only involve data theft for extortion may not be more prevalent than traditional ransomware when attackers encrypt systems, but momentum is moving … Read More “The ransomware economy is shifting toward straight-up data extortion – CyberScoop” »
The recently released executive order targeting cybercrime, fraud, and predatory schemes uses language the federal government has often avoided. Now, for the first time, the Trump administration is echoing what the cybersecurity industry has been shouting for years: cyber-enabled fraud is a product of transnational organized crime. That distinction matters because organized crime requires an … Read More “Washington is right: Cybercrime is organized crime. Now we need to shut down the business model – CyberScoop” »
Google is testing a new security feature as part of Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM) that prevents certain kinds of apps from using the accessibility services API. The change, incorporated in Android 17 Beta 2, was first reported by Android Authority last week. AAPM was introduced by Google in Android 16, released last year. When … Read More “Android 17 Blocks Non-Accessibility Apps from Accessibility API to Prevent Malware Abuse – The Hacker News” »
Playnance partners with KGeN, connecting its Web3 gaming ecosystem to 53M gamers and 30K clans through community-driven platforms. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team (CNCERT) has issued a warning about the security stemming from the use of OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot and Moltbot), an open-source and self-hosted autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent. In a post shared on WeChat, CNCERT noted that the platform’s “inherently weak default security configurations,” coupled with its – … Read More “OpenClaw AI Agent Flaws Could Enable Prompt Injection and Data Exfiltration – The Hacker News” »
ShinyHunters claims it stole up to 1 petabyte of data from Telus Digital, including support recordings, code, and employee records after a breach. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new iteration of the GlassWorm campaign that they say represents a “significant escalation” in how it propagates through the Open VSX registry. “Instead of requiring every malicious listing to embed the loader directly, the threat actor is now abusing extensionPack and extensionDependencies to turn initially standalone-looking extensions into transitive – … Read More “GlassWorm Supply-Chain Attack Abuses 72 Open VSX Extensions to Target Developers – The Hacker News” »
INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia III led to 94 arrests and the takedown of 45,000 malicious IPs in 72 countries targeting phishing, malware, and fraud networks. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
Qualys uncovers ‘CrackArmor’ vulnerabilities in AppArmor that could expose 12.6M Linux systems to root access and container escapes. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
Meta has announced plans to discontinue support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for chats on Instagram after May 8, 2026. “If you have chats that are impacted by this change, you will see instructions on how you can download any media or messages you may want to keep,” the social media giant said in a help … Read More “Meta to Shut Down Instagram End-to-End Encrypted Chat Support Starting May 2026 – The Hacker News” »
A suspected China-based cyber espionage operation has targeted Southeast Asian military organizations as part of a state-sponsored campaign that dates back to at least 2020. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the threat activity under the moniker CL-STA-1087, where CL refers to cluster, and STA stands for state-backed motivation. “The activity demonstrated strategic operational … Read More “Chinese Hackers Target Southeast Asian Militaries with AppleChris and MemFun Malware – The Hacker News” »
INTERPOL on Friday announced the takedown of 45,000 malicious IP addresses and servers used in connection with phishing, malware, and ransomware campaigns, as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to dismantle criminal networks, disrupt emerging threats, and safeguard victims from scams. The effort is part of an international law enforcement operation that involved 72 countries … Read More “INTERPOL Dismantles 45,000 Malicious IPs, Arrests 94 in Global Cybercrime – The Hacker News” »
Disclaimer: This report has been prepared by the Threat Research Center to enhance cybersecurity awareness and support the strengthening of defense capabilities. It is based on independent research and observations of the current threat landscape available at the time of publication. The content is intended for informational and preparedness purposes only. Read more blogs around … Read More “Investigating a New Click-Fix Variant – The Hacker News” »
Microsoft has disclosed details of a credential theft campaign that employs fake virtual private network (VPN) clients distributed through search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques. “The campaign redirects users searching for legitimate enterprise software to malicious ZIP files on attacker-controlled websites to deploy digitally signed trojans that masquerade as trusted VPN clients – Read More … Read More “Storm-2561 Spreads Trojan VPN Clients via SEO Poisoning to Steal Credentials – The Hacker News” »
US agencies race to meet a CISA deadline after a critical Cisco SD-WAN Flaw exposed federal networks to long-term intrusion and forced security action. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
SQL injection flaw in Ally WordPress plugin exposes 200,000+ sites to data theft. Patch released, but most installations remain unpatched and vulnerable. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
Menlo Park, California, USA, 13th March 2026, CyberNewswire – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel’s AppArmor module that could be exploited by unprivileged users to circumvent kernel protections, escalate to root, and undermine container isolation guarantees. The nine confused deputy vulnerabilities have been collectively codenamed CrackArmor by the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). The – Read More – The … Read More “Nine CrackArmor Flaws in Linux AppArmor Enable Root Escalation, Bypass Container Isolation – The Hacker News” »
Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address two high-severity vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-3909 (CVSS score: 8.8) – An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Skia 2D graphics library that allows a remote attacker to perform … Read More “Google Fixes Two Chrome Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild Affecting Skia and V8 – The Hacker News” »
A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud. “SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. “The malware allowed SocksEscort to direct internet – Read More … Read More “Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries – The Hacker News” »
Veeam has released security updates to address multiple critical vulnerabilities in its Backup & Replication software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2026-21666 (CVSS score: 9.9) – A vulnerability that allows an authenticated domain user to perform remote code execution on the Backup Server. CVE-2026-21667 … Read More “Veeam Patches 7 Critical Backup & Replication Flaws Allowing Remote Code Execution – The Hacker News” »
A cyberattack that an Iranian hacking group said it carried out against medical device manufacturer Stryker might mark Tehran’s first significant cyber action since the start of the joint U.S.-Israel conflict. But even that may have been a happy accident for Iranian hackers in what has been a low buzz of activity during that timeframe, … Read More “Stryker attack highlights nebulous nature of Iranian cyber activity amid joint U.S.-Israel conflict – CyberScoop” »
