Reporting on cyber threats: ransomware, phishing, breaches, malware and the actors behind them, curated from security news, research and vendor blogs.
Europe’s spyware victims face years of legal battles and few answers as governments shield surveillance behind national security. Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis waited almost five years for a court to confirm what happened to him. His phone was...
Adyen’s Dino Dai Zovi shows how hardware security proven in payments can contain AI-driven attacks, even when vulnerabilities cannot be patched.
FortiGuard Labs analyzes a campaign that brute-forces Microsoft SQL Server logins and abuses T-SQL to deploy a Monero miner and Gh0st RAT
Key findings Introduction We have now confirmed that, in late October 2026, approximately one week after a security fix became available, activity originating from 130.94.19[.]204 targeted Israeli organizations through vulnerable Mobile Access portals on...
The ongoing campaign targeting ConnectWise ScreenConnect deployments involves the exploitation of a now-patched critical security flaw in the remote access software, and not a new vulnerability, it has emerged. Blackpoint Cyber's Adversary Pursuit Group...
Zoom fixes two Windows Workplace flaws, including a critical bug that could let unauthenticated attackers remotely escalate privileges. Zoom has released security updates to fix two vulnerabilities in Zoom Workplace for Windows. One is critical and could...
Google Cloud VMs on AMD Turin chips need a guest OS patch and a stop-and-start to protect against three CPU side-channel flaws, Google said this week. The company has already applied mitigations against attacks between VMs, and between VMs and the host....
Penlink’s Webloc is an application that locates people using information from the weather, gaming, email, and religious apps on their phone. It’s sold to the police. The tool collects vast quantities of location data from smartphones via commonly used...
View CSAF Summary Siemens is currently assessing the impact of Node2Shell (CVE-2026-111497) on Industrial Edge. Please check your Industrial Edge Management (IEM) setup: - No Management Applications installed: No action is required. Although the affected...
View CSAF Summary On October 21, 2026, the PHP project and security researchers disclosed two critical, unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerabilities in the core PHP language runtime known as "php2shell" (tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and...
View CSAF Summary Palo Alto Networks has published information on a vulnerability in PAN-OS related to the Node2Shell vulnerability. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products affected by this vulnerability. Customers are advised to...
View CSAF Summary Palo Alto Networks has published information on vulnerabilities in PAN-OS related to PHP2Shell vulnerabilities. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products affected by these vulnerabilities. Customers are advised to...
View CSAF Summary On October 21, 2026, the Node.js project released security updates addressing a critical vulnerability in the Brotli decoder bundled with Node.js, commonly referred to as "Node2Shell" (tracked as CVE-2026-111497). The vulnerability is an...
CVE-2026-102895 is a trivial authentication-bypass vulnerability. GPUStack is also an attractive target. It is open-source software that manages clusters of GPUs, which are typically used to run AI workloads. All versions of GPUStack prior to 2.2.0, which...
N-able on Thursday said it's investigating a new public disclosure containing claims of additional vulnerabilities in on-premise versions of N-central running version 2026.4.1 HF2. "Based on our initial review, the server issue described depends on a...
Since mid-August 2026, a phishing operation has been stealing live Google sessions from corporate users. Every check defenders normally lean on to judge a link came back clean, and the operator designed it that way on purpose. The Threat Research team at...
PTC has released patches for a new critical vulnerability impacting Windchill and FlexPLM software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-126325, carries a CVSS v4 score of 9.2 out of...
When hand-typed commands failed to breach a US retailer, the attacker turned to AI-generated scripts, achieving lateral movement in minutes.
This is the first article in a series on cloud penetration testing. We'll cover the three cloud layers (External, Overlay, and Underlay), common architectures (OpenStack and Kubernetes), typical attack chains, and real-world incidents.
A critical flaw in MongoDB Server allows an unauthenticated attacker to send two requests that trigger a crash on the database server. The crash occurs only if that server is later chosen to take over as the main server while it still lacks some recent...
A flaw fixed in Node.js this week lets unauthenticated clients crash servers that use the runtime's built-in HTTP/2 support on the 24.x and 26.x release lines. A second HTTP/2 flaw can cause a server to send a client pieces of its memory, including...
Starting Tuesday, an attacker used stolen credentials for 4,837 GitHub accounts to plant a secret stealer in repositories those accounts could write to, according to Aikido Security, a security software company. The stealer is built to take the secrets and...
A critical flaw in Apache HTTP Server's HTTP/2 module, mod_http2, can let a remote attacker run code on the server. Tracked as CVE-2026-119618, it affects versions 2.4.55 through 2.4.70 and is fixed in version 2.4.71, released yesterday. Only servers with...
ConnectWise has taken the precautionary step of disabling five third-party extensions in partner environments following reports of unauthorized access. In an advisory posted on its site, the company said there is no evidence that the incident involves a...
Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about the French government attributing freezer hacks to cyber units within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp. This surprises Tom, because the hacks were entirely consistent with Russian sabotage operations across...
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The CCP built a Big Data system to scrape reams of information and learn about individuals abroad, to potentially target and exploit them. Think Alice Huang Lite.
You're driving your new Chinese SUV when the dashboard goes dark. Ten minutes later, your phone rings. A stranger says they've got the digital key to your car, and would you like it back? Of course you would. That'll be $550. Meanwhile, three men have been...
The package adds public-private cyber responders, an AI-focused team run by the economic ministry, and more leeway to use the government's new active cyber-defense powers.