Cloud logs can be inconsistent or incomplete, creating blind spots as environments scale and change. Corelight shows how network-level telemetry provides reliable visibility when cloud logs fall short. [...]
Conpet, Romania's national oil pipeline operator, has disclosed that a cyberattack disrupted its business systems and took down the company's website on Tuesday. [...]
VS Code-integrated configuration files are automatically executed in Codespaces when the user opens a repository or pull request. The post VS Code Configs Expose GitHub Codespaces to Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Criminals are using AI to clone professional websites at an industrial scale. A new report shows how one AI-powered network grew to 150+ domains by hiding behind Cloudflare and rotating IP ranges. The post Researchers Expose Network of 150 Cloned Law Firm Websites in AI-Powered Scam Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This week didn’t produce one big headline. It produced many small signals — the kind that quietly shape what attacks will look like next. Researchers tracked intrusions that start in ordinary places: developer workflows, remote tools, cloud access, identity paths, and even routine user actions. Nothing looked dramatic on the surface. That’s the point. Entry is becoming less
LowThe malware is known for dropping ransomware and other payloads, and for abusing infected machines to proxy traffic. The post SystemBC Infects 10,000 Devices After Defying Law Enforcement Takedown appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Italy has foiled a series of cyberattacks targeting some of its foreign ministry offices, including one in Washington. The post Italy Averted Russian-Linked Cyberattacks Targeting Winter Olympics Websites, Foreign Minister Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This latest infusion, led by SYN Ventures, brings the company’s total funding to $16.9 million. The post Nullify Secures $12.5 Million in Seed Funding for Cybersecurity AI Workforce appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Newsletter platform Substack is notifying users of a data breach after attackers stole their email addresses and phone numbers in October 2025. [...]
The elusive Iranian threat group known as Infy (aka Prince of Persia) has evolved its tactics as part of efforts to hide its tracks, even as it readied new command-and-control (C2) infrastructure coinciding with the end of the widespread internet blackout the regime imposed at the start of the month. "The threat actor stopped maintaining its C2 servers on January 8 for the first time since we
Today’s “AI everywhere” reality is woven into everyday workflows across the enterprise, embedded in SaaS platforms, browsers, copilots, extensions, and a rapidly expanding universe of shadow tools that appear faster than security teams can track. Yet most organizations still rely on legacy controls that operate far away from where AI interactions actually occur. The result is a widening
LowThe vulnerability could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and steal credentials and other secrets. The post Critical N8n Sandbox Escape Could Lead to Server Compromise appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CriticalHackers stole email addresses and other personal information from 1.4 million accounts after breaching the systems of automated investment platform Betterment in January. [...]
Palo Alto Networks has not attributed the APT activity to any specific country, but evidence points to China. The post Cyberspy Group Hacked Governments and Critical Infrastructure in 37 Countries appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CriticalA fresh wave of spam is hitting inboxes worldwide, with users reporting that they are once again being bombarded by automated emails generated through companies' unsecured Zendesk support systems. Some recipients say they are receiving hundreds of messages with strange or alarming subject lines. such as 'Activate account...' [...]
The security defects can lead to DoS conditions, arbitrary command execution, and privilege escalation. The post Cisco, F5 Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
HighA new, critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the n8n workflow automation platform that, if successfully exploited, could result in the execution of arbitrary system commands. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-25049 (CVSS score: 9.4), is the result of inadequate sanitization that bypasses safeguards put in place to address CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score: 9.9), another critical defect that
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active web traffic hijacking campaign that has targeted NGINX installations and management panels like Baota (BT) in an attempt to route it through the attacker's infrastructure. Datadog Security Labs said it observed threat actors associated with the recent React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182, CVSS score: 10.0) exploitation using malicious NGINX
A threat actor is compromising NGINX servers in a campaign that hijacks user traffic and reroutes it through the attacker's backend infrastructure. [...]
Multiple critical vulnerabilities in the popular n8n open-source workflow automation platform allow escaping the confines of the environment and taking complete control of the host server. [...]
CriticalThreat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of "disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features" to bypass traditional detection mechanisms and deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) known as AsyncRAT. "The attack leverages IPFS-hosted VHD files, extreme script obfuscation, runtime decryption, and in-memory
Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in open-weight large language models (LLMs) and improve the overall trust in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The tech giant's AI Security team said the scanner leverages three observable signals that can be used to reliably flag the presence of backdoors while maintaining a low false positive
LowCISA confirmed on Wednesday that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting a high-severity VMware ESXi sandbox escape vulnerability that was previously used in zero-day attacks. [...]
HighThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch their systems against a five-year-old GitLab vulnerability that is actively being exploited in attacks. [...]
Leaked non-human identities like API keys and tokens are becoming a major breach driver in cloud environments. Flare shows how exposed machine credentials quietly grant attackers long-term access to enterprise systems. [...]
Threat actors affiliated with China have been attributed to a fresh set of cyber espionage campaigns targeting government and law enforcement agencies across Southeast Asia throughout 2025. Check Point Research is tracking the previously undocumented activity cluster under the moniker Amaranth-Dragon, which it said shares links to the APT 41 ecosystem. Targeted countries include Cambodia,
The Series C funding will enable the company to expand its AI capabilities for disrupting criminal networks. The post Blockchain Intelligence Firm TRM Labs Raises $70 Million at $1 Billion Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A new threat actor called Amaranth Dragon, linked to APT41 state-sponsored Chinese operations, exploited the CVE-2025-8088 vulnerability in WinRAR in espionage attacks on government and law enforcement agencies. [...]
Hackers are abusing a legitimate but long-revoked EnCase kernel driver in an EDR killer that can detect 59 security tools in attempts to deactivate them. [...]
While both cyberwar and cyberwarfare will increase through 2026, cyberwarfare is likely to increase more dramatically. We hope it will never boil over – but we should be aware of the possibility and its consequences. The post Cyber Insights 2026: Cyberwar and Rising Nation State Threats appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The flaws dubbed LookOut can be exploited for remote code execution and data exfiltration. The post Vulnerabilities Allowed Full Compromise of Google Looker Instances appeared first on SecurityWeek.
LowThe startup will use the funding to accelerate product development and go-to-market operations. The post Orion Raises $32 Million for Data Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The data security firm has acquired the AI trust, risk, and security management company to expand its capabilities. The post Varonis Acquisition of AllTrue.ai Valued at $150 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft has started rolling out built-in Sysmon functionality to some Windows 11 systems enrolled in the Windows Insider program. [...]
The critical vulnerability exists in the contextual trust in MCP Gateway architecture, as instructions are passed without validation. The post DockerDash Flaw in Docker AI Assistant Leads to RCE, Data Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CriticalA Taiwanese man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for operating Incognito Market, one of the world's largest online narcotics marketplaces that sold over $105 million worth of illegal drugs to customers worldwide. [...]
Many incident response failures do not come from a lack of tools, intelligence, or technical skills. They come from what happens immediately after detection, when pressure is high, and information is incomplete. I have seen IR teams recover from sophisticated intrusions with limited telemetry. I have also seen teams lose control of investigations they should have been able to handle. The
HighThe critical-severity SolarWinds Web Help Desk flaw could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. The post Fresh SolarWinds Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CriticalTwo IP addresses accounted for the majority of the 1.4 million exploitation attempts observed over the past week. The post Cryptominers, Reverse Shells Dropped in Recent React2Shell Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Wiz and Permiso have analyzed the AI agent social network and found serious security issues and threats. The post Security Analysis of Moltbook Agent Network: Bot-to-Bot Prompt Injection and Data Leaks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are "rapidly expanding" beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging cross-platform languages like Python and abusing trusted platforms for distribution at scale. The tech giant's Defender Security Research Team said it observed macOS-targeted infostealer campaigns using social engineering techniques such as ClickFix since
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, flagging it as actively exploited in attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-40551 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a untrusted data deserialization vulnerability that could pave the way for remote
The Eclipse Foundation, which maintains the Open VSX Registry, has announced plans to enforce security checks before Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions are published to the open-source repository to combat supply chain threats. The move marks a shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to ensure that malicious extensions don't end up getting published on the Open VSX Registry.
Coinbase has confirmed an insider breach after a contractor improperly accessed the data of approximately thirty customers, which BleepingComputer has learned is a new incident that occurred in December. [...]
Step Finance announced that it lost $40 million worth of digital assets after hackers compromised devices belonging to the company's team of executives. [...]
A coordinated reconnaissance campaign targeting Citrix NetScaler infrastructure over the past week used tens of thousands of residential proxies to discover login panels. [...]
CISA has flagged a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk vulnerability as actively exploited in attacks and ordered federal agencies to patch their systems within three days. [...]
CriticalCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw impacting Ask Gordon, an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant built into Docker Desktop and the Docker Command-Line Interface (CLI), that could be exploited to execute code and exfiltrate sensitive data. The critical vulnerability has been codenamed DockerDash by cybersecurity company Noma Labs. It was addressed by
CriticalIron Mountain, a leading data storage and recovery services company, says that a recent breach claimed by the Everest extortion gang is limited to mostly marketing materials. [...]
The company will use the investment to accelerate development of its autonomous virtual security operations center (vSOC). The post RADICL Raises $31 Million for vSOC appeared first on SecurityWeek.