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Fake travel reservations are exacting more pain from the travel weary, already dealing with the misery of canceled flights and overbooked hotels.

Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools

AI browsers from top vendors remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks despite multiple security guardrails, according to new research.

We cover a cloud-based AitM attack scenario leveraging service workers and Ultraviolet, and provide detailed phishing hosting statistics across platforms like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, and IPFS.

Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian's Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of those routes is confirmed closed.

PromptArmor, an AI security firm, hid the instructions in content Rovo reads. It said an uploaded file was

Two-phase attacks with the GoSerpent backdoor, Stowaway RAT, ThumbcacheService and other tools aim to steal data from government entities in Southeast Asia.

Kaspersky experts dissect GenieLocker: new custom ransomware variants for Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems. We found this family in attacks by Toy Ghouls, a financially motivated extortion group.

New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface.

Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over third-party accounts, leak tokens, hijack trusted UI actions, and manipulate AI tools that read email.

PortSwigger researcher Gareth

We identified targeted infection attempts against large Russian organizations using the ViPNet update system (a software suite for creating secure networks).

Twitter is blasted for security and privacy lapses by the company’s former head of security who alleges the social media giant’s actions amount to a national security risk.

A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services has been attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671.

"UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via

Two former chief security officers of the Democratic National Committee explain that a strong security-first mindset requires executive support — and a dose of absurdity.

Attackers can take control of agents through malicious instructions hidden in content supplied to AI browsers, and there's no simple fix for the threat.

A researcher demonstrated a proof-of-concept attack chain that provided C2-style influence over ChatGPT's isolated sandbox during a session at Black Hat USA 2026.

A study of more than 6,000 patches found that even working patches can introduce new bugs, break something else, or are open to bypass.

Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group.

Open Source had a great childhood.

For two decades it got to be a kid. It ran around barefoot, gave everything away, trusted strangers, and never once thought about who was watching. It ran the kind of lemonade stand that took IOUs from anyone who wandered up — take what you need, pay me back whenever, no need to leave a name. It was idyllic. It was also, in retrospect, a little feral.

Then,

CISA is warning that Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS is under active attack and needs to be patched ASAP.

We cover two recent cases of BitLocker extortion using RDP, MSSQL, RMM tools, web shells, and printers. The story includes TTPs and recommendations.

ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials.

The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the host and then fetches a macOS malware payload that's compatible with the computer's CPU architecture.

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A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.

"These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload," OpenSourceMalware researcher Paul

Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it

Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant ‘should’ve paid the ransom’

The fight against cybercrime continues because threat actors have adapted their strategies to avoid deterrents, but law enforcement still operates in silos.

CSS was once just about design. Now researchers warn it's powerful enough to exfiltrate data from webmail — and some vendors aren't prepared.

Researchers are calling attention to the risks inherent in automated network device provisioning, using a world-leading device manufacturer as a case study.

Kaspersky expert provides statistics and details on several incident response cases at educational institutions in Brazil, as well as tips for schools and universities on how to stay safe.

Separate fixes to macOS and iOS patch respective flaws in the kernel and WebKit that can allow threat actors to take over devices and are under attack.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), is a command injection flaw that could be weaponized to achieve arbitrary

Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day.

The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the Metabase application database, enabling them to gain

An insufficient validation input flaw, one of 11 patched in an update this week, could allow for arbitrary code execution and is under active attack.

Kaspersky researchers reveal previously undocumented malware attributed to Mirage Kitten (UNC1549, Smoke Sandstorm, Nimbus Manticore): NightLedger backdoor, ArcBridge, and BridgeHead tunneling tools.

Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system.

Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms

Organized crime is convincingly scamming at scale, making billions thanks to AI-enabled voice cloning, deepfake real-time video overlays, LLM-driven persona management, and automated translation.

Kaspersky GReAT experts describe a new Project CAV3RN C2 module. It uses Outlook calendar for communication via Microsoft Graph and has a backup connection via DNS AAAA responses.

Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.

Calling all defenders

Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed.

In the span of three weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all disclosed AI agent sandbox escape events affecting real organizations.

WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. pwn.ai demonstrated how the flaw can be chained into PHP code execution on the server when a logged-in administrator interacts with an attacker-controlled page.

Tracked as CVE-2026-64638 (CVSS score: 8.9), the high-severity

Our experts discovered OctLurk and SilkLurk, backdoors operating primarily in memory, targeting Central Asia. They inject plugins to launch shells, scan networks, dump credentials, and keylogging.

2.5 million people were affected, in a breach that could spell more trouble down the line.

An analysis of how Network Anomaly Detection (NAD) rules work within Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack, using Kerberoasting and DNS tunneling attacks as examples.

N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product.

"We are proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actors as they evolve their attack techniques," the company said.

"This is not a duplicate of our