What Makes Non-Human Identity Security Protocols So Crucial? Where increasingly reliant on machine interactions, a critical question emerges for cybersecurity professionals: how do we secure these digital entities known as Non-Human Identities (NHIs)? With cyber threats becoming more sophisticated, the…
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$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation
Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the…
GPS Spoofing: Digital Warfare in the Persian Gulf Manipulating Ship Locations
Digital warfare targeting the GPS location After the U.S and Israel’s “pre-emptive” strikes against Iran last month, research firm Kpler found vessels in the Persian Gulf going off course. The location data from ships in the Gulf showed vessels maneuvering…
BrowserGate: LinkedIn Tracks 6,000+ Browser Extensions on Users’ PCs
LinkedIn is accused in the BrowserGate report of tracking 6,000+ browser extensions on users’ PCs, raising concerns over privacy and data collection practices. This article has been indexed from Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More Read the…
Quantum Computing: The Silent Killer of Digital Encryption
Quantum computing poses a greater long-term threat to digital security than AI, as it could shatter the encryption underpinning modern systems. While AI grabs headlines for ethical and societal risks, quantum advances quietly erode the foundations of data protection,…
[un]prompted 2026 – Guardrails Beyond Vibes
Author, Creator & Presenter: Jeffrey Zhang, Security Engineer, Stripe & Siddh Shah, Software Engineer, Stripe Our thanks to [un]prompted for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s outstanding [un]prompted 2026 AI Security Practitioner content on the Organizations’) YouTube Channel. Permalink The…
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 91
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Infiniti Stealer: a new macOS infostealer using ClickFix and Python/Nuitka Converging Interests: Analysis of Threat Clusters Targeting a Southeast Asian Government…
Anthropic Claude Code Leak Sparks Frenzy Among Chinese Developers
A fresh wave of interest emerged worldwide after Anthropic’s code surfaced online, drawing sharp focus from tech builders across China. This exposure came through a misstep – shipping a tool meant for coding tasks with hidden layers exposed, revealing…
Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them
True-crime tales of criminals making fools of themselves interview Cybercrime crews have become almost mystical entities, with security vendors assigning them names like Wizard Spider and Velvet Tempest.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the…
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Moving From Awareness to Execution
Google recently released important research that moves Q-Day — the day quantum computers will be able to “break the Internet” — up to 2029. How should enterprises secure their systems? The post Post-Quantum Cryptography: Moving From Awareness to Execution appeared…
The Hack That Exposed Syria’s Sweeping Security Failures
When Syrian government accounts were hijacked in March, the breach looked chaotic. But it revealed something more troubling: a state struggling with the most basic layer of cybersecurity. This article has been indexed from Security Latest Read the original article:…
UNC1069 Uses Social Engineering to Hijack Axios npm Package via Maintainer
A sophisticated social engineering operation by UNC1069 has led to the compromise of the widely used Axios npm package, raising serious concerns across the JavaScript ecosystem. The attack targeted a member of the Axios project’s maintainer team by masquerading…
Dutch Court Issues Order Against X and Grok Over Sexual Abuse Content
A court in the Netherlands has taken strict action against the platform X and its artificial intelligence system Grok, directing both to stop enabling the creation of sexually explicit images generated without consent, as well as any material involving…
Port of Vigo Operations Interrupted by Significant Cyberattack
Upon finding its digital backbone compromised by a calculated act of cyber extortion, the Port of Vigo found itself in the midst of the morning rhythms of one of Spain’s most strategically located maritime gateways. Early in the morning…
Security Affairs newsletter Round 571 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Qilin…
Image or Malware? Read until the end and answer in comments :)
A malicious email delivered a .cmd malware that escalates privileges, bypasses antivirus, downloads payloads, sets persistence, and self-deletes. I received this email from a friend to make an analysis. First, let me express my thanks to Janô Falkowski Burkard for…
Why DDoS Mitigation Fails: 5 Gaps That Testing Reveals
Companies invest heavily in DDoS mitigation, yet outages still happen—often at the worst possible moment. The problem is rarely the protection technology, but the unseen gaps between deployment and a real attack, where misconfigurations, false assumptions, and untested scenarios quietly…
Week in review: Axios npm supply chain compromise, critical FortiClient EMS bugs exploited
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Financial groups lay out a plan to fight AI identity attacks Generative AI tools have brought the cost of deepfake production low enough that criminals…
Fortinet Patches Actively Exploited CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS
Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation.…
36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent implant. “Every package…