Cyber attackers often succeed not because they are inventive, but because the systems they target are old. A new report by Cisco shows how unsupported technology inside national infrastructure creates openings that attackers can exploit repeatedly. The findings show how…
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Cybersecurity Update: Incorrect Company Naming, Major Breaches, and New Malware Campaigns
In this episode, the host addresses a previous mistake in naming a company involved in a breach, correcting SitusAMC for Ascensus, and extends apologies. Key topics include US banks assessing a breach fallout from financial tech vendor SitusAMC, ransomware group…
Criminal networks industrialize payment fraud operations
Fraud operations are expanding faster than payment defenses can adjust. Criminal groups function like coordinated businesses that develop tools, automate tasks, and scale attacks. New data from a Visa report shows how these shifts are reshaping risk across the financial…
Shai-Hulud v2 Spreads From npm to Maven, as Campaign Exposes Thousands of Secrets
The second wave of the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack has spilled over to the Maven ecosystem after compromising more than 830 packages in the npm registry. The Socket Research Team said it identified a Maven Central package named org.mvnpm:posthog-node:4.18.1 that…
New Unauthenticated DoS Vulnerability Crashes Next.js Servers with a Single Request
A newly discovered critical vulnerability in the Next.js framework allows attackers to crash self-hosted servers using a single HTTP request, requiring negligible resources to execute. Discovered by researchers at Harmony Intelligence, the denial-of-service (DoS) flaw affects widespread versions of the…
North Korean Hackers Evade UN Sanctions Leveraging Cyber Capabilities, IT Workers and Crypto Activities
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has intensified its global cyber operations, systematically violating United Nations Security Council resolutions through large-scale cyberattacks, cryptocurrency theft, and cross-border money laundering schemes. According to the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) report, North…
Elena Lazar: Failures are Inevitable – Reliability is a Choice
Reliability engineer on why resilience must be designed, not patched, and how decades of global experience taught her to turn outages into insights. This article has been indexed from Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More…
FBI: Account Takeover Scammers Stole $262 Million this Year
The FBI says that account takeover scams this year have resulted in 5,100-plus complaints in the U.S. and $262 million in money stolen, and Bitdefender says the combination of the growing number of ATO incidents and risky consumer behavior is…
For the first time, a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed via SocGholish
RomCom malware used the SocGholish fake update loader to deliver Mythic Agent to a U.S. civil engineering firm. In September 2025, Arctic Wolf Labs observed RomCom threat actors delivering the Mythic Agent via SocGholish to a U.S. company. The researchers…
Gainsight CEO downplays breach, says only a ‘handful’ of customers had data stolen
Maybe if your hand has 200+ fingers… Gainsight CEO Chuck Ganapathi downplayed the victim count related to his company’s recent breach, saying he’s only aware of “a handful of customers” who had their data affected after Salesforce flagged unusual activity…
AWS Private Certificate Authority now supports partitioned CRLs
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is essential for securing and establishing trust in digital communications. As you scale your digital operations, you’ll issue and revoke certificates. Revoking certificates is useful especially when employees leave, migrate to a new certificate authority hierarchy,…
Xillen Stealer Evolves With AI-Like Evasion and Broader Targeting
Xillen Stealer v5 uses AI-themed evasion and expanded targeting to advance credential-theft tactics. The post Xillen Stealer Evolves With AI-Like Evasion and Broader Targeting appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This article has been indexed from eSecurity Planet Read the original…
Teaching Claude to Cheat Reward Hacking Coding Tasks Makes Them Behave Maliciously in Other Tasks
A new research study from Anthropic has uncovered a concerning pattern in large language models: when these AI systems are trained to pursue specific goals, they can develop reward hacking behaviors that lead to malicious actions in other scenarios. The…
Multiple London councils report disruption amid ongoing cyberattack
Three London councils reported disruption, prompting officials to shut down phone lines and networks, and activate emergency plans. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Multiple London councils report disruption amid ongoing cyberattack
Dell ControlVault, Lasso, GL.iNet vulnerabilities
Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed five vulnerabilities in Dell ControlVault 3 firmware and its associated Windows software, four vulnerabilities in Entr'ouvert Lasso, and one vulnerability in GL.iNet Slate AX. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post…
Rare APT Collaboration Emerges Between Russia and North Korea
Researchers say Russia’s Gamaredon and North Korea’s Lazarus may be sharing infrastructure — a rare APT collaboration. The post Rare APT Collaboration Emerges Between Russia and North Korea appeared first on TechRepublic. This article has been indexed from Security Archives…
Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries
Even worse, it might have been a ‘test run’ for future attacks A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October’s widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a “test run” for future attacks,…
How to use the Secrets Store CSI Driver provider Amazon EKS add-on with Secrets Manager
In this post, we introduce the AWS provider for the Secrets Store CSI Driver, a new AWS Secrets Manager add-on for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that you can use to fetch secrets from Secrets Manager and parameters from…
Rethinking the Software Supply Chain for Agents
A recent MIT study reported that only about 5% of GenAI applications are creating real, measurable business value. In my opinion, that’s not a failure of ambition. If anything, most teams are experimenting aggressively. The issue is that the underlying…
Shai-Hulud v2 Campaign Spreads From npm to Maven, Exposing Thousands of Secrets
The second wave of the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack has spilled over to the Maven ecosystem after compromising more than 830 packages in the npm registry. The Socket Research Team said it identified a Maven Central package named org.mvnpm:posthog-node:4.18.1 that…