Microsoft uncovered GigaWiper, a modular Go backdoor combining three malware families with espionage, remote control, and destructive wiping features. In October 2025, Microsoft’s threat intelligence team identified destructive wiping activity inside compromised environments and traced it to a previously unknown…
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INTERPOL Operation First Light Nets 5,811 Arrests and Seizes $293 Million
INTERPOL’s Operation First Light 2026 led to 5,811 arrests, blocked $293M in criminal assets, and disrupted global fraud and money laundering networks. INTERPOL coordinated a four-month operation across 97 countries and territories that ended with 5,811 arrests and the interception…
GodDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX to Blind Security Software
GodDamn ransomware uses the signed PoisonX driver to disable security tools, marking a more advanced version of the Beast ransomware family. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team found a new ransomware family called GodDamn that first appeared in the wild on May…
AssuranceAmerica Breach Exposes 7 Million Driver’s Licenses After Employee Account Hack
AssuranceAmerica confirmed a breach exposing nearly 7 million driver’s licenses after hackers compromised an employee account and stole customer data. U.S. auto insurer AssuranceAmerica has confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 7 million people, making it the largest known theft…
Microsoft fixed Defender flaw RoguePlanet (CVE-2026-50656)
Microsoft fixed RoguePlanet (CVE-2026-50656), a Defender flaw allowing local attackers to gain higher privileges through the Malware Protection Engine. Microsoft released security updates for RoguePlanet, a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score of 7.8) affecting the Malware Protection Engine used…
Fake VPN and 7-Zip Apps Turn Victims Into Residential Proxy Nodes
Fake apps like WireVPN and a trojanized 7-Zip turn victims’ devices into residential proxies, letting criminals route traffic through their IPs. Infoblox’s threat research team started pulling on a single thread in early 2026: a fake version of the 7-Zip…
Ubiquiti Patches Critical UniFi OS Flaws Allowing Command Injection and Privilege Escalation
Ubiquiti patched seven UniFi OS flaws, including critical CVE-2026-50746, which allows command injection in UniFi Connect Application. Ubiquiti released security updates for seven critical UniFi OS vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-50746 (CVSS score of 10.0), enabling command…
A Hacker Claims 35 GB of Accenture Source Code. The Company discloses the data breach
Accenture confirmed a breach after a hacker claimed to steal 35 GB of source code, keys, and Azure credentials now offered for sale. A threat actor using the handle “888” claimed on the cybercrime forum PwnForums this week to have…
Telegram-Hosted RedWing Malware Lets Anyone Rent Android Spyware Tools
RedWing: The Android Banking Trojan You Can Rent on Telegram for Less Than a Coffee Subscription Zimperium’s zLabs team has uncovered RedWing, an Android spyware operation sold as a subscription service through Telegram, with links to Russian threat actors and…
U.S. CISA adds Adobe ColdFusion, Joomlack Page Builder, Langflow, and JoomShaper SP Page Builder flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Adobe ColdFusion, Joomlack Page Builder, Langflow, and JoomShaper SP Page Builder flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added [1, 2] Adobe ColdFusion, Joomlack Page…
CISA Deploys Anthropic’s Mythos AI to Hunt Vulnerabilities in U.S. Government Code
CISA is using Anthropic’s Mythos AI to scan federal code for vulnerabilities, aiming to find flaws before hackers and foreign intelligence services. Three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that CISA, the U.S. government’s civilian cyber defense agency, is…
Critical Gitea Docker Bug Under Active Exploitation Exposes Repositories and Secrets
Attackers are exploiting a critical Gitea flaw (CVE-2026-20896) that bypasses authentication with a single HTTP header, exposing repositories and sensitive data. Sysdig researchers warn that attackers are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20896 (CVSS score of…
Spanish Police Arrest Man Linked to CARR, Z-Pentest, and NoName057(16)
Spain arrested a suspected CARR and Z-Pentest collaborator in an FBI-led probe for aiding pro-Russian hackers, coordinating attacks, and using crypto. Spanish National Police arrested a man in Palencia last March on charges of membership in and collaboration with a…
Hidden Tenda Router Backdoor Grants Admin Access, No Patch Available
CERT/CC warns an unpatched backdoor in several Tenda routers lets attackers bypass login and gain full admin access with a hidden password. CERT/CC published an alert documenting an undocumented authentication backdoor in multiple Tenda firmware versions, tracked as CVE-2026-11405. The…
AI-Generated Malware Powers New Armored Likho APT Campaign
Armored Likho APT uses AI-generated malware, phishing, and BusySnake Stealer to target governments and power grids in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. Kaspersky’s threat research team has documented a previously unknown APT group they’re calling Armored Likho, also tracked under the…
Januscape: 16-Year-Old Linux KVM Bug Enables Cloud VM Escape Attacks
Januscape: A 16-year-old Linux KVM flaw lets cloud VM tenants crash hosts and potentially escape guests. It affects Intel and AMD systems. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim has published details of a use-after-free vulnerability in Linux’s KVM hypervisor that allows code…
Adobe ColdFusion flaw CVE-2026-48282 now exploited in the wild
Attackers are exploiting the critical Adobe ColdFusion flaw CVE-2026-48282, which allows remote code execution on unpatched servers. Attackers have started exploiting CVE-2026-48282, a maximum-severity vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion. The flaw is a path traversal issue that could result in arbitrary…
Hidden Web Prompts Trick AI Agents Into Sending Money
Hidden prompts on malicious websites trick AI agents into making payments or trusting fake sites, exposing new risks for autonomous AI workflows. Zscaler ThreatLabz documented two active campaigns that embed hidden instructions in web pages to manipulate AI agents, not…
Seven Bugs in FatFs Put IoT and Embedded Devices at Risk
runZero found 7 flaws in FatFs, a filesystem used in IoT and embedded devices. Bugs can cause memory corruption, crashes, or data leaks via crafted storage. Cybersecurity firm runZero has disclosed seven vulnerabilities in FatFs, a compact open-source library that…
Bad Epoll Flaw Gives Attackers Root Access on Linux and Android
Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets local attackers gain root on Linux and Android. The flaw was missed by AI but found by a security researcher. A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability, named Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242), allows a local attacker with no special privileges…