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Liquid Hackers Return 3,400 Bitcoin Taken via Elements Bug, Still Holding $47M in BTC
Whoever took nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network on Sunday, September 6, returned 3,400 of it the next day, Bitcoin’s public record shows. About…
What It Took to Reach 1 Billion Build Manifests
In the last six months, Chainguard doubled its output from 500 million to more than 1 billion container build manifests. We also surpassed 3,000 unique…
WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls
Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three…
FreeIPA Flaw Chain Lets Anonymous Clients Create Reusable Administrator Credentials
A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators…
Google Play Early Access Abused to Push Thousands of Deceptive Android Apps
Bad actors are misusing Google Play’s Early Access program to push deceptive apps that claim to offer money, rewards, casino winnings, and premium…
Adobe Patches Magento Zero-Day Exploited to Deploy Rust Backdoor and PHP Web Shell
Adobe on Monday released security patches to address a maximum-severity flaw impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that has come under active…
BengalSEO Poisons Bing Search Results to Deliver MayaBot and Tech Support Scams
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sprawling search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that paves the way for malware…
PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances
A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor has been attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to devise exploits targeting a recently disclosed…
Grindr to Pay £26 Million to Settle U.K. Claims Over HIV Status Data Sharing
Online dating app Grindr has opted to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a lawsuit in the U.K. over allegations that it shared users’ personal…
Gigabud Creates Android Work Profiles to Hide From Banking App Malware Checks
The Gigabud banking trojan now installs a second Android app that creates a work profile on an infected phone and drops a tampered banking app inside it,…
Check Point Discloses Two 9.8-Rated VPN Certificate Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated RCE
Check Point has patched two critical vulnerabilities in the way its firewall and management products handle VPN certificates. The company says both could…
CISA Flags Exploited Cisco, Citrix, Fortinet Flaws, Sets Sept. 12 Federal Patch Deadline
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added three flaws, each impacting Cisco, Citrix, and Fortinet, to its Known…
Anthropic Discloses Fourth AI Hacking Incident Involving Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest…
Nearly 1 in 10 Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Accepted the Example “sk-1234” Admin Key
Nearly one in ten of the internet-facing LiteLLM servers that Wiz Research scanned in February accepted sk-1234, the example admin key in LiteLLM’s own…
N-able Issues Fourth N-central Hotfix in Five Weeks for Unauthenticated RCE Flaw
Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.1.14 — including servers updated to Hotfix 3 a day earlier — needs Hotfix 4. N-able’s incident notice says…
U.S. Disrupts Xinbi Guarantee Scam Marketplace, Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced coordinated actions aimed at an illicit online marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee that offered…
Four Spy Groups Used the Same Chrome and Windows Exploit Kit Within a Week
Multiple espionage-motivated threat activity clusters have been found deploying a previously undocumented exploit kit called BlueMoon that chains together…
JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies
Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and…
Infostealer Logs Expose Replayable AI Tokens That Can Bypass MFA
Cybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create “stolen keys” that grant illicit access to…