Research has uncovered coordinated campaigns that use more than dormant GitHub accounts to map corporate organizations, repositories, and developers. The activity relies on GitHub’s API to collect public information. However, some operators have also attempted to access private source code…
Microsoft Warns of Increase in Number of Security Updates
Microsoft has said the volume of Windows security updates is set to grow as it uses AI to find new bugs This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: Microsoft Warns of Increase in Number of Security…
Interpol Operation First Light 2026 Nets 5,811 Arrests and $293 Million Seized Across 97 Countries
Interpol has wrapped up Operation First Light 2026, resulting in 5,811 arrests and the seizure of $293 million in illicit assets across 97 countries and territo Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post Interpol Operation First Light 2026…
“Comment stuffing” in an HTML phishing attachment as a mechanism for evading AI-based detection?, (Fri, Jul 10th)
Anyone who deals with phishing messages caught by basic security filters knows that most phishing samples tend to blend into one another, since only a small set of techniques and approaches keeps reappearing in them. That is precisely why it…
FastNetMon Launches Netomics, a Self-Hosted Routing Intelligence Platform
London, United Kingdom, 10th July 2026, CyberNewswire This article has been indexed from Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More Read the original article: FastNetMon Launches Netomics, a Self-Hosted Routing Intelligence Platform
Process Parameter Poisoning Technique Hides Shellcode Inside Windows Startup Data
A newly documented Windows injection approach, dubbed Process Parameter Poisoning or P³, uses process startup parameters as an unconventional staging area for shellcode. Implemented in the P³-Shellcode Loader proof of concept, the technique can reduce exposure to telemetry that endpoint…
Redefining the CISO Contract: From Securing the Business to Securely Doing Business
Walk into almost any executive leadership meeting right now and you’ll find the same dynamic playing out. The CEO is asking how the company can do more with AI, faster. Engineering teams are already three sprints deep into building something…
Scot NHS Trust probes email stuffup involving maternity patients’ data
NHS Forth Valley is the latest health board to bungle basic email data protection principles This article has been indexed from www.theregister.com – Articles Read the original article: Scot NHS Trust probes email stuffup involving maternity patients’ data
GigaWiper Combines Multiple Malware for System-Level Sabotage
The backdoor’s destructive capabilities include a standalone wiper, ransomware encryption, and a multi-pass wiping command. The post GigaWiper Combines Multiple Malware for System-Level Sabotage appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek Read the original article: GigaWiper…
Ransomware Negotiator Gets 70 Months in Prison for Aiding BlackCat Attacks
A 41-year-old former ransomware negotiator has been sentenced to nearly six years (i.e., 70 months) in prison in the U.S. for their role in conspiring with the now-defunct BlackCat ransomware operators to extort multiple victims and working with two other…
Attackers Exploit ‘Ill Bloom’ Vulnerability to Drain $3.1 Million From Cryptocurrency Wallets
Security firm Coinspect has disclosed a crypto wallet flaw it calls Ill Bloom, and attackers are already using it. The flaw is in how some wallet software generated its recovery phrase, the words that control the money. When that phrase is made with…
Odyssey Stealer Attacks Macs Worldwide and Replaces Crypto Wallet Apps With Drainers
Odyssey Stealer is driving a large-scale macOS infostealer campaign that now spans more than 100 countries, with operators systematically hijacking cryptocurrency ecosystems by replacing legitimate wallet apps with drainer trojans. The operation blends advanced social engineering, AppleScript-based stealth, and persistent…
GigaWiper Merges Three Malware Families Into One Destructive Backdoor
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…
‘HalluSquatting’ Turns AI Hallucinations Into Botnet Delivery Mechanism
Researchers demonstrate adversarial hallucination squatting against popular AI assistants to achieve remote code execution. The post ‘HalluSquatting’ Turns AI Hallucinations Into Botnet Delivery Mechanism appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek Read the original article: ‘HalluSquatting’…
NHS Warns Staff Over Unauthorized Access to Patient Data
NHS tells staff they could face prison for “inappropriate” access to patients’ medical records This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: NHS Warns Staff Over Unauthorized Access to Patient Data
Braintree NuGet Typosquat Uses XOR-Obfuscated C2 to Hide Environment Secret Theft
A malicious NuGet package impersonating the Braintree .NET payment library has put production payment systems at risk. The package can collect live card details during transactions, then send the data away without alerting the application or its users. It also…
GhostApproval Symlink Codes Could Run Malicious Codes in AI Coding Agents
Cyber security experts at Wiz discovered that a bug in six famous AI coding assistants allows a booby-trapped code project to silently take over a developer’s system. The assistant can ask access to edit one innocent-looking file, but the write…
AI-assisted software engineering is creating a new delivery paradox
AI can generate code faster than most software organizations can absorb it. This should be a productivity breakthrough, but it also exposes a larger problem: many of the processes surrounding software delivery still happen at human speed. A new white…
Sysdig uncovers first documented agentic ransomware operation
Security researchers at Sysdig have documented what they believe is the first documented case of an AI agent running a ransomware operation from end to end. Dubbed JADEPUFFER, the operation used a large language model (LLM) to automate an attack…
Network of 200 GitHub Repositories Used for Malware Infection
A Go module is used to load PowerShell code that fetches a resolver from public dead drops to execute Windows malware. The post Network of 200 GitHub Repositories Used for Malware Infection appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been…
July 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Is CVE tracking still practical?
I was off by a month in my forecast of record-setting CVE releases from Microsoft. In June, we saw the deluge of over 200 reported CVEs that I expected in May. There were 116 CVEs for Windows 11 and 104…
Fake Robinhood Sign-In Alerts Trick Users Into Calling Hacker-Controlled Phone Numbers
A sophisticated callback phishing campaign impersonating Robinhood is coercing victims into dialing attacker-controlled phone numbers by exploiting fear of account compromise. The campaign begins with an unsolicited email or SMS posing as a Robinhood security alert, warning recipients of “unusual…
The open source library holding up your stack might have one maintainer
Every serious software product runs on code that someone else wrote and released for free. A web service leans on a cryptography library, a data pipeline pulls in a parser, and a mobile app ships a handful of small utilities…
Workato expands Agent Studio with Headless API, AI guardrails
Workato has announced two new capabilities for Agent Studio: Headless API and Agent Guardrails. Headless API lets Genies, Workato’s AI agents built on Agent Studio, be embedded into any business application surface, on web, mobile, or inside another agent’s own…