Ravie LakshmananJun 22, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking It’s Monday again. This week’s threat list looks painfully familiar: abused integrations, fake tools, poisoned websites, ransomware crews trying to shut down security tools, and mobile malware asking for…
Canada’s spy service got a judge’s permission to reach into infected servers, home routers, and IoT gear sitting on Canadian soil and neutralize two foreign-run botnets. The Federal Court released a public version of the ruling…
Swati KhandelwalJun 22, 2026IoT Security / Vulnerability A new malware family is turning forgotten home routers into a distributed reconnaissance and proxy network, not the DDoS botnet these devices usually end up in. QiAnXin’s XLab calls it…
Ravie LakshmananJun 22, 2026Cybercrime / Artificial Intelligence A new report from INTERPOL has revealed a “dramatic increase” in cybercrime in Asia and the South Pacific, fueled by rapid digitalization, internet penetration, new technologies, organized criminal…
Ravie LakshmananJun 20, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that’s installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score:…
Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published a working exploit, dubbed usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple’s A12 and A13 chips. That code is burned into the silicon at manufacture. No software update…
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers that it hands out to affiliates for impairing system defenses before deploying the encryptor. This mature…
Microsoft researchers have detailed an exploit chain, named AutoJack, that turns an AI browsing agent into a delivery vehicle for remote code execution. Steer the agent to load an attacker’s web page, and that page’s JavaScript…
Dutch law enforcement authorities, along with counterparts from Canada , Germany, and the U.S., have disrupted malicious infrastructure associated with SocGholish and cleaned up nearly 15,000 infected WordPress websites. “With these actions we deprive cybercriminals…
Ravie LakshmananJun 19, 2026Threat Intelligence / Firewall Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at…