Ravie LakshmananJul 02, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem in different ways. Everything looks…
Ravie LakshmananJul 02, 2026API Security / Cyberespionage The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been attributed to a new malware called Umbrij that’s designed to gain surreptitious access to a victim’s email correspondence via the…
Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an employment record, a manager, and a departure date. AI agents have none of those. As autonomous principals proliferate across enterprise environments, the governance model built…
Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent. Its Threat Research Team calls the operator JADEPUFFER and says a large language…
Ravie LakshmananJul 02, 2026Network Security / Ransomware The recently discovered financially-motivated FortiBleed campaign has been attributed to INC and Lynx ransomware operations, indicating that the verified, stolen credentials were intended for follow-on intrusions. “An operator…
Attackers are hiding a data-stealing trojan inside fake exploit code aimed at the people who hunt bugs for a living. The malware, called ChocoPoC, travels in Python proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories on GitHub that claim to…
Ravie LakshmananJul 02, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of…
Swati KhandelwalJul 01, 2026Kubernetes / Server Security Argo CD, a widely used tool for deploying software to Kubernetes, has an unpatched flaw in its repo-server component that lets an unauthenticated attacker run code, provided they…
Swati KhandelwalJul 01, 2026Cybercrime / Ransomware A teenager accused of belonging to the hacking group Scattered Spider has been extradited from Finland to face U.S. charges of conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud, the U.S. Department…
Ravie LakshmananJul 01, 2026Malware / SEO Poisoning Unknown threat actors are leveraging the ScreenConnect remote access tool as a way to deploy and execute AsyncRAT. Kaspersky said the activity is part of a “massive, multi-domain,…