Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, Exploits & Government Alerts
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a Microsoft Teams-themed phishing campaign that employs “secure document” lures to deliver legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools. “The victim was directed through compromised web infrastructure to a counterfeit Microsoft…
The China-linked cybercrime group behind the use of income tax-related phishing lures targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams has been observed using a sophisticated crypter service called Cruciferra. According to a new…
Ravie LakshmananJul 27, 2026Cyber Attack / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh malicious cyber activity by a threat actor with ties to East Asia targeting government entities in the Middle East. The intrusions have…
Ravie LakshmananJul 27, 2026Software Supply Chain / DevSecOps GitHub has announced a new cooldown mechanism in Dependabot, allowing the tool to wait at least three days after a release is published before opening a pull…
A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims’ browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead of serving one complete malicious file from a fixed URL. Confiant,…
Swati KhandelwalJul 25, 2026Vulnerability / Application Security Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba’s JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a malicious JSON request…
For years, phishing campaigns targeting financial institutions followed the same playbook. Victims were tricked into entering usernames and passwords, attackers collected the credentials, and accounts were compromised later when an opportunity arose. That model is…
Ravie LakshmananJul 25, 2026Vulnerability / Ransomware Threat actors linked to the Cl0p (aka Chubby Scorpius, FIN11, Graceful Spider, and Lace Tempest) ransomware campaign are exploiting flaws in internet-exposed PTC Windmill and FlexPLM deployments as part of…
The operators of the DevMan ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are maintaining a dedicated web platform that offers affiliates the ability to build payloads, oversee earnings, and manage various aspects related to victims. Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT…
Swati KhandelwalJul 25, 2026Vulnerability / Application Security Security researcher Yuhang Wu at depthfirst has published a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that executes commands as git on an unpatched self-managed GitLab 18.11.3 server. An ordinary authenticated…