Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Aiding BlackCat Attacks in 2023

A third individual who was employed as a ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to conducting ransomware attacks against U.S. companies in 2023. Angelo Martino, 41, of Land O'Lakes, Florida, teamed up with the operators of the BlackCat ransomware starting in April 2023 to assist the e-crime gang in extracting higher amounts as ransoms. "Working as a negotiator on behalf of five different

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Dozens of Malicious Crypto Apps Land in Apple App Store

Masquerading as popular cryptocurrency wallets, the apps can hijack recovery phrases and private keys. The post Dozens of Malicious Crypto Apps Land in Apple App Store appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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5 Places where Mature SOCs Keep MTTR Fast and Others Waste Time

Security teams often present MTTR as an internal KPI. Leadership sees it differently: every hour a threat dwells inside the environment is an hour of potential data exfiltration, service disruption, regulatory exposure, and brand damage.  The root cause of slow MTTR is almost never "not enough analysts." It is almost always the same structural problem: threat intelligence that exists

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NGate Campaign Targets Brazil, Trojanizes HandyPay to Steal NFC Data and PINs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new iteration of an Android malware family called NGate that has been found to abuse a legitimate application called HandyPay instead of NFCGate. "The threat actors took the app, which is used to relay NFC data, and patched it with malicious code that appears to have been AI-generated," ESET security researcher Lukáš Štefanko said in a

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Unsecured Perforce Servers Expose Sensitive Data From Major Orgs

Things are improving, but a researcher has still identified over 1,500 Perforce P4 instances allowing attackers to read files on the server. The post Unsecured Perforce Servers Expose Sensitive Data From Major Orgs appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Progress Patches Multiple Vulnerabilities in MOVEit WAF, LoadMaster

The security defects could be exploited for remote code execution, OS command injection, and WAF detection bypass. The post Progress Patches Multiple Vulnerabilities in MOVEit WAF, LoadMaster appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Cyber chief: UK faces "perfect storm" for cyber security

As the technology landscape develops, the definition of cyber security is expanding with it.

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No Exploit Needed: How Attackers Walk Through the Front Door via Identity-Based Attacks

The cybersecurity industry has spent the last several years chasing sophisticated threats like zero-days, supply chain compromises, and AI-generated exploits. However, the most reliable entry point for attackers still hasn't changed: stolen credentials. Identity-based attacks remain a dominant initial access vector in breaches today. Attackers obtain valid credentials through credential stuffing

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Organizations Warned of Exploited Cisco, Kentico, Zimbra Vulnerabilities

CISA expanded the KEV catalog with eight flaws, but five of them have been flagged as exploited before. The post Organizations Warned of Exploited Cisco, Kentico, Zimbra Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Data Breaches at Healthcare Organizations in Illinois and Texas Affect 600,000

Data breaches were disclosed by Southern Illinois Dermatology, Saint Anthony Hospital, and North Texas Behavioral Health Authority. The post Data Breaches at Healthcare Organizations in Illinois and Texas Affect 600,000 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Google Patches Antigravity IDE Flaw Enabling Prompt Injection Code Execution

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Google's agentic integrated development environment (IDE), Antigravity, that could be exploited to achieve code execution. The flaw, since patched, combines Antigravity's permitted file-creation capabilities with an insufficient input sanitization in Antigravity's native file-searching tool, find_by_name, to bypass the program's Strict

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$290 Million Kelp DAO Crypto Heist Blamed on North Korea

The hackers targeted LayerZero’s DVN, compromising certain RPCs and DDoSing others to trigger failover to the poisoned infrastructure.   The post $290 Million Kelp DAO Crypto Heist Blamed on North Korea appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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CISA Adds 8 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets April-May 2026 Federal Deadlines

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including three flaws impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2023-27351 (CVSS score: 8.2) - An improper authentication vulnerability in PaperCut

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SGLang CVE-2026-5760 (CVSS 9.8) Enables RCE via Malicious GGUF Model Files

A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in SGLang that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5760, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of command injection leading to the execution of arbitrary code. SGLang is a high-performance, open-source serving

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US Security Agency Leverages Claude Mythos Despite Pentagon Blacklist

Reports suggest that the NSA is using Claude Mythos. 

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Vercel Breach Originated from an Employee’s AI Tool

This breach occurred due to a third-party AI tool. 

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Serial-to-IP Converter Flaws Expose OT and Healthcare Systems to Hacking

Forescout researchers discovered 20 new vulnerabilities in Lantronix and Silex products and described theoretical attack scenarios. The post Serial-to-IP Converter Flaws Expose OT and Healthcare Systems to Hacking appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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58% of Organizations Spend Over 10 Hours a Month Securing AI-generated Code

A recent report by Cloudsmith found that 31% of organizations using AI-generated code spend 10 hours or less per month validating, auditing, or securing it.

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Vercel Hack, Push Fraud, QEMU Abused, New Android RATs Emerge & More

Monday’s recap shows the same pattern in different places. A third-party tool becomes a way in, then leads to internal access. A trusted download path is briefly swapped to deliver malware. Browser extensions act normally while pulling data and running code. Even update channels are used to push payloads. It’s not breaking systems—it’s bending trust. There’s also a shift in how attacks run.

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British Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty in the US

Tyler Buchanan admitted in court to hacking into various companies, defrauding them, and stealing cryptocurrency from multiple individuals. The post British Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty in the US appeared first on SecurityWeek.