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China-Linked APT GopherWhisper Abuses Legitimate Services in Government Attacks

Dubbed GopherWhisper, the group relies on multiple Go-based backdoors alongside custom loaders and injectors. The post China-Linked APT GopherWhisper Abuses Legitimate Services in Government Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Researchers Uncover Pre-Stuxnet ‘fast16’ Malware Targeting Engineering Software

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Lua-based malware created years before the notorious Stuxnet worm that aimed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program by destroying uranium enrichment centrifuges. According to a new report published by SentinelOne, the previously undocumented cyber sabotage framework dates back to 2005, primarily targeting high-precision calculation software to tamper

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CISA Adds 4 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets May 2026 Federal Deadline

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added four vulnerabilities impacting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server, and D-Link DIR-823X series routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2024-57726 (CVSS score: 9.9) - A missing authorization vulnerability in

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FIRESTARTER Backdoor Hit Federal Cisco Firepower Device, Survives Security Patches

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed federal civilian agency's Cisco Firepower device running Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software was compromised in September 2025 with malware called FIRESTARTER. FIRESTARTER, per CISA and the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is assessed to be a backdoor designed for remote access and

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Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions

It targeted high-precision calculation software to tamper with results and packed a self-propagation mechanism. The post Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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In Other News: Unauthorized Mythos Access, Plankey CISA Nomination Ends, New Display Security Device

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Supreme Court hacker sentenced, Lovable exposed user data, Google expands enterprise security.  The post In Other News: Unauthorized Mythos Access, Plankey CISA Nomination Ends, New Display Security Device appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities, universities, and private companies, in violation of export control laws. "For years, NASA employees

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One CISO For 10,000 companies: Cybersecurity On Too Few Shoulders

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 24, 2026 – Read the full story in it-daily.net According to the 2026 CISO Report, published by Cybersecurity Ventures in collaboration with Sophos, a massive gap exists in strategic security leadership. Worldwide, The post One CISO For 10,000 companies: Cybersecurity On Too Few Shoulders appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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Why Cybersecurity Must Rethink Defense in the Age of Autonomous Agents

From autonomous code generation to decision-making systems that initiate actions without human intervention, the industry is entering a new phase. The post Why Cybersecurity Must Rethink Defense in the Age of Autonomous Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Locked Shields 2026: 41 Nations Strengthen Cyber Resilience in World’s Biggest Exercise

Locked Shields has grown significantly over the past 16 years, with only four nations participating in the first edition. The post Locked Shields 2026: 41 Nations Strengthen Cyber Resilience in World’s Biggest Exercise appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Bridging the AI Agent Authority Gap: Continuous Observability as the Decision Engine

The AI Agent Authority Gap - From Ungoverned to Delegation As discussed in our previous article, AI agents are exposing a structural gap in enterprise security, but the problem is often framed too narrowly. The issue is not simply that agents are new actors. It is that agents are delegated actors. They do not emerge with independent authority. They are triggered, invoked, provisioned, or

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26 FakeWallet Apps Found on Apple App Store Targeting Crypto Seed Phrases

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious apps on the Apple App Store that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets in an attempt to steal recovery phrases and private keys since at least fall 2025. "Once launched, these apps redirect users to browser pages designed to look similar to the App Store and distribute trojanized versions of legitimate wallets," Kaspersky

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US Federal Agency’s Cisco Firewall Infected With ‘Firestarter’ Backdoor

The malware provides remote access and control of infected devices and maintains post-patching persistence. The post US Federal Agency’s Cisco Firewall Infected With ‘Firestarter’ Backdoor appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Trump Administration Vows Crackdown on Chinese Companies ‘Exploiting’ AI Models Made in US

The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies’ exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models. The post Trump Administration Vows Crackdown on Chinese Companies ‘Exploiting’ AI Models Made in US appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Vulnerabilities Patched in CrowdStrike, Tenable Products

CrowdStrike has fixed a critical LogScale vulnerability, while Tenable addressed a high-severity Nessus flaw. The post Vulnerabilities Patched in CrowdStrike, Tenable Products appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Tropic Trooper Uses Trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub to Deploy AdaptixC2

Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) tunnels for remote access. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which discovered the campaign last month, has attributed it with high confidence to Tropic Trooper (aka

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Bitwarden NPM Package Hit in Supply Chain Attack

Tied to a fresh Checkmarx supply chain attack claimed by TeamPCP, the incident references the Shai-Hulud worm. The post Bitwarden NPM Package Hit in Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Copperhelm Raises $7 Million for Agentic Cloud Security Platform

The Israel-based company, which just emerged from stealth mode, was founded by cloud and security experts from RSA, McAfee, and Unity. The post Copperhelm Raises $7 Million for Agentic Cloud Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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LMDeploy CVE-2026-33626 Flaw Exploited Within 13 Hours of Disclosure

A high-severity security flaw in LMDeploy, an open-source toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLMs, has come under active exploitation in the wild less than 13 hours after its public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-33626 (CVSS score: 7.5), relates to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that could be exploited to access sensitive data. "A server-side

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How a simple consumer data breach spiralled into a national security crisis in US-South Korea relations

Washington’s focus on online retailer Coupang has led to accusations that the Trump administration is tying issues of national security to domestic corporate matters When South Korea’s biggest online retailer revealed last year that a data breach had compromised tens of millions of customer accounts, it appeared to be a corporate crisis. But five months later the issue has grown into a diplomatic storm, threatening to further degrade relations between Seoul and the Trump administration.Coupang – often described as South Korea’s answer to Amazon – is nominally a Korean company but operates from Seattle, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and is run by Korean-American billionaire Bom Kim. In November last year the company disclosed that a former employee had stolen an internal security key, enabling unauthorised access to data from 33.7 million users. Continue reading...