Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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How Encryption Fights Cybercrime While Sometimes Aiding It

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 1, 2026 – Read the full story in Forbes In 2025, the global damage cost resulting from cybercrime was an estimated $10.5 trillion USD, up from just $3 trillion annually a decade earlier. The post How Encryption Fights Cybercrime While Sometimes Aiding It appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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Microsoft Warns of WhatsApp-Delivered VBS Malware Hijacking Windows via UAC Bypass

Microsoft is calling attention to a new campaign that has leveraged WhatsApp messages to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBS) files. The activity, beginning in late February 2026, leverages these scripts to initiate a multi-stage infection chain for establishing persistence and enabling remote access. It's currently not known what lures the threat actors use to trick users into

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New Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2026-5281 Under Active Exploitation — Patch Released

Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address 21 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-5281 (CVSS score: N/A), concerns a use-after-free bug in Dawn, an open-source and cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU standard. "Use-after-free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior

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3 Reasons Attackers Are Using Your Trusted Tools Against You (And Why You Don’t See It Coming)

For years, cybersecurity has followed a familiar model: block malware, stop the attack. Now, attackers are moving on to what’s next. Threat actors now use malware less frequently in favor of what’s already inside your environment, including abusing trusted tools, native binaries, and legitimate admin utilities to move laterally, escalate privileges, and persist without raising alarms. Most

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Axios NPM Package Breached in North Korean Supply Chain Attack

A long-lived NPM access token was used to bypass the GitHub Actions OIDC-based CI/CD publishing workflow and push backdoored package versions. The post Axios NPM Package Breached in North Korean Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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10 Data Security Stories to Know About (March 2026)

Security magazine reviews 10 data security events from March 2026. 

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Google Attributes Axios npm Supply Chain Attack to North Korean Group UNC1069

Google has formally attributed the supply chain compromise of the popular Axios npm package to a financially motivated North Korean threat activity cluster tracked as UNC1069. "We have attributed the attack to a suspected North Korean threat actor we track as UNC1069," John Hultquist, chief analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), told The Hacker News in a statement. "North Korean

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Google Addresses Vertex Security Issues After Researchers Weaponize AI Agents

Palo Alto Networks has disclosed the details of its analysis of Google Cloud Platform’s Vertex AI. The post Google Addresses Vertex Security Issues After Researchers Weaponize AI Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Claude Code Source Leaked via npm Packaging Error, Anthropic Confirms

Anthropic on Tuesday confirmed that internal code for its popular artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, Claude Code, had been inadvertently released due to a human error. "No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed," an Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement shared with CNBC News. "This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security

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Android Developer Verification Rollout Begins Ahead of September Enforcement

Google on Monday said it's officially rolling out Android developer verification to all developers to combat the problem of bad actors distributing harmful apps while "hiding behind anonymity." The development comes ahead of a planned verification mandate that goes into effect in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand this September, before it expands globally next year. As part of this

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TrueConf Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks on Southeast Asian Government Networks

A high-severity security flaw in the TrueConf client video conferencing software has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day as part of a campaign targeting government entities in Southeast Asia dubbed TrueChaos. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3502 (CVSS score: 7.8), a lack of integrity check when fetching application update code, allowing an attacker to distribute a tampered update,

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Censys Raises $70 Million for Internet Intelligence Platform

The latest funding round brings the total venture capital investment in Censys to $149 million. The post Censys Raises $70 Million for Internet Intelligence Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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The Next Cybersecurity Crisis Isn’t Breaches—It’s Data You Can’t Trust

Data integrity shouldn’t be seen only through the prism of a technical concern but also as a leadership issue. The post The Next Cybersecurity Crisis Isn’t Breaches—It’s Data You Can’t Trust appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Stolen Logins Are Fueling Everything From Ransomware to Nation-State Cyberattacks

Report shows how industrialized credential theft underpins ransomware, SaaS breaches, and geopolitical attacks, shifting security focus from prevention to detecting misuse of legitimate access. The post Stolen Logins Are Fueling Everything From Ransomware to Nation-State Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Venom Stealer Raises Stakes With Continuous Credential Harvesting

Licensed malware with built-in persistence and automation enables attackers to continuously siphon credentials, session data, and cryptocurrency assets. The post Venom Stealer Raises Stakes With Continuous Credential Harvesting appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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TeamPCP Moves From OSS to AWS Environments

After validating stolen credentials using TruffleHog, the hacking group started AWS services enumeration and lateral movement activities. The post TeamPCP Moves From OSS to AWS Environments appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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CrewAI Vulnerabilities Expose Devices to Hacking

Attackers can exploit the bugs through prompt injection, chaining them together to escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary code. The post CrewAI Vulnerabilities Expose Devices to Hacking appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Vertex AI Vulnerability Exposes Google Cloud Data and Private Artifacts

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security "blind spot" in Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform that could allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to be weaponized by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and compromise an organization's cloud environment. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the issue relates to how the Vertex AI permission model can be misused

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The CISO Gap: Why Every Business Needs Cybersecurity Leadership

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Mar. 31, 2026 – Read the full story in Forbes One message has persisted over the past few years: cybersecurity is no longer an IT concern; it has become a fundamental business The post The CISO Gap: Why Every Business Needs Cybersecurity Leadership appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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NCSC warns of messaging app targeting

The NCSC has issued actions for individuals at risk of targeted attacks against messaging apps.