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Today's cybersecurity news highlights significant threats and trends. ASOS customers were targeted in a data breach where hackers stole personal details and shopping searches, prompting warnings about potential phishing attempts. In law enforcement, the FBI arrested members of the ShinyHunters group while also disrupting tools linked to the Flax Typhoon, a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group. Meanwhile, ransomware continues to pose a major risk, with new arrests and a trial involving a ransomware consultant accused of fraud. Citrix has issued critical patches for vulnerabilities in its NetScaler products, while researchers reported on the exploitation of flaws in AhsayCBS software. Lastly, a $10 million bounty has been offered for a Chinese hacker linked to a significant Microsoft Exchange Server attack, underscoring ongoing geopolitical cyber tensions.
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The men’s separate schemes impacted almost 70 U.S. companies and generated a combined $1.2 million in revenue for the North Korean regime.
The post American duo sentenced for hosting laptop farms for North Korean IT workers appeared first on CyberScoop.
20-year-old California resident Marlon Ferro, known online as “GothFerrari,” was sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role in a cryptocurrency theft operation tied to more than $250 million in stolen digital assets. Federal prosecutors said Ferro participated in a criminal network active between...
The hardest part of cybersecurity isn't the technology, it’s the people.
Every major breach you’ve read about lately usually starts the same way: one employee, one clever email, and one "Patient Zero" infection.
In 2026, hackers are using AI to make these "first clicks" nearly impossible to spot. If...
Cisco’s AI security researchers have analyzed ways to target vision-language models (VLMs) using pixel-level perturbation.
The post Attackers Could Exploit AI Vision Models Using Imperceptible Image Changes appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Two U.S. nationals were sentenced to 18 months in prison each for operating so-called laptop farms that helped North Korean IT workers fraudulently obtain remote employment at nearly 70 American companies. [...]
Claude AI Guided Hackers Toward OT Assets During Water Utility Intrusion Dragos reported that attackers used Claude and GPT models during an intrusion into a municipal water and drainage utility in Monterrey, Mexico. The AI tools helped the actor plan activity, build tooling, process victim data, an...
It was discovered that libpng incorrectly handled memory when processing
certain PNG files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening
a specially crafted PNG file, an attacker could use this issue to cause
libpng to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary...
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that threat actors may have attempted to unsuccessfully exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw as early as April 9, 2026.
The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-0300 (CVSS score: 9.3/8.7), a buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication...
Several security issues were fixed in NASM.
It was discovered that Little CMS incorrectly handled certain malformed ICC
profiles. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Little CMS to
crash, resulting in a denial of service.
The software developer has identified the impacted systems, removed potentially compromised files, and validated installation packages.
The post Vendor Says Daemon Tools Supply Chain Attack Contained appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OWSLib could be made to expose sensitive information.
Yashashree Gund discovered that the dpkg dpkg-deb tool incorrectly handled
certain zstd-compressed .deb archives. If a user or automated system were
tricked into manipulating a specially crafted .deb archive, a remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause dpkg-deb to stop
responding, resul...
Sophos finds fake Claude site spreading DonutLoader and a new Beagle backdoor via DLL sideloading
Developers clone unfamiliar repositories all the time. Open-source projects, work from teammates, sample code from a tutorial, a library someone recommended on a forum. The convention is old and reasonable: you look at what’s inside before you run it. AI coding assistants that work from the command...
Daisy Chen discovered that NASM was vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow
when handling certain input. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to cause NASM to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-31722)
It was discovered that NASM incorrectly hand...
When a critical Linux kernel privilege escalation was publicly disclosed, Cloudflare's security and engineering teams detected, investigated, and mitigated the threat across our global fleet, confirming zero customer impact and no malicious exploitation.
“TrustFall” attack shows how AI coding agents can be manipulated into launching stealthy supply chain compromises.
The post AI Coding Agents Could Fuel Next Supply Chain Crisis appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Si and Desi discuss a range of digital forensics topics, from writing forensic reports that juries can actually understand, to whether AI is coming for “button pusher” DFIR jobs.
The agency did not publicly attribute the incidents to a specific group or country but said Poland faced intensified hostile cyber activity in 2024 and 2025, “with particular emphasis on the special services of the Russian Federation.”