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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats. Chainalysis reported a data breach resulting from an AI-driven cyberattack that exploited offensive agentic techniques. Meanwhile, the FBI attributed a massive $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist from Binance to North Korean hackers, known as TraderTraitor, prompting urgent calls for the crypto industry to bolster transaction monitoring. Ransomware continues to pose a threat, with Synology warning of increased C3RB3R attacks targeting NAS devices. Additionally, attackers impersonated IT support on Microsoft Teams to gain unauthorized access to company data, and a supply chain attack involved a malicious code extension that created reverse SSH tunnels. These incidents underscore the evolving tactics of cybercriminals, particularly the integration of AI in cyberattacks.
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Why “more alerts” isn’t the same as better security
If you run security in an enterprise environment, you already know the problem. Generic detection tools generate thousands of alerts, most of them low value. Analysts spend hours chasing noise while attackers quietly move...
A compromise of the popular Bitwarden password manager is linked to the ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign, with bad actor injecting malicious code in a version of its CLI. However, while there are some overlaps in such areas a tools that suggest TeamPCP was behind the attack, there are differ...
Investigators found the malware, dubbed Firestarter, on a federal agency's network in a campaign dating back to at least September 2025.
The post US, UK agencies warn hackers were hiding on Cisco firewalls long after patches were applied appeared first on CyberScoop.
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Sean Plankey, informed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and the White House that he is withdrawing his nomination after a 13-month stall, during which the well-regarded cybe...
The Treasury Department said Cambodian senator Kok An was being sanctioned alongside 28 others involved in his scam center operation.
Lizzie O’Shea is an Australian lawyer, author, and the founder and chair of Digital Rights Watch, which advocates for freedom, fairness, and fundamental rights in the digital age. She sits on the board of Blueprint for Free Speech, and in 2019 was named a Human Rights Hero by Access Now.
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ZionSiphon was designed to find and sabotage Israelis’ water supply. An OT expert said it appears to be ineffective and the work of amateurs using AI.
The post Dragos: Despite AI use, new malware targeting water plants is ‘hype’ appeared first on CyberScoop.
Sean Plankey has requested to withdraw his name to run the U.S. cybersecurity agency after a tumultuous year of chaotic temporary leadership.
All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at once A majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt victim organizations’ operations, according to a joint...
The Bitwarden CLI was briefly compromised after attackers uploaded a malicious @bitwarden/cli package to npm containing a credential-stealing payload capable of spreading to other projects. [...]
Researchers said it’s the first-ever mapping of attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure.
The post Surveillance campaigns use commercial surveillance tools to exploit long-known telecom vulnerabilities appeared first on CyberScoop.
CISA said the unnamed department was infected with malware called “FIRESTARTER” that allowed the hackers to return to the Cisco device in March without re-exploiting the original vulnerabilities.
TL;DR On April 18, 2026, attackers linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group stole ~$292 million (116,500 rsETH) from KelpDAO’s LayerZero…
The post Inside the KelpDAO Bridge Exploit: How ~$292 Million in rsETH Was Released Against a Non-Existent Burn appeared first on Chainalysis.
Author, Creator & Presenter: Andrew Bullen, AI Security Lead At Stripe
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Recently observed Trigona ransomware attacks are using a custom, command-line tool to steal data from compromised environments faster and more efficiently. [...]
When Anthropic unveiled Mythos and Project Glasswing, the reaction was immediate and polarized. Some dismissed it as fear-driven marketing, while others treated it as a credible shift in the threat landscape. Like with many things, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. I wanted to test that...
The campaigns exploited a weakness in telecom infrastructure to allow the unnamed vendors to secretly pose as real cellular providers and pinpoint victims’ locations.
I had a few conversations over the past days that all pointed to the same conclusion: many technology companies are still being built like old SaaS companies. That is a mistake. If you are building a technology product now, the priority is not a polished frontend. It is the backend: the data layer,...
GitGuardian analysis of the @bitwarden/cli compromise: GitHub used as C2, new Cloudflare exfiltration domain found, linked to April 22 Checkmarx KICS compromise via Dependabot.
The post @bitwarden/cli – GitGuardian Views on helloworm00 appeared first on Security Boulevard.
A previously undocumented threat activity cluster known as UNC6692 has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics via Microsoft Teams to deploy a custom malware suite on compromised hosts.
"As with many other intrusions in recent years, UNC6692 relied heavily on impersonating IT helpdesk em...