> TODAY'S SUMMARY (18 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights various significant threats and trends:
1. **AI-Generated Code Concerns**: Proton's CEO downplays security testing for AI-written code, raising concerns about potential vulnerabilities in software development.
2. **Data Breach at DHS**: A hacker leaked personal data of over 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, underscoring the ongoing risks of data breaches in government sectors.
3. **Fake IT Scams**: Attackers impersonating IT support managed to manipulate employees into granting remote access, revealing the effectiveness of social engineering tactics.
4. **Cryptocurrency Exchange Breach**: Binance experienced a significant security incident affecting $6.3 billion in assets, highlighting vulnerabilities in cryptocurrency platforms amid increasing cyber threats.
5. **Scammers Adapt Quickly**: Fraudulent online shopping sites are being rapidly re-established after takedowns, indicating persistent challenges in combating e-commerce scams.
6. **IoT Device Risks**: A recent report identifies smart TVs as major targets for cyber vulnerabilities, emphasizing the need for security measures in household IoT devices.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 08:00
Forest Blizzard, a threat group attributed to Russia’s GRU, hijacked network traffic to steal credentials and tokens for Microsoft accounts and other services.
The post Feds quash widespread Russia-backed espionage network spanning 18,000 devices appeared first on CyberScoop.
Your PLCs aren't internet-connected, right? Right?! Iranian-affiliated actors have escalated intrusions targeting critical US water and energy facilities, in some cases disrupting operations, the FBI and American cyber defense agencies said on Tuesday.…
AI giant Anthropic has unveiled Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative built around Claude Mythos Preview, a model it describes as “cybersecurity in the age of AI” that can autonomously identify software vulnerabilities at scale.
Rather than release the model publicl...
Handala’s Surge Signals a New Wave of Wartime Cyberattacks
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A critical vulnerability in the Ninja Forms File Uploads premium add-on for WordPress allows uploading arbitrary files without authentication, which can lead to remote code execution. [...]
Unit 42 uncovers critical vulnerabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore's sandbox, demonstrating DNS tunneling and credential exposure.
The post Cracks in the Bedrock: Escaping the AWS AgentCore Sandbox appeared first on Unit 42.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit, which may result in denial of service, information leaks, or potentially remote code execution. Additional details can be found in the upstream advisory: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260407.txt
Several security issues were fixed in ADSys, Juju Core, LXD
Recent advances in quantum hardware and software have accelerated the timeline on which quantum attack might happen. Cloudflare is responding by moving our target for full post-quantum security to 2029.
Are Your Machine Identities Adequately Protected from Unauthorized Access? Where digital transformation is paramount, ensuring the security of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) is crucial. But what exactly are NHIs? Simply put, NHIs are machine identities that play pivotal roles in cybersecurity. They con...
How Do Non-Human Identities Influence Cybersecurity Frameworks? What role do Non-Human Identities (NHIs) play in shaping the cybersecurity framework necessary for secure cloud environments? With technological evolve, NHIs—comprising machine identities such as encrypted passwords, tokens, and keys—se...
U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. [...]
How Does Managing Non-Human Identities Secure Our Digital Space? Are non-human identities (NHIs) the secret ingredient to securing sensitive environments? When organizations increasingly rely on cloud computing and complex digital infrastructures, the need to safeguard these machine identities is mo...
Several security issues were fixed in Django.
Cyber-driven fraud – from investment schemes to business email compromise (BEC) to confidence and romance scams – accounted for almost 85% of the losses Americans suffered through fraud crimes last year, totaling an eye-watering $17.7 billion in money stolen, according to the FBI. It also made up 4...
Hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (FortiClient EMS) since at least the end of March. Fortinet has published an advisory and released an emergency hotfix that can be applied to affected deployments until a patched ve...
The advisory said Iranian actors are targeting local municipal governments, water and wastewater systems and the energy sector.
Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens? Hundreds of organizations have been compromised daily by a Microsoft device-code phishing campaign that uses AI and automation at nearly every stage of the attack chain to ultimately snoop through corporate email inboxes and steal financial data.…
Attackers are exploiting a critical Flowise flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-59528 (CVSS score of 10), that lets them run malicious code and access systems due to poor validation of user-supplied JavaScript. Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Flowise, tracked as CVE-2025-59528, t...
As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.