> TODAY'S SUMMARY (7 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights several key threats and trends. Hackers are increasingly targeting AI systems, as demonstrated by a recent incident where credentials were stolen, leading to $740,000 in unauthorized compute usage for a cloud provider. Microsoft researchers revealed vulnerabilities in AI models, showing that attackers can create backdoors by manipulating just a few neurons. Additionally, recent updates for Slackware address critical security issues, including remote code execution and memory errors in their httpd and Git packages. The ongoing risk of vehicle hacking is underscored by a podcast discussing how attackers can gain control over car systems. As cyber threats evolve, organizations must prioritize robust security measures against these emerging vulnerabilities.
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Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-1731 in BeyondTrust RS and PRA to deploy VShell, gain persistence, move laterally, and control compromised systems. Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-1731 (CVSS score: 9.9), in BeyondTrust Remote S...
Good article on password managers that secretly have a backdoor.
New research shows that these claims aren’t true in all cases, particularly when account recovery is in place or password managers are set to share vaults or organize users into groups. The researchers reverse-engineered or closely ana...
As more organizations run their own Large Language Models (LLMs), they are also deploying more internal services and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to support those models. Modern security risks are being introduced less from the models themselves and more from the infrastructure that ser...
Ein Hacker hat sich Zugriff auf Mitarbeiterdaten von RTL verschafft.nitpicker – shutterstock.com
Die RTL Group wurde offenbar Opfer einer Cyberattacke. Wie Cybernews berichtet, brĂĽstet sich ein Cyberkrimineller namens LuneBF mit gestohlenen Daten von mehr als 27.000 Mitarbei...
A newly uncovered infostealer, suspected to be built with the help of a large language model, is targeting victims with Python and C++ variants, each tailored for a different stage of data theft. Kaspersky researchers discovered a stealer dubbed “Arkanix,” which is capable of...
Catalin Dragomir admitted in a US court to selling access to an Oregon state government office’s network.
The post Romanian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Selling Access to US State Network appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CISA flagged two Roundcube Webmail vulnerabilities as actively exploited in attacks and ordered U.S. federal agencies to patch them within three weeks. [...]
Off-the-shelf tools helped Russian-speaking cybercrime group run riot Cybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new incident report from AWS.…
Threat actors relying on AI have been exploiting exposed ports and weak credentials to take over FortiGate devices.
The post Hundreds of FortiGate Firewalls Hacked in AI-Powered Attacks: AWS appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Advantest, a Japanese specialist in testing computer chips for major semiconductor manufacturers, has deployed incident response protocols following a cybersecurity incident
When AI systems detect violent intent but private companies decide whether it’s “imminent enough” to alert authorities, we are operating inside a regulatory void. A recent Canadian tragedy exposes the uncomfortable reality that tech platforms are quietly acting as risk arbiters without shared stand...
Russian cyberattacks targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are increasingly focused on collecting intelligence to guide missile strikes rather than immediately disrupting operations, Ukrainian cybersecurity officials said.
Recent ransomware attacks targeting Romania’s critical infrastructure were likely part of a broader Russian hybrid operation aimed at undermining the country’s stability, Romania’s top cybersecurity official said.
Patched in December 2025, the exploited flaw leads to XSS attacks via the animate tags in SVG documents.
The post Recent RoundCube Webmail Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A Russian-speaking cybercriminal used commercial generative AI tools to hack over 600 FortiGate devices across 55 countries. Amazon Threat Intelligence reports that a Russian-speaking, financially motivated threat actor used commercial generative AI services to compromise more than 600 FortiGate dev...
Attackers are actively exploiting two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) to gain unauthenticated control of enterprise mobile device management infrastructure and install backdoors engineered to persist even after organizations apply a...
A new FBI Flash alert claims $20m was lost to ATM jackpotting attacks in 2025 alone
A ransomware attack forced the University of Mississippi Medical Center to close all of its roughly three dozen clinics around the state and cancel elective procedures.
The post Mississippi Hospital System Closes All Clinics After Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what they say is an active "Shai-Hulud-like" supply chain worm campaign that has leveraged a cluster of at least 19 malicious npm packages to enable credential harvesting and cryptocurrency key theft.
The campaign has been codenamed SANDWORM_MODE by supply ch...
Officers from Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) dismantled an organized group that used phishing to seize Facebook accounts and extract BLIK payment codes from victims. Arrest (Source: Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime) Eleven members of an organized criminal gro...