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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats. Three individuals have been charged for leveraging AI to impersonate CEOs and attorneys, resulting in a $129 million theft scheme targeting company accounting departments. Meanwhile, CERT-IN has reported a significant uptick in AI-driven attacks against Indian fintech firms, particularly during weekends when defenses are typically weaker. A critical vulnerability in OpenSSH allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on certain Linux systems, raising severe security concerns. Additionally, the FBI and CISA have issued warnings about cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigeration systems, posing risks of food spoilage and potential hazards. These incidents underline the increasing sophistication of cyber threats and the urgent need for enhanced security measures.
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The ShinyHunters cybercriminal organization on Tuesday replaced agency images on the FBIjobs.gov site with a photo of a Pokemon that has become the group’s defacto mascot.
A Windows malware called CLOSEDQUORUM is built to take orders from a vote of up to four AI models instead of an attacker's server, Cisco Talos said on September 22.
The models can choose to steal Windows credentials, saved browser passwords, and crypto wallet data. Talos has not seen this setup wor...
A Kubernetes user with limited permissions can potentially gain control of an entire Google Cloud organization by exploiting the authority granted to Google Kubernetes Config Connector. Varonis explains how this confused deputy problem can turn a single Kubernetes YAML file into a path to organizati...
Cofense has announced an expansion of its AI-driven Phishing Defense Platform through Cofense Command Center, its orchestration layer for measurement and reporting. The new Competency Dashboard measures how employees recognize, report and respond to phishing threats, giving security teams evidence o...
Information published. This CVE was addressed by updates that were released in September 2026, but the CVE was inadvertently omitted from the September 2026 Security Updates. This is an informational change only. Customers who have already installed the September 2026 updates do not need to take any...
Qrator found a Windows botnet advertised with AI API draining, credential theft and SOCKS5 proxying
More than 80,000 relay servers are helping users in China bypass geographic restrictions on leading U.S. AI models, according to Team Cymru. “What we have uncovered is an entire ecosystem designed explicitly to break the frontier model providers’ T&Cs, enabling fraud and illicit activity,” said...
ShinyHunters claims FBI breach via PeopleSoft zero-day, steals staff data; FBI investigating, no confirmation yet. The popular cybercrime group ShinyHunters is claiming that it breached the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and stole sensitive information belonging to FBI employees and job...
Unknown threat actors have managed to compromise two legitimate MemTensor packages across the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repositories to push a platform-specific Go-based implant dubbed sckit designed for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
According to reports from Aikido, SafeDep, Socket, and Ste...
Portnox has announced new capabilities to detect unauthorized AI applications and agents on managed devices and automatically enforce security policy, restricting, quarantining, or removing unapproved or risky applications the moment they’re detected. The capability addresses shadow AI: generative A...
Network Solutions has launched Dark Web Monitoring, a new security capability that alerts small businesses when information associated with their domain appears in known breach data and provides steps they can take to reduce risk. Stolen credentials and other information exposed in data breaches can...
Investigative capability shouldn’t be split across licences, modules and bolt-ons – S21 VisionX brings visual review, prioritisation and victim identification into one intelligence-led platform.
It was discovered that NetworkManager did not properly restrict the
ca-path and phase2-ca-path certificate authority settings for private
(single-user) 802.1X network connections. An attacker could use this issue
to point their own private 802.1X connection profile at a directory under
their control...
DarkMe, a remote access trojan and info-stealer that has previously been associated with a threat group that targeted financial market traders and cryptocurrency users, has been spotted again. This time around, its distribution has been simplified: instead of leveraging zero-day exploits, attackers...
Barracuda Networks has launched Barracuda AI Data Security, the AI security and governance solution purpose-built for resource-constrained organizations and managed service providers (MSPs). The solution enables businesses to accelerate AI adoption by protecting sensitive data, enforcing responsible...
 Summary Latin America bucked the bear market. The region’s crypto economy saw $593.8 billion in activity, with an overall…
The post Latin America: Brazil Leads World in Adoption as Region’s Crypto Economy Grows appeared first on Chainalysis.
Lookout has launched Social Engineering Protection (SEP), a new module within the Lookout Mobile AI Security Platform. SEP provides automated, real-time protection against the next generation of AI-driven mobile threats, including linkless smishing attacks, synthetic voice cloning, and other voice p...
A fake Claude Max giveaway uses a spoofed Google sign-in window to steal users’ login credentials, Malwarebytes researchers have found. “Browser-in-the-browser” is not a new technique. Researchers have documented it since 2022, and in June Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 reported a campaign that used dr...
Summary Crypto economy overcame worst market since 2022: Even as crypto’s total market cap fell about 50% (a $2.1 trillion…
The post 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index: World’s Crypto Economy Held Firm Through the Bear Market appeared first on Chainalysis.
LinkedIn is rolling out new verification tools that let members vouch for colleagues’ work experience and give companies more control over accounts that falsely claim to employ them.