> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. A major cyberattack on French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa resulted in fraudulent transactions totaling $133 million, emphasizing the risks associated with third-party service providers. Scammers are increasingly impersonating trusted brands in fake gift card schemes, collecting personal information from unsuspecting consumers. The rise of IoT vulnerabilities is underscored by recent hacks affecting critical infrastructure, such as blood labs and grocery stores. Additionally, vulnerabilities in SonicWall's SonicOS have been exploited, prompting CISA to add these to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Developers are also reminded of security best practices, as sensitive credentials were found exposed in public GitHub repositories.
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ActiveState explains how GitHub Actions attack chains can evade traditional CI security scanners, why passing a scan doesn't guarantee a secure pipeline, and how organizations can better govern their CI/CD workflows. [...]
Group-IB analysis argued Scattered Spider is a decentralized collective of independent clusters
Barracuda Networks has acquired Evo Security. The acquisition expands the BarracudaONE platform’s identity security capabilities by adding privileged access management (PAM), access control, identity protection, and identity threat detection and response. By combining Evo Security’s identity solutio...
A fake recruiter phishing campaign uses trusted brands, nested redirects, and fake Google prompts to steal accounts.
Cyber threats aren’t limited to large enterprises. Small and medium-sized businesses across the UK are increasingly targeted by automated attacks such as phishing, credential stuffing, ransomware, and exploitation of unpatched systems. These attacks succeed because they exploit common, preventable w...
CyberProof has announced the launch of the CyberProof Agentic MXDR Service which connects AI agents with human expertise and presents quantifiable security outcomes with CyberProof’s Reveal360. CyberProof modernizes managed detection and response by shifting security operations from manual workflows...
Picus Security has launched the Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform, built for a world where frontier AI has collapsed the time between disclosure and attack. Adversaries now weaponize new CVEs in hours, against a backdrop of around 132 published every day. A CVE drops; it is rated 9.8. Le...
U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal complaint.
Microsoft records tied that ID first to the account the attackers used to keep access during the May 2025 intr...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in cross-tenant compromise.
The one-click vulnerability has been codenamed WriteOut by the Sand Sec...
The audits are reportedly being spearheaded by CISA’s Attack Surface Evaluation team, a specialized unit tasked with conducting digital defense assessments and simulated hacking exercises.
The post CISA Reportedly Using Anthropic’s Mythos to Scan Government Software for Flaws appeared first on Secur...
Those that did sign include large firms such as Aviva, the London Stock Exchange Group and Marks & Spencer, which lost hundreds of millions of pounds in a cyberattack last year, as well as small cybersecurity consultancies.
The U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief."
Majority report AI-related security incidents or vulnerabilities
The pledge is a voluntary framework inviting organizations to commit to foundational cyber security governance, board-level accountability, and supply chain rigor. For over a decade, Cloudflare has pioneered the core pillars of this framework: democratizing security, leadership accountability, and r...
Two young men have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of running a phishing operation that harvested the credit card details of unsuspecting victims.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Commvault has announced Commvault Minutes to Recovery, a scenario-driven cyber resilience simulation that lets participants act as a hacker and run their own attacks using frontier AI tools. Then, participants are challenged to defend against and recover from an incident under pressure to test their...
Hackers are exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-48282) in Adobe ColdFusion that carries a CVSS score of 10/10.
The post Critical Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Researchers say the Iran-linked threat actor used an adaptable modular malware framework and compromised IT service providers to reach high-value targets in Israel.
The post Iran-Linked Hackers Using Modular C&C Framework in Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Tomorrow's webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations detect sophisticated phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks while reducing alert fatigue through automated investigation and response workflows. [...]
A 16-year-old Linux kernel vulnerability, dubbed Januscape, allows attackers to escape a virtual machine and execute arbitrary code on the host. [...]