GoCaracal is a new modular malware framework that broadens Dark Caracal's capabilities to steal data and maintain access to victims.
The National Security Agency will welcome back to campus potentially hundreds of former members of the elite group known as Tailored Access Operations (TAO) to celebrate the division’s recent rebranding.
James Kettle of PortSwigger talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his AI-powered open source tool, which found new HTTP request-smuggling techniques.
If you found time for a bit of vacation this summer, you might be in catch-up mode. Here’s a list to help: all the expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops, in case you missed it, from July 2026. AWS Security Blog post This month’s AWS Security Blog posts covered AI agent […]
North Korean operatives posing as IT workers are improving their tactics, but researchers say there are still ways to spot them before they do damage.
The company released a statement and filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) saying a cybersecurity incident was discovered on Tuesday.
A newly disclosed Rowhammer attack called GPUThor can bypass error-correcting code (ECC) protections on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling denial-of-service (DoS) and root-level privilege escalation. [...]
A multibillion-dollar settlement with attorneys general from nearly every U.S. state and territory will mean new privacy and safety protections in Meta products.
A single alert from one security service tells you something happened. Read that signal alongside activity from other services and your own business context, and you will know whether what happened is part of a multi-stage attack. Consider a short sequence. An identity calls GetCallerIdentity from a source address it hasn’t previously used. Within minutes, […]
Threat actors behind a notorious click-fraud botnet have set their sights on vehicle infotainment modules and are abusing legitimate functionality to spread infections.
FBI seizes QScan and QTRouter, China-linked platforms used to hide intrusions and target U.S. critical infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have seized two platforms, QScan and QTRouter, used by a China-linked group to hide cyberattacks and target critical infrastructure. The operation matters because it shows how state-backed actors no longer need […]
Microsoft Threat Intelligence examines attacks on exposed AI workloads, including LiteLLM gateway exploitation, credential harvesting, persistence, and cryptomining activity. The post When AI infrastructure becomes the target: Securing gateways and control points appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (南京鑫玖维网络科技有限公司).&
Meta has reached a proposed settlement worth up to approximately $18 billion with a bipartisan coalition of 52 attorneys generals over allegations that Facebook and Instagram were deliberately designed to encourage compulsive use by children and teenagers. [...]
The DOJ said it disrupted Chinese state-backed tools used to scan, infect and exploit IoT devices for attacks on federal agencies and multiple industries.
A common thing that folks should "worry" about in Entra (or any platform really) is "who has rights to administer"?  Who can delete or change key things, or modify them in ways that might not be obvious (accidentally or on purpose).  Yes, we trust our people, but if they've moved on to other roles or to other organizations, they change from "our people" to "used to be our people".  
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Researchers said they identified servers and domains associated with several countries in Europe and the Middle East, potentially pointing to a broader targeting profile for an Iranian hacking group.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered additional infrastructure and previously undocumented malware associated with Nimbus Manticore, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Group-IB, in a new analysis published today, described the cyber espionage actor as among the most active Iranian APT groups in 2026. Nimbus Manticore (aka
Medical technology company Boston Scientific has been targeted in a cyberattack that disrupted some of its IT systems, causing operational disruptions globally. [...]
Attackers are now targeting a chain of two Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities that can allow them to execute arbitrary code on unpatched servers, according to threat intelligence company Defused. [...]
The FBI has disrupted infrastructure associated with a technical "quartermaster" that provided reconnaissance, proxy management, and operational routing capabilities for Chinese cyber espionage activities. [...]
Snowflake is ending password authentication for legacy service accounts, forcing organizations to migrate them to passwordless methods. Token Security explains why the harder challenge is identifying what uses each account, who owns it, and how much access it still needs. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that's used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process. In a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, Island characterized the $320/month service as a subscription-based phishing platform that
Ubiquiti has released security patches for three new maximum-severity vulnerabilities that threat actors can exploit remotely without privileges. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradecraft while recording sharply different defensive outcomes. Both organizations were fully compromised at the domain level, and in both, the red team also
Microsoft has begun testing new privacy controls that will let Windows 11 users choose which desktop applications can access their camera, microphone, and precise location. [...]
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has disclosed two unpatched vulnerabilities in Kaltura's HTML5 video player library that allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a server and execute code on it. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-19913 and CVE-2026-19912, both stem from the same unsafe deserialization in the mwEmbedLoader.php endpoint of the mwEmbed player
The SOC we've always known was built around a model that guarantees most of the alert queue will never receive analyst review. There's never time. In a traditional SOC, the typical progression follows a well-known pattern: an alert arrives; a detection engine assigns a severity score. The issue then waits for a human to decide if it should escalate to an investigation. Given the volume of
The adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing service lowers the barrier to entry for actors to create attacks and steal more than just user credentials.
Attackers are now exploiting a critical-severity vulnerability in the Gitea self-hosted Git service, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [...]
