The state-sponsored group’s campaign has targeted government, higher education, financial, and legal entities, as well as think tanks. The post Russian APT Star Blizzard Adopts DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Secrets sprawl isn't slowing down: in 2025, it accelerated faster than most security teams anticipated. GitGuardian's State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 report analyzed billions of commits across public GitHub and uncovered 29 million new hardcoded secrets in 2025 alone, a 34% increase year over year and the largest single-year jump ever recorded. This year's findings reveal three core trends: AI has
The ShinyHunters hacker group claimed to have stolen over 350GB of information from European Commission cloud systems. The post European Commission Reports Cyber Intrusion and Data Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Iran-linked hacking groups are turning to high-volume, low-impact cyberattacks, and AI is providing a boost. The post Hacked Hospitals, Hidden Spyware: Iran Conflict Shows How Digital Fight Is Ingrained in Warfare appeared first on SecurityWeek.
F5 has reclassified a BIG-IP APM denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability as a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw, warning that attackers are exploiting it to deploy webshells on unpatched devices. [...]
Two malicious versions of the popular SDK were uploaded to the PyPI registry, targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux. The post Telnyx Targeted in Growing TeamPCP Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Researchers from watchTowr and Defused have found evidence that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-3055, a critical NetScaler vulnerability
Microsoft has pulled a buggy Windows 11 non-security preview update to investigate a known issue that triggers 0x80073712 errors during installation. [...]
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has handed a £100,000 fine to Birmingham-based TMAC
The critical-severity flaw leaks application memory and can be exploited to obtain authenticated administrative session IDs. The post Exploitation of Fresh Citrix NetScaler Vulnerability Begins appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The European Commission has revealed details of a data breach impacting its AWS infrastructure
The agency said Iranian hackers targeted the director’s personal email account and noted that the compromised information is old. The post FBI Confirms Kash Patel Email Hack as US Offers $10M Reward for Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Attackers are now actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiClient EMS platform, according to threat intelligence company Defused. [...]
Initially disclosed as a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS), the bug was reclassified as a critical RCE issue. The post F5 BIG-IP DoS Flaw Upgraded to Critical RCE, Now Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Three threat activity clusters aligned with China have targeted a government organization in Southeast Asia as part of what has been described as a "complex and well-resourced operation." The campaigns have led to the deployment of various malware families, including HIUPAN (aka USBFect, MISTCLOAK, or U2DiskWatch), PUBLOAD, EggStremeFuel (aka RawCookie), EggStremeLoader (aka Gorem RAT), MASOL
The European Commission has confirmed a data breach after its Europa.eu web platform was hacked in a cyberattack claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang. [...]
The Handala hackers associated with Iran have breached the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel and published photos and documents. [...]
A vulnerability in the Smart Slider 3 WordPress plugin, active on more than 800,000 websites, can be exploited to allow subscriber-level users access to arbitrary files on the server. [...]
Threat actors with ties to Iran successfully broke into the personal email account of Kash Patel, the director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and leaked a cache of photos and other documents to the internet. Handala Hack Team, which carried out the breach, said on its website that Patel "will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims." In a statement
A new info-stealing malware named Infinity Stealer is targeting macOS systems with a Python payload packaged as an executable using the open-source Nuitka compiler. [...]