US Air Force members given over 6 years in prison for cyber theft of more than $2 million
According to court documents, both men pleaded guilty to wire fraud, identity theft and access device fraud charges in June.
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According to court documents, both men pleaded guilty to wire fraud, identity theft and access device fraud charges in June.
Custom variants of OpenAI's ChatGPT promoted in sponsored Google results are directing unsuspecting users to malicious sites that use ClickFix attacks to deliver malware. [...]
Keio, a major Japanese railway operator, was hit by ransomware, disrupting business systems and forcing the company to shut down its network. Keio Corporation, one of Japan’s major private railway operators, was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, disrupting some of its business systems. The company detected a system failure early Saturday and later…
The company plans to close the deal around the end of the year at which point Paragon will begin trading on Nasdaq under the REDLattice umbrella.
The FBI is warning members of the ShinyHunters extortion group to turn themselves in after Dutch police arrested a man the bureau described as one of the group's alleged leaders. [...]
The artificial intelligence giant acknowledged it botched its response to the incidents and should have done more to promptly notify and work with the Australian government in the days after it discovered the breaches.
Cybersecurity firms say attackers exploited the Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88772 zero-day to deploy custom web shells and tunneling malware, gain root access, steal credentials, and spread into internal networks. [...]
Two former members of the United States Air Force were sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison for their roles in a multi-year series of business email compromise (BEC) scams and phishing campaigns. [...]
An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France's tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France's national cybersecurity agency saw the data leave. The attack was not sophisticated, the agency, ANSSI, says in a report (in French) published on Tuesday: …
Microsoft has started rolling out Windows 11 26H2 to everyone, and while it's this year's big annual feature update, you probably won't notice a massive difference after installing it. [...]
A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors. The new Spectre v2 variant has been codenamed Branch Target Reuse (BTR). "The key ins…
Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a backdoor on their Windows computers, according to Microsoft. The campaigns, aimed at people and organizations tied to Ukraine, have affected more than 100 organizations since January, mostly in the U.S. and U.K. At least one computer was infe…
A new Branch Target Reuse (BTR) attack has been devised that can recover root password hashes on Intel computers running Linux in 3-5 minutes on average. [...]
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The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) suffered an AI-driven cyberattack that the organization described as "loud and very, very messy." [...]
Microsoft observed a China-based actor using a previously unidentified malware framework in targeted intrusions against telcos, universities, medical, and government-related organizations.
The following is a guest blog by ITSPmagazine, based on their interview of Qualys President & CEO Sumedh Thakar at Black Hat USA 2026. Sumedh Thakar has watched the same clock compress for 23 years. He joined Qualys as an early software engineer on the scanner, when organizations scanned once every 90 days and gave themselves another 90 days to fix what turn…
The hacking of internet-exposed, vulnerable Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway deployments has escalated. What started as stealthy targeting via zero-day exploits has now become widespread “spray and pray” exploitation, fueled by the publication of a root-cause analysis and a proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2026-88771, which is remotely exploitable on unpatch…
RatHat's C2 panel now builds malware and ranks victims with AI across nearly 100 deployments
The critical vulnerabilities, which impact default configurations of NetScaler products, essentially give attackers a skeleton key to customers' networks.
Kiteworks on Monday said it worked with federal intelligence authorities over the weekend as it identified and addressed a critical security vulnerability during the scheduled precautionary shutdown. "During the shutdown, this activity led to the discovery of a previously unknown critical vulnerability confined to a capability that is enabled for less than 1…
Pentagon personnel agency breach exposed data of 3 million people after attackers accessed a file-sharing server for about nine months. The U.S. Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), which maintains personnel records for the Department of Defense, is notifying people that their personal information was exposed in a data breach. According to the agency, unauth…
Identity governance helps control who should have access, but periodic reviews alone may not reveal attacks as they happen. tenfold Software explains how real-time identity telemetry can help security teams investigate suspicious activity before it escalates. [...]
AWS AgentCore SDK flaws could let attackers run commands in AI sandboxes and reach AWS credentials