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The company emerged from stealth mode with pre-seed funding from Osage University Partners and DataTribe. The post RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A Windows botnet called x47.c can spend victims’ paid AI credits, steal data, and flood websites. Its operator markets it as an attack toolkit for remote use, but the evidence describes advertised capabilities, not conf…
A North Korea-linked malware campaign has found a way to keep infected computers connected to its operators. Instead of storing malware on Ethereum, the attackers hide the location of a control server inside cryptocurre…
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 …
Fake software download pages are drawing Windows users into a Silver Fox-linked malware campaign. The pages imitate familiar vendors and supply installers that can leave an infected computer vulnerable to continued acce…
Starting yesterday, our sensors picked up a small number of scans for "wordfence-waf.php". This particular script is used by Wordfence, a solution to protect WordPress sites. During the Wordfence install, the wordpress-…
The company will use the funds to expand its sales, partnerships, channels, and customer support teams. The post Reco Raises $55 Million for Agentic Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI has scrapped the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal safety testing exposed troubling failures involving deception, authorization boundaries, and unsafe tool use. The agentic AI model had been scheduled for a…
The personalized versions of ChatGPT were used to impersonate legitimate products and trick users into executing PowerShell commands. The post Hackers Use ChatGPT Custom GPTs in ClickFix Attacks appeared first on Securi…
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) recently disclosed that during cybersecurity evaluations, the GPT-6 Astra model executed simulated, unauthorized supply-chain attacks. This was part of a pre-release assessment conduc…
GitHub Security Lab has disclosed that its open-source AI security agent identified 24 vulnerabilities in Android applications, including flaws that could enable covert location tracking in OsmAnd and account takeover a…
The data breach affects the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), which maintains personnel records for the Department of Defense. The post Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach Impacts 3 Million People appeared first on…
Hackers are abusing ChatGPT’s Custom GPT feature to impersonate AI products and trick users into installing a sophisticated remote access trojan (RAT), according to Huntress researchers. The campaign turns a trusted Cha…
Rig provides an identity dependencies graph to distinguish between legitimate users and rogue AI agents The post Rig Security Emerges From Stealth With $12M to Tackle Agentic AI Identity Risks appeared first on Security…
A Vietnamese national was charged with money laundering for his role in a massive "pig butchering" scam, which defrauded a victim out of $16 million worth of cryptocurrency. [...]
- AI, supply-chain exposure, quantum computing and geopolitical conflict are testing security programs. Preparing for disruption must become part of day-to-day operations. The post Four Cyber Threats Harboring Big Plans…
The GPT-6.1 Astra model was slated to debut in ChatGPT and Codex in October, but it fell short of expectations. The post OpenAI Calls Off GPT-6.1 Astra Launch, Details Safety Cases for Frontier Training appeared first o…
Modern messaging apps allow users to link their phone accounts to their computer desktop. Eavesdroppers are taking advantage of this capability: Apps such as WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop allow people to use their acc…
Pepijn van der Stap was convicted in 2023 for hacking multiple organizations, stealing their data, and extorting them. The post Dutch Police Arrest Convicted Hacker in ShinyHunters Investigation appeared first on Securi…
A newly tracked Windows remote access trojan called AgtaBackup RAT is using fake Microsoft Store pages to gain a foothold on victims’ computers. The campaign pretends to offer popular video-conferencing software, but th…
Modulate has secured $25 million in funding to expand its audio-native AI platform as enterprises confront deepfake voice fraud, impersonation, and unsafe automated conversations. Future Ventures led the round, joined b…
OpenAI has acknowledged that one of its experimental AI agents gained unauthorized access to an Australian government health statistics portal during internal training in June. The incident has intensified concerns that…
The malware framework uses a modular architecture and a custom executable file format for long-term persistence. The post Daemon Tools Hackers’ NeedyMantis Malware Dissected by Microsoft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
wolfSSL has released version 5.9.4, fixing 11 security vulnerabilities in its embedded TLS and cryptography library while adding major post-quantum cryptography capabilities. The update is important for developers using…
American tech company Kiteworks has lifted a precautionary advisory asking customers to shut down systems after patching a critical vulnerability. [...]
Storm-3168 used compromised cloud identities to carry out a destructive attack against an Azure environment in minutes. The operation shows how a stolen application credential can give an intruder broad control over hos…
Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. "It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigati…
WatchGuard has disclosed three security vulnerabilities affecting WatchGuard AP devices, including two critical flaws that could allow attackers to gain unauthenticated access and execute commands on vulnerable access p…
A newly documented Windows remote access trojan, dubbed BotHelper RAT, gives attackers a quiet way to watch an infected user’s screen and control the device. The malware arrives through a small starter program, hides it…
For decades, industrial cybersecurity rested on a comfortable assumption: operational technology (OT) was protected by physical isolation. The "air gap" guaranteed that power grids, manufacturing lines, and water system…
Apple has released iOS 26.7.1 and iPadOS 26.7.1 to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability that it says may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specifically targeted individuals. The security …
Apple released iOS and macOS updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-86950) reported by Meta’s product security team. The post Apple Patches Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’ appeared first…