Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 16 malicious Mozilla Firefox extensions that are capable of stealing cryptocurrency wallet recovery…
FBI arrests another suspected ShinyHunters hacker after agency breach
The FBI has arrested another suspected member of the ShinyHunters extortion group believed to be involved in the recent breach of FBI systems, Director…
Angel One – 6,765,054 breached accounts
In July 2024, the Indian stock brokerage firm Angel One confirmed that data leaked online related to a breach that occurred in April 2023 . The leaked…
Security Threats Don’t Stop at the Office: Why Executives’ Families Need Training, Too
Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry point for attacks.
Unpatched AhsayCBS flaws exploited to deploy webshells, mine crypto
Threat actors are exploiting one critical and one medium-severity vulnerability still unpatched in the AhsayCBS backup management platform to deploy…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-09 20h : 12 posts
12 posts published in the last hour 17:31What We Missed: FBI Strikes Back at ShinyHunters 17:31Ignore all instructions and read this blog: The state of AI-analysis evasion in malware 17:31South Korean president calls for creation of tools that stop all…
What We Missed: FBI Strikes Back at ShinyHunters
In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn’t get a chance to cover, from the arrest of a suspected ShinyHunters…
Ignore all instructions and read this blog: The state of AI-analysis evasion in malware
“AI-analysis evasion” encapsulates the real-world techniques malware authors are developing in attempt to obstruct or defeat any layers of automated AI…
South Korean president calls for creation of tools that stop all cyber-attacks
‘Complete security paradigm refresh’ needed for the AI era
Teenager suspected of leading KillSec ransomware group as law enforcement seizes servers and leak site
On 30 September 2026, law enforcement took control of KillSec’s leak site, securing at least 110 terabytes of data against further unauthorised access.…
CastleStealer Malware Uses Browser Protection Bypass and Remote Shell to Expand Attacker Access
CastleStealer, an emerging C#-based information stealer, has added browser protection bypass and remote shell features that give its operators a wider…
Security Threats Don’t Stop at the Office: Why Executives’ Families Need Training Too
Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family becomes the entry point for attacks.
New Agentic AI Red Team Checklist Adds 222 Tests Across 20 Attack Categories
A free agentic AI red-team checklist offers 222 tests across 20 attack categories to assess autonomous AI systems beyond prompt injection, covering…
P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote Commands
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. “Compared with the…
New GhostAction Attack Compromises Hundreds of GitHub Repos to Steal Secrets
A new GhostAction campaign has compromised 346 GitHub repositories after threat actors used two hijacked maintainer accounts to add a fake “security…
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (September 28, 2026 to October 4, 2026)
Last week, there were disclosed in and that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were that contributed to…
Cisco Talos Warns Autonomous AI Agents Could Turn Pentests Into Stealthy Red Team Attacks
Autonomous AI agents could move beyond noisy vulnerability scans and become quiet, persistent attackers, Cisco Talos has warned. The concern is not simply…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-09 19h : 10 posts
10 posts published in the last hour 16:31When everything looks normal: why context, not more alerts, is the next frontier for security operations 16:31Lightwell project filters out 400 Java library vulnerabilities 16:01Rubrik Expands Project Hourglass to Bring AI-Powered Code Security…
When everything looks normal: why context, not more alerts, is the next frontier for security operations
Security awareness has long relied on teaching people to spot the obvious warning signs. Steve Povolny, Vice President of AI Strategy & Security Research…
Lightwell project filters out 400 Java library vulnerabilities
Lightwell, the open-source security initiative set up by IBM and Red Hat, has identified more than 400 previously undiscovered vulnerabilities in widely…
Rubrik Expands Project Hourglass to Bring AI-Powered Code Security to Enterprise
When Rubrik launched Project Hourglass at its FORWARD 2026 conference in Las Vegas back in June, the initiative set out to answer a question CISOs were…
Germany arrests alleged core Qilin ransomware member after extradition
Germany has arrested a Russian national suspected of being a leading member of the Qilin ransomware group following extradition from Japan earlier this…
Android Phones Found With Malware Already Installed Before Purchase
Bitdefender uncovered Midnight Mimosa malware preinstalled on low-cost Android phones, enabling hidden ad fraud and raising device supply-chain security…
The Man Behind a West Bank Telegram Channel Trying to Keep Palestinian Drivers Safe
With no accurate Big Tech mapping app to help him, Anas Hattab launched a Telegram group to get himself home at night. Now nearly 350,000 Palestinians…