Generative AI is upgrading cyberattacks, from 450% higher phishing click‑through rates to industrialized MFA bypass. The post Threat actor abuse of AI accelerates from tool to cyberattack surface appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog. This article has been indexed from…
Cisco Patches 9.8 CVSS IMC and SSM Flaws Allowing Remote System Compromise
Cisco has released updates to address a critical security flaw in the Integrated Management Controller (IMC) that, if successfully exploited, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to the system with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as…
Tax Season 2026: How Cyber Criminals Are Preparing Their Attacks Months in Advance
Tax season remains one of the most attractive periods of the year for cyber criminals. As individuals and organizations exchange sensitive financial and identity data online, attackers take advantage of increased tax‑related activity to launch phishing campaigns, fraudulent websites, and…
Cloud security architecture: Enterprise cloud blueprint for CISOs
<p>Cloud adoption has transformed how organizations build, deploy and scale technology. Infrastructure is now elastic, applications are distributed, identities are federated and data moves across environments at unprecedented speed. While this agility unlocks innovation, it also expands the attack surface…
5 top SOC-as-a-service providers and how to evaluate them
<p>SOC as a service, or <i>SOCaaS</i>, is a type of managed security service provider focused on delivering security operations center services. It differs from a managed SOC by virtue of requiring little or no installation of outsourcer systems or staff…
Alleged Starbucks Incident Exposes Code and Firmware
Threat actors claim to have stolen 10GB of Starbucks code and firmware from a misconfigured S3 bucket. The post Alleged Starbucks Incident Exposes Code and Firmware appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This article has been indexed from eSecurity Planet Read…
CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-5281 Google Dawn Use-After-Free Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant…
ICE says it bought Paragon’s spyware to use in drug trafficking cases
The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told lawmakers that the use of Paragon spyware is necessary to counter terrorists’ “thriving exploitation of encrypted communications platforms.” This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the…
How Do I Make Kubernetes Self‑Service Without Losing Control?
Platform teams are under pressure to move faster, but handing full Kubernetes access to every developer is risky. Self‑service and control are not opposites; they are two sides of a well‑designed platform. The post How Do I Make Kubernetes Self‑Service…
Critical flaw in F5 BIG-IP faces wide exploitation risk
The company revised a security advisory as newly disclosed information heightens the potential impact. This article has been indexed from Cybersecurity Dive – Latest News Read the original article: Critical flaw in F5 BIG-IP faces wide exploitation risk
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-04-02 18h : 12 posts
12 posts were published in the last hour 15:36 : Microsoft Warns of WhatsApp Attachments Spreading Backdoor on Windows PCs 15:36 : Contact center compliance checklist for modern workforces 15:36 : Shadow AI: How Unsanctioned Tools Create Invisible Risk 15:36…
Microsoft Warns of WhatsApp Attachments Spreading Backdoor on Windows PCs
Microsoft warns of a WhatsApp attachments spreading VBS malware that installs backdoors on Windows PCs, giving hackers remote access and control systems. This article has been indexed from Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More Read the original…
Contact center compliance checklist for modern workforces
<p>Executive leaders should treat compliance as an integral part of organizational strategic planning rather than the cost of doing business.</p> <p>Organizations can face major penalties if they don’t comply with laws and regulations that protect customer data, like GDPR and…
Shadow AI: How Unsanctioned Tools Create Invisible Risk
Over 80% of workers use unapproved AI tools. Learn how shadow AI creates hidden attack surface and what security teams can do to detect and address it. The post Shadow AI: How Unsanctioned Tools Create Invisible Risk appeared first on…
At RSAC 2026, AI Redefines the Future of Penetration Testing
Penetration testing is undergoing a substantial shift as AI reshapes both attack and defense strategies. At RSA Conference 2026, multiple vendors pointed to the same underlying pressure: Attack surfaces are expanding more quickly, while the time required to detect and…
Software supply chain hacks trigger wave of intrusions, data theft
After linking the Axios npm supply chain attack to North Korean hackers, Google researchers warned that “hundreds of thousands of stolen secrets could potentially be circulating” as a result of this and the Trivy, KICS, LiteLLM, and Telnyx supply chain…
Retail and hospitality CISOs expect budget growth, new AI headaches and opportunities
More than eight in 10 security leaders in the sector say they’ve rolled out an AI governance framework to some degree, a new survey found. This article has been indexed from Cybersecurity Dive – Latest News Read the original article:…
Attempts to Exploit Exposed “Vite” Installs (CVE-2025-30208), (Thu, Apr 2nd)
From its GitHub repo: “Vite (French word for “quick”, pronounced /vi?t/, like “veet”) is a new breed of frontend build tooling that significantly improves the frontend development experience” [https://github.com/vitejs/vite]. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON:…
Threat actor UAC-0255 impersonate CERT-UA to spread AGEWHEEZE malware via phishing
Threat actors impersonated CERT-UA to send phishing emails with AGEWHEEZE malware, tricking victims into installing a fake “security tool.” A threat actor, tracked as UAC-0255, impersonated CERT-UA in a phishing campaign, sending emails to about 1 million users. The messages…
Residental Proxies ❤️ Amazon Fire TV Sticks
Introduction Residential proxies are increasingly becoming a problem on the Internet. Remember the Taylor Swift concert where you had to buy a ticket second-hand at a… The post Residental Proxies ❤️ Amazon Fire TV Sticks appeared first on CUJO AI.…
Open-Source FIM: Freely Available. But What Makes Them Expensive?
In a previous article, we explained why it is worth licensing File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) rather than using open-source alternatives. The decision is not “free vs paid”; it is about streamlined access to the risk management capabilities of FIM and…
Security Flaw in Popular Python Library Threatens User Machines
The software ecosystem experienced a brief but significant breach on March 24, 2026 that went almost unnoticed, underscoring how fragile even well-established development pipelines have become. As a result of a threat actor operating under the name TeamPCP successfully…
OpenSSH 10.3 patches five security bugs and drops legacy rekeying support
OpenSSH 10.3 shipped carrying five security fixes alongside feature additions and a set of behavior changes that will break compatibility with older SSH implementations that do not support rekeying. Rekeying compatibility removed SSH clients and servers that lack rekeying support…
Yurei Ransomware Uses Common Tools, Adds Stranger Things References
Team Cymru details the Yurei ransomware campaign, using standard tools and a few Stranger Things–named payloads to breach and encrypt systems. This article has been indexed from Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More Read the original article:…