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2026-09-01 17:53 UTC
Security Journalism

Attackers Exploit Critical JFrog Artifactory Flaw to Mint Admin Tokens Days After Disclosure

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-01 18:15 UTC

Threat actors are exploiting a newly patched critical security flaw impacting JFrog Artifactory merely days after public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-82329 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of authentication bypass that could lead to administrative access in Artifactory. "JFrog Artifactory contains an authentication weakness that, under default

Threat ActorsVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-82329
P15
2026-09-01 17:19 UTC
Security Journalism

Breeze Comet Executes Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions via Brazilian Payment Systems

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-01 18:15 UTC

Brazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated threat actor dubbed Breeze Comet (formerly UNC5669) since 2024. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant teams described the threat actor as "specializing in manipulating payment systems and banking software in Brazil to conduct fraudulent transfers." The adversary

CybercrimeThreat ActorsThreat Intelligence
P0
2026-09-01 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

Financially Motivated Threat Actor BREEZE COMET Targets Brazil

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-09-01 03:50 UTC

Introduction Beginning in 2024 Mandiant investigated a string of compromises affecting Brazilian financial services, retail, and eCommerce organizations. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracks this activity as BREEZE COMET (formerly UNC5669), a financially motivated threat actor specializing in manipulating payment systems and banking software in Brazil to conduct fraudulent transfers. This activity overlaps with operations publicly reported as Plump Spider and SHADOW-AETHER-064. In thi…

AI SecurityCloud SecurityCybercrimeMalwareMicrosoftNetwork SecurityPhishingThreat ActorsThreat Intelligence
P0
2026-09-01 11:30 UTC
Security Journalism

Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-01 11:50 UTC

The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. Then it talks them through opening a terminal and pasting it in. The technique is called ClickFix, and it was the most common initial access method Microsoft’s team observed last year, accounting

MicrosoftThreat Actors
P0
2026-09-01 08:26 UTC
Security Journalism

Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-01 08:55 UTC

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that's been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to interfere with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted analysis. The idea, ESET said in a series of posts on X, is to deliberately trip a large language model's (LLM) safety mechanisms and prevent its

AI SecurityMalwareSecurity ResearchThreat Actors
P0
2026-09-01 07:22 UTC
Security Journalism

Attackers Exploit Critical Langflow and Rails Flaws in Credential-Probing and C2 Activity

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-09-01 08:00 UTC

Threat actors are exploiting two critical flaws impacting Langflow and Ruby on Rails, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2026-0768 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A lack of proper validation of a user-supplied input vulnerability that could be exploited to execute arbitrary Python code in the context of the root user. CVE-2026-66066 aka

Cloud SecurityThreat ActorsVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-0768CVE-2026-66066
P15
2026-08-31 17:24 UTC
Security Journalism

North Korean Job Fraud Expands Beyond IT Into Healthcare and Sales

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-31 18:05 UTC

Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed seeking job opportunities beyond the information technology (IT) sector, with recent investigations identifying suspected workers employed in sales and marketing and the medical profession. The ongoing insider threat is part of what has been described as the IT worker scheme,

CybercrimeDFIRThreat Actors
P0
2026-08-31 12:14 UTC
Security Journalism

ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-31 12:30 UTC

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine Chinese desktop-wallpaper tool

MalwareThreat Actors
P0
2026-08-31 11:47 UTC
Security Journalism

Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-31 12:30 UTC

Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed infrastructure associated with the Russian-speaking cybercrime group, leading to the discovery of its

AI SecurityCybercrimeRansomwareThreat Actors
P15
2026-08-31 07:56 UTC
Security Journalism

DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-31 08:40 UTC

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now pointing out that they were among those targeted. Last week, the DoJ said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Federal Reserve, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department

Law EnforcementThreat Actors
P0
2026-08-28 15:56 UTC
Security Journalism

ownCloud Flaw Exploited to Steal Nuclear Records From Philippine Research Body

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-28 18:30 UTC

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting ownCloud to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog following reports that a Chinese-speaking threat actor weaponized the vulnerability to target a nuclear research body in the Philippines. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49105 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of

Threat ActorsVulnerabilitiesCVE-2023-49105
P35
2026-08-27 13:51 UTC
Vendor Research

Identity-as-a-Service: Uncovering Dark Web Marketplaces Trading Executive SSNs

Rapid7 · Alexandra Blia · indexed 2026-08-27 14:25 UTC

IntroductionDespite modern verification controls, identity theft remains one of the most pervasive threats to both individuals and enterprise organizations. U.S. Federal Trade Commission statistics show over 1 million identity theft reports annually, with related fraud and imposter scams accounting for billions in financial losses each year. While stolen credit cards enable rapid, short-term monetization, Social Security numbers (SSNs) represent a far more permanent and dangerous tier within th…

APT / Nation-StateCybercrimeData BreachesMalwareMicrosoftPhishingThreat Actors
P0
2026-08-27 09:33 UTC
Security Journalism

GoCaracal Malware Uses Ethereum Smart Contract to Fetch Replacement C2 Address

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-27 10:15 UTC

Threat actors linked by Arctic Wolf to Dark Caracal with medium confidence deployed a previously undocumented Go-based malware framework, GoCaracal, during a June 2026 intrusion at an unnamed communications organization in Venezuela. GoCaracal provides operators with remote shell access and payload execution, while the extended profile adds browser data theft, keylogging, remote desktop control

MalwareThreat Actors
P0
2026-08-26 16:42 UTC
Security Journalism

FBI Disrupts China-Linked QTFY Infrastructure Used to Steal Data From U.S. Organizations

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-26 17:50 UTC

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (南京鑫玖维网络科技有限公司).&

APT / Nation-StateLaw EnforcementNetwork SecurityThreat Actors
P0
2026-08-26 09:00 UTC
Vendor Research

Edge infrastructure under siege: what two independent datasets reveal about who's exploiting your perimeter

Tenable Cyber Exposure Alerts · Research Special Operations · indexed 2026-08-26 13:15 UTC

A joint Tenable-SentinelOne analysis of 93 CVE-actor attribution pairs reveals that both state-sponsored actors and cybercriminals independently converge on the same edge infrastructure. Special thanks to SentinelOne® Incident Readiness & Response for their contributions to this publication.It is the shared attack surface where state-sponsored threat actors and financially motivated criminal groups independently converge — not the province of a single adversary category, and not exclusively a n…

APT / Nation-StateData BreachesDFIRMicrosoftNetwork SecurityPhishingRansomwareThreat ActorsThreat IntelligenceVulnerabilities
P45
2026-08-25 11:52 UTC
Security Journalism

24 npm Packages Abuse unpkg Mirrors to Host Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA Pages

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-25 12:45 UTC

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that uses a cluster of 24 npm packages as free phishing infrastructure for redirecting to ClickFix-style fake CAPTCHA pages. "While the malware is simply a single HTML page inside the npm package, and while downloading it wouldn't do harm, the threat actor’s use of npm isn't to infect developers who install it, but to use the

MalwarePhishingSecurity ResearchThreat Actors
P0
2026-08-25 11:33 UTC
Security Journalism

E4del and PINHOLE RATs Turn FTP Banners Into Dead Drops for Malware Commands

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-25 12:45 UTC

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that employs FTP banners as dead drop resolvers (DDRs) to deliver two previously unreported remote access trojans (RATs) tracked as E4del and PINHOLE. While threat actors are known to abuse legitimate services to point to additional command-and-control (C2) infrastructure and blend in with regular network traffic, the development

MalwareSecurity ResearchThreat Actors
P0
2026-08-24 11:51 UTC
Security Journalism

Operation QUICSILVER Targets Myanmar Government and IT with QUICAgent Backdoor

The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-24 12:10 UTC

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a cyber espionage campaign targeting Myanmar that uses graduation ceremony invitation lures to deliver a Go backdoor called QUICAgent. The campaign, codenamed Operation QUICSILVER, has been found to target government and information technology sectors, per Seqrite Labs. The activity is assessed to be the work of a China-nexus threat actor with moderate

APT / Nation-StateMalwareSecurity ResearchThreat Actors
P0
2026-08-22 07:17 UTC
Other

U.S. CISA adds Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-22 08:20 UTC

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) flaw CVE-2026-73570 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CERT Polska, Poland’s national computer emergency response team, confirmed this week that threat actors […]

Threat ActorsVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-73570
P35
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