Maersk confirms data breach as WhiteArmor ransomware demands $5 million
Shipping giant Maersk has confirmed that a threat actor breached systems belonging to a company it previously acquired and stole data. Ransomware group WhiteArmor claimed the attack over the weekend, threatening that it would release about 100GB of information allegedly exfiltrated from the company’s logistics and supply-chain platform. Legacy system compromise The investigation into the […]
Hackers use AntiFox AI agents in AWS credential-theft attacks
Attackers are using Alibaba Cloud to host self-managed instances of AntiFox, an open-source agentic penetration testing platform, to target web services and AWS environments. The infrastructure hosting AntiFox was used for various malicious activities, including vulnerability exploitation, webshell deployment, credential validation, configuration discovery, and AWS secret harvesting. Initially created as a fork of ARTEX 0.1.1, […]
N-able releases security hotfixes for zero-day vulnerabilities
N-able released hotfixes to address zero-day bugs affecting its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, which were publicly disclosed over the weekend and forced it to take vulnerable hosted environments offline. This follows N-able’s decision to take all hosted N-central environments offline across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions until it could patch them […]
Microsoft November 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,235 flaws, Outlook zero-day
Today is Microsoft’s November 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,235 flaws, including one actively exploited Microsoft Outlook zero-day vulnerability. This Patch Tuesday addresses 66 “Critical” vulnerabilities, 48 of which are Remote Code Execution (RCE), 15 are Elevation of Privilege (EoP), and three are Use-After-Free in Microsoft Edge. The approximate number of […]
Microsoft fixes Exchange sign-ins broken by Windows Server updates
Microsoft has fixed Outlook sign-in and mail delivery issues on Exchange Server systems after installing the October 2026 Windows Server security updates. Microsoft acknowledged this known issue in mid-October, confirming that users had trouble accessing email or signing in to Outlook after installing the latest updates on systems running Windows Server 2019 and later. As explained […]
Microsoft fixes audio issues caused by September security updates
Microsoft says the November 2026 cumulative updates resolve USB audio issues plaguing Windows users who have installed security updates released since September. The company explained, when it acknowledged this known issue days after the September 2026 Patch Tuesday, that USB Audio Class 1.0 devices failed to start or produce audio on some systems after installing […]
CISA flags Cisco BroadWorks flaw as actively exploited in attacks
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned on Tuesday that hackers are now exploiting a high-severity Cisco BroadWorks vulnerability in attacks. Cisco BroadWorks is a cloud unified communications (UC) software platform and the underlying engine allowing telecom carriers and managed service providers (MSPs) to provide branded cloud PBX, voice, and collaboration services to […]
Railway breach leads to $740,000 in fraudulent AI charges
Cloud hosting provider Railway says hackers exploited vulnerabilities in its infrastructure to steal customer authentication secrets and generate approximately $740,000 in fraudulent AI usage, potentially exposing credentials for up to 100,000 workspaces. The company disclosed the incident on October 22, warning customers to rotate their secrets after detecting unauthorized access to systems storing environment variables. […]
Japanese furniture giant Nitori says hackers stole 37.6M customer records
Nitori, a major Japanese furniture and home accessories retailer, discovered that an attacker accessed a system on its network and may have stolen 37.62 million customer records. The intrusion was detected on November 6, and the company blocked the unauthorized access. However, an investigation into the incident revealed that the attacker likely had access to […]
Hackers exploit trusted AWS access to breach multiple cloud environments
A threat actor used compromised identity and access management (IAM) credentials for a Qubole big data platform’s AWS account to access and exfiltrate data from multiple customers’ AWS environments. The campaign ran between October 14 and 26, and affected tens of companies whose AWS environments had IAM roles configured to trust an AWS account associated […]