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Hackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-35616) in FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) to deliver an undocumented credential stealer called EKZ. The attacker disguised the malware as an update for Fortinet endpoints and executed it through VPN scripting workflows managed by FortiClient. The exploited critical vulnerability is an improper access control flaw that allows […]
The FBI is warning of fake websites impersonating FIFA ahead of the 2026 World Cup, to steal personal and financial information, sell fake tickets and hospitality packages, and push other fraud related to the event. With the international soccer tournament set between June 11 and July 19 in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, threat […]
An unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the Gogs self-hosted Git service can allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on Internet-facing instances. Designed as an alternative to GitHub Enterprise or GitLab and written in Go, Gogs is often exposed online for remote collaboration. This critical severity argument injection security flaw has yet to be assigned a CVE […]
A Romanian national was sentenced this week to 56 months in federal prison for breaking into an Oregon state government computer network and fr cyberattacks targeting dozens of other U.S. victims. 46-year-old Catalin Dragomir (who used the online handle “inthematrixl”) of Constanta, Romania, pleaded guilty on February 19 to one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of […]
Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise line operator, has confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 6 million people claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang in April 2026. The cruise line giant has over 160,000 employees and served around 13.5 million guests in 2024 via a fleet of over 90 ships. Carnival operates nine of the […]
A Canadian man was sentenced to 33 years in prison after pleading guilty to targeting more than 145 children across the United States, some as young as 6 years old, in an eight-year-long sextortion scheme. 40-year-old Ramanan Pathmanathan pleaded guilty on January 30, 2026, to one count of coercion and enticement of a minor and one count […]
Threat actors are targeting systems with high-performance computers in an ongoing cryptojacking campaign spread through a coordinated SEO poisoning operation that also manipulated AI chatbot recommendations. The compromise occurs through malicious download pages for utility software typically installed by owners of powerful systems, like CrystalDiskInfo, HWMonitor, Display Driver Uninstaller, FurMark, K-Lite Codec Pack, and PDFgear. […]
The Glassworm botnet targeting developers in software supply-chain attacks has been disrupted after researchers took down its resilient command-and-control infrastructure relying on Solana blockchain transactions and the BitTorrent DHT network. In a coordinated operation conducted yesterday, CrowdStrike, Google, and The Shadowserver Foundation cut off the botnet operators’ access to four distinct command-and-control (C2) channels designed […]
The FBI warned on Tuesday that the Silent Ransom Group (SRG) extortion gang is now targeting U.S.-based law firms in in-person data theft attacks. “As of Spring 2026, SRG actors use a social engineering scheme to pose as an employee from the victim’s IT department. SRG actors either directly call or send phishing emails to […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their servers against a critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin, which is actively being exploited in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-48172, this privilege escalation vulnerability is related to the mishandling of Redis enable/disable features and was found in […]
