A Linux variant of the GoGra backdoor uses legitimate Microsoft infrastructure, relying on an Outlook inbox for stealthy payload delivery. The malware is developed by Harvester, an espionage group believed to be state-baked, and is considered highly evasive due to its use of Microsoft Graph API to access mailbox data. Harvester has been active since at least […]
Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-40372) was found in the ASP.NET Core Data Protection cryptographic APIs, and it could allow unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on affected devices by forging authentication cookies. Microsoft discovered the flaw following user reports […]
Over 1,300 Microsoft SharePoint servers exposed online remain unpatched against a spoofing vulnerability that was exploited as a zero-day and is still being abused in ongoing attacks. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-32201, affects SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (the latest on-premises version, which uses a “continuous update” model). […]
France Titres, the government agency in France for issuing and managince administrative documents has disclosed a data breach after a threat actor claimed the attack and stealing citizen data. Also known as Agence nationale des titres sĂ©curisĂ©s (ANTS), the administrative body operates under the French Ministry of the Interior, serving as the managing authority for official identity […]
A previously undocumented data-wiping malware dubbed Lotus was used last year in targeted attacks against energy and utilities organizations in Venezuela. The malware was uploaded to a publicly available platform in mid-December from a machine in Venezuela and has been analyzed by researchers at Kaspersky. Before the cripling stage, the attacker relies on two batch […]
Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s independent communications regulator, has launched an investigation into Telegram based on evidence suggesting it’s being used to share child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The investigation was launched under the UK’s Online Safety Act to examine whether the social media and instant messaging (IM) service is complying with its illegal content safety duties, which […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given government agencies four days to secure their systems against another Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability it flagged as actively exploited in attacks. Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly known as vManage) is a network management software that helps admins monitor and manage up to 6,000 Catalyst SD-WAN devices […]
Nonprofit security organization Shadowserver found that over 6,400 Apache ActiveMQ servers exposed online are vulnerable to ongoing attacks exploiting a high-severity code injection vulnerability. Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular open-source multi-protocol message broker for asynchronous communication between Java applications. Tracked as CVE-2026-34197, the vulnerability was discovered by Horizon3 researcher Naveen Sunkavally using the Claude AI assistant after remaining […]
41-year-old Angelo Martino, a former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint, has pleaded guilty to targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks in 2023. Together with two other Sygnia and DigitalMint ransomware negotiators (33-year-old Ryan Clifford Goldberg and 28-year-old Kevin Tyler Martin), Martino was charged with conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion, interference […]
A new variant of the NGate malware that steals NFC payment data is targeting Android users by hiding in a trojanized version of HandyPay, a legitimate mobile payments processing tool. NGate was originally documented in mid-2024 and steals payment card information through the mobile device’s near-field communication (NFC) chip. The data is sent to the […]
