Ransom Cartel ransomware creator sentenced to 16 years in prison
Maksim Silnikau, the creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in ransomware attacks against at least 18 companies worldwide. The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the 40-year-old Belarusian national was sentenced for conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, conspiracy […]
Canadian pleads guilty to Snowflake cloud data-theft attacks
A Canadian man pleaded guilty today to his role in accessing company accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from at least 165 organizations in a scheme to extort millions of dollars from victims. ​26-year-old Connor Riley Moucka, also known as Alexander Moucka and Waifu, was arrested on October 30, 2024, for stealing […]
Hackers run khunt post-exploitation toolkit from Oracle database
Hackers exploited a SQL injection vulnerability to install a post-exploitation toolkit directly inside an Oracle database that was used to breach a corporate network. The attack was discovered by Huntress on July 27, 2026, after its security platform detected credential theft on a server hosting an Oracle database server. Apache access logs showed that the attackers […]
COLDCARD security audit phishing attack installs remote access tool
A phishing campaign is exploiting fears surrounding the recently disclosed COLDCARD wallet vulnerability and suspected $88.6 million Bitcoin theft to trick users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software. Proofpoint, which discovered the campaign, says it uses emails impersonating COLDCARD that claim a security audit is underway across its hardware cold storage wallet devices. The phishing […]
CISA warns of hackers exploiting Langflow, N-central, Apache Tomcat flaws
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is giving federal agencies three days to mitigate vulnerabilities in IBM Langflow, N-central, and Apache Tomcat, all actively exploited. ​Tracked as CVE-2026-9198, the security issue in IBM’s Langflow visual framework for building AI agents is the most severe, with a critical rating of 9.8 out of 10. It […]
Google Blogger locks hundreds of blogs in malware false positive
Google has locked hundreds of Blogger websites after a false positive claimed they violated its “Malware and Similar Malicious Content” policy, with some sites actually deleted from the platform. The issue began on August 4, and it appears to affect many legitimate blogs that do not host malware or have malicious scripts. As seen by […]
OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests
OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and social engineering attacks against people outside the intended testing boundaries. These incidents are unrelated to the previously disclosed Hugging Face breach, in which OpenAI models hacked the AI platform and used […]
TP-Link patches Omada ZTP flaws allowing hackers to breach networks
TP-Link has patched 15 vulnerabilities in the zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) mechanism of its Omada network devices that could be chained with previously disclosed flaws to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The flaws were uncovered by Forescout’s Vedere Labs researchers, who published the full details at the Black Hat USA security conference earlier today. Omada is TP-Link’s business […]
Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts
The Greatness phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform has expanded from credential phishing to adversary-in-the-middle attacks and device-code phishing targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. The platform has been active since at least mid-2022, targeting Microsoft 365 users in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and South Africa. It evolved over the years and now targets multiple platforms, including Microsoft 365, […]
New XCSSET variant targets macOS devs via compromised Xcode projects
A new version of the XCSSET malware is targeting thousands of macOS users through compromised Xcode projects and GitHub repositories. Xcode is the official software development kit (SDK) for creating, testing, and publishing software for all Apple’s platforms. After months of inactivity, XCSSET has resurfaced with an updated version, v40, that features enhanced evasion techniques and […]