Microsoft researchers have detailed an exploit chain, named AutoJack, that turns an AI browsing agent into a delivery vehicle for remote code execution. Steer the agent to load an attacker's web page, and that page's JavaScript can reach a privileged local service on the same machine and spawn a process on the host. No credentials, no sign-in screen, and no further user interaction once

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Android TV botnet Popa linked to Israeli firm, Velvet Ant maintained decade-long stealth, unpatched GCP Config Connector flaw enables takeover. The post In Other News: Apple Patches Beats Eavesdropping Flaw, DOT Closes Delta CrowdStrike Probe, AWS Continuum appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Dutch law enforcement authorities, along with counterparts from Canada , Germany, and the U.S., have disrupted malicious infrastructure associated with SocGholish and cleaned up nearly 15,000 infected WordPress websites. "With these actions we deprive cybercriminals of access to infected computer systems," Maikel Rollman of the Netherlands National High Tech Crime Unit said. "This prevents

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices. The sweeping campaign, believed to be the work of Russian-speaking threat actors, has been codenamed FortiBleed. The number of compromised devices stands at

AI agents can access data, trigger workflows, deploy code, and interact with critical business systems, often with little oversight. Token Security breaks down why AI agents are becoming a new identity and governance challenge. [...]

As threats proliferate and AI complicates cybersecurity, CISOs say the job is getting harder, but more companies still want cybersecurity expertise, if even on a part-time basis.

Modern phishing attacks, including Device Code phishing, can undermine MFA protections and grant attackers access to corporate accounts without stealing passwords. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help security teams detect compromised accounts faster and automate response workflows. [...]

Introduction The average enterprise security team has 40 or more security tools, giving a lot of visibility into internal telemetry and asset data. But often, these tools are working in siloes, generating (overlapping) alerts and data. And yet, breach dwell times remain stubbornly long (~43 days), response windows keep closing before teams can act, and analysts burn out triaging noise instead

Microsoft has confirmed a confusing Windows bug that causes different filenames to appear in the confirmation dialog when deleting a file from the Recycle Bin. [...]

CryptoBandits uses a local SOCKS5 proxy for traffic routing, blending data theft with remote code execution. The post CryptoBandits Malware Doubles as a Backdoor, Abuses Tor appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The large-scale credential theft campaign hit roughly half of the internet-accessible Fortinet firewalls and VPNs. The post FortiBleed: 86,000 Fortinet Device Credentials Compromised appeared first on SecurityWeek.

CISA has urged U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems by Sunday against a critical Splunk Enterprise vulnerability that is being exploited in attacks. [...]

The first wave of enterprise AI concern was straightforward. It was simply employees pasting sensitive data into public AI tools. Security teams responded with usage policies, domain blocks, and data loss prevention rules. That response made sense at the time. It doesn't fit the problem anymore. Shadow AI has shifted from a data leakage concern to an access control problem. The threat isn't

The hackers exfiltrated data from Salesforce instances of Klue customers, such as Huntress and Recorded Future. The post Cybersecurity Firms Impacted by Klue Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Salesforce has revealed that it disabled the Klue Battlecards app integration within its platform in response to a security incident impacting the competitive intelligence company on June 11, 2026. To that end, organizations will be unable to connect to Salesforce via the app until further notice, the American cloud-based software company noted in an alert published this week. "Salesforce took

A New York man faces cyberstalking charges after allegedly sharing AI-generated nude images and fabricated racist messages using fake social media profiles to harass a Georgia college student. [...]

WideField will accelerate Agentic SOC capabilities by expanding the lens on threat investigation to include identity, credentials, sessions, and blast radius. The post Cisco to Acquire WideField Security to Boost Splunk’s Agentic SOC appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged Fortinet customers to secure their devices after nearly 74,000 firewall and VPN credentials were exposed in a data leak dubbed "FortiBleed." [...]

Law enforcement and private partners took down 106 SocGholish C&C servers and domains as part of Operation Endgame. The post 15,000 WordPress Websites Cleaned Up in SocGholish Botnet Takedown  appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Apple has updated its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds to patch a high-severity vulnerability that could be exploited by nearby hackers to eavesdrop on users. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20701 (CVSS score: 8.8), refers to a case of incorrect authorization impacting the Airoha Bluetooth audio SDK that makes it possible to pair a Bluetooth audio device without user consent.

CISA has given federal agencies only three days to patch CVE-2026-20253, which can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution. The post Splunk Enterprise Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks Days After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers to help affiliates evade detection in attacks. [...]

A leaked GitHub token underscores what most organizations get wrong: Treating secrets management as a tooling problem rather than an identity problem.

The threat group's curious business model may combine opportunistic monetization alongside intel collection, without much coordination between the two.

Nintendo of America has confirmed to BleepingComputer that threat actors stole survey data from the third-party TinyPulse service used internally, but its systems were not compromised. [...]

A hacker could have "Rickrolled" the World Cup — or worse — thanks to FIFA's unenforced Entra access controls.

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a "residential proxy" provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR].

F5 has released security updates to address two critical security flaws in NGINX Open Source that could be exploited to achieve code execution on affected systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-42530 (CVSS v4 score: 9.2) - A use-after-free vulnerability in the ngx_http_v3_module that could be triggered by a remote unauthenticated attacker when NGINX Open Source is

These servers are regularly targeted by China-linked UNC6508 for initial access and backdoor deployment. The post Majority of Internet-Accessible REDCap Servers Outdated appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Klue's Battlecards is now the third integrated application that has been compromised to steal customers' Salesforce data, and victims include Huntress, the cybersecurity vendor.