Law enforcement and tech companies disrupted infrastructure linked to scammers operating across Southeast Asia. The post Over 1.4 Million Accounts Disrupted in Cybercrime Crackdown appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a large-scale operation that impersonates open-source and freeware projects to funnel unsuspecting users through a Traffic Distribution System (TDS) and deliver malware families like Remus Stealer, AnimateClipper, and the SessionGate framework. "The sites are well-designed and often look like legitimate project portals at a glance, sometimes referencing

Unknown attackers spent at least five months inside the Outlook mailbox of a senior executive at a major global stock exchange, copying the inbox out in small, repeated batches and routing it through Dropbox and OneDrive so the traffic blended into normal cloud activity. Symantec and Carbon Black's Threat Hunter Team reported the campaign this week. This points to espionage, not a money grab:

The high-severity flaw can be exploited remotely, without authentication, in server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks. The post Cisco Warns of Available PoC for Critical Unified CM Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A researcher has disclosed the full details of the vulnerability and released a PoC without notifying Microsoft in advance. The post VS Code Vulnerability Allows One-Click GitHub Token Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical flaw impacting Mirasvit Cache Warmer, a popular Magento full-page cache extension, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45247 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of deserialization of untrusted

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the results of a sweeping action undertaken by government authorities and private sector companies to combat cyber-enabled and cryptocurrency fraud targeting Americans. The "Disruption Week" operation began May 18, 2026, leading to the takedown of millions of social media, email, and internet access accounts used by transnational

Despite broadly connected digital infrastructure, standard fare TTPs are enough to cause trouble for Afghanistan's porous cybersecurity.

A Chinese-speaking cybercrime group has expanded its targeting to the European space, deploying previously undocumented malware and the Atlas backdoor. [...]

Python scripts were used to test malware against endpoint detection and response agents from Sophos, CrowdStrike, and Windows Defender.

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against Nobitex, Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchange, for facilitating payments related to terrorist activities. [...]

CISA, the FBI, the NSA, the Department of Energy, and other US government partners are warning that hackers are targeting internet-exposed automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems used to monitor fuel and liquid storage tanks across various critical infrastructure sectors. [...]

China-linked espionage groups have attacked at least a dozen nations in the region, gathering information on maritime shipping, oil production, and other geopolitical interests.

A single poisoned notification from WhatsApp, Slack, SMS, Signal, Instagram, or Messenger could have hijacked Google Gemini's voice assistant on Android and made it open a victim's connected windows, fake a message from their boss, push the phone into a Zoom call, or quietly poison its long-term memory. No malicious app on the phone is required. The assistant just had to treat a hostile

Cyber insurance coverage is slowly changing, and some policies may not provide coverage for social engineering attacks like ClickFix.

A new denial-of-service (DoS) attack dubbed HTTP/2 Bomb can be launched from a single machine to take down web servers within seconds. [...]

A disabled security setting meant to protect authentication across Android versions of key apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel paved the way for attackers to steal logins and data.

Coralogix offers a full-stack observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, security, and AI observability. The post Coralogix Raises $200M at $1.6B Valuation to Scale AI Observability Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malspam campaign that makes use of Google's DoubleClick domain as a way to evade detection and ultimately deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) named DesckVB RAT. "Before the victim ever reaches attacker-controlled infrastructure, the lure routes through DoubleClick, a legitimate Google-owned domain that many security tools are less likely to treat as

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel and Android operating system. [...]

A development flag left switched on in production builds of several Microsoft 365 Android apps disabled the check that limits account-token sharing to trusted Microsoft apps. Any other app on the same phone could ask for the signed-in user's token and get it, then read email, open files, browse the calendar, and send messages as that user. No password, no login screen, no permission prompt.

A two-week penetration test can leave roughly 345 days of real-world exposure unvalidated. Sprocket Security explores why continuous testing is becoming critical as attack surfaces constantly change. [...]

Redis has patched a use-after-free in its blocking-client code that lets an authenticated user run arbitrary OS commands on the machine hosting the database. The flaw was found by an autonomous AI tool built to hunt bugs in large codebases. Tracked as CVE-2026-23479, the flaw was introduced in Redis 7.2.0 and remained in every stable branch until the May 5 fixes, unnoticed for over two years.

Threat actors are exploiting vulnerable Kirki and Burst Statistics deployments to elevate privileges and take over websites. The post Kirki, Burst Statistics WordPress Plugin Flaws in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The AI Risk Quadrant evaluates AI agents based on three factors: how vulnerable they are to compromise, the potential impact of a breach, and the strength of their security defenses. The post Security of 100 AI Agents Tested and Ranked – What You Need to Know appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a one-click attack via Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes it possible to steal a user's GitHub token. "Just by clicking a link, it's possible for an attacker to steal a GitHub token that can read and write to your repos, including private ones," security researcher Ammar Askar said. GitHub supports a feature called GitHub.dev that runs as

The attackers had access to a senior executive’s email account for 150 days and exfiltrated data for months. The post Hackers Target Global Stock Exchange in Espionage Operation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The affected individuals’ personal information was stolen from a legacy server managed by a third party. The post IMA Diligence Services Data Breach Impacts 525,000 People appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A prompt injection flaw in Google Gemini's voice assistant let attackers hide malicious commands in notifications, enabling social engineering and more.

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-45247 Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities established the KEV Catal