A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening to leak it.  The post Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A state-sponsored threat group, dubbed "Laundry Bear," sends "half-click" phishing emails that require a victim only to open or preview the message.

A new Dolphin X remote access trojan claims to use an AI-powered profiling feature to score and rank infected users, helping cybercriminals identify which victims should be targeted first. [...]

Origin Energy has confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed and subsequently leaked customer data online, exposing sensitive personally identifiable information (PII), among others. [...]

A malvertising campaign on the Bing search service is pushing a fake Claude desktop app installer hosted on a legitimate Claude.ai domain to deliver the SectopRAT malware. [...]

A Russian state-supported espionage group spent months reading Western mailboxes through a then-unknown flaw in Zimbra's webmail client. The payload goes after the last 90 days of email, the organization's entire email directory, the password saved in the browser and the codes kept for two-factor recovery. Opening the message was enough to start it. The NSA, CISA and partner agencies published

CISA is warning that the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is targeting organizations using Zimbra Collaboration email servers by combining phishing attacks with the exploitation of a now-patched Zimbra vulnerability. [...]

Ukraine's CERT has uncovered attacks distributing an archive containing the legitimate Notepad++ application and a malicious utility called LunchPoke disguised as a plugin to establish persistence. [...]

Microsoft Teams and several Microsoft 365 services are experiencing an ongoing outage, with users reporting problems accessing Teams, SharePoint, Excel and the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. [...]

AgentForger allows an attacker to create, insert and remotely control an invisible autonomous AI agent inside a victim organization. The post OpenAI Fixes ChatGPT Agent Flaw That Could Let Attackers Forge an AI Insider appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Most of this week's trouble came dressed as something useful. A package stole data. A fake extension opened remote access. A safety app became spyware. An image gave hidden orders to an AI agent. Other threats hid in open systems, weak code, and normal network traffic. The threats change every week. Subscribe, and we’ll alert you when each new ThreatsDay Bulletin is out. The danger was

You cannot out-patch a machine that writes a working exploit from a vulnerability description in twenty hours. Stop trying to optimize a game you cannot win. The post Is Patching Dead? Vulnerability Management in the Post-Mythos Era appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Threat actors used credentials obtained from other companies to hack into Chick-fil-A One accounts. The post Chick-fil-A Accounts Get Fried in Credential Stuffing Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

FedRAMP 20X replaces point-in-time assessments with continuous, machine-readable evidence that demonstrates security controls are working. Anecdotes explains what the transition from Rev5 to FedRAMP 20X means and how organizations can prepare for continuous, evidence-based assurance. [...]

The latest investment round brings the total raised by Abstract to nearly $50 million. The post Abstract Raises $25 Million to Expand Composable Security Operations Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Cowork that makes it possible to break out of the confines of a Linux virtual machine (VM) within which the agent runs to read or write files anywhere on the Mac. Accomplish AI, which shared details of the vulnerability with The Hacker News ahead of publication, said about 500,000 macOS users running

The Chaos ransomware group ran its command-and-control through the victim's own browser. Cisco Talos on Thursday detailed msaRAT, the Rust implant behind it, found on a compromised Windows machine ahead of the encryptor. The implant never opens an outbound connection of its own. Its process talks to 127.0.0.1 and nothing else. It starts Chrome or Edge in headless mode and drives the browser

SentinelOne’s new benchmark, built on the Fast16 case, shows which AI models can sustain a malware investigation and which cannot. The post Nuclear-Sabotage Malware Benchmark Trips Up Most Frontier AI Models appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The European Commission fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) on Thursday after finding the company had violated the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which ensures fair online competition. [...]

An exposed Alibaba Cloud server has revealed a China-nexus operation that Group-IB tracks as JadeProx. The cluster has targeted government, healthcare, and education organizations across Asia and Latin America with a previously undocumented Windows loader called TriBack Loader. Group-IB found the server in mid-April 2026 in Alibaba Cloud's Singapore region; it was offline by the time the report

Russian State-Supported Cyber Actors Conduct Phishing Campaign Targeting Users of Zimbra Collaboration Suite Executive summary  A group of Russian state-supported cyber actors has been targeting and compromising various Western government and commercial organizations using the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) software since at least July 2025. The Russian state-supported advanced persistent threat (APT) group’s activity is tracked in the cybersecurity community under several names (see Cybersecu

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a non-privileged user to escalate privileges or view the credentials of other users. The following versions of Weintek cMT3092X are affected: cMT3092X firmware <20210218  EasyWeb <v2.1.20 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.8 Weintek Weintek cMT3092X Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking in a Security Decision, Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource, Plaintext St

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in an attacker obtaining confidential information from the device. The following versions of Johnson Controls XAAP Android are affected: XAAP Android <1.53 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 3.3 Johnson Controls Johnson Controls XAAP Android Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headqu

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated network-adjacent attacker to crash critical IEC 61850 services or execute arbitrary code, disrupting or compromising protection, visibility, and control functions. The following versions of MZ Automation libIEC61850 are affected: libIEC61850 >=v1.0.0|<=v1.6.1  CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.1 MZ Automation MZ Automation libIEC61850 Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Heap-based Buffer

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could cause the parsing process to crash, which will cause a denial of service. The following versions of MZ Automation lib60870 are affected: lib60870 <=2.4.0 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.2 MZ Automation MZ Automation lib60870 Out-of-bounds Read Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Chemical, Energy, Water and Wastewater Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: Germany

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker with network access to achieve remote code execution. The following versions of Johnson Controls C-CURE 9000 and Victor application server are affected: C-CURE 9000 and victor <=v2.90_v3.0  victor Web <=v7.1  CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 9.6 Johnson Controls Johnson Controls C-CURE 9000 and Victor application server Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), Execution with Unnecessary Privil

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker with access to the IT network to manipulate industrial control devices without requiring physical access, specialized insider knowledge, or advanced tooling. The following versions of Panduit IntraVUE are affected: IntraVUE <=3.2.1a14  CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 10 Pronetiqs Panduit IntraVUE Plaintext Storage of a Password, Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy'), Expos

Most people understand identity theft as an attacker stealing a real person's sensitive information and impersonating them. Synthetic identity fraud is much harder to catch. Instead of stealing a real identity, the attacker manufactures a new one, frankensteining together several real data points with fabricated ones to create a person who doesn't exist. Since no real victim monitors misuse, a

A nine-year-old race condition vulnerability in the Linux kernel's XFS filesystem, tracked as CVE-2026-64600, allows local attackers to overwrite protected files and gain root privileges. [...]

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a large-scale campaign that has turned compromised GitHub repositories into distributed attack infrastructure designed to target cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) instances. The activity involves malicious Packagist development versions spanning 10 packages associated with a legitimate PHP and DevOps developer, dinushchathurya, between July 12 and 13,