Fortinet has silently patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in its FortiWeb web application firewall, which is now being widely exploited. [...]

UK financial technology company Checkout announced that the ShinyHunters threat group has breached one of its legacy cloud storage systems and is now extorting the company for a ransom. [...]

Crooks spoof US insurers, threaten bogus extradition to pry loose personal data and cash Chinese speakers in the US are being targeted as part of an aggressive health insurance scam campaign, the FBI warns.... [...]

Advisory updated as leading cybercrime crew opens up its target pool The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued new guidance to organizations on the Akira ransomware operation, which poses an imminent threat to critical sectors.... [...]

U.S. federal authorities have established a new task force to disrupt Chinese cryptocurrency scam networks that defraud Americans of nearly $10 billion annually. [...]

Researchers from Anthropic said they recently observed the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign” after detecting China-state hackers using the company’s Claude AI tool in a campaign aimed at dozens of targets. Outside researchers are much more measured in describing the significance of the discovery. Anthropic published the …

As AI capabilities grow, we must delineate the roles that should remain exclusively human. The line seems to be between fact-based decisions and judgment-based decisions. For example, in a medical context, if an AI was demonstrably better at reading a test result and diagnosing cancer than a human, you …

Google is backpedaling on its decision to introduce new identity verification rules for all developers, stating that it will also introduce accounts for limited app distribution and will allow users to install apps from unverified devs. [...]

ASUS has released new firmware to patch a critical authentication bypass security flaw impacting several DSL series router models. [...]

Cybercrime crew has ravaged multiple private organizations using Oracle EBS zero-day for months The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is investigating claims of a cyberattack by extortion crew Clop.... [...]

DoorDash has disclosed a data breach that hit the food delivery platform this October. Beginning yesterday evening, DoorDash, which serves millions of customers across the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, started emailing those impacted by the newly discovered security incident. [...]

A Fortinet FortiWeb path traversal vulnerability is being actively exploited to create new administrative users on exposed devices without requiring authentication [...]

Maintenance to end next year after ‘helpful options’ became ‘serious security flaws’ Kubernetes maintainers have decided it’s not worth trying to save Ingress NGINX and will instead stop work on the project and retire it in March 2026.... [...]

Amazon Inspector security researchers have identified and reported over 150,000 packages linked to a coordinated tea.xyz token farming campaign in the npm registry. This is one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history, and represents a defining moment in supply chain security, far …

Anthropic dubs this the first AI-orchestrated cyber snooping campaign Chinese cyber spies used Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool to attempt digital break-ins at about 30 high-profile companies and government organizations – and the government-backed snoops "succeeded in a small number of cases," according to a Thursday report from the AI …

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt data without overloading them. [...]

US government agencies are warning that the Akira ransomware operation has been spotted encrypting Nutanix AHV virtual machines in attacks. [...]

A self-spreading package published on npm spams the registry by spawning new packages every every seven seconds, creating large volumes of junk. [...]

Checkout.com will instead donate the amount to fund cybercrime research Digitial extortion is a huge business, because affected orgs keep forking over money to get their data back. However, instead of paying a ransom demand after getting hit by extortionists last week, payment services provider Checkout.com donated …

The ImunifyAV malware scanner for Linux server, used by tens of millions of websites, is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability that could be exploited to compromise the hosting environment. [...]

At Google Cloud, we believe that being at the forefront of driving secure innovation and meeting the evolving needs of customers includes working with partners. The reality is that the security landscape should be interoperable, and your security tools should be able to integrate with each other. Google Unified …

The Washington Post is notifying nearly 10,000 employees and contractors that some of their personal and financial data has been exposed in the Oracle data theft attack. [...]

The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump Two vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 25.10's new "sudo-rs" command have been found, disclosed, and fixed in short order.... [...]

Kerberoasting attacks let hackers steal service account passwords and escalate to domain admin, often without triggering alerts. Specops Software shares how auditing AD passwords, enforcing long unique credentials, and using AES encryption can shut these attacks down early. [...]

Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers impersonate hundreds of trusted brands, blast out text message lures, and convert phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. In a lawsuit filed …

Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams feature for Premium customers that will automatically block screenshots and recordings during meetings. [...]

Nearly 10,000 staff and contractors warned after attackers raided newspaper's Oracle EBS setup The Washington Post has confirmed that nearly 10,000 employees and contractors had sensitive personal data stolen in the Clop-linked Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attacks.... [...]

Uhale Android-based digital picture frames come with multiple critical security vulnerabilities and some of them download and execute malware at boot time. [...]

The Business of Secrets: Adventures in Selling Encryption Around the World by Fred Kinch (May 24, 2004) From the vantage point of today, it’s surreal reading about the commercial cryptography business in the 1970s. Nobody knew anything. The manufacturers didn’t know whether the cryptography they sold was …

CISA warned federal agencies to fully patch two actively exploited vulnerabilities in Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) and Firepower devices. [...]

Operation Endgame also takes down Elysium and VenomRAT infrastructure International cops have pulled apart the Rhadamanthys infostealer operation, seizing 1,025 servers tied to the malware in coordinated raids between November 10-13.... [...]

Synnovis's 18-month forensic review of Qilin intrusion completed, now affected patients to be notified Synnovis has finally wrapped up its investigation into the 2024 ransomware attack that crippled pathology services across London, ending an 18-month effort to untangle what the NHS supplier describes as one of the most complex …

Law enforcement authorities from 9 countries have taken down 1,025 servers used by the Rhadamanthys infolstealer, VenomRAT, and Elysium botnet malware operations in the latest phase of Operation Endgame, an international action targeting cybercrime. [...]

CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in WatchGuard Firebox firewalls, which allows attackers to gain remote code execution on compromised devices. [...]

600+ phishing websites and 116 of these use a Google logo Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed China-based scammers, which it claims have stolen more than 115 million credit card numbers in the US as part of the Lighthouse phishing operation.... [...]

Google has filed a lawsuit to dismantle the "Lighthouse" phishing-as-a-service platform used by cybercriminals worldwide to steal credit card information through SMS phishing attacks impersonating the U.S. Postal Service and E-ZPass toll systems. [...]

Today, we’re excited to announce the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) zero operator access posture. Because security is our top priority at Amazon Web Services (AWS), we designed an operational architecture to meet the data privacy posture our regulated and most stringent customers want in a managed …

Microsoft announced that passwordless authentication is now easier on Windows 11 through native support for third-party passkey managers, the first ones supported being 1Password and Bitwarden. [...]

Vendors (still) keep mum An "advanced" attacker exploited CitrixBleed 2 and a max-severity Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) bug as zero-days to deploy custom malware, according to Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses.... [...]

When a major vulnerability makes headlines, CISOs want to know fast if their organization is impacted and prepared. Getting the correct answer is often a time-consuming and human-intensive process that can take days or weeks, leaving open a dangerous window of unknown exposure. To help close that gap, today …

The DanaBot malware has returned with a new version observed in attacks, six-months after law enforcement's Operation Endgame disrupted its activity in May. [...]

As AI agents gain autonomy to act, decide, and access data, traditional Zero Trust models fall short. Token Security explains how to extend "never trust, always verify" to agentic AI with scoped access, continuous monitoring, and human accountability. [...]

The United Kingdom has introduced new legislation to boost cybersecurity defenses for hospitals, energy systems, water supplies, and transport networks against cyberattacks, linked to annual damages of nearly £15 billion ($19.6 billion). [...]

The Amazon threat intelligence team has identified an advanced threat actor exploiting previously undisclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) and Citrix systems. The campaign used custom malware and demonstrated access to multiple undisclosed vulnerabilities. This discovery highlights the trend of threat actors focusing on critical identity …

An advanced threat actor exploited the critical vulnerabilities "Citrix Bleed 2" (CVE-2025-5777) in NetScaler ADC and Gateway, and CVE-2025-20337 affecting Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) as zero-days to deploy custom malware. [...]

Synnovis, a leading UK pathology services provider, is notifying healthcare providers that a data breach occurred following a ransomware attack in June 2024, which resulted in the theft of some patients' data. [...]

Former DoJ attorney John Carlin writes about hackback, which he defines thus: “A hack back is a type of cyber response that incorporates a counterattack designed to proactively engage with, disable, or collect evidence about an attacker. Although hack backs can take on various forms, they are—­by definition …

Metropolitan Police lands lengthy sentence following 'complex' investigation The Metropolitan Police's seven-year investigation into a record-setting fraudster has ended after she was sentenced to 11 years and eight months in prison on Tuesday.... [...]

Various touch-ups added as MPs seek greater resilience to attacks on critical sectors UK government introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill to Parliament today, marking a significant overhaul of local cybersecurity legislation to sharpen the security posture of the most critical sectors.... [...]

Skies are open for mischief as hard-to-trace drones and fast-moving cyber raids promise new wave of disruption Britain's aviation watchdog has warned it's only a matter of time before organized drone attacks bring UK airports to a standstill.... [...]