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The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) worker scheme with an aim to defraud U.S. businesses and generate illicit revenue for the regime to fund its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs. "The North Korean regime targets American companies through deceptive schemes carried out by its overseas IT operatives, who weaponize sensitive data and extort businesses for substantial payments," said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. The fraudulent scheme , also called Coral Sleet/Jasper Sleet, PurpleDelta and Wagemole, relies on bogus documentation, stolen identities, and fabricated personas to help the IT workers obscure their true origins and land jobs at legitimate companies in the U.S. and elsewhere. A disproportionate portion of the salaries is then funneled back to North ...

Amazon Threat Intelligence is warning of an active Interlock ransomware campaign that's exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20131 (CVSS score: 10.0), a case of insecure deserialization of user-supplied Java byte stream, which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary Java code as root on an affected device. According to data gleaned from the tech giant's MadPot global sensor network , the security flaw is said to have been exploited as a zero-day since January 26, 2026, more than a month before it was publicly disclosed by Cisco. "This wasn't just another vulnerability exploit; Interlock had a zero-day in their hands, giving them a week's head start to compromise organizations before defenders even knew to look. Upon making this discovery, we shared our findings with Cisco to help support...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32746 , carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of out-of-bounds write in the LINEMODE Set Local Characters (SLC) suboption handler that results in a buffer overflow, ultimately paving the way for code execution. Israeli cybersecurity company Dream, which discovered and reported the flaw on March 11, 2026, said it affects all versions of the Telnet service implementation through 2.7. A fix for the vulnerability is expected to be available no later than April 1, 2026. "An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted message during the initial connection handshake — before any login prompt appears," Dream said in an alert. "Successful...

When a Magecart payload hides inside the EXIF data of a dynamically loaded third-party favicon, no repository scanner will catch it – because the malicious code never actually touches your repo. As teams adopt Claude Code Security for static analysis, this is the exact technical boundary where AI code scanning stops and client-side runtime execution begins. A detailed analysis of where Claude Code Security stops — and what runtime monitoring covers — is available here . A Magecart skimmer recently found in the wild used a three-stage loader chain to hide its payload inside a favicon's EXIF metadata — never touching the merchant's source code, never appearing in a repository, and executing entirely in the shopper's browser at checkout. The attack raises a question that’s worth getting precise about: which category of tool is actually supposed to catch this? Magecart Lives Outside Your Codebase Magecart‑style attacks are rarely about classic vulnerabilities in your own ...

Cybersecurity researchers have warned about the risks posed by low-cost IP KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse over Internet Protocol) devices, which can grant attackers extensive control over compromised hosts. The nine vulnerabilities, discovered by Eclypsium , span four different products from GL-iNet Comet RM-1, Angeet/Yeeso ES3 KVM, Sipeed NanoKVM, and JetKVM. The most severe of them allow unauthenticated actors to gain root access or run malicious code. "The common themes are damning: missing firmware signature validation, no brute-force protection, broken access controls, and exposed debug interfaces," researchers Paul Asadoorian and Reynaldo Vasquez Garcia said in an analysis. With IP KVM devices enabling remote access to the target machine's keyboard, video output, and mouse input at the BIOS/UEFI level, successful exploitation of vulnerabilities in these products can expose systems to potential takeover risks, undermining security controls put in place. The list...

Security teams today are not short on tools or data. They are overwhelmed by both.  Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to understand context:  Q: Which exposures, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities chain together to create viable attack paths to crown jewels? Even the most mature security teams can’t answer that easily. The problem isn't the tools. It's that the tools don’t talk to each other.  This is precisely the problem Gartner's Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) framework was designed to solve – and it's what Mesh Security has operationalized with the world's first purpose-built CSMA platform. In this article, we’ll walk through what CSMA is and how Mesh CSMA:  Discovers attack paths to crown jewels Prioritizes based on active threats  Eliminates attack paths systematically What Is CSMA, and Why Does It Matter Now? Before we dive into the platform, let’s clarify what C...

A high-severity security flaw affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop versions 24.04 and later could be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level. Tracked as CVE-2026-3888 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue could allow an attacker to seize control of a susceptible system. "This flaw (CVE-2026-3888) allows an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges to full root access through the interaction of two standard system components: snap-confine and systemd-tmpfiles," the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) said . "While the exploit requires a specific time-based window (10–30 days), the resulting impact is a complete compromise of the host system."  The problem, Qualys noted, stems from the unintended interaction of snap-confine, which manages execution environments for snap applications by creating a sandbox, and systemd-tmpfiles, which automatically cleans up temporary files and directories (e.g.,/tmp, /run, and /var/tmp) older than a defined ...

Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a cross-origin issue in WebKit's Navigation API that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy when processing maliciously crafted web content. The flaw affects iOS 26.3.1, iPadOS 26.3.1, macOS 26.3.1, and macOS 26.3.2. It has been addressed with improved input validation in iOS 26.3.1 (a), iPadOS 26.3.1 (a), macOS 26.3.1 (a), and macOS 26.3.2 (a). Security researcher Thomas Espach has been credited with discovering and reporting the shortcoming. Apple notes that Background Security Improvements are meant for delivering lightweight security releases for components such as the Safari browser, WebKit framework stack, and other system libraries through smaller, ongoing security patches rather than issuing them as part of larger softwa...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new method for exfiltrating sensitive data from artificial intelligence (AI) code execution environments using domain name system (DNS) queries. In a report published Monday, BeyondTrust revealed that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter's sandbox mode permits outbound DNS queries that an attacker can exploit to enable interactive shells and bypass network isolation. The issue, which does not have a CVE identifier, carries a CVSS score of 7.5 out of 10.0. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter is a fully managed service that enables AI agents to securely execute code in isolated sandbox environments , such that agentic workloads cannot access external systems. It was launched by Amazon in August 2025. The fact that the service allows DNS queries despite "no network access" configuration can allow "threat actors to establish command-and-control channels and data exfiltration over DNS in certain scenar...

The ransomware operation known as LeakNet has adopted the ClickFix social engineering tactic delivered through compromised websites as an initial access method. The use of ClickFix, where users are tricked into manually running malicious commands to address non-existent errors, is a departure from relying on traditional methods for obtaining initial access, such as through stolen credentials acquired from initial access brokers (IABs), ReliaQuest said in a technical report published today. The second important aspect of these attacks is the use of a staged command-and-control (C2) loader built on the Deno JavaScript runtime to execute malicious payloads directly in memory. "The key takeaway here is that both entry paths lead to the same repeatable post-exploitation sequence every time," the cybersecurity company said. "That gives defenders something concrete to work with: known behaviors you can detect and disrupt at each stage, well before ransomware deployment, r...

A majority of security leaders are struggling to defend AI systems with tools and skills that are not fit for the challenge, according to the AI and Adversarial Testing Benchmark Report 2026 from Pentera. The report, based on a survey of 300 US CISOs and senior security leaders, examines how organizations are securing AI infrastructure and highlights critical gaps tied to skills shortages and reliance on security controls not designed for the AI era. AI adoption is outpacing security visibility AI systems are rarely deployed in isolation. They are layered across and integrated into existing corporate technology, from cloud platforms and identity systems to applications and data pipelines. With ownership spread across disparate teams, effective centralized oversight has collapsed. As a result, 67 percent of CISOs reported limited visibility into how AI is being used across their organization. None of the respondents indicated they have full visibility; rather, they acknowledge bei...