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Latin America and Europe become the target of two banking trojan campaigns that are designed to infect Windows and Android devices with Grandoreiro and BTMOB malware, respectively. That's according to new findings from WatchGuard and ESET, which have observed the two malware families being used to single out companies in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, as well as mobile users in Brazil. The Grandoreiro campaign "uses the DLL Side-Loading technique abusing four different software, targeting banks in Portugal," WatchGuard researcher Euler Neto said . Active since 2016, Grandoreiro is an actively evolving banking malware that's capable of stealing credentials associated with thousands of financial institutions across 45 countries and territories. It's typically distributed via phishing emails, instructing recipients to click on sketchy links. Despite some arrests and attempts by Brazilian authorities to dismantle its infrastructure in early 2024, the malware h...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information stealing capabilities. According to OX Security, the package, named " mouse5212-super-formatter ," is designed to upload files from "/mnt/user-data," a dedicated directory used by Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool to handle uploads and outputs in the background. The activity has been codenamed Malware-Slop . "By analyzing the malware, it turns out that the script presents itself as an internal 'archive deployment sync' utility that validates or initializes a GitHub repository, captures a lightweight 'network status' snapshot, and then performs a structured synchronization of local workspace files into a remote tracking tree," researchers Moshe Siman Tov Bustan and Nir Zadok said . In reality, however, it authenticates to GitHub during the postinstall stage, either using a GitHub access token found i...

When an employee installs an AI writing assistant, connects a coding copilot to their IDE, or starts summarizing meetings with a new browser tool, they are doing exactly what a productive employee should do: finding faster ways to work. Across most organizations today, employees are running three to five AI tools on any given day. Most were never reviewed by IT. A significant portion connects to corporate data through OAuth tokens or browser sessions, giving them access to shared drives, emails, and internal documents the employee never specifically intended to expose. Security teams often have no visibility into any of it. This is the shadow AI gap, and it is widening fast. Most security tools were built to monitor email and network traffic flowing through the corporate network. A browser-based AI tool that connects to company data through a quick login approval bypasses those controls entirely, because it never passes through the corporate network at all. According to Gartner , ...

CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has announced the simultaneous disruption of all command-and-control (C2) channels associated with GlassWorm , a persistent software chain campaign targeting software developers through malicious packages and extensions. "Since at least early 2025, GlassWorm operators have systematically targeted software developers, a population with access to source code repositories, cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and package registries," CrowdStrike said . The development comes as developers have increasingly become lucrative targets for pulling off software supply chain attacks, enabling attackers to leverage a single compromised workstation to impact thousands of downstream organizations and users at once. GlassWorm, since its emergence last year, has conducted a "multi-pronged campaign" using trojanized VS Code extensions published on both the Microsoft VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX, ther...

Most organizations still picture cyber defense as a fortress problem: build stronger walls, add more guards, buy another detection engine. But modern incidents rarely crash through the front gate. They drift in disguised as routine activity, hide inside legitimate processes, and quietly accumulate risk long before anyone labels them an "incident." That changes the role of the SOC entirely. The best SOCs today are not simply detecting attacks. They are reducing the amount of uncertainty the business can accumulate. Every unidentified process, every unenriched alert, every delayed investigation becomes operational debt that compounds silently until it erupts into downtime, compliance issues, customer impact, or reputational damage. Prevention, then, is no longer about blocking everything at the perimeter. It is about shrinking the time between "something changed" and "we understand exactly what it means." That requires three things: continuous...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw in Gitea, an open-source, self-hosted platform for version control, that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to pull private container images from Gitea deployments without requiring an account, password, or other credentials. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-27771 (CVSS score: N/A), affects all versions of Gitea prior to 1.26.2 , which addresses the issue. According to Noscope, the security defect likely impacts more than 30,000 deployments across over 30 countries and went undetected for close to four years. The vast majority of the exposures are in China, the U.S., Germany, France, and the U.K. Affected organizations span healthcare providers, aerospace manufacturers, retail infrastructure, and internet service providers. "On affected versions, the private designation on a container repository did not deliver the protection operators reasonably expected it to," Noscope said . "Gitea's cont...

Microsoft has warned of an active cryptojacking campaign that makes use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot interactions as a mechanism for surfacing malicious download sites. "This emerging delivery technique extends social engineering beyond conventional search results and increases the visibility of malicious software recommendations," Microsoft Defender Experts and the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team said in a report published Tuesday. The activity, per the tech giant, impersonates legitimate system utilities like CrystalDiskInfo, HWMonitor, Display Driver Uninstaller, FurMark, K-Lite Codec Pack, and PDFgear, likely in an attempt to target users who own high-performance GPUs. The idea is to focus on compromising systems with higher mining value than indiscriminately infecting a large number of machines, it added. The goals of the campaign are not merely financially motivated. The threat actors have also been found to establish persistent remote acce...

The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater has been linked to a new campaign affecting at least nine organizations across nine countries on four continents in the first quarter of 2026. The activity targeted industrial and electronics manufacturing, education and public-sector bodies, financial services, and professional services, per the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec and Carbon Black. Among the victims is a major South Korean electronics manufacturer, with the attackers spending a week inside its network in February 2026. Also singled as part of the sprawling espionage effort were an international airport in the Middle East, Southeast Asian industrial manufacturers, and a Latin American financial-services provider. "The attackers relied heavily on DLL side-loading using legitimately signed Fortemedia (fmapp.exe) and SentinelOne (sentinelmemoryscanner.exe) binaries to execute malicious DLLs while masquerading as benign software," Broadcom's cybersecurity t...

Every single day, hackers are finding new ways to crash websites and steal data. But right now, something has changed. Hackers are no longer working alone. They are now using powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to make their attacks faster, stronger, and much harder to stop. According to recent updates from The Hacker News , bad actors are using AI to find weak spots in systems and launch massive "DDoS attacks" that can take your business offline in seconds. If your website goes down, you lose money, you lose customer trust, and you spend days trying to fix the mess. 👉 Save Your Free Webinar Seat The Old Way of Protection Doesn't Work Anymore In the past, you could set up a simple firewall, update your software, and feel safe. Not anymore. AI-assisted attacks can think and adapt. They don't just hit your front door; they look for hidden entry points, smart APIs, and tiny mistakes in your cloud setup. They do in minutes what used to take human h...

Microsoft has rolled out updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could be exploited by bad actors in attacks without requiring any specialized conditions to be met. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659 , carries a CVSS score of 8.8. It has been assigned an important severity. "Deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to execute code over a network," Microsoft said in an advisory released last week. Microsoft noted that the vulnerability could be triggered by any authenticated attacker, and that it does not require administrator or other elevated privileges. "In a network-based attack, an authenticated attacker, who has a minimum of Site Member permissions (PR:L), could execute code remotely on the SharePoint Server," the Windows maker added. Microsoft credited a researcher named MEOW for discovering and reporting the flaw. Updates have been released for th...

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was supposed to close a critical gap in identity security. It meant that, even if an attacker possessed the account credentials, they couldn't log in without the second factor. While that logic was sound, attackers have now figured out that they don't need to steal the second factor: they just need the user to hand it over. If your workforce authenticates with push-based MFA, this attack is a live threat to your organization today. Tools like Specops Secure Access are built specifically to close that gap, but before getting into the fix, it's worth understanding how this technique works. How MFA prompt bombing works The attack requires three key elements to work: Valid account credentials, usually sourced from breached password dumps on the dark web A login portal that uses push-based MFA (such as a VPN, Microsoft 365, Okta, or Duo) A victim who is alerted every time the attacker tries the login Attackers repeatedly tri...

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where "feasible" to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors' abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability discovery and exploitation, and enhance the scale and velocity of cyber attacks. "AI-assisted cyber exploitation reduces the time required for adversaries to identify, weaponize, and exploit vulnerabilities, exposed services, weak identities, insecure APIs, and misconfigured systems," CERT-In said in a 38-page blueprint published Monday. "As organizations become increasingly dependent on interconnected digital infrastructure, cloud ecosystems, software supply chains, operational technologies, and AI-enabled platforms, the potential impact of AI-enabled cyber thr...

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore (aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549 ) has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East following the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the country in late February 2026. The activity, besides embracing previously undocumented techniques and enhanced capabilities, is characterized by the use of a new backdoor codenamed MiniFast (aka MiniUpdate) that appears to have been developed with assistance using artificial intelligence (AI), Check Point said in an analysis published last week. Affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Nimbus Manticore is best known for targeting defense, aviation, and telecommunication sectors using career-themed phishing lures. These campaigns have also been codenamed the Iranian Dream Job, owing to tactical similarities with Operation Dream...

A now-patched high-severity security flaw affecting Digital Knowledge KnowledgeDeliver , a Learning Management System (LMS) popular in Japan, was exploited as a zero-day to deliver the Godzilla web shell and ultimately facilitate the deployment of Cobalt Strike Beacon. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5426 (CVSS score: 7.5), stems from the use of hard-coded ASP.NET machine keys, leading to unauthenticated remote code execution via a ViewState deserialization attack. The abuse of publicly disclosed ASP.NET machine keys by threat actors was first documented by Microsoft in February 2025. "An unknown threat actor leveraged this access to inject malicious code into the LMS platform, with the goal of infecting users visiting the site," Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said . The security flaw impacted Digital Knowledge KnowledgeDeliver deployments prior to February 24, 2026. It's worth noting that similar vulnerabilities in Sitecore Ex...

Monday recap. Same mess, new week. A sketchy dev tool got people pwned, old bugs came back from the dead, and security products somehow needed protecting from themselves. A bunch of companies spent the week checking old boxes and forgotten servers they should've patched years ago. Good times. Phishing crews are getting smarter too - less obvious scam junk, more targeted stuff that actually looks real. Meanwhile, botnets are grabbing anything exposed to the internet like it's free candy. The Internet's still a dumpster fire. Let’s get into it. ⚡ Threat of the Week GitHub Breached via Nx Console VS Code Extension —GitHub officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned version of the Nx Console Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension. The attack is said to have allowed the threat actor, a cybercriminal group known as TeamPCP, to exfiltrate about 3,800 repositories. G...

Threat actors are exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Ghost CMS to inject malicious JavaScript code with an aim to fuel ClickFix attacks. According to QiAnXin XLab, the activity involves the exploitation of CVE-2026-26980 (CVSS score: 9.4), an SQL injection vulnerability in Ghost's Content API that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary data from the database. The security flaw was addressed in February 2026 in version 6.19.1. The vulnerability was discovered by Anthropic using Claude. What makes the vulnerability severe is that it allows an attacker to gain access to a site's admin API key without permission, granting them the ability to poison the site by injecting malicious code. The admin API key can be used to invoke the admin API and can directly modify articles published on the content management system. The threat actor leveraged the security flaw to "obtain the target site's Admin API Key without authorizati...

Ask a cybersecurity pro about Network Detection and Response (NDR) and you might still hear "Noisy," "Too much data." But ask the teams running NDR that includes agentic AI capabilities and you'll hear they're actually using it to catch threats earlier, triage faster, and chase fewer false positives. The old complaint lingers in part because reputations are sticky, and because NDR has evolved faster than the narrative. The origins of noise NDR deployments have always given analysts deep visibility into network traffic, encrypted session behavior, and protocol anomalies. But visibility often came as raw material, not finished intelligence. Some systems required extensive manual tuning during deployment to prevent SIEM overload. Organizations that couldn't invest that time (or didn't know how important it was) helped cement NDR's "alert firehose" or "noisy" reputation. NDR with agentic AI turns noise into narrative A...

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cross-platform malware called RemotePE that has been put to use by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group in attacks targeting financial and cryptocurrency organizations. RemotePE, per NCC Group subsidiary Fox-IT, is part of a multi-stage attack chain that involves two loaders tracked as DPAPILoader and RemotePELoader. "DPAPILoader decrypts and loads RemotePELoader from disk using the Windows Data Protection API ( DPAPI )," security researchers Yun Zheng Hu and Mick Koomen said . "RemotePELoader beacons to a C2 server and waits until it receives the next stage: RemotePE, a RAT executed entirely in memory and never written to disk, leaving no filesystem artifacts." RemotePE was first highlighted by the security vendor in September 2025 in connection with an attack targeting an unnamed organization in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, leading to the deployment of three malware families, including PondRAT, Th...

A new coordinated cross-ecosystem software supply chain attack campaign has targeted npm, PyPI, and Crates.io to distribute credential-stealing malware. The campaign, codenamed TrapDoor , spans more than 34 malicious packages across over 384 versions. The earliest activity was recorded on May 22, 2026, at 8:20 p.m. UTC, with new packages published to the ecosystems in waves from a cluster of accounts in quick succession. "TrapDoor targets developers in crypto, DeFi, Solana, and AI communities," Socket said. "The malicious packages are designed to steal developer secrets, crypto wallets, SSH keys, cloud credentials, browser data, and environment variables." "Several npm packages also deploy a shared payload, trap-core.js, that scans for credentials, validates AWS and GitHub tokens, attempts SSH-based lateral movement, and plants persistence through .cursorrules, CLAUDE.md, Git hooks, shell hooks, systemd, cron, and SSH." It's worth noting tha...

GitHub has rolled out new controls for npm to improve the security of the software supply chain, giving maintainers the ability to explicitly approve a release prior to the packages becoming publicly available for installation. Called staged publishing, the feature is now generally available on npm. It mandates that a human maintainer pass a two-factor authentication (2FA) challenge to approve a package before it is pushed to the npmjs[.]com. "Instead of a direct publish that immediately makes a package version available to consumers, the prebuilt tarball is uploaded to a stage queue where a maintainer must explicitly approve it before it becomes installable," GitHub said . The Microsoft-owned subsidiary said the change ensures "proof of presence" for every publish, including those that come from non-interactive CI/CD workflows and trusted publishing with OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. Before using staged publishing , package maintainers have to meet...