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A 26-year-old Russian citizen has been sentenced in the U.S. to 6.75 years (81 months) in prison for his role in assisting major cybercrime groups, including the Yanluowang ransomware crew, in conducting numerous attacks against U.S. companies and other organizations. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), Aleksei Olegovich Volkov facilitated dozens of ransomware attacks across the U.S., causing more than $9 million in actual losses and over $24 million in intended losses. Volkov was arrested on January 18, 2024, in Italy and extradited to the U.S. to face charges. He pleaded guilty to the crimes in November 2025. Volkov is said to have served as an initial access broker responsible for obtaining unauthorized access to computer networks and systems belonging to various organizations and selling that access to other criminal groups, including ransomware actors. This was accomplished by exploiting vulnerabilities or finding ways to access the networks without authorizati...

Citrix has released security updates to address two vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including a critical flaw that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from the application. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-3055 (CVSS score: 9.3) - Insufficient input validation leading to memory overread CVE-2026-4368 (CVSS score: 7.7) - Race condition leading to user session mixup Cybersecurity company Rapid7 said that CVE-2026-3055 refers to an out-of-bounds read that could be exploited by unauthenticated remote attackers to leak potentially sensitive information from the appliance's memory. However, for exploitation to be successful, the Citrix ADC or Citrix Gateway appliance must be configured as a SAML Identity Provider (SAML IDP), which means default configurations are unaffected. To determine if the device has been configured as a SAML IDP Profile, Citrix is urging customers to inspect their NetScaler Configuration for the specified st...

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign, also tracked as WaterPlum, have been attributed to a malware family tracked as StoatWaffle that's distributed via malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects. The use of VS Code "tasks.json" to distribute malware is a relatively new tactic adopted by the threat actor since December 2025 , with the attacks leveraging the "runOn: folderOpen" option to automatically trigger its execution every time any file in the project folder is opened in VS Code. "This task is configured so that it downloads data from a web application on Vercel regardless of executing OS [operating system]," NTT Security said in a report published last week. "Though we assume that the executing OS is Windows in this article, the essential behaviors are the same for any OS." The downloaded payload first checks whether Node.js is installed in the executing environment. If it's ab...

Another week, another reminder that the internet is still a mess. Systems people thought were secure are being broken in simple ways, showing many still ignore basic advisories. This edition covers a mix of issues: supply chain attacks hitting CI/CD setups, long-abused IoT devices being shut down, and exploits moving quickly from disclosure to real attacks. There are also new malware tricks showing attackers are becoming more patient and creative. It’s a mix of old problems that never go away and new methods that are harder to detect. There are quiet state-backed activities, exposed data from open directories, growing mobile threats, and a steady stream of zero-days and rushed patches. Grab a coffee, and at least skim the CVE list. Some of these are the kind you don’t want to discover after the damage is done. ⚡ Threat of the Week Trivy Vulnerability Scanner Breached in for Supply Chain Attack — Attackers have backdoored the widely used open-source Trivy vulnerability scanner, ...

AWS Bedrock is Amazon's platform for building AI-powered applications. It gives developers access to foundation models and the tools to connect those models directly to enterprise data and systems. That connectivity is what makes it powerful – but it’s also what makes Bedrock a target. When an AI agent can query your Salesforce instance, trigger a Lambda function, or pull from a SharePoint knowledge base, it becomes a node in your infrastructure - with permissions, with reachability, and with paths that lead to critical assets. The XM Cyber threat research team mapped exactly how attackers could exploit that connectivity inside Bedrock environments. The result: eight validated attack vectors spanning log manipulation, knowledge base compromise, agent hijacking, flow injection, guardrail degradation, and prompt poisoning. In this article, we’ll walk through each vector - what it targets, how it works, and what an attacker can reach on the other side. The Eight Vectors The XM ...

Microsoft has warned of fresh campaigns that are capitalizing on the upcoming tax season in the U.S. to harvest credentials and deliver malware. The email campaigns take advantage of the urgency and time-sensitive nature of emails to send phishing messages masquerading as refund notices, payroll forms, filing reminders, and requests from tax professionals to deceive recipients into opening malicious attachments, scanning QR code, or interacting with suspicious links. "Many campaigns target individuals for personal and financial data theft, but others specifically target accountants and other professionals who handle sensitive documents, have access to financial data, and are accustomed to receiving tax-related emails during this period," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender Security Research teams said in a report published last week. While some of these efforts direct users to sketchy pages designed through Phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms, ot...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious artifacts distributed via Docker Hub following the Trivy supply chain attack , highlighting the widening blast radius across developer environments. The last known clean release of Trivy on Docker Hub is 0.69.3. The malicious versions 0.69.4, 0.69.5, and 0.69.6 have since been removed from the container image library. "New image tags 0.69.5 and 0.69.6 were pushed on March 22 without corresponding GitHub releases or tags. Both images contain indicators of compromise associated with the same TeamPCP infostealer observed in earlier stages of this campaign," Socket security researcher Philipp Burckhardt said . The development comes in the wake a supply chain compromise of Trivy, a popular open-source vulnerability scanner maintained by Aqua Security, allowing the threat actors to leverage a compromised credential to push a credential stealer within trojanized versions of the tool and two related GitHub Actions "aquasec...

Threat actors are suspected to be exploiting a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA), according to Arctic Wolf. The cybersecurity company said it observed malicious activity starting the week of March 9, 2026, in customer environments that's consistent with the exploitation of CVE-2025-32975 on unpatched SMA systems exposed to the internet. It's currently not known what the end goals of the attack are. CVE-2025-32975 (CVSS score: 10.0) refers to an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to impersonate legitimate users without valid credentials. Successful exploitation of the flaw could facilitate the complete takeover of administrative accounts. The issue was patched by Quest in May 2025. In the malicious activity detected by Arctic Wolf, threat actors are believed to have weaponized the vulnerability to seize control of administrative accounts and execute remote commands to drop Base64-encoded payloads ...

Threat actors affiliated with Russian Intelligence Services are conducting phishing campaigns to compromise commercial messaging applications (CMAs) like WhatsApp and Signal to seize control of accounts belonging to individuals with high intelligence value, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday. "The campaign targets individuals of high intelligence value, including current and former U.S. government officials, military personnel, political figures, and journalists," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post on X. "Globally, this effort has resulted in unauthorized access to thousands of individual accounts. After gaining access, the actors can view messages and contact lists, send messages as the victim, and conduct additional phishing from a trusted identity." It's worth noting that the attacks are designed to break into the victims' CMA accounts through phishing and do not ...

Oracle has released security updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Identity Manager and Web Services Manager that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21992 , carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "This vulnerability is remotely exploitable without authentication," Oracle said in an advisory. "If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may result in remote code execution." CVE-2026-21992 affects the following versions - Oracle Identity Manager versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.1.0 Oracle Web Services Manager versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.1.0 According to a description of the flaw in the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD), it's "easily exploitable" and could allow an unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Web Services Manager. This, in turn, can result in the successful takeover of s...

The threat actors behind the supply chain attack targeting the popular Trivy scanner are suspected to be conducting follow-on attacks that have led to the compromise of a large number of npm packages with a previously undocumented self-propagating worm dubbed CanisterWorm . The name is a reference to the fact that the malware uses an ICP canister , which denotes a tamperproof smart contract on the Internet Computer blockchain, as a dead drop resolver . The development marks the first publicly documented abuse of an ICP canister for the explicit purpose of fetching the command-and-control (C2) server, Aikido Security researcher Charlie Eriksen said . The list of affected packages is below - 28 packages in the @EmilGroup scope 16 packages in the @opengov scope @teale.io/eslint-config @airtm/uuid-base32 @pypestream/floating-ui-dom The development comes within a day after threat actors leveraged a compromised credential to publish malicious trivy, trivy-action, and setup-triv...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added five security flaws impacting Apple, Craft CMS, and Laravel Livewire to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, urging federal agencies to patch them by April 3, 2026. The vulnerabilities that have come under exploitation are listed below - CVE-2025-31277 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A vulnerability in Apple WebKit that could result in memory corruption when processing maliciously crafted web content. (Fixed in July 2025) CVE-2025-43510 (CVSS score: 7.8) - A memory corruption vulnerability in Apple's kernel component that could allow a malicious application to cause unexpected changes in memory shared between processes. (Fixed in December 2025) CVE-2025-43520 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A memory corruption vulnerability in Apple's kernel component that could allow a malicious application to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory. (Fixed in December 2025) CVE-2025-32432 ...