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The threat actor behind the recently disclosed artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate appliances leveraged an open-source, AI-native security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI to execute the attacks. The new findings come from Team Cymru, which detected its use following an analysis of the IP address ("212.11.64[.]250") that was used by the suspected Russian-speaking threat actor to conduct automated mass scanning for vulnerable appliances. CyberStrikeAI is an "open-source artificial intelligence (AI) offensive security tool (OST) developed by a China-based developer who we assess has some ties to the Chinese government," security researcher Will Thomas (aka @BushidoToken ) said . Details of the AI-powered activity came to light last month when Amazon Threat Intelligence said it detected the unknown attacker systematically targeting FortiGate devices using generative artificial intelligence (AI) services like Anthropic ...

The Rise of MCPs in the Enterprise The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a practical way to push LLMs from “chat” into real work. By providing structured access to applications, APIs, and data, MCP enables prompt-driven AI agents that can retrieve information, take action, and automate end-to-end business workflows across the enterprise. This is already showing up in production through horizontal assistants and custom vertical agents. like Microsoft Copilot, ServiceNow, Zendesk bots, and Salesforce Agentforce, with custom and vertical agents moving fast behind them. This echoes the recent Gartner “Market Guide for Guardian Agents” report , where analysts note that the rapid enterprise adoption of these AI agents is significantly outpacing the maturity of the governance and policy controls required to manage them. We believe the primary disconnect is that these AI “colleagues” don’t look like humans. They don’t join or leave through HR They don’t submit access re...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new phishing suite called Starkiller that proxies legitimate login pages to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections. It's advertised as a cybercrime platform by a threat group calling itself Jinkusu, granting customers access to a dashboard that lets them select a brand to impersonate or enter a brand's real URL. It also lets users choose custom keywords like "login," "verify," "security," or "account," and integrates URL shorteners such as TinyURL to obscure the destination URL. "It launches a headless Chrome instance – a browser that operates without a visible window – inside a Docker container , loads the brand's real website, and acts as a reverse proxy between the target and the legitimate site," Abnormal researchers Callie Baron and Piotr Wojtyla said . "Recipients are served genuine page content directly through the attacker's infrastruc...

Microsoft on Monday warned of phishing campaigns that employ phishing emails and OAuth URL redirection mechanisms to bypass conventional phishing defenses implemented in email and browsers. The activity, the company said, targets government and public-sector organizations with the end goal of redirecting victims to attacker-controlled infrastructure without stealing their tokens. It described the phishing attacks as an identity-based threat that takes advantage of OAuth's standard, by-design behavior rather than exploiting software vulnerabilities or stealing credentials. "OAuth includes a legitimate feature that allows identity providers to redirect users to a specific landing page under certain conditions, typically in error scenarios or other defined flows," the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team said . "Attackers can abuse this native functionality by crafting URLs with popular identity providers, such as Entra ID or Google Workspace, that use manipu...

Google on Monday disclosed that a high-severity security flaw impacting an open-source Qualcomm component used in Android devices has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-21385 (CVSS score: 7.8), a buffer over-read in the Graphics component. "Memory corruption when adding user-supplied data without checking available buffer space," Qualcomm said in an advisory, describing it as an integer overflow. The chipmaker said the flaw was reported to it through Google's Android Security team on December 18, 2025. Customers were notified of the security defect on February 2, 2026. There are currently no details on how the vulnerability is being exploited in the wild. However, Google acknowledged in its monthly Android security bulletin that "there are indications that CVE-2026-21385 may be under limited, targeted exploitation." Google's March 2026 update contains patches for a total of 129 vulnerabilities, including a critica...

The threat activity cluster known as SloppyLemming has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government entities and critical infrastructure operators in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The activity, per Arctic Wolf, took place between January 2025 and January 2026. It involves the use of two distinct attack chains to deliver malware families tracked as BurrowShell and a Rust-based keylogger.  "The use of the Rust programming language represents a notable evolution in SloppyLemming’s tooling, as prior reporting documented the actor using only traditional compiled languages and borrowed adversary simulation frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, Havoc, and the custom NekroWire RAT," the cybersecurity company said in a report shared with The Hacker News. SloppyLemming is the moniker assigned to a threat actor that's known to target government, law enforcement, energy, telecommunications, and technology entities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and China since ...