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The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees. Many are designed to exhaust the analysts investigating them. When a phishing investigation takes 12 hours instead of five minutes, the outcome can shift from a contained incident to a breach. For years, the cybersecurity industry has focused on the front door of phishing defense: employee training, email gateways that filter known threats, and reporting programs that encourage users to flag suspicious messages. Far less attention has been paid to what happens after a report is filed, and how attackers exploit the investigation process that follows.  Alert fatigue in Security Operations Centers isn't just an operational inconvenience . It can become an attack surface. SOC teams increasingly report phishing campaigns that appear designed not only to compromise targets but also to overwhelm the analysts responsible for investigating them.  This shifts how organizations should think about phishing d...

Apple on Wednesday backported fixes for a security flaw in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Sonoma to older versions after it was found to be used as part of the Coruna exploit kit . The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-43010 , relates to an unspecified vulnerability in WebKit that could result in memory corruption when processing maliciously crafted web content. The iPhone maker said the issue was addressed with improved handling.  "This fix associated with the Coruna exploit kit was shipped in iOS 17.2 on December 11th, 2023," Apple said in an advisory. "This update brings that fix to devices that cannot update to the latest iOS version." Fixes for CVE-2023-43010 were originally released by Apple in the following versions - iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2 macOS Sonoma 14.2 Safari 17.2 The latest round of fixes brings it to older versions of iOS and iPadOS - iOS 15.8.7 and iPadOS 15.8.7 - iPhone 6s (all models), iPhone 7 (all models), iPhone SE (1st generation), iPa...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered half-a-dozen new Android malware families that come with capabilities to steal data from compromised devices and conduct financial fraud. The Android malware range from traditional banking trojans like PixRevolution , TaxiSpy RAT , BeatBanker , Mirax , and Oblivion RAT to full-fledged remote administration tools such as SURXRAT . PixRevolution, according to Zimperium, targets Brazil's Pix instant payment platform , hijacking victims' money transfers in real-time to route them to the threat actors instead of the intended payee. "This new strain of malware operates stealthily within the device until the moment the victim initiates a Pix transfer," security researcher Aazim Yaswant said . "What distinguishes this threat from conventional banking trojans is its fundamental design: a human or AI agent operator is actively engaged on the remote end, observing the victim's phone screen instantaneously, poised to act at ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting n8n to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score: 9.9), concerns a case of expression injection that leads to remote code execution. The security shortcoming was patched by n8n in December 2025 in versions 1.120.4, 1.121.1, and 1.122.0. CVE-2025-68613 is the first n8n vulnerability to be placed in the KEV catalog. "N8n contains an improper control of dynamically managed code resources vulnerability in its workflow expression evaluation system that allows for remote code execution," CISA said. According to the maintainers of the workflow automation platform, the vulnerability could be weaponized by an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the n8n process. Successful exploitation of the flaw could result in a c...

Agentic web browsers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to autonomously execute actions across multiple websites on behalf of a user could be trained and tricked into falling prey to phishing and scam traps. The attack, at its core, takes advantage of AI browsers' tendency to reason their actions and use it against the model itself to lower their security guardrails, Guardio said in a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication. "The AI now operates in real time, inside messy and dynamic pages, while continuously requesting information, making decisions, and narrating its actions along the way. Well, 'narrating' is quite an understatement - It blabbers, and way too much!," security researcher Shaked Chen said. "This is what we call Agentic Blabbering : the AI Browser exposing what it sees, what it believes is happening, what it plans to do next, and what signals it considers suspicious or safe." By intercepting thi...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two now-patched security flaws in the n8n workflow automation platform, including two critical bugs that could result in arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-27577 (CVSS score: 9.4) - Expression sandbox escape leading to remote code execution (RCE) CVE-2026-27493 (CVSS score: 9.5) - Unauthenticated expression evaluation via n8n's Form nodes "CVE-2026-27577 is a sandbox escape in the expression compiler: a missing case in the AST rewriter lets process slip through untransformed, giving any authenticated expression full RCE," Pillar Security researcher Eilon Cohen, who discovered and reported the issues, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The cybersecurity company described CVE-2026-27493 as a "double-evaluation bug" in n8n's Form nodes that could be abused for expression injection by taking advantage of the fact that the form endpoints are publi...

Meta on Wednesday said it disabled over 150,000 accounts associated with scam centers in Southeast Asia as part of a coordinated effort in partnership with authorities from Thailand, the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Korea, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia. The effort also led to 21 arrests made by the Royal Thai Police, the company said. The action builds upon a pilot initiative in December 2025 that resulted in Meta removing 59,000 accounts, Pages, and Groups from its platforms and six arrest warrants. " Online scams have become significantly more sophisticated and industrialized in recent years, with criminal networks often based in Southeast Asia in countries like Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos running what amount to full-scale business operations," Meta said in a statement. "These operations cause real harm – they upend lives, destroy trust, and are deliberately designed to avoid detection and disruption." In tandem, Meta ...