Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00 UTC, with
Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to run malicious code on affected installations. It has been described…
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firms merged in July 2023
What is the Attack? Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor conducting high-tempo ransomware operations leveraging the Medusa ransomware variant. The group specializes in rapidly exploiting vulnerable web-facing systems, often weaponizing newly disclosed vulnerabilities (N-days) and even zero-days before public disclosure. Storm-1175 | Medusa ransomware operations | Microsoft Security Blog A…
Threat actors breached the telehealth brand, and now they may know who’s bald, overweight, and impotent. What could they do with that information?
These are the fundamental detection model shifts cybersecurity teams need to make to keep up with the rising number of credential-based attacks.
The US government warns programmable logic controllers are being targeted, and research turns up 179 vulnerable operational technology (OT) devices.
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that’s designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environments (IDEs) on a developer’s machine. The technique has been discovered in an Open VSX extension named “specstudio.code-wakatime-activity-tracker,” which masquerades as WakaTime, a