Newer social engineering techniques help attackers ignore entrenched security controls and limit the evidence they leave behind.

Over the weekend, the vendor discovered another vector of authentication bypass CVE-2026-18577 that gives attackers administrator access.

Researchers dug into the root of the problem with the goal of promoting industry collaboration on improved protective measures.

Last month’s incidents in which Claude breached real-world systems derived from over-permissioning, especially with Internet access.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a sophisticated, targeted software supply chain attack targeting Chinese-speaking environments. One of the packages in question is “lib-mtop,” an unscoped package with the same name as a…

Malware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim’s passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all appearing on the victim’s screen. Unit 42 detailed three attack paths against Chrome’s Google Password Manager cloud authenticator, which it calls Pass-ta-key, Silver Pass-ta-key and Golden Pass-ta-key; the strongest…

The INC Ransomware operation has emerged as the “dominant threat actor” exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances. In a report published over the weekend, Resecurity said it observed the INC Ransomware accelerating its activity since the beginning of August 2026, listing multiple victims on its…

Researchers from Jesta intercepted and investigated the model, which was attempting to compromise more than 1,200 hosts for proxyjacking and to launch further attacks

This week kept coming back to permission. A model crossed a boundary. A wallet trusted bad randomness. Webmail kept an intruder around. Public systems, package feeds, hotel networks, and login flows all gave away more than intended. Some of it was clever. Most of it was just access left lying around: old bugs, exposed gear,…

Accountability without any real authority is driving CISO burnout, and organizations need to take notice.