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Incidents Move Too Fast for Pen & Paper Cybersecurity
Darkreading • 4 days ago

Incidents Move Too Fast for Pen & Paper

Organizations may not be ready for completely autonomous communication processes, but there are places where automating information updates would alleviate pressure.

Critical Rails Flaw Lets Attackers Write Server Files via Crafted ImageMagick Uploads Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 4 days ago

Critical Rails Flaw Lets Attackers Write Server Files via Crafted ImageMagick Uploads

A critical flaw in Ruby on Rails could allow an unauthenticated attacker to write arbitrary files on an app's server by uploading a crafted file if the app processes uploads using ImageMagick. The Rails project disclosed the flaw in an advisory and fixed it in versions 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2. The flaw

Xen Hypervisor Flaws Let One Malicious VM Read and Write Any Other VM's Memory Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 4 days ago

Xen Hypervisor Flaws Let One Malicious VM Read and Write Any Other VM's Memory

Two flaws in the Xen hypervisor allow a malicious guest virtual machine (VM) to read and write the memory of other VMs on the same host, including dom0. Dom0 is the VM that, by default, has full permissions and manages the others. Patches are out, and there is no known mitigation, the Xen Project s

Radio With No Radar: Why Agent Runtime Security Fails Without the Layers Beneath It Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 4 days ago

Radio With No Radar: Why Agent Runtime Security Fails Without the Layers Beneath It

Nearly every agent security pitch now ends on the same promise: the product stops the bad action in real time. The promise holds for one kind of agent, the kind whose traffic passes through a gateway the enterprise owns. Most agents never touch one. One recent case shows what that gap looks like in

China-Aligned Hackers Hijack Sogou Input Method DNS Requests to Deploy DarkVigil Backdoor Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 4 days ago

China-Aligned Hackers Hijack Sogou Input Method DNS Requests to Deploy DarkVigil Backdoor

A China-aligned threat actor known as SlippyNunchucks has been attributed to a Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking operation abusing insecure HTTP communications in Windows versions of Sogou Input Method as part of a surveillance campaign designed to deploy an implant called DarkVigil (aka FDMTP). T

Russian Police Arrest 3 Suspected VasyGrek Hackers, Dismantle Criminal Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 4 days ago

Russian Police Arrest 3 Suspected VasyGrek Hackers, Dismantle Criminal Infrastructure

Russian authorities have arrested three suspected members of a threat group known as VasyGrek and dismantled its criminal infrastructure. Also known as Fluffy Wolf, the threat actor has a history of targeting Russian and international companies since 2016. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the R

Google Issues Patches for Critical Android Flaw That Could Allow RCE Without User Interaction Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 4 days ago

Google Issues Patches for Critical Android Flaw That Could Allow RCE Without User Interaction

A critical Android flaw could allow an attacker to run code on a phone without any user action remotely, Google said in its November security bulletin. The flaw, CVE-2026-58868, affects Android 14 through 17. Phones get the fix with security patch level 2026-11-01 or later, which phone makers and c

CISA Confirms Hackers Exploiting WordPress Core Flaw During Software Upgrades Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 4 days ago

CISA Confirms Hackers Exploiting WordPress Core Flaw During Software Upgrades

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw in WordPress Core to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-119977 (CVSS score: 8.1), is a case of Time

Philippine Migrant Worker Data Likely Leaked in 69GB Government Breach Cybersecurity
Darkreading • 5 days ago

Philippine Migrant Worker Data Likely Leaked in 69GB Government Breach

An unknown operator appears to have exfiltrated SQL Server backups from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration in under a half hour.

Phishing-Resistant Isn't Enough; Yubico Takes Aim at Identity-Verification Gap Cybersecurity
Darkreading • 5 days ago

Phishing-Resistant Isn't Enough; Yubico Takes Aim at Identity-Verification Gap

The new YubiID service bridges identity verification with credential enrollment and recovery across existing identity platforms, closing an important authentication gap. Plus: post-quantum YubiKey beta.

Fresh European Fridge Attacks Put Cold-Chain Security in Focus Cybersecurity
Darkreading • 5 days ago

Fresh European Fridge Attacks Put Cold-Chain Security in Focus

Beyond food storage, the same combination of Internet connectivity, remote access, and inadequate security practices can put temperature-controlled infrastructure across other critical sectors at risk.

Germany Busts 'Crime-as-a-Service' Investment Fraud Outfit Cybersecurity
Darkreading • 5 days ago

Germany Busts 'Crime-as-a-Service' Investment Fraud Outfit

Authorities seized more than 100 servers and arrested seven as part of a crackdown on a fraud network spanning more than 50 countries.

mSecure Warns Users to Change Passwords, Reset 2FA and Passkeys After Suspicious Activity Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 5 days ago

mSecure Warns Users to Change Passwords, Reset 2FA and Passkeys After Suspicious Activity

Customers of the mSecure password manager are being urged to act now to protect the confidential information they store in it, possibly by changing passwords, resetting two-factor authentication (2FA), and removing passkeys. The warning came in an email sent on November 3 in the name of developer m

Chainstack Reports Production Systems Breach Exposing Customer Data and Password Hashes Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 5 days ago

Chainstack Reports Production Systems Breach Exposing Customer Data and Password Hashes

Blockchain infrastructure provider Chainstack on Tuesday disclosed that it was targeted in a cyber attack that allowed an unauthorized party to gain access to some parts of its infrastructure. The incident is assessed to be part of a large-scale, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered attack campaign

Binance Reveals How Fake Job Interviews and AI Tool Abuse Led to $6.43 Billion Theft Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 5 days ago

Binance Reveals How Fake Job Interviews and AI Tool Abuse Led to $6.43 Billion Theft

Binance on Tuesday said the record-setting theft of $6.43 billion in assets from the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange was the culmination of a "sophisticated, multi-stage campaign" that involved the use of a tampered Homebrew installation and recruitment-themed social engineering attack targe

Barracuda Flaws Could Be Chained to Bypass Authorization and Gain Root Access Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 5 days ago

Barracuda Flaws Could Be Chained to Bypass Authorization and Gain Root Access

Barracuda has disclosed details of two vulnerabilities affecting its products that, if chained together, could allow an attacker to bypass authorization controls and gain root access to a susceptible device. The vulnerabilities, a pre-authentication authorization bypass vulnerability and a command

Google Warns LLMjacking Attacks Are Costing Some Enterprises Up to $1 Million in Cloud Charges Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 5 days ago

Google Warns LLMjacking Attacks Are Costing Some Enterprises Up to $1 Million in Cloud Charges

Google on Monday warned that threat actors are hijacking enterprise access to Large Language Models (LLMs) to fraudulently leverage expensive computing resources and AI services. The tactic is called LLMjacking, a form of resource hijacking adapted for the LLM era, where an attacker obtains an API

9 Cyber Awareness Tips That Actually Match Today's Maze of Threats Cybersecurity
Darkreading • 5 days ago

9 Cyber Awareness Tips That Actually Match Today's Maze of Threats

Practical guidance on safer search, stronger login security, better executive protection, and other habits can reduce enterprise risk.

LLMjacking Emerges as Thriving Cybercriminal Enterprise Cybersecurity
Darkreading • 5 days ago

LLMjacking Emerges as Thriving Cybercriminal Enterprise

Cybercriminals have turned reselling cloud access to LLMs into a lucrative business model, with some victims paying as much as $1 million in resource consumption before access was revoked.

cPGuard Update Channel Hijacked to Backdoor Linux Servers and Collect Password Hashes Cybersecurity
Thehackernews • 5 days ago

cPGuard Update Channel Hijacked to Backdoor Linux Servers and Collect Password Hashes

An attacker broke into the update system of the cPGuard security tool on November 2 and used it to send a malicious script to customers' Linux servers. The script installed a backdoor and collected password hashes and other sensitive files from servers that ran it, cPGuard maker OPSSHIELD said in a

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