Attack &amp; News

Most Organizations Now Use AI Agents for Sensitive Security Tasks

Semperis study finds 74% of organizations believe AI will increase attacks on identity infrastructure

ICO Publishes Five-Step Plan to Counter Emerging AI-Powered Attacks

The Information Commissioner’s Office has released new guidance on how to mitigate the risk of AI-powered attacks

Canvas Owner Reaches Agreement With Cybercriminals After Ransomware Attack

Instructure says it reached an agreement with ShinyHunters over the Canvas breach data

NEWShighInfosecurity Magazine3 months ago

Avada Builder Flaws Expose One Million WordPress Sites

Avada Builder flaws allowed file read and SQL injection on one million WordPress sites

Ransomware: Over Half of CISOs Would Consider Paying Ransom to Hackers

Survey of cybersecurity leaders suggests that majority would strongly consider paying cybercriminals, if that’s what it took to he…

Global Cyber Agencies Issue New SBOMs for AI Guidance to Tackle AI Supply Chain Risks

The G7 Cybersecurity Working Group releases new SBOM for AI guidance, outlining seven key data clusters to boost transparency and…

UK Cybersecurity Market Expands to £14.7bn with Strong Growth in AI Security Firms

UK cybersecurity sector reaches £14.7bn in revenue, driven by rapid growth in AI security firms, increased investment and rising e…

NEWShighKrebs on Security3 months ago

Microsoft Fixes 17 Critical Flaws in May Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has patched 120 vulnerabilities in this month’s security update round

Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition

Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkabl…

OpenAI Launches 'Daybreak' to Help Build Secure By Design Software

With Daybreak, OpenAI wants its frontier AI models to be used to deploy secure by design software from the ground up

Mini Shai-Hulud Hits TanStack npm Packages

Mini Shai-Hulud compromises TanStack npm packages and spreads across PyPI

End‑to‑End Encrypted RCS Messaging Arrives Across iPhone and Android

Apple begins rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging between iPhone and Android in iOS 26.5

Attackers Combine ClickFix With PySoxy Proxying to Maintain Persistence

Exploitation of open-source tools allows attackers to maintain persistent access after initial social engineering, warn ReliaQuest…

Malicious Hugging Face Repository Typosquats OpenAI

HiddenLayer reveals infostealer malware in a Hugging Face repository

South Staffordshire Water Fined £1m After Data Breach

The ICO has fined South Staffordshire Water nearly £1m for a series of data protection failings

NEWShighInfosecurity Magazine3 months ago

TrickMo Variant Routes Android Trojan Traffic Through TON

ThreatFabric finds new TrickMo Android banking trojan variant routing C2 through The Open Network

Rushed Patches Follow Broken Embargo on New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities

Two new high-severity vulnerabilities, dubbed ’Dirty Frag’ when chained, have been found in the Linux kernel, affecting most Linux…

Fake Claude Code Page Pushes PowerShell Stealer at Devs

Ontinue uncovers fake Claude Code installer pushing PowerShell stealer abusing Chrome's IElevator2

Hackers Observed Using AI to Develop Zero-Day for the First Time

Google Threat Intelligence Group details how cybercriminals attempted to launch a campaign based around an AI-developed Zero-Day t…

US: FCC Relaxes Foreign-Made Router Ban to Allow for Security Updates

The same extension applies to security updates shipped to US-based users of foreign-made drones

NEWScriticalInfosecurity Magazine4 months ago

ShinyHunters Escalates Canvas Extortion with School by School Ransom Campaign

ShinyHunters has escalated its Canvas extortion campaign, defacing hundreds of school login pages and threatening to leak stolen d…

Zara Data Breach Impacts Nearly 200,000 Customers

ShinyHunters gets away with emails and other data on 200,000 Zara customers

Police Shut Relaunched Crimenetwork Dark Web Marketplace

Spanish police have arrested the suspected administrator of German dark web marketplace Crimenetwork

Australian Cyber Security Centre Issues Alert Over ClickFix Attacks

ACSC warns over a campaign targeting organizations which uses ClickFix to deliver Vidar infostealer malware

NEWSKrebs on Security4 months ago

PCPJack Campaign Boots TeamPCP Off Compromised Machines

SentinelOne believes the PCPJack campaign may be the brainchild of a former TeamPCP member

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework a…

Legacy Security Tools Failing Data Protection, Capital One Software Report Finds

Traditional network security tools are undermining data protection, with Forrester and Capital One Software research warning AI ad…