Researching Employment Scams
Researchers built a fake company to study fake employee scams.
Researchers built a fake company to study fake employee scams.
Cybercriminals are offering digital scans of US and Canadian driver’s licenses, likely stolen from IDScan.net. The post 153 Million Driver License Images Offered on Dark Web appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Threat actors are leveraging the trusted Node.js JavaScript runtime in multiple cyber attacks as a way to deploy malicious payloads. According to a new report published by the Symantec Threat Hunter Team today, the attack method has been put to use in attacks targeting government departments, technology companies, and hotelsRead More »Attackers Turn Trusted Node.js Runtime Into Malware Delivery Tool in Targeted Attacks
The high-severity SQL injection flaw (CVE-2026-19949) could allow unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. The post Over 3 Million WordPress Sites Affected by Migration Plugin Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environments, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling, cloud configurations, and even AI tool configs. Earlier variants of the infostealer worm only checked 189 paths. The jump saysRead More »Shai-Hulud’s Reach Just Grew to 469 Credential Locations. Here’s What That Means
Publicly disclosed S/MIME flaws could expose encrypted email content, while critical IOS XR and Nexus bugs could enable remote code execution and authentication bypass. The post Cisco Warns of Unpatched Secure Email Flaws, Patches Critical Switch Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia’s student protest movement was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation. “Our analysis confirmed that an iMessage zero-click exploit was used to infect the device with NSO Group’s PegasusRead More »Pegasus Zero-Click Spyware Exploit Infects Serbian Student Movement Member’s iPhone
The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has dropped a new zero-day dubbed FalconFlank, a privilege escalation flaw impacting Crowdstrike Falcon. “FalconFlank is a 0day privilege escalation that abuses the office malicious macros remediation in CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor,” the researcher said in a GitHubRead More »Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after they landed in attackers’ crosshairs. The vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A server-side request forgery vulnerability in SonicWall SMA 1000 Appliances that couldRead More »CISA Adds Seven Exploited Flaws as Attackers Deploy Reverse Shells and Crypto Miners
The security tool intercepts potentially dangerous agent actions, blocking clear threats and requesting human approval when intent is uncertain. The post OpenLeash Adds a Human Check to Risky AI Agent Actions appeared first on SecurityWeek.