The Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT28 has been observed using a pair of implants dubbed BEARDSHELL and COVENANT to facilitate long‑term surveillance of Ukrainian military personnel. The two malware families have been put to use since April 2024, ESET said in a new report shared with The HackerRead More »APT28 Uses BEARDSHELL and COVENANT Malware to Spy on Ukrainian Military
Countries around the world are becoming increasingly concerned about their dependencies on the US. If you’ve purchase US-made F-35 fighter jets, you are dependent on the US for software maintenance. The Dutch Defense Secretary recently said that he could jailbreak the planes to accept third-party software.
Salesforce has warned of an increase in threat actor activity that’s aimed at exploiting misconfigurations in publicly accessible Experience Cloud sites by making use of a customized version of an open-source tool called AuraInspector. The activity, per the company, involves the exploitation of customers’ overly permissive Experience Cloud guest userRead More »Threat Actors Mass-Scan Salesforce Experience Cloud via Modified AuraInspector Tool
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability list is as follows – CVE-2021-22054 (CVSS score: 7.5) – A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Omnissa Workspace One UEMRead More »CISA Flags SolarWinds, Ivanti, and Workspace One Vulnerabilities as Actively Exploited
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that masquerades as an OpenClaw installer to deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) and steal sensitive data from compromised hosts. The package, named “@openclaw-ai/openclawai,” was uploaded to the registry by a user named “openclaw-ai” on March 3, 2026. It has been downloadedRead More »Malicious npm Package Posing as OpenClaw Installer Deploys RAT, Steals macOS Credentials
Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by Check Point, Booz Allen, Proofpoint, Sophos, Palo Alto Networks, and Zscaler. The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 42 Deals Announced in February 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The North Korean threat actor known as UNC4899 is suspected to be behind a sophisticated cloud compromise campaign targeting a cryptocurrency organization in 2025 to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. The activity has been attributed with moderate confidence to the state-sponsored adversary, which is also tracked under the cryptonymsRead More »UNC4899 Breached Crypto Firm After Developer AirDropped Trojanized File to Work Device
Another week in cybersecurity. Another week of “you’ve got to be kidding me.” Attackers were busy. Defenders were busy. And somewhere in the middle, a whole lot of people had a very bad Monday morning. That’s kind of just how it goes now. The good news? There were some actualRead More »⚡ Weekly Recap: Qualcomm 0-Day, iOS Exploit Chains, AirSnitch Attack & Vibe-Coded Malware
Fake CAPTCHA pages instruct victims to paste malicious commands in the Windows Terminal instead of the Run dialog. The post ClickFix Attack Uses Windows Terminal to Evade Detection appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Abusing DNS record management controls, the threat actor hides the location of malicious content via Cloudflare. The post Internet Infrastructure TLD .arpa Abused in Phishing Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
