U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close to the investigation say one of the executives in theRead More »Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site
The services remain unavailable as the company continues remediation and security validation. The post ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Services in Response to Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain attack has expanded beyond injecting malicious GitHub Actions workflows into compromised projects to phish open-source developers and deliver a stealer malware disguised within a fake font file. The latest evolution, detailed by OpenSourceMalware, signals that the attackers are actively refining their modusRead More »GhostAction Attackers Plant Credential Stealer Disguised as Font in 94 GitHub Repositories
Threat actors have been observed delivering cryptocurrency miners and proxy software. The post Plex2Shell Exploit Chain Weaponized Against Plex Servers Hours After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Intruders used compromised credentials to access an ETS SFTP server, copying records of California students back to 2006. The post One Compromised Login Exposed Millions of California Students’ Records appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In Salesforce Agentforce, the recommended way to make an agent respond to events is a Flow: a record is created or a case is updated, and the Flow passes data into the agent’s prompt. Separately, Email-to-Case and Web-to-Case turn inbound customer messages into case records; it is how airlines andRead More »From Email-to-Case to the Boardroom: How Inherited Agents Break Governance Built for Software
The persistent, stealthy FortiGate implant was deployed against a telecommunications organization. The post Exploited Fortinet Bug Linked to Stealthy FortiGate Implant in Telecom Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Interesting research: Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can solve visual CAPTCHAs without task-specific training, but the agents built on them approach every challenge from scratch. For such an agent, the hundredth instance of a familiar puzzle costs as much time and compute as the first. Specialized detectors invert the trade-off, answeringRead More »Training AIs to Solve CAPTCHAs
A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, coding tools, and security audits. “The tools delivered information-stealing malware and backdoors forRead More »Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic
Defenders get 15 new detection strategies, six for Enterprise and nine for ICS, backed by 38 analytics. The post MITRE ATT&CK v20 Catalogs AI Abuse, MFA Bypass, Water Utility Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
