Crazy story: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISARead More »CISA Security Leak
Jacob Butler, 23, has been arrested in Canada and US authorities are seeking his extradition on computer hacking charges. The post Canadian Man Arrested for Operating Kimwolf Botnet appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Insecure direct object references (IDOR) are a type of access control vulnerability where an application exposes internal object identifiers – such as user IDs, order numbers, or file names – without verifying whether the requesting user is authorized to access them. IDOR is no longer… Read more The post WhatRead More »What is an IDOR vulnerability?
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new automated campaign called Megalodon that has pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repositories within a six-hour window. “Using throwaway accounts and forged author identities (build-bot, auto-ci, ci-bot, pipeline-bot), the attacker injected GitHub Actions workflows containing base64-encoded bash payloads that exfiltrate CI
1 Introduction This article provides a technical analysis of how many Windows kernel mode drivers can be interacted with from user mode without the hardware they were developed for. This work was motivated by driver-oriented vulnerability research and the need to evaluate the exploitability of individual findings, which frequently affectRead More »Making Vulnerable Drivers Exploitable Without Hardware – The BYOVD Perspective
The FBI says First VPN has been used by dozens of ransomware groups for network reconnaissance and intrusions. The post ‘First VPN’ Cybercrime Service Disrupted, Administrator Arrested appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf. In tandem, Jacob Butler (aka Dort), 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the development and operation of theRead More »Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks
CVE-2026-34926 is a directory traversal flaw that can be exploited against the on-premise version of Apex One. The post TrendAI Patches Apex One Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hackers accessed Grafana’s GitHub repositories after a token compromised in the TanStack attack was not rotated. The post Grafana Says Codebase and Other Data Stolen via TanStack Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-34291 (CVSS score: 9.4) – An origin validation errorRead More »CISA Adds Exploited Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One Vulnerabilities to KEV
