Chrome 0-Day, Router Hijacks, Coder Supply Chain Attack and More
Turning off email images should at least stop the pictures. This week, attackers had a workaround: a scannable QR code built out of text. It still appears, even with images…
Turning off email images should at least stop the pictures. This week, attackers had a workaround: a scannable QR code built out of text. It still appears, even with images…
A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers,…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new macOS-oriented, Rust-based information stealer called AmnesiaStealer that’s capable of hijacking Chromium web browsers to steal session data. The multi-stage stealer is spread…
Ravie LakshmananAug 17, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking The expensive attacks are not always the clever ones. This week had plenty of proof. Exposed services got hit, old bugs found fresh use,…
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active «widespread email-driven phishing campaign» that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key…
This week kept coming back to permission. A model crossed a boundary. A wallet trusted bad randomness. Webmail kept an intruder around. Public systems, package feeds, hotel networks, and login…
Ravie LakshmananJun 05, 2026Threat Intelligence / Cloud Security The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh set of packages that have been compromised by bad actors to deliver a self-propagating worm that spreads through stolen developer npm tokens. The supply…
Ravie LakshmananMar 30, 2026Malware / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote access toolkit of Russian-origin that’s distributed via malicious Windows shortcut (LNK) files that are disguised as private…
Ravie LakshmananMar 19, 2026Cyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware dubbed Speagle that hijacks the functionality and infrastructure of a legitimate program called Cobra DocGuard.…