Microsoft to Disable SMS as Primary Entra ID Sign-In Method in 2027
Microsoft will turn off SMS as a primary sign-in method for Microsoft Entra ID workforce tenants on February 1, 2027, accelerating its transition to phishing...
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Vidar Uses Custom Bytecode Interpreter and ARX Stream Ciphers for Per-Build String Obfuscation
Vidar information stealer has introduced a lightweight custom virtual machine and per-build stream-cipher variations to conceal its embedded strings, raising...
AWS Detects and Quarantines Exposed IAM Credentials in Public GitHub Repositories
AWS can automatically quarantine exposed Identity and Access Management (IAM) access keys that appear in public GitHub repositories. This process involves ap...
One Stolen Active Directory File Can Expose Credentials for an Entire Windows Domain
A single stolen Active Directory database can turn a limited Windows intrusion into a domain-wide credential compromise. Threat actors that obtain the NTDS.
Google Fined €403 Million for GDPR Violations Over Location Data Processing
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a €403 million administrative fine on Google Ireland Limited for breaching the EU General Data Protect...
Meta’s Muse AI 0-Day Lets Hackers Hijack Dictation Traffic and Inject Malicious Prompts
A recent proof-of-concept (PoC) developed by security researcher Patrick Wardle reveals a local zero-day vulnerability in the Muse application. This vulnerab...
NightEagle Uses BlueKeep and DCSync to Move Toward Active Directory Domain Controllers
NightEagle, an espionage-focused threat group also tracked as APT-Q-95, has expanded its operations from Asian targets to Russian organizations, using a laye...
10 Malicious npm Packages Linked to Runtime Malware Campaign With Millions of Downloads
A sophisticated npm supply-chain campaign has been linked to 10 malicious JavaScript packages that collectively recorded millions of downloads while bypassin...
PAYLOAD Ransomware Abuses Active Directory Group Policy to Disrupt Entire Windows Domain
A ransomware incident in which attackers used Active Directory Group Policy to disrupt operations without deploying a Windows encryptor or leaving malware ru...
New Rapuncel Infostealer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Disable 145 Security Tools
A newly identified information-stealing campaign, tracked as Rapuncel, is exploiting a Microsoft-attested kernel driver to terminate up to 145 antivirus (AV)...
BigDiskBuster Windows Defender DoS Vulnerability Blocks Platform and Signature Updates
A recently published proof-of-concept project named BigDiskBuster claims to prevent Microsoft Defender from completing its platform and security intelligence...
North Korea’s Hangro VPN Certificate Exposes Internal Network and Russia-Linked Infrastructure
North Korea’s Hangro VPN and mail platform has deployed a new certificate hierarchy that exposes an apparent cross-border management environment spanning sys...
Hackers Abuse Microsoft Teams to Pose as IT Support and Steal Employee Passwords
Threat actors are increasingly abusing Microsoft Teams’ external chat capabilities to impersonate corporate IT help desks. They trick employees into installi...
New Cache Key Injection Attack Lets Hackers Bypass Access Controls and Poison Nginx Caches
Security researchers have unveiled a cache poisoning technique called cache key injection that lets attackers bypass access controls, expose cached sensitive...
Hackers Weaponize Terraform Lock Files to Infect DevOps Engineers With macOS Backdoors
North Korea-linked threat actor TraderTraitor has expanded its developer-focused intrusion activity beyond cryptocurrency targets, using weaponized Terraform...
HEIF Heist Image Flaws Let Attackers Gain RCE Across Meta, Slack and GitHub Enterprise
“HEIF Heist,” a broad class of image-processing attack paths that could allow threat actors to turn malicious HEIF, HEIC, and AVIF uploads into remote code e...
New Remus Infostealer Steals OpenAI and Anthropic API Tokens, Passwords and Crypto Wallets
A newly tracked Windows infostealer dubbed Remus is expanding its credential-theft playbook by targeting API tokens and local usage data tied to AI platforms...
Exim Mail Server Hit by 4 Security Flaws Enabling SMTP Smuggling and Heap Corruption
Exim maintainers have released version 4.100.
EtherHiding Malware Abuses Polygon Blockchain to Hide C2 and Steal Banking Credentials
A newly uncovered EtherHiding campaign has turned the Polygon blockchain into a resilient command-and-control mechanism, allowing operators to rotate malware...
BragJack Attack Hijacks AI Assistants in 5 Popular Browsers With Zero Clicks
Security researchers have revealed a zero-click attack technique known as BragJack, which could enable a malicious browser extension to hijack built-in AI as...