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Hackers use n-day exploits in zero-click attacks on iOS, Android devices

A large-scale watering hole attack associated with Russian hackers has been targeting iOS and Android users visiting compromised sites or fake ones impersonating legitimate portals.

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Hackers hijack cPGuard autoupdate to deploy backdoor, steal data

Attackers have compromised the update infrastructure for the cPGuard web security suite to distribute a backdoor and a data-stealing script.

The Register

North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

'It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,' exchange says

The Verge

Binance says hackers used fake job interviews and an internal AI tool to pull off the $6.3 billion heist

The largest crypto theft to date was pulled off by combining some well-known hacking techniques over the course of a few months, according to Binance. A postmortem from the company says the process started in June with one developer…

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WorkOS says attacker used ARTEX AI to breach internal sales app

Developer platform WorkOS suffered a data breach after a threat actor accessed business contact records and summaries of customer communications.

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Binance says fake job interview led to $6.3 billion crypto heist

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says North Korean hackers used a fake job interview to trick an employee into installing malware that ultimately let them compromise the company's wallet infrastructure and steal about $6.34 billion in…

TechCrunch

Researchers warned of North Korean hacking tactics years before record $6.3B Binance heist

Cybersecurity experts have long warned of the persistent and patient threat from North Korea's long-running hacks. The world's largest crypto exchange was still caught off-guard.

WIRED

Binance Says Hackers Used Well-Known Tricks to Carry Out a $6.34 Billion Heist

Suspected North Korean attackers duped an engineer with a fake job interview and a malicious download to gain a foothold in the crypto firm’s system and steal billions, according to Binance.

BleepingComputer

Google: LLMjacking attacks rack up $1 million in cloud AI charges

Large language model hijacking attacks, also known as LLMjacking, are generating large fraudulent cloud charges, with some organizations losing more than $100,000 per day.

TechCrunch

New York City’s Mamdani criticizes Madison Square Garden owner over surveillance tech

The mayor's comments come after the entertainment giant's data breach last year, which exposed James Dolan's surveillance.

Ars Technica

UEFI bootkit infected fully patched Windows machines. Is Microsoft to blame?

UEFI bootkit BlackX exploits Microsoft's lack of clarity around Secure Boot protections.

The Register

ShinyHunters hit 850k alumni, donors, students, and fam in last year's Harvard University raid

How about them apples? Plenty of personal + donation data leaked by crims, data-sifting breach site claims a year after attack

BleepingComputer

Barracuda warns of critical flaws allowing root access to devices

Cybersecurity company Barracuda Networks warned customers to patch two vulnerabilities that can let attackers run commands with root privileges.

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Gartner Predicts SOCs Will Have 50% More Engineers Than Analysts by 2028

Gartner predicts that security operations centers will have 50% more engineers than analysts by 2028 as AI agents take over routine alert handling. Prophet Security examines how AI is reshaping SOC roles, from analyst responsibilities and…

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UK school estate hit by 3AM ransomware in suspected AI-assisted attack

A 3AM ransomware affiliate targeted a school estate in the UK and successfully encrypted around 37 of nearly 50 machines reached from an unmanaged host.

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Police seizes over 100 servers in investment scam crackdown

European law enforcement authorities arrested seven suspects and seized more than 100 servers in a joint action targeting an unnamed company suspected of providing fraudulent trading websites to criminal gangs.

The Register

Britain on notice: AI-powered ransomware attacks to arrive by 2028

Cyber agency warns critical infrastructure is a likely target as chief urges bosses to stop doing 'tech on the cheap'

BleepingComputer

Google adds new $250,000 Cloud VRP reward for Root-in-Cloud bugs

Google has expanded its Cloud Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) with a new top-tier reward for high-impact architectural security flaws.

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Harvard University data breach exposed info of 851,000 accounts

Hackers who breached Harvard University's Alumni Affairs and Development systems in November 2025 stole data linked to more than 850,000 unique email addresses, according to breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.

Krebs on Security

Tech Firms Dismantle Botnet That Turned 1.3M TV Boxes Into Proxies

Google said today it worked with industry partners to dismantle a botnet made up of more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes that ship with malicious software which secretly rents the user's Internet connection out to strangers and…

9to5Mac

Apple recently notified users in 99 countries of potential mercenary spyware attacks

Apple reportedly sent notifications to users in 99 countries warning of potential mercenary spyware attacks, as German authorities investigate reports that lawmakers and government officials may have been targeted. Here are the details.

The Register

Max-severity bug in widely used OT programming tool exploited to deliver Linux malware

Your industrial IoT gateway isn't exposed to the internet, right? RIGHT?!

BleepingComputer

Chinese hackers use ARTEX AI in automated attacks against 200 orgs

Chinese hackers used ARTEX, an open-source, multi-agent AI penetration-testing framework, in attacks against more than 200 organizations across 14 countries.

9to5Google

Google shuts down a sneaky malware backdoor on millions of Android TV and Google TV boxes

Google has confirmed that an Android TV device maker snuck a backdoor for malware onto certified devices, which is leading to security improvements for the ecosystem as a whole.

BleepingComputer

Fintech platform Sageworks taken offline after suspected cyberattack

Financial technology company Abrigo has restored its Sageworks risk management application, except for borrower-facing capabilities, following an outage triggered by "irregular activity" in its environment.

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Google disrupts million-device XCPE Android malware botnet, bans TV box maker

Google and industry partners have dismantled the XCPE malware botnet consisting of more than 1.3 million Android TV streaming TV boxes that Google says its manufacturer intentionally infected with malware to generate revenue through…

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BTCPay Server warns of hot wallet crypto thefts on outdated instances

The maintainer of BTCPay Server, an open-source cryptocurrency payment processor, has urged users to install the latest version as hackers have been draining "hot wallets" on instances running older versions.

Krebs on Security

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today

Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected…

Krebs on Security

Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site

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…

Krebs on Security

U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering

The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime…

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