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Grandoreiro Malware and BTMOB RAT Campaigns Target Windows and Android Users

Latin America and Europe become the target of two banking trojan campaigns that are designed to infect Windows and Android devices with Grandoreiro and BTMOB malware, respectively. That’s according to new findings from WatchGuard and ESET, which have observed the two malware families being used to single out companies in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, as […]

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Malicious npm Package Stole Files From Claude AI User Directory via GitHub

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the npm registry that comes with information stealing capabilities. According to OX Security, the package, named “mouse5212-super-formatter,” is designed to upload files from “/mnt/user-data,” a dedicated directory used by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence (AI) tool to handle uploads and outputs in the background. The

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3 SOC Steps that Shut Down Incident Risks Early

Most organizations still picture cyber defense as a fortress problem: build stronger walls, add more guards, buy another detection engine. But modern incidents rarely crash through the front gate. They drift in disguised as routine activity, hide inside legitimate processes, and quietly accumulate risk long before anyone labels them an “incident.” That changes the role

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GlassWorm Malware Takedown Disrupts Developer Supply Chain Attack Infrastructure

CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, has announced the simultaneous disruption of all command-and-control (C2) channels associated with GlassWorm, a persistent software chain campaign targeting software developers through malicious packages and extensions. “Since at least early 2025, GlassWorm operators have systematically targeted software developers, a

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5 Steps to Managing Shadow AI Tools Without Slowing Down Employees

When an employee installs an AI writing assistant, connects a coding copilot to their IDE, or starts summarizing meetings with a new browser tool, they are doing exactly what a productive employee should do: finding faster ways to work. Across most organizations today, employees are running three to five AI tools on any given day.

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MuddyWater Uses DLL Side-Loading in Espionage Campaign Targeting 9 Countries

The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater has been linked to a new campaign affecting at least nine organizations across nine countries on four continents in the first quarter of 2026. The activity targeted industrial and electronics manufacturing, education and public-sector bodies, financial services, and professional services, per the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec and

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MFA Prompt Bombing: Why Your Second Factor Isn’t Saving You

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was supposed to close a critical gap in identity security. It meant that, even if an attacker possessed the account credentials, they couldn’t log in without the second factor. While that logic was sound, attackers have now figured out that they don’t need to steal the second factor: they just need the

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Microsoft Patches SharePoint RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45659 Across Server Versions

Microsoft has rolled out updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could be exploited by bad actors in attacks without requiring any specialized conditions to be met. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659, carries a CVSS score of 8.8. It has been assigned an important severity. “Deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft

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[THN Webinar] New AI DDoS Attacks Are Smarter. Learn How to Fight Back

Every single day, hackers are finding new ways to crash websites and steal data. But right now, something has changed. Hackers are no longer working alone. They are now using powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to make their attacks faster, stronger, and much harder to stop. According to recent updates from The Hacker News, bad

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CERT-In Recommends 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where “feasible” to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors’ abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability

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