The cybercrime group Qilin has emerged as the world's most active ransomware affiliate program, claiming at least 365 victim organizations in the past three months alone. But even top Russian hackers make operational security mistakes, and the administrator of Qilin has made a few key missteps over the last decade that all point to a 36-year-old man living in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Microsoft did another four-digit patch drop today, releasing updates to fix almost 1,100 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This month's Patch Tuesday addresses 63 critical flaws -- including a zero-day in Microsoft Outlook -- and comes amid important security updates from other software makers, including Adobe, Apple, Google and Mozilla.
Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of the proxy services is a Russian company whose founder's web hosting business was ground zero for cyberattacks against election systems in Arizona and Illinois in 2016.
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 conducts advertising fraud. Experts involved in the takedown say the action is likely to sever the botnet's access to more than 10 million additional compromised systems, including other Internet of Things (IoT) products such as Android-based healthcare devices and karaoke machines.
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 servers. Experts say there are working exploits for the flaws, and that these critical bugs are already being exploited in the wild.
Maersk announced that a threat actor gained unauthorized access to a local legacy system inherited through an earlier acquisition and extracted data from it. [...]
Attackers are using Alibaba Cloud to host self-managed instances of AntiFox, an open-source agentic penetration testing platform, to target web services and AWS environments. [...]
Linux eBPF rootkits can hide malicious activity and evade traditional detection methods without loading kernel modules. Flare reveals how these techniques are spreading through underground forums, where threat actors are sharing rootkit source code, tutorials, and exploits targeting Linux systems. [...]
N-able released hotfixes to address zero-day bugs affecting its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, which were publicly disclosed over the weekend and forced it to take vulnerable hosted environments offline. [...]
Microsoft says the November 2026 cumulative updates resolve USB audio issues plaguing Windows users who have installed security updates released since September. [...]
Zoom has released software updates to address two security flaws impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in privilege escalation on affected systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-108186 (CVSS score: 9.6) - An improper input validation vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated user to conduct an escalation of privilege via
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a campaign in which an emerging agentic penetration testing platform called AntiFox has been used to steal Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials and pivot laterally into compromised environments. "In several recently observed intrusions, Alibaba Cloud systems hosting AntiFox interfaces were associated with confirmed malicious actions against
Threat actors have been observed targeting Qlik Sense servers to unsuccessfully deliver PowerShell reverse shell commands against multiple environments in October 2026. Cynet's CyOps and Research teams said they identified the suspicious activity in October 2026 against several E.U.-based customers within a narrow window of just over three minutes. The activity has been found to share some
Of the 37,571 Grok-built apps that security company Claroc found online, 35,578 were open to anyone without a sign-in, the researchers said yesterday. They included 24 apps built by staff at the social network X and at SpaceXSI, the company that makes the Grok AI assistant. Most of the open apps were games, landing pages, and calculators, but about 1 in 10 contained internal business or
We tell customers three things about securing AI agents: they need their own identities, access that fits the job they’re given, and traceability that’s separate from any human’s. That was true for us at Token as well. Then, we built an agent that broke all three by default. This helped us think through how such agents should be defended. When a browser agent acts inside a user’s authenticated