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CISA orders federal agencies to “patch smarter”

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a Binding Operational Directive that will change how the US federal government approaches vulnerability management. The directive arrives as the patching problem has become nearly unmanageable, driven by a surge in newly published vulnerabilities and by AI tools that are accelerating both security research and…

Proxmox releases Mail Gateway 9.1 with quarantine and backup encryption changes

Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 adds updated system components, changes to the spam quarantine interface, and encryption for backups. It works as a mail proxy positioned between the firewall and internal mail servers, screening incoming and outgoing traffic for spam, viruses, Trojans, and phishing attempts. Updated system components Version 9.1 runs on Debian 13.5 Trixie and…

Team Cymru Expands APJ Operations With New Sydney Hub

External threat intelligence provider Team Cymru has announced the expansion of its Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) operations, with Sydney serving as the company’s regional operational hub.  The announcement follows RISEx Sydney, where Team Cymru leadership met with customers, partners, and public-sector stakeholders from across the region.  Expansion responds to regional cyber visibility demand According to…

Fake Spotify Premium tutorials on TikTok and Instagram Reels spread malware

Cybercriminals are using TikTok and Instagram Reels videos to spread Vidar, an infostealer malware, through fake downloads for popular paid software, according to ReversingLabs. The researchers uncovered two campaigns behind the activity, each using a different approach to draw in viewers before sending them to external download sites. One campaign centered on fake software installation…

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Worm Code Leaked, AI Agent Phished, Claude Action Patch + 28 New Stories

It’s been one of those weeks. You expect the usual noise: recycled malware, sloppy attacks, another easy target getting hit. Instead, there’s a supply chain attack kit in a public repo, a $5,000-a-month RAT that clones browsers, and research showing AI agents can be tricked into leaking real credentials. The bigger problem is how polished…

ServiceNow fixes API issue after reports of suspicious tenant activity

ServiceNow is notifying customers after discovering and remediating a vulnerability that could have exposed data via an unauthenticated API endpoint on affected instances. The issue emerged publicly after customers began discussing security notifications from ServiceNow and reports of suspicious activity linked to their environments. According to the company’s advisory, the vulnerability was initially reported through…

OSF Digital Joins Salesforce FDE Partner Network

OSF Digital, a Salesforce-exclusive consulting and services firm, has been chosen to participate in the Salesforce Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Partner Network.  Salesforce FDE partner network builds agentic AI skills OSF Digital will join a network of firms adopting deep learning, expert skills, and specialized training from Salesforce’s internal teams to help organizations “turn agentic…

Oracle PeopleSoft servers under attack, Oracle pushes out-of-band security alert

A zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-35273) in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools is being exploited in the wild, Charles Carmakal, CTO at cybersecurity firm Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, warned today. The warning comes a day after Oracle published an out-of-band security alert about the flaw, which is remotely exploitable without authentication, may result in remote code execution, and…

AI vendor FDEs: Key considerations and concerns

When it comes to AI deployments, IT leaders are often caught in an awkward middle space, trying to reconcile conflicting directives from senior management with constantly changing AI models, capabilities, and costs; data governance and security needs; and the limitations of their own team. “Very few real benefits can be attained by simply purchasing an…

Chaotic Eclipse Strikes Again: New Zero-Day Unlocks BitLocker in Four Hours of Research

GreatXML bypasses BitLocker via Defender offline scan artifacts, giving SYSTEM shell in Recovery Mode. No patch exists. Any machine that ran an offline scan is vulnerable. On June 10, security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare Eclipse) published a new working exploit dubbed GreatXML that bypasses BitLocker and opens a command shell with full SYSTEM privileges…

What SRE teams need before they trust AI agents

The future of reliability will not be defined by whether site reliability engineering (SRE) teams use AI agents, but by the conditions under which they choose to trust them. In high-stakes systems, trust is never granted because a demo looks impressive; it is earned through observability, constraints, accountability and repeated evidence that the system helps…

China-linked recon botnet outpaces enterprise defenses

A botnet made up of compromised small office and Internet of Things devices has grown into a larger reconnaissance network capable of rapidly identifying vulnerable internet-facing systems after public vulnerability disclosures, researchers said. The botnet, tracked by Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs as JDY, now comprises more than 1,500 compromised small office and home office, or…

Fortinet patched a new critical FortiSandbox flaw

Fortinet patched a critical FortiSandbox vulnerability that could let unauthenticated attackers remotely execute commands via crafted HTTP requests. Fortinet released security updates to address several vulnerabilities affecting FortiSandbox, FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiPortal. The most severe issue, tracked as CVE-2026-25089 (CVSS score of 9.8), is an OS command injection flaw in FortiSandbox products. The vulnerability could…

OceanLotus Hits Vietnam Investors With SPECTRALVIPER in FireAnt Attack

The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at a Vietnamese infrastructure and transport construction corporation between mid-2024 and February 2026, as well as a supply chain…

Frontier AI models offer sneak peak of seismic cyber shifts ahead

The advent of Claude Mythos combined with the release of OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 have changed the threat model for CISOs. The arrival of those frontier AI models — and the ones soon to follow — makes it much easier to discover and chain vulnerabilities at a speed and scale that will require most cyber departments to…

Aged-domain acquisition: The tradecraft phishing operators are using to bypass your mail filter’s reputation score

I’ve spent the past two years working on incident response and threat intelligence, and the pattern I’m about to describe is one I keep seeing show up in cases that should have been caught at the email gateway. The kit families change. The lure templates change. The constant is that phishing-as-a-service operators are buying aged…

Check Point expands MSP platform with with AI governance and unified security bundles

Check Point has announced a major expansion of its Managed Service Provider (MSP) platform, designed to help MSPs secure AI adoption, streamline operations and simplify managed security delivery. The announcement brings together three strategic innovations under a single MSP vision: Securing AI and AI usage for MSPs A new multi-tenant MSP management platform with Management…

From Infosecurity Europe to CONFidence and C1b3rWall: What Security Teams Are Prioritizing in 2026

Three cities, three cybersecurity conferences, and plenty of conversations with security professionals across Europe.  Over the past few weeks, the ANY.RUN team joined Infosecurity Europe in London, CONFidence Conference in Kraków, and C1b3rWall Congress in Ávila. While every event had its own focus, the discussions pointed in the same direction: security teams need faster investigations,…

IDnow launches Trust Platform to help regulated firms move from KYC to continuous trust

IDnow has announced the launch of the IDnow Trust Platform, designed to help regulated organisations orchestrate identity verification, fraud prevention, biometric authentication, and qualified digital trust services throughout the customer lifecycle. “The identity industry is entering its biggest transformation since onboarding first went digital,” said Andreas Bodczek, CEO of IDnow. “For years, organisations treated identity…

Rubrik Q&A: New Partner Integrations, AI Solutions Launched

Recently, Rubrik, a security and AI operations company, made a series of announcements, including new partner integrations and a new agentic-first AI platform. The announcements represent Rubrik’s ongoing commitment to ensuring enterprises are agentic-ready and resilient. You can read more about the announcements here. In light of these new announcements, below is a Q&A with…

JDY Botnet Evolves After KV Takedown, Targets Military Networks

JDY botnet scans SOHO/IoT devices globally to map services and targets, especially US military networks. Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs reported the resurgence of the JDY botnet, a covert reconnaissance network tied to Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups including Volt Typhoon. The network was first spotted in late 2023 as a cluster inside KV-botnet. The U.S. government…

Organizations can’t see much of their mobile AI activity

Organizations have limited visibility into AI activity on mobile devices despite security leaders expressing confidence in their AI governance, according to Lookout’s “Solving for the Mobile AI Blind Spot: Executive Confidence Meets Technical Reality” report. Mobile AI visibility gaps Enterprises lack visibility into a large share of mobile AI activity taking place on both corporate-owned…

GitHub finally pulls the plug on automatic install script execution for npm

The ability for attackers to leverage automatic install script execution in npm will finally come to an end when expected changes arrive from GitHub in July. Coders will still be able to enable the function, but the default setting will block it.  In V12, default settings are changing, GitHub said in its changelog, noting, “it…

CISA tells agencies to patch smarter, not harder — foreshadowing broader industry practice

Security teams’ patching practices have come under intense pressure over the past year, as active exploitation is up, time-to-exploit windows are accelerating, and vulnerabilities have become attackers’ top initial access vector of choice. Last year, organizations fully remediated only 26% of the vulnerabilities that attackers were actively exploiting in the wild — down from 38%…

OpenAI: ‘Likely’ Chinese influence operation tried to use ChatGPT to stir debate on data centers 

OpenAI’s threat intelligence team tracked what it believes are two distinct clusters of activity online from groups with ties to China and posting content seemingly designed to stoke anger around divisive topics like AI and data centers. The first, dubbed “Data Center Bandwagon,” used ChatGPT to create imagery and social media comments claiming data center…

Ivanti patches critical Sentry flaws that lead to full device takeover

IT software provider Ivanti fixed two vulnerabilities in Ivanti Sentry, a secure mobile gateway appliance formerly called MobileIron Sentry. The flaws could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to gain complete control of deployments. One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-10523, credited to researcher Bryan Lam, allows attackers to bypass authentication and create arbitrary administrative accounts on appliances. The…

News alert: Cloud security report finds fragmented tools widening the cloud complexity gap

WASHINGTON, Jun. 10, 2026, CyberNewswire–The 2026 Cloud Security Report from Cybersecurity Insiders, produced in collaboration with Fortinet, finds that 69% of organizations cite tool sprawl and visibility gaps as the top factor limiting cloud security effectiveness. Based on a survey of 1,163 IT and cybersecurity professionals, the report shows the strain: 66% lack strong confidence…

ConnectWise Platform Brings Predictive IT to MSPs

ConnectWise is making a substantial change to the way it wants customers to interact with its software stack. This week, the company unveiled the ConnectWise Platform, a new environment that pulls together PSA, RMM, cybersecurity, automation, orchestration, agentic AI, and third-party integrations.  ConnectWise introduces its Predictive IT platform The launch sits within a larger Predictive…

PCI SSC Publishes New Guidance on Compensating Controls and the Customized Approach

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has released a new information supplement, PCI DSS v4.x: Guidance for Compensating Controls and the Customized Approach. The document provides practical guidance to help assessed entities and assessors navigate two options in PCI DSS v4.x that provide flexibility but are often misunderstood – the use of compensating controls…

China-Linked JDY Botnet Expands to 1,500+ Devices for Cyber Reconnaissance

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a “resurgence and expansion” of JDY, a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. “The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 SOHO [small office and home office] and IoT devices and operates as a centrally controlled, high-performance scanner used to discover, fingerprint, and continuously map exposed services at scale,” Lumen’s

CISA directive orders agencies to prioritize vulnerability patching in a new way

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday ordered federal agencies to prioritize vulnerabilities based on four criteria, as part of push to “patch smarter, not harder.” Federal agencies should emphasize patches for vulnerabilities that affect a publicly exposed asset, allow an attacker to fully automate exploitation, give attackers the ability to take over control…