Group-IB, INTERPOL and Algerian Police dismantle decade-old SniperDZ phishing network used to steal credentials, with its alleged developer arrested.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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HubSpot Partner Ecosystem Projected to Reach $42B by 2030
HubSpot is betting big that its partners will turn software into gold as the internet shifts from a network of websites into a playground for AI agents. According to data from the 2026 HubSpot Partner Report — The State of Ecosystems — the customer platform’s partner network has been named one of the top 10…
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VMware Renewals Put Broadcom Migration Pressure Back in Focus
It is that time again for VMware customers. With another major renewal cycle approaching and a new wave of contracts set to expire in early 2027, organizations are once again weighing whether the platform remains worth the cost—and what options exist if it does not. Higher costs open VMware environments to potential migrations For MSPs,…
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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…
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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…
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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%…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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What Israeli dominance in cyber means for non-Israeli cybersecurity founders
Over the past five years, it surely feels like Israeli cybersecurity startups have taken over. The biggest exit of recent years – Wiz – is an Israeli company. CyberArk, acquired by Palo Alto Networks, is an Israeli company. Armis, which just exited to ServiceNow, is also an Israeli company. That is not to say that…
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China-linked JDY botnet expands targeting of U.S. military networks
The JDY botnet, a malware network previously associated with Chinese threat actors like Volt Typhoon, has significantly expanded its targeting scope and reconnaissance efforts. […]
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June Patch Tuesday marks a ‘new normal’ with over 200 CVEs, 32 rated ‘critical’
June’s Patch Tuesday security updates have arrived, with SAP fixing four critical vulnerabilities and Microsoft addressing over 200 CVEs. Microsoft’s to-do list includes fixes for three zero days, 32 patches rated as ‘critical’, and a batch of other high-risk vulnerabilities that need urgent assessment. There’s also one older flaw under exploit, and some patches affecting…
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Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that promises affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by victims. This post examines clues pointing to a real life identity for the administrator…
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Kaseya Unveils MSP Success Ecosystem for Efficient Growth
Global provider of AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software, Kaseya, announced the launch of MSP Success, a unified growth ecosystem that brings together Kaseya’s growth and business acceleration programs, including MSP Success Digital Marketing, MSP Success Peer, and the Kaseya Community. Kaseya unifies its partner marketing and peer groups This unification is meant to help…
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New Browser-in-the-Browser phishing uses fake login popups to steal Microsoft 365 credentials
A new Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) phishing campaign is targeting Microsoft 365 users with fake login popups designed to closely mimic legitimate browser authentication windows, according to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The attack relies on a fake browser window embedded within a webpage. Victims who click a Microsoft sign-in button are presented with what appears to…
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Intelligence-Driven Threat Hunting: How SOCs Find What Alerts Miss
Talk to any threat hunter long enough, and beneath the polished case studies and conference talks, the same frustrations surface. Hunting is supposed to be proactive. In practice, it often feels reactive. You are chasing whispers of activity through log noise, querying SIEM fields that barely reflect real attacker behavior and writing detections against technique descriptions that…
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U.S. CISA adds Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), and Google Chromium V8 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Arista Extensible Operating System (EOS), and Google Chromium V8 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added BerriAI LiteLLM and Check Point Security Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The two flaws added to…
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Rubrik launches Autonomous Business Recovery to rebuild cloud applications after cyberattacks
Rubrik has unveiled Autonomous Business Recovery (ABR) for Cloud Applications, the agentic cyber resilience solution that recovers cloud applications from data to network, identity and configurations. The end result is a rebuild of an organization’s Minimum Viable Business (MVB) at machine speed. At a time when powerful AI models collapse the window between vulnerability discovery…
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Microsoft June 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes 206 Flaws and 3 Zero-Days
Microsoft’s June 2026 patch Tuesday resolves 206 vulnerabilities, including 3 critical zero-days and severe 9.8 CVSS kernel, network and HTTP.sys flaws.
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AI red teaming comes of age
When Ram Shankar Siva Kumar launched Microsoft’s AI red team in 2019, the discipline barely existed. “The running joke used to be that people who used to work in AI red teaming, you can round them up in a 14-foot catamaran,” he tells CSO. At the time, Microsoft’s approach looked familiar to anyone in cybersecurity:…
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“AI Worms”, researchers demonstrate autonomous malware capable of adapting to any online device
A study by the University of Toronto shows how artificial intelligence can power autonomous worms capable of tailoring attacks against Windows, Linux and IoT devices. A group of researchers from the University of Toronto has demonstrated how open-source artificial intelligence models can be used to create a new category of computer worms capable of autonomously…
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Working group formed to develop standard for AI-native docs
LF AI & Data Foundation, a division of the Linux Foundation, launched a working group on Tuesday that will focus on the development of DocLang, a specification intended to support interoperable document processing across AI and agentic workflows. The working group, founded by premier members IBM, Nvidia and Red Hat, is tasked with the creation…
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AI-driven computer worm demonstrates autonomous network exploitation
The AI worm, tested on an isolated 33-host network, demonstrated a significant ability to adapt and exploit.
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Iranian-linked hackers claim cyberattack on Israeli military, but evidence is weak
As reported by HackRead, an Iranian-linked hacker group named Handala claimed on Sunday, June 7, 2026, to have conducted significant cyberattacks against Israeli military targets, including disrupting signal networks and radar systems.
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Anthropic releases Mythos-class Fable 5 model with safeguards for cyber risks
Anthropic unveiled two new powerful AI models built on its previously restricted Mythos architecture: Claude Fable 5, which is being made broadly available, and Claude Mythos 5, which remains limited to a small group of cybersecurity and infrastructure partners. Anthropic describes Fable 5 as the most capable model it has ever released to the public,…
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Network Log Analysis: Why Collecting Logs is Not Enough
Network Log Analysis helps teams turn raw logs into useful alerts, timelines, audit records, and incident evidence instead of storing data without action.
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Microsoft June 2026 Patch Tuesday, (Tue, Jun 9th)
Microsoft today released patches for 204 vulnerabilities. 38 of these vulnerabilities are considered critical, and three have been disclosed before today. Six of the vulnerabilities affect Microsoft cloud solutions and do not require any user action. In addition, Microsoft incorporated 360 different vulnerabilities affecting Chromium into its Edge browser. This is certainly a busier-than-usual patch…
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Rubrik Brings Claude-Focused Tooling, Partner Program to Market
Rubrik, a security and AI operations company, has announced a new partner program and enhancements to bolster AI resilience and recovery. Rubrik Agent Cloud for Anthropic’s Claude Code and Claude Cowork will enable organizations to deploy Claude-powered agents at scale with observability, control, and agent rewind. Rubrik’s new cross-platform Rubrik AI automates and accelerates response…
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Anthropic’s new model is Mythos on a leash
Earlier this year, Anthropic executives said that their new AI model, Claude Mythos, had such powerful capabilities for harm that they would not release it publicly. On Tuesday, the company said it was making an altered version of Mythos available to the public, promising “new guardrails” that thwart the model’s best-in-class performance in hacking and…
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Critical Veeam RCE Flaw Lets Low-Privilege Users Take Over Backup Servers
Veeam addressed a critical RCE vulnerability flaw in Backup & Replication that lets low-privileged domain users take control of backup servers. Veeam has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-44963 (CVSS v4 Score of 9.4), affecting Backup & Replication version 12.x. The flaw could allow a low-privileged domain user to execute code on…
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Cisco customers encounter another SD-WAN zero-day under attack
Cisco customers are confronting yet another actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting the vendor’s SD-WAN management software, reinforcing pressure on organizations that have experienced rare breaks from active threats this year. The vulnerability — CVE-2026-20245 — marks the seventh actively exploited zero-day in Cisco SD-WANs this year. Cisco said it first became aware of active exploitation…
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Cisco SASE with Meraki: Get in the Fast Lane to SASE
Simplify your security with Cisco SASE with Meraki. Easily integrate SD-WAN with SSE for fast, automated protection across your hybrid network.
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Check Point warns of ransomware-linked attacks exploiting outdated VPN protocol
Check Point has issued emergency hotfixes for a pair of vulnerabilities affecting VPN deployments that still use the deprecated Internet Key Exchange version 1 (IKEv1) protocol, warning that one of the flaws is already being exploited in the wild. The more serious issue allows attackers to establish VPN sessions without a valid password, potentially giving…
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Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models
University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it encounters, and replicate itself, all without human intervention and without touching a commercial AI service. The preprint, posted…
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The Hidden Security Risk in Modern Networks: The Work Between Tools
Organizations have more visibility than ever. Growing tech stacks provide greater coverage, and network security teams are increasingly adopting AI and automation to help with routine tasks and reduce manual effort. But the same challenges persist. Outages still last hours, causing significant financial losses, operational disruption, and reputational impact. Threat response and mean time to
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Protecting 50,000 Users: How ANY.RUN Drives Incident Prevention at UMass Boston
Securing a university means defending a highly open environment, where thousands of users, devices, and external connections create constant exposure to risk. We had a unique opportunity to get an inside look at how these operations are run at a powerhouse R1 institution, the University of Massachusetts Boston. We sat down with Daniel Mayer, Endpoint…
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NetRise Builds New Partner Program for MSSPs, VARs, More
Security company NetRise is abandoning the go-it-alone strategy in its war against hidden software vulnerabilities. The Austin, Texas-based software supply chain security specialist announced the rollout of its new Discovery Partner Program today. NetRise bets on the channel to scale software risk management The initiative is a deliberate shift toward a partner-first business model, aiming…
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AI worm prototype shows attackers don’t need Mythos to take over your network
Researchers from the University of Toronto developed a computer worm prototype powered by an AI agent that successfully self-replicated to different systems within a simulated computer network. The worm used a free large language model (LLM) running on local hardware and exploited a combination of older and new vulnerabilities, as well as misconfigurations that remain…
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U.S. CISA adds BerriAI LiteLLM and Check Point Security Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds BerriAI LiteLLM and Check Point Security Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added BerriAI LiteLLM and Check Point Security Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The two flaws added to the catalog are: CVE-2026-42271 (CVSS score…
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Trump’s new AI order — hallucinations aren’t just for LLMs
Years ago, right-wingers coined the phrase “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) to describe people who hate US President Donald J. Trump. (I think it better describes the president’s outlandish, truth-challenged statements and the followers who think he can do no wrong.) What’s really deranged is his recent AI executive order. First, a little history. As you…
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Meet Hades: The malware that lies to AI security agents
Threat actors are continuing their onslaught against software supply chains, now with malware named after death itself. The newly-discovered Hades Campaign is a “highly sophisticated” supply chain compromise that targets Python developer environments and runs as soon as infected packages are imported. It uses the popular Bun toolkit to silently execute multi-layer payloads that can…
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OpenAI’s Lockdown Mode is trying to solve the problem that it created
OpenAI’s move to implement a Lockdown Mode that tries to limit data exfiltration by shutting down external capabilities is being seen as making the best out of a bad situation. But Lockdown Mode doesn’t block exfiltration as much as it slightly reduces it, and the reality of enterprises using multiple AI vendors for their agentic…
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Sophos Workspace Protection update
Learn more and share your feedback with the team on the Sophos Workspace Protection Community. Categories: Products & Services Tags: network, Workspace Protection
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Attackers exploiting unpatched Cisco SD-WAN flaw
Cisco warns customers of an actively exploited high-severity vulnerability in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, an enterprise network management system that has been targeted by hackers multiple times in the past. Located in the command-line interface, the flaw allows authenticated attackers to escalate privileges to root and take over the entire system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245,…
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ICYMI: May 2026 @AWS Security
Read all about the latest AWS security features, compliance updates, and hands-on resources in our new, monthly digest posts. You’ll find expert blog posts, new service capabilities, code samples, and workshops. AWS Security Blog posts This month’s AWS Security Blog posts covered AI security, network protection, identity management, compliance frameworks, and supply chain security. Read…
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TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Activity Through 2026-06-07, (Mon, Jun 8th)
This diary continues the Internet Storm Center’s tracking of the TeamPCP supply chain campaign, first documented in the SANS white paper When the Security Scanner Became the Weapon and most recently in the handler diary Activity Through 2026-05-24. Since that update, the story moved into two new places: the United States government, which formally caught up to the…
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Operationalizing AWS security: A maturity roadmap
Enabling security tooling is the starting point. Making it operational—where findings drive decisions, response times are measurable, and your security posture improves week over week—is where most organizations struggle. This blog post provides a phased maturity roadmap for organizations that have already enabled AWS Security Hub and Amazon GuardDuty. These two services form the foundation…
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Anthropic Calls for AI Pause as Industry Races Ahead
Anthropic picked an interesting week to warn the world about the dangers of advanced AI. Anthropic warns of self-improving AI risks Just days after filing confidentially for an IPO, the company published a rather lengthy proposal arguing that AI companies may eventually need a way to hit pause. The company worries that AI could reach…
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Qilin ransomware affiliate exploited Check Point VPN zero-day (CVE-2026-50751)
A Qilin ransomware affiliate is believed to be exploiting CVE-2026-50751, an authentication bypass vulnerability in Check Point VPN Remote Access and Mobile Access, the company announced on Monday. About CVE-2026-50751 Check Point Remote Access VPN enables and secures connections between corporate networks and remote or mobile devices. Check Point Mobile Access lets mobile and remote…
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UNC3753 Escalates: From Vishing Calls to Physical Office Intrusions at US Legal and Financial Firms
UNC3753 phones staff posing as IT, hijacks screen sessions, steals sensitive legal files, and now sends operatives physically into offices to plug in USB drives. Google Mandiant and the Google Threat Intelligence Group published a detailed report documenting an active extortion campaign carried out by the cybercrime group UNC3753 (aka Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and…
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Meta AI Recovery Tool Flaw Exposed 20,000+ Instagram Accounts
A flaw in Meta’s AI-powered Instagram recovery tool exposed over 20,000 accounts, letting attackers reset passwords and take over profiles. Meta’s High Touch Support tool, known as HTS, was designed to help Instagram users recover locked accounts: you provide an email address, you get a password reset link. The flaw was equally simple: the tool…
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15 tough cybersecurity questions every CISO must answer
As CISOs know, an effective security program cannot be static. Rather, it must adapt to the evolving threat landscape and an ever-changing business environment. To adapt and improve, CISOs must continuously evaluate their existing program. That starts with asking tough questions about their performance, investments, and strategies. Here, security leaders share 15 questions every CISO…
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Why most enterprise security teams would fail a military readiness test
Have you ever watched a military cyber ops team go to work responding to a cyberattack simulation? It’s like that scene from Die Hard 4.0 when all the screens start flashing red and systems start shutting down; however, unlike the movies, where bumbling government IT workers are caught out and panicking, our military actually moves…
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Ukraine’s foreign minister offer recipe for improved resilience
Cybersecurity professionals were offered lessons of resilience in the most extreme circumstances from Ukraine’s former minister of foreign affairs. Dmytro Kuleba, who served as Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2020 and 2024, told Infosecurity Europe delegates that the key to Ukraine’s survival after the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022 was pre-planning, a lesson learned…
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IoT Botnet C0XMO Adds Competitor-Killing Capability
C0XMO is a new Gafgyt botnet variant exploiting old router flaws, spreading across IoT devices, killing rivals, and enabling large-scale DDoS attacks. In March 2026, FortiGuard Labs discovered a new variant of the Gafgyt botnet, dubbed C0XMO, which is noticeably more capable than its predecessors. The malware spreads through CVE-2021-27137, a stack buffer overflow in…
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52% of direct-to-IP threats are missing from intelligence feeds
Security tools are good at inspecting websites, domains, URLs, and files, so attackers are moving lower in the stack and communicating directly with IP addresses, where visibility is limited. According to Palo Alto Networks’ report, this creates a visibility gap that allows malicious traffic to blend into normal internet activity and evade detection. At the…
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DentaQuest Breach: ShinyHunters Publish Data Impacting 2.6M People
ShinyHunters leaked 234 GB of data allegedly stolen from DentaQuest after failed negotiations, potentially impacting 2.6 million people. The ShinyHunters extortion group has published a 234 GB archive of data allegedly stolen from dental benefits administrator DentaQuest. The cybercrime gang added the company to its Tor data leak site in May, and the data was…
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The IoT Appliance Repair Gap: When Your Wi-Fi Dishwasher Breaks, Who Actually Fixes It?
In this post, I will talk about the IoT appliance repair gap and aswer the question – when your Wi-Fi dishwasher breaks, who actually fixes it? Connected appliances have created a category of failure that most authorised service networks are not set up to handle. When a smart dishwasher stops working in a Dubai apartment,…
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 100
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Malware Targeting WordPress Abuses Steam Community Profiles for Command & Control Operations Legitimate-Looking Codex Remote UI Secretly Steals Your AI Tokens Operation Dragon Weave : Uncovering a China-Linked Campaign Targeting Czech Republic and Taiwan…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 580 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. U.S. CISA adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Report: Anthropic Deploys Engineers…
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Automated Reconnaissance Is Reshaping Cyber Risk
A single email address may now be all cybercriminals need to build a surprisingly detailed profile of a target. Flare researchers identified an automated bot that can generate detailed dossiers from a single email address by aggregating data from multiple breached databases. “Tools like this Telegram bot show how little effort it now takes to…
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U.S. CISA adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SolarWinds Serv-U flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS ver 3.1 score of 7.5), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. SolarWinds Serv-U is a managed file transfer (MFT) and secure file…
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Report: Anthropic Deploys Engineers to Support NSA Use of Mythos
Reports claim Anthropic engineers are helping the NSA use its restricted AI model Mythos, known for advanced cybersecurity capabilities. This week, the Financial Times reported that Anthropic has placed approximately six “forward-deployed” engineers inside the National Security Agency to help the intelligence agency use Mythos, its most capable cyber model, for offensive operations. Two people…
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Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry. The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest…
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Claude Opus Found a Four-Year-Old Hole in Zcash’s Privacy Layer. Nobody Knows If Someone Already Used It.
Claude Opus 4.8 helped uncover a four-year-old critical flaw in Zcash that could have enabled undetectable creation of counterfeit coins. On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He…
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Another Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bug actively exploited
Cisco warns of an exploited SD-WAN flaw that can enable remote code execution and network compromise.
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Six protobuf.js Vulnerabilities Expose RCE and DoS Risks
Six vulnerabilities discovered in protobuf.js could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, crash services, and compromise software supply chains across cloud, AI, messaging, and development environments. According to Cyera researchers, the flaws affect the widely used JavaScript implementation of Google’s Protocol Buffers, a data serialization framework that underpins communication across countless distributed systems. The library…
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AI Threats, Zero-Days, and Data Breaches Define This Week of June 2026 in Cybersecurity
Major Threats & Vulnerabilities Zero-Day Exploits and Critical Vulnerabilities A newly discovered Comodo zero-day vulnerability can crash Windows systems through a malformed IPv6 packet. Researcher Marcus Hutchins identified the flaw, but Comodo has yet to issue a patch. Users are advised to filter suspicious IPv6 headers and test incident response plans. Google patched an Android…
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Silent Ransom Group (SRG): Switching To DNS Fast Flux Infrastructure
Researchers exposed the Silent Ransom Group ‘s Fast Flux infrastructure as the FBI warns of ongoing attacks targeting U.S. law firms and businesses. Resecurity uncovered the Silent Ransom Group (SRG)’s Fast Flux network infrastructure and shares available intelligence with the cybersecurity community to disrupt their malicious activities and enable ISP/DNS providers to counter this threat.…
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Tech industry cut 38,242 jobs in May, worst since 2024
Technology companies announced 38,242 job cuts in the US in May 2026, the highest monthly total for the sector since August 2024, according to research by employment placement company Challenger, Gray & Christmas. So far this year the company has observed 123,653 US technology job cuts, a rise of 66 percent from the same period…
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CVE-2026-20245: Cisco SD-WAN Manager Zero-Day Enables Root Command Execution
Cisco has disclosed a seventh SD-WAN zero-day exploited in 2026, tracked as CVE-2026-20245. The flaw affects the command-line interface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and can allow an authenticated remote attacker with netadmin privileges to execute arbitrary commands as root by uploading a crafted file. Cisco says exploitation has already been observed in limited cases,…
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Hugging Face Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution
Organizations using vulnerable versions of the Hugging Face Transformers library could unknowingly execute attacker-controlled code simply by loading a malicious AI model. Researchers at Pluto disclosed a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that bypasses the library’s built-in trust_remote_code=False security control, potentially exposing cloud credentials, SSH keys, API tokens, and other sensitive assets. “One poisoned field…
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Leader in Malware Analysis: ANY.RUN Named Top Vendor in G2 Summer 2026 Awards
We are proud to announce that ANY.RUN has earned the title of Momentum Leader and ranked #1 in the Relationship Index in the latest G2 Summer Reports. Reflecting real security teams’ actual experience, these rankings once again prove how critical ANY.RUN’s solutions are for daily SOC operations in modern enterprises. Why ANY.RUN’s Momentum Leader Title Matters for Your Team G2 awards…
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PCPJack Exposed: Researchers Uncover 230-Node Cloud Email Relay Network
Researchers uncovered a 230-node cloud-based email relay network after the actor PCPJack accidentally exposed tools, logs, and C2 files online A threat actor tracked as PCPJack compromised 230 cloud servers across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and turned them into a covert email relay network. Hunt.io researchers discovered the operation because PCPJack…
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Claude Code has an MCP security problem — and your developers are already using it
Claude Code is Anthropic’s AI coding assistant — a command-line tool that developers are adopting fast. It connects to external services through Model Context Protocol, the standard that lets AI tools interact with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, databases and internal APIs. When a developer connects one of those services, Claude Code runs an OAuth flow, the…
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May 2026 Leadership Recap: Channel Execs Move Toward AI
We’re barreling toward the midway point of the year, and May has seen a number of new executive leadership shuffles to guide organizations through the second half of the year and beyond. Organizations across the ecosystem have made shifts to their leadership teams, including new hires, promotions, and the addition of their first-ever AI executives.…
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May 2026 M&A Recap: Security and AI Remain Top Priorities
WatchGuard, Torq, and Asana are just a few organizations that have made strategic acquisitions in the IT ecosystem to expand their capabilities and provide more services to a greater number of customers. Before we reach the summer months, take stock of the mergers and acquisitions in the channel from May. Security consolidation continues as firms…
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10 Free Managed Services Pricing Templates for MSPs in 2026
Many managed service providers (MSPs) know which services they want to offer but struggle to determine how to package, price, and present those services to clients. Managed services pricing templates provide a framework for organizing service offerings, comparing pricing models, and communicating value more clearly. Whether you’re building your first service packages or refining an…
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Commvault Provides Resilience Approach for Frontier AI
Commvault, a data protection and cyber resilience organization, has made recommendations to help organizations stay resilient in the age of frontier AI. Frontier models create new security risks while helping address them As frontier models, hosted in the cloud, excel at identifying vulnerabilities at speed and compressing exploitation timelines, they also present exploitable threats to…
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AI tools becoming hot commodities on ransomware marketplaces
Sales of AI-based tools is accelerating within underground ransomware marketplaces, lowering the barrier to entry for new actors in the process. An analysis of Telegram channels, 20 dark web forums, and five underground markets by anti-ransomware platform vendor Halcyon found that AI utility posts grew to 1,486 in February 2026, up from just 38 in…
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Photos: Infosecurity Europe 2026
Infosecurity Europe 2026 is a cybersecurity event that took place from June 2 to 4 in London. Help Net Security was on-site and here’s a closer look at the conference. The featured vendors are: Microsoft, JupiterOne, Menlo Security, Cato Networks, Falkin, Vivida, Pen Test Partners, Netskope, Qualys, Syteca, runZero, Vanta, OneTrust, Panaseer, Airia. The post…
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PCPJack Hijacks 230 AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure Servers for Covert SMTP Relay Network
The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network. “Compromised business servers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia were quietly converted into SMTP proxies, verified for mail relay capability, and synced to a downstream consumer…
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New infosec products of the week: June 5, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Asimily, depthfirst, Diligent, Hyland, MazeBolt, and Noma. Asimily turns device risk into automated network policy Asimily has launched Segmentation Orchestration, enabling connected-device risk intelligence to flow directly into enforceable network policy without manual translation. No other platform combines full asset…
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Microsoft makes Linux developers feel more at home in Windows with Coreutils release
Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s Build 2026 developer conference in Seattle, Coreutils is about reducing what Microsoft terms the “cognitive load” faced by developers when moving between Windows and…
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Deepfakes, AI Scams, and the Future of Social Media Safety
The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has intensified challenges related to deepfakes, impersonation scams, and manipulated content across social media platforms. As synthetic media becomes easier to create and harder to detect, companies are being forced to adopt more sophisticated trust and safety strategies. In an email interview with eSecurityPlanet, Alexandra Ryabova, COO…
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Video: What Partners Need to Know About Cisco Cloud Control
Cisco has launched Cisco Cloud Control, a new platform designed to manage networking, security, observability, compute, and collaboration from a single interface. But the bigger story is Cisco’s vision for AgenticOps—an operating model where AI agents help investigate issues, correlate data, recommend actions, and eventually automate IT operations. In this video, we break down what…
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Gain visibility into DDoS attacks with flow logs in AWS Shield Advanced
Reconstructing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack traffic used to mean combining data from multiple sources after the fact. AWS Shield Advanced attack flow logs change that—they capture traffic metadata during attacks so you can pinpoint sources, verify mitigations, and feed your existing analysis pipelines. Shield publishes logs to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),…
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Your AI agent could become your biggest insider threat
Government agencies, cybersecurity companies and threat researchers are pouring resources into studying how fast-developing AI tools can be wielded by malicious actors to hack into victim organizations. But as agentic AI becomes more embedded in business infrastructure, there’s also a high possibility that a breach could be caused by an insider guiding the tool, whether…
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U.S. CISA adds Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Mirasvit Full Page Cache Warmer flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-45247 (CVSS ver 4.0 score of 9.3), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The CVE-2026-45247 flaw is a…
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Cisco Patches CVE-2026-20230 in Unified CM as Exploit Code Goes Public
Cisco has patched a bug in Unified Communications Manager that lets an unauthenticated attacker on the network write files to the box and, from there, climb to root. It is tracked as CVE-2026-20230, and proof-of-concept exploit code is already public. Cisco’s PSIRT says it has not seen the flaw used in attacks yet. The PoC…