Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Microsoft Adds New Teams Controls to Block Unauthorized AI Bots From Meetings

Microsoft's new Teams admin policy requires organizer approval for external AI bots, giving organizations greater visibility and control over automated participants in sensitive meetings. The post Microsoft Adds New Teams Controls to Block Unauthorized AI Bots From Meetings appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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SEO-Poisoned Software Sites Abuse ScreenConnect to Deploy AsyncRAT

Unknown threat actors are leveraging the ScreenConnect remote access tool as a way to deploy and execute AsyncRAT. Kaspersky said the activity is part of a "massive, multi-domain, multi-language" campaign that distributes malicious installer archives hosted on spoofed websites. These installers masquerade as popular software like OBS Studio, DNS Jumper, DS4Windows, and Bandicam, among others.

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VEIL#DROP Malware Chain Uses Blogger Platform to Deliver PureLogs Stealer

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new multi-stage malware delivery attack chain that uses social engineering and Blogger pages to deliver an information stealer called PureLogs. The activity has been codenamed VEIL#DROP by Securonix. It's suspected that the initial payloads are distributed either via spear-phishing or a drive-by compromise, which occurs when an unsuspecting user lands on

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Ousaban Banking Trojan Targets Iberian Bank Users with Fake PDF Lures

A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal. Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs identified the campaign in May 2026. It opens with a phishing PDF disguised as a corrupted file, checks that the visitor is really in Spain or Portugal, and hides its real payload inside an image. The goal is the usual one: steal banking logins and take

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Adobe Patches 7 CVSS 10.0 Flaws in ColdFusion and Campaign Classic

Adobe has released patches for multiple maximum-severity security flaws impacting Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe Campaign Classic. The ColdFusion updates "resolves critical and important vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, arbitrary file system read, and security feature bypass," Adobe said in an alert released Tuesday. The vulnerabilities are listed

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Critical Cursor Flaws Could Let Prompt Injection Escape Sandbox and Run Commands

Two flaws in Cursor, an AI code editor, could let a single, ordinary-looking prompt break out of the editor's safety sandbox and run any command on a developer's computer. There is no click to fall for and no approval box to ignore. Cato AI Labs found the pair and named them DuneSlide. They are tracked as CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549, both rated 9.8 out of 10 (or 9.3

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Progress Kemp LoadMaster Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Faces Active Exploitation Attempts

A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster is seeing active exploitation attempts, according to an advisory from eSentire's Threat Response Unit (TRU). The Canadian cybersecurity company said it identified exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), an operating system (OS) command injection flaw that could be exploited to achieve

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AI-Generated Browser Ransomware Abuses Chromium API on Windows and Android

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware artifact generated using DeepSeek that constructed a novel attack path combining "unrealistic browser-malware concepts with a real browser capability" to turn it into a working ransomware technique that runs entirely inside the browser on both Windows and Android devices. "This is the first documented case where a frontier AI model

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2026 Cybersecurity Assessment: The Gap Between Awareness and Resilience

Organizations have never had greater awareness of cyber risk. Yet turning that awareness into operational resilience has never been more challenging. The 2026 Bitdefender Cybersecurity Assessment confirms this is the case, as this year's findings reveal a series of surprising contradictions. Here are a few examples, based on the independent survey of 1,200 IT and cybersecurity professionals

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Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Vulnerabilities

Seven of the security defects have a maximum severity rating of 10/10 and could lead to arbitrary code execution. The post Adobe Patches Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Citrix Patches NetScaler Vulnerabilities, Including New ‘HTTP/2 Bomb’ Attack

Citrix urges customers to patch NetScaler after fixing six vulnerabilities, including the HTTP/2 Bomb flaw and a high-severity CitrixBleed-style information disclosure bug. The post Citrix Patches NetScaler Vulnerabilities, Including New ‘HTTP/2 Bomb’ Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Shift to 2029

Microsoft on Tuesday said it's accelerating its quantum safe security roadmap, stating technology advances in quantum computing are making it essential to replace existing encryption standards sooner than previously expected. "Advances in quantum research and development have shifted the risk horizon," Mark Russinovich, chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, said. "We believe

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Frontier AI: Six Questions Every Enterprise Should Ask Security Vendors

From model selection and automation to validation and measurable results, the right questions can help enterprises separate genuine AI capabilities from marketing hype. The post Frontier AI: Six Questions Every Enterprise Should Ask Security Vendors appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Apple Patches Dozens of Vulnerabilities Across iOS, macOS, and Safari

The updates fix vulnerabilities in WebKit, the kernel, WebRTC, Web Extensions, and other components affecting iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Safari users. The post Apple Patches Dozens of Vulnerabilities Across iOS, macOS, and Safari appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Dawnguard Raises $6.3 Million for Security Architecture Automation Platform

The company has publicly launched its solution to help organizations design, build, and operate secure cloud systems. The post Dawnguard Raises $6.3 Million for Security Architecture Automation Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Massive Password Spray Campaign Targeting Azure CLI

Hackers were seen making over 81 million login attempts originating from systems associated with hosting provider LSHIY. The post Massive Password Spray Campaign Targeting Azure CLI appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Phantom Squatting Uses AI-Hallucinated Domains for Phishing and Malware

Large language models keep inventing web addresses that do not exist. Attackers have started buying those made-up domains before anyone else can, then hosting phishing pages on them to catch traffic that AI tools point their way. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 calls the trick phantom squatting, and its new research shows it is already happening in the wild. The reason it matters is

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Anthropic Restores Claude Fable 5 After U.S. Lifts Jailbreak-Linked Export Controls

Anthropic is putting Claude Fable 5 back online worldwide. On June 30, the U.S. Commerce Department lifted the export controls it had imposed on Fable and its more tightly controlled sibling Mythos 5 about two and a half weeks earlier. Fable 5 returns to users on Wednesday, July 1, across Claude.ai, the Claude Platform, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Export controls restrict who can

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Google Patches 382 Chrome Vulnerabilities

Fifteen of the newly patched flaws have been rated ‘critical’ and 67 have been rated ‘high severity’. The post Google Patches 382 Chrome Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Azure CLI Password Spray Hits at Least 78 Microsoft Accounts in 81M+ Attempts

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "massive, ongoing, automated password spray attack" aimed at Microsoft's Azure command-line interface (CLI), compromising dozens of accounts in the process. The activity, per Huntress, originates from an IPv6 address range (2a0a:d683::/32) controlled by internet infrastructure provider LSHIY LLC (AS32167). "Between June 12 and June 26, the threat