Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
03 July 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented modular malware framework codenamed Avalon that's distributed by means of a multi-stage phishing chain capable of bypassing traditional security controls.
Avalon combines credential collection, lateral movement, remote access, recovery disruption, and ransomware execution, bringing together diverse functions under one
03 July 2026
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been linked to a fresh set of malicious npm packages that masquerade as Rollup polyfill tooling to facilitate remote access and data theft.
According to JFrog, the packages "rollup-packages-polyfill-core" and "rollup-runtime-polyfill-core" mimic the legitimate "rollup-plugin-polyfill-node" project, down to the description, repository metadata, and
03 July 2026
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Anonymous-linked Canadian hacker jailed, researcher drops zero-days in open source projects, Venezuelans sentenced in the US over ATM jackpotting.
The post In Other News: Canadian Hacker Jailed, Open Source Zero-Days, Two Sentenced for ATM Jackpotting appeared first on SecurityWeek.
03 July 2026
A previously undocumented threat actor known as Armored Likho has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting government agencies and the electric power sector across Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan.
"Armored Likho blends financially motivated campaigns targeting private individuals with targeted cyber espionage aimed at organizations," Kaspersky said in a technical analysis published today. "
03 July 2026
A new report from the Citizen Lab has revealed that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou had his mobile device repeatedly hacked with the notorious Pegasus spyware while serving on a committee that was tasked with investigating the abuse of such commercial surveillance tools in the bloc.
"Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had
03 July 2026
Attack demonstrates how LLM agents can combine known exploitation techniques with real-time reasoning to automate complex, multi-stage intrusions.
The post Agentic AI Used to Conduct Ransomware Attack via Langflow appeared first on SecurityWeek.
03 July 2026
In April, ShinyHunters accessed the company’s corporate IT systems and stole patients’ personal and medical information.
The post Medtronic Data Breach Impacts 3.8 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
03 July 2026
Prosecutors say 19-year-old Peter Stokes was a member of Scattered Spider, the hacking group linked to more than 100 network intrusions and over $100 million in ransom payments.
The post Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker Extradited to US appeared first on SecurityWeek.
03 July 2026
NetNut rented access to millions of compromised devices, allowing cybercriminals and nation-state actors to mask their identities during attacks.
The post Google, FBI Disrupt NetNut Residential Proxy Network Powered by Millions of Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.
03 July 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called PamStealer that employs a series of clever tricks to infect systems and siphon sensitive data.
The stealer, discovered by Jamf Threat Labs, is distributed as a compiled AppleScript (.scpt) file impersonating Maccy, a legitimate open-source clipboard manager. It has been codenamed PamStealer owing to its ability to
03 July 2026
The DuneSlide vulnerabilities enable zero-click prompt injection attacks that escape Cursor's sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system.
The post Critical Cursor AI Code Editor Flaws Could Lead to OS-Level Remote Code Execution appeared first on SecurityWeek.
02 July 2026
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims.
02 July 2026
Google has significantly degraded NetNut, one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people's traffic.
Working with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said this week it had reduced the network's pool of usable devices by millions.
Google identifies NetNut, also tracked as Popa, as a network spread across home
02 July 2026
Threat actors associated with the Anubis ransomware operation have been observed exploiting the Citrix Bleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) vulnerability to obtain initial access.
"Although tactics differ between affiliates, common patterns emerged in tradecraft through use of legitimate Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM) tooling, credential access, and hands-on-keyboard procedures used for lateral
02 July 2026
This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots.
Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem in different ways. Everything looks normal until someone tests a small gap and finds a way through.
This is not one big break. It is small permissions, weak checks, open systems, and normal tools doing things they were allowed to do. That same pattern runs
02 July 2026
Hackers are targeting NetScaler appliances using public PoC code to retrieve arbitrary memory content in the HTTP response.
The post New CitrixBleed Vulnerability Exploited Immediately After Public Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
02 July 2026
As AI-generated code becomes commonplace, CISOs need new audit strategies to measure developer practices, govern AI tool usage, and identify software risks before they reach production.
The post How to Conduct a Successful Audit of AI-Driven Software Development appeared first on SecurityWeek.
02 July 2026
The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been attributed to a new malware called Umbrij that's designed to gain surreptitious access to a victim's email correspondence via the Google API.
"In this campaign, the attackers focused their attention on corporate email communications hosted on Gmail, targeting access compromise via APIs," Kaspersky said in a detailed report published this week. "
02 July 2026
Researchers say credentials harvested from hundreds of thousands of FortiGate firewalls are being used to facilitate ransomware attacks by the INC and Lynx operations.
The post FortiBleed Campaign Linked to INC, Lynx Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
02 July 2026
Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an employment record, a manager, and a departure date. AI agents have none of those. As autonomous principals proliferate across enterprise environments, the governance model built for humans develops structural blind spots that traditional IGA tools weren't designed to detect. This guide covers where that model breaks, what it