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 international press. Anthropic Restricts Live Internet Access After Claude Evaluation Failures Silent Ransom Group Allegedly Extorted $207 Million Without […]
Silent Ransom Group allegedly extorted $207 million from 27 law firms in six months using phone calls and social engineering, not encryption. Silent Ransom Group doesn’t rely on encryption. No malware payload, no locked files, just phone calls and social engineering aimed almost entirely at law firms, and apparently it works extraordinarily well. A new […]
DOJ and FBI seized China-linked hacking tools Microscan and FishHub, linked to Integrity Tech and attacks on critical infrastructure worldwide. The Justice Department and FBI took down two hacking tools this week, Microscan and FishHub, both built and run by a Beijing-based company with direct government contracts. The tools were used to scan, and in […]
Over 100 hacked websites used fake Cloudflare checks to trick visitors into installing LunexStealer through ClickFix commands. The lure is the now-familiar ClickFix technique, dressed up as Cloudflare’s standard bot check. The fake page asks you to run a command, supposedly to confirm you’re not a bot, and that command quietly downloads and installs an […]
Fortinet details ClingSTUN, a Linux backdoor exploiting unpatched IoT devices and abusing public STUN servers to route traffic past NAT. FortiGuard Labs researchers spotted a Linux malware family they call ClingSTUN, and the name gives away its trick immediately. Instead of relying on a dedicated command server, the malicious code leans on STUN, the protocol […]
Security Affairs AI-CYBERSECURITY newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on AI in the international landscape Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, reshaping both the techniques used by attackers and the tools available to defenders. AI agents can automate tasks, analyze large amounts of data, discover vulnerabilities and accelerate offensive operations. At […]
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Lunex Unmasked: A New Information Stealer Deployed Through BYOVD Storm-3168: Agentic-driven cloud attacks using compromised service principals Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call Your APIs | TraderTraitor Backdoors Resurface on Victim With No Crypto Ties […]
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 international press. Fake Zoom installer hides macOS backdoor CloudSyncD CVE-2026-90970: Critical GitLab AI Gateway Flaw Fixed Antino Backdoor Lets […]
Warlock ransomware continues to exploit unpatched SharePoint flaws to breach water utilities, telecoms, governments, and universities worldwide. Warlock ransomware made headlines back in mid-2025 for exploiting a chain of SharePoint zero-days collectively dubbed ToolShell. More than a year later, the same group is still using that door, and it’s still getting in. Symantec tracks the […]
Jamf Threat Labs details CloudSyncD, a fake macOS Zoom installer that hides a phished password using invisible zero-width Unicode characters. Jamf Threat Labs found CloudSyncD while doing routine scanning on VirusTotal, buried inside a disguised Zoom client. They first spotted it on September 15, clearly still under construction, and within two days watched it move […]