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  • Mirage Kitten targeting aviation and FinTech sectors across the Middle East and Africa with a new malware set

    September 1, 2026

    While monitoring Mirage Kitten activity, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a previously undocumented malware family that we dubbed NodeRabbit. The researchers identified the first sample on a system in Afghanistan. Further threat hunting revealed two additional, more advanced, variants: one on a system in Egypt and another on a system in Ethiopia. NodeRabbit is a cross-platform remote access ...

  • Malicious Cyber Actors Gain Access to Victim Accounts Through Consent Phishing

    September 1, 2026

    Since late 2025, malicious cyber actors have been targeting prominent victims, their family members, and personal acquaintances by directly messaging personal accounts with malicious links leveraging a technique known as “OAuth consent phishing.” Recently observed activity includes impersonating government officials, media, and other publicly known personalities on a commercial messaging application (CMA) and soliciting the targeted ...

  • P&O Ferries data blunder as it sends out passengers’ personal details by text message

    August 31, 2026

    P&O Ferries was hit by a data breach after mistakenly sending out a full list of passengers’ personal details by text message this morning, we can reveal. A blunder saw the details of 432 passengers travelling on the 12pm P&O ferry from Calais to Dover sent as an attachment in a customer services text message. It is ...

  • ValleyRAT masquerading as adware

    August 31, 2026

    Attackers typically try to pass off malware as legitimate applications or as potentially unwanted programs that users deliberately search for and download, such as cheats or cracks. They often rely on ad and affiliate networks to deliver their creations to victims’ devices. This post examines a less conventional case: a well-known backdoor distributed under the ...

  • Healthcare data breach exposes 3.75M patient records

    August 30, 2026

    Hackers stole medical records, Social Security numbers, government IDs and financial data from millions of CareCloud patients You can be careful with your passwords and still get caught in a breach at a company you may have never heard of. That is one of the frustrating parts of the CareCloud data breach. More than 3.75 million ...

  • TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion

    August 28, 2026

    Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed a TerminalFix campaign, a variant of ClickFix, targeting organizations across multiple industries. The campaign uses compromised websites to display a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA verification overlay that tricks users into copying and executing a malicious PowerShell command. While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, TerminalFix campaigns apply ...

  • Australian police arrest alleged TeamPCP masterminds

    August 28, 2026

    The Australian city of Perth is by some measures the world’s most isolated major metropolis, but is still sufficiently connected to US law enforcement authorities that the FBI was able to help Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) to find two men they believe were the masterminds of TeamPCP, a cybercrime crew that conducted prominent supply chain ...

  • Identity-as-a-Service: Uncovering Dark Web Marketplaces Trading Executive SSNs

    August 27, 2026

    Despite modern verification controls, identity theft remains one of the most pervasive threats to both individuals and enterprise organizations. U.S. Federal Trade Commission statistics show over 1 million identity theft reports annually, with related fraud and imposter scams accounting for billions in financial losses each year. While stolen credit cards enable rapid, short-term monetization, Social ...

  • Millions of UK airport customer details accessed in major cyberattack

    August 27, 2026

    A cyber security breach targeting three major UK airports has led to the personal data of around 8.7 million customers being accessed, operator Manchester Airport Group (MAG) has confirmed. The group, which oversees Manchester Airport, London Stansted and East Midlands Airport, assured the public that “at no point has passenger safety or aviation security been compromised”, adding that no payment or banking details ...

  • China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems

    August 26, 2026

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, and Cyber National Mission Force are releasing this joint cybersecurity advisory to alert organizations concerning China-linked cyber threat actors, who use the acronyms QTFY, QT, and QTCYBER for themselves and their tools and have developed malicious distributed platforms to compromise the networks of US and foreign organizations. ...