Protecting organizations from AI-assisted executive impersonation and invoice fraud

Threat actors are increasingly improving their tactics to make suspicious emails look like legitimate email notifications to potential victims, deploying techniques that impersonate internally sent emails from executive team members. While this technique is not new, the adoption of AI Read More …

CISA, NSA, FBI warn Chinese AI firms of industrial‑scale knowledge distillation

Chinese AI companies’ core development strategy is to steal proprietary functionalities and capabilities from their US counterparts, law enforcement agencies have warned. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a new security advisory, drafted jointly with the National Security Read More …

MikroTik router flaws allow takeover without a password

CERT Polska warns that attackers are actively exploiting a chain of critical MikroTik RouterOS flaws to seize control of routers exposed to the internet. Although the warning comes from Poland’s national cybersecurity response team, MikroTik routers are sold worldwide, including in Read More …

OpenAI hid AI agent hijacking of German wiki forum for weeks

OpenAI recently disclosed the details of how one of its AI models escaped a sandboxed environment and attacked Hugging Face during an evaluation – and as part of the incident, the models created a messaging board to communicate with each other and Read More …

Two major security flaws are affecting more than six million WordPress websites

More than six million WordPress users are at risk of website takeover, researchers have claimed after discovering two major vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. Security researchers Wordfence disclosed finding two flaws, one in Elementor Pro, and one in Super Read More …

More than 1 million users affected in Mathspace data breach across Australia and New Zealand

More than a million people, including students, school staff, and parents, have been affected following a data breach at Mathspace, according to the learning provider. The company said, in a blog post, “unauthorised parties had accessed an internal reporting system Read More …

Dissecting a PHP web server rootkit

SophosLabs recently acquired a Linux implant associated with compromised BIG-IP Access Policy Management (APM) environments that use Apache and PHP components. The malware demonstrates advanced techniques including custom ELF loading, function hooking, and runtime code patching to evade detection while Read More …

Ransomware hackers dump 1.4 million stolen records from German government

A cybercriminal group known as Rhysida allegedly broke into the network of Berlin’s state government and exfiltrated 1.44 million files. They then tried to extort the government entity for money and when that failed, they leaked it all into the Read More …

Free streaming boxes may be routing criminal traffic through your home

“Free” movies and TV could cost you your privacy, bandwidth, and control of your home network. We’ve warned about illegal streaming and modded Amazon Fire TV Sticks in the past. Now, researchers have found that certain SuperBox devices and apps could quietly enroll a Read More …

Attackers Expose Ongoing AI Tool Use Targeting Organizations in Latin America

We have analyzed two ongoing, multi-stage network intrusion and data-exfiltration campaigns targeting organizations in Latin America. Corroborating recent findings from the broader threat intelligence community, we observed attackers leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance their capabilities. Read more… Source:  Palo Read More …