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WebYour Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1309+ words) Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path to compromise. A critical vulnerability may look alarming on a…...
Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (461+ words) Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers…...
ThreatsDay: 200 Android Flaws, Browser-Built Phishing, 119K Scam Shops + 23 More Stories
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (271+ words) A lot of this week’s security news has the same awkward answer to one question: “Why was that allowed to work?” An extension asks for access and takes too much. A trusted service becomes part of a phishing chain. An…...
Check Point Discloses Two 9.8-Rated VPN Certificate Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated RCE
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (903+ words) Check Point has patched two critical vulnerabilities in the way its firewall and management products handle VPN certificates. The company says both could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to run code, but only "under specific conditions" that it has not…...
PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (772+ words) A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor has been attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to devise exploits targeting a recently disclosed pair of security flaws in PaperCut NG/MF and break into hundreds of instances. According to independent reports…...
Gigabud Creates Android Work Profiles to Hide From Banking App Malware Checks
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (921+ words) A work profile is a separate space that Android typically reserves for employer apps, and what's inside it is kept separate from everything in the personal space. That split hides the trojan from the banking app's own malware checks, Group-IB…...
CISA Flags Exploited Cisco, Citrix, Fortinet Flaws, Sets Sept. 12 Federal Patch Deadline
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (471+ words) The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added three flaws, each impacting Cisco, Citrix, and Fortinet, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the patches by September 12, 2026. The vulnerabilities…...
Four Spy Groups Used the Same Chrome and Windows Exploit Kit Within a Week
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (594+ words) The first in-the-wild use of BlueMoon has been attributed to the China-aligned state-sponsored group tracked as APT31 (aka Bronze Vinewood, Judgement Panda, JungleBamboo, PerplexedGoblin, RedBravo, TA412, Tide Castle, and Violet Typhoon) on August 28, 2026. "Within days, several other espionage-motivated clusters began using BlueMoon,…...
Infostealer Logs Expose Replayable AI Tokens That Can Bypass MFA
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (883+ words) Cybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create "stolen keys" that grant illicit access to tools from model providers like Google, Anthropic, and others. Information stealers like Lumma Stealer or Vidar are equipped to…...
Webinar: Learn How to Answer “Are We Exposed?” Faster After a New CVE
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (366+ words) A major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed? For many security teams, answering that means jumping between vulnerability scanners, endpoint tools, cloud inventories, SBOMs, repositories, and application data to build…...