Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture premium plugin for WordPress to upload a PHP backdoor. […]
What Zero-Day Response Should Be in the Post-Mythos Era
AI is shrinking the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation, leaving defenders less time to wait for patches or public exploits. Picus Security explains how exploitability validation, security control testing, and autonomous pentesting can help teams close exposure gaps before attackers arrive. […]
Thai Broadband Provider Hacked via Fortinet Vulnerability
The hackers staged numerous scripts for reconnaissance and CVE probing, along with brute-force utilities and privilege escalation tools.
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OpenAI Investigates Report Linking AI Agents to RubyGems Attack
The incident occurred in May, when RubyGems maintainers suspended new account registrations due to what appeared like malicious activity.
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CISA: Critical VMware RCE flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned security teams that ransomware gangs have now joined ongoing attacks exploiting a critical VMware vCenter vulnerability patched in July. […]
CISA and NIST Release Guidelines to Protect Federal Cloud Identity Systems from Token Theft, Forgery, and Misuse
Human Attacker Exploits Marimo RCE, Reaches SSH Bastion in Eight Seconds
With artificial intelligence (AI) shrinking the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation and lowering the barrier to entry for bad actors, new findings from Sysdig show that skilled human operators can move just as swiftly after gaining initial access.
In one instance highlighted by the cloud security company, the threat actor pivoted from a vulnerable Marimo notebook to an SSH
240,000 Hit by Data Breach at Japan’s Digital Agency
Hackers exploited a vulnerability in a VPN product to steal the personal information of roughly 240,000 people.
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Attack Chains, Not Just Attack Surfaces: Why Testing Individual Techniques Misses the Point
Introduction
Security teams have gotten pretty good at testing against what can hurt them. Can this EDR agent catch this payload? Will my organization fail the phishing simulation? Does this SIEM rule fire on this particular technique? And, in more mature organizations, this testing happens continuously rather than as a one-off exercise.
But no matter how much you validate against these
Mass-Scanning Campaign Exploits Vite Flaw to Extract Cloud Credentials From Exposed Dev Servers
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a mass-scanning campaign that has targeted Vite deployments siphon sensitive data.
The first is an automated effort aimed at internet-exposed Vite development servers that’s designed to steal cloud credentials, configurations from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure instances, and infrastructure state files, per F5 Labs.
The