Russian APT Star Blizzard Uses ‘RedFlick’ Infection Chain in Recent Attacks
The state-sponsored group has launched larger-scale phishing campaigns to deploy the CosmicPulse backdoor.
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US-Focused CSuite Phishing Steals Microsoft 365 Sessions and Deploys RMM Tools for Remote Access
By combining Microsoft 365 session theft with remote-access tool deployment, CSuite can turn a phishing incident into broader account compromise, fraud
ShinyHunters Defiant After FBI Calls on Members to Come Forward
In the wake of a suspected leader’s arrest, ShinyHunters says it never intended to publish data stolen from the FBI.
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Attackers Exploit NetScaler Flaw for Root Access, Deploy WHIPSHOT and SLAPSHOT
The activity, observed by Mandiant Consulting and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) in September 2026, has targeted government, financial services, technology, education, and legal and professional
OpenSSL Fixes High-Severity DTLS Flaw That Can Leak Heap Memory Unencrypted
DTLS, the TLS variant used for UDP traffic, resends a handshake message if no reply arrives before the timer expires. The leak or crash can happen when such a resend starts while a larger handshake message is stuck part-way
High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in OpenSSL, WolfSSL
Roughly a dozen vulnerabilities have been patched in each of the open source cryptographic libraries.
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Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88772 Exploit Details Show Pre-Auth Path to Shellcode Execution
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS score: 9.5), has been described as a memory overflow bug in the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) protocol handling that’s rooted in the NetScaler
Trump Says Top Tech Firms Have Signed Accord to ‘Self-Police’ AI Development
The accord opened the door to future regulation but focused on four voluntary steps for the companies to take.
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