A China-linked threat cluster has been exploiting vulnerable Roundcube servers at U.S. and Canadian universities to steal credentials and deploy backdoor malware. […]
AI Coding Agents Found Triggering Endpoint Security Rules Built to Catch Attackers
Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rules written to catch human intruders.
The agents are not malicious. They just do a lot of things that, to a behavioral engine, look exactly like an attack.
Decrypting browser credentials, listing what sits in Windows’ credential store,
Entra passkey enrollment vishing targets Microsoft 365 users
A threat actor has been targeting organizations across multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that ask Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey. […]
Accenture Confirms Data Breach After Hacker Claims Source Code Theft
The professional services giant says it contained the incident, remediated its source, and experienced no operational or service delivery impact.
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China-Linked APT Expands Arsenal With New ‘Leash’ Backdoors
Cisco says the threat actor behind the LapDogs campaign has expanded its SOHO router malware toolkit with LongLeash, DogLeash, and JarLeash backdoors.
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New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware
AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist.
New research, which its authors call HalluSquatting, turns that habit into an attack: work out the fake names an AI reliably invents, register them first, and wait for the assistant to fetch your trap on a user’s
Ubiquiti Patches Critical UniFi Flaws Across Connect, Talk, Access, Protect, and OS
Ubiquiti has shipped updates to address multiple critical security flaws impacting UniFi Connect, UniFi Talk, UniFi Access, UniFi Protect, and UniFi OS that could result in privilege escalation and arbitrary command execution.
The list of vulnerabilities is as follows –
CVE-2026-50746 (CVSS score: 10.0) – An improper access control vulnerability in UniFi Connect Application that an attacker
3 Ways AI Powers Service Desk Attacks and How to Prevent Them
Specops Software explains how AI is making service desk impersonation attacks more convincing, personalized, and scalable, along with practical steps organizations can take to strengthen onboarding and identity verification. […]
Webinar Today: Why Email Security Keeps Failing
Live Webinar: Wednesday, July 8, 2026 – Register to Attend You can block every phishing email in the inbox. The campaign still runs. The infrastructure is still live. And the same attacker retargets your organization tomorrow. That’s the gap in how most organizations think about email security: detection without disruption. Stopping the message was never […]
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New Ghost Phishing Wave Is Breaking Traditional Email Security
A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This “ghost phishing” technique keeps the malicious page hidden until it decrypts and comes to life inside the victim’s browser.
For security leaders, the risk is clear: traditional URL checks may miss the attack while Microsoft 365 access, sensitive data, and response time