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No Exploit Needed: How Attackers Walk Through the Front Door via Identity-Based Attacks

The cybersecurity industry has spent the last several years chasing sophisticated threats like zero-days, supply chain compromises, and AI-generated exploits. However, the most reliable entry point for attackers still hasn’t changed: stolen credentials.
Identity-based attacks remain a dominant initial access vector in breaches today. Attackers obtain valid credentials through credential stuffing

Organizations Warned of Exploited Cisco, Kentico, Zimbra Vulnerabilities

CISA expanded the KEV catalog with eight flaws, but five of them have been flagged as exploited before.

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Actively exploited Apache ActiveMQ flaw impacts 6,400 servers

Nonprofit security organization Shadowserver found that over 6,400 Apache ActiveMQ servers exposed online are vulnerable to ongoing attacks exploiting a high-severity code injection vulnerability. […]

Data Breaches at Healthcare Organizations in Illinois and Texas Affect 600,000

Data breaches were disclosed by Southern Illinois Dermatology, Saint Anthony Hospital, and North Texas Behavioral Health Authority.

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NGate Campaign Targets Brazil, Trojanizes HandyPay to Steal NFC Data and PINs

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new iteration of an Android malware family calledNGate that has been found to abuse a legitimate application called HandyPay instead of NFCGate.
“The threat actors took the app, which is used to relay NFC data, and patched it with malicious code that appears to have been AI-generated,” ESET security researcher Lukáš Štefanko said in a report

Google Patches Antigravity IDE Flaw Enabling Prompt Injection Code Execution

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Google’s agentic integrated development environment (IDE), Antigravity, that could be exploited to achieve code execution.
The flaw, since patched, combines Antigravity’s permitted file-creation capabilities with an insufficient input sanitization in Antigravity’s native file-searching tool, find_by_name, to bypass the program’s Strict

Former ransomware negotiator pleads guilty to BlackCat attacks

41-year-old Angelo Martino, a former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint, has pleaded guilty to targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks in 2023. […]

$290 Million Kelp DAO Crypto Heist Blamed on North Korea

The hackers targeted LayerZero’s DVN, compromising certain RPCs and DDoSing others to trigger failover to the poisoned infrastructure.

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NGate Android malware uses HandyPay NFC app to steal card data

A new variant of the NGate malware that steals NFC payment data is targeting Android users by hiding in a trojanized version of HandyPay, a legitimate mobile payments processing tool. […]

CISA Adds 8 Exploited Flaws to KEV, Sets April-May 2026 Federal Deadlines

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added eight new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including three flaws impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, citing evidence of active exploitation.
The list of vulnerabilities is as follows –

CVE-2023-27351 (CVSS score: 8.2) – An improper authentication vulnerability in PaperCut

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