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JackFix Uses Fake Windows Update Pop-Ups on Adult Sites to Deliver Multiple Stealers

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that’s leveraging a combination of ClickFix lures and fake adult websites to deceive users into running malicious commands under the guise of a “critical” Windows security update.
“Campaign leverages fake adult websites (xHamster, PornHub clones) as its phishing mechanism, likely distributed via malvertising,” Acronis said in a

Alumni, Student, and Staff Information Stolen From Harvard University

A phone phishing attack led to the compromise of a system containing information about alumni, donors, students, staff, and other individuals.

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Year-end approaches: How to maximize your cyber spend

Year-end budgeting is the perfect time to close real security gaps by strengthening identity controls, reducing redundant tools, and investing in outcome-driven engagements. The article highlights how targeting credential risks and documenting results helps teams maximize spend and justify next year’s budget. […]

Fluent Bit Vulnerabilities Expose Cloud Services to Takeover

Five flaws in the open source tool may lead to path traversal attacks, remote code execution, denial-of-service, and tag manipulation.

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WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT: New Dark LLMs Boost Cybercrime Automation

Palo Alto Networks has conducted an analysis of malicious LLMs that help threat actors with phishing, malware development, and reconnaissance.

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Major US Banks Impacted by SitusAMC Hack

Hackers stole corporate data such as accounting records and legal agreements, but did not deploy file-encrypting ransomware.

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Code-formatters expose thousands of secrets from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify online tools that format and structure code. […]

ToddyCat’s New Hacking Tools Steal Outlook Emails and Microsoft 365 Access Tokens

The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed adopting new methods to obtain access to corporate email data belonging to target companies, including using a custom tool dubbed TCSectorCopy.
“This attack allows them to obtain tokens for the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol using the user’s browser, which can be used outside the perimeter of the compromised infrastructure to access

3 SOC Challenges You Need to Solve Before 2026

2026 will mark a pivotal shift in cybersecurity. Threat actors are moving from experimenting with AI to making it their primary weapon, using it to scale attacks, automate reconnaissance, and craft hyper-realistic social engineering campaigns.
The Storm on the Horizon
Global world instability, coupled with rapid technological advancement, will force security teams to adapt not just their

Hackers Hijack Blender 3D Assets to Deploy StealC V2 Data-Stealing Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that has leveraged Blender Foundation files to deliver an information stealer known as StealC V2.
“This ongoing operation, active for at least six months, involves implanting malicious .blend files on platforms like CGTrader,” Morphisec researcher Shmuel Uzan said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
“Users unknowingly

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