Infosecurity News

Vulnerabilities in Password Managers Allow Hackers to View and Change Passwords
Security researchers have challenged end-to-end encryption claims from popular commercial password managers

SMEs Wrong to Assume They Won’t Be Hit by Cyber-Attacks, NCSC Boss Warns
NCSC’s Richard Horne has warned that cybercriminals do not care about business size and called for SMEs to act now to secure their organizations

OysterLoader Evolves With New C2 Infrastructure and Obfuscation
OysterLoader malware evolves into 2026, refining C2 infrastructure, obfuscation & infection stages

Operation DoppelBrand Weaponizes Trusted Brands For Credential Theft
New phishing campaign dubbed Operation DoppelBrand targeted major financial firms like Wells Fargo

Google Warns of In the Wild Exploit as It Patches New Chrome Zero Day
A high severity vulnerability in Google Chrome and allows remote attackers to execute code

Crypto Payments to Human Traffickers Surges 85%
Chainalysis warns that online fraud is fuelling sophisticated human trafficking operations

Odido Breach Impacts Millions of Dutch Telco Users
Dutch telco Odido has revealed a major data breach impacting over six million customers

Munich Security Conference: Cyber Threats Lead G7 Risk Index, Disinformation Ranks Third
G7 countries ranked cyber-attacks as the top risk, while BICS members placed cyber threats only as the eighth most pressing risk

Fake AI Assistants in Google Chrome Web Store Steal Passwords and Spy on Emails
Hundreds of thousands of users have downloaded malicious AI extensions masquerading as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and others, warn cybersecurity researchers at LayerX

World Leaks Ransomware Group Adds Stealthy, Custom Malware ‘RustyRocket’ to Attacks
Accenture Cybersecurity warns over difficult to detect, “sophisticated toolset” being deployed as part of extortion campaigns

Nation-State Hackers Embrace Gemini AI for Malicious Campaigns, Google Finds
Google researchers found that government-backed hackers now use AI throughout the whole attack lifecycle

AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI
New TrendAI report warns that most security tools can’t protect against attacks on AI skills artifacts

Time to Exploit Plummets as N-Day Flaws Dominate
Flashpoint warns of a dramatic drop in the average time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation

North Korean Hackers Use Deepfake Video Calls to Target Crypto Firms
Campaign combines stolen Telegram accounts, fake Zoom calls and ClickFix attacks to deploy infostealer malware

US Court Hands Crypto Scammer 20 Years in $73m Case
A federal court has sentenced crypto-scammer Daren Li to 20 years in absentia

FIRST Forecasts Record-Breaking 50,000+ CVEs in 2026
This year should break all the records in terms of vulnerability disclosed, reaching or even surpassing 50,000 new CVEs disclosed

Microsoft Fixes Six Zero Day Vulnerability in February Patch Tuesday
Six actively exploited zero-day bug have been patched by Microsoft

Phorpiex Phishing Delivers Low-Noise Global Group Ransomware
High-volume phishing campaign delivers Phorpiex malware via malicious Windows Shortcut files

“Digital Parasite” Warning as Attackers Favor Stealth for Extortion
Picus Security warns of the increasingly sophisticated ways malicious activity is staying hidden

New Mobile Spyware ZeroDayRAT Targets Android and iOS
ZeroDayRAT is a new mobile spyware targeting Android and iOS, offering attackers persistent access



