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  1. DragonForce Ransomware Exploited Microsoft Teams to Hide in Attack Against Major Company

    Command and control traffic exploited a Teams visitor token to make malicious activity look legitimate to defenders

  2. Chainguard, JPMorgan, BNY Team Up to Secure Open Source from AI Threats

    Athena is a new an industry coalition to fix the vulnerabilities frontier AI models find before attackers can exploit them

  3. FBI Warns Courier Cash Pickups Are Driving Crypto Scams

    The FBI claims couriers are being used to circumvent bank transfers in crypto investment schemes

  4. Attackers Hijack Popular WordPress Plugins to Deploy Backdoors

    Tampered OptinMonster and sister plugins plant hidden backdoors on 1.2 million WordPress sites

  5. Adriatic Port Cyber-Attack by Anubis Sparks Warning Over Maritime Security Risks

    How the Anubis ransomware group stole and leaked an Italian Adriatic port authority's data

  6. Cybersecurity Experts Urge US to Lift Ban on Anthropic's Frontier AI Models

    Access to two Anthropic large language models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, has effectively been banned to any non-US nationals by the Trump administration

  7. UK Government Finds 400+ Vulnerabilities in AI Hackathons

    Government departments find hundreds of vulnerabilities after testing frontier models

  8. Maine Takes Breach Reporting Portal Offline After Fake Entries

    The Office of the Maine Attorney General has suspended its breach reporting portal

  9. Ransomware Payment Crypto Laundering Platform Taken Out by FBI and Europol

    Domain of dark web money laundering platform AudiA6 seized and suspects arrested in joint operation by the FBI, Europol and others

  10. GitHub to Update npm to Thwart Software Supply Chain Attacks

    NPM, part of GitHub, announced a new version of the npm package manager with several security improvements, including disabling install scripts

  11. Over 80% of Sports Organizations Targeted by Hackers in the Last Year

    As the FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off, a new Darktrace report warns that sports teams and bodies are a major target for cyber criminals

  12. CISA Orders Agencies to Patch by Risk, Not Severity

    New CISA directive tells federal agencies to patch by real-world risk, not CVSS severity scores

  13. Cybercriminals Use Fake AI Guides and Dev Tools to Spread AsyncRAT Malware

    Fake AI guides hide a multi-stage chain that drops AsyncRAT, with signs of AI-assisted coding

  14. Most Cybersecurity Teams Struggle to Find Time for Training on New Cyber Threats

    Organizations are aware of the challenges that new technologies like AI bring: but cybersecurity staff struggle to make time for the required training during working hours

  15. Interpol Dismantles SniperDz Phishing-as-a-Service Platform

    New revelations by Group-IB expose the full scale of the decade-old SniperDz phishing operation

  16. Extortion-Only Attacks Increase, With Data Theft Dominating Ransomware Claims

    Extortion-only attacks are increasing as data theft drives most ransomware claims, with many organizations unable to stop stolen data from being exposed

  17. New “Agentjacking” Attacks Could Hijack AI Coding Agents

    Tenet Security researchers reveal how new “agentjacking” attacks could trick coding agents into executing arbitrary code

  18. Fake Software Tutorials on TikTok Spread Vidar Stealer

    Threat actors push fake free-software tutorials on TikTok and Instagram to spread Vidar stealer

  19. New SilabRAT Trojan Hijacks Sessions to Steal Crypto

    MaaS trojan SilabRAT uses HVNC and browser cloning to hijack sessions and steal crypto

  20. Cybersecurity Software Fails to Detect Fifth of Brower-Based Phishing Attacks

    Menlo Security research warns that as enterprise applications become increasingly browser based, traditional cybersecurity tools leave them vulnerable to cyber threats

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