Infosecurity News

Fake Recruiter Scams Target Corporate Credentials on Mobile
RecruitTrap campaigns use mobile-optimized phishing pages to target enterprise credentials

Australia Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical TeamCity Server Flaw
Australian officials are urging TeamCity customers to patch an actively exploited critical flaw, which follows a similar warning from the US government

Fake Minecraft Clients Deliver WeedHack Malware Despite Infrastructure Takedown
A threat actor keeps spreading the WeedHack malware to Minecraft players despite its original infrastructure taken down in July

ReliaQuest Rejects Compromise Claims After ShinyHunters Incident
ReliaQuest has detailed a social engineering attack linked to ShinyHunters, denying reports that the threat actor successfully compromised its systems

US Sanctions Mabna Institute Hackers for Iranian Cyber-Attacks
The US has sanctioned individuals connected to hacking-for-hire group the Mabna Institute

New Guidance Helps Businesses Verify Quantum-Safe Hardware Claims
TCG has released new guidance to help proving that trusted platform modules genuinely meet essential quantum-safe requirements

NIST Warns of Unique Security Risks in Multi-Cloud Environments
NIST has set out 23 novel challenges that arise in multi-cloud environments and has encouraged the cyber community to find solutions

Fake Codex Download Uses Google Sites to Deliver macOS Malware
Fake Codex pages used Google Sites, sponsored search and ClickFix to target Mac users

Doubloon Dredger Abuses Notion to Harvest Authentication Tokens
Doubloon Dredger abused Notion and malicious PDFs to harvest Microsoft authentication tokens

Wake-Up Call for CNI After Iranian Attack Shuts Down UK Power Plant
Experts argue Iranian cyber-attack on UK power plant lays bare frailty of critical national infrastructure

Researchers Uncover Thousands of Leaked AWS Keys
Truffle Security says it found over 9000 publicly accessible and active AWS key pairs

North Korean Hackers Tied to Rust Supply Chain Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have linked a malicious backdoor in compromised Rust packages to previous North Korean supply chain attacks

New Agent Tesla Malware Variant Boosts Evasion Capabilities
An Agent Tesla v4 malware campaign used novel emoji-based code obfuscation to evade detection, KnowBe4 has revealed

Cybersecurity Job Ads Requiring AI Skills Double
An analysis by the AI Workforce Consortium found that technical cybersecurity jobs are becoming more strategic due to the influence of AI

NCSC Urges Stronger Controls for Agentic AI Systems
NCSC urged sandboxing, oversight and tight access controls for autonomous AI agents

US Defense Contractors Admit Their Rising CMMC Scores May Not Be Accurate
Defense contractors in the US are doubting their own self-assessment scores under CMMC Phase I, even as those scores hit an all-time high

ICS Operators Warned of AI-Driven Attacks on Siemens PLCs
A US government advisory warned that attackers are deploying AI-generated exploitation scripts against exposed Siemens S7 Series PLCs

Updated ToxicPanda Variant Targets 140+ Banking and Crypto Apps
Zimperium lifts the lid on the ToxicPanda 2.0 Android banking Trojan

Def Con Attendees Targeted by Persistent Phishing Campaign
Huntress researcher explains how they were targeted by an elaborate and persistent phishing scam following Def Con

Exclusive: Linux Foundation's Akrites to Go Live in September
The Linux Foundation's Akrites initiative will become operational in September, when it will begin accepting AI-powered vulnerability reports for open-source projects



