Infosecurity News

White House Launches Pilot Program in Texas to Protect Water Infrastructure
Project Watershed 250 will see water providers in Texas provided with federal and private sector cybersecurity resources amid rising nation-state threats

Financial Stability Board Sounds the Alarm Over Frontier AI Risks
The Financial Stability Board has warned G20 banking leaders about the cyber risks of frontier AI

Healthcare Giant McKesson Investigates Data Breach Incident
ShinyHunters claims to have stolen 284 million records from McKesson

Fake Voicemail SVG Attachments Fuel Large-Scale Phishing Campaign
A large-scale phishing campaign used fake voicemail SVG attachments to bypass email defenses, targeting 5527 organizations with over 26,000 malicious messages

Window to Tackle Surge in AI-Enabled Cyber Attacks Narrowing, Tech Giants Warn
More than 100 companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft, have urged collective action to unlock the power of AI to protect critical public services

Threat Actors Abuse Cursor Agent AI to Assist Ransomware Operations
Aurora ransomware operators are abusing SpaceX’s Cursor Agent AI tool to conduct tasks such as reconnaissance and exploitation activities

Manchester Airports Group Hit by Cyber Incident
Customer data linked to bookings and airport Wi-Fi registrations at Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports has been accessed by an unauthorized third party

Chinese Hacker Group QTFY Uses Custom-Built Platforms to Target US Infrastructure, FBI Warns
The FBI advisory set out QTFY’s distributed hacking ecosystem, allowing it to exploit vulnerabilities at scale and obfuscate its activities

CISA Warns of Six Exploited Flaws in Microsoft, Linux, Red Hat and Citrix Products
CISA added six new bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 26, showing signs of active exploitation in the wild

Boston Scientific Reveals Global Disruption After Cyber Incident
MedTech giant Boston Scientific has revealed IT outages following a cyber incident

OpenAI: Hugging Face Incident a “Warning Shot” to the World
OpenAI reveals that unauthorized message boards were at the heart of the recent Hugging Face breach

Tortoiseshell Expands Malware Toolset With New Backdoor, SSH Tunnel
Group-IB uncovered new Tortoiseshell infrastructure, including a backdoor and SSH tunneling tool

Interpol Operation Jackal IV Identifies 263 Cybercrime Suspects
Interpol operation leads to 58 arrests and identifies 263 suspects across 22 countries

Four in Five AI Tools Run with No IT Oversight, New Research Finds
Reco report reveals growing shadow AI problem and surge in vulnerability disclosures

Average Cyber Insurance Losses Increase Despite Fewer Claims
Chubb reported that growing privacy litigation has contributed to surging cyber claim costs in the US

Linux Foundation Introduces TRACE Standard for AI Runtime Evidence
This new open standard offers hardware-attested runtime and compliance evidence for AI agents

DDoS Attack Hits Norwegian Government Services
A coordinated DDoS campaign has caused disruption among Norwegian government services

ZeroTokens Phishing Platform Steers Attacks in Real Time
ZeroTokens gives phishing operators live control of victim sessions targeting 53 financial brands

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



