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The Greatness phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform has expanded from credential phishing to adversary-in-the-middle attacks and device-code phishing targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. [...]

A new version of the XCSSET malware is targeting thousands of macOS users through compromised Xcode projects and GitHub repositories. [...]

77 extensions on the Open VSX marketplace impersonated legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development environments where they were installed. [...]

The attacks use diverse social engineering lures and rotating payloads to deliver ScreenConnect for persistent remote access to compromised networks.

The commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit known as Greatness has become the latest crimeware solution to add support for device code phishing, a rapidly growing cyber threat that abuses the legitimate OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and seize control of user accounts. "Greatness supports AiTM [adversary-in-the-middle] credential and

Many companies are showcasing their products and services this week at the 2026 edition of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. The post Black Hat USA 2026 – Summary of Vendor Announcements (Part 2) appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Build your strategy around answering these questions to ensure employees use AI productively while keeping sensitive data, IP, and agent behavior within the boundaries set for safe AI use. The post Rethinking AI Security: Why CASB and DLP Need an Interaction-Aware Layer appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry. [...]

The company will use the investment to accelerate product innovation and expand go-to-market operations. The post Oligo Raises $60 Million for Runtime Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Russ Kirby, CISO at Ping Identity, shares how passion, courage, and “good enough” thinking shaped his path from HP to the C-suite—and what keeps him up at night. The post CISO Conversation: Russ Kirby – Passion Is the Antidote to Burnout appeared first on SecurityWeek.

WhatsApp scam abused the Linked devices feature to hijack accounts without stealing any passwords

AI agents need broad access to be useful, but traditional access controls cannot determine whether an action aligns with a user's intent. Varonis explains how Agent IBAC detects intent drift and enforces real-time guardrails to keep agents within their intended boundaries. [...]

Researchers demonstrate how attackers could abuse built-in email chatbots to evade detection, impersonate trusted employees, compromise executive accounts, and facilitate financial fraud. The post Weaponized Email AI Assistants Could Help Attackers Hijack Accounts appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The AI security company will invest in product innovation, global expansion, and customer experience. The post Zenity Raises $125 Million in Series C Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A credential-stealing npm worm that first appeared in keyv@6.0.0 spread beyond the Keyv and Cacheable namespaces into hundreds of packages across multiple organizations on August 4, 2026. SafeDep verified 353 poisoned versions across 79 package names in the npm registry. Its monitoring put the wider footprint at 442 versions across 353 names, while Aikido later reported at least 868 packages

Talos read attacker prompt logs and found guardrails fell to task splitting and ownership claims

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active, multi-wave campaign that employs social engineering lures themed around Adobe and Zoom software updates, business document reviews, and system maintenance utilities to stealthily deploy Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) programs like ConnectWise ScreenConnect. The campaign has been codenamed SMOKE#SCREEN by Securonix Threat

A Google Firebase misconfiguration lets users of tl;dv, an AI meeting tool, query any other users' meeting information and potentially join calls.

Forescout researchers have found 15 new vulnerabilities in the TP-Link Omada networking ecosystem. The post TP-Link Omada ZTP Vulnerabilities Chain Into Full Network Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Obsidian Security has developed a platform for governing AI agents across third-party applications. The post Obsidian Security Raises $85 Million at $1.1 Billion Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cloud and SaaS are now the preferred operating environments for threat actors, amid a continued shift to identity attacks

The cybersecurity industry has spent decades assuming that offensive capability scales with technical expertise. That assumption is starting to break. Security teams have long estimated risk by ranking attacker sophistication. Nation-state actors sat at one end. Organized criminal groups followed. Inexperienced attackers, dismissed as "script kiddies," sat at the other end, running public

Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the public agent could be prompt-injected into posting /adk-issue-fix as adk-bot. They identified the bot as a collaborator, so that comment satisfied

A crafted prompt to a low-privilege Google ADK agent could be used to pass a malicious hand-off comment to a privileged agent. The post Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Method Exposed Secrets, Enabled Pull Request Tampering appeared first on SecurityWeek.

cPanel has patched a flaw that let an authenticated hosting customer execute SQL in the database's root context, crossing the privilege boundary between a cPanel account and the server's administrative database identity. It shipped in a targeted security release that closes two other routes past account boundaries. The database bug is tracked as CVE-2026-58048 (CVSS 4.0 score: 9.4) and affects

Interpol claims AI is driving a surge in cybercrime in Africa, with related losses doubling

Over 24,000 internet-accessible server-management interfaces disclose authentication hashes before login. The post Decades-Old BMC Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of Data Centers to Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A new Russian loader-as-a-service (LaaS) codenamed DOUBLECUP has been using ClickFix lures as a way to stage malware-laced PNG images in victims' browser cache and ultimately deliver CountLoader and a previously undocumented remote access trojan called DeviceManager. "The first stage drops a steganographic PNG image into the browser's cache, retrieves its hidden content, and executes the second

The UK’s Police National Legal Database and Ask the Police service have been breached

An extortion group stole personal, financial, and medical information from the hospital’s network. The post 150,000 Impacted by Madera Community Hospital Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.