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Law enforcement hits StealC and Amadey malware networks

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Law enforcement hits StealC and Amadey malware networks 2026-06-24 at 18:05 By Zeljka Zorz Operation Endgame, the largest international law enforcement operation aimed at disrupting ransomware and cybercrime infrastructure across the world, has claimed its latest targets: StealC and Amadey. The notice on disrupted websites (Source: Microsoft) While developed by separate criminal groups, those two […]

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Cisco Unified CM flaw actively exploited to drop webshells (CVE-2026-20230)

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Cisco Unified CM flaw actively exploited to drop webshells (CVE-2026-20230) 2026-06-24 at 14:36 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2026-20230, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability affecting Cisco’s Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), is being exploited to drop webshells and achieve remote code execution capability on the underlying server. “Our honeypots are seeing automated sweeps dropping webshells, all […]

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What the Fortibleed campaign means for organizations running FortiGate firewalls

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What the Fortibleed campaign means for organizations running FortiGate firewalls 2026-06-23 at 17:46 By Zeljka Zorz A massive credential-harvesting campaign targeting FortiGate firewalls has exposed thousands of organizations to potential network compromise, and a trove of attacker tools, scripts, and credentials left inadvertently exposed on a server has given researchers an unusually detailed look at […]

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A $1,400 experiment in AI security auditing outperformed OpenAI’s Codex Security

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A $1,400 experiment in AI security auditing outperformed OpenAI’s Codex Security 2026-06-23 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A research team has built a system that teaches AI agents to hunt for software bugs by writing the audit method down as plain text. The system, called EVOHUNT, keeps the underlying AI model fixed and improves only […]

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Who pays when you gate cyber-capable AI models?

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Who pays when you gate cyber-capable AI models? 2026-06-22 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Jaya Baloo, COO & CISO at Aisle, examines the debate over restricting access to cyber-capable AI models. She lays out the strongest argument for gating these tools, then explains where it breaks down for […]

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Agent Beacon: Open-source telemetry layer for AI agents

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Agent Beacon: Open-source telemetry layer for AI agents 2026-06-22 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, and Claude Cowork run on developer laptops, CI jobs, cloud environments, where they edit files, run commands, and call outside tools. Beacon, an open-source project from Asymptote Labs, configures telemetry for […]

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Encrypted DNS still tells an eavesdropper where to look

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Encrypted DNS still tells an eavesdropper where to look 2026-06-22 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Encrypted DNS runs across much of the Internet. DNS over TLS, HTTPS, and QUIC keep the contents of a query away from anyone watching a network link. The encryption covers the message inside each packet. The packet still carries plaintext […]

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Klue breach lead to Salesforce data theft, Huntress affected

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Klue breach lead to Salesforce data theft, Huntress affected 2026-06-19 at 15:57 By Zeljka Zorz Cybersecurity vendor Huntress was among multiple companies hit by a breach originating at Klue, a market intelligence platform used to integrate CRM and sales data across various business tools. Huntress published a detailed account of the incident on June 18, […]

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Unauthenticated RCE in Splunk Enterprise under active attack (CVE-2026-20253)

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Unauthenticated RCE in Splunk Enterprise under active attack (CVE-2026-20253) 2026-06-19 at 13:50 By Zeljka Zorz CISA has added CVE-2026-20253, a critical, remotely exploitable vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and ordered US federal civilian agencies to apply mitigations by June 21, 2026. In-the-wild exploitation has also been confirmed by the vendor […]

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Your browser tab could become encrypted storage for someone else’s files

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Your browser tab could become encrypted storage for someone else’s files 2026-06-19 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Decentralized storage networks already hand pieces of people’s data to strangers’ machines. The lasting question across these networks is whether the machine holding the data can read it. A research paper by Gregory Magarshak, a professor at IENYC, […]

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Law enforcement hits SocGholish: 106 servers down, 15,000 sites cleaned

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Law enforcement hits SocGholish: 106 servers down, 15,000 sites cleaned 2026-06-18 at 17:21 By Zeljka Zorz SocGholish, an operation that’s been delivering malware to users via fake software updates, has suffered a major blow: the international law enforcement coalition behind Operation Endgame has taken down 106 of its servers and domains, and cleaned up nearly […]

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74,000 Fortinet firewall credentials exposed in FortiBleed data leak

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74,000 Fortinet firewall credentials exposed in FortiBleed data leak 2026-06-18 at 15:10 By Zeljka Zorz A Russian-speaking cybercriminal group has stolen credentials contained in the configuration files of nearly 74,000 Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways around the world. The data was accidentally exposed by the group on a server, along with other artifacts and tools, […]

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Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car

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Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car 2026-06-18 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Alysia Johnson, President of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), explains how the CCC Digital Key has grown from a single-brand feature into a standard meant to work across phones, automakers, and suppliers. She […]

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Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies

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Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies 2026-06-17 at 18:43 By Zeljka Zorz Researchers have long warned that AI agents could lower the skill floor for offensive cyber operations, and a recent report by OALABS (Open Analysis) researchers bears that out. After recovering and analyzing over 1,000 agent sessions from a compromised server […]

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Microsoft working on patch for RoguePlanet Defender zero-day (CVE-2026-50656)

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Microsoft working on patch for RoguePlanet Defender zero-day (CVE-2026-50656) 2026-06-17 at 14:26 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has acknowledged the local elevation of privilege issue in Microsoft Defender that can be triggered via the “RoguePlanet” exploit, and is “working to provide a high quality security update that addresses this vulnerability.” The vulnerability, which has been assigned […]

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Attackers are exploiting FortiSandbox vulnerabilities

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Attackers are exploiting FortiSandbox vulnerabilities 2026-06-16 at 18:27 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers have been spotted exploiting three vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, CVE-2026-25089) in FortiSandbox, a platform that other Fortinet security products depend on for threat verdicts to enforce blocking decisions and trigger automated responses. The warning came on Monday from threat intelligence company Defused, which said […]

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SimpleHelp RMM flaw could give attackers full access to managed endpoints (CVE-2026-48558)

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SimpleHelp RMM flaw could give attackers full access to managed endpoints (CVE-2026-48558) 2026-06-16 at 16:33 By Zeljka Zorz A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-48558) in SimpleHelp, a popular remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to create a new “Technician” account and use it to remote into managed endpoints, execute scripts, […]

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Cisco discloses second exploited SD-WAN vulnerability in two weeks (CVE-2026-20262)

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Cisco discloses second exploited SD-WAN vulnerability in two weeks (CVE-2026-20262) 2026-06-16 at 13:20 By Zeljka Zorz Cisco has revealed another Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability (CVE-2026-20262) that its Product Security Incident Response Team observed being exploited by attackers. But the associated security advisory also states that “the vulnerability was found during internal security testing”, raising the […]

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Reachability makes AI threat modeling worth the trust

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Reachability makes AI threat modeling worth the trust 2026-06-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Oscar Andersson, CTO at Oplane, explains why most scanning tools fail. They cry wolf, flagging threats that cannot run in real code. The argument centers on reachability. A finding counts only when someone walks […]

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EU Cybersecurity Act 2.0: When good regulation goes bad

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EU Cybersecurity Act 2.0: When good regulation goes bad 2026-06-16 at 08:30 By Help Net Security Over recent years we’ve witnessed the EU becoming increasingly serious about cybersecurity. After years of watching high profile breaches, many resulting from supply chain attacks targeting our critical infrastructure, that seriousness is welcome. But good intentions and good policy […]

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