A flaw dubbed SneakPeek in the preview pane of Anthropic's Claude Code Desktop can let adversaries quietly steal credentials from developers without any user interaction (zero-click). According to the report, exposed secrets include SSH private keys, AWS credentials and Claude OAuth tokens. The article excerpt provides no CVE identifier, …
Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access disclosed in May 2026, according to ReliaQuest. Because access arrives through the victim's own VPN, it can resemble legitimate remote work and go unnoticed until credential theft, lateral movement, …
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reports that a suspected advanced actor tracked as CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820) deployed a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 implant, PEERSTITCH, on Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. The group exploited the FortiOS path traversal flaw CVE-2025-61624 for the final stage. The intrusion hit a telecommunications …
The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain campaign has expanded beyond malicious GitHub Actions workflows. According to OpenSourceMalware, it now phishes open-source maintainers and plants a second-stage credential stealer disguised as a font file. The shift appears to follow GitHub's October 9 block on the malicious workflow, …
This weekly recap covers several concurrent incidents. ConnectWise disabled seven application identities and suspended Cloud Backup after unknown actors abused them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. China-nexus Armory Castle (UNC5221 / Warp Panda) exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support flaw CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) as a zero-day in lat…
ThreatFabric has documented Hirudo, an Android banking remote-access trojan that steals credentials and gives operators remote control of the phone. Its distinguishing feature is replacing selected genuine banking apps with modified copies that interfere with security checks from inside the app. Victims first install a lure app (Shopora, …
A public repository exposed sensitive data from Smart Sampa, the Prefeitura de São Paulo video surveillance system, for about 11 months, allowing unauthorized access to more than 58,000 cameras. Cameras covered sensitive sites such as daycare centers, schools, hospitals and drug-treatment centers. According to UOL, reporters used the expo…
Scammers abused a legitimate spend-management platform as part of a fraud operation. They used its notification system to send phishing messages and its open-banking account linking to validate stolen banking credentials. Group-IB documented the activity in a client environment after the platform reported suspicious payment notifications …
Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports active exploitation of CVE-2026-73570, a command injection flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite that allows unauthenticated, zero-click compromise of internet-facing email servers. Attackers deployed webshells, escalated privileges, harvested authentication secrets and staged mailbox data across organiz…
GreyNoise reports that a single malicious cyber actor, tracked since 7 May 2026, is a suspected Chinese speaker working in UTC+8 and is the same as or related to Red Heron (reported by Acronis), based on the shared C2 domain, malware family, Gitea exploitation and other TTPs. The actor exploited the wp2shell WordPress chain (CVE-2026-6303…
The Hakai Security Research Team disclosed CVE-2026-44706, a SQL Injection in Chatwoot versions <= 4.11.1. Any authenticated user with agent privileges, the lowest access level, can read the entire PostgreSQL database. The flaw sits in the FilterService, where user input is interpolated directly into SQL. Exposed data includes bcrypt pass…
A malicious version 0.7.4 of the mrmustard photonic quantum computing library (Xanadu) was published to PyPI on July 23, 2026, after the account of the project's lead maintainer (ziofil, Filippo Miatto) was compromised. Importing the package reads SSH private keys, AWS credentials and the Kubernetes config, then sends them to an attacker-…
On 4 August 2026, an npm worm published 2,234 poisoned versions across 444 package names, using credentials from twelve organisations. Affected scopes include @ornikar, @deliveroo, @onereach, @or-sdk, @servicetitan, @qlik, @picsart, and the keyv and cacheable families. The keyv, flat-cache, file-entry-cache and cacheable-request packages …
FortiGuard Labs analyzed a SectopRAT variant that is embedded in legitimate software to evade detection. The malware uses a multi-stage loader to extract its payload from files, then applies API hashing, indirect function calls and in-memory loading to run the final .NET payload. Once running, it sets up encrypted communication with its C…
AI-assisted "vibe coding" is lowering the barrier to app development, but it is also producing apps with common security oversights that app marketplaces do not necessarily flag. The article cites a report that 84% of developers were using or planning to use AI tools, and a Lovable-hosted app in which a researcher found 16 vulnerabilities…
Publicly reported data breaches in the US reached an all-time high last year, with over 3,300 incidents and nearly 280 million victim notices. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that over 471 million notices went out in the first half of 2026, but only 24% described the attack vector, the lowest rate it has recorded. The ar…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup (Week 39, 2026) covers one law enforcement success and two active threat campaigns. A US court sentenced Armenian national Karen Serobovich Vardanyan ("Maneeken"/"Karl Lagerfeld"), an initial access specialist for Ryuk ransomware, to two years in prison and over $1.2 million in restitution. SentinelLABS ide…
Unit 42 reports that threat actors are moving supply chain malware C2 from hardcoded endpoints to Web3 mechanisms, so an entire botnet or worm infrastructure can be re-pointed with a single blockchain transaction. The ChainDrop npm worm (Shai-Hulud family, 400+ npm packages) and the PolinRider campaign (npm, Go modules, Packagist) target …
LiteLLM version 1.107.0 was compromised in a supply chain attack that distributed credential-stealing malware through PyPI wheels and container images. On October 21, 2026, Socket reported that malicious Python startup hooks run even when an application never imports LiteLLM, exposing cloud credentials, developer secrets and AI tool authe…
BRONZE SANDCASTLE (written Bronze Sandcastle by thehackernews.com) is a previously undocumented intrusion set disclosed by SophosLabs on 2026-10-21. It is assessed as China-based or China-aligned and has been active since mid-2025 (thehackernews.com). Between August 2025 and August 2026 it compromised victims in the Philippines, Taiwan, A…