A Chinese-speaking attacker has reportedly compromised hundreds of websites worldwide by abusing Cairn, an AI-driven penetration-testing tool, to automate the attacks. Reported victims include large industrial and consumer brands such as John Deere, SharkNinja and engine manufacturer Cummins, from which the attacker is said to have looted…
A new dark web identity theft service called Nexus, advertised on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit on Aug. 31, 2026, is selling scans of more than 153 million driver's licenses from the US and Canada. It also lists over 10 million ID cards, 3 million travel documents and 579,000 medical cards. KrebsOnSecurity's analysis points to the …
iRhythm Technologies, maker of the Zio wearable ECG monitor, has had a June 2026 data breach confirmed at roughly 8.18 million individuals, according to the Oregon Attorney General breach list. This is close to its entire customer base of about 8 million patients in the US and Europe. The company first identified unauthorized access on Ju…
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…