A study titled "Watching the Watchers: Privacy Analysis of US Smart TV Automatic Content Recognition" found that Samsung (Tizen) and Vizio (SmartCast) televisions kept sending traffic consistent with automatic content recognition (ACR) after researchers disabled the feature. The researchers ran 5,943 automated experiments on 12 TVs from 1…
Sekoia observed an attacker interacting with an exposed Flowise AI orchestration honeypot (emulating version 2.2.8) in late August 2026. The operator enumerated chatflows and stored credentials, tried to create a rogue workflow, and used prompt injection to turn the agent into an offensive analysis assistant. Sekoia assesses the activity …
Apache disclosed eight vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat, three rated Important and five rated Low. They cover authentication bypass, cross-user data exposure, insecure socket access and cryptographic configuration failures. Fixes are in Tomcat 11.0.27, 10.1.61 and 9.0.123, depending on the branch. Exposure depends on the component and con…
A Flare analysis argues that Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$ and ShinyHunters are distinct intrusion clusters within The Com, a decentralized, mostly English-speaking cybercriminal subculture, and not interchangeable names for one group. It describes SP1D3R HUNTERS (also called Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, SLH) as a shared brand and coordination …
OpenCode disclosed on X on October 17 a security breach affecting 1.4% of its Console users, which it attributes to a "large-scale distillation attack". The affected accounts belong to users who had connected external providers. The company emailed affected users the following morning and says anyone who did not receive a notice was not i…
ScarlettGroup is an emerging data-extortion operation that appeared around September 2026 and gained visibility in October. It runs a Tor-based leak site with public countdown timers to pressure organizations over allegedly stolen data, according to Foresiet research. Its public activity centers on threatened disclosure, not confirmed fil…
Check Point Research reports that commercial antidetect browsers, notably Kameleo, AdsPower and MultiLogin, are widely referenced on Russian-language underground forums and marketplaces. They are used for account takeover, payment card fraud (carding), fraudulent loan applications, ad-revenue fraud, bulk creation of fake accounts and coor…
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 …
Federal investigators examining ShinyHunters have uncovered potential links between the extortion group and executives at two ransomware negotiation firms, according to a KrebsOnSecurity report published on October 19. An executive at an unnamed U.S. consulting firm (reportedly 1,000+ employees) allegedly helped operate the group's extort…