Pillar Security researcher Eilon Cohen disclosed on October 19 a critical remote code execution flaw in the open-source agentic AI coding tool OpenCode (developed by Anomaly), affecting versions 1.0.137 to 1.18.32 on Windows and WSL. A malicious remote MCP server can execute arbitrary code on a developer's machine during the MCP OAuth aut…
SafeDep research shows that Cursor's Import VS Code Configuration step copies only the publisher.extensionname of each installed extension and drops the version. Cursor then installs whatever version Open VSX (run by the Eclipse Foundation) calls latest, through its proxy marketplace.cursorapi.com. In SafeDep's test, three extensions pinn…
Forescout Research - Vedere Labs disclosed ROMULUS, a ClickFix delivery platform that uses bogus landing pages with ClickFix-style lures to trick users into running malicious commands that infect their own machines. It is used to distribute malware such as Legion Loader (also tracked as Satacom downloader, CurlyGate and RobotDropper). For…
Forescout's Vedere Labs has documented ROMULUS, a previously unknown malware delivery platform used in ClickFix campaigns, and new delivery techniques for loaders tied to Vice Society ransomware activity. The server hosting the ROMULUS panel was found during an incident investigation, and six IP addresses exposed the same authentication i…
A Huntress vendor blog post lists 10 endpoint security trends. It reports no specific incident, vulnerability or campaign. The themes are agentic AI and the hijacking of non-human identities, ransomware shifting to double and triple extortion, incident response (IR) readiness, EDR-to-XDR consolidation, identity-first security and zero tru…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group reports on TAG-193, a cluster that ran a sustained intelligence-collection campaign against government bodies from early 2025 through May 2026. Targets include diplomacy, economic development, agriculture and environmental agencies in Russia, Tajikistan, Belarus, Armenia and Uzbekistan. Lure documents and im…
Siemens warned customers that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS 8.4), a DLL side-loading vulnerability in Siemens Software Center, to distribute malware. The activity is attributed to the Romulus multi-platform ClickFix campaign. Romulus is a server hosting panel identified by Forescout researchers on October 14 that…
FortiGuard Labs analyzed a TrickBot variant that carries command-and-control (C2) traffic over DNS tunneling, embedding encoded data in DNS queries and responses, instead of the HTTP used by earlier variants. The malware persists through Windows Task Scheduler, stores its configuration in NTFS Alternate Data Streams, and hinders analysis …
On August 20, 2026, a compromised release of the Rust crate arrayref (0.3.10, about 245 million all-time downloads) appeared on crates.io. It added a dependency on the typosquatted crate proc-macro1 1.0.107, whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile time. The maintainer account droundy appears to have been compromis…
TrustedSec (author Brandon Colley) publishes practical guidance on building an effective logging, auditing, monitoring and alerting program for Active Directory (AD). It is based on recurring logging and auditing gaps found in the firm's AD assessments, where logging is treated as a switch to flip rather than a discipline owned by someone…
Silent Lynx, tracked as UAT-6275 by Cisco Talos and TAG-193 by Recorded Future Insikt Group, has been linked to a new set of attacks on government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States. The activity ran from June 2025 through August 2026 and used four infection chains to deploy custom reverse shells (FoalShell, Chvos…
Toy Ghouls (aka Bearlyfy, Laboo.boo, Feral Wolf), a financially motivated group targeting Russian organizations since 2025, was observed in early July 2026 using a custom backdoor for the first time. Kaspersky GERT identified two versions, mqtt-bird-agent 0.1.0 (C2 over the public HiveMQ MQTT broker) and matrix-bird-agent 0.1.0 (C2 over a…
Symantec reports that the Russia-linked APT28 (aka BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard), tracked by Symantec as Swallowtail, targeted entities in two NATO member states. Victims include a law enforcement agency, a naval shipbuilder and a manufacturer of military aircraft engines. In the shipbuilder intrusion in late July 2026, operator…
A joint advisory (AA26-281A) attributes China-based malicious cyber activity to Integrity Technology Group (Integrity Tech), a for-profit company with links to the Chinese government. The company builds and sells tools, hosts infrastructure and compromises networks worldwide. The actors' TTPs are consistent with Flax Typhoon, Ethereal Pan…
Unit 42 attributes with high confidence to an Iranian state-aligned actor, tracked as CL-STA-1178, a campaign called Blinder Tunnel. In March 2026 it targeted an individual in Iraq's critical infrastructure sector, after infrastructure staging that began as early as November 2025. The actor impersonated the Dubai Airports IT department an…
Darktrace researchers documented a new campaign distributing CikaBika Bot, a Rust-based remote access trojan controlled entirely through Discord. The infection chain starts with a disk image named PropositionProjet.img, which contains a French-language decoy PDF and a Windows shortcut disguised as a Word document. A Nim loader extracts th…
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, …
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…
SafeDep reports that the npm package imgdecode (versions 1.0.0-1.0.3, publisher malfexteste8) is part of the MALFEX campaign, which targets Windows developers. After npm removed earlier JavaScript loaders, the operator moved the loader logic into a compiled Node.js native addon (a Windows DLL). On require('imgdecode') from an interactive …
Elastic Security Labs is tracking REF8801, a campaign in which a fake Web3 venture capital accelerator, Apex Accelerator (Apex Foundation), targets cryptocurrency startups and founders with malicious npm packages. The packages, @apexacc/cli and @apexacc/audit, pose as an AI advisor and an MCP-based security scanner, with offers of free Cl…