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, …
Infoblox links the long-running Help TDS traffic distribution system, active since at least 2017, to the Russian-language affiliate program Hotejka, assessed with high confidence to be a rebrand of the traffic monetization operation ROI777. Help TDS supplies PHP templates and a malicious WordPress plugin that affiliates install on comprom…
FoxIO disclosed a class of denial-of-service flaws in the QPACK header compression used by HTTP/3. It affects seven of the ten stacks the firm tested and was released with working proof-of-concept code. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a small compressed header batch that expands in memory by thousands of times, exhausting a de…
SOCRadar researchers analyzed an exposed directory at 45.227.254.43 that revealed an AI-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. It is centered on an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework" called Phantom. The actor is assessed to be Russian-speaking and acts both as an intrusion and …
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, …
Eight intermediate CA certificates of the Indian certificate authority eMudhra (emSign brand), generated on 30 April 2025, were found to have P-384 private keys so weak (integers below 256) that anyone can recover them from the public certificates and forge certificates for any domain. A researcher credited as Wayne reported it on October…