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Security teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can now help attackers discover vulnerabilities, generate exploit code, and move through weaknesses faster than tradition…
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged two Western Australian men with a combined total of 14 offences over their alleged role in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group behind the March 2026 compromise of the open-source security scanners Trivy and Checkmarx KICS and the AI gatew…
EU governments are trying to move away from popular messaging apps as nation-state threat groups shift their focus from email to Signal and WhatsApp.
The vulnerability, CVE-2026-19632, exposes WordPress admin password-reset links through TranslatePress, allowing unauthenticated attackers to take over affected WordPress websites.
Individuals and organizations in Cambodia have emerged as the target of a new campaign that delivers an open-source remote access trojan (RAT) called Spark RAT. "The samples employ diverse lure themes, suggesting an effort to appeal to a broad range of potential victims. These i…
Threat actors linked by Arctic Wolf to Dark Caracal with medium confidence deployed a previously undocumented Go-based malware framework, GoCaracal, during a June 2026 intrusion at an unnamed communications organization in Venezuela. GoCaracal provides operators with remote shel…
An unknown cybercriminal actor has been targeting patients across the country with phishing attempts mimicking the electronic health record (EHR) vendor Epic Systems. Epic is the largest EHR vendor by market share, and its EHR software is used by many of the largest health system…
ATF, the regulatory agency that enforces federal laws governing firearms and explosives in the United States, has confirmed that one of its systems was compromised after breach claims made by the Qilin ransomware gang. [...]
Academic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes (ECC), the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowhammer, and enables denial-of-service (DoS) and privilege escalation to a root she…
A critical vulnerability chain in the popular Avada theme for WordPress can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server. [...]
GoCaracal is a new modular malware framework that broadens Dark Caracal's capabilities to steal data and maintain access to victims.
James Kettle of PortSwigger talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his AI-powered open source tool, which found new HTTP request-smuggling techniques.
North Korean operatives posing as IT workers are improving their tactics, but researchers say there are still ways to spot them before they do damage.
A newly disclosed Rowhammer attack called GPUThor can bypass error-correcting code (ECC) protections on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling denial-of-service (DoS) and root-level privilege escalation. [...]
More than 100 U.S. water systems faced cyberattacks in July, with exposed PLCs and cellular modems giving hackers access to some utility controls and operations, CISA has now revealed.
Threat actors behind a notorious click-fraud botnet have set their sights on vehicle infotainment modules and are abusing legitimate functionality to spread infections.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chi…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered additional infrastructure and previously undocumented malware associated with Nimbus Manticore, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Group-IB, in a new analysis published …
Medical technology company Boston Scientific has been targeted in a cyberattack that disrupted some of its IT systems, causing operational disruptions globally. [...]
