Tag: attack
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Op Neusploit: Russian APT28 Uses Microsoft Office Flaw in Malware Attacks
A new campaign by the Russian-linked group APT28, called Op Neusploit, exploits a Microsoft Office flaw to steal emails for remote control of devices in Ukraine, Slovakia, and Romania. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/op-neusploit-russia-apt28-microsoft-office-malware/
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8-Minute Access: AI Accelerates Breach of AWS Environment
The AI-assisted attack, which started with exposed credentials from public S3 buckets, rapidly achieved administrative privilges. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/8-minute-access-ai-aws-environment-breach
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Security Is Shifting From Prevention to Resilience
Dan Cole, senior vice president of product management at Sophos, unpacks how cybersecurity strategy is shifting from a prevention-first mindset toward resilience and response. Cole traces his career from the early days of mass malware outbreaks like Melissa and ILOVEYOU through today’s environment of nation-state actors, AI-assisted attacks, and sprawling hybrid workforces. While the tools..…
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Compromise of Notepad++ Equals Software Supply Chain Fallout
Tags: attack, backdoor, china, exploit, group, infrastructure, open-source, software, supply-chain, vulnerability, windowsHacked Infrastructure Delivered Chinese Nation-State Group’s Backdoor, Experts Warn. The widely used, open source text-editing software Notepad++ for Windows said attackers exploited a vulnerability to redirect some users to sites that pushed a backdoor onto their system. Security experts have tied the attack to a broader campaign perpetrated by Chinese nation-state actors. First seen on…
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Flare Report: Infostealers Are Fueling Enterprise Identity Attacks
Flare research shows infostealers are increasingly exposing enterprise identity credentials, driving higher-impact compromises. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/flare-report-infostealers-are-fueling-enterprise-identity-attacks/
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Russian state hackers exploit new Microsoft Office flaw in attacks on Ukraine, EU
Ukraine’s computer emergency response team, CERT-UA, said attackers began abusing the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, shortly after Microsoft disclosed it in early January. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russian-state-hackers-exploit-new-microsoft-flaw
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From credentials to cloud admin in 8 minutes: AI supercharges AWS attack chain
Tags: access, ai, attack, ciso, cloud, credentials, detection, framework, group, iam, least-privilege, LLM, monitoring, trainingLateral movement, LLMjacking, and GPU abuse: Once administrative access was obtained, the attacker moved laterally across 19 distinct AWS principals, assuming multiple roles and creating new users to spread activity across identities. This approach enabled persistence and complicated detection, the researchers noted.The attackers then shifted focus to Amazon Bedrock, enumerating available models and confirming that…
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Notepad++ supply chain attack: Researchers reveal details, IoCs, targets
Rapid7 researchers have attributed the recent hijacking of the Notepad++ update mechanism to Lotus Blossom (aka Billbug), a Chinese state-sponsored group known for targeting … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/03/notepad-supply-chain-attack-iocs-targets/
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Wrench-Attacks: Kryptodiebe wenden zunehmend körperliche Gewalt an
Anleger aus Europa sind 2025 besonders gefährdet gewesen. Mehr als 40 Prozent der bekannten gewaltsamen Krypto-Diebstähle fanden dort statt. First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/wrench-attacks-kryptodiebe-wenden-zunehmend-koerperliche-gewalt-an-2602-204940.html
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Analysis of the Attack Surface in the Agent SKILL Architecture: Case Studies and Ecosystem Research
Background As LLMs and intelligent agents expand from dialogue to task execution, the encapsulation, reuse and orchestration of LLM capabilities have become key issues. As a capability abstraction mechanism, SKILL encapsulates reasoning logic, tool calls and execution processes into reusable skill units, enabling the model to achieve stable, consistent and manageable operations when performing complex…The…
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Notepad++ infrastructure hijacked by Chinese APT in sophisticated supply chain attack
Rapid7 identifies custom malware: Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 also published a detailed technical analysis corroborating Ho’s disclosure and identifying the attack as part of a broader campaign deploying previously undocumented malware. Rapid7’s investigation uncovered a custom backdoor the firm dubbed “Chrysalis,” alongside Cobalt Strike and Metasploit frameworks.”Forensic analysis conducted by the MDR team suggests that the…
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New Password-Stealing Phishing Campaign Targets Corporate Dropbox Credentials
Multi-stage attack begins with fake message relating to business requests and evades detection with link hidden in a PDF First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/password-stealing-phishing-pdf/
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Outages Happen to Everyone. Building a Resilient Architecture Doesn’t Have to Be Hard.
Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, business, cloud, compliance, computing, container, control, csf, cyberattack, data, defense, detection, dora, encryption, finance, framework, government, nist, regulation, resilience, service, software, strategy, technologyOutages Happen to Everyone. Building a Resilient Architecture Doesn’t Have to Be Hard. madhav Tue, 02/03/2026 – 05:21 No company is spared the pain of outages. But their impact can be mitigated by how resilient you build your business architecture. And who you choose to partner with can significantly determine how effective that will be.…
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Notepad++ infrastructure hack likely tied to China-nexus APT Lotus Blossom
Rapid7 researchers say the Notepad++ hosting breach is likely linked to the China-nexus Lotus Blossom APT group. Recently, the Notepad++ maintainer revealed that nation-state hackers compromised the hosting provider’s infrastructure, redirecting update traffic to malicious servers. The attack did not exploit flaws in Notepad++ code but intercepted updates before they reached users. “According to the…
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Chollima APT Hackers Weaponize LNK Files to Deploy Sophisticated Malware
In March 2025, the Ricochet Chollima APT group, widely recognized as APT37 and linked to North Korean state-sponsored operations, launched a targeted spear-phishing campaign against activists focused on North Korean affairs. The threat actors initiated the attack chain via spear-phishing emails impersonating a North Korea-focused security expert based in South Korea. The emails referenced legitimate…
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Abuse of OpenClaw AI Capabilities Enables Stealthy Malware Campaigns
Tags: ai, attack, automation, backdoor, cyber, malicious, malware, marketplace, skills, supply-chain, threatHundreds of malicious skills are distributed through OpenClaw’s marketplace, transforming the popular AI agent ecosystem into a new supply chain attack vector. Threat actors are weaponizing the platform’s extensibility features to deliver droppers, backdoors, and infostealers disguised as legitimate automation tools.”‹ OpenClaw Skills Become Malware Distribution Channel OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that executes…
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APT28 Exploits Active Microsoft Office Zero-Day to Deliver Malware
The Russia-linked advanced persistent threat group APT28 has been observed actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office to deliver malware through a sophisticated multi-stage attack campaign. Security researchers from Zscaler ThreatLabz identified this new operation, dubbed Operation Neusploit, targeting users across Central and Eastern Europe with weaponized RTF documents. The campaign specifically targeted Ukraine,…
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Apache Syncope Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Hijack Active User Sessions
Apache Syncope, a popular open-source identity and access management platform, has disclosed a critical XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in its Console component. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23795, allows authenticated administrators to execute XXE attacks and extract sensitive data from affected systems. Security researchers Follycat and Y0n3er discovered the flaw, which affects multiple versions of…
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Notepad++ Attack Breakdown Reveals Sophisticated Malware and Actionable IoCs
A complex espionage campaign attributed to Chinese APT group Lotus Blossom, active since 2009. The investigation uncovered a sophisticated compromise of Notepad++ distribution infrastructure that delivered Chrysalis, a previously undocumented custom backdoor with extensive remote access capabilities. The attack chain began at IP address 95.179.213.0, where execution of notepad++.exe and GUP.exe preceded download of a…
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APT28 Uses Microsoft Office CVE-2026-21509 in Espionage-Focused Malware Attacks
The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 (aka UAC-0001) has been attributed to attacks exploiting a newly disclosed security flaw in Microsoft Office as part of a campaign codenamed Operation Neusploit.Zscaler ThreatLabz said it observed the hacking group weaponizing the shortcoming on January 29, 2026, in attacks targeting users in Ukraine, Slovakia, and Romania,…
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Think agentic AI is hard to secure today? Just wait a few months
Cost effective fix: Do nothing: Kodezi’s Khan offers an interesting fix for that foundational problem: Don’t even try. He argues it’s a money pit that will never be fully resolved. Instead, he suggests pouring resources into creating a strict identity strategy for every NHI going forward. “Aim for containment rather than for perfection. You can’t really govern…
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Shai-Hulud & Co.: The software supply chain as Achilles’ heel
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, backdoor, ciso, cloud, credentials, cyber, github, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, kritis, kubernetes, malicious, network, nis-2, programming, risk, rust, sbom, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, wormThe polyglot supply chain attack: The most frightening prospect, however, is the convergence of these threats in a polyglot supply chain attack. Currently, security teams operate in isolation. AppSec monitors the code, CloudSec monitors the cloud, NetworkSec monitors the perimeter. A polyglot attack is designed to seamlessly break through these silos.This happens as follows: A…
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APT28 Leverages CVE-2026-21509 in Operation Neusploit
IntroductionIn January 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz identified a new campaign in-the-wild, tracked as Operation Neusploit, targeting countries in the Central and Eastern European region. In this campaign, the threat actor leveraged specially crafted Microsoft RTF files to exploit CVE-2026-21509 and deliver malicious backdoors in a multi-stage infection chain. Due to significant overlaps in tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)…
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Open-source attacks move through normal development workflows
Software development relies on a steady flow of third-party code, automated updates, and fast release cycles. That environment has made the software supply chain a routine … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/03/open-source-attacks-supply-chain-development-workflows/
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Notepad++ Hosting Breach Attributed to China-Linked Lotus Blossom Hacking Group
A China-linked threat actor known as Lotus Blossom has been attributed with medium confidence to the recently discovered compromise of the infrastructure hosting Notepad++.The attack enabled the state-sponsored hacking group to deliver a previously undocumented backdoor codenamed Chrysalis to users of the open-source editor, according to new findings from Rapid7.The development comes shortly First seen…
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‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report
Annual review highlights growing capabilities of AI models, while examining issues from cyber-attacks to job disruptionThe International AI Safety report is an <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/29/what-international-ai-safety-report-says-jobs-climate-cyberwar-deepfakes-extinction”>annual survey of technological progress and the risks it is creating across multiple areas, from deepfakes to the jobs market.Commissioned at the 2023 global AI safety summit, it is chaired by the…
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New phishing attack leverages PDFs and Dropbox
Masquerading as a safe document format: But after so many warnings about this over time, why are people still so trusting of PDFs and Dropbox?”Because, historically, they’ve actually been trained to be,” said Avakian. PDFs are routinely used in the business world and have been positioned as a safe, read-only document format for invoices, contracts,…
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Why Your WAF Missed It: The Danger of Double-Encoding and Evasion Techniques in Healthcare Security
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, data, data-breach, detection, exploit, governance, hacker, healthcare, intelligence, malicious, risk, technology, threat, tool, wafThe “Good Enough” Trap If you ask most organizations how they protect their APIs, they point to their WAF (Web Application Firewall). They have the OWASP Top 10 rules enabled. The dashboard is green. They feel safe. But attackers know exactly how your WAF works, and, more importantly, how to trick it. We recently worked…
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New GlassWorm attack targets macOS via compromised OpenVSX extensions
A new GlassWorm malware attack through compromised OpenVSX extensions focuses on stealing passwords, crypto-wallet data, and developer credentials and configurations from macOS systems. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-glassworm-attack-targets-macos-via-compromised-openvsx-extensions/
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Transparency in Decline as Data Breaches Hit New High
ITRC Report: 2025 Breach Notices Lack Critical Details as AI-Based Attacks Surge. The Identity Theft Resource Center tracked a record 3,322 U.S. data breaches in 2025, more than any previous year. Yet, only 30% of breach notices included actionable details that other defenders need. ITRC’s James Lee warns that this lack of transparency puts people…