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In Your Biggest Security Risk Isn't Malware — It's What You Already Trust, we made a simple argument: the most dangerous activity inside most organizations no longer looks like an attack. It looks like administration. PowerShell, WMIC, netsh, Certutil, MSBuild — the same trusted utilities your IT team uses every day are also the preferred toolkit of modern threat actors. Bitdefender's analysis

On Thursday, Microsoft shared mitigations for a high-severity Exchange Server vulnerability exploited in attacks that allow threat actors to execute arbitrary code via cross-site scripting (XSS) while targeting Outlook on the web users. [...]

A suspected China-linked threat actor targeted the Indian branch of a global manufacturer leveraging an open source offensive toolkit

Researchers Say Nation-State Actors Are Evolving Persistence TechniquesAn apparent Chinese nation-state hacking group gussied up its tooling with new modular functionality, say security researchers who observed a cyberespionage campaign affecting Asia-Pacific governments. The activity resembles attack patterns of the threat actor tracked as Mustang Panda

This is the second time this year a threat actor has leveraged a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in Cisco's network control system.

Exposed UIs, weak authentication, and risky defaults could turn cloud-native AI apps on Kubernetes into potential targets by threat actors. Learn how exploitable misconfigurations lead to RCE and data leaks. The post When configuration becomes a vulnerability: Exploitable misconfigurations in AI apps appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security vulnerability in PraisonAI, an open-source multi-agent orchestration framework, within four hours of its public disclosure

Human IT managers thought they were being nice to the boss, but were assisting a threat actor

Human IT managers thought they were being nice to the boss, but were assisting a threat actor

Threat actors are publishing RubyGems packages that include scrapers targeting public-facing UK government servers, but with no clear objective.

A threat actor with affiliations to China has been linked to a "multi-wave intrusion" targeting an unnamed Azerbaijani oil and gas company between late December 2025 and late February 2026, marking an expansion of its targeting

In the latest evolution of automated cyberattacks, threat actors heavily leveraged AI agents to support campaigns against entities in Mexico and Brazil.

The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is calling on Instructure executives to testify about two cyberattacks by the ShinyHunters extortion group that targeted the company's Canvas platform, allowing threat actors to steal student data and disrupt schools during final exams. [...]

TeamPCP, the threat actor behind the recentsupply chain attack spree, has been linked to the compromise of the npm and PyPI packages from TanStack, UiPath, Mistral AI, OpenSearch, and Guardrails AI as part of a fresh Mini Shai-Hulud campaign

A threat actor named Mr_Rot13 has been attributed to the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical cPanel flaw to deploy a backdoor codenamed Filemanager on compromised environments

Google on Monday disclosed that it identified an unknown threat actor using a zero-day exploit that it said was likely developed with an artificial intelligence (AI) system, marking the first time the technology has been put to use in the wild in a malicious context for vulnerability discovery and exploit generation