Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Huntress found an AI-generated PowerShell script used for AD reconnaissance, showing attackers are using AI to create custom, evasive tools. During an incident response investigation on June 3, 2026, Huntress analyst Jevon Ang recovered a PowerShell script from a compromised Windows Server that the attacker had used to map out the victim’s Active Directory environment. […]

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called CrashStealer that's capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised systems

FBI says TeamPCP poisoned trusted developer tools to steal cloud credentials, spread malware through software updates, and extort victims. On July 2, 2026, the FBI published a FLASH alert identifying the criminal group called TeamPCP and detailing how it compromised widely used developer and security tools to steal credentials from victim environments at scale. The […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims.

The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been attributed to a new malware called Umbrij that's designed to gain surreptitious access to a victim's email correspondence via the Google API

Attackers fingerprint victims through user-agent data to deliver OS-specific payloads, increasing compromise rates and campaign profitability.

Klue's Battlecards is now the third integrated application that has been compromised to steal customers' Salesforce data, and victims include Huntress, the cybersecurity vendor.

Attackers compromised Awesome Motive CDN files, backdooring WordPress sites running OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage. Sansec researchers discovered an active supply chain attack hitting WordPress sites running OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage, three plugins operated by Awesome Motive, one of the largest WordPress plugin companies in the world. The malicious JavaScript wasn’t sitting on any victim’s server. […]

Victims Increasingly Face Multiple Compromises From a Single IncidentIdentity theft scams are increasingly unfolding as coordinated, AI-assisted attack chains that begin with phishing or impersonation escalate into account takeovers, device compromise and broader fraud, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.

TrendAI™ Research analyzed an intrusion where threat actors used the EtherHiding technique to route ClearFake payload delivery through smart contracts on the BNB Smart Chain testnet. The attack chain ended with two simultaneously deployed stealers, SectopRAT and ACRStealer alongside an on-chain execution tracker that confirmed each victim compromise in real time.

All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at once A majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt victim organizations’ operations, according to a joint 10-country advisory.…

A previously undocumented threat activity cluster known as UNC6692 has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics via Microsoft Teams to deploy a custom malware suite on compromised hosts

Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.…

U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. [...]

First public downstream victim, but won't be the last AI hiring startup Mercor confirmed it was "one of thousands of companies" affected by the LiteLLM supply-chain attack as the fallout from the Trivy compromise continues to spread.…

Attackers compromised the open-source security tool and published malicious versions of the software. Mandiant warns the fallout could impact up to 10,000 downstream victims. The post Experts warn of a ‘loud and aggressive’ extortion wave following Trivy hack appeared first on CyberScoop.

Huntress researchers said it’s likely the victims they've identified represent just a fraction of compromised organizations worldwide. The post An AI-powered phishing campaign has compromised hundreds of organizations appeared first on CyberScoop.

Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next? Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US government warned.…

North Korean threat actors have been observed sending phishing to compromise targets and obtain access to a victim's KakaoTalk desktop application to distribute malicious payloads to certain contacts

The botnet, which compromised routers and IoT devices in 163 countries, claimed about 369,000 victims and $5.8 million from its cybercriminal customers, officials said. The post Authorities takedown global proxy network SocksEscort appeared first on CyberScoop.