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Mandiant detailed the incident in a blog post Wednesday, but it’s unclear who was behind it or if they managed to get broad visibility into the victim’s internal traffic. The post Malicious hackers exploit Cisco zero-day for highest access level at communications service provider appeared first on CyberScoop.

As yet another extortion crew Icarus exploits Salesforce-linked integrations

ESET’s 2026 APT Activity Report suggests China-backed APTs are using instability in the region to target victims, as well as continuing activity against organizations around the globe

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.…

A threat actor known as UNC6426 leveraged keys stolen following the supply chain compromise of the nx npm package last year to completely breach a victim's cloud environment within a span of 72 hours

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new cryptojacking campaign that uses pirated software bundles as lures to deploy a bespoke XMRig miner program on compromised hosts

Patch Now, as Scans and Hack Attempts Happening 'at Scale,' Security Experts WarnHacker interest is high in a days-old vulnerability in widely used web application framework React, with dozens of organizations already falling victim to it, cybersecurity experts warn. React is used by an estimated two-fifths of the world's top 10,000 websites.

British Health System Investigates Claim Amid Wave of Enterprise Data TheftsRansomware gang Clop has claimed the United Kingdom's National Health Service among its latest victims. The NHS confirmed that it is listed on a cybercriminal group's dark website, but did not comment on Clop's claims. The hack attack appears tied to Oracle E-Business Suite exploits.

Clop's Oracle EBS exploit spree shows no sign of slowing, claims nearly 30 more casualties in media, finance, and tech. Digital engineering outfit GlobalLogic says personal data from more than 10,000 current and former employees was exposed in the wave of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attacks attributed to the Clop ransomware gang. The Hitachi-owned biz joins a growing roster of high-profile victims that also now includes The Washington Post and Allianz UK.…

The ransomware group known as Qilin (aka Agenda, Gold Feather, and Water Galura) has claimed more than 40 victims every month since the start of 2025, barring January, with the number of postings on its data leak site touching a high of 100 cases in June

Also: Shibarium Plans to Reimburse Victims, $1.8M Abracadabra HackThis week, hackers stole $21 million from SBI crypto, Shibarium planned reimbursement for $4 million bridge exploit victims, Abracadabra lost $1.8 million in a hack and North Korean threat actors have set a new record stealing $2 billion this year so far.

Also: Hackers Use Ethereum Smart Contracts to Hide Malicious npm CodeSwissBorg $41M hack, hidden malicious npm code, sanctions on Southeast Asian networks, California launderer's sentencing, Kinto's shuttering, Venus Protocol pays back victim, Nemo Protocol hack, DOJ's $5M recovery effort, Lagarde's proposed rules and the SEC-CFTC plan for market clarity.

Trend Micro highlighted a sophisticated post-compromise attack chain to deploy the Warlock ransomware in unpatched SharePoint on-prem environments

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new Android trojan called PhantomCard that abuses near-field communication (NFC) to conduct relay attacks for facilitating fraudulent transactions in attacks targeting banking customers in Brazil

Researchers See 'Acceleration' in Existing Threats, Ongoing Criminal SuccessCybercrime so far this year can be summarized as featuring "more of everything," with researchers tracking increases in the number of ransomware and data breach victims, credentials stolen by infostealers, and new vulnerability disclosures with exploits coming to light.

The National Treasury of South Africa is among the half-dozen known victims in South Africa — along with other nations — of the mass compromise of on-premises Microsoft SharePoint servers.

Threat actors with suspected ties to Russia have been observed taking advantage of a Google account feature called application specific passwords (or app passwords) as part of a novel social engineering tactic designed to gain access to victims' emails

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday disclosed that ransomware actors are targeting unpatched SimpleHelp Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) instances to compromise customers of an unnamed utility billing software provider

Threat actors linked to lesser-known ransomware and malware projects now use AI tools as lures to infect unsuspecting victims with malicious payloads. [...]

Trellix's John Fokker Advises CISOs to Prioritize Patching, MFA, Network VisibilityThreat actors aren't rushing to adopt AI tools to exploit vulnerabilities. "They still prefer a victim with weak passwords, bad MFA, bad patching. It is the easiest way to make money for criminals so they don't have to invest in AI," said John Fokker, head of threat intelligence at Trellix.