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Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data

Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firms merged in July 2023

Hims Breach Exposes the Most Sensitive Kinds of PHI

Threat actors breached the telehealth brand, and now they may know who's bald, overweight, and impotent. What could they do with that information?

Your Next Breach Will Look Like Business as Usual

These are the fundamental detection model shifts cybersecurity teams need to make to keep up with the rising number of credential-based attacks.

FINRA Launches Financial Intelligence Fusion Center to Combat Cybersecurity and Fraud Threats

Orange Business Reimagines Enterprise Voice Communications With Trust and AI

Industrial Controllers Still Vulnerable As Conflicts Move to Cyber

The US government warns programmable logic controllers are being targeted, and research turns up 179 vulnerable operational technology (OT) devices.

GlassWorm Campaign Uses Zig Dropper to Infect Multiple Developer IDEs

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that's designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environments (IDEs) on a developer's machine. The technique has been discovered in an Open VSX extension named "specstudio.code-wakatime-activity-tracker," which masquerades as WakaTime, a

Browser Extensions Are the New AI Consumption Channel That No One Is Talking About

While much of the discussion on AI security centers around protecting ‘shadow’ AI and GenAI consumption, there's a wide-open window nobody's guarding: AI browser extensions.  A new report from LayerX exposes just how deep this blind spot goes, and why AI extensions may be the most dangerous AI threat surface in your network that isn't on anyone's 

Google Rolls Out DBSC in Chrome 146 to Block Session Theft on Windows

Google has made Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) generally available to all Windows users of its Chrome web browser, months after it began testing the security feature in open beta. The public availability is currently limited to Windows users on Chrome 146, with macOS expansion planned in an upcoming Chrome release. "This project represents a significant

Marimo RCE Flaw CVE-2026-39987 Exploited Within 10 Hours of Disclosure

A critical security vulnerability in Marimo, an open-source Python notebook for data science and analysis, has been exploited within 10 hours of public disclosure, according to findings from Sysdig. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-39987 (CVSS score: 9.3), a pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability impacting all versions of Marimo prior to and including

Obfuscated JavaScript or Nothing, (Thu, Apr 9th)

I spotted an interesting piece of JavaScript code that was delivered via a phishing email in a RAR archive. The file was called “cbmjlzan.JS” (SHA256:a8ba9ba93b4509a86e3d7dd40fd0652c2743e32277760c5f7942b788b74c5285) and is only identified as malicious by 15 AV&#x27s on VirusTotal[1].

Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Update Distributed via Compromised Nextend Servers

Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a backdoor. The incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35 for WordPress, per WordPress security company Patchstack. Smart Slider 3 is a popular WordPress slider plugin with more than 800,000 active installations across its free and Pro

Russia's 'Fancy Bear' APT Continues Its Global Onslaught

Victims don't need to match the cybercrime group's technical sophistication, experts say. But patching and some form of zero trust are now non-negotiable.

'BlueHammer' Windows Zero-Day Exploit Signals Microsoft Bug Disclosure Issues

Under the alias 'Chaotic Eclipse,' a researcher released a PoC exploit for a zero-day flaw that allows for system takeover by a local user, citing an undisclosed beef with Microsoft.

Can Anthropic Keep Its Exploit-Writing AI Out of the Wrong Hands?

Its Mythos Preview model, which can allegedly find and exploit critical zero-days, also comes with certain controls, the vendor said.

EngageLab SDK Flaw Exposed 50M Android Users, Including 30M Crypto Wallets

Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability in a widely used third-party Android software development kit (SDK) called EngageLab SDK that could have put millions of cryptocurrency wallet users at risk. "This flaw allows apps on the same device to bypass Android security sandbox and gain unauthorized access to private data," the Microsoft Defender

Do Ceasefires Slow Cyberattacks? History Suggests Not

The cybersecurity community is waiting with bated breath to see if Iranian hackers will honor a ceasefire that doesn't actually name or directly involve them.

UAT-10362 Targets Taiwanese NGOs with LucidRook Malware in Spear-Phishing Campaigns

A previously undocumented threat cluster dubbed UAT-10362 has been attributed to spear-phishing campaigns targeting Taiwanese non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and suspected universities to deploy a new Lua-based malware called LucidRook. "LucidRook is a sophisticated stager that embeds a Lua interpreter and Rust-compiled libraries within a dynamic-link library (DLL) to download and

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Hybrid P2P Botnet, 13-Year-Old Apache RCE and 18 More Stories

Thursday. Another week, another batch of things that probably should've been caught sooner but weren't. This one's got some range — old vulnerabilities getting new life, a few "why was that even possible" moments, attackers leaning on platforms and tools you'd normally trust without thinking twice. Quiet escalations more than loud zero-days, but the kind that matter more in

The Hidden Security Risks of Shadow AI in Enterprises

As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing workflows, they also operate outside the visibility of security teams, bypassing controls and creating new blind spots in what is known as shadow AI. While similar to the phenomenon of