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A lot of this week’s security news has the same awkward answer to one question: “Why was that allowed to work?”
An extension asks for access and takes too much. A trusted service becomes part of a phishing chain. An old bug still gets results. An expo… Continue reading ThreatsDay: 200 Android Flaws, Browser-Built Phishing, 119K Scam Shops + 23 More Stories
Bad actors are misusing Google Play’s Early Access program to push deceptive apps that claim to offer money, rewards, casino winnings, and premium content.
Early Access apps are apps that haven’t been released on the official Android app marketplace. … Continue reading Google Play Early Access Abused to Push Thousands of Deceptive Android Apps
Check Point has patched two critical vulnerabilities in the way its firewall and management products handle VPN certificates. The company says both could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to run code, but only “under specific conditions” that it… Continue reading Check Point Discloses Two 9.8-Rated VPN Certificate Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated RCE
A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor has been attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to devise exploits targeting a recently disclosed pair of security flaws in PaperCut NG/MF and break into hundreds of instances.
According to indep… Continue reading PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances
The Gigabud banking trojan now installs a second Android app that creates a work profile on an infected phone and drops a tampered banking app inside it, security firm Group-IB said in a report published on September 9.
A work profile is a separa… Continue reading Gigabud Creates Android Work Profiles to Hide From Banking App Malware Checks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added three flaws, each impacting Cisco, Citrix, and Fortinet, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agenci… Continue reading CISA Flags Exploited Cisco, Citrix, Fortinet Flaws, Sets Sept. 12 Federal Patch Deadline
Nearly one in ten of the internet-facing LiteLLM servers that Wiz Research scanned in February accepted sk-1234, the example admin key in LiteLLM’s own setup guide.
LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway, the software a company puts betwe… Continue reading Nearly 1 in 10 Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Accepted the Example “sk-1234” Admin Key
Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest in a growing list of cases that have raised concerns about the security risks posed by autonomous… Continue reading Anthropic Discloses Fourth AI Hacking Incident Involving Claude Opus 4.6
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced coordinated actions aimed at an illicit online marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee that offered scam services, including seizing Telegram channels used to run the service, confiscating two cryp… Continue reading U.S. Disrupts Xinbi Guarantee Scam Marketplace, Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto
Multiple espionage-motivated threat activity clusters have been found deploying a previously undocumented exploit kit called BlueMoon that chains together multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome.
The first in-the-wild use of Bl… Continue reading Four Spy Groups Used the Same Chrome and Windows Exploit Kit Within a Week