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Protecting Active Directory (AD) accounts starts with strong password policies, backed by consistent enforcement across the organization. However, make the rules too weak and you increase your attack surface; make them too strict and users will find workarounds, such as writing passwords down, reusing them across systems, or adding a predictable “!” to the end […]

The Glassworm botnet targeting developers in software supply-chain attacks has been disrupted after researchers took down its resilient command-and-control infrastructure relying on Solana blockchain transactions and the BitTorrent DHT network. ​In a coordinated operation conducted  yesterday, CrowdStrike, Google, and The Shadowserver Foundation cut off the botnet operators’ access to four distinct command-and-control (C2) channels designed […]

The FBI warned on Tuesday that the Silent Ransom Group (SRG) extortion gang is now targeting U.S.-based law firms in in-person data theft attacks. “As of Spring 2026, SRG actors use a social engineering scheme to pose as an employee from the victim’s IT department. SRG actors either directly call or send phishing emails to […]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their servers against a critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin, which is actively being exploited in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-48172, this privilege escalation vulnerability is related to the mishandling of Redis enable/disable features and was found […]

Hackers exploited a critical zero-day vulnerability in a server running the KnowledgeDeliver learning management system (LMS) to deploy the Godzilla web shell. The flaw is a deserialization issue tracked as CVE-2026-5426 and can be exploited without authentication. It stems from the use of a shared hardcoded machine key in the web portal configuration across all […]

U.S. telecommunications giant Charter Communications has confirmed it suffered a data breach after the ShinyHunters extortion group threatened to leak stolen data unless a ransom is paid. Charter Communications is one of the largest broadband providers in the United States, serving tens of millions of residential and business customers through its Spectrum brand. In a […]

Varonis announced an integration with the Claude Compliance API, bringing Claude Enterprise and Claude Platform activity into Varonis’ Atlas AI Security Platform.  Organizations across industries rely on Claude Enterprise for day-to-day knowledge work and analysis, and Claude Platform to build, deploy, and operate applications, tools, and AI agents. Varonis Atlas provides the visibility and oversight that enterprises need to adopt AI […]

Network incidents often force IT teams to move between monitoring dashboards, infrastructure tools, ticketing platforms, identity systems, and communication platforms just to understand what happened and coordinate a response. On June 2, 2026, BleepingComputer will host a live webinar titled “From alert to resolution: Fixing the gaps in network incident response” with Edgar Ortiz, a […]

The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole the personal information of over 183,000 people after hacking the systems of convenience store chain giant 7-Eleven in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. Founded in 1927, 7-Eleven now operates, franchises, and licenses more than 86,000 stores worldwide, including 13,000 stores in the U.S. and […]