Tag: security

Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365 services. The activity has been observed since May 2026 and begins with the attackers researching targeted organizations and employees before calling or messaging victims […]

Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers. A new report from cloud security company Wiz confirmed exploitation across multiple environments, including an exploit chain that combines CVE-2026-42018 and CVE-2026-42016. The third vulnerability is CVE-2026-82329, a critical […]

As AI platforms become part of daily workflows, attackers have found a new way in: the platforms themselves. The Huntress Security Operations Center (SOC) says the bigger day-to-day risk comes from threat actors abusing the AI features people already trust and rely on, rather than attacks on the AI companies or models themselves. Over the […]

GitLab urged users on Thursday to patch their servers immediately against a maximum-severity path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85706. The security flaw, discovered by a security researcher using the ‘s3ntago‘ handle and reported via GitLab’s HackerOne bug bounty program, stems from improper path confinement and missing authentication enforcement in the repository commits API. Unauthenticated attackers can […]

Cisco Talos says two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities have been exploited by three separate threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks. The attacks exploited CVE-2026-20079, a maximum-severity authentication bypass flaw, and CVE-2026-20316, a static credential vulnerability that allows attackers to log in using a low-privileged account. According to a new […]

Identity verification company IDScan has confirmed that hackers accessed customer data stored in its cloud platform, days after reports linked the company to a massive database containing more than 153 million driver’s license scans. IDScan disclosed the incident in a September 4 security notice, saying it learned on or around September 1 that certain data […]

Multiple cyber-espionage groups deployed an exploit kit dubbed “BlueMoon” that leveraged zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome. BlueMoon combines two security issues in Chromium-based browsers that allow remote code execution and sandbox escape with a kernel local privilege escalation in Windows. The kit appears to be a shared modular tool that supports exploit additions […]

Tl;dr: Identity was the target in roughly half of all confirmed malicious activity. Prophet Security breaks down the four main attack patterns seen across customer environments between May and July 2026, and explains why some attacks succeeded while others were blocked. Between May 1 and July 31, 2026, Prophet Security investigated every alert in customer environments […]