Cybercriminals using agentic pen-testing tools is a proverbial genie out of the bottle at this point, so enterprises need to get a defense plan in place right away.

The cybercriminals are re-targeting law firms that refused to pay its first ransom, with a social engineering con aimed at stealing Microsoft access tokens.

A search result isn’t always safe. An access request isn’t always harmless. And a familiar account doesn’t always mean a familiar person is using it. Simple things to remember. Yet a surprising amount of this week’s trouble starts right there. Attackers are using fake websites, stolen access, and trusted tools to get into places they…

Public exploit code released earlier this week claims that a local Windows user can gain SYSTEM privileges through the Common Log File System driver. The proof of concept, called SignDrop, targets a log-authentication feature added to the driver last year. It abuses how clfs.sys creates companion files when a privileged process opens a prepared log,…

A critical flaw in Red Hat Quay allows an attacker who can access a Quay registry to read and overwrite private container images in every repository. Quay enables anonymous access by default, and while it is enabled, the attacker needs no account. When it is off, anyone with a valid account can still exploit the…

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Citrix has released patches for multiple critical security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC, Citrix NetScaler Gateway, and NetScaler Console that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) or an authentication bypass. The critical vulnerabilities that impact NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway are listed below – CVE-2026-120868 (CVSS score: 9.3) – A memory overflow vulnerability in Packet

Cybersecurity researchers have found that lookalike domains masquerading as artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being used to serve ClickFix-style lures, browser-hijacking malware, and a set of extensions that hijack user searches. This delivery pattern has been codenamed TypoPrompting by Island. “AI-app lookalikes that turn an attempt to reach a familiar tool into a prompt to…

The ongoing campaign targeting ConnectWise ScreenConnect deployments involves the exploitation of a now-patched critical security flaw in the remote access software, and not a new vulnerability, it has emerged. Blackpoint Cyber’s Adversary Pursuit Group (APG), which shared the details with The Hacker News, said the recovered attacker toolkit exploits CVE-2026-84869 (CVSS score: 9.9), an

Google Cloud VMs on AMD Turin chips need a guest OS patch and a stop-and-start to protect against three CPU side-channel flaws, Google said this week. The company has already applied mitigations against attacks between VMs, and between VMs and the host. Inside a VM, the flaws may let an attacker with code on the…