Dark Caracal Adds New Malware to Cyber Espionage Arsenal
GoCaracal is a new modular malware framework that broadens Dark Caracal’s capabilities to steal data and maintain access to victims.
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Red Flags That Expose Fake North Korean IT Workers
North Korean operatives posing as IT workers are improving their tactics, but researchers say there are still ways to spot them before they do damage.
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Android Malware Hijacks Update System for Car Head Units
Threat actors behind a notorious click-fraud botnet have set their sights on vehicle infotainment modules and are abusing legitimate functionality to spread infections.
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FBI Disrupts China-Linked QTFY Infrastructure Used to Steal Data From U.S. Organizations
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company…
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Nimbus Manticore Expands Toolset With TWOSTROKE-Like Backdoor and SSH Tunneler
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered additional infrastructure and previously undocumented malware associated with Nimbus Manticore, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Group-IB, in a new analysis published today, described the cyber espionage actor as among the most active Iranian APT groups in 2026. Nimbus Manticore (aka
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NovaCookies Campaigns Abuse Genuine Docusign Notifications to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that’s used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process. In a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, Island characterized the $320/month service as a subscription-based phishing platform that
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CISA Red Team Compromised Two Critical Infrastructure Orgs, One Detected Nothing
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradecraft while recording sharply different defensive outcomes. Both organizations were fully compromised at the domain level, and in both, the red team also
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Unpatched Kaltura mwEmbed Flaws Could Let Remote Attackers Read Files and Run Code
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has disclosed two unpatched vulnerabilities in Kaltura’s HTML5 video player library that allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a server and execute code on it. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-19913 and CVE-2026-19912, both stem from the same unsafe deserialization in the mwEmbedLoader.php endpoint of the mwEmbed…
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Imagine the SOC Without a Queue: From Alert Backlog to AI Hypothesis Engine
The SOC we’ve always known was built around a model that guarantees most of the alert queue will never receive analyst review. There’s never time. In a traditional SOC, the typical progression follows a well-known pattern: an alert arrives; a detection engine assigns a severity score. The issue then waits for a human to decide…
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‘NovaCookies’ Kit Steals Microsoft 365 Sessions for $320 a Month
The adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing service lowers the barrier to entry for actors to create attacks and steal more than just user credentials.