Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams' external chat creation...
Japan’s GMO Offers $1 Million Bounty to Catch Hackers Behind FX Trading Cloud Breach
Japan's GMO Internet Group is offering up to $1 million in total for tips that help catch the attackers who breached its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service, after refusing to pay an...
ThreatsDay: Critical Firewall Flaws, Banking Trojans Rented, Weaponized PDF, Token Theft + 26 More...
Ravie LakshmananOct 29, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News
Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs...
ThreatsDay: AI Secrets Leak, PingCAP Source Theft, Signal Hang-Up Flaw, Laravel Auth Bypass +...
Ravie LakshmananOct 22, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News
This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a...
Hackers Breach Enterprise Firewalls and VPNs, Exposing Over 70,000 Credentials
Ravie LakshmananOct 23, 2026Vulnerability / Cyber Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale campaign that has targeted exposed network edge devices such as Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto...
Exposed Infrastructure Reveals How Ransomware Affiliates Used AI Agents to Execute Intrusions
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups.
Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team...
Qilin and INC Ransomware Groups Exploit Palo Alto Networks Flaw to Bypass MFA
Ravie LakshmananOct 20, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it's continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware...
ThreatsDay: Adobe RCE, DNS Wallet Theft, NVIDIA Container Escape, Self-Healing Backdoor + 23 More
Ravie LakshmananOct 15, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News
Someone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that’s an actual feature. And...
MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data
Ravie LakshmananOct 08, 2026Cybercrime / Ransomware
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly...
ThreatsDay: Ransomware Affiliate Betrayal, WhatsApp RAT, Exposed Hacker Tools and 12 More Stories
Ravie LakshmananOct 08, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News
The crooks have trust problems of their own. One ransomware affiliate decided to keep the profits for himself. Elsewhere, an attacker left...
