FBI and Europol Seize LeakBase Forum Used to Trade Stolen Credentials
Ravie LakshmananMar 05, 2026Malware / Dark Web A joint law enforcement operation has dismantled LeakBase, one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals to…
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Europol-Led Operation Takes Down Tycoon 2FA Phishing-as-a-Service Linked to 64,000 Attacks
Tycoon 2FA, one of the prominent phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkits that allowed cybercriminals to stage adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) credential harvesting attacks at scale, was dismantled by a…
APT28-Linked Campaign Deploys BadPaw Loader and MeowMeow Backdoor in Ukraine
Ravie LakshmananMar 05, 2026Cyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Russian cyber campaign that has targeted Ukrainian entities with…
Where Multi-Factor Authentication Stops and Credential Abuse Starts
Organizations typically roll out multi-factor authentication (MFA) and assume stolen passwords are no longer enough to access systems. In Windows environments, that assumption is often…
Dust Specter Targets Iraqi Officials with New SPLITDROP and GHOSTFORM Malware
Ravie LakshmananMar 05, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence A suspected Iran-nexus threat actor has been attributed to a campaign targeting government officials in Iraq by impersonating…
Cisco Confirms Active Exploitation of Two Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Vulnerabilities
Ravie LakshmananMar 05, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Cisco has disclosed that two more vulnerabilities affecting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly SD-WAN vManage) have come under active…
Hikvision and Rockwell Automation CVSS 9.8 Flaws Added to CISA KEV Catalog
Ravie LakshmananMar 06, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Hikvision and Rockwell…
China-Linked Hackers Use TernDoor, PeerTime, BruteEntry in South American Telecom Attacks
Ravie LakshmananMar 06, 2026Cyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence A China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been targeting critical telecommunications infrastructure in South America since…
Iran-Linked MuddyWater Hackers Target U.S. Networks With New Dindoor Backdoor
New research from Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team has discovered evidence of an Iranian hacking group embedding itself in several U.S. companies’…
The MSP Guide to Using AI-Powered Risk Management to Scale Cybersecurity
The Hacker NewsMar 06, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Enterprise Security Scaling cybersecurity services as an MSP or MSSP requires technical expertise and a business model that…
Multi-Stage VOID#GEIST Malware Delivering XWorm, AsyncRAT, and Xeno RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a multi-stage malware campaign that uses batch scripts as a pathway to deliver various encrypted remote access trojan (RATs)…
Anthropic Finds 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities Using Claude Opus 4.6 AI Model
Ravie LakshmananMar 07, 2026Browser Security / Artificial Intelligence Anthropic on Friday said it discovered 22 new security vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser as part…