Cybersecurity News and Updates

A major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed?

For many security teams, answering that means jumping between vulnerability scanners, endpoint tools, cloud inventories, SBOMs, repositories, and application data to build enough context to act.

As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and research, that delay matters more

Cybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create “stolen keys” that grant illicit access to tools from model providers like Google, Anthropic, and others. 

Information stealers like Lumma Stealer or Vidar are equipped to harvest a wide range of data from compromised systems. This can include credential, session tokens, and API

Multiple espionage-motivated threat activity clusters have been found deploying a previously undocumented exploit kit called BlueMoon that chains together multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome.

The first in-the-wild use of BlueMoon has been attributed to the China-aligned state-sponsored group tracked as APT31 (aka Bronze Vinewood, Judgement Panda, JungleBamboo,

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced coordinated actions aimed at an illicit online marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee that offered scam services, including seizing Telegram channels used to run the service, confiscating two cryptocurrency wallets, and deploying the Scam Center Strike Force to Madagascar to help disrupt 13 scam compounds run by Chinese organized crime

Veradigm said access was limited to a specific interface, and did not impact the company’s broader environment such as its networks, servers or databases. The incident did not result in operational disruptions, the company added.

The settlement concludes a legal fight that dates to April 2024, when UK users sued for the alleged violations of their country’s privacy laws.

The U.S. government also carried out a seizure of $52.8 million from 52 wallets connected to the platform.

CISA’s cybersecurity, infrastructure security and emergency communications divisions are among the priorities as the agency fills vacancies created at the beginning of the Trump administration, acting director Nick Andersen says.

Bitcoin wallet company Alby has warned of a critical flaw in Alby Hub that could have let an attacker take over a wallet and send its funds, but only where the owner had made the Hub reachable from the internet.

Alby Hub is a self-hosted Lightning wallet, meaning the owner runs it on their own computer or server, and it holds their bitcoin. The flaw affects versions v1.7.0 through

A flaw in DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek’s open-source tool for running AI coding agents on a developer’s machine, let a sandboxed agent turn off its own sandbox with a single command.

The tool runs an agent’s commands inside an operating-system sandbox, so that an agent working on untrusted files cannot write outside its workspace. The agent could remove that limit by calling the tool’s own web