Researchers found more than 16,000 misconfigured Supabase databases exposing readable tables with personally identifiable information, passwords, or authentication tokens. [...]
Enterprises regularly rigorously monitor human employees, while autonomous AI agents quietly operate with broad privileges that could turn them into the next generation of insider threats.
Hackers have used a malware family called NeedyMantis to maintain long-term access to networks they had already breached, Microsoft said in a technical analysis. The malware has been seen in a small number of targeted intrusions at telecommunications organizations, universities, medical nonprofits, intergovernmental organizations, and government contractors. Its use goes back to at least
What is IAM for AI agents? AI agents authenticate, invoke tools, and act across enterprise systems with delegated authority. IAM for AI Agents is the identity-control architecture that governs those actors. This guide covers the limits of conventional provisioning, the components that matter, how to evaluate framework choices, and what runtime evidence proves an agent behaved as intended.
The attacker who stole about $388 million from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitget gained access through a vulnerability in a third-party security product the exchange used, Bitget said on Monday. The attacker exploited the flaw to obtain high-level internal credentials and then, on September 24, used them to send fraudulent withdrawal commands to Bitget's wallet system. Exchanges keep most
RatHat's operators build and publish the Android banking trojan and control infected phones from a web console, according to security company Cleafy. Cleafy has traced nearly 100 deployments of that console since April 2026. It said this fits a malware-as-a-service model, in which each customer runs a separate copy. The console stores what the malware collects from each phone,
The misuse and abuse of AI-generated voice is growing. Modulate’s intention is to allow real time detection and intervention. The post Modulate Raises $25 Million to Advance Deepfake Detection appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A New Mexico jury found Facebook violated the law nearly 44 million times by lying to consumers about its data privacy practices.
On Saturday, October 24, 2026, we will conduct an exercise demonstrating that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud can operate without depending on any infrastructure outside of the European Union (EU). For several hours, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will operate without a connection to the AWS Global Network backbone. The backbone is the private network […]
Learn what good privilege hygiene looks like, from local admin sprawl to accidental access, plus least privilege best practices you can start today.
A purported ad-blocker exfiltrates reams of sensitive information and benefits from having Google's stamp of approval despite researcher warnings.
Incident responders began warning of potential vulnerabilities in NetScaler Gateway products on Saturday before cybersecurity agencies in the Netherlands, U.S. and U.K. released advisories on Sunday confirming vulnerabilities. Citrix itself confirmed eight new vulnerabilities.
The JadePuffer ransomware operator is targeting Azure tenants with agent-driven attacks that conduct reconnaissance, steal credentials, and destroy core components. [...]
The "agentic threat actor" may have used exposed credentials to access resources and delete cloud-based storage, applications, and databases.
SecurityWeek seeks original, vendor-neutral presentations that help cybersecurity leaders navigate emerging threats, strengthen resilience, and address the strategic challenges facing today’s enterprise security programs. The post Call for Presentations Open for 2026 CISO Forum Virtual Summit appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect's arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members dramatically escalated their attacks, stealing highly sensitive data from the FBI and extorting the Russian ransomware group Cl0p.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified NeedyMantis, a modular post-compromise malware framework used in targeted intrusions that combines custom loaders, encrypted archives, and extensible components to maintain long-term access and support follow-on operations. The post NeedyMantis: Unpacking a post-compromise malware family used in targeted operations appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
Nearly 400,000 DC Medicaid and Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries may have had personal data exposed through reports published on a public website. The District of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance is notifying nearly 400,000 Medicaid and DC Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries that their personal information may have been exposed. The incident affects people who enrolled between […]
A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten assumptions turning into live attack surface. Elsewhere, weak service accounts, old bugs, exposed systems, phishing kits, and strangely easy exploit paths kept doing useful work for attackers. Nothing
Infostealer logs exposed AI account credentials and sessions tied to more than 80,000 corporate domains, creating risks ranging from stolen conversations to LLMjacking. SOCRadar examines the growing market for stolen AI logins and how organizations can identify their exposure. [...]
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 28th September, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES The FBI has confirmed unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov after the ShinyHunters group defaced the website. The group claimed to have stolen employee and applicant information and shared samples of purported FBI personnel […] The post 28th September – Threat Intelligence Report appeared first on Check Point Research.
Hackers stole personal data from a Polish healthcare software provider in the latest cyberattack to hit the country’s medical sector in recent months.
A former soldier in the U.S. Army was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to hacking into several telecommunications companies and leaking sensitive records.
Cameron John Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months in prison for stealing information from the wireless carriers. The post Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can govern them. They are connecting to apps, handling data, calling APIs, and acting across business systems—often without the same controls applied to human users. According to Okta’s Global CISO Insights 2026 report, only 47% of CISOs are confident they can identify every AI agent in their environment. Even among those who feel
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that's targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework called Hermes Agent. "The implant installs the framework unchanged, then overwrites its SOUL.md persona file," ThreatDown said. "The 39-line prompt directs it to execute tasks received through
The Medicaid IDs and other information of Medicaid and DC Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries were exposed. The post DC Health Agency Exposes 400,000 Beneficiary Records appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The extortion group has modified its exploit in new attacks targeting the PeopleSoft vulnerability CVE-2026-35273. The post Google Warns of ShinyHunters’ Fresh Oracle PeopleSoft Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft details Storm-3168, the JADEPUFFER-linked actor that used stolen service principals to delete Azure storage in minutes and harvest keys. Microsoft just published the first detailed look at what JADEPUFFER does inside Azure. Sysdig first spotted the group’s activity in July 2026 and called it the first documented agentic ransomware operation. Microsoft tracks the same […]
A New Mexico jury has found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform. The post New Mexico Jury Finds Facebook Liable for Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections appeared first on SecurityWeek.
