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Chainstack Reports Production Systems Breach Exposing Customer Data and Password Hashes
Blockchain infrastructure provider Chainstack on Tuesday disclosed that it was targeted in a cyber attack that allowed an unauthorized party to gain access to some parts of its infrastructure. The incident is assessed to be part of a large-scale, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered attack…
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British businesses caught in Europe-wide supermarket fridge attacks
Supermarket and grocery store refrigerator controls across Europe were hacked in the early hours of Monday in the second such wave of attacks in recent weeks — following a first wave in France — with unidentified perpetrators defrosting fridges and causing stock to spoil.
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Binance Reveals How Fake Job Interviews and AI Tool Abuse Led to $6.43 Billion Theft
Binance on Tuesday said the record-setting theft of $6.43 billion in assets from the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange was the culmination of a "sophisticated, multi-stage campaign" that involved the use of a tampered Homebrew installation and recruitment-themed social engineering attack…
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Binance CEO says ‘months-long campaign’ led to $6.3 billion theft as N. Korea denies responsibility
North Korean attackers "combined a range of techniques, including social engineering by fake recruitment interviews," Binance said about the multibillion-dollar crypto heist it discovered in October.
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European authorities probe ongoing attacks targeting grocery refrigerators
US military investigators have been working with French agencies after hacks hit domestic bases.
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Barracuda Flaws Could Be Chained to Bypass Authorization and Gain Root Access
Barracuda has disclosed details of two vulnerabilities affecting its products that, if chained together, could allow an attacker to bypass authorization controls and gain root access to a susceptible device. The vulnerabilities, a pre-authentication authorization bypass vulnerability and a command…
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Google Warns LLMjacking Attacks Are Costing Some Enterprises Up to $1 Million in Cloud Charges
Google on Monday warned that threat actors are hijacking enterprise access to Large Language Models (LLMs) to fraudulently leverage expensive computing resources and AI services. The tactic is called LLMjacking, a form of resource hijacking adapted for the LLM era, where an attacker obtains an API…
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LLMJacking Emerges as Thriving Cybercriminal Enterprise
Cybercriminals have turned reselling cloud access to LLMs into a lucrative business model, with some victims paying as much as $1 million in resource consumption before access was revoked.
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AI threats create ‘urgent’ need to renew cybersecurity information-sharing law, businesses tell Congress
Leading infrastructure-operator associations want lawmakers to renew the program for another 10 years.
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cPGuard Update Channel Hijacked to Backdoor Linux Servers and Collect Password Hashes
An attacker broke into the update system of the cPGuard security tool on November 2 and used it to send a malicious script to customers' Linux servers. The script installed a backdoor and collected password hashes and other sensitive files from servers that ran it, cPGuard maker OPSSHIELD said in…
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Barracuda warns of critical flaws allowing root access to devices
Cybersecurity company Barracuda Networks warned customers to patch two vulnerabilities that can let attackers run commands with root privileges. [...]
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Gartner Predicts SOCs Will Have 50% More Engineers Than Analysts by 2028
Gartner predicts that security operations centers will have 50% more engineers than analysts by 2028 as AI agents take over routine alert handling. Prophet Security examines how AI is reshaping SOC roles, from analyst responsibilities and detection engineering to threat hunting and exposure…
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Frontline Education Data Breach Impacts Over 1.3 Million
Hackers exploited a flaw in third-party software and stole the personal information of school district staff and students.
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Police seize over 100 servers linked to investment fraud with more than €4 million in losses
Seven people have been arrested and more than 100 servers seized in a coordinated law enforcement action against an investment fraud network that started unravelling after a complaint from a German couple. Seized servers (Source: Europol) The couple went to the police in 2022 after putting their…
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CrowdStrike Reportedly Paying $495 Million for AI Security Firms Fiddler, Dreadnode
The acquisitions will add AI agent observability and automated AI security testing capabilities to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.
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Novee puts forgotten internet-facing assets through penetration testing
Novee’s External Surface Testing is a new capability in its AI penetration testing platform that helps security teams discover internet-facing assets and validate exploitable vulnerabilities. It tests newly disclosed CVEs and findings imported from third-party external attack surface management…
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3AM Affiliate Embraces AI-Like Loops in European School Attack
Evidence suggests a model may have generated and revised commands during the ransom gang's breach, though researchers stopped short of claiming full automation.
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UK school estate hit by 3AM ransomware in suspected AI-assisted attack
A 3AM ransomware affiliate targeted a school estate in the UK and successfully encrypted around 37 of nearly 50 machines reached from an unmanaged host. [...]
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Assured helps recovery teams find clean backups after ransomware attacks
Assured Data Protection has announced CleanRoom SCAN, a new managed service designed to strengthen cyber recovery by independently scanning isolated backup data using multiple leading security engines to identify hidden threats before restoration. The service helps organizations identify malware…
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Russia dismantles infrastructure of VasyGrek cybercrime group, detains three suspects
Russia's Interior Ministry said Monday that police had dismantled the group's infrastructure and identified its suspected members following an investigation conducted with assistance from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.
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Russia-linked cyber spies target Ukraine's war crimes investigations, military aid routes
The hackers use relatively simple malware to steal sensitive documents, login credentials and other information from Ukrainian organizations, particularly those near the front line and the Russian border.
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Police seizes over 100 servers in investment scam crackdown
European law enforcement authorities arrested seven suspects and seized more than 100 servers in a joint action targeting an unnamed company suspected of providing fraudulent trading websites to criminal gangs. [...]
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AI agents scale and speed up Chinese-linked attacks
A China-nexus espionage group used AI agents to attack more than 200 organizations in 11 days, CrowdStrike said last week. On Monday, Kaspersky published details of a separate campaign against educational institutions in Africa and Latin America, mounted by Chinese-speaking operators. Though the…
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Android’s November 2026 Updates Patch Over 200 Vulnerabilities
The most severe is a critical flaw in Framework leading to remote code execution without user interaction.