Cybersecurity
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CSE Discloses Three Offensive Cyber Operations in Rare 2025 Report
Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed in its 2025 annual report that it conducted three authorized offensive c…

Armored Likho Targets Governments and Power Operators with BusySnake Stealer
The Armored Likho APT group, uncovered by Kaspersky, is conducting cyber-espionage and financially motivated attacks against governmen…

A U.S. Local Government Paid $1 Million for an Illusion of Control
A U.S. government entity paid roughly $1 million in bitcoin to the Kairos ransomware group on June 13, 2025, to prevent the release of…

Researcher Documents Real-Time Shared Access Between FortiBleed Operator and INC Ransom, Lynx Panels for First Time
SOCRadar documented that an operator with access to the FortiBleed infrastructure was simultaneously logged into the negotiation panel…

Bad Epoll: Linux Kernel Bug Roots Android, Escapes Chrome Sandbox
CVE-2026-46242 is a race condition in the Linux kernel's epoll subsystem that allows an unprivileged user to gain root privileges. The…

Medtronic Begins Breach Notifications: 369,200+ Confirmed Victims vs. 9 Million Claimed by ShinyHunters
Medtronic has started notifying individuals affected by an April 2026 corporate IT breach. State regulator filings confirm over 369,20…

FortiBleed, the Missing Link: From 430,000 Targeted Firewalls to INC and Lynx Ransomware
SOCRadar ties the FortiBleed credential theft campaign to the INC and Lynx ransomware groups, revealing a single operator managing bot…

ZDI-26-377: XSS in NetVault Backup Enables Auth Bypass and SYSTEM RCE Chain
An XSS flaw in the viewclient page of Quest NetVault Backup lets a remote attacker bypass authentication and, when chained with other…

ScreenConnect Abused to Deliver AsyncRAT via 90+ Spoofed Freeware Domains
Kaspersky MDR uncovered a large-scale campaign that weaponizes the legitimate remote-access tool ScreenConnect to deploy AsyncRAT thro…

Citrix Patches Six NetScaler Flaws: The Trap Is Manual
Citrix released patches on June 30, 2026 for six vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including a new CitrixBleed i…

RustDuck: The IoT Botnet Rewritten in Rust Challenges Researchers
QiAnXin XLab has tracked RustDuck since February 2026: a two-stage malware rewritten in Rust with enterprise-grade encryption and anti…

Langflow RCE Exploited for Miner Worm: 19-Day Campaign
CVE-2026-33017: Commodity operators exploit exposed AI endpoints to deploy Lambsys, an SSH worm that compromises entire enterprise inf…