As enterprises continue to roll out multi-factor authentication (MFA), attackers have adapted. Rather than only stealing credentials, attackers have shifted to stealing Open Authorization (OAuth) tokens, the keys that govern what applications can do on your behalf.
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Last 2 daysInfosec Insider Post Infosec Insider content is written by a trusted community of Threatpost cybersecurity subject matter experts. Each contribution has a goal of bringing a unique voice to important cybersecurity topics.
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Infosec Insider Post Infosec Insider content is written by a trusted community of Threatpost cybersecurity subject matter experts. Each contribution has a goal of bringing a unique voice to important cybersecurity topics.
Infosec Insider Post Infosec Insider content is written by a trusted community of Threatpost cybersecurity subject matter experts. Each contribution has a goal of bringing a unique voice to important cybersecurity topics.
2025 marked a special year in the history of vulnerability rewards and bug bounty programs at Google: our 15th anniversary 🎉🎉🎉! Originally started in 2010 , our vulnerability reward program (VRP) has seen constant additions and expansions over the past decade and a half, clearly indicating the value the programs under this umbrella contribute to the safety…
Indirect prompt injection (IPI) is an evolving threat vector targeting users of complex AI applications with multiple data sources, such as Workspace with Gemini. This technique enables the attacker to influence the behavior of an LLM by injecting malicious instructions into the data or tools used by the LLM as it completes the user’s query.
Swati Khandelwal Oct 23, 2026 Vulnerability / Web Security Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated. Their " Node2Shell " proof of concept ran code on the official Node.js 24.22.0 image for Linux arm64, with no debugger or custom build, by…
Ravie Lakshmanan Oct 23, 2026 Malware / Cyber Espionage The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm teamed up with another threat actor to carry out a destructive wiping attack targeting a Ukrainian logistics company last year. According to ESET , the attack involved UAC-0099 (aka Earth Sirrush) obtaining initial access to the target on July 16,…
Compromised TLS Certificates The Indian CA eMudhra Limited has eight TLS certificates with laughably weak private keys : The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. A normal size for a NIST P-384 elliptic curve cryptography private key contains roughly 384 bits of…
LIANNE POTTER One of those spyware companies is called Candiru. Now, do you know what a candiru is, Graham?
Table of Contents Executive Summary SentinelLABS developed a multi-stage reverse-engineering benchmark for the latest generation of frontier models by recreating our recent investigation of fast16 , a unique 2005 sabotage implant. Most AI benchmarks test bounded tasks.
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested an executive at a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. The New York Times reported today that the FBI has…
PHP.net announced that it will release a critical update today. We decided to change the infoCon to YELLOW due to the widespread use of PHP, the expected severity of the flaw (CVSS 9.4), and the availability of early PoC exploits before the patch became available.
Table of Contents Executive Summary Four incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) describe AI agents reaching systems belonging to other organizations without their consent. While the causes differ, the consistent factor is the models’ persistence rather than their sophistication, whether as endurance across days…
Table of Contents Executive Summary OpenAI disclosed that agents used exposed Hugging Face credentials to write a file and deploy proxy Spaces during an unrelated May 2026 research workload, but it did not identify the accounts. SentinelLABS identified two accounts likely used in associated activity, 0Time and Nyx9.
Table of Contents Executive Summary Following disclosure of the TraderTraitor attack against LayerZero Labs in April 2026, SentinelOne identified an additional victim with the same macOS backdoors. Our analysis explores the mechanics of these backdoors and the expanded targeting against a victim in the IT services sector with no relationship to…
Following our April 2024 announcement , Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) is now entering public availability for Windows users on Chrome 146, and expanding to macOS in an upcoming Chrome release. This project represents a significant step forward in our ongoing efforts to combat session theft, which remains a prevalent threat in the modern security…
At Google, our Threat Intelligence teams are dedicated to staying ahead of real-world adversarial activity, proactively monitoring emerging threats before they can impact users. Right now, Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) is a top priority for the security community, anticipating it as a primary attack vector for adversaries to target and compromise AI…
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The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus , a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping Russia circumvent existing financial restrictions. Heleket’s support agent on Telegram claims,…
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.