Iranian spies hijack Telegram bots to snoop on dissidents
A joint advisory from three governments exposes Chosen Brick, malware that turns ordinary chat apps into a surveillance pipeline aimed at activists and journalists.
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A stray quote in a file path gives Mac attackers root
JFrog researchers showed how one character in a crafted path turns a Parallels Desktop install into full control of a…
Acronis backup add-on flaw already exploited on Linux hosts
A privilege escalation bug in Acronis backup extensions for cPanel and WHM is under limited, targeted attack against hosting infrastructure.
A Texas utility’s open API leaked 7.49 million customer records
CenterPoint Energy confirmed a breach after a hacker said a poorly defended API let him pull millions of customer lines…
Forged tokens breach a CVSS 10 flaw in WSO2’s API manager
Attackers are bypassing JWT authentication in WSO2 middleware that banks, telcos, and governments rely on to broker API traffic.
Two WordPress plugin bugs let attackers plant web shells
Wordfence and Defiant detail critical flaws in WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture and The Events Calendar, both reachable without credentials.
An accounting bot blew $50,000 in cloud charges in an hour
Mandiant's enterprise AI report finds runaway agents, prompt injection, and weak access controls already costing real money.
Hijacked HBO Max account floods Reddit with ClickFix ads
A verified HBO Max Reddit account pushed 108 malicious ads in 48 hours, part of a broader operation spreading infostealers.
A $200 circuit board cracks Intel and AMD confidential computing
Researchers built a cheap interposer that silently drops DDR5 writes and breaks the integrity guarantees behind confidential VMs.
Cisco patches a zero-day that turns one email into root
A crafted message can give an unauthenticated attacker root on Cisco's secure email gateway, and the flaw is already being…
Chinese spies pair a Chrome zero-day with a fake Gemini extension
A recently patched Chrome and Windows exploit chain is now delivering two separate espionage toolsets against NGO targets.
Chinese crew turns a Gitea bug into a 13-victim espionage spree
A newly named threat actor automated a July Gitea flaw into a framework that stole source code and pushed on…
Mass scans drain cloud keys from exposed Vite dev servers
Attackers are hammering internet-facing Vite development servers to pull AWS and Azure credentials and infrastructure state files.
A patchable VPN flaw exposed 246,000 Japanese government records
A shared platform serving 23 ministries was breached through an unpatched VPN, with disclosure coming 78 days after detection.
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Old Telegram exports can still run a hidden attacker script
A flaw fixed in July left previously exported HTML chats able to run hidden JavaScript that copies messages to an attacker.
Fake Cloudflare page on Indian IT agency site pushed terminal commands
A government-linked Indian IT portal served a fake Cloudflare check that tried to get visitors to run a copied command.
AWS benchmark finds AI code scanners drown in false alarms
A new AWS benchmark finds that AI models catch most real bugs but flag a huge share of safe code as vulnerable.
Britain nudges 23 million One Login users toward passkeys
GOV.UK One Login is opening passkeys to more than 23 million users, letting them sign in without a password.
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Telus tells customers their accounts were raided with stolen passwords
Canada's Telus says attackers used stolen credentials to reach customer records over more than a year.
A Twitch viewer add-on slipped 31,000 session tokens to a bot service
A viewer add-on with tens of thousands of installs sent live Twitch session tokens to a commercial bot operator.
Microsoft moves Teams and M365 web users to new domains
Firewall and proxy rules that allow the old addresses will need updating before early October.
Airlines win relief from compensation when a hack delays flights
A new Transportation Department rule lets carriers skip meal vouchers and hotels for cyberattack delays if they meet security rules.
A few dollars is enough to kill a stranger’s phone signal
Researchers blocked devices they never owned for under $4, exploiting six weaknesses in the lost and stolen phone system.
FTC drops its health app breach notice policy
The commission withdrew a Biden-era statement that treated health and fitness apps as covered by federal breach notification rules.