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We applied AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum), our autonomous penetration-testing agent, to 37 real, recently disclosed Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), each packaged as a live, containerized target with a flag hidden at the vulnerability’s intended sink. Starting from an unauthenticated or low-privilege position (an endpoint URL and a one-line hint, no…
AWS Security Blog
Candiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed no click or other action from the user, researchers at the Citizen Lab said Thursday. The hidden attack code ran the moment an ad loaded on the screen, and in…
The Hacker News
The threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The activity, observed from June 2025 through August 2026, involves four different infection chains that make use of macro-enabled documents, PS2EXE downloaders, GitHub-hosted PowerShell, and crafted WinRAR archives…
The Hacker News
Israeli adtech outfit allegedly helped spyware vendors infect phones while enjoying Google’s seal of approval…
The Register
Spyware vendors use online ad infrastructure to profile targets and deliver exploits without requiring users to click anything. The investigation links Discover-Tech to Candiru, an Israeli spyware vendor that the US government placed on its Entity List in 2021. Candiru has since used the name Integrity Labs. Citizen Lab also identified links involving other surveillance…
Security Affairs
Some flaws could let attackers run malicious code on your device through a crafted webpage.
Malwarebytes
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Written by: Jayson Frost, Bryce Greathouse, Brian Meyer, John Palmisano, Rajesh Rajeshirke, Steve Rasch, John Wolfram Introduction On October 15, BeyondTrust disclosed a vulnerability, CVE-2026-102764, impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) appliances. BeyondTrust Remote Support is an enterprise secure remote access solution that enables IT teams to securely access and troubleshoot remote endpoints. The successful…
Google Threat Intelligence
A Windows trojan advertised on hacking forums for as little as $150 a month promises buyers access to a victim’s webcam, microphone, keystrokes and saved passwords, and comes with a set of features made to frighten the person on the other side of the screen. The malware, called KGB RAT, was analyzed by Group-IB malware…
Help Net Security
CEO said the workers were hired in Q2 and are still helping today…
The Register
Fake CAPTCHA checks are being used to do more than hide phishing pages. Attackers are turning the familiar “prove you’re human” step into a gateway for malware downloads, malicious browser notifications, and commands that victims are tricked into running themselves, according to Barracuda. The company found CAPTCHA abuse in 43% of the phishing-kit attacks it…
Help Net Security
NGINX released versions 1.30.6 and 1.31.7 on October 14 to fix five vulnerabilities, one of them present in every release since May 2005. There are three memory bugs that F5, the company behind NGINX, says could crash a worker process or possibly let an attacker run code, and each requires a specific configuration to exploit.…
The Hacker News
A critical vulnerability affecting Cisco’s Secure Email Gateway product is allowing attackers to write arbitrary files on the underlying operating system. In an advisory issued on Wednesday, the company urged customers to apply available fixes after confirming that the flaw is being exploited in the wild. The flaw affects the product’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)…
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