CastleRAT
TRENDING TOPICS MAR 12, 2026 CastleRAT Campaign Abuses Deno Runtime and Steganography to Deliver Fileless Malware Researchers at ThreatDown identified a malware campaign that delivers CastleRAT, a remote access trojan designed for espionage, surveillance, and credential theft, by abusing the legitimate Deno JavaScript runtime. The attack begins with a social
UNC6426
TRENDING TOPICS MAR 11, 2026 UNC6426: From Stolen GitHub Token to Full Cloud Takeover in 72 Hours A threat actor tracked as UNC6426 exploited stolen keys from the 2025 Nx npm package supply chain compromise to fully breach a victim’s AWS cloud environment in just three days, according to
APT28
TRENDING TOPICS MAR 10, 2026 APT28 Revives Espionage Operations with Custom Covenant Variant and Dual-Implant Toolkit ESET researchers are reporting that the Russian state-linked threat group APT28 (also known as Fancy Bear, Sednit, Forest Blizzard, and Strontium) has resumed advanced cyber-espionage operations using a customized version of the open-source Covenant
TRENDING TOPICS MAR 09, 2026 Update: Hackerbot-Claw-Led Campaign Targets Major GitHub Repositories Cybersecurity researchers at Pillar Security have uncovered Hackerbot-Claw (also known as Chaos Agent), the first recorded case of an autonomous AI agent conducting a coordinated cyberattack using only natural language. Over a 37-hour campaign in late February 2026,
MONTHLY WRAP MONTHLY WRAP Overview February reinforced a consistent operational reality, which suggests attackers are gaining access and staying hidden by abusing trusted services and normal workflows more often than by relying on novel exploitation. This month featured stealthy “legitimate-functionality” tradecraft, including PRC-nexus abuse of the Google Sh
UAT-9244
CVE-2026-21385 High Severity Vulnerability Description A memory corruption flaw in multiple Qualcomm chipsets caused by an integer overflow (CWE-190) during memory allocation, allowing attackers to execute code, escalate privileges, or crash devices. CISA confirmed active exploitation and requires Federal agencies to patch or mitigate it by March 24, 2026, under
MongoDB
TRENDING TOPICS MAR 05, 2026 High-Severity MongoDB Compression Bug Enables Fast Pre-Auth DoS Cato CTRL’s Vitaly Simonovich disclosed CVE-2026-25611, a high-severity (7.5) vulnerability affecting all MongoDB deployments with wire-protocol compression enabled, including MongoDB Atlas. By abusing the OP_COMPRESSED message flow, a threat actor can send small, crafted
Threat Intelligence Briefing Iranian APT Threat Landscape Report Date: March 2026 11Tracked Threat Actors 10+CVEs Actively Exploited 15+Targeted Sectors 20+Countries at Risk 2Sponsoring Agencies (IRGC / MOIS) Landscape Overview Primary Target Sectors Aerospace & Defense Energy / Oil & Gas Telecommunications Government Healthcare ICS / OT / PLC IT Providers Finance
Iran-US/Israel Conflict
TRENDING TOPICS MAR 04, 2026 Iranian APT Escalation Targets Global Critical Infrastructure Amid Expanding Regional Conflict Following the joint U.S.–Israeli strike known as Operation Lion’s Roar, Iran has escalated retaliatory cyber operations against global critical infrastructure. Iranian state-sponsored threat groups, including MuddyWater, OilRig, APT33, and UNC1549, have
Shouting into the IT void
Recon and Workflow Discovery Hackerbot-claw identified Trivy's vulnerable pull_request_target workflow ("API Diff Check"), which checked out PR code and used a PAT with broad permissions, not only the ephemeral GITHUB_TOKEN. Initial Access via PR and CI Execution The bot forked aquasecurity/trivy and
TRENDING TOPICS MAR 03, 2026 Scattered Lapsus$ Expands to Targeted Recruitment The cybercriminal group Scattered Lapsus$ (SLSH), a successor to the disbanded Lapsus$ collective known for high-profile breaches of Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Okta, is reportedly recruiting women to bolster its social engineering operations. According to a Telegram post by Dataminr
TRENDING TOPICS MAR 02, 2026 Update: Hackers Conduct Mass Scanning Campaign Against SonicWall Firewalls Using 4,000+ IPs A large-scale reconnaissance campaign is actively targeting SonicWall firewall infrastructure worldwide, with attackers using more than 4,000 unique IP addresses to identify vulnerable systems ahead of potential exploitation, according to new
CVE-2026-20127 Critical Severity Vulnerability Description A vulnerability in the peering authentication in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative privileges on an affected system. This vulnerability exists because the peering
TRENDING TOPICS FEB 26, 2026 GRIDTIDE Disruption: PRC-Linked UNC2814 Abused Google Sheets API for Global Espionage Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), alongside Mandiant and other partners, disrupted a large-scale espionage campaign attributed to UNC2814, a suspected PRC-nexus threat actor active since at least 2017. The operation leveraged a novel C-based
Workforce Workflow Compromise Targeted outreach to employees and applicants through personal email and professional networking channels to avoid corporate security controls. Credential harvesting via cloned recruitment portals, interview scheduling pages, document-sharing prompts, and fake "candidate" communications. Secondary abuse of captured identities to access workforce-facing SaaS, internal collaboration platforms,
TRENDING TOPICS FEB 25, 2026 Malicious npm Package ambar-src Shows Fast Moving Supply Chain Risk Tenable research reported that a malicious npm package named ambar-src reached roughly 50,000 downloads before removal, showing how quickly supply chain threats can spread across developer environments. The package appears to have been built
TRENDING TOPICS FEB 24, 2026 Update: Lazarus Expands Ransomware Playbook, Leveraging Medusa Against U.S. Healthcare North Korea’s Lazarus Group has expanded its financially motivated operations by leveraging the Medusa ransomware. Security researchers at Symantec assess that a Lazarus Group subgroup, commonly tracked as Andariel or Stonefly and linked
TRENDING TOPICS FEB 23, 2026 Starkiller PHaaS Raises the Risk of MFA Bypass Phishing Starkiller is a phishing framework that increases the credibility and scale of credential theft by showing victims the real login page during the attack, rather than a copy that can become outdated. It does this by
CVE-2026-22769 Critical Severity Vulnerability Description Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, versions prior to 6.0.3.1 HF1, contain a hardcoded credential vulnerability. This is considered critical as an unauthenticated remote attacker with knowledge of the hardcoded credential could potentially exploit this vulnerability leading to unauthorized access to the underlying
TRENDING TOPICS FEB 19, 2026 AI as Infrastructure: Covert C2 Relays and the Emergence of Prompt-Driven Malware Security researchers at Check Point Research demonstrated that modern AI assistants with web-fetch or browsing capabilities can be repurposed as covert command-and-control relays, effectively turning trusted AI platforms into proxy infrastructure. By abusing
Lumma Stealer Impact and Exposure Matrix System Assets and Credential Theft Targets Windows Endpoints Windows 7-11 workstations and laptops Exposure Details Primary execution environment for Lumma payloads and credential harvesting activity Web Browsers and Sessions Chromium and Mozilla-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera) Exposure Details Theft of saved credentials, cookies,
