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Breach of FBI Surveillance System Considered a “Major Incident,” Security Experts Weigh In

Security leaders discuss this breach and share insights. 

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Multi-OS Cyberattacks: How SOCs Close a Critical Risk in 3 Steps

Your attack surface no longer lives on one operating system, and neither do the campaigns targeting it. In enterprise environments, attackers move across Windows endpoints, executive MacBooks, Linux infrastructure, and mobile devices, taking advantage of the fact that many SOC workflows are still fragmented by platform.  For security leaders, this creates a

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Axios Hack, Chrome 0-Day, Fortinet Exploits, Paragon Spyware and More

This week had real hits. The key software got tampered with. Active bugs showed up in the tools people use every day. Some attacks didn’t even need much effort because the path was already there. One weak spot now spreads wider than before. What starts small can reach a lot of systems fast. New bugs, faster use, less time to react. That’s this week. Read&

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This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 6, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video In 2021, Nicole Perlroth wrote “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race“, a New York Times Bestseller. The book won The post This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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How LiteLLM Turned Developer Machines Into Credential Vaults for Attackers

The most active piece of enterprise infrastructure in the company is the developer workstation. That laptop is where credentials are created, tested, cached, copied, and reused across services, bots, build tools, and now local AI agents. In March 2026, the TeamPCP threat actor proved just how valuable developer machines are. Their supply chain attack on

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Guardarian Users Targeted With Malicious Strapi NPM Packages

Hackers published 36 NPM packages posing as Strapi plugins to execute shells, escape containers, and harvest credentials. The post Guardarian Users Targeted With Malicious Strapi NPM Packages appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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North Korean Hackers Target High-Profile Node.js Maintainers

The threat actor behind the Axios supply chain attack has been aiming at other maintainers in its social engineering campaign. The post North Korean Hackers Target High-Profile Node.js Maintainers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Qilin and Warlock Ransomware Use Vulnerable Drivers to Disable 300+ EDR Tools

Threat actors associated with Qilin and Warlock ransomware operations have been observed using the bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) technique to silence security tools running on compromised hosts, according to findings from Cisco Talos and Trend Micro. Qilin attacks analyzed by Talos have been found to deploy a malicious DLL named "msimg32.dll,"

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Fortinet Rushes Emergency Fixes for Exploited Zero-Day

The improper access control bug in FortiClient EMS allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Fortinet Rushes Emergency Fixes for Exploited Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identity of the main threat actors associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. The threat actor, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS cybercrime forum. He 

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Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021.

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$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation

Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based decentralized exchange described it as "an attack six months in the

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36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent implant. "Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository,

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Fortinet Patches Actively Exploited CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS

Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation. "An improper access control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiClient EMS may allow an

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European Commission Confirms Data Breach Linked to Trivy Supply Chain Attack

Hackers stole over 300GB of data from the Commission’s AWS environment, including personal information. The post European Commission Confirms Data Breach Linked to Trivy Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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China-Linked TA416 Targets European Governments with PlugX and OAuth-Based Phishing

A China-aligned threat actor has set its sights on European government and diplomatic organizations since mid-2025, following a two-year period of minimal targeting in the region. The campaign has been attributed to TA416, a cluster of activity that overlaps with DarkPeony, RedDelta, Red Lich, SmugX, UNC6384, and Vertigo Panda. "This TA416 activity included multiple

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World Cloud Security Day: Breaking Down the State of the Cloud Cybersecurity and Physical Security

A snapshot of the state of the cloud in cybersecurity and physical security. 

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Microsoft Details Cookie-Controlled PHP Web Shells Persisting via Cron on Linux Servers

Threat actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. "Instead of exposing command execution through URL parameters or request bodies, these web shells rely on threat actor-supplied cookie values to gate execution,

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FAL.CON 2026: Secure The AI Revolution

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Apr. 3, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Daniel Bernard, aka “DB”, Chief Business Officer at CrowdStrike, told Cybercrime Magazine that cybersecurity is a team sport, and that all of us at RSAC The post FAL.CON 2026: Secure The AI Revolution appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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TrueConf Zero-Day Exploited in Asian Government Attacks

A Chinese threat actor exploited the video conferencing platform to perform reconnaissance, escalate privileges, and execute additional payloads. The post TrueConf Zero-Day Exploited in Asian Government Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.