Tag: network security

Ravie LakshmananJan 21, 2026Email Security / Malware LastPass is alerting users to a new active phishing campaign that’s impersonating the password management service, which aims to trick users into giving up their master passwords. The campaign, which began on or… Read More "LastPass Warns of Fake Maintenance Messages Targeting Users’ Master Passwords"

Leaked API keys are no longer unusual, nor are the breaches that follow. So why are sensitive tokens still being so easily exposed? To find out, Intruder’s research team looked at what traditional vulnerability scanners actually cover and built a… Read More "Why Secrets in JavaScript Bundles are Still Being Missed"

Ravie LakshmananJan 20, 2026Cloud Security / Developer Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malware campaign that’s targeting software developers with a new information stealer called Evelyn Stealer by weaponizing the Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension ecosystem.… Read More "Evelyn Stealer Malware Abuses VS Code Extensions to Steal Developer Credentials and Crypto"

The North Korean threat actors associated with the long-running Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) projects as lures to deliver a backdoor on compromised endpoints. The latest finding demonstrates continued evolution of… Read More "North Korea-Linked Hackers Target Developers via Malicious VS Code Projects"

Ravie LakshmananJan 20, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new phishing campaign that exploits social media private messages to propagate malicious payloads, likely with the intent to deploy a remote access trojan (RAT). The activity delivers “weaponized… Read More "Hackers Use LinkedIn Messages to Spread RAT Malware Through DLL Sideloading"

Ravie LakshmananJan 20, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence A set of three security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in mcp-server-git, the official Git Model Context Protocol (MCP) server maintained by Anthropic, that could be exploited to read or delete arbitrary files and… Read More "Three Flaws in Anthropic MCP Git Server Enable File Access and Code Execution"

The Hacker NewsJan 20, 2026Enterprise Security / AI Security The Problem: The Identities Left Behind As organizations grow and evolve, employees, contractors, services, and systems come and go – but their accounts often remain. These abandoned or “orphan” accounts sit… Read More "The Hidden Risk of Orphan Accounts"

Ravie LakshmananJan 20, 2026Web Security / Vulnerability Cloudflare has addressed a security vulnerability impacting its Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) validation logic that made it possible to bypass security controls and access origin servers. “The vulnerability was rooted in how… Read More "Cloudflare Fixes ACME Validation Bug Allowing WAF Bypass to Origin Servers"

Ravie LakshmananJan 20, 2026Cryptocurrency / Artificial Intelligence A Telegram-based guarantee marketplace known for advertising a broad range of illicit services appears to be winding down its operations, according to new findings from Elliptic. The blockchain intelligence company said Tudou Guarantee… Read More "Tudou Guarantee Marketplace Halts Telegram Transactions After Processing Over $12 Billion"

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a security flaw that leverages indirect prompt injection targeting Google Gemini as a way to bypass authorization guardrails and use Google Calendar as a data extraction mechanism. The vulnerability, Miggo Security’s Head of Research,… Read More "Google Gemini Prompt Injection Flaw Exposed Private Calendar Data via Malicious Invites"