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Attackers are exploiting FortiSandbox vulnerabilities

Attackers have been spotted exploiting three vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, CVE-2026-25089) in FortiSandbox, a platform that other Fortinet security products depend on for threat verdicts to enforce blocking decisions and trigger automated responses. The warning came on Monday from threat intelligence company Defused, which said that the exploit for one of the flaws is vibecoded, and…

Cybercriminals mask malicious communications through Microsoft Teams relays

The DragonForce ransomware group used a custom malware called Backdoor.Turn to hide command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure during an intrusion at a U.S. services company, according to Symantec. DragonForce is a ransomware-as-a-service operation that has been active since 2023. The group provides affiliates with ransomware tools and supporting services in exchange for a…

Fortinet Warned as Three Critical FortiSandbox Bugs Come Under Attack

Three FortiSandbox flaws, including one patched last week, are being actively exploited, highlighting the shrinking window for defenders. Cybersecurity firm Defused Cyber confirmed it’s seen active exploitation of three vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox within a 24-hour window. Two of them had patches sitting available since April. The third got fixed last week, which, apparently, wasn’t…

TekStream launches Proactive Cyber Defense to counter AI-driven threats

TekStream has announced the launch of TekStream Proactive Cyber Defense, a new expert-operated security service powered by Cosmos, the company’s cyber defense intelligence platform. The launch comes as organizations face a rapidly changing threat landscape shaped by AI-accelerated attacks, autonomous adversary capabilities, growing operational complexity, and increasingly fragmented security environments. Recent developments in autonomous offensive…

SimpleHelp RMM flaw could give attackers full access to managed endpoints (CVE-2026-48558)

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-48558) in SimpleHelp, a popular remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to create a new “Technician” account and use it to remote into managed endpoints, execute scripts, and more. Maliciously “forged” Technician account (Source: Horizon3.ai) The vulnerability CVE-2026-48558 is an authentication bypass flaw affecting SimpleHelp…

New Rokarolla Android Malware Steals PINs, SMS Codes, and Crypto Wallet Funds

Security researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan, Rokarolla, that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps and packs 137 remote commands. Together, they give an operator near-total control of an infected phone: it lifts lock-screen PINs, reads and sends SMS, rewrites the clipboard to redirect crypto payments, and switches off Google Play

AppViewX extends machine identity security to ai agents and post-quantum environments

AppViewX has announced Agent Identity Security, a new product within the AppViewX platform that discovers, governs, secures, and monitors AI agents across the entire enterprise. Agent Identity Security extends AppViewX’s platform, built on a decade of machine identity and PKI expertise, into AI agent security, giving CISOs and their teams a single control plane for…

Pathlock, NTT DATA Launch Managed SAP Security Service

SAP security is getting a round-the-clock upgrade as Pathlock and NTT DATA Business Solutions join forces to tackle growing cyber risks. On Tuesday, Pathlock announced a global strategic partnership with NTT DATA Business Solutions to deliver managed SAP cybersecurity services to enterprise customers worldwide. Partnership adds managed SAP cybersecurity services The alliance brings together Pathlock’s…

Radware AI Xploit Shield delivers virtual patching for newly identified application and API flaws

Radware has announced AI Xploit Shield, a new service that provides organizations with protection for their applications and APIs from exploitation of newly discovered vulnerabilities. As emerging frontier AI models like Mythos from Anthropic accelerate vulnerability discovery, organizations face a growing challenge: the volume of newly discovered vulnerabilities is accelerating while the window between vulnerability…

Improving precision in CTEM: How continuous controls validation in Tenable One transforms exposure management

Discover how continuous control validation in Tenable One can improve your CTEM program by filtering out alert noise and factoring in your active cyber defenses. Focus your team on accessible and exploitable attack paths.  Key takeaways: With vulnerability exploitation ranking as the top initial access vector and frontier AI accelerating vulnerability discovery, organizations must shift…

CVE-2026-20262: Cisco SD-WAN Manager Zero-Day Can Lead to Root Privilege Escalation

Cisco has released security updates for an SD-WAN vManage flaw exploited in zero-day attacks. The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, affects Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and can allow an authenticated remote attacker to create or overwrite files on the underlying operating system, opening a path to root privilege escalation. Public reporting says the flaw was exploited…

China-linked hackers target US, Canada research using legacy REDCap exploits

Google is warning of a cyber espionage campaign linked to a China-nexus threat actor, UNC6508, that kept close tabs on valuable US and Canadian research environments for over a year. The campaign abused REDCap, a widely adopted platform for collecting and managing research data. Attackers, now disrupted, intercepted REDCap’s upgrade process to inject persistence malware.…

Survey: 94% of Incidents Involve Anonymized Infrastructure. Teams Are Still Reactive

Security teams have never had more IP data at their disposal. Every day, analysts ingest enrichment feeds, geolocation data, reputation scores, telemetry, and threat intelligence from a growing ecosystem of vendors and platforms. Yet despite this abundance of information, many organizations continue to face a fundamental challenge: sifting through the noise to understand who is…

CVE-2026-20262: CISCO Catalyst SD-WAN Flaw Under Active Targeted Exploitation

Cisco warned that CVE-2026-20262, a Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability allowing arbitrary file writes, is being actively exploited. Cisco confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-20262, an arbitrary file write vulnerability affecting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. CVE-2026-20262 (CVSS score of 6.5) is an arbitrary file write vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager. The flaw is…

News alert: Varist announces AI-scale malware detection for healthcare and medical imaging

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, June 16, 2026 — Varist today introduced its DICOM Detection Engine™, a specialized system designed to safeguard electronic health records (EHR) and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) from all known malware, including the emerging threat of AI-powered malware. As attackers increasingly use artificial intelligence to automate, scale and customize their attacks, the engine…

Attackers Exploit Three Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws, One Patched Last Week

Bad actors are exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox, according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the company said it has observed exploitation of CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, and CVE-2026-25089 over the past 24 hours. CVE-2026-39813 (CVSS score: 9.1) refers to a path traversal vulnerability in FortiSandbox JRPC API that…

Cisco discloses second exploited SD-WAN vulnerability in two weeks (CVE-2026-20262)

Cisco has revealed another Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability (CVE-2026-20262) that its Product Security Incident Response Team observed being exploited by attackers. But the associated security advisory also states that “the vulnerability was found during internal security testing”, raising the question of how attackers came to exploit it before Cisco had disclosed it publicly. The vulnerability…

The New Standard for URL Analysis: Closing Phishing Blind Spots with In-Browser Data Inspection 

Modern URL phishing relies on dynamic pages, credential harvesting flows, client-side scripts, and layered redirect chains. But most SOC workflows are still built around static analysis, making them blind to most of these tactics.  ANY.RUN changes this forever with in-browser data inspection.  The new technology takes URL analysis to the next level by bringing static and dynamic analysis into one single workflow. Now,…

Crypto scammers are sending couriers to victims’ homes to collect cash

Scammers behind cryptocurrency investment schemes are dispatching couriers to pick up cash from victims in person, the FBI warns. According to the agency, scammers usually approach victims through social media, text messages, or fake investment personas, luring them into cryptocurrency schemes that use fraudulent trading platforms and fabricated returns to encourage additional deposits. When financial…

China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS. “The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS,” ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “Both come with a hard-coded C&C [command-and-control] configuration and support communication over TCP, UDP,

U.S. CISA adds Cisco Catalyst and LiteSpeed cPanel plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Catalyst and LiteSpeed cPanel plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Cisco Catalyst and LiteSpeed cPanel plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The two flaws added to the catalog are: CVE-2026-20262 (CVSS score of 6.5)…

Fake Microsoft Alerts Used to Deploy North Korean NarwhalRAT Malware

The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notifications to deliver malware called NarwhalRAT. “The attack email contained a message impersonating an MS account security alert,” the Genians Security Center (GSC) said. “It was designed to create concern over possible

China-linked actor spent two years inside medical research networks

China’s UNC6508 hid in North American medical research networks for 2 years, stealing credentials and forwarding emails to Gmail Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published a report this week on UNC6508, a China-linked cyberespionage group that breached North American medical and military research organizations and stayed hidden for more than two years. The earliest confirmed intrusion…

From a VHDX File to a Remcos RAT, (Tue, Jun 16th)

Yesterday, a reader reported to us a malicious ZIP archive (SHA256: a0104921a2d37ab87482ac9a9f5c3713479c118846c3e999178e75b81620c094[1]). Once unzipped, it contains a VHDX file that discloses a malicious JavaScript after being mounted (which is automatic on modern Windows OSs): Two different techniques to hide the payload help to bypass most first-line security controls. Using a disk image as a “malware container” has been…

GitHub releases an open dataset for multilingual developer content

Developers coordinate code across README files, issue threads, and pull request discussions. Much of that exchange happens in English, and a large share happens in other languages. GitHub has released a dataset built to help researchers and developers locate public repositories that carry non-English natural-language content. The GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset is available on GitHub…

CISA Flags LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Flaw Exploited for Root Privilege Escalation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by June 18, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-54420 (CVSS score: 8.5), which has been described as a case…

The rise of machine identities and agentic AI: Securing trust in the next era of digital autonomy

In the latest episode of Identity Insider, I sat down with Chris Hughes, a cybersecurity expert who’s involved in OWASP’s work on non-human and machine identity security. Unsurprisingly, our discussion centered on the rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape, driven by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly agentic AI, which is giving systems unprecedented autonomy within…

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: June 16, 2026

Android Vulnerability Researcher Byteria | USA | Remote – View job details As an Android Vulnerability Researcher, you will analyze the Android attack surface, including the Linux kernel, system services, drivers, firmware, applications, and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). You will reverse engineer native binaries and mobile software, identify vulnerabilities through code review, fuzzing, and static…