An automated roundup of 31 notable cybersecurity article(s) from the last 36 hours, aggregated from 4 source(s). Descriptions are pulled directly from each publisher's feed; follow the links for the full articles.
BleepingComputer
Hackers abused Claude to extract secrets from 1.8M Android apps
Anthropic says multiple threat groups, including the financially motivated and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, tried to abuse its Claude AI model for malicious purposes. [...]
Florida confirms DMV database breached via stolen police account
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach, saying the attackers gained access using credentials belonging to a police department employee. [...]
Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft
Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365 services. [...]
Artifactory flaws chained in attacks deploying backdoor malware
Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers. [...]
How Threat Actors Are Turning Trusted AI Platforms Into an Attack Surface
Threat actors are abusing trusted AI platforms to host malicious content, poison search results, and trick users into installing malware. Huntress examines campaigns targeting AI users through weaponized Claude Artifacts, shared AI conversations, sponsored search results, and…
GitLab urges users to patch max severity path traversal flaw
GitLab urged users on Thursday to patch their servers immediately against a maximum-severity path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85706. [...]
Microsoft fixes Teams, Outlook launch failures on ARM Windows PCs
Microsoft has fixed a bug that prevented Teams and Outlook from launching on ARM-based Windows devices after installing updates released since the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]
Trezor: 347,000 users targeted in phishing attacks after Brevo breach
Trezor has revealed that phishing attacks against its customers earlier this week targeted 347,000 email addresses and affected 2,500 users who clicked an embedded malicious link. [...]
Conti ransomware gang member sentenced to 4 years in prison
A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022. [...]
New Android malware encrypts files, steals data, and harasses victims
A new Android malware strain called Mantax Otax combines ransomware and spyware capabilities to encrypt files, steal sensitive data, and spam and harass victims. [...]
September Windows Server updates break Remote Desktop Services
Windows admins report that the September 2026 security updates are causing Remote Desktop Services (RDS) failures on Windows Server 2019, 2022, and 2025 servers, preventing users from connecting and, in some cases, requiring a hard reset to restore functionality. [...]
Surfshark VPN says hackers breached internal testing, proxy servers
Surfshark disclosed that hackers accessed one of its internal test servers after a configuration error exposed it to the internet. [...]
Microsoft Excel KB5002914 update breaks copy and paste for some users
Microsoft Excel users report that this week's KB5002914 Office security update is breaking copy-and-paste operations and formula dragging, with affected users saying that removing or rolling back the update restores normal functionality. [...]
The Hacker News
GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure
GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the…
Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training…
Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims
Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company…
Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection
Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve. The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006…
Your Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk
Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path to compromise. A critical vulnerability may look alarming on a…
Attackers Chain JFrog Artifactory Flaws to Gain Admin Control and Plant Backdoors
Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take administrator control of self-hosted servers and plant backdoors, cloud security company Wiz said in a report. Wiz saw the attacks between August 15 and…
China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor
A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, to install a backdoor on victims' computers, security company Gen Digital said in research published Thursday. The attack started with…
PaperCut Replaces Emergency Patches With Fixes for Two Actively Exploited Flaws
PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously published emergency patches that were pushed to address two security flaws that have come under active exploitation. The software development company said PaperCut NG/MF versions…
Cisco FMC Flaws Exploited to Steal Credentials and Deploy Qilin Ransomware
Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities. The attacks leverage CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score: 10.0), an authentication…
Dark Reading
Threat Actor Generates 1M Personalized Fraud Emails in 3 Days
Cybercriminals behind malicious email campaigns no longer have to compromise volume for credibility, or vice versa, thanks to AI.
CISA Calls for More Guidance, Less Spin, as Cyber Outages Escalate
A new joint government advisory signals a regulatory shift, pressing organizations to adopt more transparent breach notification and incident response protocols.
Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans
Fred Heiding of Menlo Park Intelligence talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his research on frontier models, and their ability to influence human behavior and create emotional dependency.
Adversaries can manipulate AI defensive reasoning to silently compromise target networks.
Papercut AI Swarm Attack Heralds Changes for Cyber Kill Chain
From creating lab environments for staging and testing agentic attacks to reconnaissance to lateral movement and exfiltration, the most innovative attackers are widely incorporating AI.
Indonesia Hit by Android Banking App-Cloning Campaign
The GoldFactory threat group exploits the Android Work Profile feature to deliver the Gigabud Trojan, while Mantax Otax spreads separately.
Voice Callers Exploit BYOD to Reach Microsoft 365, Corporate Data
Threat actors are leveraging Microsoft's Graph API to identify lucrative targets, then passing their access to extortion groups like ShinyHunters.
SANS Internet Storm Center
I identified an attacker using a semi-autonomous coding agent to run an offensive operation: finding poorly secured LLM resale gateways, acquiring API access through ordinary web flaws and account farming, validating the resulting inference capacity, and aggregating it behind a…
Not included today: Krebs on Security (no articles in the last 36h)