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📔 Low-Skilled Cybercriminals Use AI to Perform "Vibe Extortion" Attacks 📔

Unit 42 researchers observed a lowskilled threat actor using an LLM to noscript a professional extortion strategy, complete with deadlines and pressure tactics.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 Apple Expands RCS Encryption and Memory Protections in iOS 26.4 📔

iOS 26.4 Beta adds endtoend encryption for RCS messaging and enhanced Memory Integrity Enforcement.

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📢 Millions of developers could be impacted by flaws in Visual Studio Code extensions – here's what you need to know and how to protect yourself 📢

The VS Code vulnerabilities highlight broader IDE security risks, said OX Security.

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🔗 Via "ITPro"

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📢 Ransomware protection for all: How consumption-based subnoscription models can lower the entry point for cyber resilience 📢

Consumptionbased immutable backup makes enterprisegrade ransomware resilience affordable to all.

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🦿 Microsoft: Critical Windows Admin Center Flaw Allows Privilege Escalation 🦿

A highseverity Windows Admin Center vulnerability CVE202626119 could allow privilege escalation in enterprise environments. Heres what to know and how to mitigate risk. The post Microsoft Critical Windows Admin Center Flaw Allows Privilege Escalation appeared first on TechRepublic.

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🦿 Substack Breach May Have Leaked Nearly 700,000 User Details Online 🦿

Substack says hackers accessed user emails, phone numbers, and internal metadata in October 2025, with a database of 697,313 records later posted online. The post Substack Breach May Have Leaked Nearly 700,000 User Details Online appeared first on TechRepublic.

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🖋️ CRESCENTHARVEST Campaign Targets Iran Protest Supporters With RAT Malware 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed CRESCENTHARVEST, likely targeting supporters of Iran's ongoing protests to conduct information theft and longterm espionage. The Acronis Threat Research Unit TRU said it observed the activity after January 9, with the attacks designed to deliver a malicious payload that serves as a remote access trojan RAT and.

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🖋️ Citizen Lab Finds Cellebrite Tool Used on Kenyan Activist’s Phone in Police Custody 🖋️

New research from the Citizen Lab has found signs that Kenyan authorities used a commercial forensic extraction tool manufactured by Israeli company Cellebrite to break into a prominent dissident's phone, making it the latest case of abuse of the technology targeting civil society. The interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs Public.

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🖋️ Grandstream GXP1600 VoIP Phones Exposed to Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Grandstream GXP1600 series of VoIP phones that could allow an attacker to seize control of susceptible devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE20262329, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of a maximum of 10.0. It has been described as a case of unauthenticated stackbased buffer overflow that could result in remote code.

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🖋️ Critical Flaws Found in Four VS Code Extensions with Over 125 Million Installs 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in four popular Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code extensions that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to steal local files and execute code remotely. The extensions, which have been collectively installed more than 125 million times, are Live Server, Code Runner, Markdown Preview Enhanced, and.

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🖋️ Cybersecurity Tech Predictions for 2026: Operating in a World of Permanent Instability 🖋️

In 2025, navigating the digital seas still felt like a matter of direction. Organizations charted routes, watched the horizon, and adjusted course to reach safe harbors of resilience, trust, and compliance. In 2026, the seas are no longer calm between storms. Cybersecurity now unfolds in a state of continuous atmospheric instability AIdriven threats that adapt in real time, expanding.

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🖋️ Dell RecoverPoint for VMs Zero-Day CVE-2026-22769 Exploited Since Mid-2024 🖋️

A maximum severity security vulnerability in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines has been exploited as a zeroday by a suspected Chinanexus threat cluster dubbed UNC6201 since mid2024, according to a new report from Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG. The activity involves the exploitation of CVE202622769 CVSS score 10.0, a case of hardcoded credentials.

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🖋️ 3 Ways to Start Your Intelligent Workflow Program 🖋️

Security, IT, and engineering teams today are under relentless pressure to accelerate outcomes, cut operational drag, and unlock the full potential of AI and automation. But simply investing in tools isnt enough. 88 of AI proofsofconcept never make it to production, even though 70 of workers cite freeing time for highvalue work as the primary AI automation motivation. Real impact comes.

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🖋️ Notepad++ Fixes Hijacked Update Mechanism Used to Deliver Targeted Malware 🖋️

Notepad has released a security fix to plug gaps that were exploited by an advanced threat actor from China to hijack the software update mechanism to selectively deliver malware to targets of interest. The version 8.9.2 update incorporates what maintainer Don Ho calls a "double lock" design that aims to make the update process "robust and effectively unexploitable." This includes verification.

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🖋️ CISA Flags Four Security Flaws Under Active Exploitation in Latest KEV Update 🖋️

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows CVE20262441 CVSS score 8.8 A useafterfree vulnerability in Google Chrome that could allow a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap.

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📔 Cryptojacking Campaign Exploits Driver to Boost Monero Mining 📔

Cryptojacking campaign used pirated software to deploy a persistent XMRig miner with stealth tactics.

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📔 AI Assistants Used as Covert Command-and-Control Relays 📔

AIs like Grok and Microsoft Copilot can be exploited as covert C2 channels for malware communication.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 Record Number of Ransomware Victims and Groups in 2025 📔

Searchlight Cyber reports a 30 annual increase in ransomware victim numbers in 2025.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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📔 Chinese APT Group Exploits Dell Zero-Day for Two Years 📔

Mandiant reveals campaign featuring exploit of a CVSS 10.0 CVE in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🌊 Business Development Representative for Channels 🌊

The post Business Development Representative for Channels appeared first on UnderDefense.

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🌊 From Ambiguous Alert to Fileless Attack: A Banking Security Breach Prevented 🌊

See how human expertise identified malicious ViewState code injection hiding in IIS memory before data was compromised. The post From Ambiguous Alert to Fileless Attack A Banking Security Breach Prevented appeared first on UnderDefense.

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