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Category: Threat Intelligence
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Today’s Topics: INTERPOL Warns Cybercrime Is Surging Across Asia-Pacific as Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Scale Up Cybercrime is rising sharply across Asia and the South Pacific, with phishing, ransomware, banking malware, information stealers, deepfakes, and AI-assisted fraud placing new pressure on governments, businesses, and law enforcement agencies across the region. A new INTERPOL assessment…
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Today’s Topics: Self-Replicating AI Worm Shows Malware Can Reason Its Way Through a Network University of Toronto researchers have demonstrated a proof-of-concept AI worm that changes one of the oldest assumptions in worm defense: that the malware arrives with a fixed exploit path. In a preprint posted to arXiv on June 2, a team from…
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Living-off-the-land attacks have become one of the clearest examples of a security problem that cannot be solved by malware detection alone. Instead of bringing obvious malicious tooling into an environment, attackers use what is already present: signed Windows binaries, administrative consoles, scripting engines, remote management services, cloud command-line tools, backup utilities, identity platforms, and trusted…
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Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday includes security updates for 200 vulnerabilities, making it one of the largest patch releases in recent years. The update addresses three publicly disclosed zero-days and 33 critical vulnerabilities, the majority of which are remote code execution flaws. While none of the zero-days are known to have been exploited in the…
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Today’s Topics: LLM Agent Used in Post-Exploitation Attack After Marimo Vulnerability Exploit A threat actor was observed using a large language model agent to conduct post-exploitation activity after compromising a publicly exposed Marimo notebook through CVE-2026-39987, a critical pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting Marimo versions up to and including 0.20.4. The activity, reported by…
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Kali365 is the latest reminder that Microsoft 365 phishing has moved beyond fake login pages and stolen passwords. According to the FBI, Kali365 is a phishing-as-a-service platform first seen in April 2026 and distributed mainly through Telegram. Its purpose is direct: help attackers obtain Microsoft 365 OAuth access and refresh tokens, bypass common MFA controls,…
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Microsoft is facing criticism from the cybersecurity community after a public dispute with an anonymous researcher escalated into a series of Windows zero-day releases, emergency mitigation guidance, and a broader argument over how major vendors handle vulnerability disclosure. The researcher, known publicly as Chaotic Eclipse or Nightmare-Eclipse, has published multiple proof-of-concept exploits for Windows flaws…
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Today’s Topics: GitHub Investigates Internal Repository Breach After Employee Device Compromise GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories after the threat actor known as TeamPCP listed what it claimed to be GitHub source code and internal organization data for sale on a cybercrime forum. The Microsoft-owned platform said it has not found evidence…
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APIs have become one of the most important layers of modern software architecture. They connect web applications, mobile apps, SaaS platforms, identity providers, payment processors, cloud services, analytics systems, artificial intelligence tools, internal databases, and third-party integrations. For most organizations, APIs are no longer a secondary concern sitting behind the application. They are the application’s…
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Backups are often described as the last line of defense against ransomware, but that same role makes them a direct target. Modern attackers do not usually encrypt production systems first and hope the victim has weak recovery. They often look for backup servers, backup repositories, cloud snapshots, domain controller backups, hypervisor backups, and SaaS backup…
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