Iran-Linked RedKitten Cyber Campaign Targets Human Rights NGOs and Activists

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A Farsi-speaking threat actor aligned with Iranian state interests is suspected to be behind a new campaign targeting non-governmental organizations and individuals involved in documenting recent human rights abuses. The activity, observed by HarfangLab in January 2026, has been codenamed RedKitten. It's said to coincide with the nationwide unrest in Iran that began towards the end of 2025,
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Mandiant Finds ShinyHunters-Style Vishing Attacks Stealing MFA to Breach SaaS Platforms

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Google-owned Mandiant on Friday said it identified an "expansion in threat activity" that uses tradecraft consistent with extortion-themed attacks orchestrated by a financially motivated hacking group known as ShinyHunters. The attacks leverage advanced voice phishing (aka vishing) and bogus credential harvesting sites mimicking targeted companies to gain unauthorized access to victim
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CERT Polska Details Coordinated Cyber Attacks on 30+ Wind and Solar Farms

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CERT Polska, the Polish computer emergency response team, revealed that coordinated cyber attacks targeted more than 30 wind and photovoltaic farms, a private company from the manufacturing sector, and a large combined heat and power plant (CHP) supplying heat to almost half a million customers in the country. The incident took place on December 29, 2025. The agency has attributed the attacks to
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Researchers Uncover Chrome Extensions Abusing Affiliate Links and Stealing ChatGPT Access

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious Google Chrome extensions that come with capabilities to hijack affiliate links, steal data, and collect OpenAI ChatGPT authentication tokens. One of the extensions in question is Amazon Ads Blocker (ID: pnpchphmplpdimbllknjoiopmfphellj), which claims to be a tool to browse Amazon without any sponsored content. It was uploaded to the Chrome
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China-Linked UAT-8099 Targets IIS Servers in Asia with BadIIS SEO Malware

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign attributed to a China-linked threat actor known as UAT-8099 that took place between late 2025 and early 2026. The activity, discovered by Cisco Talos, has targeted vulnerable Internet Information Services (IIS) servers located across Asia, but with a specific focus on targets in Thailand and Vietnam. The scale of the campaign is currently
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Badges, Bytes and Blackmail

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Behind the scenes of law enforcement in cyber: what do we know about caught cybercriminals? What brought them in, where do they come from and what was their function in the crimescape? Introduction: One view on the scattered fight against cybercrime The growing sophistication and diversification of cybercrime have compelled law enforcement agencies worldwide to respond through increasingly
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Ex-Google Engineer Convicted for Stealing 2,000 AI Trade Secrets for China Startup

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A former Google engineer accused of stealing thousands of the company's confidential documents to build a startup in China has been convicted in the U.S., the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday. Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), 38, was convicted by a federal jury on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for taking over 2,000 documents containing
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SmarterMail Fixes Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaw with CVSS 9.3 Score

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SmarterTools has addressed two more security flaws in SmarterMail email software, including one critical security flaw that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24423, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10.0. "SmarterTools SmarterMail versions prior to build 9511 contain an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the ConnectToHub API
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Two Ivanti EPMM Zero-Day RCE Flaws Actively Exploited, Security Updates Released

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Ivanti has rolled out security updates to address two security flaws impacting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that have been exploited in zero-day attacks, one of which has been added by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The critical-severity vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-1281 (CVSS score:
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Researchers Find 175,000 Publicly Exposed Ollama AI Servers Across 130 Countries

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A new joint investigation by SentinelOne SentinelLABS, and Censys has revealed that the open-source artificial intelligence (AI) deployment has created a vast "unmanaged, publicly accessible layer of AI compute infrastructure" that spans 175,000 unique Ollama hosts across 130 countries. These systems, which span both cloud and residential networks across the world, operate outside the
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