Cyber Attack

Security experts have shown that expired credit cards can still be used. A study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, shared at the 35th USENIX Security Symposium, presents a new NFC relay attack called “Zombie Card” that can make expired Visa contactless cards work again, letting them make real purchases …

Operation CameraSwarm compromised 14,500+ Dahua IP cameras mostly in Ukraine and Russia. The operation lasted for at least 35 days from June 17 to July 22. It took control of devices by finding weak spots, guessing passwords, and using offline recovery codes from serial numbers for cloud-connected cameras. Researchers at …

The Cl0p ransomware group has listed over 40 organizations that they say they targeted in a recent attack. This attack used a weakness in PTC’s product lifecycle management (PLM) tools, Windchill and FlexPLM. The vulnerability and its exploitation The exploitation of the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-12569, was discovered in June …

A previously undocumented backdoor called PATCHCORD actively target telecom and critical information infrastructure (CII) in South Asia. According to Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU), the backdoor is a C/C++ code that gets into systems using specific tricks, like fake VPN installers pretending to be Afghan Telecom (AFTEL) and telecom management …

Cisco warns customers that it has fixed a serious security hole in firewalls using Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software. The flaw tracked as CVE-2026-20349, is related to the processing of HTTP requests. An attacker can make a device restart and make a …

A joint warning from the FBI, CISA, the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, the NSA, the U.S. Secret Service, and South Korea’s National Police Agency has revealed a serious new attack from the Gunra ransomware group. They are using known Fortinet VPN flaws to get past multi-factor authentication and …

Attackers penetrated into IEH Corporation, a US defense and airspace firm, using a fake link that looked like a real Microsoft sharing link. The hackers got into an employee’s email, which had a lot of private information. IEH Corporation shared news of a security incident in an 8-K form with …

A cyberattack on the U.K.’s Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has put the contact information of over 100,000 police officers and other justice workers at risk. The hack was detected on Sunday, July 26, and the ExfilSquad group calimed they took 135,000 contact records. PNLD is an online legal resource service …

India’s leading state-owned lender Bank of Baroda acknowledged Monday a security incident after reports that approximately 1 terabyte of customer and internal data surfaced online. The incident stemmed from the “compromise of an employee’s email account, resulting in unauthorized access to certain data,” Bank of Baroda said in a post …

A critical flaw with how Dell saves BIOS passwords lets anyone quickly recover these passwords from a flash dump without guessing. The flaw, known as CVE-2026-40639 (DSA-2026-197), comes from a faulty XOR encryption method instead of a real cryptographic hash. Dell keeps BIOS passwords in a special area of the SPI …