Thursday , October 22 2026

Daily Cybersecurity update, July-3, 2023

The ever-increasing influence of Chinese threat actors in the cyber landscape is causing significant concern. As per the latest revelations, a Chinese state-linked group successfully stole data from a U.S. federal agency and targeted several European nations too. Today, we also have a Delaware county facing temporary outages due to a cyberattack from a few days back. In other news, with all these scams going around, you might think that there are lots of scammers associated with the business. However, that’s not the case. To know more about this and other highlights, read along.

The CISA and FBI issued a warning together that the Storm-0558 threat group, which is associated with China, accessed and stole unclassified Exchange Online Outlook data from an undisclosed U.S. source FCEB agency.

Hacker claim to access Rajasthan Police data: 70,000 records allegedly exposed

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Update now! PHP2Shell: Critical PHP vulnerabilities patched

The PHP team released urgent security updates to fix PHP2Shell, two serious flaws (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) that let attackers run...
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Trump says data centres should pay dividends to local community

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that companies ​building data centers should pay a "dividend" to the communities ‌where...
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Hackers Actively Exploiting Palo Alto VPN Flaw Via CVE-2026-0257

Ransomware groups are using a flaw in Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect VPN to get around multi-factor authentication and access corporate...
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DeepSeek AI banned by U.S. Government; federal agencies must remove all related tools

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ordered federal agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove it from all...
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CISA, NSA and NIST Publish New 10 AI Agent Control Guidelines

NSA, CISA, and NIST have released security guidelines to find, control, and stop AI agents that go beyond their allowed...
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Claude AI Cracks 25-Year NSA Cryptography Number Mystery in Just 30 Minutes

Anthropic says a Claude research model showed how the National Security Agency made seeds for five NIST elliptic curves in...
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Bypassing firewalls, AI Agents Accessed Indian ‘ Data Without Permission: CERT-In

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which is the government's cybersecurity arm, has issued a "critical" rated advisory after...
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MITRE ATT&CK v20 Unveils 9 New Attack Techniques On AI Exploits, MFA Bypass, and CAPTCHA Evasion

MITRE released ATT&CK v20 adding nine Enterprise techniques that explain how attackers might target AI systems, steal app-specific passwords to...
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Hackers Exploit Fortinet Flaws to Deploy Stealthy PEERSTITCH Malware on FortiGate Firewalls

Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have uncovered a sophisticated cyberattack targeting Fortinet network management infrastructure, involving the...
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Kent County in Delaware is experiencing a cyberattack that has disrupted municipal services, leading to a temporary offline status of internet-based services and phone numbers.

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The Cl0p ransomware group put the data of 62 clients of Ernst & Young, including Air Canada and United Parcel Service Canada Ltd., on their leak sites. The group had exploited the MOVEit vulnerability and leaked 3TB of information belonging to the accounting firm.

Ransomware attacks have seen a significant increase in 2023, with cybercriminals extorting nearly $175.8 million more than the previous year, revealed Chainalysis.

Barracuda Networks and Columbia University studied 300,000 extortion emails and discovered that fewer than 100 scammers worldwide are behind them.

USB-delivered malware campaigns have seen a threefold increase in malware attacks in the first half of 2023, with two notable campaigns delivering Sogu and Snowydrive malware to various industries worldwide – reported Mandiant.

The hacker group Nobelium, supported by the Russian government, used fake BMW car listings to deceive Ukrainian diplomats into clicking on harmful links that install malware. The campaign has targeted at least 22 of the 80 foreign missions in Kyiv.

ZooTampa, a popular U.S. zoo, experienced a cyberattack resulting in the theft of employee and vendor information, with an affiliate of the Royal ransomware gang claiming responsibility.

Vietnamese threat actors are actively targeting Facebook business accounts using fake Ads Manager software and malicious Chrome extensions, resulting in over 800 victims worldwide losing more than $180,000 in compromised ad budgets.

In a recent finding, FortiGuard Labs uncovered a malicious operation that capitalizes on a pair of well-known vulnerabilities, including Follina, to implant the perilous LokiBot trojan on targeted devices. The campaign first came to light in May.

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