Friday , October 23 2026

Daily Cybersecurity Update, June -01,2023

Misconfigured systems can spill data, which can be used by threat actors to breach a company’s systems and hijack communication channels.

In one instance, a misconfiguration issue in Swiss real estate agency Neho’s website exposed sensitive credentials for AWS, email services, communication tools, and review platforms to the public. This put the company’s internal systems and corporate communications at risk.

US banks faced unauthorized access by AI agents in customer accounts: Axios reports

Major US banks have detected unauthorized access to customer accounts by third-party AI agents, with some systems taking actions beyond...
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US banks faced unauthorized access by AI agents in customer accounts: Axios reports

Atlassian patched 176 flaw in Jira and Confluence: Fortinet Urges to Patch Flaws Affecting FortiOS, FortiManager

Fortinet has urged customers to prioritize security updates for FortiOS, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer scheduled for October 22, 2026. The coordinated...
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Atlassian patched 176 flaw in Jira and Confluence: Fortinet Urges to Patch Flaws Affecting FortiOS, FortiManager

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

Hacker offers to sell Rajasthan Government’s Department of Information Technology & Communication (DoIT&C) data in a underground forum. The threat...
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Hacker claim to access Rajasthan Police data: 70,000 records allegedly exposed

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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Update now! PHP2Shell: Critical PHP vulnerabilities patched

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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Trump says data centres should pay dividends to local community

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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DeepSeek AI banned by U.S. Government; federal agencies must remove all related tools

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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CISA, NSA and NIST Publish New 10 AI Agent Control Guidelines

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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Claude AI Cracks 25-Year NSA Cryptography Number Mystery in Just 30 Minutes

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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Bypassing firewalls, AI Agents Accessed Indian ‘ Data Without Permission: CERT-In

Threat actors are also targeting the healthcare sector.

An Idaho hospital and its partner clinics fell prey to an attack that forced it to redirect emergency services. The incident also impacted Idaho Falls Community Hospital and its partner hospitals.

The Dark Pink group has been active this year, amassing five new victims.

New research revealed that the Dark Pink group has been pretty active this year as it amassed five new victims. The group has targeted government, education, and military organizations in Belgium, Thailand, and Brunei.

Here are some other recent cyberattacks:

  • Greece’s Education Ministry suffered a DDoS attack that disabled a centralized high school examination platform. This affected computers from 114 countries, causing outages and delays in high school exams.
  • Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency were hacked after their administrators were tricked into running malicious Javascript code disguised as a web browser bookmark.
  • Scammers stole $170,000 from crypto investors by hacking the Twitter account of American DJ Steve Aoki and posting a message that promoted a new cryptocurrency token, PSYOP.
  • The Anonymous Sudan threat group demanded a ransom of $3 million from Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) to stop the DDoS attacks on the airline’s websites it has been conducting since February.
  • Trend Micro researchers spotted similarities between the new BlackSuit ransomware and Royal ransomware, with both employing intermittent encryption techniques to accelerate the encryption process on victims’ systems.
  • Threat actors were found advertising the new SeroXen RAT, on underground forums, which combines the capabilities of Quasar RAT, r77-rootkit, and the command line NirCmd. It is mostly popular in the gaming community.
  • A group of Ukrainian attackers claimed to have destroyed the infrastructure and stolen the documents and project source code belonging to Skolkovo Foundation, Russia’s ‘Silicon Valley’.

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