Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-07-01 08:00 PDT
- Turning Indicators into Intelligence in OpenCTI with Criminal IP
BleepingComputer • 2026-07-01 07:01 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Threat intelligence is only as useful as the context behind it. Criminal IP explains how its integration enriches threat indicators in OpenCTI with risk scoring, infrastructure intelligence, and phishing analysis. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/turning-indicators-into-intelligence-in-opencti-with-criminal-ip/ - Progress Kemp LoadMaster Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Faces Active Exploitation Attempts
The Hacker News • 2026-07-01 06:56 • thehackernews.com
A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster is seeing active exploitation attempts, according to an advisory from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU).The Canadian cybersecurity company said it identified exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), an operating system (OS) command injection flaw that could be exploited to achieve
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/latest-progress-kemp-loadmaster-pre.html - AI-Generated Browser Ransomware Abuses Chromium API on Windows and Android
The Hacker News • 2026-07-01 05:59 • thehackernews.com
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware artifact generated using DeepSeek that constructed a novel attack path combining “unrealistic browser-malware concepts with a real browser capability” to turn it into a working ransomware technique that runs entirely inside the browser on both Windows and Android devices.“This is the first documented case where a frontier AI model
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/ai-generated-browser-ransomware-abuses.html - Over 900 Oracle E-Business instances exposed to ongoing attacks
BleepingComputer • 2026-07-01 05:30 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Over 900 Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) instances have been found exposed online amid ongoing attacks exploiting a critical security flaw. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-900-oracle-e-business-instances-exposed-to-ongoing-attacks/ - 2026 Cybersecurity Assessment: The Gap Between Awareness and Resilience
The Hacker News • 2026-07-01 04:30 • thehackernews.com
Organizations have never had greater awareness of cyber risk. Yet turning that awareness into operational resilience has never been more challenging. The 2026 Bitdefender Cybersecurity Assessment confirms this is the case, as this year’s findings reveal a series of surprising contradictions.Here are a few examples, based on the independent survey of 1,200 IT and cybersecurity professionals
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/2026-cybersecurity-assessment-gap.html - Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising
Schneier on Security • 2026-07-01 03:53 • www.schneier.comPapa Johns is spying on people’s buying activities to predict when they are low on food:
The pizza chain recently tapped NBCUniversal, Instacart and the dentsu-owned media agency Carat for help reaching consumers when they’re low on groceries—and thus more likely to be swayed by a mouth-watering ad. The idea is to reach hungry consumers by “knowing what is in their fridge without being too creepy,” said Carrie Drinkwater, chief investment officer…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/papa-johns-surveillance-based-advertising.html - Microsoft fixes GIF functionality in the Windows Emoji Panel
BleepingComputer • 2026-07-01 03:52 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft has fixed the GIF functionality in the Emoji Panel for Windows 11 users after the provider shut down its service. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fixes-gif-functionality-in-the-windows-emoji-panel/ - Microsoft Accelerates Post-Quantum Cryptography Shift to 2029
The Hacker News • 2026-07-01 03:41 • thehackernews.com
Microsoft on Tuesday said it’s accelerating its quantum safe security roadmap, stating technology advances in quantum computing are making it essential to replace existing encryption standards sooner than previously expected.“Advances in quantum research and development have shifted the risk horizon,” Mark Russinovich, chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, said. “We believe
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/microsoft-accelerates-post-quantum.html - The SOC Files: ScreenConnect masked as freeware. An inside look at a large-scale campaign
Securelist • 2026-07-01 03:00 • securelist.com
Kaspersky experts have uncovered a malicious network infrastructure for delivering AsyncRAT. The Trojan is dropped via compromised ScreenConnect software. In this post, we break down the infection chain and analyze the C2 infrastructure.
https://securelist.com/tr/the-soc-files-screenconnect-campaign-with-asyncrat/120472/ - Amazon fined $2.25M for withholding evidence from fraud victims
BleepingComputer • 2026-07-01 02:43 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Amazon will pay a $2.25 million civil penalty to settle charges that it blocked identity theft victims’ access to transaction records. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/amazon-fined-225m-for-withholding-evidence-from-fraud-victims/
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
