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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > attackers-use-passkey-phishing-to.html

Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (734+ words) Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. Evidence indicates that the operators behind the campaign…...


thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > google-play-early-access-abused-to-push.html

Google Play Early Access Abused to Push Thousands of Deceptive Android Apps

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (467+ words) Bad actors are misusing Google Play's Early Access program to push deceptive apps that claim to offer money, rewards, casino winnings, and premium content. "The same feature that shields developers from unfair criticism also strips users of the earliest warning…...


thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > us-disrupts-xinbi-guarantee-scam.html

U.S. Disrupts Xinbi Guarantee Scam Marketplace, Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (835+ words) "Approximately $52 million of cryptocurrency involved in scam money laundering was restrained in one day, bringing the total restrained by the Scam Center Strike Force to approximately $938 million," DoJ said. In tandem, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)…...


thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > slim-spider-steals-crypto-custody.html

Slim Spider Steals Crypto Custody Secrets From Brazilian Financial Institution

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (686+ words) A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider. Slim Spider has been observed orchestrating…...


thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > liquid-hackers-return-3400-bitcoin.html

Liquid Hackers Return 3,400 Bitcoin Taken via Elements Bug, Still Holding $47M in BTC

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (636+ words) Whoever took nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network on Sunday, September 6, returned 3,400 of it the next day, Bitcoin's public record shows. About 598.5 bitcoin has not come back. Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain that holds real bitcoin to back a token…...


thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > trezor-says-shipmonk-breach-exposed.html

Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers' Data It Said Was Deleted

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (473+ words) Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers between November…...


thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > malicious-apache-modules-hijack.html

Malicious Apache Modules Hijack Brazilian Government Site Traffic to Push Betting Pages

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (693+ words) A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions, and using them to divert visitors to attacker-controlled pages promoting online gambling and sports…...


thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > researchers-use-claude-to-port-pre-auth.html

Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (827+ words) Forescout Research - Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic's Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) to another, executing attacker-supplied ARM shellcode on live hardware. The exploit targets CVE-2021-31886, a…...


thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > authorities-turn-salitys-p2p-network.html

Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (937+ words) The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation. "Cybercriminals, botnets, and malware are a clear and present danger to our nation's security…...


thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > threat-actors-dont-want-better-attacks.html

Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1263+ words) The most common way into a company last year was to ask. What happens next is just as ordinary. When Bitdefender analyzed 700,000 security incidents, 84% of the high-severity ones involved binaries that were already on the machine - the same administrative tools…...