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A $25 template helped scammers build hundreds of phantom bank domains

Allure Security researchers found 838 live phantom bank sites sharing a $25 template, built to lend credibility to investment and romance scams.

Allure Security researchers discovered roughly 2,200 domains presenting invented banks, of which 1,095 returned working pages and 838 contained a shared phrase. 97% of those retained parts of the $25 Cuex front-end template and 94% ran Laravel, with a misspelled 'Curreny Charts' heading on 90% of sites. The sites presented login pages, session cookies, and anti-forgery tokens consistent with a fraud model where scam contacts direct victims to fake financial portals. A leftover 'Remedy bank' title and form submission to remedycodes[.]site linked some sites to already-flagged fraud infrastructure.

Help Net Security·Aug 21, 00:00 UTC · 26d agoPhishing & fraud

Securing Your Business: The Vital Role of Cyber Insurance | Huntress

Huntress explains cyber insurance coverage types, insurer security requirements, and the shift toward documented evidence of controls.

Huntress outlines first-party and third-party cyber insurance coverage, including business interruption, data recovery, extortion, privacy liability, and regulatory fines. Insurers now commonly require EDR, MFA, security awareness training, patching, tested backups, least-privilege access, and incident response plans. With ransomware accounting for 91% of insurance losses in H1 2025 and average US breach costs at $10.22 million, underwriters increasingly demand evidence packs rather than self-attestation.

Huntress·Sep 1, 16:00 UTC · 15d agoIndustry

Risky Bulletin: Expired cards can be used for new transactions

Researchers show expired Visa contactless cards can be revived via NFC man-in-the-middle relay to run fraudulent transactions; roundup also covers major breaches.

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers built an NFC man-in-the-middle rig that updates a card's expiration date in transit and relays the modified payment to POS terminals, reviving expired contactless cards; Visa terminals and the backends of all five banks studied failed to catch the manipulation. The same roundup reports Iranian hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, Lazarus breached South Korea's Presidential Office as part of a campaign exceeding 100 victims, and French telecom SFR suffered a breach affecting over 2.1 million customers.

Risky Business News·Aug 24, 04:40 UTC · 23d agoResearch1

Retail Cybersecurity in ANZ: Five Decisions That Keep Trading

Huntress outlines five key cybersecurity decisions for ANZ retail businesses to secure identities and maintain trading continuity against ransomware.

Huntress published guidance aimed at retailers in Australia and New Zealand, describing five decisions that help retail businesses stay trading through cyber incidents. The piece covers identity security, dependency management, and ransomware resilience. It is guidance content rather than a report of a specific incident.

Huntress·Aug 27, 13:00 UTC · 20d agoIndustry

Week in review: Records allegedly stolen from Azure tenants, Medusa ransomware hits 500+ orgs

Week in review: Medusa ransomware hit 500+ orgs per CISA, millions of Azure tenant records allegedly stolen, SafePal and French tax authority breaches disclosed.

Help Net Security's weekly roundup covers the FBI, CISA, and HHS joint advisory update reporting Medusa ransomware has breached more than 500 organizations since June 2021, and threat actor TheHatman's claim of millions of employee records stolen from Azure tenants of Fortune 500 firms including McDonald's, Vodafone, Kyndryl, and Tata Consultancy Services, per Hudson Rock. It also covers the SafePal breach affecting 39,798 customers, France's DGFiP breach exposing data on 678,000 individuals, and UT San delaying its fall semester after a cyberattack. Security items include critical unauthenticated GitLab flaw CVE-2026-19478, an actively exploited patched macOS Screen Sharing flaw deploying a cryptominer, US charges against 17 Mabna Institute Iranian hackers over 31TB of stolen academic data, and Google Mandiant's AI agents finding 100+ high-severity vulnerabilities.

Help Net Security·Aug 23, 00:00 UTC · 24d agoData breach in the wildCVE-2026-19478

New infosec products of the week: September 11, 2026

Weekly product roundup: Securin Platform GA, Orchid Security AI-agent identity controls, Akeyless Agentic Runtime Authority, and Scytale AI-powered TPRM.

Help Net Security's weekly product roundup highlights four vendor launches. Securin announced general availability of its AI-native Preemptive Exposure Management platform combining attack surface discovery, vulnerability intelligence, offensive validation and remediation. Orchid Security added identity drift detection and application-level kill switches targeting AI agents that escalate privileges via hard-coded credentials, orphaned accounts and excessive permissions. Akeyless released Agentic Runtime Authority, a real-time intent-based access control layer on top of its SecretlessAI credential protection, and Scytale launched AI-powered third-party risk management features in its Vendors module.

Help Net Security·Sep 11, 04:00 UTC · 5d agoTools

The Roboguard Revolution is Short

404 Media·Aug 10, 13:04 UTC · Aug 10, 2026Industry

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: August 25, 2026

Help Net Security lists open cybersecurity roles at AT&T, Accenture, Mastercard and others across the US, Europe, India and UAE.

Help Net Security aggregated open cybersecurity positions including compliance, IAM engineering, security architecture, SOC analyst and cloud security roles. Employers include AT&T, Accenture, Mastercard, Insight, Mitiga, NEURA Robotics and Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank across the US, India, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel and UAE. Several postings emphasize identity and access management, NIS2 and GDPR compliance, and cloud security work.

Help Net Security·Sep 3, 08:28 UTC · 13d agoIndustry

Jenkins Security Advisory 2026-09-02

Jenkins releases a security advisory affecting Jenkins Core, update-center2, and 17 plugins including GitLab, SAML, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, and Script Security.

Jenkins published its September 2, 2026 security advisory covering Jenkins Core, the update-center2 tool, and 17 plugins, including widely deployed ones such as GitLab, SAML, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, Script Security, SonarQube Scanner, and Pipeline: Groovy Libraries. The announcement text does not include CVE identifiers, affected version ranges, or any statement about active exploitation. Jenkins plugin advisories typically bundle fixes for issues like stored XSS, CSRF, and missing permission checks. Administrators running any of the listed components should update them via the Jenkins update center.

Jenkins Security Advisories·Sep 2, 12:00 UTC · 14d agoAdvisory1

Hunt Malware & Phishing Threats with ANY.RUN for Proactive Enterprise Security

ANY.RUN promotes its Threat Intelligence platform for turning scattered malware and phishing indicators into proactive enterprise threat hunting workflows.

ANY.RUN published a vendor blog post describing how its Threat Intelligence product helps analysts consolidate endless alerts, indicators, behavioral evidence and infrastructure context. The post frames threat intelligence as a way to move from raw data collection to proactive protection against malware and phishing. No new threat activity, malware family or vulnerability is disclosed.

ANY.RUN·Aug 19, 10:27 UTC · 28d agoTools

Jenkins security advisory (AV26-877)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed a Jenkins advisory (AV26-877) covering core and numerous plugin vulnerabilities fixed in 2.568.3/2.580.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published advisory AV26-877 for the Jenkins security advisory dated September 2, 2026. Affected products include Jenkins releases other than 2.568.3 and 2.580, plus plugins such as GitLab, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, SAML, Script Security, Pipeline Build Step, and others. Administrators are encouraged to review the linked advisory and apply necessary updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security·Sep 3, 13:54 UTC · 13d agoAdvisory

Operational Resilience: IT Security Risks with Reduced Staffing | Huntress

Huntress blog advises security teams on managing change, risk, and incident response during reduced-staffing holiday periods.

The article discusses how holiday-period staffing reductions change organizational risk profiles around change management, monitoring, and incident response capability. It argues against blanket change freezes when critical vulnerabilities with high exploitation probability demand patching, and stresses retaining decision-making authority, escalation paths, and recovery knowledge. It concludes by promoting Huntress Managed Response, which lets the Huntress SOC take predefined containment actions on confirmed threats without customer intervention.

Huntress·Sep 15, 14:00 UTC · 1d agoIndustry

How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?

A FOSS maintainer manually graded 102 F-Droid apps from the September 12, 2026 update batch, finding many show signs of LLM-generated code.

A student and FOSS app maintainer reviewed 102 apps pushed to F-Droid on September 12, 2026, assigning each a three-tier rating for likelihood of LLM-authored code (mostly AI >50%, hard to say/mostly human, no signs of AI). The heuristic relies on commit aesthetics, README and branding style, and the presence of agentic infrastructure like Claude Code or Codex, which automatically places an app in the 'mostly AI' tier. Example ratings include Amber (Nostr event signer) as mostly AI, and Aria for Misskey as showing no AI signs. The author stresses reliable detection of LLM-generated code from text alone is impossible, so ratings are approximate.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 15, 09:47 UTC · 1d agoAI researchHN 46↑ · 23 comments

Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution (via the strip utility)

ArXiv paper shows the trusting-trust compiler backdoor technique can compromise an entire Linux distribution via the strip utility.

The paper (arXiv 2607.24888) demonstrates that Ken Thompson's trusting-trust attack, long viewed as a compiler-specific threat, can backdoor an entire Linux distribution by targeting the strip utility. A compromised tool reproduces its backdoor in subsequent rebuilds of itself, generalizing the attack surface beyond compilers. The finding has supply-chain implications for build reproducibility and distribution trust, though it is a research result with no observed real-world exploitation.

Lobsters · security·Sep 5, 10:58 UTC · 11d agoResearch

Legit Security VibeGuard 2.0 brings endpoint security and real-time guardrails to AI coding agents

Help Net Security·Aug 4, 00:00 UTC · Aug 4, 2026AI safety & security

Stellar Cyber's Auto-Triage AI matches human analysts 99.7% of the time

Help Net Security·Aug 5, 00:00 UTC · Aug 5, 2026Ransomware

What your vendor says about PQC tells you if they are ready

Allot CTO outlines a telecom post-quantum migration playbook: inventory crypto, deploy hybrid ML-KEM on TLS first, and avoid missed interfaces.

Dr. Yaakov Stein, VP CTO of Allot, explains how mobile operators should triage post-quantum migration by data shelf life, protecting subscriber identity mappings, billing records, and call metadata that stay sensitive for years. He recommends starting with a comprehensive crypto inventory, then hybrid ML-KEM key exchange on TLS-protected 5G SBA and management interfaces, followed by IPsec backhaul and roaming links. Stein warns that migrations most often fail operationally through missed legacy interfaces such as SSH, RADIUS, or forgotten load balancers, and cites the early Kyber multi-packet TLS client hello issue as an example of middlebox incompatibility.

Help Net Security·Sep 1, 00:00 UTC · 15d agoIndustry

MFA's Weakest Link: Account Recovery Is the New Attack Path

Help desk account recovery is increasingly the weakest link in MFA-protected identities, as Scattered Spider's impersonation-driven Marks & Spencer attack demonstrated.

As MFA, conditional access, and phishing-resistant factors raise the cost of direct account takeover, attackers increasingly target the recovery process, convincing service desk staff to reset passwords or re-register MFA on attacker-controlled devices. CISA, FBI, and partner advisories describe Scattered Spider posing as employees to trigger such resets; the 2025 Marks & Spencer attack began this way and led to ransomware with an estimated £300 million profit impact. Microsoft now describes Entra ID account recovery as a high-assurance process, and the article promotes Specops Secure Service Desk for verified identity workflows.

BleepingComputer·Sep 9, 14:01 UTC · 7d agoPhishing & fraud

Intelligence-Driven SOC: Modernizing Threat Monitoring and Detection Engineering for Ultimate MTTR Reduction

ANY.RUN urges SOC teams and MSSPs to adopt intelligence-driven threat monitoring to reduce mean time to respond.

ANY.RUN published a vendor blog post arguing that threat monitoring is the connective tissue of modern security operations and that SOC teams and MSSPs must move from simple log collection to a proactive, intelligence-driven framework. The piece promotes ANY.RUN's Threat Intelligence offering as the solution for detection engineering and MTTR reduction. It is promotional content rather than a threat disclosure or research finding.

ANY.RUN·Aug 12, 07:58 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Industry

US Finance Under Phishing Pressure: What the SOC Data Reveals?

ANY.RUN SOC telemetry shows escalating phishing campaigns against US finance, including Vercel-hosted RMM attacks abusing legitimate services.

ANY.RUN analyzed SOC telemetry data on phishing targeting the US financial sector, concluding that the scale and security impact should not be understated. The analysis highlights modern campaigns such as Vercel-hosted attacks that deliver remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools. It notes that attackers increasingly abuse legitimate services and everyday workflow tools to deliver phishing, making detection harder for SOC teams.

ANY.RUN·Aug 26, 09:17 UTC · 21d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild

Credential Theft: How Attackers Steal & Use Stolen Credentials

Huntress explains how attackers steal credentials through phishing, AitM, infostealers, and dumping, then use them for lateral movement, BEC, and ransomware.

Huntress published an educational overview of credential theft, citing that roughly 70% of confirmed data breaches begin with stolen credentials. It details acquisition methods including phishing, adversary-in-the-middle attacks that capture MFA session tokens, infostealers (nearly a quarter of threats Huntress observed in 2025), Mimikatz-based credential dumping, credential stuffing, and password spraying. The piece then covers post-theft actions such as lateral movement, privilege escalation, account takeover, business email compromise, and ransomware, and closes with behavioral detection guidance and layered prevention strategies.

Huntress·Sep 10, 16:00 UTC · 6d agoResearch

G7 Urges Fast-Track on Quantum-Safe Cybersecurity Rules

G7 cybersecurity agencies led by France's ANSSI urged accelerated transition to post-quantum cryptography, prioritizing critical systems and phased, risk-based migration.

Under France's 2026 G7 Presidency, ANSSI, chairing the G7 Cybersecurity Working Group, published a September 3 call to action urging governments and organizations to begin quantum-safe (PQC) transitions now, reframing the quantum threat as near-term. The document, signed by the national cyber agencies of all G7 members and supported by the EU Commission and ENISA, outlines five priorities including national PQC strategies, R&D, public-private partnerships, and integrating PQC into cybersecurity requirements. It recommends cryptographic inventories, dependency mapping, prioritizing the most critical systems, and buying PQC-integrated products during normal renewal cycles. ANSSI will stop vetting non-quantum-safe products in 2027, with PQC mandatory in some security product procurement by 2030.

Infosecurity Magazine·Sep 4, 09:25 UTC · 12d agoPolicy & legal

AI is Working in the SOC. So Why are Security Executives More Worried Than Ever?

An Omdia survey of 500 security leaders commissioned by Rapid7 reports 97% positive AI outcomes in the SOC despite heightened executive concerns.

Omdia, commissioned by Rapid7, surveyed 500 security professionals and found 97% reporting positive outcomes from AI in security operations. 98% said AI reduces alert fatigue and 95% said it helps address staffing shortages. Despite this consensus, the report highlights a growing confidence gap and elevated concerns among security executives about where operations are headed.

Rapid7 Blog·Aug 12, 13:00 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Industry

The modern attack chain: Rethinking Google Workspace security in the age of AI

Analysis of Vercel and Composio breaches shows stolen OAuth tokens, not phishing email, now open Google Workspace attacks — a path authorized AI agents follow.

The author analyzes the Vercel and Composio breaches as the same OAuth-first attack chain run twice: a stolen OAuth token, obtained via a compromised supplier, becomes the entry point rather than email. These tokens survive password resets, are hard to observe, and let attackers read Gmail and Drive data, take over accounts, and pivot laterally using stored credentials and password-reset magic links. The piece warns that authorized AI agents with overbroad OAuth grants can unintentionally traverse the same path — accessing inboxes, reading sensitive content, and exfiltrating data downstream — without any malicious actor or compromised credential.

Help Net Security·05:00 UTC · 11h agoResearch in the wild

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: July 14, 2026

July 14, 2026 cybersecurity job listings featuring roles at Fiserv, American Express, Orca Security, Ofsted, and others across multiple countries.

This Help Net Security post lists cybersecurity jobs currently open at Fiserv, Integris Group, American Express, Orca Security, Jefferson County, Ofsted, Armstrong Fluid Technology, UNEY, Red Alpha Cybersecurity, Astranis, and lululemon. Roles span network engineering, threat intelligence leadership, AI security specialization, and security operations. All listed positions are on-site, hybrid, or remote across USA, Israel, UK, Canada, UAE, and Singapore. Most positions noted as no longer accepting applications.

Help Net Security·Aug 25, 12:44 UTC · 22d agoIndustry1

From Infostealer Log to Marketplace Listing: A Technical Walkthrough of the Credential Theft Pipeline

Cyble walkthrough maps how infostealer logs move from endpoint infection through aggregation and enrichment to dark web credential marketplace sales.

Cyble breaks the credential theft pipeline into stages: infostealer execution harvesting browser credential stores, cookies, session tokens, crypto wallets, and FTP configurations; aggregation of stealer logs via C2 panels into bundled archives; parsing and enrichment against previously leaked datasets; and final listing on dark web marketplaces. Enrichment adds employer and role context that raises prices and enables credential stuffing across reused passwords. The report advises SOC teams to monitor stealer logs and marketplace chatter early rather than waiting for breach alerts.

Cyble·Sep 10, 10:45 UTC · 6d agoMalware1

German Manufacturer Shrinks Security Alert Response While Protecting 10,000 Endpoints

Vendor case study: a German manufacturer's five-person SOC cut alert triage time using ANY.RUN's cloud sandbox across 10,000 endpoints.

ANY.RUN published a case study in which a five-person security team at an unnamed German manufacturer replaced an air-gapped forensic laptop with its cloud-managed interactive sandbox, protecting roughly 10,000 endpoints and 10,000 users. The vendor claims a median 15 minutes saved per alert, 20-40 daily tasks processed, a 2.5-minute alert-to-isolation target, and a 95% agreement rate between analyst and sandbox verdicts; all figures are vendor-supplied with the customer identity withheld. The writeup also describes detonating a multi-stage phishing chain from a PDF link to a password-protected ZIP to malware execution.

Cyber Security News·15:12 UTC · 1h agoIndustry 2 sources