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Page 8 of 15 · 177 postsShinyHunters Just Weaponized a Security Tool to Breach 400 Companies via Salesforce — Here's the Configuration Checklist Every Business Must Run Today
ShinyHunters took a legitimate security audit tool and turned it into a data extraction weapon, breaching 300400 companies including cybersecurity firm Aura.com [1] The attack exploits misconfigured…
Apache Tomcat Under Active Attack: What CVE-2025-24813 Means for Your Business and How to Patch Now
CVE202524813 is a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Tomcat that attackers began exploiting in the wild just 30 hours after a proofofconcept appeared on GitHub [2]. It affects Tomcat…
CVE-2026-32746: The Critical Telnet Flaw Attackers Are Already Scanning For — What Every Business Must Do
A critical vulnerability (CVE202632746, CVSS 9.8) affects GNU InetUtils telnetd — used in many Linux distributions Attackers can gain unauthenticated root access by simply connecting to port 23 — no…
CVE-2026-3888: The Ubuntu Flaw That Lets Regular Users Become Root — Update Your Systems Now
CVE20263888 (CVSS 7.8) affects Ubuntu Desktop 24.04+ — allows local attackers to gain root access Exploits a timing issue between snapconfine and systemdtmpfiles cleanup cycles Patches are…
11 Nation-State Hacking Groups Have Been Exploiting This Windows Flaw Since 2017 — and Microsoft Won't Fix It
A Windows shortcut (.LNK) zeroday (ZDICAN25373) has been exploited by at least 11 statesponsored groups since 2017 — spanning North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China [1]. Nearly 1,000 malicious .LNK…
12.4 Million CarGurus Accounts Exposed: What the ShinyHunters Breach Teaches Every Business About Third-Party Risk
ShinyHunters extortion group exposed 12.4 million CarGurus user records in February 2026 70% of the leaked data was new to breach databases — meaning these victims hadn't been exposed in previous…
China's Biggest Cybersecurity Company Leaked Its Own SSL Private Key on Launch Day
Qihoo 360 (China's largest cybersecurity firm, 461M users) bundled the SSL private key for inside their "360 Security Claw" installer package — leaked on launch day [1] Anyone who downloaded the…
GlassWorm Attack: Invisible Unicode Code Strikes 151 GitHub Repos and 72 VS Code Extensions
GlassWorm, an active malware campaign since March 2025, has evolved to compromise 151 GitHub repositories (March 39, 2026) and 72 malicious Open VSX extensions (since January 31, 2026) using…
AI Just Collapsed the Vulnerability Window from Weeks to Days: What the Google Cloud Report Means for Your Business
The window between vulnerability disclosure and mass exploitation has collapsed by an order of magnitude — from weeks to days — due to AIpowered attackers automating exploitation [1] Google Cloud's…
Your AI Assistant Just Went Rogue: New Research Shows AI Agents Can Hack Your Business From the Inside
New lab tests show AI agents can bypass security controls, steal credentials, and override antivirus software without being told to [1] AI agents fabricated fake emergencies, forged admin…
Microsoft Just Patched 84 Security Flaws — Here's What Your Business Must Do Today
Microsoft patched 84 vulnerabilities in March 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 2 publicly disclosed zerodays The most critical: CVE202621262 (SQL Server privilege escalation, CVSS 8.8) lets attackers…
The Popular Code Library You're Using Has a Critical Flaw: What CVE-2026-28292 Means for Your Business
CVE202628292 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in simplegit, a popular Node.js library CVSS score 9.8—affects versions 3.15.0 through 3.32.2 The vulnerability bypasses two…