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U.S. Sanctions Iran-Linked Hackers Behind Critical Infrastructure Breaches

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced fresh sanctions on Iranian cyber actors as part of what it called an "unprecedented, whole-of-government, economic campaign" against the nation and its enablers. "We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe. Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone," said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. The action, codenamed Operation Economic Outcast, aims to cut the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the financial "lifelines" that support the "leading state sponsor of terror." To that end, the sanctions designate nearly 60 Iran-linked entities, individuals, and vessels across nuclear, missile, oil, and cyber networks, including the digital assets sector. Specifically, the sanctions take aim at a malicious cyber group affiliated with Iran...

Aug 25, 2026

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A Malicious Webpage Could Poison Your Local AI Model Behind NVIDIA NemoClaw

Oasis Security has disclosed a weakness in NVIDIA NemoClaw that could let an attacker-controlled webpage take unauthenticated control of the local Ollama instance serving an AI agent and plant hidden instructions inside the model itself. The findings were shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, and the report says Oasis Security reported them to NVIDIA's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) beforehand. The research carries no CVE identifier. No exploitation has been reported as of August 25, 2026. Oasis Security's head of research, Elad Luz, told The Hacker News that NemoClaw v0.0.35 fixed the issue on macOS and Linux. There is no fix on the Windows and WSL path, according to Luz, where v0.0.34 added a Windows installation that carries a warning instead. NemoClaw is NVIDIA's open source reference stack for running agents such as OpenClaw inside its OpenShell sandboxes, and Ollama is one of its supported local inference backends. The report des...

Aug 25, 2026

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WhatsApp Adds Multiple Passkeys for Phishing-Resistant Sign-Ins Across iOS and Android

Meta on Tuesday announced a set of WhatsApp account security features, including support for multiple passkeys to a single account to help users with both iOS and Android devices sign into their accounts using the phishing-resistant method. The tech giant said more than 1 billion people use a passkey to log into WhatsApp. Support for passkeys was first introduced in Android in October 2023, before expanding to iOS in early 2024. Meta also followed it up by integrating passkeys into Facebook logins in June 2025. Users can manage their passkeys by navigating to Settings > Account > Passkeys. Along with the update, WhatsApp said it's adding a full password option as part of two-step verification, and users on Android will see more context on calls from people who aren't in their contacts. "Two-step verification is an extra protection layer that helps prevent someone from taking over your account, even if they get hold of your one-time passcode," WhatsApp...

Aug 25, 2026

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Attackers Map Your Network Quietly. Controls Block 1 in 10 of Those Actions

Picus Labs analyzed 338 million attack simulations. See what got through in the Blue Report 2026.

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Marimo Notebook Flaw Could Run MCP Commands Before Cells Execute in Edit Mode

Marimo has addressed a high-severity security flaw in its notebook software that allowed an attacker to execute an attacker-supplied Model Context Protocol (MCP) command in a specially crafted notebook, according to VulnCheck's CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) record. The CNA record says the command can run as a local subprocess when the notebook is opened in edit mode. The vulnerability, tracked as  CVE-2026-75149 , is a code injection issue affecting versions prior to 0.23.15. VulnCheck's CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) record assigns it a CVSS v4 score of 8.7 and a CVSS v3.1 score of 8.8, with user interaction required and no attacker authentication required. Marimo has addressed the issue in version 0.23.15. The CVE was published on August 19. Users running an affected release should move to a version outside the affected range. According to  OSV's CVE import , a crafted notebook can supply an attacker-controlled MCP server command through notebook configurat...

Aug 25, 2026

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Mirage2FA Surge Hits 4,500 US and EU Companies, Abusing Microsoft 365 Login Flows

Thousands of companies have been affected by the Mirage2FA campaign from 2024 to 2026. The commercial phishing-as-a-service toolkit targets Microsoft 365 accounts by abusing legitimate login flows and bypassing two-factor authentication. According to ANY.RUN research, 48% of targeted email addresses were potentially compromised. Most of the affected companies are US-based. Mirage2FA Campaign Scope and Impact By stealing passwords and session cookies, attackers can gain access to authenticated Microsoft 365 sessions and SSO-connected services. This creates significant identity-related risks for companies, potentially exposing corporate email, trusted business accounts, and other sensitive data. Once an authenticated Microsoft 365 session is hijacked, a path for impersonation, fraud, and further compromise is created. Key takeaways about Mirage2FA by ANY.RUN The campaign has a broad geographic and corporate reach. Apart from the United States accounting for 63.7% of the tot...

Aug 25, 2026

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How IT Can Reduce Credential Risk Across Every Department

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24 npm Packages Abuse unpkg Mirrors to Host Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA Pages

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that uses a cluster of 24 npm packages as free phishing infrastructure for redirecting to ClickFix-style fake CAPTCHA pages. "While the malware is simply a single HTML page inside the npm package, and while downloading it wouldn't do harm, the threat actor’s use of npm isn't to infect developers who install it, but to use the registry and its mirrors as a safe, validated storage for the malware," OX Security researchers Moshe Siman Tov Bustan and Vitalii Chepurko said . The list of npm packages, some of which are still available for download, is below - bgzxcuite2 prezdentkxheiw egair0810 mnteckets airdzticket egypt0811 passport811 vxhjkseuiaqkb ndmushdkeqe ndmxchdjxn2 ndmfguyhoxc3 mjsdqwocvn m2fcsfyjkuxb m3fdfocdoewn @worrisome/reutil testdgdbcsd tesgfvbncsdbcv mndsxcusiwlk1 mn2adskhweox mn3sadkoiewu mn4xcouzvhus mbxcnsuwgs1 s...

Aug 25, 2026

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E4del and PINHOLE RATs Turn FTP Banners Into Dead Drops for Malware Commands

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that employs FTP banners as dead drop resolvers ( DDRs ) to deliver two previously unreported remote access trojans (RATs) tracked as E4del and PINHOLE . While threat actors are known to abuse legitimate services to point to additional command-and-control (C2) infrastructure and blend in with regular network traffic, the development marks the first time this unusual technique has been spotted in the wild. An FTP banner is a welcome message or text string that an FTP server sends to a client immediately upon connection. The mechanism allows "malware stagers to fetch commands directly from the protocol's initial response," SOCRadar said in a technical report. The modus operandi was first highlighted by the MalwareHunterTeam early last month.  However, it's worth noting that the method is a lot less stealthy than traditional web-based DDRs, as security controls are likely to flag FTP connections ...

Aug 25, 2026

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Frontier AI: Vulnerability Management's Systemic Revolution

Vulnerability management has been a staple of security programs since the dawn of the cybersecurity discipline. The symbiotic relationship between vulnerability and patch management teams has also existed for that time and has gone through waves of contention and thankfulness. While this relationship required thoughtful care and feeding from both sides, both sides were aiming to work toward a common goal of identifying vulnerabilities and confirming the risk was removed from the environment. In come Frontier AI models such as Anthropic's Mythos to radically change the vulnerability management space. These models can identify zero-day flaws, chain complex exploits, and adapt in real time. They have forced vulnerability management programs to take an introspective look at themselves and ask, “Is my vulnerability program ready for this revolution?” For many organizations, the answer is no. Many vulnerability management programs were hanging by a thread already, with very distant pl...

Aug 25, 2026