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September 18, 2026
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WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage

September 18, 2026
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Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealer

September 18, 2026
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RatHat Android Malware Abuses ADB to Retain Shell Access After Uninstall

September 18, 2026
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Critical Docker Sandboxes Flaw Lets Malicious Guest Code Read and Modify macOS Host Files

September 18, 2026
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Iran-Linked Handala Hack Tied to HEAVYGRAM Telegram Backdoor That Can Steal Passwords

September 18, 2026
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ThreatsDay: Self-Rewriting Agents, 800+ Flaws Patched, Insider SIM Swaps and 22 More New Stories

September 18, 2026
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Critical Check Point Management Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root

September 17, 2026
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Cisco Warns of New Zero-Day ISE Auth Bypass (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Active Attacks

September 17, 2026
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U.S. Seizes NightmareStresser Domains Linked to Hundreds of Thousands of DDoS Attacks

September 17, 2026
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BIND 9 Update Fixes 14 Flaws, Including an Unauthenticated Crash Over DNS-over-HTTPS

Filigran, CyberASAP and Pulse Conferences Unite to Champion Cybersecurity’s Unsung Heroes September 18, 2026
London, UK – 18th September 2026 –Eskenzi PR, the cybersecurity PR agency, are pleased to announce that Filigran, the European open-source threat management company, has joined as a sponsor for this year’s Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards. Filigran joins CultureAI, OneAdvanced and The Zensory as sponsors of this year’s event. With the help of these sponsors, the […]
ISB Editorial Staff
Prophet Security research finds AI is cutting SOC investigation times, but nearly half of in-house builds fail to stick September 14, 2026
Security teams are turning to AI as they struggle to investigate the volume of alerts coming into the SOC, according to new research from Prophet Security. The State of AI in Security Operations 2026 report surveyed 250 IT and cybersecurity professionals. Forty percent said AI is already part of their day-to-day SOC workflow, and 56% […]
Kirsten Doyle
Architectural intent is the cornerstone for the future of software security September 2, 2026
With agentic AI further boosting productivity, human code review becomes a serious bottleneck. Developers need to move upstream, establishing the ground rules to ensure that AI plays by the rules. No matter how drastically artificial intelligence has changed the way software is created, human developers are still indispensable to the software development process. But the […]
Pieter Danhieux
There is no Zero Trust in Zero Trust September 2, 2026
In January, the Cloud Security Alliance asked security professionals how they handle the identities on which their AI systems run. Fewer than a quarter of organizations had a documented, formally adopted policy for creating or removing one. More than 16% do not track when a new identity is created at all. Those identities hold tokens […]
Dirk Schrader
A reverse image search platform exposed more than 9 million facial images August 24, 2026
A publicly accessible database linked to reverse image search service ClarityCheck exposed more than nine million images, including photographs of adults, teenagers, and children. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered the database, which was neither password-protected nor encrypted. It contained approximately 9,042,977 image files, amounting to 450.2GB of data. Most were stored in folders labeled “faces” […]
Kirsten Doyle
Post-DEF CON phishing campaign delivered AMOS and NetSupport malware August 24, 2026
A phishing campaign targeting attendees of Black Hat and DEF CON conferences involved distributing information-stealing malware and remote access malware via a malicious Google Doc and fake DocSend installers for macOS and Windows. The Huntress team learned about the phishing attack after one of its researchers received a direct message on X on August 9. […]
Kirsten Doyle
AI agents taking unsanctioned action during cyber testing August 24, 2026
The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has disclosed a security incident in which frontier AI agents took unsanctioned actions against real people and organisations during a controlled cybersecurity evaluation. This included attempts to socially engineer software maintainers and insert malicious code into an open-source project. The incident happened during routine cyber capability testing between 25 […]
Kirsten Doyle
Walking the AI Security and ROI Tightrope August 17, 2026
Organisations across every sector are accelerating their adoption of generative AI, driven by board-level expectations for rapid innovation and measurable business value. Yet the same boards are equally insistent that AI initiatives must not compromise security, privacy, or regulatory compliance, and not lead to runaway cost. This dual mandate has placed CIOs and security leaders […]
Joe Logan
Fake evidence: How generative AI is changing fraud capabilities August 14, 2026
Scams are evolving with technology. Generative AI is a game changer for scammers and has been blamed for the rise in increasingly sophisticated phishing campaigns. It is also enabling scammers to add credibility to their schemes by providing a quick, cheap, and easy way to create fake websites, videos, documents, and photographs. Tasks that once […]
Martina Dove
10th Annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards Open for Nominations August 3, 2026
Cybersecurity PR agency Eskenzi PR has opened nominations for its tenth annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards. The awards celebrate the UK’s most extraordinary cybersecurity professionals who work to make the industry not only more secure, but also more diverse, healthier and better informed about current events. Key sponsors include CultureAI, OneAdvanced and The Zensory. […]
ISB Staff Reporter

Category: Blog

WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage

Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealer

RatHat Android Malware Abuses ADB to Retain Shell Access After Uninstall

Critical Docker Sandboxes Flaw Lets Malicious Guest Code Read and Modify macOS Host Files

Iran-Linked Handala Hack Tied to HEAVYGRAM Telegram Backdoor That Can Steal Passwords

ThreatsDay: Self-Rewriting Agents, 800+ Flaws Patched, Insider SIM Swaps and 22 More New Stories

Critical Check Point Management Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root

Cisco Warns of New Zero-Day ISE Auth Bypass (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Active Attacks

U.S. Seizes NightmareStresser Domains Linked to Hundreds of Thousands of DDoS Attacks

BIND 9 Update Fixes 14 Flaws, Including an Unauthenticated Crash Over DNS-over-HTTPS

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