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Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/authorities-disrupt-socksescort-proxy.html A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers worldwide into a botnet for committing large-scale fraud. "SocksEscort infected home and small business internet routers with malware," the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. "The malware allowed SocksEscort to direct internet

Veeam Patches 7 Critical Backup & Replication Flaws Allowing Remote Code Execution https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/veeam-patches-7-critical-backup.html Veeam has released security updates to address multiple critical vulnerabilities in its Backup & Replication software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-21666 (CVSS score: 9.9) - A vulnerability that allows an authenticated domain user to perform remote code execution on the Backup Server. CVE-2026-21667 (

Rust-Based VENON Malware Targets 33 Brazilian Banks with Credential-Stealing Overlays https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/rust-based-venon-malware-targets-33.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new banking malware targeting Brazilian users that's written in Rust, marking a significant departure from other known Delphi-based malware families associated with the Latin American cybercrime ecosystem. The malware, which is designed to infect Windows systems and was first discovered last month, has been codenamed VENON by Brazilian

Hive0163 Uses AI-Assisted Slopoly Malware for Persistent Access in Ransomware Attacks https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/hive0163-uses-ai-assisted-slopoly.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a suspected artificial intelligence (AI)-generated malware codenamed Slopoly put to use by a financially motivated threat actor named Hive0163. "Although still relatively unspectacular, AI-generated malware such as Slopoly shows how easily threat actors can weaponize AI to develop new malware frameworks in a fraction of the time it used to take

How to Scale Phishing Detection in Your SOC: 3 Steps for CISOs https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/how-to-scale-phishing-detection-in-your.html Phishing has quietly turned into one of the hardest enterprise threats to expose early. Instead of crude lures and obvious payloads, modern campaigns rely on trusted infrastructure, legitimate-looking authentication flows, and encrypted traffic that conceals malicious behavior from traditional detection layers. For CISOs, the priority is now clear: scale phishing detection in a way that helps

ThreatsDay Bulletin: OAuth Trap, EDR Killer, Signal Phishing, Zombie ZIP, AI Platform Hack & More https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/threatsday-bulletin-oauth-trap-edr.html Another Thursday, another pile of weird security stuff that somehow happened in just seven days. Some of it is clever. Some of it is lazy. A few bits fall into that uncomfortable category of “yeah… this is probably going to show up in real incidents sooner than we’d like.” The pattern this week feels familiar in a slightly annoying way. Old tricks are getting polished. New research shows how

Cyber fallout from the Iran war: What to have on your radar https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/business-security/cyber-fallout-iran-war-what-have-radar/ The cybersecurity implications of the war in the Middle East extend far beyond the region. Here’s where to focus your defenses.

Attackers Don't Just Send Phishing Emails. They Weaponize Your SOC's Workload https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/attackers-dont-just-send-phishing.html The most dangerous phishing campaigns aren’t just designed to fool employees. Many are designed to exhaust the analysts investigating them. When a phishing investigation takes 12 hours instead of five minutes, the outcome can shift from a contained incident to a breach. For years, the cybersecurity industry has focused on the front door of phishing defense: employee training, email gateways that

Apple Issues Security Updates for Older iOS Devices Targeted by Coruna WebKit Exploit https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/apple-issues-security-updates-for-older.html Apple on Wednesday backported fixes for a security flaw in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Sonoma to older versions after it was found to be used as part of the Coruna exploit kit. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-43010, relates to an unspecified vulnerability in WebKit that could result in memory corruption when processing maliciously crafted web content. The iPhone maker said the issue was

Six Android Malware Families Target Pix Payments, Banking Apps, and Crypto Wallets https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/six-android-malware-families-target-pix.html Cybersecurity researchers have discovered half-a-dozen new Android malware families that come with capabilities to steal data from compromised devices and conduct financial fraud. The Android malware range from traditional banking trojans like PixRevolution, TaxiSpy RAT, BeatBanker, Mirax, and Oblivion RAT to full-fledged remote administration tools such as SURXRAT. PixRevolution, according to

CISA Flags Actively Exploited n8n RCE Bug as 24,700 Instances Remain Exposed https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/cisa-flags-actively-exploited-n8n-rce.html The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting n8n to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score: 9.9), concerns a case of expression injection that leads to remote code execution. The security shortcoming was patched

Researchers Trick Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Into Phishing Scam in Under Four Minutes https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/researchers-trick-perplexitys-comet-ai.html Agentic web browsers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to autonomously execute actions across multiple websites on behalf of a user could be trained and tricked into falling prey to phishing and scam traps. The attack, at its core, takes advantage of AI browsers' tendency to reason their actions and use it against the model itself to lower their security guardrails, Guardio

UNC6426 Exploits nx npm Supply-Chain Attack to Gain AWS Admin Access in 72 Hours https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/unc6426-exploits-nx-npm-supply-chain.html A threat actor known as UNC6426 leveraged keys stolen following the supply chain compromise of the nx npm package last year to completely breach a victim's cloud environment within a span of 72 hours. The attack started with the theft of a developer's GitHub token, which the threat actor then used to gain unauthorized access to the cloud and steal data. "The threat actor, UNC6426, then used this

Five Malicious Rust Crates and AI Bot Exploit CI/CD Pipelines to Steal Developer Secrets https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/five-malicious-rust-crates-and-ai-bot.html Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five malicious Rust crates that masquerade as time-related utilities to transmit .env file data to the threat actors. The Rust packages, published to crates.io, are listed below - chrono_anchor dnp3times time_calibrator time_calibrators time-sync The crates, per Socket, impersonate timeapi.io and were published between late February and early March

Sednit reloaded: Back in the trenches https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/sednit-reloaded-back-trenches/ The resurgence of one of Russia’s most notorious APT groups

FortiGate Devices Exploited to Breach Networks and Steal Service Account Credentials https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/fortigate-devices-exploited-to-breach.html Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign where threat actors are abusing FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) appliances as entry points to breach victim networks.  The activity involves the exploitation of recently disclosed security vulnerabilities or weak credentials to extract configuration files containing service account credentials and network topology

KadNap Malware Infects 14,000+ Edge Devices to Power Stealth Proxy Botnet https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/kadnap-malware-infects-14000-edge.html Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware called KadNap that's primarily targeting Asus routers to enlist them into a botnet for proxying malicious traffic. The malware, first detected in the wild in August 2025, has expanded to over 14,000 infected devices, with more than 60% of victims located in the U.S., according to the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen. A lesser number of

New "LeakyLooker" Flaws in Google Looker Studio Could Enable Cross-Tenant SQL Queries https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/new-leakylooker-flaws-in-google-looker.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed nine cross-tenant vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio that could have permitted attackers to run arbitrary SQL queries on victims' databases and exfiltrate sensitive data within organizations' Google Cloud environments. The shortcomings have been collectively named LeakyLooker by Tenable. There is no evidence that the vulnerabilities were exploited in

How to Stop AI Data Leaks: A Webinar Guide to Auditing Modern Agentic Workflows https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/how-to-stop-ai-data-leaks-webinar-guide.html Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a tool we talk to; it is a tool that does things for us. These are called AI Agents. They can send emails, move data, and even manage software on their own. But there is a problem. While these agents make work faster, they also open a new "back door" for hackers. The Problem: "The Invisible Employee" Think of an AI Agent like a new employee who has

The Zero-Day Scramble is Avoidable: A Guide to Attack Surface Reduction https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/the-zero-day-scramble-is-avoidable.html You can't control when the next critical vulnerability drops. You can control how much of your environment is exposed when it does. The problem is that most teams have more internet-facing exposure than they realise. Intruder's Head of Security digs into why this happens and how teams can manage it deliberately. Time-to-exploit is shrinking The larger and less controlled your attack surface is,