TamperedChef serves bad ads, with infostealers as the main course

In November 2022, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (“AIIMS“) reportedly suffered a ransomware attack. They may have just escaped another incident thanks to the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability found by a researcher. Ashish Khaitan reports: A critical vulnerability in the AIIMS portal exposed highly sensitive data of voluntary organ and tissue donors…

The fake human verification process led to infostealer and ransomware infections Categories: Threat Research Tags: clickfix, Featured, GOLD FEATHER, human verification, infostealer, qilin, Ransomware, StealC

Cybersecurity today is less about single attacks and more about chains of small weaknesses that connect into big risks. One overlooked update, one misused account, or one hidden tool in the wrong hands can be enough to open the door. The news this week shows how attackers are mixing methods—combining stolen access, unpatched software, and…

Microsoft has revealed that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1977 has conducted password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector over the past year. “The attack involves the use of AzureChecker.exe, a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that is being used by a wide range of threat actors,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday released details of two sets of malware that were discovered in an unnamed organization’s network following the exploitation of security flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM). “Each set contains loaders for malicious listeners that enable cyber threat actors to run arbitrary code on the…

The SOC of 2026 will no longer be a human-only battlefield. As organizations scale and threats evolve in sophistication and velocity, a new generation of AI-powered agents is reshaping how Security Operations Centers (SOCs) detect, respond, and adapt. But not all AI SOC platforms are created equal. From prompt-dependent copilots to autonomous, multi-agent systems, the…