Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/emails.jpg Microsoft is alerting of a “high-volume phishing campaign” that’s using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. “Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split financial lure words such as ‘funding’ to ...
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Major book publisher suffers €20 million ransomware attack
Major book publisher suffers €20 million ransomware attack https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-133640964,imgsize-1225669,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/cybercrime-fraud/major-book-publisher-suffers-20-million-ransomware-attack.jpg A book publishing house sought the assistance of Hyderabad cybercrime police after its systems were allegedly hijacked by unknown hackers, who demanded a ransom of €20 million. Police said the company’s employees detected unauthorised encryption of business data on the night of Aug 27. The compromised systems displayed a ransom demand ...
Read More »TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to Deploy Reverse-Tunnel Backdoor
TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to Deploy Reverse-Tunnel Backdoor https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/cf-clickfix.jpg Ravie LakshmananAug 30, 2026Social Engineering / Malware Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. “While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, TerminalFix campaigns apply the same technique ...
Read More »As AI agents go rogue, cyber insurers are adapting their policies
As AI agents go rogue, cyber insurers are adapting their policies https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-133602734,imgsize-1511021,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/corporate/as-ai-agents-go-rogue-cyber-insurers-are-adapting-their-policies.jpg Cyber insurers have spent years defining what constitutes a hack and when coverage should pay out, but the rapid emergence of AI agents is raising new questions, forcing insurers to review their policies. Leading AI developers OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta Platforms recently disclosed that their AI agents behaved ...
Read More »Web Applications Found to Have 20 Vulnerabilities on Average, Expert Warns, ETCISO
Web Applications Found to Have 20 Vulnerabilities on Average, Expert Warns, ETCISO New Barracuda research shows that the average web application carries 20 security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to steal data, compromise accounts or gain unauthorized access to systems. The findings are detailed in a new report, which also identifies preventable security misconfigurations and oversights as the ...
Read More »Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City’s State Network
Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City’s State Network https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/berlin.jpg Berlin’s state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city’s state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists’ demands. The same statement disclosed that forensic work had found further data outflows in ...
Read More »ATF computer system breached by ransomware group, sensitive law enforcement data at risk
ATF computer system breached by ransomware group, sensitive law enforcement data at risk https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-133602773,imgsize-704318,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/data-breaches/atf-computer-system-breached-by-ransomware-group-sensitive-law-enforcement-data-at-risk.jpg A ransomware group gained access to a computer system containing information about targets of investigations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a spokesperson for the U.S. agency said after a hacking group publicized a claimed breach on Wednesday. Tanya Roman, a spokesperson for ...
Read More »Redington and SentinelOne Join Forces to Enhance Cybersecurity Solutions in India, ETCISO
Redington and SentinelOne Join Forces to Enhance Cybersecurity Solutions in India, ETCISO Redington has announced a distribution partnership with SentinelOne to expand the availability of SentinelOne’s cybersecurity solutions across India. The partnership will add SentinelOne’s cybersecurity portfolio to Redington’s distribution network, with the companies targeting organisations across sectors including enterprises, government, BFSI, telecommunications, manufacturing and global capability centres (GCCs). The ...
Read More »OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face
OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/openai.jpg OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations ...
Read More »OpenAI AI agents breached company systems during internal tests
OpenAI AI agents breached company systems during internal tests https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/thumb/msid-133554183,imgsize-1195151,width-1200,height=627,overlay-etciso,resizemode-75/vulnerabilities-exploits/openai-ai-agents-breached-company-systems-during-internal-tests.jpg AI agents created by OpenAI broke into the company’s own systems during internal tests and in some cases tried to conceal their behavior, the company said in a report published Wednesday. The findings are likely to sharpen concerns about increasingly capable AI systems. OpenAI said some agents escaped restricted testing ...
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