U.S. Government Entity Paid Kairos $1 Million in Data-Theft Extortion Case https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/county-hacked.jpg A U.S. government entity paid about $1 million to keep stolen files from being leaked, according to a new case study by Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC, built on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left. The odd part: the group that took the money calls ...
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Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices
Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/proxy.jpg Swati KhandelwalJul 02, 2026Cybercrime / Botnet Google has significantly degraded NetNut, one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people’s traffic. Working with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said this week it had reduced the network’s pool of usable ...
Read More »Malicious Perplexity Chrome Extension Intercepted Searches and Address Bar Input
Malicious Perplexity Chrome Extension Intercepted Searches and Address Bar Input https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pp-ai.jpg Swati KhandelwalJun 29, 2026Browser Security / Web Security Microsoft has found a malicious Chrome extension that posed as the AI search engine Perplexity and quietly logged what people searched for. It routed every query and every character typed into the address bar through an attacker-controlled server before redirecting users ...
Read More »CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices
CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices. The sweeping campaign, believed to be the work of Russian-speaking threat actors, has been codenamed FortiBleed. The number of ...
Read More »Microsoft Warns of Photo ZIP Phishing Campaign Targeting Hotels with Node.js Implant
Microsoft Warns of Photo ZIP Phishing Campaign Targeting Hotels with Node.js Implant https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/hotel-photo-zip.jpg Swati KhandelwalJun 26, 2026Phishing / Malware An active phishing campaign has been targeting hotel and other hospitality organizations across Europe and Asia since April 2026, using photo-themed ZIP files to drop a Node.js implant and dig into front-desk machines, Microsoft says. The company has not attributed the activity to ...
Read More »Miasma Malware Targets npm Packages and GitHub Actions in Supply Chain Attack
Miasma Malware Targets npm Packages and GitHub Actions in Supply Chain Attack https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Miasma.jpg Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the supply chain attack linked to the Mini Shai-Hulud, Miasma, and Hades malware family that has compromised a new set of npm packages, even as it has propagated to the Go ecosystem. “The latest activity includes malicious npm releases ...
Read More »Guardian Agents: The Next Layer of Identity Governance
Guardian Agents: The Next Layer of Identity Governance https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/guardian-agents.jpg AI agents are moving through enterprise environments, inheriting permissions, traversing systems, and executing decisions at machine speed with minimal oversight. The identity infrastructure built to govern human access wasn’t designed for autonomous actors, and the gap between what enterprises are deploying and what their governance programs actually cover is widening fast. ...
Read More »New DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Cloned Packets
New DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Cloned Packets https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/dirtyclone.jpg Swati KhandelwalJun 26, 2026Linux / Vulnerability DirtyClone is a new Linux kernel privilege escalation in the DirtyFrag family. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit walkthrough for the flaw on June 25, the first public demonstration for this variant. Tracked as CVE-2026-43503 (CVSS 8.8), it lets a local user corrupt ...
Read More »CISA Adds Exploited PTC Windchill RCE Flaw to KEV as Web Shell Attacks Continue
CISA Adds Exploited PTC Windchill RCE Flaw to KEV as Web Shell Attacks Continue https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ptc.jpg Ravie LakshmananJun 26, 2026Vulnerability / Software Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting PTC Windchill PDMlink and PTC FlexPLM enterprise Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software to its Known ...
Read More »Amazon Q Developer Flaw Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code via MCP Configs
Amazon Q Developer Flaw Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code via MCP Configs https://firewall.firm.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/aws.jpg Swati KhandelwalJun 26, 2026AI Security / Vulnerability A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer’s cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon has ...
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