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Cyber Threat Intel

Uninstall RatHat and It Reinstalls Itself

A new Android malware family escapes the app sandbox by switching on wireless debugging and pairing with the phone as a developer would. Removing it leaves the attacker.

23 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

The Backdoor Checks a Private GitHub Repository for Orders

Zscaler's Operation RapidRust report finds APT36 running a Rust implant over the GitHub API, with commands issued only on weekday mornings.

21 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

A Security Company's Private Code Sat Stolen for 117 Days

The copy happened in May. Nobody knew until the repositories turned up on a criminal forum in September, and no control in between noticed.

20 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

A Pixel Modem Flaw Needs No Tap, and CISA Gave Three Days

The modem is a separate computer that answers to the mobile network, not to you. Nothing has to be opened, clicked or downloaded for this one to reach it.

19 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

Four Linux Root Exploits Published, for Bugs Up to 21 Years Old

Mistakes a decade or more old, in networking code read by thousands of people, found in months by a researcher whose AI tooling is credited in the kernel's own fix.

19 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

Three Agencies Blamed Iran for CHOSEN BRICK. Only the FBI Named the Ministry.

CHOSEN BRICK gives every victim their own Telegram bot. The NCSC, FBI and AIVD signed one advisory and stopped at different levels of attribution.

17 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

BambooToken Malware Takes Its Orders Over MQTT, the Smart-Device Protocol

Infected machines never connect to the attacker. They subscribe to a topic on a message broker and wait. About a dozen victims, most of them in Asia.

17 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

The CVSS score was never meant to be your patch queue

Patch everything above 9.0 is the most common vulnerability rule there is, and FIRST — who publish CVSS — write that base scores "are not risk, and should not be used alone for patch prioritization". Their own figures put exploitation at roughly 0.5% of published CVEs.

16 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

AI Agents Compromised 440 PaperCut Servers. Only Twelve Became Domain Admin.

Eleven organisations fell in 26 seconds, and schools took 204 of the 395 victims. The gap between landing on a box and owning a domain is where the automation stopped.

16 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

A 30,000-User Twitch Ad-Blocker Was Sending Live Login Sessions to a Bot Service

The extension blocked ads by routing traffic through its own proxies, and forwarded each viewer's login token as it passed. A token needs no password and no 2FA.

15 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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