This Week in Cyber: An AI Coding Assistant Helped Run a Ransomware Attack, and Azure Logins for 9 Major Firms Hit the Dark Web
Two stories from this week show how enterprise security is being reshaped from both ends: a ransomware affiliate reportedly used an AI coding assistant to breach VPNs and...
Microsoft’s New Windows Tool Quietly Resets Chrome, Firefox, and Brave to Bing
A newly spotted Microsoft installer called MicrosoftSettings.exe pushes a browser extension that switches Chrome, Firefox, and Brave over to Bing search and the MSN homepage. Security researchers note...
Grok AI Chatbot Tricked Into Leaking Private Chats Through Encrypted Prompt Injection
Security researchers at Adversa AI found a zero-click flaw in xAI's Grok that hides malicious instructions inside encrypted text to steal names, locations, and chat history. The attack...
Unauthenticated File Upload Flaw in Elementor Pro Opens Door to Remote Code Execution
A critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-32475 lets unauthenticated attackers upload malicious PHP files through the Elementor Pro Forms widget, potentially leading to full remote code execution on affected...
Chinese Threat Group Automates Web Server Attacks at Scale Using AI Agents, Cisco Talos Warns
Cisco Talos has tracked a Chinese-speaking group known as UAT-10147 using AI-generated scripts and playbooks to automate reconnaissance and exploitation across roughly 170,000 URLs. The campaign hit government,...
New Espionage Campaign ‘SilkParasite’ Hits Central Asian Governments With Five Undocumented Malware Tools
Researchers have uncovered SilkParasite, a cyberespionage operation using spear-phishing and five previously unseen malware families to target government bodies across Central Asia. The campaign favors cloud-based command channels...
Microsoft Confirms Entra ID Zero-Day Was Exploited Before the Fix Went Live
Microsoft has disclosed CVE-2026-69836, a maximum-severity deserialization flaw in Entra ID that attackers exploited in the wild before the company silently patched it server-side. There is no customer...
How One Phishing Email Let Attackers Bypass MFA and Redirect a Company’s Vendor Payments
An HR-themed phishing lure led a finance employee to a fake Microsoft 365 login that stole an authenticated session cookie, letting attackers bypass MFA entirely. Over the following...