A targeted cyber-espionage campaign has struck China’s higher education sector, using deceptive PDF-style shortcut files to install Cobalt Strike beacons on victim machines and open a path for remote ...
CISA warned on Wednesday that attackers have begun exploiting a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution ...
Microsoft DART uncovers dual threat actors in a single intrusion, revealing how blended tactics conceal attacks and ...
Multiple weaponized proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits on GitHub delivered a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT) called ChocoPoC that can execute commands and steal sensitive data. However, ChocoPoC ...
In May 2026, the UK’s AI Security Institute confirmed something the cybersecurity world had been bracing for: an AI model completed a full, realistic corporate-network intrusion chain without human ...
Attackers exploit Cisco Unified CM flaw weeks after patch release New activity targets CVE‑2026‑20230, an SSRF bug that can allow unauthenticated file writes and potential root‑level access on ...
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About Nmap, brute force attack using Hydra on SSH, and successfully exploited vsftpd 2.3.4 backdoor via Metasploit to gain Meterpreter access. Tools: Nmap, Hydra, Metasploit hydra metasploit-framework ...