Hackers Using Claude and OpenAI’s Codex for Exploitation, and Data Exfiltration Activities

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June 17, 2026 Hackers are increasingly abusing Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex agents to automate reconnaissance, exploitation, and data exfiltration, often by disguising real intrusions as “authorized red team” work. These AI coding assistants are being treated like full-fledged operators, …

Using Real-Time Network Monitoring to Spot Suspicious Application Behavior on macOS

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June 17, 2026 In this guide, we will see how real-time network monitoring helps you spot suspicious application behavior on macOS, why traditional defenses leave a visibility gap, and how a lightweight monitoring tool can close it without turning your …

UNC3753 Uses Screen-Sharing Sessions and RMM Tools to Exfiltrate Sensitive Legal Data

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June 17, 2026 A sophisticated cybercriminal group has been quietly targeting law firms and professional services organizations across the United States since the beginning of 2026. The campaign is financially motivated and relies heavily on deception rather than technical exploits. …

Ghostwriter Hackers Abuse Gmail Admin-Themed Emails to Steal Credentials and 2FA Codes

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June 17, 2026 A state-linked hacker group known as Ghostwriter has launched a wave of targeted phishing attacks aimed at Gmail users, disguising malicious emails as official security alerts from Google. The campaign is designed to trick recipients into handing …

The Half-Life of Threat Intelligence: When Does an IOC Stop Being Useful? 

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June 16, 2026 When Do IOCs Stop Being Useful? The concept of the IOC — the Indicator of Compromise — sits at the operational heart of modern threat detection. Block the IP. Flag the domain. Quarantine the hash. The logic …

Critical Fortinet FortiSandbox Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited in Attacks

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June 16, 2026 Threat actors are actively exploiting multiple critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s FortiSandbox platform, with live attack telemetry confirming exploitation attempts over the past 24 hours. Defused has flagged three CVEs under active targeting — including one, CVE-2026-39813, with …

Aembit Extends IAM for Agentic AI to Microsoft Copilot Studio

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June 16, 2026 Las Vegas, USA / Nevada, June 16th, 2026, CyberNewswire Aembit on Tuesday announced support for Copilot Studio, extending its identity and access management capabilities to Microsoft’s enterprise AI agent platform. The integration, unveiled at Identiverse 2026, gives …

India Temporarily Bans Telegram Messenger Over Medical Exam Fraud

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June 16, 2026 India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has imposed a temporary ban on the Telegram messaging platform, restricting access nationwide until June 22, 2026. This decision is part of a comprehensive effort to combat organized cheating …

Microsoft 365 Device Code Phishing Campaign Bypasses Password Theft With Legitimate Login Flow

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June 16, 2026 A new phishing campaign targeting Microsoft 365 users has been uncovered, and it takes a different approach than most attacks seen in the wild. Instead of trying to steal a victim’s password directly, this campaign tricks users …

Hackers Weaponize Microsoft Teams Relay to Hide Malware Traffic

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June 16, 2026 Hackers are increasingly abusing trusted cloud services to evade detection, and a newly uncovered campaign demonstrates how Microsoft Teams infrastructure can be weaponized to hide malicious traffic. According to the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, a new Go-based remote …