Interactive Brokers Phishing Scam: Fake IRS W-8BEN Renewal Alert

By Don Santos, Cofense Phishing Defense Center Online trading platforms are popular among investors. Both beginners and professionals use them to study the financial markets,...

The difficulty of making sure your website is broken

Have you ever needed to make sure your website has a broken certificate? While many tools exist to help run an HTTPS server with...

Hackers Exploit Adobe PDF Flaw for Months to Steal Data, No Fix Yet

A critical Adobe Acrobat zero-day has been exploited for months via malicious PDFs to steal data and potentially take over systems, with no patch...

The threat hunter’s gambit

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner...

STX RAT Targets Finance Sector With Advanced Stealth Tactics

STX RAT, a newly identified remote access trojan, attempted deployment in finance, showing advanced C2 and stealthy delivery methods - Read more

Contemporary Controls BASC 20T

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to enumerate the functionality of each component associated with the PLC, reconfigure, rename, delete,...

Anthropic Claude Code Action Runner Arbitrary Code Execution via Malicious MCP Server Configuration

Anthropic Claude Code Action Runner Arbitrary Code Execution via Malicious MCP Server Configuration The claude-code-action GitHub Action checks out the PR head branch when...

The long road to your crypto: ClipBanker and its marathon infection chain

At the start of the year, a certain Trojan caught our eye due to its incredibly long infection chain. In most cases, it kicks...

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Great responsibility, without great power

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. As I’m writing this, today (April 28) is International Superhero Day. If you don’t know the origin story behind...

Imperva Customers Protected Against CVE-2026-41940 in cPanel & WHM

What is CVE-2026-41940? CVE-2026-41940 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting cPanel & WHM, including DNSOnly, in versions after 11.40. The flaw, discovered by WatchTowr...

Microsoft Windows 11 April 2026 Security Update Breaks Third-Party Backup Applications

Microsoft’s April 2026 cumulative security update for Windows 11 is causing significant disruptions for users relying on third-party backup software, triggering an MS-DEFCON level...

Almost half of UK businesses hit by cyber attacks

The government's annual cyber security report reveals UK businesses are still struggling with the impact of attacks and breaches. - Read more