CyberSecurity Updates

Fortinet Responds to FortiBleed Campaign

Fortinet says the large-scale credential-harvesting campaign currently targeting its customers’ firewalls and VPNs does not exploit new vulnerabilities. As part of the campaign, tracked as FortiBleed, threat actors have compiled a database of over 86,000 confirmed working credentials for Fortinet devices in 194 countries. “Based on our initial analysis, we believe the activity involves threat actors reusing credentials from previous incidents and employing brute-force techniques against devices with weak password hygiene and no multi-factor authentication…

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French President Urges US to Share Cutting-Edge AI and Democracies to Cooperate on Regulation

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday urged the world’s wealthy democracies to work together on regulating advanced artificial intelligence systems, speaking at a high-level meeting that included top AI executives. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a similar plea at the Group of Seven summit of major industrialized nations in France, saying an “international forum” is needed for countries to draw up AI guardrails. He said the task of AI safety should not be left to…

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In Other News: Apple Patches Beats Eavesdropping Flaw, DOT Closes Delta CrowdStrike Probe, AWS Continuum

SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights: 10-year-old phpBB flaw enables session hijacking Researchers uncovered a critical authentication…

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Killing me gently: Inside Gentlemen’s EDR killer framework

ESET researchers analyzed the robust EDR-killing toolset of the ransomware-as-a-service gang Gentlemen. Since the beginning of 2026, Gentlemen has emerged as one of the most active gangs in the ransomware ecosystem. The group distinguishes itself through a mature, operator-maintained set of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers, i.e., tools for disrupting security software. Additionally, unlike most top-tier gangs, Gentlemen does not exhibit a strong US-centric victimology, instead targeting victims across Southeast Asia, South America, and…

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Cisco to Acquire WideField Security to Boost Splunk’s Agentic SOC

Cisco on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire identity lifecycle security company WideField Security to strengthen the capabilities of Splunk’s Agentic SOC.  No financial details have been publicly disclosed. WideField raised more than $11 million in Series A funding last year.  WideField has developed technology that enables organizations to discover human and non-human identities, map exposures across accounts and roles, and assess hygiene gaps.  The company’s platform also enables users to detect misconfigurations in authentication…

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‘Popa’ Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a “residential proxy” provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR]. Malicious streaming devices sold online that enroll the user’s home Internet address…

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CISA Urges Hardening Fortinet Devices After Reports of Credential Exposure

CISA is aware of global reports that malicious cyber actors have targeted internet-accessible Fortinet devices across government and private sector organizations using compromised credentials. This activity, referred to as FortiBleed, involves the exposure of leaked credentials associated with approximately 74,000 Fortinet devices, including firewalls and virtual private network (VPN) gateways.   To defend against this malicious cyber activity, CISA urges impacted Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances and associated secure sockets layer (SSL) VPN gateways to…

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FishMonger’s arsenal upgraded: SprySOCKS for Windows

ESET researchers have discovered two as-yet undocumented Windows variants of SprySOCKS, a previously Linux-only backdoor reportedly used by FishMonger, the group believed to be operated by a Chinese contractor named I‑SOON. While we initially discovered the malware samples on VirusTotal, ESET telemetry shows real activity between 2023 and 2024, with several victims in Honduras, Taiwan, Thailand, and Pakistan, targeting mostly government organizations. The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS. Both come…

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Protecting legacy OT systems against modern cyberthreats

Critical Infrastructure Many manufacturing plants depend on OT systems that stay in service for many years. That long run can hide significant cybersecurity risks. Tomáš Foltýn 17 Jun 2026  •  , 5 min. read In a manufacturing plant built around uptime, a machine that has run the same physical process for years with barely a hiccup earns something less commonly discussed than a track record of throughput: institutional trust. Over time, such quiet reliability has…

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Webinar Today: How Modern Breaches Bypass MFA and Evade Detection

Live Webinar: June 17, 2026 at 1PM ET – Register to Attend Today’s attackers are no longer breaking in — they’re logging in. Threat actors are increasingly using sophisticated social engineering, MFA fatigue attacks, session hijacking, credential theft, and help desk impersonation to bypass traditional security controls and move undetected across enterprise environments. In this webinar, we’ll break down the modern identity attack chain and examine how recent breaches exploited weaknesses in authentication, identity verification,…

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