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China-linked hackers exploited Dell zero-day since 2024 (CVE-2026-22769)

A suspected China-linked cyberespionage group has been covertly exploiting a critical zero-day flaw (CVE-2026-22769) in Dell’s RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines software since …

Luke McNamara
The defense industrial base is a prime target for cyber disruption

Cyber threats against the defense industrial base (DIB) are intensifying, with adversaries shifting from traditional espionage toward operations designed to disrupt production …

authentication
ShinyHunters flip the script on MFA in new data theft attacks

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is supposed to defend against phishing attacks, but threat actors operating under the ShinyHunters banner are using it as a pretext in …

WinRAR vulnerability still a go-to tool for hackers, Mandiant warns

State-sponsored hackers and financially motivated attackers continue leveraging a critical WinRAR vulnerability (CVE-2025-8088) that’s been fixed over half a year ago. …

AuraInspector
AuraInspector: Open-source tool to audit Salesforce Aura access control misconfigurations

Google and its Mandiant threat intelligence unit have released AuraInspector, an open-source tool aimed at auditing data access paths in Salesforce Experience Cloud …

Salesforce
Gainsight breach: Salesforce details attack window, issues investigation guidance

The number of Salesforce customers affected by the recent compromise of Gainsight-published applications is yet to be publicly confirmed, but Salesforce released indicators of …

Salesforce
Salesforce Gainsight compromise: Early findings and customer guidance

In the wake of Salesforce’s announcement about “unusual activity involving Gainsight-published applications” and the company’s revocation of access and …

Salesforce
Salesforce investigates new incident echoing Salesloft Drift compromise

In what may be a repeat of the Salesloft Drift supply chain compromise, Salesforce confirmed that they’ve identified unusual activity involving Gainsight-published apps …

zero trust
Attackers exploited another Gladinet Triofox vulnerability (CVE-2025-12480)

Attackers have exploited yet another vulnerability (CVE-2025-12480) in the Gladinet Triofox secure file sharing and remote access platform, Mandiant revealed on Monday. …

SonicWall
SonicWall cloud backup hack was the work of a state actor

Incident responders from Mandiant have wrapped up their investigation into the SonicWall cloud backup service hack, and the verdict is in: the culprit is a state-sponsored …

Google
Google introduces agentic threat intelligence for faster, conversational threat analysis

Security teams spend much of their day pulling data from reports, forums, and feeds, trying to connect clues across multiple sources. Google says that work can now happen …

F5
F5 data breach: “Nation-state attackers” stole BIG-IP source code, vulnerability info

US tech company F5 has suffered a breach, and the attackers made off with source code of and vulnerability information related to its BIG-IP family of networking and security …

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