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A 41-year-old former ransomware negotiator has been sentenced to nearly six years (i.e., 70 months) in prison in the U.S. for their role in conspiring with the now-defunct BlackCat ransomware operators to extort multiple victims and working with two other cybersecurity professionals to target additional victims in 2023. In a sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors described Martino as a “
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A sophisticated callback phishing campaign impersonating Robinhood is coercing victims into dialing attacker-controlled phone numbers by exploiting fear of account compromise. The campaign begins with an unsolicited email or SMS posing as a Robinhood security alert, warning recipients of “unusual sign-in activity” or “potential theft” on their brokerage account. The message typically includes a fabricated […]
The post Fake Robinhood Sign-In Alerts Trick Users Into Calling Hacker-Controlled Phone Numbers appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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A sophisticated Golang-based backdoor family now tracked as GigaWiper that fuses extensive C2 controls with multiple destructive payloads. What makes GigaWiper noteworthy is not merely its destructive capacity but how it packages several formerly separate wipers and extortion tools into a single modular implant. That consolidation enables operators to switch destruction modes on demand physical-disk […]
The post GigaWiper Uses OneDrive Update Scheduled Task for Persistent Destructive Access appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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A compromise of an AI gateway linked to Amazon Bedrock, highlighting how generative AI infrastructure has become a new target within the enterprise attack landscape. The incident was disclosed on July 9, 2026, and reveals attackers exploiting a LiteLLM-Proxy EC2 instance to deploy XMRig cryptomining malware, illustrating the risks organizations face as AI gateways proliferate […]
The post Hackers Compromise AWS AI Gateway Connected to Amazon Bedrock to Deploy XMRig Cryptominer appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Angelo Martino, a former ransomware negotiator from Florida, has been sentenced to 70,707 months in federal prison for conspiring with ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operators to extort victims whom he was supposed to help during incident-response engagements. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the sentence on July 9, 2026, describing the case as a significant insider-threat prosecution […]
The post Ransomware Negotiator Jailed for Leaking Victim Secrets to BlackCat Hackers appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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OpenAI has introduced the GPT-5.6 family, comprising Sol, Terra, and Luna, positioning it as a multi-agent platform tailored for advanced cybersecurity workflows, vulnerability research, and exploit development. The company claims that these models offer better performance per dollar compared to previous frontier models. The flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, is specifically tuned for long-horizon reasoning in […]
The post OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 With Multi-Agent Cybersecurity and Vulnerability-Exploitation Capabilities appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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A malicious NuGet package masquerading as the official Braintree .NET client on July 3, 2026 and Socket’s automation labeled it potential malware within ten minutes. The package, published under the misleading name Braintree.Net, is a carefully crafted typosquat that mirrors PayPal Braintree’s legitimate SDK API while containing a multi-stage .NET implant designed to harvest full […]
The post Malicious Braintree.Net Typosquat Steals PAN, CVV, and Payment Gateway Credentials appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Six critical vulnerabilities in the widely used U-Boot bootloader, which can be exploited through malicious Flattened Image Tree (FIT) images, allowing attackers to achieve pre-authentication arbitrary code execution or crash devices during the early boot process. U-Boot is foundational to a wide range of embedded platforms, including consumer routers, IoT devices, and Baseboard Management Controllers […]
The post Multiple U-Boot Vulnerabilities Enable Pre-Authentication Code Execution and Device DoS Attacks appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Microsoft is expanding its AI-driven vulnerability discovery across Windows, introducing a multi-model “agentic” scanning system designed to identify security flaws earlier and accelerate global patch deployment. AI-Powered Vulnerability Discovery At the core of this initiative is Microsoft Security’s Multi-Model Agentic Scanning Harness (MDASH), which combines multiple AI models, including third-party models, to analyze Windows codebases […]
The post Microsoft Uses AI-Powered Agentic Scanning to Find Windows Security Flaws and Accelerate Patching appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Roundcube has released version 1.7.2, a security-focused update that addresses multiple high-impact vulnerabilities, including a zero-click stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw and a server-side request forgery (SSRF) bypass. This update follows responsible disclosures from various security researchers and is strongly recommended for all production deployments. Roundcube Webmail Security Update Patches Flaw The most critical issue […]
The post Roundcube Webmail Security Update Patches Critical Zero-Click XSS and SSRF Bypass Flaws appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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