The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered U.S. government agencies to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) within three days. The Zimbra security team patched the security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-73570) in version 10.1.20, released on July 20. Successful exploitation allows unauthenticated attackers to gain remote code execution by exploiting a command injection weakness in the SNMP monitoring component when SNMP notifications are enabled on the targeted system. "Due to improper sanitization of untrusted input during SNMP notification processing, an unauthenticated attacker can send specially crafted SMTP requests that may result in execution of arbitrary operating system commands as the Zimbra user," it explained. CISA's warning comes after CERT Polska, the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), first flagged the vulnerability as targeted in the wild last Monday.
Microsoft has shared a temporary fix for ongoing gaming issues caused by Windows 11 updates released during the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. On impacted PCs, users reported games crashing or failing to launch, as well as game freezes, "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" errors, and even unexpected system restarts. When it confirmed it was investigating this known issue on Wednesday, Microsoft said it affects games like ARC Raiders, MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls, and The Finals on systems running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. "Following the release of Windows updates on August 11, 2026 (KB5121003) and later, Microsoft received reports of issues involving inability to run games as expected," Microsoft noted. In a Thursday update, the company linked the gaming issues to drivers or components installed by RGB devices on affected Windows systems.
TikTok will pay $400 million to settle U.S. claims that it violated child privacy laws by collecting data from users under 13. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit over children’s privacy. “Today, the Department of Justice announced a $400 million settlement with TikTok, ByteDance, and affiliated entities (TikTok) resolving litigation concerning compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and its implementing regulations (COPPA).” reads the press release published by DoJ. “Under the settlement, TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and an additional $100 million upon entry of an order vacating a prior consent decree entered against TikTok’s predecessor, Musical.ly. The settlement represents one of the largest recoveries ever obtained in a COPPA case.” TikTok will pay $300 million immediately and another $100 million after a court order removes an earlier consent decree involving Musical.ly. The 2024 case, brought by the DoJ and FTC, accused TikTok of knowingly allowing children under 13 to create accounts and illegally collecting data from children using Kids Mode. Since the Justice Department filed its lawsuit against TikTok in 2024, the company has made major changes to its ownership, management, compliance, and privacy practices. It has also introduced stronger safeguards for younger users, improved age controls, and expanded parental oversight. The DOJ said these measures have advanced the goals of its case and strengthened protections for millions of U.S. families. The settlement reflects a focus on practical results, securing a significant recovery while recognizing TikTok’s compliance improvements. The case was filed in California and handled by the DOJ’s Civil Division following a referral from the FTC. “This settlement is a major victory for American children and parents,” said Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. “The Department’s priority is ensuring that children are protected online and that companies entrusted with their personal information meet their legal obligations. This resolution secures a substantial recovery while reinforcing the protections that families expect and deserve.” TikTok has faced regulatory scrutiny over children’s privacy before. In September 2023, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined the company €345 million for breaching the GDPR through its handling of children’s personal data. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, privacy)
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Akira Hits Safe Mode: Ransomware Rebooting Around EDR Multi-Functional Linux Botnet “Evooo1Bot” StubMaker RubyGems Campaign Delivers a Windows Infostealer Hunting MacSync Stealer infrastructure through behavioral pivots Manic: Blend between Banking Malware & Spyware Clop Returns with Custom Implant in Mass-Extortion Campaign The ToxicPanda Never Sleeps: ToxicPanda 2.0 Prepares its Next Strike on Mobile Striking gold: Inside the GoldDigger Android malware SilkParasite: Tracking a China-Nexus APT Across Central Asia Prompting the Payload: How an npm Supply Chain Attack Delivers the RedC2 AI-Powered Linux Implant The invisible passenger in your car Malware Crypting Services and the Threat Actors Who Sell Them Grandoreiro goes north: From Brazil to Mexico with a new DLL sideloading campaign Survival of~the~Stealthiest: Evolving Low-Entropy Ransomware via~Genetic Algorithms Malformer: A Multi-Modal Malware Detector Using Transformers XAI-Guided Graph-Based Feature Engineering and Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning for Android Malware Detection An Explainable Deep Learning Pipeline for Malware Family Classification: GAF Image Encoding and API-Grounded LLM Interpretation Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)
The ToxicPanda Android malware has evolved with new malicious functionality, expanding its targeting to 349 applications and adding support for 167 remote commands. The malware now requests VPN service permissions to create a local interface that allows it to control network traffic passing through it. The feature enables ToxicPanda 2.0 to block communication from Google Play and Google Play Services. Control at the network level permits the malware to interfere with various security checks and actions, such as app verifications, updates, Play Protect communication, or legitimate disruptions designed to protect users. After obtaining VPN service permissions, ToxicPanda 2.0 blocks communications to Google Play before extracting and installing its payload, then requests Accessibility Service permissions.
Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days in the first confirmed attack of its kind, concurrent with water infrastructure attacks across 12 US states. Iran-linked hackers shut down a British power plant for four days in what The Telegraph describes as the most successful cyberattack of its kind against UK energy infrastructure. “Iran shut down a British power plant for four days in an unprecedented cyber attack, The Telegraph can disclose.” reads the report published by The Telegraph. “It is thought to be the first time that hackers affiliated to the Iranian regime have succeeded in closing down such a facility in the UK, and is believed to be the most successful cyber attack of its kind.” British officials did not name the power plant because of security concerns. Staff worked for four days to restore it, but the plant was small and the outage did not affect the UK’s wider power supply. Still, the government warned power companies and businesses about the incident and provided guidance on how to respond. The attack was reported to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of GCHQ, which helps protect the UK’s critical infrastructure. The NCSC did not comment on the specific incident. The US water infrastructure attacks hit dozens of wastewater treatment plants across 12 states, causing flooding and loss of pressure from taps. Authorities in affected areas told customers to boil water. The first reports came from Minnesota on July 26, followed by similar breaches in Michigan, Georgia, South Dakota, and New Jersey. The FBI attributed those incidents to “malicious cyber actors”; US government sources later confirmed the threat most likely originated in Tehran. The UK attack is not thought to have been designed to harm civilians. The more probable intent was to demonstrate that hackers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could gain access to UK infrastructure and shut it down at will. A four-day outage at a small generator that nobody outside the industry noticed is, from that perspective, a successful proof of concept. Iran has accelerated its cyberattacks on Western countries since the US and Israel began air strikes in February. Suspected Iranian operations have been reported in Germany, Poland, Finland, Belgium, and Albania, with Israel and other Middle Eastern countries remaining the most frequent targets. In March, the NCSC advised British organisations to review their security posture in light of the wider conflict. NCSC chief executive Richard Horne said in June that the agency had handled more than 200 attacks on critical national infrastructure in the previous year alone. The timing is awkward for the intelligence and security committee, which oversees UK spying agencies. “Experts have long warned that the UK is unprepared for the scale of the threat of malicious cyber attacks from foreign adversaries, and the intelligence and security committee, which oversees spying agencies, reported last year that the chance of an Iranian cyber attack on British infrastructure was “unlikely”.” continues the report. A Cabinet Office risk assessment published last month placed the probability of a serious and successful cyberattack on domestic infrastructure at between five and twenty-five percent. The same document warned that AI is making attacks faster and cheaper to run, and is lowering the technical bar for anyone wanting to attempt them. The government’s public response leaned hard on the size of the target. A government source told The Telegraph: “We have thresholds for important generators to legally notify us of cyber activity, and this site is nowhere near. It’s a very small-scale site, less than a rounding error compared to grid capacity.” A government spokesman said the UK has a strong and resilient energy system and that the incident never threatened the wider power network. While both statements are technically true, they do not answer a key question: should it be considered acceptable for even a small power plant to remain offline for four days? Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, Iran-Linked Hackers)
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ToxicPanda 2.0 Gets a Major Upgrade, Expanding Attacks Across 16 CountriesMalware Hijacks Android Car Head UnitsCritical Flaw in NASA/JPL Open-Source Spacecraft Command Software Allowed Unauthenticated Command ExecutionU.S. CISA adds Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogYour Shredded Visa Card May Still Work at the CheckoutSix Maximum-Severity Flaws Found in Cisco ProductsFake Conferences, OAuth and WhatsApp: Inside Russia’s New Espionage TacticsGitLab Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical GraphQL FlawPoland’s CERT Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical Zimbra Collaboration Suite FlawU.S. CISA adds TrueConf Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogCl0p Targets 40+ Organizations Through PTC Windchill FlawManic: The Android Malware That Exfiltrates Data Even When the Phone Is OfflineNSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA Warn of Active AI-Assisted Attacks on Siemens S7 PLCsU.S. CISA adds an MLflow flaw to its Known Exploited 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Cyber Theft Campaign on Behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Other Iranian Entities Defending Against an Active Threat to Siemens S7 Series PLCs Rust Supply Chain Attack on arrayref: Significant Overlap with DPRK Campaigns Going with the Flow(s): Distinct Clusters Target Individuals of Interest to Russia SilkParasite: Tracking a China-Nexus APT Across Central Asia Revealed: Cyber spies used malware from GitHub to hack EncroChat cryptophone network Cybersecurity France probes unprecedented cyberattack after tax data of 678,000 users stolen Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them SafePal Unauthorized Access To A Subset Of Customer Order Information This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you France’s cybersecurity problem demands strong political will The Powerful Chinese AI Model Experts Warned About—and Waited for—Is Here OpenAI president says companies should do 10 things ASAP to defend against AI cyber threats Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)
ToxicPanda 2.0 targets 349 financial apps and abuses Android Wireless Debugging to gain deeper device access and steal banking credentials. ToxicPanda used to be a Europe-focused nuisance targeting a manageable list of banks. That version is gone. Zimperium’s zLabs team just documented ToxicPanda 2.0, and the numbers alone tell the story: 349 targeted financial institutions across 16 countries, up from 16 apps in the previous version, plus a command set that ballooned to 167 remote instructions. The infection starts with a fairly standard trick dressed up in a new coat of paint. The malware poses as a dropper, requesting VPN permissions through a fake installation screen, then quietly uses that access to block communication from Google Play Protect while it decrypts and installs the real payload hiding inside the app’s own asset files. Once installed, it leans on Android’s Accessibility Service, the same feature legitimate screen readers and automation tools rely on, to see and interact with everything happening on the victim’s screen. ToxicPanda was once a malware mainly targeting a small number of European banks. That has changed. Zimperium’s zLabs team has documented ToxicPanda 2.0, which now targets 349 financial institutions in 16 countries, compared with just 16 apps before. It also has 167 different commands that attackers can send remotely. The attack starts with a common trick. The malware pretends to be a legitimate app and asks for VPN permissions through a fake installation screen. It then uses this access to block Google Play Protect while secretly installing the real malware hidden inside the app’s files. Once installed, ToxicPanda abuses Android’s Accessibility Service. This feature is normally used by legitimate tools such as screen readers, but the malware uses it to monitor the victim’s screen and interact with apps and data on the device. “By abusing the Android Accessibility Service, threat actors can steal every UI element on the screen, alongside an overlay-based credential theft mechanism targeting 349 financial institutions, compared to the previous version, which targeted only 16 banking applications, the latest iteration demonstrates a significant expansion in targeting scope and capabilities.” reads the report published by Zimperium’s zLabs. “Several commands previously identified as unimplemented in Cleafy’s analysis are now fully operational, expanding the malware’s remote control and fraud capabilities.” What sets this version apart isn’t just scale, it’s a genuinely new privilege escalation trick built around a feature most people have never touched: Android’s Wireless Debugging framework. The malware automates the entire process of turning it on, tapping the build number seven times to unlock developer options, toggling wireless debugging, and then scraping the six-digit pairing code straight off the screen using accessibility permissions. From there it performs the actual cryptographic pairing handshake itself, gaining shell-level access to the device without the victim ever realizing developer mode got switched on. ToxicPanda was once a malware mainly targeting a small number of European banks. That has changed. Zimperium’s zLabs team has documented ToxicPanda 2.0, which now targets 349 financial institutions in 16 countries, compared with just 16 apps before. It also has 167 different commands that attackers can send remotely. The attack starts with a common trick. The malware pretends to be a legitimate app and asks for VPN permissions through a fake installation screen. It then uses this access to block Google Play Protect while secretly installing the real malware hidden inside the app’s files. Once installed, ToxicPanda abuses Android’s Accessibility Service. This feature is normally used by legitimate tools such as screen readers, but the malware uses it to monitor the victim’s screen and interact with apps and data on the device. The real danger comes from its ability to use Android Debug Bridge (ADB). Once connected, ToxicPanda can run commands through ADB without showing the usual permission requests. This allows it to give itself more permissions, remove Android restrictions on background activity, enable important components without the user knowing, and maintain access to the device. “The malware also introduces an automated click-based mechanism to abuse Android Wireless Debugging (ADB), enabling privilege escalation and shell-level access on compromised devices. Additionally, it can steal lock screen credentials by placing overlays on top of the lock screen.” continues the report. The credential theft itself runs on two separate tracks. For banking and crypto apps specifically, the malware watches which app the victim opens, matches it against a list of 349 targets, and either overlays a fake login screen or deploys an invisible transparent layer to capture every touch and PIN entry directly. Separately, it can now overlay a convincing fake version of the phone’s own lock screen to steal the device PIN, pattern, or password outright, which hands attackers a way back in even after the initial infection window closes. Several capabilities that security firm Cleafy had previously flagged as unfinished in an earlier ToxicPanda variant are now fully working. The malware can automatically click through OEM-specific permission dialogs across Xiaomi, Samsung, Huawei, and other manufacturers’ customized Android builds, request Device Administrator privileges using a fake “system service” prompt, and even remotely force-reset a victim’s lock screen password using legitimate Android device management APIs. It can also load an attacker-controlled webpage inside a full-screen overlay on command, a feature that simply didn’t exist in prior versions. Distribution has shifted too, with samples now getting served from Amazon AWS-hosted storage buckets rather than whatever ad-hoc infrastructure earlier campaigns used. “The updated campaign also reveals a shift in distribution methods, with ToxicPanda 2.0 samples being delivered through Amazon AWS-hosted buckets, indicating the attackers are leveraging cloud infrastructure for malware delivery.” states the report. Using major cloud providers for malware delivery isn’t new, but it does complicate blocking efforts, since flagging an entire AWS IP range as malicious tends to take down a lot of legitimate traffic along with it. None of this requires a sophisticated zero-day, which is honestly the more unsettling part. Every capability here abuses a feature Android ships intentionally, Accessibility Services, Wireless Debugging, Device Administrator APIs, all designed for legitimate accessibility and enterprise device management. “As mobile banking threats like ToxicPanda become increasingly sophisticated, conventional signature-based security layers are no longer sufficient to protect enterprise mobile endpoints.” concludes the report. If you’re responsible for securing mobile endpoints, this is less a “patch something” problem and more a “detect abnormal use of normal features” problem, and that’s a considerably harder thing to build detection around. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, ToxicPanda 2.0)
A supply-chain attack targeting Android-based car head units is using a legitimate device-update app to spread malware that enlists compromised devices in a proxy botnet or uses them for ad fraud. Kaspersky researchers analyzed the malware and attributed the operation to the MoYu group, a threat actor previously associated with the BadBox malware botnet. The researchers note that this is the first documented case of a malware infection chain specifically created for the targeted car head unit. MoYu's operation targets systems from DoFun, a Chinese automotive software and hardware provider owned by Shenzhen Driving Control Technology Co., Ltd. DoFun is an automotive software, cloud services, and hardware provider that sells generic Android-based head units, which act as the command center for a car's infotainment, navigation, and settings systems.
Windows named pipes provide fast interprocess communication, but weak access controls can expose privileged services to untrusted processes. ThreatLocker explains how endpoint verification, command authorization, strict input validation, and narrowly scoped privileges can help secure named-pipe communication.
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