Tor and dark web news

Chinese hackers tracked as 'UAT-7810' are actively evolving their malware to expand their Operational Relay Box (ORB) network by compromising internet-facing networking devices, primarily unpatched Ruckus routers.

A hidden authentication backdoor has been found in multiple Tenda router firmware versions, potentially allowing an attacker to gain administrative access to the device's web management panel.

A student advocacy organization and tech trade group had appealed to the high court to stay the Texas App Store Accountability Act on an emergency basis until the lower court rules.

The capability, called Cyber Shield, is designed to counter a threat the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said could see attackers “move at machine speed and greater scale, reducing opportunities for detection and response.”

The National Police in Spain have arrested a man who is suspected of being an active member of the CyberArmy of Russia Reborn (CARR) and Z-Pentest, both pro-Russian hacktivist groups.

The company said the breach affected an email system used to manage customer email accounts, webmail services and email storage for five Japanese internet service providers.

ActiveState explains how GitHub Actions attack chains can evade traditional CI security scanners, why passing a scan doesn't guarantee a secure pipeline, and how organizations can better govern their CI/CD workflows.

Those that did sign include large firms such as Aviva, the London Stock Exchange Group and Marks & Spencer, which lost hundreds of millions of pounds in a cyberattack last year, as well as small cybersecurity consultancies.

Tomorrow's webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations detect sophisticated phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks while reducing alert fatigue through automated investigation and response workflows.

A 16-year-old Linux kernel vulnerability, dubbed Januscape, allows attackers to escape a virtual machine and execute arbitrary code on the host.

CBP officers seized more than $1.1 million worth of cocaine at two Texas border crossings in a single day, arresting two drivers.

A newly disclosed Linux KVM flaw dating back 16 years could let attackers escape guest VMs and compromise x86 hosts running nested virtualization.

Mexican trafficker Orfael Macedo Bustos pleaded guilty to supplying more than 170 pounds of cocaine to metro Atlanta and faces up to life in prison.

Microsoft says the Windows settings backup and restore tool will be enabled by default on Microsoft Entra-joined or Microsoft Entra hybrid-joined enterprise systems after upgrading to Windows 11 26H2.

BeyondTrust warned customers to patch two critical security flaws in its Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) software that could allow attackers to bypass authentication.