Cyberattacks (2)

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives confirmed on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, that a cyberattack hit a standalone system containing information about its investigation targets. Senior Justice Department officials have designated the compromise a major incident under federal guidelines.

The agency says it was contained: the standalone system was not connected to any other ATF systems — including case management, laboratory, and eForms systems — and it was shut down as soon as it was discovered. ATF says its operations remain fully functional.

The Russian-speaking ransomware group Qilin claimed responsibility by adding ATF to its leak site, but published no samples and gave no indication of what or how much it took.

ATF declined to comment on Qilin's alleged involvement or say when the attack occurred. Qilin has claimed hundreds of victims across more than 60 countries since 2022, and was among the five most-reported ransomware variants in complaints to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2025.

Source: CyberScoop

Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which operates Manchester, East Midlands, and London Stansted, has confirmed a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of around 8.7 million customers. Hackers took contact details, vehicle registrations and postcodes over the weekend of August 22–23, then demanded a ransom for the data's return — which MAG refused to pay.

MAG only became aware on Tuesday, August 25, and says it cut off further access and notified affected customers. For the majority, the data was limited to the email address given when signing up to airport WiFi; the more detailed records came from car park, lounge, and fast-track bookings.

The hacked system didn't hold bank or payment card details, MAG says, and at no point was passenger safety or aviation security compromised. The group says it knows the hackers' identity and has informed the relevant authorities.

The Information Commissioner's Office has received MAG's breach report and says it is assessing the information provided. Affected customers should watch for suspicious emails, texts or calls, and avoid opening unknown attachments.

Source: BBC News

CISA gave federal agencies until 24 August 2026 to patch CVE-2026-73570, a Zimbra flaw allowing unauthenticated remote code execution through crafted SMTP requests. That deadline has now expired. The CVE record scores it 8.9 (High); Zimbra and CERT Polska both describe it as critical.

The flaw only bites where three things line up: the optional zimbra-snmp package is installed, SNMP notifications are enabled via snmp_notify, and the swatchdog service is running. Only the last of those is on by default. Zimbra shipped the permanent fix in ZCS 10.1.20 on 20 July, and every earlier version is affected.

Exploitation was confirmed on 17 August, when Poland's CERT Polska flagged an ongoing campaign. CISA added the flaw to its KEV catalog on 21 August and gave three days, under the tiered model it adopted in June citing AI-accelerated exploit development. Shadowserver counted 155 compromised internet-facing instances on 20 August and 274 by the 22nd, plus roughly 8,200 unpatched.

Patching closes the entry point but does not remove persistence installed before it, Sectigo's Jason Soroko notes. CERT Polska says to check /var/log/zimbra.log for unexpected "Service status change" entries, and anything the zimbra user created in the last 30 days under the Jetty webapps directories or /tmp. Treat an exposed server as an incident, not a patch.

Source: Dark Reading

Medical device maker Boston Scientific confirmed on 26 August 2026 that a cyberattack is disrupting its global operations, after identifying the incident the day before. The company says a network outage has left it unable to fully process or ship customer orders, and that the timeline for a full restoration is not yet known.

Boston Scientific filed a Form 8-K with the SEC and brought in outside cybersecurity experts to investigate and contain the threat. Shares dropped as much as 6% on the news. The filing adds that the full scope and impacts remain unknown and that the company has not yet determined whether the incident is reasonably likely to have a material impact.

No attacker has been named, no group has claimed responsibility, and the company has not confirmed ransomware or any data theft. It also hasn't said whether the disruption reaches customers with its devices and implants.

Downstream buyers are already being warned: NHS Supply Chain issued a supplier notice to its customers about the disruption on 27 August.

Source: CBS News

Australian authorities arrested two Western Australia men on Wednesday, August 26, over their alleged roles in TeamPCP, the cybercrime group that injected credential-stealing code into Aqua Security's Trivy scanner, Checkmarx KICS and LiteLLM in March. The AFP says that code potentially compromised more than 1,000 organizations worldwide.

Police didn't name the pair; Australian media identified them as Ruben Ian Thomson, 21, and Louis Michael Gaebler, 23. Between them they face 14 charges, including four counts each of unauthorized modification of data with intent to commit a serious offence. Only Thomson faces a proceeds-of-crime count over $100,000 and a password-refusal charge.

The AFP estimates the code enabled theft of more than 500,000 credentials and at least 300GB of data, with global cleanup costs in the hundreds of millions. CERT-EU tied the European Commission's cloud breach to the poisoned Trivy release. Flare assesses with high confidence that Thomson led TeamPCP.

Both men appeared in Perth Magistrates Court on Thursday. Thomson withdrew a bail application after the magistrate signalled she would refuse it, and both remain in custody until September 18.

Source: CyberScoop

A phishing-as-a-service toolkit called Mirage2FA has been linked to attacks on 3 518 organizations, with 4 532 Microsoft 365 accounts potentially compromised, researchers at ANY.RUN report. Active since September 2024, it skips malware entirely — a browser-executed HTML, XHTML or SVG attachment, or a QR code, steers the victim to a fake Microsoft login page.

Whatever the victim types — password and live 2FA code alike — an adversary-in-the-middle proxy passes through to Microsoft in real time. What the attacker keeps is the authenticated session cookie sent back on success, and it works until it expires or someone revokes it — no password or MFA needed.

Cookie theft was the largest single outcome — 4,561 of 9,332 recorded compromise events, just under half — affecting 2,541 accounts. Of the 4,532 accounts potentially compromised overall, 63.7% were in the U.S.; technology, manufacturing and education were the hardest-hit sectors.

A password reset won't fix this. Revoke every active session, and move high-risk users to phishing-resistant MFA — FIDO2 keys or passkeys, which are bound to the real site and can't be relayed. ANY.RUN also recommends blocking those attachment types and shortening session lifetimes.

Source: Cybersecurity News

A cyberattack hit Ceva Logistics on July 29, knocking out eight European warehouses and halting shipments. The French-headquartered logistics giant told corporate client Bol about the intrusion on August 1 — but the notices that reached consumers came from the retailers themselves, not from Ceva.

Several major organizations confirmed impact, including Dutch retailers Bol and De Bijenkorf, ING, Ace & Tate, Amsterdam's Ajax football club, and game company Valve. Exposed data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and order details.

De Bijenkorf said no payment details, IBANs, card data, usernames or passwords were involved; Ceva never held Steam payment credentials either. Valve says Ceva keeps order records up to 90 days, and has warned customers to expect fake emails, texts, and calls about their hardware orders.

Who's behind the attack remains unknown. Ceva has not publicly disclosed the incident, responded to press enquiries, or said how the intruders got in or how many people are affected.

Source: SecurityWeek

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has contacted power companies to advise them about the risk of cyberattacks, after a small UK generator was taken offline for four days last month. The Telegraph reported the attack was carried out by hackers affiliated with the Iranian regime.

Neither the government nor the National Cyber Security Centre would identify the site, citing security reasons. DESNZ said the incident affected a small-scale generator and that at no point was there a risk to the UK's energy system. Britain's network runs a number of smaller gas units that supply short-term power when demand spikes.

The government is updating its cyber security regulations and working on a new energy resilience strategy, due later this year. Iran has long been rated a capable cyber power, and Western defenders have spent this year braced for state-linked activity amid its conflict with the US — while seeing little of it so far..

Source: BBC News

Hackers connected to Iran knocked a UK power plant offline for four days last month, according to the Sunday Telegraph, which broke the story. It comes after Britain allowed the US to launch defensive operations against Tehran from British bases — a policy that stops short of offensive strikes.

The government said the incident hit a small-scale energy generator and that the wider energy system was never at risk. The National Cyber Security Centre is understood not to have logged any outages from regulated power station operators. Still, Iran's IRGC has warned that any base used for aggression against Iranian territory is a "legitimate target."

Britain's new PM Andy Burnham was notified last week that a decision had already been made to extend the US basing agreement.

Source: The Guardian

Cybersecurity researchers are flagging three dangerous banking trojans making the rounds. Manic, an Android malware detailed by ThreatFabric, combines banking fraud with spyware and targets Ukraine, Russia, and European financial institutions — even using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to relay stolen data when internet access is unavailable.

Grandoreiro, a decade-old Windows trojan from Brazil, remains active per the Acronis Threat Research Unit, though at considerably lower volume than before a January 2024 law enforcement takedown. It's still hitting Latin America, with a more limited presence in Europe, and recent attacks have focused on Mexico. The trojan now hides inside a legitimate file-finder app to dodge detection.

ToxicPanda 2.0, flagged by Zimperium, is the biggest upgrade — now targeting 349 financial apps across 16 countries and delivering payloads through Amazon AWS.

Source: SecurityWeek