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Nearly 40,000 customers of hardware wallet provider SafePal have been impacted by a data breach

Quishing has become a popular alternative to traditional phishing. Here’s how businesses can close the gap.

Gopan Sivasankaran is Rapid7's Regional Director, Middle East & Africa. Across Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, organizations are expanding their use of cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, digital services, and connected operations. But more technology does not automatically create stronger security operations; many security teams are not short on data, but rather on time, context, and specialist capacity. As environments expand, the challenge is no longer finding another security product. It is turning existing technology and new investments into clearer risk decisions, faster investigations, and more consistent response, which requires more than software. Rapid7 and StarLink: From access to operational capability Africa has been an important region for Rapid7 for many years, and we’re proud of the role we’ve played in protecting organizations across the continent. We see significant opportunity ahead and remain committed to investing in our presence, partner ecosystem, and customer relationships across the region. That continued investment is why Rapid7 is expanding its partnership with StarLink across Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya. Security teams are often managing data across

Flashpoint data reveals infostealers were responsible for taking 1.7 billion credentials in the first half of 2026

This wrap-up brings a full-on shell parade. Thirteen shiny new modules landed, starting with a buffet of RCEs. WordPress WP2Shell, Ghost CMS, Joomla JCE, Langflow, OpenCATS, Pterodactyl Panel, SonicWall SMA1000, Ray Dashboard, a Pix-for-WooCommerce, and for those who like their exploits closer to the bare-metal, the Fragnesia Linux kernel LPE (CVE-2026-46300). Metasploit also got the glow-up of the summer with the new http malleable profiles, MCP functionality and linux multi fetch payloads (more details on the [official 6.5 release blog post](https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/pt-metasploit-framework-6-5-released/)!). Windows on ARM confirm to be the new first-class citizenship thanks to brand-new AArch64 reverse-TCP shells (both inline and staged), so your Snapdragon boxes can join the party too. Last but not least, an important message: *Nyan Nyan Nyan Nyan Nyan Nyan.* New module content (13) Ray Dashboard Logs API Path Traversal Author: Richard Howe Type: Auxiliary Pull request: #21681 contributed by rmhowe425 Path: `gather/ray_dashboard_logs_api_path_traversal` Description: This adds an auxiliary module that leverages a path traversal vulnerability in Ray to list the contents of

Researchers have verified that ExfilSquad possesses sensitive data stolen from at least 13 victims after the extortion group published leaked datasets via torrents

Evooo1Bot is a newly observed botnet based on the Mirai framework but equipped with advanced features, turning edge devices into persistent proxies

It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.