Category: TheHackersNews

FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing campaign codenamed FakeGit. “FakeGit uses…

HollowGraph Malware Hides C2 and Stolen Files in Microsoft 365 Events Dated 2050 A newly discovered espionage implant has been using a hijacked Microsoft 365 calendar as its command channel, planting operator instructions and smuggling out stolen files as attachments on calendar events dated to the year 2050. Group-IB, which named the malware HollowGraph, says…

Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign A malware operator left its delivery server wide open, and Rapid7 pulled down the whole toolkit: 1,048 files spanning lure templates, filename-spoofing tests, execution experiments, droppers, builder notes, and two campaign chains. One was already live against Windows users in Mexico, delivering an infostealer through…

Russian Intelligence Hacks IP Cameras to Spy on Military Logistics Across NATO States and Ukraine At least one Russian intelligence service is systematically hijacking internet-connected security cameras across Europe and Ukraine, using the feeds to watch military transport routes, weapons shipments bound for Kyiv, and the locations of Ukrainian troops. That is the finding of…

⚡ Weekly Recap: WordPress RCE, SonicWall 0-Days, AI Service Attacks, SharePoint 0-Day and More A single request should not be able to do this much. But this week, small inputs led to code execution, memory loss, stolen keys, and disabled security tools. The paths were often simple: exposed systems, weak checks, old drivers, fake prompts,…

SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new software supply chain attack codenamed SleeperGem targeting the Ruby ecosystem after three malicious gems were published to RubyGems with the end goal of serving additional payloads. The rogue gems are listed below – git_credential_manager (versions 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3)…

World’s Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI agent system. The company said it detected and responded to the incident targeting its production infrastructure earlier last…

UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been observed leveraging the infamous ClickFix strategy to trick Ukrainian targets into infecting their own machines with data-stealing malware. According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), the activity has been attributed to UAC-0145, a sub-cluster within Sandworm,…

Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in nginx 1.30.4 (stable) and 1.31.3 (mainline), and in…

SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to the exploitation of recently disclosed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances as zero-days prior their public disclosure since June 22, 2026. Cybersecurity company Volexity is tracking the activity under the moniker UTA0533. The…

OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests Eleven bytes will make an unpatched OpenSSL server set aside up to 131 KB of memory for a message that never arrives. On the glibc systems Okta tested, that memory is gone until the process restarts. OpenSSL shipped the HollowByte fix in June with…

New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code Updated July 18, 2026: the two flaws now carry CVE IDs, the full mechanism has been published, a persistent-object-cache condition has surfaced, and a working proof-of-concept is public. The story below reflects all of it. An anonymous HTTP request can run code on a WordPress…

GoldenEyeDog Subgroup Linked to DigiCert Breach and Code-Signing Certificate Theft Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the April 2026 DigiCert security incident to a threat activity cluster dubbed CylindricalCanine. Expel, which shared technical details of the event, described the threat actor as a sub-group of GoldenEyeDog (aka APT-Q-27, Dragon Breath, and Miuuti Group), a Chinese cybercrime group…

New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens A Go botnet called NadMesh turned up in early July hunting exposed AI services, and the operator’s own dashboard claims 3,811 unique AWS keys. A Shodan harvester keeps the scan queue stocked with ComfyUI, Ollama, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio: the…

Seven Malicious Vite npm Packages Use Blockchain C2 to Deliver a RAT Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of seven malicious npm packages targeting the Vite frontend tooling ecosystem as part of a software supply chain attack. The malicious package campaign, codenamed ViteVenom by Checkmarx, marks an expansion of ChainVeil, which was observed using an…

Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London. The attack left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced…

n8n Token Exchange Flaw Could Let Attackers Log In as Users From Another Issuer n8n, the workflow automation platform, handed out the wrong accounts at login. On Enterprise instances configured to trust more than one external token issuer, it matched an incoming JWT to a local user on the sub claim alone and ignored iss. A valid token…

ThreatsDay: Game Cheat Spyware, 24-Hour Ransomware, Chrome Sync Stalking + 12 More Stories A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something that looks close enough. A familiar repo. A useful installer. A harmless sync setting. Then the handoff goes bad, the box starts talking to someone else, and the damage moves faster than the…

New ClickLock macOS Stealer Kills Apps Every 210ms Until Victims Type Their Password ClickLock Stealer, a new macOS infostealer, answers a victim’s refusal by killing their apps on a loop until they hand over the login password. It arrives as a command pasted into Terminal, asks for the password behind a fake system dialog, and…

New TELEPUZ Malware Spreads via ClickFix to Steal Data and Run Commands Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new modular malware called TELEPUZ that’s been spreading via websites infected with ClickFix lures since late April 2026. “The malware is full-featured, lightweight, and modular,” Elastic Security Labs researcher Cyril François said in a technical report.…

TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. “While the AI complied with their request to…

OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con hardware wallet owners out of their recovery phrase. On an infected PC, the request comes from inside the wallet’s own…

SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough. For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up. Enterprise workflows now live across SaaS applications, browsers, and an expanding ecosystem of generative AI tools,…

Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMware Updates Fix Multiple Critical Security Flaws Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15718, an invalid pointer in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component CVE-2026-15719, a site isolation in the DOM: Navigation…

Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive. It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability. The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to as ProfSvc, is a…

Microsoft Patches Record 622 Flaws, Including Two Zero-Days Under Active Attack Microsoft shipped its largest Patch Tuesday on record today, and two of the fixes close holes that attackers are already exploiting. The release covers 622 of Microsoft’s own CVEs by its Security Update Guide count, more than triple June’s previous high of around 200. Those two live…

Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days Exploited, One Could Enable Admin Commands SonicWall has warned of active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series appliances, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15409 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A Server-side request forgery…

Researchers Say Claude for Chrome Flaw Lets Rogue Extensions Trigger Gmail Reads Any other browser extension that can run a script on claude.ai can still trigger Claude for Chrome tasks aimed at your Gmail, your latest Google Doc and its comments, and your Calendar. Both this and ClaudeBleed need a rogue extension that can already…

SAP Patches CVSS 9.9 NetWeaver ABAP Flaw That Could Expose or Modify Data SAP has rolled out updates to address multiple vulnerabilities as part of its July 2026 security updates, including a critical flaw in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-44747 (CVSS score: 9.9), an out-of-bounds write flaw that allows…

LabubaRAT Masquerades as NVIDIA Software to Control Windows Hosts Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Rust-based remote access trojan (RAT) codenamed LabubaRAT that masquerades as NVIDIA software to blend into target environments. “LabubaRAT creates a reusable foothold for hands-on activity,” Blackpoint Cyber researchers Sam Decker and Nevan Beal said in an analysis published today.…

Microsoft Maps Year-Long ShinyHunters-Linked Salesforce Data Theft Across Three Paths Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had already extended, usually through the OAuth connections that tie…

Google and Microsoft Pull ModHeader With 1.6 Million Installs After Dormant Collector Found Google and Microsoft have pulled ModHeader, a popular header-editing extension with roughly 1.6 million installs across Chrome and Edge, after researchers found a hidden browsing-history collector built into its official store version. The collector was dormant. An empty allow-list kept it switched…

CrashStealer macOS Malware Uses Notarized Dropper to Pass Gatekeeper Checks Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called CrashStealer that’s capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised systems. Unlike other information stealers that are built on AppleScript droppers or Objective-C-based wrappers, CrashStealer is implemented in native C++, according to Jamf Threat Labs. “It…

New MemGhost Attack Plants Persistent False Memories in AI Agents Through One Email Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false “fact” about the user,…

⚡ Weekly Recap: ShareFile Threat, Citrix Bleed 2 Ransomware, AI Coding Attacks, and More Somewhere right now, a security tool is quietly finding bugs faster than any human can fix them. That’s supposed to be the good news. The catch is that the attackers have the same tools, pointed the other way, and they don’t…

iCagenda and Balbooa Forms Joomla Flaws Reportedly Exploited as Zero-Days The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two maximum-severity security flaws impacting iCagenda and Balbooa extensions for Joomla to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero-day exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities, both rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring…

Compromised jscrambler 8.14.0 npm Release Drops Rust Infostealer During Install The jscrambler npm package was compromised, and simply installing its 8.14.0 release runs an infostealer on your machine. Published on July 11, 2026, the malicious version carries a preinstall hook that drops and executes a native binary, one build each for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Socket flagged the release six…

Critical Zimbra Flaw Could Let Crafted Emails Run Malicious Code in User Sessions Zimbra is urging customers to apply updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting the Classic Web Client that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has been described as a case of stored cross-site scripting (XSS) that could allow specially…

Hackers Weaponize Balochistan Police Portal in Multi-Group Espionage Campaigns Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of sustained cyber espionage activity against several Pakistani law enforcement organizations undertaken by suspected China- and India-aligned threat actors between February 2024 and April 2026. “At Balochistan Police, the compromised assets included servers hosting web applications that manage police and citizen…

URGENT – Progress Tells ShareFile Customers to Shut Down Storage Zone Controllers Over Security Threat Progress Software has told ShareFile customers to shut down the Windows servers running their Storage Zone Controllers, confirming to The Hacker News that it is responding to a “credible external security threat.” The company has temporarily disabled access to the…

Six New U-Boot Flaws Could Let Malicious Images Crash Devices or Run Code at Boot Researchers at firmware security firm Binarly have found six new flaws in U-Boot, the small program that starts up hardware as varied as home routers, smart cameras, and the management chips inside data-center servers. Four of the bugs can crash a device.…

Injective Labs GitHub Compromise Pushes Wallet-Key-Stealing npm Packages Unknown threat actors compromised the Injective Labs SDK project’s GitHub repository and leveraged it to publish a malicious package on the npm registry to steal cryptocurrency wallet private keys and mnemonic seed phrases. The compromised version, @injectivelabs/[email protected], came embedded with fake telemetry functionality that exfiltrated data from…

Researcher Details WhatsApp-to-Host Attack Chain Using Three OpenClaw Flaws Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential theft, privilege escalation, and arbitrary code execution on the host. A brief description of the high-severity vulnerabilities is as follows – GHSA-hjr6-g723-hmfm (CVSS score:…

Laser Attack Resets Tangem Wallet Passwords on Cards That Can’t Be Patched Researchers at Ledger’s Donjon security team have shown that a precisely timed laser pulse, aimed at the chip inside a Tangem crypto wallet card, can reset the card’s password to anything the attacker picks. No old password. No backup card. Once it is reset, whoever…

Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs Datadog Security Labs is warning of “several overlapping campaigns” that are systematically enumerating corporate GitHub organizations, repositories, and user accounts through the GitHub API. “Operators rely on automated scraping tooling with custom or legitimate-sounding user agents, leveraging GitHub ‘ghost’ accounts that are often years old,…

npm 12 Disables Install Scripts by Default to Reduce Supply Chain Risk GitHub has officially announced the release of npm version 12 with install scripts disabled by default, along with deprecating granular access tokens (GATs) designed to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA). The Microsoft-owned subsidiary noted that the following npm install behaviors that used to run…

New GigaWiper Windows Backdoor Bundles Disk Wiping, Fake Ransomware, and Spyware Microsoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper. What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, offered as commands the operator can choose from. Each is a different way to…

AI Attacks Move in Minutes. Join This Webinar on Building a Defense That Keeps Up AI has changed how fast attacks move. Work that once took an attacker days now takes minutes. Using models like Mythos, attackers write tailored bait, pick targets, test what lands, and jump to the next host before your team clears…

ThreatsDay: Cloud Bucket Hijacking, Windows LPE Chain, Global Fraud Bust + 17 More Stories Most security mess starts as admin work. A link gets clicked. A tool gets trusted. A bucket name gets reused. A setting stays loose because nobody wants to touch it. This week is full of that kind of damage. Not loud. Not…

Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker’s code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls “Friendly Fire.”…

AI Coding Agents Found Triggering Endpoint Security Rules Built to Catch Attackers Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rules written to catch human intruders. The agents are not malicious. They just do a…

Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains. The activity dates back to at least August 2022, according to DNS threat intelligence…

GhostApproval Symlink Flaws Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code in AI Coding Agents Researchers at Wiz found that a flaw in six popular AI coding assistants lets a booby-trapped code project quietly take control of a developer’s computer. The assistant asks permission to edit one harmless-looking file, but the write lands on a sensitive one instead. The…

New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist. New research, which its authors call HalluSquatting, turns that habit into…

CISA Adds 4 Actively Exploited Adobe, Joomla, and Langflow Flaws to KEV The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-48282 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A path traversal vulnerability in Adobe…

15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take full root control of a machine that has not been patched. The vulnerable code has shipped by default in essentially every mainstream distribution since 2011. The flaw needs…

DEBULL Tooling Abuses Microsoft Device-Code Flow to Target M365 Accounts A Microsoft 365 device code phishing campaign has been observed leveraging collaboration-themed lures to take control of victim accounts between the last week of June 2026 and into early July, per findings from ZeroBEC. “The campaign did not depend on a fake Microsoft password page.…

Rogue Agent Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Google Dialogflow CX Chatbots A critical flaw in Google’s Dialogflow CX could have let an attacker with edit rights on one Code Block-enabled agent compromise other Code Block-enabled agents in the same Google Cloud project. From there, they could read live conversations, steal the data users shared,…

RedWing MaaS Packages Android Bank Fraud as a Telegram Rental Service A new Android malware operation called RedWing is being rented out on Telegram as a ready-made bank-fraud service. It lets even low-skill criminals take over a victim’s phone, steal their banking logins, and capture the one-time codes that protect their accounts. Zimperium’s zLabs, which…

16-Year-Old Linux KVM Flaw Lets Guest VMs Escape to Host on Intel and AMD x86 Systems A use-after-free bug in Linux’s KVM hypervisor can be triggered from a guest virtual machine to corrupt the shadow-page state of the host kernel that runs it. Dubbed ‘Januscape’ and tracked as CVE-2026-53359, the flaw sits in the shadow MMU…

Iran-Linked Hackers Use New Cavern C2 Framework to Target Israeli Organizations An Iranian hacking group affiliated with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been wielding a previously undocumented modular command-and-control (C2) framework dubbed Cavern (aka Cav3rn) targeting Israeli organizations. The activity, which has primarily singled out IT providers and government sectors, has been…

BeyondTrust Patches Critical Auth Bypass Flaws in Remote Support and PRA BeyondTrust has released updates to address two critical security flaws affecting Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated attackers to take control of susceptible devices. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-40138 (CVSS score: 9.2)…

Threat Actors Probe Gitea Docker Flaw CVE-2026-20896 13 Days After Disclosure Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Gitea Docker images, according to Sysdig. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20896 (CVSS score: 9.8), a vulnerability that stems from the DevOps platform trusting the “X-WEBAUTH-USER” header from any…

⚡ Weekly Recap: Proxy Botnets, Browser Ransomware, AI Agent Tricks, Fake PoC Malware and More A streaming box should not need a threat model. Neither should a username field, a demo repo, a reset flow, or a browser permission prompt. That is the irritating part this week: the risky pieces were ordinary. Home devices became…

SkillCloak Lets Malicious AI Agent Skills Evade Static Scanners with Self-Extracting Packing Scanners meant to catch malicious add-on “skills” for AI coding agents can be fooled by a few simple changes that leave the malware working, according to a new study from researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Their strongest trick slipped past…

U.S. Government Entity Paid Kairos $1 Million in Data-Theft Extortion Case A U.S. government entity paid about $1 million to keep stolen files from being leaked, according to a new case study by Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC, built on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left. The odd part: the group that…

North Korean Hackers Publish 108 Malicious Packages and Extensions in PolinRider Campaign The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing 108 unique packages and web browser extensions spanning npm, Packagist, Go, and Google Chrome as part of an ongoing activity referred to as PolinRider. “The campaign remains active,…

Unpatched Flaws Disclosed in Filesystem Bundled Into Millions of Embedded Devices Security firm runZero has disclosed seven vulnerabilities in FatFs, a small filesystem library that lets a device read and write the FAT and exFAT formats used on USB drives and SD cards. The flaws matter because FatFs is nearly everywhere. It ships inside the firmware that runs…

New “Bad Epoll” Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Gain Root, Hits Android A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out. Bad Epoll sits in…

New Avalon Malware Framework Packs CrownX Ransomware Capabilities Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented modular malware framework codenamed Avalon that’s distributed by means of a multi-stage phishing chain capable of bypassing traditional security controls. Avalon combines credential collection, lateral movement, remote access, recovery disruption, and ransomware execution, bringing together diverse functions under one Go…

Armored Likho Targets Government Agencies, Power Sector with BusySnake Stealer A previously undocumented threat actor known as Armored Likho has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting government agencies and the electric power sector across Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. “Armored Likho blends financially motivated campaigns targeting private individuals with targeted cyber espionage aimed at organizations,” Kaspersky…

North Korea-Linked npm Packages Mimic Rollup Polyfills to Steal Developer Secrets Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been linked to a fresh set of malicious npm packages that masquerade as Rollup polyfill tooling to facilitate remote access and data theft. According to JFrog, the packages “rollup-packages-polyfill-core” and “rollup-runtime-polyfill-core” mimic the legitimate “rollup-plugin-polyfill-node” project,…

Google Disrupts NetNut Residential Proxy Network Spanning 2 Million Home Devices Google has significantly degraded NetNut, one of the biggest networks that turns home devices into rented relays for other people’s traffic. Working with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said this week it had reduced the network’s pool of usable devices by…

ThreatsDay: AI Compute Hijacking, Apple Email Flaw, BlueHammer Ransomware + 14 Stories This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem in different ways. Everything looks normal until someone tests a small gap and finds a way through. This is not one…

Ransomware Groups Turn to Citrix Bleed 2, BYOVD, and Supply Chain Credentials Threat actors associated with the Anubis ransomware operation have been observed exploiting the Citrix Bleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) vulnerability to obtain initial access. “Although tactics differ between affiliates, common patterns emerged in tradecraft through use of legitimate Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM) tooling, credential…

ToddyCat-Linked Umbrij Malware Abuses OAuth to Access Gmail via Google API The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been attributed to a new malware called Umbrij that’s designed to gain surreptitious access to a victim’s email correspondence via the Google API. “In this campaign, the attackers focused their attention on corporate email communications hosted on…

Identity Lifecycle Management Wasn’t Built for AI Agents  Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an employment record, a manager, and a departure date. AI agents have none of those. As autonomous principals proliferate across enterprise environments, the governance model built for humans develops structural blind spots that traditional IGA tools weren’t designed…

SharePoint RCE CVE-2026-45659 Added to CISA KEV After Active Exploitation The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659 (CVSS score: 8.8), is a case of remote code execution…

Unpatched Argo CD Repo-Server Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Over Kubernetes Clusters Argo CD, a widely used tool for deploying software to Kubernetes, has an unpatched flaw in its repo-server component that lets an unauthenticated attacker run code, provided they can reach the component’s internal network port. Synacktiv, which found the bug, says it can…

19-Year-Old Scattered Spider Suspect Extradited to Face U.S. Hacking Charges A teenager accused of belonging to the hacking group Scattered Spider has been extradited from Finland to face U.S. charges of conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on July 1. Peter Stokes, 19, a dual U.S. and Estonian citizen, appeared in a…

VEIL#DROP Malware Chain Uses Blogger Platform to Deliver PureLogs Stealer Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new multi-stage malware delivery attack chain that uses social engineering and Blogger pages to deliver an information stealer called PureLogs. The activity has been codenamed VEIL#DROP by Securonix. It’s suspected that the initial payloads are distributed either via spear-phishing or…

SEO-Poisoned Software Sites Abuse ScreenConnect to Deploy AsyncRAT Unknown threat actors are leveraging the ScreenConnect remote access tool as a way to deploy and execute AsyncRAT. Kaspersky said the activity is part of a “massive, multi-domain, multi-language” campaign that distributes malicious installer archives hosted on spoofed websites. These installers masquerade as popular software like OBS…

Researcher Analyzes 3,000 Live ClickFix Payloads, Exposing API-Driven Malware Delivery ClickFix, the trick that fools people into running malware by hand, has quietly grown a back office. New research shows the malicious commands behind its fake “prove you’re human” pages are now handed out by API-driven servers that give each visitor the same malware in…

Azure CLI Password Spray Hits at Least 78 Microsoft Accounts in 81M+ Attempts Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a “massive, ongoing, automated password spray attack” aimed at Microsoft’s Azure command-line interface (CLI), compromising dozens of accounts in the process. The activity, per Huntress, originates from an IPv6 address range (2a0a:d683::/32) controlled by internet infrastructure provider…

Citrix Patches Six NetScaler Flaws Allowing File Read and Denial-of-Service Citrix on Tuesday released security updates to address multiple flaws in NetScaler ADC (formerly Citrix ADC) and NetScaler Gateway (formerly Citrix Gateway) that could be exploited by an attacker to facilitate arbitrary file reads or trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The vulnerabilities are listed below…

Microsoft Warns Poisoned MCP Tool Descriptions Can Make AI Agents Leak Data New Microsoft research shows how attackers can hijack AI agents that act on a user’s behalf, using nothing more than a poisoned tool description to make the agent quietly hand over company data to an outsider. The trick is that the agent never breaks a…

RustDuck Botnet Rebuilds in Rust to Hijack Routers and Servers for DDoS A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online services offline. Researchers at QiAnXin’s XLab have tracked it since February 2026, and say…

Oracle E-Business Suite Flaw CVE-2026-46817 Actively Exploited in the Wild A critical security flaw impacting Oracle E-Business Suite has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Defused Cyber. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46817 (CVSS score: 9.8), refers to an improper privilege management and authentication flaw in Oracle Payments that could be abused to…

WhatsApp is Finally Getting Usernames to Help Keep Phone Numbers Private WhatsApp on Monday officially announced the start of global reservations of usernames with an aim to protect the privacy of more than three billion users on the messaging platform. The optional feature is designed to help users connect with someone on the service through…

Malicious Perplexity Chrome Extension Intercepted Searches and Address Bar Input Microsoft has found a malicious Chrome extension that posed as the AI search engine Perplexity and quietly logged what people searched for. It routed every query and every character typed into the address bar through an attacker-controlled server before redirecting users to real results. Microsoft…

⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Kernel Flaws, AI Malware Tricks, Turla Backdoor, Infostealers and More This week was a reminder that attackers do not always need big tricks. One small mistake, one old access path, one missed patch, and suddenly the door is open. The noise is not all noise, either. Forums are talking, researchers are…

Mustang Panda Uses Zoho WorkDrive as Command Channel in Indian Government Attacks The China-aligned espionage group Mustang Panda is running two campaigns against the Indian government and hydropower targets, deploying new malware and turning a legitimate cloud service into its command channel. Acronis Threat Research Unit found active compromises inside Indian government networks, including machines used by senior…

Hijacked npm and Go Packages Use VS Code Tasks to Deploy Python Infostealer Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two hijacked npm packages and a cluster of Go packages that are designed to deploy a Python-based information stealer on compromised Windows, Linux, and macOS hosts. “This attack avoids the most common npm execution paths through lifecycle scripts,…

Ukraine Says Russian Intelligence Used Fake Support Texts to Steal Messaging Credentials The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said it, together with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), uncovered a long-running campaign orchestrated by Russian intelligence services to break into the messaging accounts of government officials, military personnel, politicians, and activists in Ukraine, Europe,…

OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Sol With Restricted Access and Stronger Cyber Safeguards OpenAI on Friday released three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to a small number of companies as part of an ongoing engagement with the U.S. government. While Sol is the latest flagship model and the most powerful,…

FBI Warns Russian Intelligence Hackers Target Signal Backup Recovery Keys The FBI and CISA have updated their March warning about Russian intelligence phishing Signal accounts, and the operators have added a step: they now coax targets into handing over their Signal Backup Recovery Key. Hand it over once, and the attacker can restore the account’s backup, read…

Chinese-Speaking APT Deploys New TinyRCT Backdoor in Southeast Asia Campaign A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been linked to a new custom backdoor called TinyRCT as part of cyber attacks aimed at government entities and critical infrastructure in Southeast Asia. The activity, particularly aimed at state-owned enterprises in the energy and government sectors,…

New SharkLoader Malware Deploys Cobalt Strike in StrikeShark Cyberattacks A newly discovered cyber attack campaign has been observed delivering a previously undocumented malware family called SharkLoader that acts as a loader for deploying Cobalt Strike Beacon on compromised hosts. Kaspersky, which is tracking the activity under the moniker StrikeShark, said the campaign has targeted a…

Amazon Q Developer Flaw Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code via MCP Configs A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer’s cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon has patched it. Tracked…

New Linux pedit COW Exploit Enables Root Access by Poisoning Cached Binaries A flaw in the Linux kernel’s traffic-control subsystem can let a local unprivileged user gain root on affected systems. CVE-2026-46331, nicknamed “pedit COW,” is an out-of-bounds write in the packet-editing action (act_pedit) that corrupts shared page-cache memory. A public, working exploit appeared within a day…