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  • TrapDoor Supply Chain Attack Spreads Credential-Stealing Malware via npm, PyPI, and CratesIO (Monday May 25, 2026)
    A new coordinated cross-ecosystem software supply chain attack campaign has targeted npm, PyPI, and Crates.io to distribute credential-stealing malware. The campaign, codenamed TrapDoor, spans more than 34 malicious packages across over 384 versions. The earliest activity was recorded on May 22, 2026, at 8:20 p.m. UTC, with new packages published to the ecosystems in waves from a cluster of (HackerNews)
  • npm Adds 2FA-Gated Publishing and Package Install Controls Against Supply Chain Attacks (Saturday May 23, 2026)
    GitHub has rolled out new controls for npm to improve the security of the software supply chain, giving maintainers the ability to explicitly approve a release prior to the packages becoming publicly available for installation. Called staged publishing, the feature is now generally available on npm. It mandates that a human maintainer pass a two-factor authentication (2FA) challenge to approve (HackerNews)
  • Packagist Supply Chain Attack Infects 8 Packages Using GitHub-Hosted Linux Malware (Saturday May 23, 2026)
    A new "coordinated" supply chain attack campaign has impacted eight packages on Packagist including malicious code designed to run a Linux binary retrieved from a GitHub Releases URL. "Although the affected packages were all Composer packages, the malicious code was not added to composer.json," Socket said. "Instead, it was inserted into package.json, targeting projects that ship JavaScript (HackerNews)
  • Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software (Saturday May 23, 2026)
    Anthropic on Friday disclosed that Project Glasswing has helped uncover more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across some of the most "systemically" important software across the world since the cybersecurity initiative went live last month. Project Glasswing is a defensive effort launched by the artificial intelligence (AI) company to secure critical global software (HackerNews)
  • Laravel-Lang PHP Packages Compromised to Deliver Cross-Platform Credential Stealer (Saturday May 23, 2026)
    Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has targeted multiple PHP packages belonging to Laravel-Lang to deliver a comprehensive credential-stealing framework. The affected packages include - laravel-lang/lang laravel-lang/http-statuses laravel-lang/attributes laravel-lang/actions "The timing and pattern of the newly published tags (HackerNews)
  • LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin CVE-2026-48172 Exploited to Run Scripts as Root (Saturday May 23, 2026)
    A maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin has come under active exploitation in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48172 (CVSS score: 10.0), relates to an instance of incorrect privilege assignment that an attacker could abuse to run arbitrary scripts with elevated permissions. "Any cPanel user (including an attacker or a compromised account) may (HackerNews)
  • Drupal Core SQL Injection Bug Actively Exploited, Added to CISA KEV (Saturday May 23, 2026)
    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Drupal Core to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-9082 (CVSS score: 6.5), an SQL injection vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Drupal Core. "Drupal Core (HackerNews)
  • First VPN Dismantled in Global Takedown Over Use by 25 Ransomware Groups (Friday May 22, 2026)
    Authorities in Europe and North America have announced the dismantling of a criminal virtual private network (VPN) service used by criminal actors to obscure the origins of ransomware attacks, data theft, scanning, and denial-of-service attacks. Codenamed Operation Saffron, the disruption of First VPN Service was led by France and the Netherlands, with several other nations supporting the (HackerNews)
  • Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak (Friday May 22, 2026)
    Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud keys and a vast trove of other agency secrets on a public GitHub account. The inquiry comes as CISA is still struggling to contain the breach and invalidate the leaked credentials. (KrebsOnSecurity)
  • Ghostwriter Targets Ukraine Government Entities with Prometheus Phishing Malware (Friday May 22, 2026)
    The Belarus-aligned threat actor known as Ghostwriter (aka UAC-0057 and UNC1151) has been observed using lures related to Prometheus, a Ukrainian online learning platform, to target government organizations in the country. The activity, per the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), involves sending phishing emails to government entities using compromised accounts. It's been (HackerNews)
  • Megalodon GitHub Attack Targets 5,561 Repos with Malicious CI/CD Workflows (Friday May 22, 2026)
    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new automated campaign called Megalodon that has pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repositories within a six-hour window. "Using throwaway accounts and forged author identities (build-bot, auto-ci, ci-bot, pipeline-bot), the attacker injected GitHub Actions workflows containing base64-encoded bash payloads that exfiltrate CI (HackerNews)
  • Making Vulnerable Drivers Exploitable Without Hardware - The BYOVD Perspective (Friday May 22, 2026)
    1 Introduction This article provides a technical analysis of how many Windows kernel mode drivers can be interacted with from user mode without the hardware they were developed for. This work was motivated by driver-oriented vulnerability research and the need to evaluate the exploitability of individual findings, which frequently affect code whose reachability is hardware-gated. The (HackerNews)
  • Kimwolf DDoS Botnet Operator Arrested in Canada Over DDoS-for-Hire Attacks (Friday May 22, 2026)
    The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the arrest of a Canadian man in connection with allegedly operating a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf. In tandem, Jacob Butler (aka Dort), 23, Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with offenses related to the development and operation of the botnet. Kimwolf is assessed to be a variant of AISURU that specifically (HackerNews)
  • CISA Adds Exploited Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One Vulnerabilities to KEV (Friday May 22, 2026)
    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2025-34291 (CVSS score: 9.4) - An origin validation error vulnerability in Langflow that could (HackerNews)
  • Cisco Patches CVSS 10.0 Secure Workload REST API Flaw Enabling Data Access (Friday May 22, 2026)
    Cisco has rolled out updates for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Secure Workload that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive data. Tracked as CVE-2026-20223 (CVSS score: 10.0), the vulnerability arises from insufficient validation and authentication when accessing REST API endpoints. "An attacker could exploit this vulnerability if they are able to send (HackerNews)
  • Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada (Thursday May 21, 2026)
    Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. KrebsOnSecurity publicly named the suspect in February 2026 after the accused launched a volley of DDoS, doxing and swatting campaigns against this author and a security researcher. He now faces criminal hacking charges in both Canada and the United States. (KrebsOnSecurity)
  • Showboat Linux Malware Hits Middle East Telecom with SOCKS5 Proxy Backdoor (Thursday May 21, 2026)
    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Linux malware dubbed Showboat that has been put to use in a campaign targeting a telecommunications provider in the Middle East since at least mid-2022. "Showboat is a modular post-exploitation framework designed for Linux systems, capable of spawning a remote shell, transferring files, and functioning as a SOCKS5 proxy," Lumen (HackerNews)
  • ThreatsDay Bulletin: Linux Rootkits, Router 0-Day, AI Intrusions, Scam Kits and 25 New Stories (Thursday May 21, 2026)
    This week starts small. A token leaks. A bad package slips in. A login trick works. An old tool shows up again. At first, it feels like the usual mess. Then you see the pattern: attackers are not always breaking in. They are using the parts we already trust. That is what makes it worrying. The danger is in normal things now - updates, apps, cloud buttons, support chats, trusted accounts. AI (HackerNews)
  • Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities (Thursday May 21, 2026)
    Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild. The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. "Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft Defender (HackerNews)
  • When Identity is the Attack Path (Thursday May 21, 2026)
    Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do - a user logged in, and the key stored itself automatically. Standard AWS behavior. No one misconfigured anything or violated a policy. Yet that single key, which was easily accessible to a minor-league attacker, could have opened a path to some 98% of entities in the company's cloud (HackerNews)
  • 9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Root Command Execution on Major Distros (Thursday May 21, 2026)
    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in the Linux kernel that remained undetected for nine years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46333 (CVSS score: 5.5), is a case of improper privilege management that could permit an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major (HackerNews)
  • GitHub Internal Repositories Breached via Malicious Nx Console VS Code Extension (Thursday May 21, 2026)
    GitHub on Wednesday officially confirmed that the breach of its internal repositories was the result of a compromise of an employee device involving a poisoned version of the Nx Console Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension.  The development comes as the Nx team revealed that the extension, nrwl.angular-console, was breached after one of its developers' systems was hacked in the (HackerNews)
  • Highly Critical Drupal Core Flaw Exposes PostgreSQL Sites to RCE Attacks (Thursday May 21, 2026)
    Drupal has released security updates for a "highly critical" security vulnerability in Drupal Core that could be exploited by attackers to achieve remote code execution, privilege escalation, or information disclosure. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-9082, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0, per CVE.org. Drupal said the vulnerability resides in a database abstraction API that is (HackerNews)
  • Microsoft Open-Sources RAMPART and Clarity to Secure AI Agents During Development (Wednesday May 20, 2026)
    Microsoft has unveiled two new open-source tools called RAMPART and Clarity to assist developers in better testing the security of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. RAMPART, short for Risk Assessment and Measurement Platform for Agentic Red Teaming, functions as a Pytest-native safety and security testing framework for writing and running safety and security tests for AI agents, covering (HackerNews)
  • Microsoft Takes Down Malware-Signing Service Behind Ransomware Attacks (Wednesday May 20, 2026)
    Microsoft on Tuesday said it disrupted a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) operation that weaponized the company's Artifact Signing system to deliver malicious code and conduct ransomware and other attacks, compromising thousands of machines and networks across the world. The tech giant attributed the activity to a threat actor it calls Fox Tempest, which it said offered the MSaaS scheme (HackerNews)
  • Webworm Deploys EchoCreep and GraphWorm Backdoors Using Discord and MS Graph API (Wednesday May 20, 2026)
    Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh activity from a China-aligned threat actor known as Webworm in 2025, deploying custom backdoors that employ Discord and Microsoft Graph API for command-and-control (C2 or C&C) communications. Webworm, first publicly documented by Broadcom-owned Symantec in September 2022, is assessed to be active since at least 2022, targeting government agencies (HackerNews)
  • Agent AI is Coming. Are You Ready? (Wednesday May 20, 2026)
    New Industry Data Just Released Suggests Not. On May 19th, 2026, Orchid Security released the results of our Identity Gap: Snapshot 2026. Among the findings, "identity dark matter" (the unseen, unmanaged elements of identity) now overshadows the visible elements 57% vs. 43%. And it couldn't have occurred at a worse time, with enterprises embracing Agent AI with both arms (and unfortunately, as (HackerNews)
  • GitHub Breached — Employee Device Hack Led to Exfiltration of 3,800+ Internal Repos (Wednesday May 20, 2026)
    GitHub on Tuesday said it's investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories after the notorious threat actor known as TeamPCP listed the platform's source code and internal organizations for sale on a cybercrime forum. "While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub's internal repositories (such as our customers' enterprises, (HackerNews)
  • Typosquatting Is No Longer a User Problem. It's a Supply Chain Problem (Wednesday May 20, 2026)
    AI-generated lookalike domains are now embedded inside the third-party scripts running on your web properties. Here's why your current stack can't see them, and what detection actually requires. Download the CISO Expert Guide to Typosquatting in the AI Era → TL;DR  Typosquatting is no longer a user problem. Attackers now embed lookalike domains inside legitimate third-party scripts. (HackerNews)
  • Microsoft Releases Mitigation for YellowKey BitLocker Bypass CVE-2026-45585 Exploit (Wednesday May 20, 2026)
    Microsoft on Tuesday released a mitigation for a BitLocker bypass vulnerability named YellowKey following its public disclosure last week. The zero-day flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-45585, carries a CVSS score of 6.8. It has been described as a BitLocker security feature bypass. "Microsoft is aware of a security feature bypass vulnerability in Windows publicly referred to as 'YellowKey,'" the (HackerNews)
  • Grafana GitHub Breach Exposes Source Code via TanStack npm Attack (Wednesday May 20, 2026)
    Grafana Labs, on May 19, 2026, said an investigation into its recent breach found no evidence of customer production systems or operations being compromised. It said the scope of the incident is limited to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, which includes public and private source code along with internal GitHub repositories. "After the initial assessment, we found that in addition to source (HackerNews)
  • Trapdoor Android Ad Fraud Scheme Hit 659 Million Daily Bid Requests Using 455 Apps (Tuesday May 19, 2026)
    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ad fraud and malvertising operation dubbed Trapdoor targeting Android device users. The activity, per HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team, encompassed 455 malicious Android apps and 183 threat actor-owned command-and-control (C2) domains, turning the infrastructure into a pipeline for multi-stage fraud. "Users (HackerNews)
  • DirtyDecrypt PoC Released for Linux Kernel CVE-2026-31635 LPE Vulnerability (Tuesday May 19, 2026)
    Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has now been released for a recently patched security flaw in the Linux kernel that could allow for local privilege escalation (LPE). Dubbed DirtyDecrypt (aka DirtyCBC), the vulnerability was discovered and reported by the Zellic and V12 security team on May 9, 2026, only to be informed by the maintainers that it was a duplicate of a vulnerability that had (HackerNews)
  • The New Phishing Click: How OAuth Consent Bypasses MFA (Tuesday May 19, 2026)
    In February 2026, a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called EvilTokens went live. Within five weeks, it had compromised more than 340 Microsoft 365 organizations across five countries.  The targets of the platform received a message asking them to enter a short code at microsoft.com/devicelogin and complete their normal MFA challenge, then walked away believing they had verified a (HackerNews)
  • Drupal to Release Urgent Core Security Updates on May 20, Sites Told to Prepare (Tuesday May 19, 2026)
    Drupal has issued an alert stating that it intends to release a "core security release" for all supported branches on May 20, 2026, from 5-9 p.m. UTC. "The Drupal Security Team urges you to reserve time for core updates at that time because exploits might be developed within hours or days," the maintainers of the PHP-based content management system (CMS) said. "Not all configurations are (HackerNews)
  • SEPPMail Secure E-Mail Gateway Vulnerabilities Enable RCE and Mail Traffic Access (Tuesday May 19, 2026)
    Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in SEPPMail Secure E-Mail Gateway, an enterprise-grade email security solution, that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and enable an attacker to read arbitrary mails from the virtual appliance. "These vulnerabilities could have been exploited to read all mail traffic or as an entry vector into the internal network," (HackerNews)
  • Compromised Nx Console 18.95.0 Targeted VS Code Developers with Credential Stealer (Tuesday May 19, 2026)
    Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a compromised version of the Nx Console extension that was published to the Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace. The extension in question is rwl.angular-console (version 18.95.0), a popular user interface and plugin for code editors like VS Code, Cursor, and JetBrains. The VS Code extension has more than 2.2 million installations. The Open (HackerNews)
  • Popular GitHub Action Tags Redirected to Imposter Commit to Steal CI/CD Credentials (Tuesday May 19, 2026)
    In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have compromised the popular GitHub Actions workflow, actions-cool/issues-helper, to run malicious code that harvests sensitive credentials and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server. "Every existing tag in the repository has been moved to point to an imposter commit that does not appear in the action's normal commit history, (HackerNews)
  • Mini Shai-Hulud Pushes Malicious AntV npm Packages via Compromised Maintainer Account (Tuesday May 19, 2026)
    Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has compromised various npm packages associated with the @antv ecosystem as part of the ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud attack wave. "The attack affects packages tied to the npm maintainer account atool, including echarts-for-react, a widely used React wrapper for Apache ECharts with roughly 1.1 million weekly (HackerNews)
  • CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github (Monday May 18, 2026)
    Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history. (KrebsOnSecurity)
  • INTERPOL Operation Ramz Disrupts MENA Cybercrime Networks with 201 Arrests (Monday May 18, 2026)
    INTERPOL has coordinated a first-of-its-kind cybercrime crackdown across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that led to 201 arrests and the identification of an additional 382 suspects. The initiative involved the efforts of 13 countries from the region, aiming to investigate and neutralize malicious infrastructure, arrest perpetrators behind these activities, and prevent future losses. It (HackerNews)
  • ⚡ Weekly Recap: Exchange 0-Day, npm Worm, Fake AI Repo, Cisco Exploit and More (Monday May 18, 2026)
    Monday opens with a trust problem. A mail server flaw is under active use. A network control system was targeted. Trusted packages were poisoned. A fake model page pushed a stealer. Then came the familiar ransom claim: the data was returned and deleted. The pattern is clear. One weak dependency can leak keys. One leaked key can open cloud access. One cloud foothold can become a production (HackerNews)
  • How to Reduce Phishing Exposure Before It Turns into Business Disruption (Monday May 18, 2026)
    What happens when a phishing email looks clean enough to pass through security, but dangerous enough to expose the business after one click? That is the gap many SOCs still struggle with: the attacks that leave teams unsure what was exposed, who else was targeted, and how far the risk has spread. Early phishing detection closes that gap. It helps teams move from uncertainty to evidence faster, (HackerNews)
  • Developer Workstations Are Now Part of the Software Supply Chain (Monday May 18, 2026)
    Supply chain attackers are not only trying to slip malicious code into trusted software. They are trying to steal the access that makes trusted software possible. Recently, three separate campaigns hit npm, PyPI, and Docker Hub in a 48-hour window, and all three targeted secrets from developer environments and CI/CD pipelines, including API keys, cloud credentials, SSH keys, and tokens. This is (HackerNews)
  • Ivanti, Fortinet, SAP, VMware, n8n Patch RCE, SQL Injection, Privilege Escalation Flaws (Monday May 18, 2026)
    Ivanti, Fortinet, n8n, SAP, and VMware have released security fixes for various vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code. Topping the list is a critical flaw impacting Ivanti Xtraction (CVE-2026-8043, CVSS score: 9.6) that could be exploited to achieve information disclosure or client-side attacks. "External control of a file name (HackerNews)
  • MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems (Monday May 18, 2026)
    Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher behind the recently disclosed Windows flaws, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day flaw that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems. Codenamed MiniPlasma, the vulnerability impacts "cldflt.sys," which refers to the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver, (HackerNews)
  • Four Malicious npm Packages Deliver Infostealers and Phantom Bot DDoS Malware (Monday May 18, 2026)
    Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four new npm packages containing information-stealing malware, one of which is a clone of the Shai-Hulud worm open-sourced by TeamPCP. The list of identified packages is below - chalk-tempalte (825 Downloads) @deadcode09284814/axios-util (284 Downloads) axois-utils (963 Downloads) color-style-utils (934 Downloads) "One of the packages (chalk-tempalte) (HackerNews)
  • Pre-Stuxnet Fast16 Malware Tampered with Nuclear Weapons Simulations (Monday May 18, 2026)
    A new analysis of the Lua-based fast16 malware has confirmed that it was a cyber sabotage tool designed to tamper with nuclear weapons testing simulations. According to Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black teams, the pre-Stuxnet tool was engineered to corrupt uranium-compression simulations that are central to nuclear weapon design. "Fast16's hook engine is selectively interested in (HackerNews)
  • NGINX CVE-2026-42945 Exploited in the Wild, Causing Worker Crashes and Possible RCE (Sunday May 17, 2026)
    A newly disclosed security flaw impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open has come under active exploitation in the wild, days after its public disclosure, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score: 9.2), is a heap buffer overflow in ngx_http_rewrite_module affecting NGINX versions 0.6.27 through 1.30.0. According to AI-native security company depthfirst, the (HackerNews)
  • Grafana GitHub Token Breach Led to Codebase Download and Extortion Attempt (Sunday May 17, 2026)
    Grafana has disclosed that an "unauthorized party" obtained a token that granted them the ability to access the company's GitHub environment and download its codebase. "Our investigation has determined that no customer data or personal information was accessed during this incident, and we have found no evidence of impact to customer systems or operations," Grafana said in a series of (HackerNews)
  • Funnel Builder Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables WooCommerce Checkout Skimming (Saturday May 16, 2026)
    A critical security vulnerability impacting the Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild to inject malicious JavaScript code into WooCommerce checkout pages with the goal of stealing payment data. Details of the activity were published by Sansec this week. The vulnerability currently does not have an official CVE identifier. It (HackerNews)
  • Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access (Friday May 15, 2026)
    The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that's engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts. Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is assessed to be affiliated with Center 16 of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) (HackerNews)
  • Four OpenClaw Flaws Enable Data Theft, Privilege Escalation, and Persistence (Friday May 15, 2026)
    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of four security flaws in OpenClaw that could be chained to achieve data theft, privilege escalation, and persistence. The vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed Claw Chain by Cyera, can permit an attacker to establish a foothold, expose sensitive data, and plant backdoors. A brief description of the flaws is below - (HackerNews)
  • Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition (Tuesday May 12, 2026)
    Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers -- including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Oracle -- fixing near record volumes of security bugs, and/or quickening the tempo of their patch releases. (KrebsOnSecurity)
  • Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide (Friday May 08, 2026)
    An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, after a cybercrime group defaced the service's login page with a ransom demand that threatened to leak data from 275 million students and faculty across nearly 9,000 educational institutions. (KrebsOnSecurity)
  • Anti-DDoS Firm Heaped Attacks on Brazilian ISPs (Thursday April 30, 2026)
    A Brazilian tech firm that specializes in protecting networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been enabling a botnet responsible for an extended campaign of massive DDoS attacks against other network operators in Brazil, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The firm's chief executive says the malicious activity resulted from a security breach and was likely the work of a competitor trying to tarnish his company's public image. (KrebsOnSecurity)
  • ‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty (Tuesday April 21, 2026)
    A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at least a dozen major technology companies and steal tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from investors. (KrebsOnSecurity)
  • Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition (Tuesday April 14, 2026)
    Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed weakness in Windows Defender dubbed "BlueHammer." Separately, Google Chrome fixed its fourth zero-day of 2026, and an emergency update for Adobe Reader nixes an actively exploited flaw that can lead to remote code execution. (KrebsOnSecurity)
  • Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens (Tuesday April 07, 2026)
    Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code. (KrebsOnSecurity)
  • Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab (Monday April 06, 2026)
    An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021. (KrebsOnSecurity)

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