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LangGraph Flaw Chain Exposes Self-Hosted AI Agents to Remote Code Execution

(Friday June 12, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three now-patched security flaws impacting LangGraph, including a critical vulnerability chain that could result in remote code execution. LangGraph is an open-source framework created by LangChain to build complex, stateful, and multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) agentic applications. "An SQL injection in LangGraph's function could

INTERPOL Operation Takes Down Sniper Dz Phishing Platform, Arrests Administrator

(Friday June 12, 2026)
An INTERPOL-led operation last month resulted in the disruption of Sniper Dz, a decade-long phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, Group-IB said Thursday. The effort, codenamed Operation Ramz, took place between October 2025 and February 2026, and saw authorities from 13 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region making 201 arrests. Included among them was Guedz, the primary

CISA orders feds to patch actively exploited Ivanti flaw by Sunday

(Friday June 12, 2026)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch an actively exploited Ivanti Sentry flaw within three days, as mandated by the newly issued Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04. [...]

Contractors in webspace?

(Friday June 12, 2026)
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Queensland sugar miller aims to reopen next week following cyber attack

(Friday June 12, 2026)
Mackay Sugar tells growers it is aiming to restart cane processing early next week, after a cyber attack forced it to stop on Wednesday. 

Over 73,000 French govt employees affected in Tchap messenger breach

(Friday June 12, 2026)
The French government revealed that a recent breach of its Tchap encrypted messaging platform affects the accounts of over 73,000 employees in the French public sector. [...]

Europol Disrupts AudiA6 Crypto Laundering Service Used by Ransomware Gangs

(Friday June 12, 2026)
Authorities in Europe have disrupted AudiA6, a cryptocurrency laundering service used by ransomware gangs and cybercriminal networks. Europol, in a statement issued Thursday, said the dismantling of AudiA6 cut off a "key financial pipeline used to wash hundreds of millions in illicit profits." The service is estimated to have been used to launder more than €336 million (~$389 million) since the

Japanese energy firm loses drive with data of 10.9 million clients

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. has disclosed a physical security incident that affects private data of more than 10 million customers. [...]

Maine breach portal abused to publish fake data breach disclosures

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
In an unusual misinformation campaign, fraudulent data breach disclosures were submitted to Maine's official breach portal and publicly posted before their legitimacy could be verified, prompting companies to deny the claims. [...]

ShinyHunters Exploits Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day (CVE-2026-35273) to Breach Universities

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
The ShinyHunters extortion crew exploited an unpatched flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to break into enterprise systems, steal data, and demand payment to keep it private. The campaign hit universities hardest. Google's Mandiant attributes it to the group it tracks as UNC6240, and dates the activity between May 27 and June 9. Oracle did not publish its advisory until June 10, so the bug was a

Oracle mitigates PeopleSoft zero-day exploited in data theft attacks

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
Oracle is warning about a critical PeopleSoft Suite zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-35273 that allows unauthenticated remote code execution, with the flaw actively exploited in ShinyHunter data theft attacks. [...]

New Attacks Trick OpenClaw AI Agent Into Running Code and Leaking Secrets

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
Two security teams have shown, in separate research published this week, that OpenClaw, the popular self-hosted AI agent, can be driven to run attacker-controlled code or hand over sensitive data through ordinary-looking inputs. Imperva buried instructions inside shared contacts, vCards, and location pins that the agent executed without the victim ever seeing them. Varonis built a test agent on

New GreatXML Exploit Bypasses Windows BitLocker via Recovery Partition XML Files

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse and MSNightmare) has released a new Windows BitLocker bypass dubbed GreatXML, a day after they published an exploit for Microsoft Defender. "This was an accidental discovery, it took a total of 4 hours to find this," the researcher said in a post on Blogger. "If you ever attempted to use Windows Defender Offline Scan, you're

The Gentlemen Ransomware Claims 478 Victims, Can Spread Like a Worm

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
A new analysis of The Gentlemen operation has revealed that the financially motivated threat group initially operated as an affiliate responsible for conducting double extortion attacks, while leveraging resources from various ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) schemes like LockBit (aka Tenacious Mantis), Qilin (aka Pestilent Mantis), and Medusa (aka Venomous Mantis). According to a detailed report

Authorities dismantle 'AudiA6' ransomware crypto-laundering service

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
Law enforcement has dismantled the “AudiA6” cryptocurrency service allegedly used by ransomware actors and other cybercriminals to launder more than $380 million. [...]

Why AI-driven threats are exposing the limits of MSP security stacks

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
AI-driven attacks are exposing the limits of fragmented MSP security stacks and slow response workflows. Kaseya breaks down why integrated security, automation, and recovery are becoming essential. [...]

Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026: Winners Announced Across 95 Categories

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
Most good security work is invisible by design. Today is the exception. The 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards winners are announced across 95 subcategories in four main award categories. The reason is simple. Cybersecurity is full of work that deserves recognition and rarely gets it. Products that quietly close real gaps. Teams that stop incidents nobody reads about. Companies that raise the

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Worm Code Leaked, AI Agent Phished, Claude Code Patch + 28 New Stories

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
It's been one of those weeks. You expect the usual noise: recycled malware, sloppy attacks, another easy target getting hit. Instead, there's a supply chain attack kit in a public repo, a $5,000-a-month RAT that clones browsers, and research showing AI agents can be tricked into leaking real credentials. The bigger problem is how polished this all looks now. Mule networks run like SaaS.

Coupang hit with record $409 million data breach fine in Korea

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
​​The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), South Korea's data protection regulator, has fined e-commerce giant Coupang a record 624.6 billion won (roughly $409 million) following a massive data breach affecting more than 37 million customers [...]

CISA tells govt agencies to patch critical exploited flaws in 3 days

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced a new Binding Operational Directive, 26-04, that prioritizes security updates for Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies. [...]

AI Broke Vulnerability Management. That's Why CISOs Are Moving Budget to BAS.

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
For thirty years, vulnerability management ran on a buffer: the months between when a vulnerability was found and when someone could figure out how to weaponize it. The solution was straightforward enough; triage by severity, schedule the fix, validate, and move on. The buffer was what made that work. Today, that buffer is gone. AI didn't make your team slower. It changed the other side of the

Enhanced License Plate Tracking

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
The surveillance company Leonardo wants more data: A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) that would mean the devices, as well as capture the license plate of passing vehicles, would also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars, potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers. The technology, called SignalTrace, would turn ALPR cameras from devices focused on tracking cars to ones that can more readily track the location of particular people. ALPR cameras have become a commonly deployed technology all across the U.S.; SignalTrace would make some of those cameras capable of collecting much more data...

OceanLotus Hits Vietnam Investors With SPECTRALVIPER in FireAnt Attack

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at a Vietnamese infrastructure and transport construction corporation between mid-2024 and February 2026, as well as a supply chain attack

Microsoft fixes BitLocker recovery bug on Windows Server 2025

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
Microsoft has resolved a known issue causing some Windows Server 2025 devices to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the April 2026 security update. [...]

Nottingham University data breach affects over 450,000 students

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
The University of Nottingham confirmed on Wednesday that a hacking group gained access to its student records system in a breach affecting both current students and alums. [...]

GitHub to Disable npm Install Scripts by Default to Stop Supply Chain Attacks

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
GitHub has announced what it said are "breaking changes" coming to npm version 12, one of which turns off install scripts by default to combat software supply chain threats. The changes aim to combat attack techniques that abuse the "npm install" command to trigger the execution of malicious code using npm lifecycle hooks. "Npm install" is used to download and install all the necessary

Max severity Ivanti Sentry vulnerability now exploited in attacks

(Thursday June 11, 2026)
Attackers are now targeting a recently patched maximum-severity flaw in Ivanti Sentry, enabling them to execute code with root privileges on Internet-exposed secure mobile gateways. [...]

Smashing Security podcast #471: This AI worm just rewrote its own rules

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the powerful ones to host its own AI brain. And then the researchers discovered their creation had quietly removed the list of machines it wasn't supposed to attack. Meanwhile, Meta's shiny new AI customer support agent has been cheerfully helping hackers help themselves to other people's Instagram accounts. Just keep asking, politely but firmly, to have a password reset sent to a different email address - and the AI will eventually agree. All this and more in episode 471 of the "Smashing Security" podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest James Ball.

Path traversal flaw in AI dev platform Langflow exploited in attacks

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-5027, a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in the AI development platform Langflow, to write arbitrary files on exposed servers. [...]

Does a server-side error on an account revert token indicate platform infrastructure failure rather than user error?

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
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The ‘Miasma’ worm source code briefly leaked on GitHub

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
The Miasma credential-stealing attack framework, which has recently targeted open-source ecosystems through supply-chain attacks, was briefly open-sourced on GitHub. [...]

GitHub announces npm security changes to tackle supply-chain attacks

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
GitHub has announced that npm v12, expected next month, will introduce several security-focused changes aimed at blocking supply-chain attacks abusing behaviors triggered by the 'npm install' command. [...]

Pre-auth XXE → HTTP SSRF on ArubaOS 8.13.2 closed as "theoretical / no valid PoC" despite TCP pcap, sshd localhost log, and internal port scan — documenting for community review

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
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Are access tokens only used for performance reasons?

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
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Scale. Speed. Trust: Three Imperatives for the AI Era

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
In the AI era, organizations need a new approach. At Cisco Live 2026, Cisco unveiled the innovation that positions Splunk as the intelligence layer for trusted Agentic Operations.

China-Linked JDY Botnet Expands to 1,500+ Devices for Cyber Reconnaissance

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "resurgence and expansion" of JDY, a covert network associated with China-nexus state-sponsored threat actors. "The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 SOHO [small office and home office] and IoT devices and operates as a centrally controlled, high-performance scanner used to discover, fingerprint, and continuously map exposed services at scale," Lumen's

Turn specs into evals for any agent with ASSERT

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)

Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing (ASSERT) is an open-source framework for converting natural language behavior requirements into executable evaluations of AI models and agents.

The post Turn specs into evals for any agent with ASSERT appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Ivanti, Fortinet, and SAP Release Patches for Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
Fortinet, Ivanti, and SAP have released security updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities that could result in arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. The security flaw patched by Fortinet relates to a command injection vulnerability in FortiSandbox, FortiSandbox Cloud, and FortiSandbox PaaS WEB UI. It's tracked as CVE-2026-25089 (CVSS score: 9.1). "An

Langflow Vulnerability CVE-2026-5027 Exploited for Unauthenticated RCE

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
A high-severity security flaw in Langflow, an open-source low-code platform to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-5027 (CVSS score: 8.8), a case of path traversal that could allow an attacker to write files to arbitrary locations. "The 'POST /api/v2/

CISA Adds Cisco, Chrome, and Arista Flaws to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score: 7.8) - An improper encoding or escaping of output vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that could allow an

Compromise OpenClaw with Prompt Injections in Message Objects

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)

Executive Summary As powerful personal AI assistants become increasingly widespread, their ability to access tools, files, and external services also makes them susceptible to prompt injection attacks, where malicious content can manipulate their behavior.  This research evaluated OpenClaw against a range of injection vectors.  In each case, the injected instruction was invisible to the victim, crossed the […]

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Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that promises affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by victims. This post examines clues pointing to a real life identity for the administrator of The Gentlemen ransomware group.

Why schools remain one of cybercriminals’ favourite targets

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
Schools on both sides of the Atlantic have been revealed in recent days to have been hit by hackers, reminding all of us that ransomware gangs see educational instituions as targets all year round. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

What are the common pitfalls in configuring BGP?

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
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NSO Group Hacking WhatsApp Despite Court Order

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
WhatsApp has caught the NSO Group phishing its users, in violation of a court order.

Your Automated Pentest Looks Clean. See What It Missed in This Expert Webinar

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
Your pentest report looks clean. That might be the problem. Run automated pentesting long enough, and the new findings start to dry up. By the third or fourth run, fewer issues appear. The report looks stable. Leadership reads "stable" as "secure." It usually isn't. The work slows down. The risk does not. That gap is what a The Hacker News webinar with Picus Security sets out to close. Autumn

Microsoft Patches Record 206 Flaws, Including Three Zero-Days and Critical RCE Bugs

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for a record 206 security vulnerabilities impacting its software portfolio, including three flaws that have been publicly disclosed at the time of release. Of the 206 flaws, 39 are rated Critical, and 167 are rated Important in severity. This includes 63 privilege escalation, 56 remote code execution, 30 information disclosure, 27 spoofing, 20 security

Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, Its Most Powerful AI Yet, With Cyber Safeguards

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the most capable model it has ever made, generally available. It also did something unusual: it shipped one model as two products, split not by capability but by a layer of safety classifiers. Fable 5 goes to the public. Its twin, Claude Mythos 5, the same underlying model with the cyber safeguards lifted, stays locked to a vetted group of cyber

ServiceNow Flaw Exploited to Gain Unauthorized Access to Customer Instances

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
ServiceNow has warned about a security incident in which unknown threat actors exploited a flaw to obtain deeper unauthorized access to susceptible instances. "On June 5, 2026, ServiceNow applied a security update to hosted customer instances," the company revealed in an advisory that requires customer access. "The update concerned a security issue that could allow an unauthenticated user, in

Weekly Update 507

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)

Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite

1,000 breaches is one hell of a milestone. It's not just the process of getting data, verifying it, loading it, sending notifications etc, it's all the other stuff that goes into keeping the whole thing afloat. Legal docs. Trademarks. Accounting. Agreements. The most mind-numbingly

Microsoft Defender RoguePlanet Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Access on Updated Windows

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
The anonymous security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for yet another Microsoft Defender zero-day named RoguePlanet. "The exploit is a race condition, so it's a hit or miss," the researcher, who published the exploit under a new GitHub account "MSNightmare" said. "I have managed to get a 100% success rate on

Six Proto6 Vulnerabilities in protobuf.js Expose Node.js Apps to RCE and DoS

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged half a dozen vulnerabilities in protobuf.js, a JavaScript and TypeScript implementation of Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. "In affected environments, a single malicious protobuf schema, descriptor, or crafted payload could be enough to trigger

Cyber security incident shuts down north Queensland sugar mills

(Wednesday June 10, 2026)
Cane farmers in the Mackay region were notified early on Wednesday to stop harvesting, after a cyber incident brought sugar milling at two north Queensland mills to a halt. 

A Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday for June 2026

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software, a record number of fixes for the company's monthly Patch Tuesday cycle. Nearly three dozen of those bugs earned Microsoft's most dire "critical" rating, and exploit code for at least three of the weaknesses is now publicly available.

Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products, June 9, 2026

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could result in an attacker gaining the same privileges as the logged-on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

Reconstructing AI activity in investigations 

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)

Learn how to investigate AI activity in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI services using a structured, telemetry-driven approach. This playbook helps security teams reconstruct events, assess data exposure, and detect potential threats faster.

The post Reconstructing AI activity in investigations  appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Meta to Use Off-Site Business Data for Feed and AI Personalization

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
Meta on Tuesday announced that it will use information shared by other businesses to personalize users' feed and responses from its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, expanding its scope beyond targeted ads. "Businesses often share information about people's activity on their sites with us to make ads more relevant," Meta said in a statement. "We already use this data - like games you play

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Check Point Products Could Allow for Authentication Bypass

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Check Point products the most severe of which could allow for authentication bypass.

  • Check Point VPN Remote Access provides remote and mobile employees with secure, encrypted connections to corporate networks.
  • Check Point Mobile Access enables secure remote access to enterprise applications through client-based or clientless solutions.
  • Check Point Spark Firewall is an enterprise-grade security gateway providing all-in-one threat prevention.

Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to network resources. Depending on the privileges associated with the user an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

Veeam Backup & Replication RCE Flaw Lets Domain Users Run Remote Code

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
Veeam has released security patches to address a critical flaw in its Backup & Replication software that could result in remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2026-44963, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. "A vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) on the Backup Server by an authenticated domain user," Veeam said in a Tuesday advisory. It

Microsoft Restores Some GitHub Repos, Keeps Others Offline as Miasma Probe Continues

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
Microsoft on Monday confirmed that it temporarily removed some GitHub repositories in response to a recent security incident that led to 73 of its open-source projects being compromised to inject an information stealer into the code. "Our priority is to protect customers and the broader ecosystem," a Microsoft spokesperson told The Hacker News via email. "We temporarily removed some

GPS As a Key Distribution Platform

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
This is interesting: The U.S. military has likely been quietly broadcasting codes for its global encryption network using public GPS for nearly 20 years, turning each satellite into a hidden “numbers station,” according to Steven Murdoch… That means every device that uses GPS has been receiving hidden government information for years, and nobody outside the military knew it until now. […] Murdoch discovered that this particular sentinel was transmitted by all 31 operational satellites within a window of a few hours on May 26, 2011, potentially heralding the activation of a new operational system. He confirmed that this timeline coincided with the rollout of the military’s Over-the-Air Distribution (OTAD) and the Over-the-Air Rekeying (OTAR) by cross-referencing declassified documents, including a 2015 presentation about the dates of the operation...

How to overrride function prototype in Node.js web application?

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
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ACL issues, packages are blocked going out despite the list being applied on the inbound interface [closed]

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
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Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

Why would scammer transfer me to a restricted phone number? [closed]

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
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WinRAR Flaw Exploited by Russia-Aligned Groups to Deploy Stealers in Ukraine

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
Two Russia-aligned cyber attack campaigns have continued to exploit a security flaw in WinRAR to target Ukrainian organisations, almost a year after patches for the vulnerability were released. The activity has been attributed by Trend Micro to Earth Dahu (aka Gamaredon) and SHADOW-EARTH-066 (aka UAC-0226). It involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-8088, a path traversal flaw that allows an

Is Offensive Security Keeping Up with the Latest Cyber Attacks?

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)

Security is not a point-in-time exercise. It’s a cycle of testing, fixing, and starting over. Organisations that treat it as anything less quickly fall behind. In the last decade, we’ve seen how offensive security practices such as penetration testing, combined with follow-up patching and mitigation strategies, have significantly strengthened defences. For instance, Active Directory hardening, […]

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Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it encounters, and replicate itself, all without human intervention and without touching a commercial AI service. The preprint, posted to arXiv on

Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 Exploited in the Wild - Patch Now

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
Google has released security updates to address 74 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-11645 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as an out-of-bounds memory access in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Out-of-bounds read and write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 149.0.7827.103

The Hidden Security Risk in Modern Networks: The Work Between Tools

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
Organizations have more visibility than ever. Growing tech stacks provide greater coverage, and network security teams are increasingly adopting AI and automation to help with routine tasks and reduce manual effort. But the same challenges persist. Outages still last hours, causing significant financial losses, operational disruption, and reputational impact. Threat response and mean time to

Completely disable snapper

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
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Filigran uses AI agents to make CTEM practical for overstretched security teams

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)

Filigran has unveiled XTM One, an AI-native orchestration layer designed to automate Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) workflows, as organisations struggle to keep pace with growing volumes of threat intelligence, vulnerabilities and attack data. The launch reflects a broader challenge facing security teams. While many organisations have invested heavily in threat intelligence, attack surface management […]

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Switch Per Port is a Collision Domain

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
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New FROST Attack Lets Websites Track What Sites and Apps You Open via SSD Timing

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
A malicious website can work out which sites you visit and which apps you open, using nothing but JavaScript and the timing of your SSD. The attack, called FROST, needs no native code, no extension, and no permission prompt. You open the page, leave the tab sitting there, and it watches the drive for contention in the background. Researchers at Graz University of Technology built it and

Hades PyPI Attack: 19 Packages Poisoned to Auto-Run Bun Credential Stealer

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
The Miasma supply chain campaign has sparked a fresh attack wave called Hades, this time involving 37 malicious wheel artifacts across 19 packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) registry, as the Mini Shai-Hulud-style attacks continue to be refined and splintered to target specific ecosystems. "The compromised releases shipped a *-setup.pth file that attempts to execute automatically

LiteLLM Flaw CVE-2026-42271 Exploited in the Wild, Chains to Unauthenticated RCE

(Tuesday June 09, 2026)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity flaw impacting BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42271 (CVSS score: 8.7), is a command injection vulnerability that could allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands on the

GitHub - Teycir/ApiHunter: Async API security scanner in Rust for CORS, CSP, GraphQL, JWT, OpenAPI, and active API posture checks.

(Monday June 08, 2026)
Click the link for more details on GitHub - Teycir/ApiHunter: Async API security scanner in Rust for CORS, CSP, GraphQL, JWT, OpenAPI, and active API posture checks.

Bill to Create Independent US Cyber Force Wants to Place It Under the US Army

(Monday June 08, 2026)
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One-Character Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Local Root Access, Exploits Now Public

(Monday June 08, 2026)
Security researchers have published a detailed, working exploit for a Linux kernel use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and break out of a container. The flaw, CVE-2026-23111, sits in the kernel's nf_tables packet-filtering code and was patched upstream on February 5, 2026. Exodus Intelligence released its full technical walkthrough on June 8, and it is not even

Meta Blocks NSO Group's New WhatsApp Phishing Attack, Files Contempt Order

(Monday June 08, 2026)
Meta on Monday said it detected and blocked spear-phishing attempts linked to Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group. In addition, the tech giant said it's filing a federal court contempt order against the company for violating a permanent injunction that barred it from targeting WhatsApp and its users. "They tried to trick people into clicking on malicious links to drive them to external websites

Critical Zcash Vulnerability Found and Fixed

(Monday June 08, 2026)
If you’re a user—owner?—of this cryptocurrency, this is important: On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8. The Zcash team hired Hornby specifically to look for this kind of issue. He found one fast enough to be embarrassing. The Orchard pool is the newest and most advanced shielded transaction system in the cryptocurrency Zcash. Introduced in 2022, it allows users to send and receive ZEC while keeping transaction details private. It uses zero-knowledge proofs to validate transactions without revealing amounts or participants. The bug: a specific check that was supposed to validate transaction inputs wasn’t actually enforcing the rules it appeared to enforce. An attacker could have exploited the flaw to feed false inputs into that check and generate ZEC from nothing, with the zero-knowledge proof system blessing the fraudulent transaction as valid...

AI brands as bait: How threat actors are using the AI hype in social engineering

(Monday June 08, 2026)

As threat actors operationalize AI to accelerate attacks, they are also leveraging the wider global interest around AI itself as a social engineering lure.

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Critical Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited to Bypass Passwords in IKEv1 Setups

(Monday June 08, 2026)
Check Point has warned of active exploitation of a critical vulnerability impacting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments that are configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange protocol. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50751 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case of a logic flow weakness in certificate validation that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass user

AI Phishing Is Crushing SOCs with Alert Volume: How to Reduce Tier 1 Overload

(Monday June 08, 2026)
Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine. Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every polished message adds another case for Tier 1 to review, another link to inspect, and another alert that cannot be dismissed at a glance. As the queue grows, a credential theft attempt or malware delivery can easily

⚡ Weekly Recap: Instagram Account Hacks, Android Zero-Day, GitHub Worm and More

(Monday June 08, 2026)
Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn't. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing through repos. The ugly part: basic tricks still worked. A chatbot got fooled. A bot token got leaked inside the malware. The same old mistakes showed up again. And while everyone chased the loud stuff, quieter attackers sat in inboxes for months, reading mail and

EMBA firmware analysis framework v2.0.2 available - Party the big 2k

(Monday June 08, 2026)
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When i press the "enter" key the network settings opens always

(Monday June 08, 2026)
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The Hardest Fork

(Monday June 08, 2026)
Mythos is real. I know a big chunk of the industry thinks it's a marketing stunt, and I get why. I get it. But I've seen the findings, and they're bad. These aren't "whoops, this line right here is wrong, and that's RCE." They're novel combinations of a few dozen issues out of thousands of things every SAST scanner already finds, chained together into something much worse. It's real creativity,

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Update

(Monday June 08, 2026)
In April, Anthropic initated Project Glasswing. The idea was to let companies use their new model to find and fix vulnerabilities in their own software. It was a fantastic PR move, and so many press outlets have uncritically parroted Anthropic’s claims that it’s now common wisdom that Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than other models. Which is just not true. In any case, Anthropic has published a Project Glasswing status report. It’s finding a lot of vulnerabilities in software—yay! Some of them are even dangerous. But almost none of them has been patched. It’s ...

VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM on Linux Appliances

(Monday June 08, 2026)
A China-nexus cyber espionage group has been observed deploying a BSD variant of a known backdoor called BRICKSTORM, as well as two other malware families codenamed PLENET (aka GRIMBOLT) and AGENTPSD to target Linux systems. The activity has been attributed by Volexity to a threat cluster it tracks as VerdantBamboo, which it said overlaps with hacking groups known as Clay Typhoon (Microsoft),

"ether type" not working in ARP tables - where can we learn which expressions work in which table type?

(Monday June 08, 2026)
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What are the security implications of setting SYSTEMD_PAGERSECURE?

(Monday June 08, 2026)
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UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign

(Monday June 08, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026. The activity has been attributed by Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat actor dubbed UNC3753, which is also known as

VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

(Monday June 08, 2026)
Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in an attempt to tackle software supply chain threats. "When automatic updates are enabled, new versions are auto-updated two hours after they are published, adding an extra layer of protection

My client lost 3 months of SEO progress because of a hack nobody caught for 6 weeks

(Monday June 08, 2026)
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Defending against an Evil Maid threat model for a LUKS + TPM + Secure Boot setup

(Sunday June 07, 2026)
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Using jq to convert implicitly grouped JSON objects into CSV rows

(Sunday June 07, 2026)
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How do I restart a systemd service upon resuming from sleep?

(Sunday June 07, 2026)
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The Clock Is Already Ticking: Why Post-Quantum Cryptography Can’t Wait

(Sunday June 07, 2026)

There is a question I have been hearing more and more from CISOs, compliance officers, and security architects over the past year. It does not start with “we had a breach” or “we failed an audit.” It starts with something that sounds almost philosophical: “Are we quantum-safe?” A year ago, that question came from the […]

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