Microsoft's GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The development has GitHub to disable access to those repositories. "Access to this
Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. It affects the following deployment types - On-Prem Deployment Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro Cisco SD-WAN Cloud (Cisco Managed) Cisco SD-WAN for Government (FedRAMP) "A
Tech giant Toshiba and mega-retailer Muji warned visitors that suspicious sign-in screens popping up on their websites could collect credentials. [...]
CISA warned today that hackers are now actively exploiting a recently patched high-severity SolarWinds Serv-U flaw to crash servers. [...]
Threat actors are taking advantage of Internet-exposed tank gauges by breaching gas stations, opening the door to disruption.
A Chinese espionage group tracked as UNC5221 has been accessing Microsoft 365 environments using the Brickstorm backdoor and previously undocumented malware named Plenet and AgentPSD. [...]
Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively. According to JFrog, the information stealer "scrapes every secret it can find on a developer's machine, hides behind an eBPF kernel rootkit, and
A California man was sentenced to more than 26 years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl and methamphetamine through Nemesis Market, one of the world's largest dark web marketplaces. [...]
CVE Lite CLI is a free, open-source command line tool that scans your projects in seconds and tells you exactly which included packages contain a vulnerability. The post OWASP Incubator Project Helps Developers Find and Fix Vulnerable Dependencies in Seconds appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Arabic-speaking users have emerged as the target of a new Android spyware codenamed Asin, according to findings from ESET. The Slovakian cybersecurity company said it first detected the malware spread via multiple campaigns in early 2025, with each attack wave making use of distinct websites mimicking utilities, war-related updates, and a government news source: govlens[.]net, which
Over 900 automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems across the United States, used to monitor fuel and chemical storage tanks across various critical infrastructure sectors, have been found exposed online and are vulnerable to ongoing attacks. [...]
AI worms, or "viruses with wings and brains," adapt to new environments, seek out vulnerabilities, and will likely strike within a year, researchers say.
Phishing, shadow AI, malicious extensions, and credential theft increasingly happen inside the browser. Keep Aware explains what the 2026 Verizon DBIR reveals about browser-layer security gaps and modern attacks. [...]
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Ultrahuman data leak, The Gentlemen ransomware analysis, Hola Browser bundles miner. The post In Other News: Anthropic Maps AI Threats, Unpatched Comodo Flaw, Palantir Chief Eyed for CISA appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The White House's executive order establishes voluntary framework for early government access to frontier models while investing in federal security.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously unreported threat cluster dubbed OP-512 that has been observed targeting Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) servers to deploy a bespoke web shell framework. ReliaQuest has assessed with moderate to high confidence that the espionage-focused activity is linked to China. "OP-512 was highly likely conducting espionage through a
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-28318 SolarWinds Serv-U Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities established the KEV Catalog as a living
The ShinyHunters extortion group leaked roughly 234 GB of data allegedly stolen from the dental benefits administrator. The post Hackers Leak DentaQuest Information Impacting 2.6 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Eighteen months ago, the AI SOC was a marketing line. Today it's a budget item. The category has crossed over from interesting to inevitable, with billions of dollars now flowing into AI-powered security operations platforms, agentic SOC tools, and AI co-pilots built into every layer of the security stack. The data shows SOCs are buying, deploying, and standing up AI capabilities at the fastest
Over 100 bugs are critical or high-severity, mainly use-after-free and insufficient validation of untrusted input flaws. The post Chrome 149 Patches 429 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Experts commented on the EO’s voluntary nature, the balance between innovation and security, and potential implementation gaps. The post Industry Reactions to New Trump AI Cybersecurity Executive Order: Feedback Friday appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Posing as recruiters on online platforms, Chinese intelligence officers target personnel with access to classified or privileged information. The post Five Eyes: Chinese Spies Target Government, Military Staff With Fake Job Opportunities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in Everest Forms Pro, a WordPress plugin with about 4,000 active installations, to execute arbitrary code, leading to a complete site compromise. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3300 (CVSS score: 9.8), a remote code execution bug impacting all versions of the plugin up to, and including, 1.9.12. A patch for the flaw was
The company detected a network intrusion in March and an investigation showed that some files were stolen during the attack. The post Nightclub Giant RCI Says Data Breach Affects 40,000 Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Security researchers and the FBI are warning that a wave of FIFA-themed fraud is already hitting World Cup 2026 fans, days before the June 11 kickoff. Recent reports describe thousands of lookalike FIFA domains, banking malware hidden inside pirate streaming apps, and at least one operation that copies FIFA's login page well enough to take over real accounts. It is an obvious target. More than
On Thursday, Cisco warned of a high-severity, unpatched zero-day in the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (tracked as CVE-2026-20245) actively exploited in attacks enabling root privilege escalation. [...]
The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-20245 and it can allow arbitrary command execution as root, but no patch yet. The post Cisco Warns of 7th SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited in 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network. "Compromised business servers across the U.S., Europe, and Asia were quietly converted into SMTP proxies, verified for mail relay capability, and synced to a downstream consumer every five minutes," Hunt.io said in
Like Shai-Hulud, the campaign targets developers to steal credentials and reuses them to propagate across the software supply channel.
Brave has announced the public release of Brave Origin, a paid minimalist version of its browser that strips out cryptocurrency, AI, rewards, and other monetization-focused features. [...]