The internet did not break this week. It got used exactly as designed, which is worse. Searches were siphoned through shady browser add-ons. AI chat links turned into malware delivery paths. macOS attacks ran in memory and left almost nothing behind. Cloud agents looked like helpers until attackers treated them like open shells. Add exposed edge gear, poisoned packages, cash courier scams,

Microsoft has disclosed details of a Windows-based cryptocurrency clipper campaign that has targeted users since February 2026. "The clipper in this campaign relies on Windows Script Host and ActiveX-driven logic to launch a bundled Tor proxy and poll a hidden-service C2 [command-and-control] server," the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team said in an analysis published Tuesday. "It

Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of INC from an nascent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation to one of the most prolific cybercrime groups in 2026, claiming no less than 830 victims since August 2023. "The disruption of LockBit and the shutdown of BlackCat created opportunities for INC to expand as affiliates migrated to alternative ransomware operations," Acronis

An independent PCI assessor tested Reflectiz against the new PCI DSS rules. Here is the verdict: See the full QSA assessment here → When a customer types their card number into your checkout, their browser is running far more than your code. Analytics tags, a tag manager, a support widget, a payment iframe: a modern checkout loads dozens of third-party scripts, and any one of them can be turned

Threat actors associated with the DragonForce ransomware have been observed using a custom Go-based remote access trojan (RAT) called Backdoor.Turn to conceal command-and-control (C2) traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. According to findings from Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black, the backdoor was deployed against a major U.S. services firm. The name of the company was

An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging paid or promoted posts on legitimate news websites to drum up buzz for their warez, according to new findings from Check Point Research. The threat actor also has at their disposal a dedicated WordPress phishing page that acts as the central hub, alongside GitHub and SourceForge projects promoted by fake accounts, a YouTube channel, and a

Microsoft has formally disclosed that it's working to release a patch to address a Defender zero-day codenamed RoguePlanet. The vulnerability has now been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), with the tech giant describing it as a privilege escalation flaw. "Microsoft is aware of an elevation of privilege in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine in Microsoft Defender

A French-speaking attacker broke into a small French automotive business, planted a keylogger, and stole banking and email credentials. Ordinary stuff, until one move near the end. Before his command-and-control server went dark, he installed OpenSSH and Tailscale on a victim's machine, building a way back in that did not run through the C2 at all. When the Havoc server went offline the next

For security teams, the findings never stop, but confidence in knowing which ones matter is becoming harder to maintain. The problem is no longer visibility. It's validation. Security teams must decide which findings warrant action while operating under constant pressure and incomplete information. Increasingly, the challenge is not discovering potential risks. It is determining which risks

Breaches don't always start with a zero-day. An exposed admin panel can get brute-forced, or credentials reused from a previous attack. But when a vulnerability does drop — like MongoBleed earlier this year, which let attackers pull credentials and session tokens from server memory without authentication — anything internet-facing is immediately at risk. With time-to-exploit now down to a

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a "coordinated malware campaign" on the JetBrains Marketplace that has published no less than 15 malicious plugins capable of exfiltrating artificial intelligence (AI) provider keys. "Every plugin poses as an AI coding assistant built on DeepSeek and other large language models, offering chat, commit messages, code review, bug finding, and unit tests,"

As many as 144 npm packages associated with the Mastra namespace ("@mastra/*"), a popular open-source JavaScript and TypeScript framework for building artificial intelligence (AI) applications, have been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack codenamed easy-day-js, per findings from JFrog, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity. "A single npm account (ehindero) mass-published more

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48907 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of improper access control that could facilitate arbitrary

A flaw in the Google Cloud Vertex AI SDK for Python let an attacker with no access to a victim's project hijack the victim's machine learning model upload and run code inside Google's serving infrastructure. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which found and reported the bug through Google's bug bounty program, calls the technique "Pickle in the Middle" and said it saw no exploitation in the wild.

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged multiple ClickFix campaigns that deliver three malware loaders called BabaDeda Loader, Lorem Ipsum Loader, and Potemkin, per independent reports from Morphisec, BlueVoyant, and Huntress, respectively. Attacks involving BabaDeda Loader, observed in April 2026, have targeted education and financial organizations. "Earlier BabaDeda activity was known for

Security researchers at Zimperium's zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan, Rokarolla, that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps and packs 137 remote commands. Together, they give an operator near-total control of an infected phone: it lifts lock-screen PINs, reads and sends SMS, rewrites the clipboard to redirect crypto payments, and switches off Google Play

Security teams have never had more IP data at their disposal. Every day, analysts ingest enrichment feeds, geolocation data, reputation scores, telemetry, and threat intelligence from a growing ecosystem of vendors and platforms. Yet despite this abundance of information, many organizations continue to face a fundamental challenge: sifting through the noise to understand who is behind an IP and

Bad actors are exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox, according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the company said it has observed exploitation of CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, and CVE-2026-25089 over the past 24 hours. CVE-2026-39813 (CVSS score: 9.1) refers to a path traversal vulnerability in FortiSandbox JRPC API that could

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS. "The Windows variants discovered are internally marked as WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS," ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Both come with a hard-coded C&C [command-and-control] configuration and support communication over TCP, UDP,

The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notifications to deliver malware called NarwhalRAT. "The attack email contained a message impersonating an MS account security alert," the Genians Security Center (GSC) said. "It was designed to create concern over possible

Cisco has released security updates for a medium-severity security flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0. "A vulnerability in the web UI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to create a file or

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by June 18, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-54420 (CVSS score: 8.5), which has been described as a case of privilege

A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense email. The way in was a backdoor on their REDCap research servers that stole login credentials. The exfiltration was the unusual part: the attackers rewired the victims' own Google Workspace rules to copy any message

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious cyber campaigns that exhibit similarities with a persistent North Korean threat cluster known as Contagious Interview (aka Famous Chollima, HexagonalRodent, and Void Dokkaebi). According to a report published by Proofpoint, the threat actor has been found orchestrating phishing campaigns using developer role recruitment or code review themes

A default low-privilege account on a LiteLLM proxy can climb to full admin and run code on the server by chaining three vulnerabilities, researchers at Obsidian Security disclosed LiteLLM is a widely deployed open-source AI gateway that brokers calls to more than 100 model providers behind one OpenAI-compatible interface. A server takeover exposes every provider key it holds, the secrets that

A single click on a trusted Microsoft link could have let an attacker pull emails, calendar details, and indexed files out of Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search. Researchers at Varonis Threat Labs chained three bugs into a one-click exfiltration path they call SearchLeak. Because the link pointed to a real microsoft.com domain, traditional anti-phishing and URL filtering tools were

Stuff broke again. Not in a movie way. An old tool was left exposed. An abandoned package was abused. A deprecated feature was still running in prod. This week is the same lesson in a new form: phishing kits are easier to rent, AI names are useful bait, old login paths still fail, and forgotten software keeps becoming someone else's entry point. Scroll through the full Monday Cybersecurity

Employee onboarding is a busy time for IT teams. New starters need devices, accounts, access permissions, and passwords, all delivered within a tight timeframe. That usually means sharing a temporary "first-day" password so employees can access systems for the first time. The issue is that these passwords don't always stay temporary. They may be sent over email or SMS, reused across accounts,

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a network of 152 Google Chrome extensions that act as new tab live wallpaper add-ons to distribute a potentially unwanted program (PUP) family. The cluster spans 38 separate Chrome Web Store publisher accounts and three brand backends: tabplugins[.]com, yowgames[.]com, and chromewallpaper[.]com. They have been collectively installed 105,000 times. The

An attacker tampered with trusted JavaScript files used by WordPress sites running PushEngage, OptinMonster, and TrustPulse, turning those files into a way to break into the sites. When a site administrator was logged in as the file loaded, the code created an admin account under the attacker's control and installed a hidden plugin that opened a way back in. Ordinary visitors did not trigger it