2026-08-10 15:00 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default. That pretty much covers the mood this week. Old bugs are back, supply chains are getting stranger, and some exploit paths are so short you wonder what was supposed to stop them in the first place. That’s only part of it. Here’s
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2026-08-10 15:00 UTC
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Microsoft Security Blog · Microsoft Threat Intelligence · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Microsoft Threat Intelligence examines DeadLock ransomware, an emerging financially motivated operation distinguished by its use of decentralized infrastructure to support victim communications, negotiations, and data leak operations alongside double extortion tactics used to pressure victims. The post DeadLock ransomware: Breaking down a Rust-based encryptor with decentralized recovery infrastructure appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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2026-08-10 13:19 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country's main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in its possession, and collecting the software parts needed to build AI into its malware. South Korean security firm Genians says it uncovered the
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2026-08-10 12:25 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Windows had exposed, abused a cloud-synced passkey system from malware already on the victim's machine, and used a
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2026-08-10 11:33 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
The threat actor known as Head Mare has been observed weaponizing security flaws in unpatched TrueConf servers once again in attacks targeting Russian companies spanning instrumentation, electronics, transport, energy, IT, and software development sectors. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said it detected the attacks in July 2026. The activity involves exploiting a vulnerability chain
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2026-08-10 07:38 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro ("solidity-pro") that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer. The names of the extensions are below - helper-beeps.solidity-pro web3devtoolsx.solidity-pro Although neither of the extensions is now available on Open VSX, the GitHub repository
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2026-08-10 05:50 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
OpenAI has announced that it's pausing some "internal activities" involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. In response to the discovery, the AI upstart said it's implementing security controls for higher-capability models and associated activities, such as isolated
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2026-08-10 02:00 UTC
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SANS Internet Storm Center · indexed 2026-08-16 02:20 UTC
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2026-08-08 08:54 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian's Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of those routes is confirmed closed. PromptArmor, an AI security firm, hid the instructions in content Rovo reads. It said an uploaded file was
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2026-08-08 08:03 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over third-party accounts, leak tokens, hijack trusted UI actions, and manipulate AI tools that read email. PortSwigger researcher Gareth
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2026-08-08 06:58 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the Metabase application database, enabling them to gain
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2026-08-08 06:57 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product. "We are proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actors as they evolve their attack techniques," the company said. "This is not a duplicate of our
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2026-08-08 06:52 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), is a command injection flaw that could be weaponized to achieve arbitrary
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2026-08-07 23:00 UTC
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Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 · Sharon Maydar · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Identity-based attacks drive 90% of incidents. Learn how modern attackers exploit identities and what SOC leaders can do to respond. The post Inside the Modern SOC: The Identity Front Door appeared first on Unit 42.
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2026-08-07 21:26 UTC
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Cisco Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to view sensitive information in clear text on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control enforcement for specific template types that are not included in the encryption allowlist. A low-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability by viewing logs on the local system or on a remote logging server. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view sensitive authentication credentials, which could lead to further compr…
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2026-08-07 19:37 UTC
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AWS Security Blog · Vladimir Provorov · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Ten years ago, we launched AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, a fully managed Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS Cloud. In that original announcement, Jeff Barr described a straightforward promise: “You will spend less time administering and more time working on your applications and your business.” A decade later, AWS Managed Microsoft AD […]
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2026-08-07 18:48 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload," OpenSourceMalware researcher Paul
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2026-08-07 18:29 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the host and then fetches a macOS malware payload that's compatible with the computer's CPU architecture. "
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2026-08-07 18:16 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services has been attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671. "UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via
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2026-08-07 16:47 UTC
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Dark Reading · Robert Lemos · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
A study of more than 6,000 patches found that even working patches can introduce new bugs, break something else, or are open to bypass.
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2026-08-07 16:46 UTC
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AWS Security Blog · Hetal Kolekar · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Misconfigured Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets can expose your data to unauthorized access. Without proactive review, S3 bucket policies or Access Control Lists (ACLs) configured with broad access may go unnoticed in your environment. In this post, you learn how to identify and fix over-permissioned S3 buckets across your AWS environment, along with […]
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2026-08-07 14:32 UTC
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Rapid7 · Stephen Fewer · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
OverviewOn July 27, 2026, JetBrains published a security advisory for CVE-2026-63077, a critical unsafe deserialization vulnerability affecting JetBrains TeamCity. An attacker who can reach a TeamCity server over HTTP or HTTPS can exploit the agent polling protocol without credentials and execute operating system commands with the privileges of the TeamCity server process.JetBrains reported no known active exploitation when it disclosed the vulnerability. However, on August 5, 2026, CISA added CVE-2026-63077 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, confirming exploitation in the …
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2026-08-07 12:56 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. pwn.ai demonstrated how the flaw can be chained into PHP code execution on the server when a logged-in administrator interacts with an attacker-controlled page. Tracked as CVE-2026-64638 (CVSS score: 8.9), the high-severity
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2026-08-07 12:00 UTC
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Tenable Blog · Nick Hayes · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Agentic AI armed attackers first, but it also put real building power in defenders’ hands. Here’s what security practitioners built in two days at Black Hat USA 2026, and how the CyberAgents Exchange keeps that work compounding long after the event.Key takeawaysBuilding defensive cybersecurity tooling no longer requires a developer. Agentic tooling drove the cost of finding and exploiting a vulnerability down to 1990s levels; it also removed the engineering barrier that kept defenders from building the automation they’ve always wanted. The unglamorous work won the room: triage, reconciliation…
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2026-08-07 11:55 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Open Source had a great childhood. For two decades it got to be a kid. It ran around barefoot, gave everything away, trusted strangers, and never once thought about who was watching. It ran the kind of lemonade stand that took IOUs from anyone who wandered up — take what you need, pay me back whenever, no need to leave a name. It was idyllic. It was also, in retrospect, a little feral. Then,
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2026-08-07 11:10 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
A use-after-free bug in Linux's SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent researchers say they used it to escape a container and reach the machine underneath. The flaw has existed since 2008. The fix already shipped: stable kernels 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101 and 6.6.148, released August 3, close it. Anyone running an older kernel with SCTP reachable should update.
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2026-08-07 10:58 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, expose mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented at Black Hat USA 2026, the research found affected behavior across independently developed implementations, including Windows and
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2026-08-07 10:38 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active "widespread email-driven phishing campaign" that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key personnel involved in financial workflows and gather related email. "The campaign uses residential proxies to disguise malicious sign-ins as ordinary consumer traffic,
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2026-08-07 10:09 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new HTTP desynchronization techniques after exploring 30,000 candidate desync vectors. PortSwigger said a separate human-guided discovery cascade also exposed a zero-day in Apache Traffic Server. Kettle said HTTP Terminator tested 30,000 websites where
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2026-08-07 08:52 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-16 02:02 UTC
Entra ID researcher Dirk-jan Mollema demonstrated that malware already running in a signed-in Windows session can silently use the victim's Windows Hello for Business key to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. The attacker can then establish longer-term cloud access, register a device it controls, obtain a Primary Refresh Token (PRT), and add further authentication methods where tenant policies
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