A financially motivated, Russian-speaking threat actor tracked as UAT-11795, orchestrating a large-scale campaign since at least June 2025. A sophisticated Python-based remote access trojan dubbed “Starland RAT,” alongside a stealthy in-memory PowerShell implant known as the “WLDR agent.” The operation…
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Hackers Hide Lua Loaders in Fake TTF Files to Deploy Remcos, XWorm, and Agent Tesla
Hackers are increasingly abusing trusted file formats and lightweight scripting environments to evade detection, with a newly observed campaign leveraging Lua-based loaders. Disguised as TrueType (.ttf) font files to deploy commodity malware, including Remcos RAT, Agent Tesla, XWorm, and Snake…
LegacyHive Windows Zero-Day Lets Attackers Hijack Administrator Registry Hives
A newly disclosed Windows local privilege-escalation vulnerability, dubbed LegacyHive, could allow a standard user to load and modify the per-user registry classes hive of an administrator account. The proof-of-concept (PoC), published by researcher NightmareEclipse under the MSNightmare/LegacyHive GitHub repository, abuses…
AWS Billing Bug Displays Trillion-Dollar Cost Estimates to Cloud Customers
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently investigating a significant billing issue affecting its Cost Explorer tool. This problem caused some cloud customers to see alarmingly inflated cost estimates, with figures reportedly reaching into the trillions of dollars. AWS Support acknowledged…
Hackers Breached an IIS Server and Deployed Ransomware Across the Network the Next Day
Hackers leveraged a compromised Microsoft IIS server to gain initial access and deploy a previously unseen ransomware payload across an enterprise network within 24 hours, highlighting a highly coordinated and operationally mature intrusion chain observed in June 2026. The campaign…
New NadMesh Botnet Uses 20+ RCE Vectors to Hijack AI and MCP Infrastructure
NadMesh is a new, industrial‑grade Go‑based botnet that weaponizes more than 20 RCE vectors to hijack AI and MCP infrastructure at scale, combining autonomous scanning, exploit delivery, and credential harvesting in a single closed‑loop platform. In early July 2026, researchers…
TP-Link Kasa Camera Flaws Let Attackers Steal Admin Credentials and Geolocation Data
TP-Link has revealed several serious vulnerabilities affecting its Kasa EC70 and EC71 smart camera models, which could expose users to credential theft and geolocation data leakage. These vulnerabilities are CVE-2026-9770 and CVE-2026-13230 and specifically affect version 4 of both devices.…
Hackers Use Paste-and-Run Commands to Deploy ClickLock Stealer Against Mac Users
Hackers are actively targeting macOS users with a newly identified infostealer dubbed “ClickLock Stealer,” leveraging paste-and-run social engineering techniques to bypass Apple’s native security protections without requiring exploits or elevated privileges. Despite macOS protections such as Gatekeeper, Transparency, Consent, and…
CISA Warns of Two Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws Exploited to Execute Commands
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. These flaws are actively being exploited in the wild to execute unauthorized commands on affected systems. The…
GPT-5.6 Codex Reportedly Wipes Files From Home Directories
Recent reports indicate that GPT-5.6 Codex has unintentionally deleted files in users’ home directories under certain configurations, raising concerns about the risks of running advanced AI coding agents with unrestricted access to the system. This issue, brought to light by…
GoSerpent Silently Steals Government Files for Weeks Before Sending Them to Hackers
A sophisticated cyber espionage campaign targeting government and diplomatic organizations across Southeast Asia has used a Go-based remote access Trojan, dubbed GoSerpent, to collect sensitive documents for weeks before exfiltrating them via network shares. Researchers first identified the activity in…
Two Scattered Spider Hackers Jailed in UK’s Largest Cybercrime Prosecution
Two alleged leading members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective have been sentenced to five years and six months in prison each for their involvement in the 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL). The National Crime Agency (NCA) described…
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Rejects Anti-AI Push and Defends LLM Tools
Linux creator and top-level kernel maintainer Linus Torvalds has made it clear that the Linux kernel project will not adopt an anti-AI stance. He believes that large language models and related tools should be assessed based on their technical value…
7-Zip Vulnerability Lets Attackers Trigger Heap Buffer Overflow Using Malicious Files
A newly disclosed vulnerability in 7-Zip could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking users into opening a specially crafted XZ-compressed file. Tracked as CVE-2026-14266 and identified by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative as ZDI-26-444 (ZDI-CAN-30169), the flaw is…
ACR Stealer Uses ClickFix, WebDAV, and Steganography to Steal Browser Credentials and Tokens
A surge in ACR Stealer activity from late April through mid-June 2026, with operators combining ClickFix social engineering, WebDAV-hosted payloads, PowerShell obfuscation, and steganography to compromise enterprise users. The malware operations rely on ClickFix social-engineering lures to trick victims into…
AnyDesk Zero-Day Flaw Allows Local Attackers to Trigger System-Wide Denial-of-Service
A newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in AnyDesk has the potential to allow a local attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition by exploiting the remote-access software’s “Send Support Information” feature. The advisory, tracked as ZDI-26-401 and ZDI-CAN-26645, was published by Trend…
Five-Layer Fileless Malware Uses JScript and PowerShell to Evade AMSI and Load .NET Payload
An active phishing campaign using a five-layer, fileless malware loader to evade Microsoft’s Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), static detection controls, and disk-based forensic analysis. The campaign delivers a Windows Script Host JScript payload inside a TAR archive disguised as a…
Top 10 Firewall Solutions Setting New Cybersecurity Standards in 2026
The firewall category is reinventing itself faster than at any point since NGFW arrived and 2026’s leaders aren’t just shipping better boxes, they’re redefining what “firewall” means. Palo Alto Networks is setting the bar for AI-driven inline prevention, Fortinet for hybrid mesh execution, and HPE Juniper for the quantum-safe era, while…
Millions of Shark Robot Vacuums Vulnerable to Unpatched Remote Code Execution Flaw
Millions of internet-connected Shark robot vacuums may be vulnerable to a critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw that could allow attackers to control devices remotely, access onboard cameras, retrieve home maps, and potentially steal stored Wi-Fi credentials. An independent researcher…
New Framework Redefines AI Penetration Testing Around Prompt Injection and Behavioral Objective Violations
A newly proposed framework argues that AI penetration testing must move beyond conventional infrastructure compromise and assess whether an adversary can make an AI-enabled system act against its intended operational purpose. Traditional penetration testing typically measures compromise through outcomes such…