Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had already extended, usually through…
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148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet
A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors’ browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new research from JFrog. The packages did not go after the developers who might…
U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors’ and other cybercriminals’ malicious activities, including ransomware attacks against Americans. The VPN, named First VPN Service (1VPNS),…
Microsoft Maps Year-Long ShinyHunters-Linked Salesforce Data Theft Across Three Paths
Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had already extended, usually through…
Google and Microsoft Pull ModHeader With 1.6 Million Installs After Dormant Collector Found
Google and Microsoft have pulled ModHeader, a popular header-editing extension with roughly 1.6 million installs across Chrome and Edge, after researchers found a hidden browsing-history collector built into its official store version. The collector was dormant. An empty allow-list kept…
CrashStealer macOS Malware Uses Notarized Dropper to Pass Gatekeeper Checks
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called CrashStealer that’s capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised systems. Unlike other information stealers that are built on AppleScript droppers or Objective-C-based wrappers, CrashStealer is implemented in native C++, according…
New MemGhost Attack Plants Persistent False Memories in AI Agents Through One Email
Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false “fact” about…
⚡ Weekly Recap: ShareFile Threat, Citrix Bleed 2 Ransomware, AI Coding Attacks, and More
Somewhere right now, a security tool is quietly finding bugs faster than any human can fix them. That’s supposed to be the good news. The catch is that the attackers have the same tools, pointed the other way, and they…
Forg365 PhaaS Targets Microsoft 365 with Device Code and AitM Session Theft
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called Forg365 is using a combination of device code phishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) tactics, antibot evasion, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted lure creation, and post-compromise mailbox operations targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. Distributed via Telegram and costing $400 a…
Attacker Uses Suspected AI-Generated PowerShell Script to Map Active Directory
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an intrusion in which an unknown threat actor leveraged a vibe-coded PowerShell script for Active Directory (AD) enumeration. “The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, computers, and domains, before creating a directory…
Thinking Fast and Slow in the SOC: The Case for Combining Autonomous AI with Analyst Copilots
A few days ago, I was sitting with the CISO of a Fortune 50 company, walking through how his security team was thinking about AI agents in the SOC. Smart team. Serious program. They had already connected Claude to a…
Meta Files Patent for AI That Can Listen All Day and Track How You’re Feeling
Meta has filed a patent application for an AI that listens to your voice throughout the day, works out how it thinks you are feeling from the way you sound, and keeps a timestamped log of every read. Each read…
Misconfigured Server Reveals Three Evilginx Phishing Operations Targeting Microsoft 365
An attacker running a live Microsoft 365 phishing operation left a Python web server listening on a public port with directory listing switched on. The command that did it: python3 -m http.server 8080, was still sitting in the readable .bash_history. From that…
iCagenda and Balbooa Forms Joomla Flaws Reportedly Exploited as Zero-Days
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two maximum-severity security flaws impacting iCagenda and Balbooa extensions for Joomla to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero-day exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities, both rated…
Hackers Weaponize Balochistan Police Portal in Multi-Group Espionage Campaigns
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of sustained cyber espionage activity against several Pakistani law enforcement organizations undertaken by suspected China- and India-aligned threat actors between February 2024 and April 2026. “At Balochistan Police, the compromised assets included servers hosting web…
Compromised jscrambler 8.14.0 npm Release Drops Rust Infostealer During Install
Version 8.14.0 of the jscrambler npm package shipped with a malicious preinstall hook that silently drops and runs a native infostealer during installation, one build each for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Published on July 11, 2026, it needs no import and no CLI call.…
Critical Zimbra Flaw Could Let Crafted Emails Run Malicious Code in User Sessions
Zimbra is urging customers to apply updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting the Classic Web Client that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has been described as a case of stored cross-site scripting (XSS) that could…
URGENT – Progress Tells ShareFile Customers to Shut Down Storage Zone Controllers Over Security Threat
Progress Software has told ShareFile customers to shut down the Windows servers running their Storage Zone Controllers, confirming to The Hacker News that it is responding to a “credible external security threat.” The company has temporarily disabled access to the…
Six New U-Boot Flaws Could Let Malicious Images Crash Devices or Run Code at Boot
Researchers at firmware security firm Binarly have found six new flaws in U-Boot, the small program that starts up hardware as varied as home routers, smart cameras, and the management chips inside data-center servers. Four of the bugs can crash a device.…
Injective Labs GitHub Compromise Pushes Wallet-Key-Stealing npm Packages
Unknown threat actors compromised the Injective Labs SDK project’s GitHub repository and leveraged it to publish a malicious package on the npm registry to steal cryptocurrency wallet private keys and mnemonic seed phrases. The compromised version, @injectivelabs/sdk-ts@1.20.21, came embedded with…