Google has announced the integration of a Rust-based Domain Name System (DNS) parser into the modem firmware as part of its ongoing efforts to beef up the security of Pixel devices and push memory-safe code at a more foundational level. “The…
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Mirax Android RAT Turns Devices into SOCKS5 Proxies, Reaching 220,000 via Meta Ads
A nascent Android remote access trojan called Mirax has been observed actively targeting Spanish-speaking countries, with campaigns reaching more than 220,000 accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads through advertisements on Meta. “Mirax integrates advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capabilities, allowing threat…
Analysis of 216M Security Findings Shows a 4x Increase In Critical Risk (2026 Report)
OX Security recently analyzed 216 million security findings across 250 organizations over a 90-day period. The primary takeaway: while raw alert volume grew by 52% year-over-year, prioritized critical risk grew by nearly 400%. The surge in AI-assisted development is creating a “velocity gap”…
108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse by injecting…
CISA Adds 6 Known Exploited Flaws in Fortinet, Microsoft, and Adobe Software
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added half a dozen security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-21643 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An SQL…
ShowDoc RCE Flaw CVE-2025-0520 Actively Exploited on Unpatched Servers
A critical security vulnerability impacting ShowDoc, a document management and collaboration service popular in China, has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-0520 (aka CNVD-2020-26585), which carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of 10.0. It relates to a…
JanelaRAT Malware Targets Latin American Banks with 14,739 Attacks in Brazil in 2025
Banks and financial institutions in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico have continued to be the target of a malware family called JanelaRAT. A modified version of BX RAT, JanelaRAT is known to steal financial and cryptocurrency data associated…
FBI and Indonesian Police Dismantle W3LL Phishing Network Behind $20M Fraud Attempts
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Indonesian National Police, has dismantled the infrastructure associated with a global phishing operation that leveraged an off-the-shelf toolkit called W3LL to steal thousands of victims’ account credentials and attempt more…
⚡ Weekly Recap: Fiber Optic Spying, Windows Rootkit, AI Vulnerability Hunting and More
Monday is back, and the weekend’s backlog of chaos is officially hitting the fan. We are tracking a critical zero-day that has been quietly living in your PDFs for months, plus some aggressive state-sponsored meddling in infrastructure that is finally coming to…
Your MTTD Looks Great. Your Post-Alert Gap Doesn’t
Anthropic restricted its Mythos Preview model last week after it autonomously found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Palo Alto Networks’ Wendi Whitmorewarned that similar capabilities are weeks or months from proliferation. CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report…
North Korea’s APT37 Uses Facebook Social Engineering to Deliver RokRAT Malware
The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 (aka ScarCruft) has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building…
OpenAI Revokes macOS App Certificate After Malicious Axios Supply Chain Incident
OpenAI revealed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign its macOS apps, which downloaded the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data or internal system was compromised. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are taking steps to…
Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Acrobat Reader Flaw CVE-2026-34621
Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of…
CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT.…
Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and…
GlassWorm Campaign Uses Zig Dropper to Infect Multiple Developer IDEs
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that’s designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environments (IDEs) on a developer’s machine. The technique has been discovered in an Open VSX extension…
Browser Extensions Are the New AI Consumption Channel That No One Is Talking About
While much of the discussion on AI security centers around protecting ‘shadow’ AI and GenAI consumption, there’s a wide-open window nobody’s guarding: AI browser extensions. A new report from LayerX exposes just how deep this blind spot goes, and why AI extensions may be the…
Google Rolls Out DBSC in Chrome 146 to Block Session Theft on Windows
Google has made Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) generally available to all Windows users of its Chrome web browser, months after it began testing the security feature in open beta. The public availability is currently limited to Windows users on Chrome 146, with macOS expansion…
Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Update Distributed via Compromised Nextend Servers
Unknown threat actors have hijacked the update system for the Smart Slider 3 Pro plugin for WordPress and Joomla to push a poisoned version containing a backdoor. The incident impacts Smart Slider 3 Pro version 3.5.1.35 for WordPress, per WordPress security company Patchstack.…
EngageLab SDK Flaw Exposed 50M Android Users, Including 30M Crypto Wallet Installs
Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability in a widely used third-party Android software development kit (SDK) called EngageLab SDK that could have put millions of cryptocurrency wallet users at risk. “This flaw allows apps on the same device to bypass Android security…