Scientists have successfully tested an AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine in humans for the first time, finding it to be safe and well tolerated. The vaccine generated immune responses against multiple coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, SARS, and related bat viruses with pandemic…
China-Linked Espionage Cluster Deploys Custom ASPX/ASHX Shells on IIS
A previously disclosed China-linked threat cluster, tracked as OP-512, has been observed deploying a purpose-built web shell framework to compromise Internet Information Services (IIS) servers. Identified by ReliaQuest, the espionage operation targeted a Windows Server 2016 environment running an end-of-life…
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more. This article has been indexed from Security Latest Read the original article: Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide…
Critical UniFi OS Auth Bypass Flaws Lead to Unauthenticated Root RCE
Ubiquiti has addressed three critical vulnerabilities within the UniFi OS Server that attackers can chain together to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) with root privileges. Disclosed on May 21, 2026, via Security Advisory Bulletin 064 (SAB-064), the flaws are…
Opal Security Raises $23 Million for AI-Native Identity Governance
Raising $59 million to date, Opal also announced five senior leadership appointments. The post Opal Security Raises $23 Million for AI-Native Identity Governance appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been indexed from SecurityWeek Read the original article: Opal Security…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-06-06 12h : 3 posts
3 posts were published in the last hour 10:4 : Malspam Campaign Abuses DoubleClick to Deploy Stealthy .NET Loader 10:4 : CISA Alerts on Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U Denial-of-Service Flaw 9:34 : UNC3753 Targets US Law Firms with Vishing, RMM…
Malspam Campaign Abuses DoubleClick to Deploy Stealthy .NET Loader
A sophisticated new malspam campaign is actively exploiting Google’s DoubleClick ad-tracking infrastructure to bypass enterprise email security gateways. Discovered by researchers at Huntress, the attack utilizes highly personalized dynamic lures to initiate a complex, five-stage infection chain that actively dismantles…
CISA Alerts on Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U Denial-of-Service Flaw
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has officially added a critical vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Tracked as CVE-2026-28318, this flaw allows unauthenticated threat actors to remotely crash the file transfer service.…
UNC3753 Targets US Law Firms with Vishing, RMM Tools, and Physical Break-Ins
Threat cluster UNC3753, widely tracked as Silent Ransom Group or Luna Moth, is actively targeting professional, legal, and financial services in the United States. According to Mandiant’s Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), this financially motivated campaign leverages a highly effective…
CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score:…
Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to…
Claude Opus Found a Four-Year-Old Hole in Zcash’s Privacy Layer. Nobody Knows If Someone Already Used It.
Claude Opus 4.8 helped uncover a four-year-old critical flaw in Zcash that could have enabled undetectable creation of counterfeit coins. On May 29, the security researcher Taylor Hornby found a critical vulnerability in Zcash Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus…
Critical Hugging Face Transformers Vulnerability Enables Remote Code Execution Attacks
A newly disclosed critical vulnerability in the HuggingFace Transformers library, tracked as CVE-2026-4372, allows attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE) through malicious model configuration files. The flaw exposes a significant supply chain risk in one of the most widely…
Top 5 Best Tools for Simulated DDoS Attacks in 2026
Last year, a botnet hurled 31.4 Tbps of junk traffic at a single target—enough data to stream every Netflix movie at once. The record-shattering flood forced boards, regulators, and cloud teams to ask one question: are we sure our defenses…
CISA Warns of SolarWinds Serv-U Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical SolarWinds Serv-U vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, warning that threat actors are actively exploiting the flaw in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-28318, the vulnerability affects…
Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The…
AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent. The same…
Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again – this time via career platform breach
Totally different attack from the break-in last month. Oh so that’s OK then This article has been indexed from www.theregister.com – Articles Read the original article: Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again – this time via career platform breach
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-20245 Flaw Actively Exploited – No Patch Available
Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. It affects the following deployment types…
OWASP CVE Lite CLI – New Tool to Scan for Vulnerabilities in Your Projects
CVE Lite CLI is a free, open-source vulnerability scanner officially recognized as an OWASP Incubator Project, designed to bring dependency security directly into developers’ terminals rather than leaving it buried in CI pipelines. Maintained by Sonu Kapoor and backed by…
Cybersecurity Today Month in Review: Microsoft Zero-Days, AI Deregulation
Host Jim Love and panelists David Shipley, Laura Payne, and Jeff Williams discuss a researcher (“Chaotic/Nightmare Eclipse”) publicly disclosing multiple Windows zero-days affecting components including Defender and BitLocker, frustration with Microsoft’s vulnerability disclosure process, and backlash to Microsoft’s initially threatening…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-06-06 06h : 1 posts
1 posts were published in the last hour 4:4 : Researchers build autonomous AI worm that can reason and adapt
Researchers build autonomous AI worm that can reason and adapt
<p>University of Toronto researchers said they used open source technology to create an agentic AI worm that reasons and adapts — identifying each targeted device’s unique vulnerabilities and creating tailored attack strategies on the fly.</p> <p>Traditional worms are one-trick ponies…
Anthropic’s Claude Services Down — claude.ai, Claude Code, and Cowork Affected [Updated]
Anthropic’s Claude platform suffered a significant service disruption on June 5, 2026, with elevated error rates impacting multiple frontier AI models and key services, including claude.ai, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, raising concerns not just about infrastructure resilience…