Federal prosecutors have charged three Russian nationals over infrastructure that allegedly enabled ransomware, malware, phishing, and other cyberattacks against organizations in the United States and abroad. The seven-year investigation links the activity to more than $62 million in victim losses…
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15-Year-Old NGINX Vulnerability Lets Attackers Crash Workers and Achieve Remote Code Execution
A newly disclosed flaw tracked as CVE-2026-42533 affects nginx’s script engine and has been silently exploitable since March 2011, when the map directive gained regex support. Security researcher Stan Shaw reported the bug to F5 SIRT, which coordinated a fix…
Weekly Cyber Security Newsletter Bulletin – EY Breach, Wpzshell Exploit, Notepad++ Flaws +20 Stories
This week’s cybersecurity situation shows a clear reality: every part of technology, from identity systems to common productivity tools, can be hacked or compromised. Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday alone addressed roughly 570 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days already being exploited in…
NadMesh Uses Shodan to Find and Hijack Exposed AI and MCP Infrastructure
A sharp structural shift has been identified in the botnet landscape. Security researchers at XLab have uncovered NadMesh, a Go-based botnet that has been spreading rapidly since early July 2026. This malware marks a distinct evolution from opportunistic worm behavior…
Hugging Face Confirms AI-Driven Breach: Attackers used Autonomous Agents, defenders countered with AI
Hugging Face disclosed this week that it detected and contained a production infrastructure intrusion, driven end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent system, and defended against it using its own AI-based forensic analysis. The attackers exploited two code-execution flaws in Hugging…
New Spirals Ransomware Uses IIS Web Shell and PsExec to Encrypt IT Firm in Under 24 Hours
A previously unseen ransomware family dubbed “Spirals” struck an IT services company in South Asia in June 2026. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team reports that the attackers moved from the initial breach to full network encryption in under 24 hours. The…
Citrix Secure Access and Endpoint Client for Windows Vulnerability Enables Privilege Escalation
Cloud Software Group has disclosed two security vulnerabilities affecting Citrix Secure Access Client for Windows and Citrix Endpoint Analysis Client for Windows, with one flaw allowing low-privileged attackers to gain full SYSTEM access on affected machines. The more severe issue,…
New wp2shell RCE Vulnerability Hits Millions of WordPress Sites, Emergency Patch Released
A critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability dubbed “wp2shell” has been discovered in WordPress Core, putting an estimated 500 million+ websites at risk of full takeover by unauthenticated attackers. Security researcher Adam Kues of Searchlight Cyber’s Assetnote research team…
OpenSSL “HollowByte” Vulnerability Lets Hackers Crash Servers With Just 11 Bytes
A newly disclosed vulnerability in OpenSSL, dubbed “HollowByte,” allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition using a malicious payload as small as 11 bytes. Discovered by the Okta Red Team, the flaw exploits how OpenSSL pre-allocates…
PentestCode – New AI Agent That Automates Penetration Testing with 18 Specialized Tools
A new open-source tool is bringing autonomous AI agents into offensive security workflows. PentestCode, a hard fork of OpenCode rebuilt specifically for penetration testing, runs security tools, analyzes their output, and makes tactical decisions all from a terminal interface, with…
EY Data Breach – Hackers Gain Access to IT Support System and Download Documents
Ernst & Young LLP (EY) is notifying clients that an unauthorized third party breached a support ticket platform used by its IT staff, downloading documents containing client tax data during a roughly two-week window this spring. The Big Four accounting…
Ransomware Attack on Coca-Cola-Owned Fairlife Halts Production Across the United States
Coca-Cola has reported a ransomware attack affecting its dairy subsidiary, Fairlife, resulting in a temporary shutdown of production operations across the United States. This incident was disclosed in a Form 8-K filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission…
AWS Cost Explorer Bug Shows Trillion-Dollar Billing Estimates
AWS customers worldwide were startled after the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console and Cost Explorer began displaying extraordinarily high projected cloud costs. Some organizations reported estimated monthly bills reaching trillions of dollars, triggering budget alerts and prompting concerns over…
New Windows LegacyHive 0-Day Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Gain Admin Access
A Windows zero-day vulnerability, dubbed LegacyHive (MSNightmare), abuses the User Profile Service to enable local privilege escalation, tampering with administrator accounts, and admin-level code execution. LegacyHive targets the Windows User Profile Service (ProfSvc), which is responsible for loading and unloading user…
GPT-5.6 Codex is Reportedly Deleting Files From Home Directories
OpenAI is currently investigating a small number of reports indicating that the GPT-5.6 Codex unintentionally deleted files from users’ home directories. These incidents reportedly occurred when Codex was granted full filesystem access without the necessary sandbox protections or automated review…
Multiple TP-Link Cameras Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Launch MitM Attacks
TP-Link has released security updates for two vulnerabilities in its Kasa EC70 v4 and EC71 v4 smart cameras. These flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-9770 and CVE-2026-13230, could allow an attacker on the same local network to obtain sensitive information from vulnerable…
Top 10 Best Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) Solutions in 2026
Identity has become the primary battleground of enterprise cybersecurity. Attackers increasingly bypass traditional defenses by stealing credentials, hijacking sessions, abusing privileged accounts, and exploiting misconfigurations across Active Directory, cloud platforms, SaaS applications, and non-human identities. Microsoft reported more than 7,000…
CISA Warns of Microsoft SharePoint Code Execution Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
CISA has added a critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58644, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This addition comes with a warning that attackers are actively exploiting the flaw in real-world attacks. The vulnerability stems from a weakness…
New ClickLock macOS Stealer Kills Every App to Force Password Entry
A newly discovered macOS malware dubbed ClickLock is raising alarms in the cybersecurity community for its aggressive and deceptive credential-harvesting techniques. According to researchers at Group-IB, the stealer employs a highly disruptive tactic that forcibly terminates running applications, effectively locking…
CISA Warns of Fortinet FortiSandbox OS Injection Vulnerabilities Exploited in Attacks
CISA has added two critical Fortinet FortiSandbox vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, warning that attackers are actively exploiting the flaws in real-world attacks. The vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2026-39808 and CVE-2026-25089, allow unauthenticated attackers to execute unauthorized operating…