Weedhack Attacks Minecraft Users, CountLoader Hits 86K, Miners Spread via Pirated Content

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new campaign targeting Minecraft players via YouTube to spread malware capable of gaining control of victims' systems. The Minecraft-focused malware-as-a-service MaaS campaign has been codenamed Weedhack by McAfee Labs, stating the activity has been active...

Fake virus alerts are invading mobile games

Sometimes it happens. You’re happily playing a game on your phone or laptop when suddenly alarms pop up out of nowhere: " Your device is infected!" " Your iCloud is full!" " Your account is restricted for watching porn!" Some games can be played for free if you agree to watch ads, and in others y...

A week in security (May 25 – May 31)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Payment apps are watching what you say Lock and Code S07E11 Scammers pretending to be Microsoft had help from US executives 700+ education and tech websites hijacked in huge ClickFix malware campaign Fake software on GitHub and SourceForge distribute Deno RAT Fake...

CVE-2026-9236

The CM Ad Changer – A simple tool to control and optimize your site's banners plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the cmaccampaignsaction function. This makes it...

CVE-2026-9236

CVE-2026-9236 concerns the WordPress plugin CM Ad Changer. The vulnerability is a Cross-Site Request Forgery flaw in all versions up to and including 2.0.7 caused by missing or incorrect nonce validation in the cmac_campaigns_action function. This enables unauthenticated attackers to permanently ...

EUVD-2026-32051

The CM Ad Changer – A simple tool to control and optimize your site's banners plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the cmaccampaignsaction function. This makes it...

Iranian Hackers Deploy MiniFast and MiniJunk V2 via Phishing and SEO Poisoning

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549 has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East following the joint U.S.-Israeli...

FuzzPilot: Plateau-Triggered Recipe Validation for Structured Text Fuzzing

FuzzPilot is a controller for AFL++ that moves expensive reasoning out of the mutation hot path. When coverage plateaus, it snapshots the corpus, prepares candidate mutation recipes, evaluates them in short isolated AFL++ micro-campaigns, and promotes only recipes with positive validation reward...

Q1 2026 Threat Landscape Report: Zero-clicks, geopolitical tensions, and some wins for law enforcement

The first quarter of 2026 reinforced that attackers are moving faster, operating with greater coordination, and exploiting weaknesses before most organizations can respond effectively. From escalating geopolitical tensions to increasingly aggressive ransomware operations, the latest quarterly...

Filter-Then-Verify: A Multiphase GNN and ModernBERT Framework for Social Engineering Detection in Email Networks

Social engineering attacks exploit human trust rather than software vulnerabilities, making them difficult to detect using conventional filters. We propose a two-stage filter-then-verify framework combining inductive Graph Neural Networks GNNs for structural anomaly detection with a co-attention...

China-Linked Twill Typhoon Uses Fake Apple and Yahoo Sites for Espionage

A new Darktrace report reveals how Chinese hackers use fake Apple and Yahoo sites and the FDMTP malware framework to spy on organisations...

Hackers Exploit Vercel GenAI to Mass-Produce Convincing Phishing Sites

Hackers are abusing Vercel GenAI to create convincing phishing sites that mimic major brands, including Microsoft, Adidas, and Nike, making scams harder to detect...

CVE-2024-0391

The check user account lock states feature within the email OTP flow fails to validate user input, allowing an attacker to infer the existence of registered user accounts. The discovery of valid usernames can increase the risk of brute-force and social engineering attacks. Attackers can leverage...

CVE-2024-0391 Username Enumeration via Email OTP Flow in Multiple WSO2 Products Allows User Account Discovery

The check user account lock states feature within the email OTP flow fails to validate user input, allowing an attacker to infer the existence of registered user accounts. The discovery of valid usernames can increase the risk of brute-force and social engineering attacks. Attackers can leverage...

Phishing Campaign Hits 80+ Orgs Using SimpleHelp and ScreenConnect RMM Tools

An active phishing campaign has been observed targeting multiple vectors since at least April 2025 with legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management RMM software as a way to establish persistent remote access to compromised hosts. The activity, codenamed VENOMOUSHELPER , has impacted over 80...

2026: The Year of AI-Assisted Attacks

On December 4, 2025, a 17-year-old was arrested in Osaka under Japan’s Unauthorized Access Prohibition Act. The young man had run malicious code to extract the personal data of over 7 million users of Kaikatsu Club, Japan's largest internet cafe chain. When asked, the young man shared his...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: SMS Blaster Busts, OpenEMR Flaws, 600K Roblox Hacks and 25 More Stories

The internet is noisy this week. We are seeing some wild new tactics, like people using fake cell towers to send scam texts, while some developers are accidentally downloading tools that peek into their private files during a simple install. It is definitely a busy time to be online. Security is...

Malicious Package

Overview @validate-sdk/v2 is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was not yet removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this...

CVE-2026-31956

Xibo is an open source digital signage platform with a web content management system and Windows display player software. Prior to version 4.4.1, any authenticated user can manually construct a URL to preview campaigns/regions, and export saved reports belonging to other users. Exploitation of th...

EUVD-2026-25367

Xibo is an open source digital signage platform with a web content management system and Windows display player software. Prior to version 4.4.1, any authenticated user can manually construct a URL to preview campaigns/regions, and export saved reports belonging to other users. Exploitation of th...