Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-6412

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Certificate policy and RFC 8446 compliance concerns regarding the continued acceptance of SHA-1/MD5 in certificate processing. CVE-2026-6412 Note that Nessus...

CVE-2026-6412 Continued acceptance of SHA-1/MD5 digests in certificate processing

Certificate policy and RFC 8446 compliance concerns regarding the continued acceptance of SHA-1/MD5 in certificate processing...

Malicious code in @frostnode/waitfor (npm)

@frostnode/waitfor malicious versions 0.9.0, 0.10.3, 0.10.4, and 0.10.5, published by [email protected] is a trojanized npm package belonging to the wshu.net credential-stealer campaign. The campaign published trojanized look-alike utility packages across 12+ scopes whose publisher accoun...

The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones

A proposed FCC rule would kill burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country's telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, including a government issued...

A week in security (June 8 – June 14)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Stolen iPhones could soon be worth a lot less to thieves Fake verification pages are stealing Steam accounts from players Google can be liable for false AI Overviews, court rules VRChat says reported data breach never happened Children’s phones must block nude imag...

Mapping Every Flock License Plate Reader Near US World Cup Stadiums

Most US World Cup stadiums are surrounded by surveillance cameras. Want to know if you’re being watched on your way to a match? These maps will help you...

Bridging the Smart City Cybersecurity Data Gap through AI-Driven Synthetic Dataset Generation

Smart cities rely on interconnected cyber-physical systems that integrate sensors, IoT devices, cloud platforms, and AI-driven services and decision-making. While these systems enhance city services, they also introduce complex cybersecurity challenges due to their large attack surfaces,...

Meta’s face-recognition code raises new concerns about smart glasses

Meta’s smart glasses are once again at the center of a privacy debate due to face recognition. WIRED reports that Meta had quietly embedded unreleased face-recognition code, internally called “NameTag,” into its Meta AI companion app, which powers the company’s smart glasses. The code was not...

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Update

In April, Anthropic initated Project Glasswing. The idea was to let companies use their new model to find and fix vulnerabilities in their own software. It was a fantastic PR move, and so many press outlets have uncritically parroted Anthropic's claims that it's now common wisdom that Mythos is...

AI: Threat, tool, or both?

Public attitudes toward Artificial Intelligence AI are changing, and we wanted to understand why. A recent Pew Research survey found that about half of adults say the increased use of AI in daily life makes them more concerned than excited, and that concern has grown over the last few years. Peop...

Operationalizing Cyber Attack Prediction: A Gap-Prioritized Framework with Dataset and Model Selection Guidelines

While AI and machine learning for cyber attack prediction have advanced, a critical gap persists between theoretical research and practical operational deployment. Building on Ankalaki et al. 2025, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of 150+ benchmark datasets and 200+ studies to identif...

Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak

Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud keys and a vast trove of other agency secrets on a public GitHub accoun...

Texas sued Netflix over claims it secretly collected and sold users’ data

Attorney General AG of Texas Ken Paxton announced that he sued Netflix for spying on Texans, including children, and collecting users’ data without their knowledge or consent. The suit alleges Netflix secretly tracks and monetizes detailed viewing behavior of users, including children, while...

Google Chrome Accused of Silently Installing 4GB AI Model on User Devices

Cybersecurity researcher Alexander Hanff claims that Google Chrome automatically installs a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model without user notification or consent...

Profiling for Pennies: Unveiling the Privacy Iceberg of LLM Agents

Large Language Models LLMs have revolutionized how information are collected, aggregated, and reasoned. However, this enables a novel and accessible vector of privacy intrusion: the automated and in-depth personal profiling; this engenders a chilling effect of "peepers everywhere". Existing...

The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess

A US surveillance program that lets the FBI view Americans’ communications without a warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concerns—with smoke and mirrors...

On Microsoft’s Lousy Cloud Security

ProPublica has a scoop: In late 2024, the federal government's cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft's biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant's "lack of proper detailed security documentation" left reviewers with a "lack of confidence in assessing th...

Understanding User Privacy Perceptions of GenAI Smartphones

GenAI smartphones, which natively embed generative AI at the system level, are transforming mobile interactions by automating a wide range of tasks and executing UI actions on behalf of users. Their superior capabilities rely on continuous access to sensitive and context-rich data, raising privac...

New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption

Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general: If the "design choices create liability" framework seems worrying in the abstract, the New Mexico case provides a concrete example of where it...

BrowserGate: LinkedIn Tracks 6,000+ Browser Extensions on Users’ PCs

LinkedIn is accused in the BrowserGate report of tracking 6,000+ browser extensions on users’ PCs, raising concerns over privacy and data collection practices...