Apple Warns Users in 110 Countries They May Be Targets of Mercenary Spyware

Apple on Thursday sent a fresh batch of notifications to customers whom it suspects may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks. In a statement shared with TechCrunch, the iPhone maker said it alerted an unspecified number of users targeted in 110 countries and that it has notified...

Trump Memo Paves Way for U.S. Firms to Hack and Disrupt Foreign Crime Groups

A new White House memo signed by U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed the National Coordination Center NCC to establish a program that would allow private sector companies to take advantage of their "innovative capabilities" to break into foreign Transnational Criminal Organizations TCOs an...

China-Linked Jewelbug Uses XG-Web for Government Espionage and Crypto Fraud

The China-linked threat actor known as Jewelbug has been observed carrying out cyber espionage operations targeting governments and militaries, while simultaneously engaging in cryptocurrency fraud. "Both missions are administered from a single control panel, XG-Web , a browser-centric...

GeoServer Zero-Day Targeted in Active Exploitation Attempts, Can Lead to RCE

A newly disclosed zero-day flaw in GeoServer is seeing active exploitation efforts, per watchTowr. The vulnerability, which has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, is an SQL injection vulnerability in the open-source platform that can lead to remote code execution RCE. The security defect remain...

ThreatsDay: GhostJacking AI Attacks, EtherHiding ClickFix, Cursor CLI Flaw + 17 More Stories

Some weeks have one big security story. Others bring many smaller updates that are easy to miss but still matter. This week has plenty of them, covering cloud services, AI tools, malware, data breaches, scams, and new attack methods. The latest ThreatsDay Bulletin puts all of these short updates ...

New PATCHCORD Backdoor Targets Afghan Telecom and Indian Critical Infrastructure

Afghan telecom providers and South Asian critical infrastructure organizations have emerged as the target of a new ongoing campaign that delivers a previously undocumented backdoor called PATCHCORD. According to Acronis Threat Research Unit TRU, the backdoor is a compiled C/C++ implant delivered ...

AmnesiaStealer Hijacks Chromium Sessions to Give Attackers Live Browser Control on macOS

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new macOS-oriented, Rust-based information stealer called AmnesiaStealer that's capable of hijacking Chromium web browsers to steal session data. The multi-stage stealer is spread via a counterfeit GitHub download page titled "Download for...

WindRelay Android Malware Turns Victims' Phones Into NFC Relays for Payment Fraud

A previously unseen Android near field communication NFC relay malware family dubbed WindRelay is being deployed in conjunction with a known remote access trojan RAT called SpyNote as part of a contactless payment fraud scheme. The purpose-built malware, according to Group-IB, is designed to...

North Korean Remote Workers Are Infiltrating Government and Businesses: How to Expose Them Before Hiring

Companies are used to thinking about attackers as outsiders trying to break in. North Korean IT workers flip that model. They apply for jobs, pass interviews, receive legitimate credentials, and can end up inside the same systems companies spend millions trying to protect. That risk is no longer...

Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release

Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept PoC code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 CVSS score: 9.1, which refers to a critical security feature bypass that stems from weak authentication. I...

Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor

The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to deliver a never-before-seen backdoor targeting defense and aerospace companies across France, Germany, Brazil, and India. The...

737 Chrome VPN Extensions Caught Routing Traffic Through Proxies. Check If You Have One

A massive set of 737 free VPN and proxy extensions have been found to mainly target Russian-speaking users seeking access to blocked services with an aim to intercept browser traffic and route them through a proxy infrastructure. The extensions, published across at least 40 Chrome Web Store...

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google API Flaw Let Weaker AI Models Decode Stronger Models' Reasoning

A newly disclosed flaw in the way OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google carried hidden AI reasoning between API calls let researchers recover internal reasoning and secrets from session logs, including API keys and passwords. The weakness affected encrypted reasoning objects used by the providers'...

Enterprise Defenses Recovered at the Edge and Collapsed Inside

Enterprise defenses are tuned to catch the attacks that make noise. This year's data shows attackers winning by making none. According to Picus Labs' new Blue Report 2026, which measured more than 338 million real attack simulations across actual client production environments in the first half o...

Adobe Patches Three CVSS 10.0 ColdFusion and Campaign Classic Flaws

Adobe has shipped updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting ColdFusion, Commerce, and Campaign Classic that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation. The most severe of the flaws are listed below - CVE-2026-48362...

Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access

Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according to new findings from QUIRSO. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-59310 CVSS score: 9.8, a directory-traversal vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server that a...

Malicious LiteLLM Releases Tied to Trivy Hack May Have Exposed 2,100+ Organizations

Two malicious LiteLLM releases sat on PyPI for about 40 minutes in March carrying credential-stealing code capable of harvesting cloud keys, SSH keys, Kubernetes tokens, database passwords, and other secrets from systems that installed them. Threat intelligence firm CloudSEK now says a dataset it...

SAP Commerce Cloud Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code

SAP has released patches to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Commerce Cloud Data Hub Adapter that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-58231 , is rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as a case o...

ShieldBreak Zero-Day PoC Claims Microsoft Defender Patch Bypass With SYSTEM Access

The security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse has released a proof-of-concept PoC for a new Microsoft zero-day called ShieldBreak. The vulnerability, rooted in Microsoft Defender for Windows, demonstrates a patch bypass for...

Cisco ASA and FTD Flaw Exploited in the Wild Can Trigger Remote DoS

Cisco has warned that a new vulnerability impacting Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense FTD Software has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20349 CVSS score: 8.6, is a case of insufficient error checking...

Microsoft Patches 398 Flaws Including a Windows Driver Zero-Day Under Active Attack

Microsoft released its monthly security updates on Tuesday, and one of the flaws it closed is already being used in attacks. The bug sits in a core Windows kernel driver that handles network socket operations. An attacker with code already running on a machine can use it to escalate to SYSTEM. Th...

Kimwolf v7 Android Botnet Makes HTTP/2 DDoS Traffic Look Like Legitimate Browsing

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the Kimwolf/AISURU Android and Internet of Things IoT botnet that comes with significant improvements to improve its operational resilience and conduct distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. The new version, tracked as Kimwolf v7, wa...

Zoom Annotation Flaws Could Let a Meeting Participant Hijack Another Attendee's Client

Anyone sharing their screen on a Zoom call could have taken over the computers of everyone watching, and anyone watching could have taken over the presenter's. The flaw sat in the annotation tool, the feature that lets participants draw and type on a shared screen, and it asked nothing of the...

Sandworm-Linked UAC-0145 Uses Fake Job Interviews to Push VPN That Can Run Commands

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has disclosed details of a new social engineering campaign orchestrated by Russian nation-state threat actors targeting IT workers in the country by masquerading as recruiters to trick them into installing malware. CERT-UA pinned the activit...

Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE

Security researchers found a way to enter Microsoft SharePoint servers as any user, including an administrator, with no valid account. A significant part of the work that found it was done through an AI agent. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-55040 CVSS 9.1, affects SharePoint Server Subscription...

DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt

The ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience. "Its recovery ecosystem combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-backed services that...

OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development

OpenAI on Monday unveiled a new cybersecurity-focused model called GPT‑5.6‑Cyber that it said is focused on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and incident response. "Built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, it is trained to improve capabilities on several specialized cybersecurity tasks e.g., finding...

A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices

A malicious SIM card can order the device it sits in to run commands of the attacker's choosing. On the cellular modules built into electric-vehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, that is enough to take the whole device over. Researchers at the University of Birmingham an...

Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo

Mozilla has scrapped the cryptographic key behind Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy of it was committed by mistake to one of the company's own private code repositories. That key is how a user, or a Linux distribution packaging the browser, confirms a downloade...

Researchers Built a Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Three Suspected North Korean IT Workers

Security researchers invented a cryptocurrency startup, advertised developer jobs, and hired three people they believe were North Korean operatives. Every virtual machine the company issued was recording. The onboarding paperwork is the part hiring teams can use. The first hire claimed to live in...

Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11

Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine. The same PnP path can be triggered over Remote Desktop without physical...

Malicious MCP Servers Can Split Instructions to Make AI Coding Agents Exfiltrate Secrets

A malicious tool server connected to an AI coding assistant can quietly walk off with SSH keys, environment secrets, source code, and customer data without ever sending one obviously harmful instruction. The trick can work even after a blunt version of the same theft is refused: split the request...

Gunra Ransomware Exploits Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy Flaws to Breach Networks

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from South Korea and the U.S. warned of Gunra ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors and organizations across the world. Targets of these attacks include healthcare and public health, financial services, government services and...

Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine

Attackers shut down a steam turbine and the process-water treatment system at a Polish combined heat and power plant by coming in over the private cellular network the local grid operator uses to reach remote equipment. The plant supplies heat to roughly 50,000 residents. Recovery began at about...

BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the content management systems CMS platform's plugins team to temporarily disable their downloads. "Unlike traditional software supply chain attacks, zero source code files wer...

Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development

AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, prioritize fixes, and control risk at human speed. When software output jumps 10 to 50 times, the problem is no longer just finding vulnerabilities. It ...

China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware, Likely via N-central Flaw

Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175 , a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary's previous use of Medusa ransomware, the Microsoft Threat...

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Goes Rogue, Metabase 0-Day, MCP Supply-Chain Attacks, and Router Backdoors

A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default. That pretty much covers the mood this week. Old bugs are back, supply chains are getting stranger, and some exploit paths are so shor...

Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development

North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country's main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence AI offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in its possession, and collecting the software part...

New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA

Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Windows had exposed,...

TrueConf Server Flaws Exploited to Replace Client Installers with PhantomCore

The threat actor known as Head Mare has been observed weaponizing security flaws in unpatched TrueConf servers once again in attacks targeting Russian companies spanning instrumentation, electronics, transport, energy, IT, and software development sectors. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky...

Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code VS Code extension named Solidity Pro "solidity-pro" that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer. The names of the extensions are below - helper-beeps.solidity-pro web3devtoolsx.solidity-p...

OpenAI's Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause

OpenAI has announced that it's pausing some "internal activities" involving its upcoming artificial intelligence AI model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. In response to the discovery, the AI upstart said it's...

Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers

Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian's Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of those routes is confirmed closed...

New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens

New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over third-party accounts, leak tokens,...

Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication

Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability CVSS score: 10.0, which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker ...

N-able Issues N-central Hotfix 2 as Attackers Reach Managed Systems and Persist

N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management RMM product. "We are proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actor...

Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037...

Nearly 800 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT and Infostealer

A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but...

ClickFix Attacks Deliver macOS Stealer That Can Drain Crypto Wallets

ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the host an...