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Apple Issues Security Updates for Older iOS Devices Targeted by Coruna WebKit Exploit
Apple on Wednesday backported fixes for a security flaw in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Sonoma to older versions after it was found to be used as part of the Coruna exploit kit.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-43010, relates to an unspecified vulnerability in WebKit that could result in memory corruption when processing maliciously crafted web content. The iPhone maker said the issue was
Six Android Malware Families Target Pix Payments, Banking Apps, and Crypto Wallets
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered half-a-dozen new Android malware families that come with capabilities to steal data from compromised devices and conduct financial fraud.
The Android malware range from traditional banking trojans like PixRevolution, TaxiSpy RAT, BeatBanker, Mirax, and Oblivion RAT to full-fledged remote administration tools such as SURXRAT.
PixRevolution, according to
CISA Flags Actively Exploited n8n RCE Bug as 24,700 Instances Remain Exposed
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting n8n to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score: 9.9), concerns a case of expression injection that leads to remote code execution. The security shortcoming was patched
Researchers Trick Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Into Phishing Scam in Under Four Minutes
Agentic web browsers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to autonomously execute actions across multiple websites on behalf of a user could be trained and tricked into falling prey to phishing and scam traps.
The attack, at its core, takes advantage of AI browsers' tendency to reason their actions and use it against the model itself to lower their security guardrails, Guardio
Critical n8n Flaws Allow Remote Code Execution and Exposure of Stored Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two now-patched security flaws in the n8n workflow automation platform, including two critical bugs that could result in arbitrary command execution.
The vulnerabilities are listed below -
CVE-2026-27577 (CVSS score: 9.4) - Expression sandbox escape leading to remote code execution (RCE)
CVE-2026-27493 (CVSS score: 9.5) - Unauthenticated
Meta Disables 150K Accounts Linked to Southeast Asia Scam Centers in Global Crackdown
Meta on Wednesday said it disabled over 150,000 accounts associated with scam centers in Southeast Asia as part of a coordinated effort in partnership with authorities from Thailand, the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Korea, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia.
The effort also led to 21 arrests made by the Royal Thai Police, the company said. The action builds upon
Dozens of Vendors Patch Security Flaws Across Enterprise Software and Network Devices
SAP has released security updates to address two critical security flaws that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on affected systems.
The vulnerabilities in question listed below -
CVE-2019-17571 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A code injection vulnerability in SAP Quotation Management Insurance application (FS-QUO)
CVE-2026-27685 (CVSS score: 9.1) - An insecure deserialization
What Boards Must Demand in the Age of AI-Automated Exploitation
“You knew, and you could have acted. Why didn’t you?”
This is the question you do not want to be asked. And increasingly, it’s the question leaders are forced to answer after an incident.
For years, many executive teams and boards have treated a large vulnerability backlog as an uncomfortable but tolerable fact of life: “we’ve accepted the risk.” If you’ve ever seen a report showing
Microsoft Patches 84 Flaws in March Patch Tuesday, Including Two Public Zero-Days
Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for a set of 84 new security vulnerabilities affecting various software components, including two that have been listed as publicly known.
Of these, eight are rated Critical, and 76 are rated Important in severity. Forty-six of the patched vulnerabilities relate to privilege escalation, followed by 18 remote code execution, 10 information disclosure, four
UNC6426 Exploits nx npm Supply-Chain Attack to Gain AWS Admin Access in 72 Hours
A threat actor known as UNC6426 leveraged keys stolen following the supply chain compromise of the nx npm package last year to completely breach a victim's cloud environment within a span of 72 hours.
The attack started with the theft of a developer's GitHub token, which the threat actor then used to gain unauthorized access to the cloud and steal data.
"The threat actor, UNC6426, then used this
Five Malicious Rust Crates and AI Bot Exploit CI/CD Pipelines to Steal Developer Secrets
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five malicious Rust crates that masquerade as time-related utilities to transmit .env file data to the threat actors.
The Rust packages, published to crates.io, are listed below -
chrono_anchor
dnp3times
time_calibrator
time_calibrators
time-sync
The crates, per Socket, impersonate timeapi.io and were published between late February and early March
How to Stop AI Data Leaks: A Webinar Guide to Auditing Modern Agentic Workflows
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer just a tool we talk to; it is a tool that does things for us. These are called AI Agents. They can send emails, move data, and even manage software on their own.
But there is a problem. While these agents make work faster, they also open a new "back door" for hackers.
The Problem: "The Invisible Employee"
Think of an AI Agent like a new employee who has
FortiGate Devices Exploited to Breach Networks and Steal Service Account Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign where threat actors are abusing FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) appliances as entry points to breach victim networks.
The activity involves the exploitation of recently disclosed security vulnerabilities or weak credentials to extract configuration files containing service account credentials and network topology
KadNap Malware Infects 14,000+ Edge Devices to Power Stealth Proxy Botnet
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware called KadNap that's primarily targeting Asus routers to enlist them into a botnet for proxying malicious traffic.
The malware, first detected in the wild in August 2025, has expanded to over 14,000 infected devices, with more than 60% of victims located in the U.S., according to the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen. A lesser number of
New "LeakyLooker" Flaws in Google Looker Studio Could Enable Cross-Tenant SQL Queries
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed nine cross-tenant vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio that could have permitted attackers to run arbitrary SQL queries on victims' databases and exfiltrate sensitive data within organizations' Google Cloud environments.
The shortcomings have been collectively named LeakyLooker by Tenable. There is no evidence that the vulnerabilities were exploited in
The Zero-Day Scramble is Avoidable: A Guide to Attack Surface Reduction
You can't control when the next critical vulnerability drops. You can control how much of your environment is exposed when it does. The problem is that most teams have more internet-facing exposure than they realise. Intruder's Head of Security digs into why this happens and how teams can manage it deliberately.
Time-to-exploit is shrinking
The larger and less controlled your attack surface is,
APT28 Uses BEARDSHELL and COVENANT Malware to Spy on Ukrainian Military
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT28 has been observed using a pair of implants dubbed BEARDSHELL and COVENANT to facilitate long‑term surveillance of Ukrainian military personnel.
The two malware families have been put to use since April 2024, ESET said in a new report shared with The Hacker News.
APT28, also tracked as Blue Athena, BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Fighting Ursa,
Threat Actors Mass-Scan Salesforce Experience Cloud via Modified AuraInspector Tool
Salesforce has warned of an increase in threat actor activity that's aimed at exploiting misconfigurations in publicly accessible Experience Cloud sites by making use of a customized version of an open-source tool called AuraInspector.
The activity, per the company, involves the exploitation of customers' overly permissive Experience Cloud guest user configurations to obtain access to sensitive
CISA Flags SolarWinds, Ivanti, and Workspace One Vulnerabilities as Actively Exploited
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerability list is as follows -
CVE-2021-22054 (CVSS score: 7.5) - A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Omnissa Workspace One UEM (formerly VMware Workspace One UEM) that
Malicious npm Package Posing as OpenClaw Installer Deploys RAT, Steals macOS Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that masquerades as an OpenClaw installer to deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) and steal sensitive data from compromised hosts.
The package, named "@openclaw-ai/openclawai," was uploaded to the registry by a user named "openclaw-ai" on March 3, 2026. It has been downloaded 178 times to date. The library is still available for
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