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New FROST Attack Lets Websites Track What Sites and Apps You Open via SSD Timing
A malicious website can work out which sites you visit and which apps you open, using nothing but JavaScript and the timing of your SSD. The attack, called FROST, needs no native code, no extension, and no permission prompt.
You open the page, leave the tab sitting there, and it watches the drive for contention in the background.
Researchers at Graz University of Technology built it and
Hades PyPI Attack: 19 Packages Poisoned to Auto-Run Bun Credential Stealer
The Miasma supply chain campaign has sparked a fresh attack wave called Hades, this time involving 37 malicious wheel artifacts across 19 packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) registry, as the Mini Shai-Hulud-style attacks continue to be refined and splintered to target specific ecosystems.
"The compromised releases shipped a *-setup.pth file that attempts to execute automatically
LiteLLM Flaw CVE-2026-42271 Exploited in the Wild, Chains to Unauthenticated RCE
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity flaw impacting BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42271 (CVSS score: 8.7), is a command injection vulnerability that could allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands on the
One-Character Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Local Root Access, Exploits Now Public
Security researchers have published a detailed, working exploit for a Linux kernel use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and break out of a container.
The flaw, CVE-2026-23111, sits in the kernel's nf_tables packet-filtering code and was patched upstream on February 5, 2026. Exodus Intelligence released its full technical walkthrough on June 8, and it is not even
Meta Blocks NSO Group's New WhatsApp Phishing Attack, Files Contempt Order
Meta on Monday said it detected and blocked spear-phishing attempts linked to Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group.
In addition, the tech giant said it's filing a federal court contempt order against the company for violating a permanent injunction that barred it from targeting WhatsApp and its users.
"They tried to trick people into clicking on malicious links to drive them to external websites
Critical Check Point VPN Flaw Exploited to Bypass Passwords in IKEv1 Setups
Check Point has warned of active exploitation of a critical vulnerability impacting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments that are configured to use the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange protocol.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50751 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case of a logic flow weakness in certificate validation that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass user
⚡ Weekly Recap: Instagram Account Hacks, Android Zero-Day, GitHub Worm and More
Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn't. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing through repos. The ugly part: basic tricks still worked.
A chatbot got fooled. A bot token got leaked inside the malware. The same old mistakes showed up again. And while everyone chased the loud stuff, quieter attackers sat in inboxes for months, reading mail and
AI Phishing Is Crushing SOCs with Alert Volume: How to Reduce Tier 1 Overload
Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine.
Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every polished message adds another case for Tier 1 to review, another link to inspect, and another alert that cannot be dismissed at a glance.
As the queue grows, a credential theft attempt or malware delivery can easily
The Hardest Fork
Mythos is real. I know a big chunk of the industry thinks it's a marketing stunt, and I get why. I get it. But I've seen the findings, and they're bad. These aren't "whoops, this line right here is wrong, and that's RCE." They're novel combinations of a few dozen issues out of thousands of things every SAST scanner already finds, chained together into something much worse. It's real creativity,
VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM on Linux Appliances
A China-nexus cyber espionage group has been observed deploying a BSD variant of a known backdoor called BRICKSTORM, as well as two other malware families codenamed PLENET (aka GRIMBOLT) and AGENTPSD to target Linux systems.
The activity has been attributed by Volexity to a threat cluster it tracks as VerdantBamboo, which it said overlaps with hacking groups known as Clay Typhoon (Microsoft),
UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026.
The activity has been attributed by Google Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) to a threat actor dubbed UNC3753, which is also known as
VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks
Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in an attempt to tackle software supply chain threats.
"When automatic updates are enabled, new versions are auto-updated two hours after they are published, adding an extra layer of protection
New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration
OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks.
The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is available to logged-in users across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and
Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry.
The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest residential proxy network in the world,
CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score: 7.5), is a denial-of-service (DoS) bug that causes the service to crash
AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent.
The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release.
Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI.
Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft's GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign.
The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The development has GitHub to disable access to those repositories.
"Access to this
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-20245 Flaw Actively Exploited – No Patch Available
Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. It affects the following deployment types -
On-Prem Deployment
Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro
Cisco SD-WAN Cloud (Cisco Managed)
Cisco SD-WAN for Government (FedRAMP)
"A
IronWorm and New Miasma Worm Variant Hit npm in Supply Chain Attacks
Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively.
According to JFrog, the information stealer "scrapes every secret it can find on a developer's machine, hides behind an eBPF kernel rootkit, and
Android Spyware Asin Targets Arabic Users via Fake News, PDF and War Map Apps
Arabic-speaking users have emerged as the target of a new Android spyware codenamed Asin, according to findings from ESET.
The Slovakian cybersecurity company said it first detected the malware spread via multiple campaigns in early 2025, with each attack wave making use of distinct websites mimicking utilities, war-related updates, and a government news source:
govlens[.]net, which
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