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CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00 UTC, withRead…
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Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Acrobat Reader Flaw CVE-2026-34621 [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to run malicious code on affected installations. It has been described…
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Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firms merged in July 2023Read More
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Medusa Ransomware Attack
What is the Attack? Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor conducting high-tempo ransomware operations leveraging the Medusa ransomware variant. The group specializes in rapidly exploiting vulnerable web-facing systems, often weaponizing newly disclosed vulnerabilities (N-days) and even zero-days before public disclosure. Storm-1175 | Medusa ransomware operations | Microsoft Security Blog A…
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News brief: Iranian cyberattacks target U.S. water, energy
Check out the latest security news from TechTarget SearchSecurity’s sister sites, Cybersecurity Dive and Dark Reading.Read More
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CISO checklist: Cybersecurity platform or marketing ploy?
The cybersecurity market is booming with countless vendors claiming to offer unified platforms. Here’s how to separate the real deal from empty marketing.Read More
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GlassWorm Campaign Uses Zig Dropper to Infect Multiple Developer IDEs [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged yet another evolution of the ongoing GlassWorm campaign, which employs a new Zig dropper that’s designed to stealthily infect all integrated development environments (IDEs) on a developer’s machine. The technique has been discovered in an Open VSX extension named “specstudio.code-wakatime-activity-tracker,” which masquerades as WakaTime, aRead More
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Browser Extensions Are the New AI Consumption Channel That No One Is Talking About [email protected] (The Hacker News)
While much of the discussion on AI security centers around protecting ‘shadow’ AI and GenAI consumption, there’s a wide-open window nobody’s guarding: AI browser extensions. A new report from LayerX exposes just how deep this blind spot goes, and why AI extensions may be the most dangerous AI threat surface in your network that isn’t on anyone’s Read More
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Google Rolls Out DBSC in Chrome 146 to Block Session Theft on Windows [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Google has made Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) generally available to all Windows users of its Chrome web browser, months after it began testing the security feature in open beta. The public availability is currently limited to Windows users on Chrome 146, with macOS expansion planned in an upcoming Chrome release. “This project represents a significantRead More
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Marimo RCE Flaw CVE-2026-39987 Exploited Within 10 Hours of Disclosure [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A critical security vulnerability in Marimo, an open-source Python notebook for data science and analysis, has been exploited within 10 hours of public disclosure, according to findings from Sysdig. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-39987 (CVSS score: 9.3), a pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability impacting all versions of Marimo prior to and includingRead More
