“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Four Malicious npm Packages Deliver Infostealers and Phantom Bot DDoS Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four new npm packages containing information-stealing malware, one of which is a clone of the Shai-Hulud worm open-sourced by TeamPCP. The list of identified packages is below – chalk-tempalte (825 Downloads) @deadcode09284814/axios-util (284 Downloads) axois-utils (963 Downloads) color-style-utils (934 Downloads) “One of the packages (chalk-tempalte)Read More
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Pre-Stuxnet Fast16 Malware Tampered with Nuclear Weapons Simulations [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A new analysis of the Lua-based fast16 malware has confirmed that it was a cyber sabotage tool designed to tamper with nuclear weapons testing simulations. According to Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black teams, the pre-Stuxnet tool was engineered to corrupt uranium-compression simulations that are central to nuclear weapon design. “Fast16’s hook engine is selectively interested…
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MiniPlasma Windows 0-Day Enables SYSTEM Privilege Escalation on Fully Patched Systems [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher behind the recently disclosed Windows flaws, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a Windows privilege escalation zero-day flaw that grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows systems. Codenamed MiniPlasma, the vulnerability impacts “cldflt.sys,” which refers to the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver,Read More
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NGINX CVE-2026-42945 Exploited in the Wild, Causing Worker Crashes and Possible RCE [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A newly disclosed security flaw impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open has come under active exploitation in the wild, days after its public disclosure, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score: 9.2), is a heap buffer overflow in ngx_http_rewrite_module affecting NGINX versions 0.6.27 through 1.30.0. According to AI-native security company depthfirst, theRead…
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Grafana GitHub Token Breach Led to Codebase Download and Extortion Attempt [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Grafana has disclosed that an “unauthorized party” obtained a token that granted them the ability to access the company’s GitHub environment and download its codebase. “Our investigation has determined that no customer data or personal information was accessed during this incident, and we have found no evidence of impact to customer systems or operations,” Grafana…
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Funnel Builder Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables WooCommerce Checkout Skimming [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A critical security vulnerability impacting the Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild to inject malicious JavaScript code into WooCommerce checkout pages with the goal of stealing payment data. Details of the activity were published by Sansec this week. The vulnerability currently does not have an official CVE identifier.…
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Instructure cyberattack reignites ransom payment debate
Instructure struck a deal to recover its stolen data — likely paying a hefty ransom. For CISOs, deciding whether to negotiate with cybercriminals should come down to business risk.Read More
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Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that’s engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts. Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is assessed to be affiliated with Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)Read More
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Four OpenClaw Flaws Enable Data Theft, Privilege Escalation, and Persistence [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of four security flaws in OpenClaw that could be chained to achieve data theft, privilege escalation, and persistence. The vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed Claw Chain by Cyera, can permit an attacker to establish a foothold, expose sensitive data, and plant backdoors. A brief description of the flaws is below –Read…
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What 45 Days of Watching Your Own Tools Will Tell You About Your Real Attack Surface [email protected] (The Hacker News)
In Your Biggest Security Risk Isn’t Malware — It’s What You Already Trust, we made a simple argument: the most dangerous activity inside most organizations no longer looks like an attack. It looks like administration. PowerShell, WMIC, netsh, Certutil, MSBuild — the same trusted utilities your IT team uses every day are also the preferred…
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