“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Google’s Android Apps Get Public Verification to Stop Supply Chain Attacks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Google has announced expanded Binary Transparency for Android as a way to safeguard the ecosystem from supply chain attacks. “This new public ledger ensures the Google apps on your device are exactly what we intended to build and distribute,” Google’s product and security teams said. The initiative builds upon the foundation of Pixel Binary Transparency,…
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Windows Phone Link Exploited by CloudZ RAT to Steal Credentials and OTPs [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an intrusion that involved the use of a CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) and a previous undocumented plugin dubbed Pheno with the aim of facilitating credential theft. “According to the functionalities of the CloudZ RAT and Pheno plugin, this was with the intention of stealing victims’ credentials and potentially…
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Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables Remote Code Execution [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Palo Alto Networks has released an advisory warning that a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in its PAN-OS software has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, has been described as a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. It carries a CVSS score of 9.3 if the User-ID Authentication Portal is configured to…
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6 things to check in your cyber insurance policy fine print
Cyber insurance premiums are stabilizing, but coverage is narrowing. From AI risks to nation-state attacks, here’s what your policy might no longer cover.Read More
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Critical Apache HTTP/2 Flaw (CVE-2026-23918) Enables DoS and Potential RCE [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released security updates to address several security vulnerabilities in the HTTP Server, including a severe vulnerability that could potentially lead to remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23918 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a case of “double free and possible RCE” in the HTTP/2 protocol…
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DAEMON Tools Supply Chain Attack Compromises Official Installers with Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A newly identified supply chain attack targeting DAEMON Tools software has compromised its installers to serve a malicious payload, according to findings from Kaspersky. “These installers are distributed from the legitimate website of DAEMON Tools and are signed with digital certificates belonging to DAEMON Tools developers,” Kaspersky researchers Igor Kuznetsov, Georgy Kucherin, LeonidRead More
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China-Linked UAT-8302 Targets Governments Using Shared APT Malware Across Regions [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A sophisticated China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to attacks targeting government entities in South America since at least late 2024 and government agencies in southeastern Europe in 2025. The activity is being tracked by Cisco Talos under the moniker UAT-8302, with post-exploitation involving the deployment of custom-made malware families that have…
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The Back Door Attackers Know About — and Most Security Teams Still Haven’t Closed [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Every AI tool, workflow automation, and productivity app your employees connected to Google or Microsoft this year left something behind: a persistent OAuth token with no expiration date, no automatic cleanup, and in most organizations, no one watching it. Your perimeter controls don’t see it. Your MFA doesn’t stop it. And when an attacker gets…
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MetInfo CMS CVE-2026-29014 Exploited for Remote Code Execution Attacks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw impacting an open-source content management system (CMS) known as MetInfo, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-29014 (CVSS score: 9.8), a code injection flaw that could result in arbitrary code execution. “MetInfo CMS versions 7.9, 8.0, and 8.1 contain an unauthenticated…
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We Scanned 1 Million Exposed AI Services. Here’s How Bad the Security Actually Is [email protected] (The Hacker News)
While the software industry has made genuine strides over the past few decades to deliver products securely, the furious pace of AI adoption is putting that progress at risk. Businesses are moving fast to self-host LLM infrastructure, drawn by the promise of AI as a force multiplier and the pressure to deliver more value faster.…
“Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it’s a necessity all the time.”
― Martina Navratilova
