“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Multi-OS Cyberattacks: How SOCs Close a Critical Risk in 3 Steps [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Your attack surface no longer lives on one operating system, and neither do the campaigns targeting it. In enterprise environments, attackers move across Windows endpoints, executive MacBooks, Linux infrastructure, and mobile devices, taking advantage of the fact that many SOC workflows are still fragmented by platform. For security leaders, this creates aRead More
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Axios Hack, Chrome 0-Day, Fortinet Exploits, Paragon Spyware and More [email protected] (The Hacker News)
This week had real hits. The key software got tampered with. Active bugs showed up in the tools people use every day. Some attacks didn’t even need much effort because the path was already there. One weak spot now spreads wider than before. What starts small can reach a lot of systems fast. New bugs, faster use, less time to react. That’s this…
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How LiteLLM Turned Developer Machines Into Credential Vaults for Attackers [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The most active piece of enterprise infrastructure in the company is the developer workstation. That laptop is where credentials are created, tested, cached, copied, and reused across services, bots, build tools, and now local AI agents. In March 2026, the TeamPCP threat actor proved just how valuable developer machines are. Their supply chain attack onRead More
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Qilin and Warlock Ransomware Use Vulnerable Drivers to Disable 300+ EDR Tools [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat actors associated with Qilin and Warlock ransomware operations have been observed using the bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) technique to silence security tools running on compromised hosts, according to findings from Cisco Talos and Trend Micro. Qilin attacks analyzed by Talos have been found to deploy a malicious DLL named “msimg32.dll,”Read More
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BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identity of the main threat actors associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. The threat actor, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS…
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$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based decentralized exchange described it as “an attack six months in theRead More
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36 Malicious npm Packages Exploited Redis, PostgreSQL to Deploy Persistent Implants [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered 36 malicious packages in the npm registry that are disguised as Strapi CMS plugins but come with different payloads to facilitate Redis and PostgreSQL exploitation, deploy reverse shells, harvest credentials, and drop a persistent implant. “Every package contains three files (package.json, index.js, postinstall.js), has no description, repository,Read More
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Fortinet Patches Actively Exploited CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation. “An improper access control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiClient EMS may allow anRead More
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China-Linked TA416 Targets European Governments with PlugX and OAuth-Based Phishing [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A China-aligned threat actor has set its sights on European government and diplomatic organizations since mid-2025, following a two-year period of minimal targeting in the region. The campaign has been attributed to TA416, a cluster of activity that overlaps with DarkPeony, RedDelta, Red Lich, SmugX, UNC6384, and Vertigo Panda. “This TA416 activity included multipleRead More
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Microsoft Details Cookie-Controlled PHP Web Shells Persisting via Cron on Linux Servers [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. “Instead of exposing command execution through URL parameters or request bodies, these web shells rely on threat actor-supplied cookie values to gate execution,Read…
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